When I was around five, I believed that ear wax came from earwigs. Then I saw a horror movie where an earwig crawled into a man's brain, causing him to go crazy. I believed it! Anytime I found an earwig in the backyard, I ran like mad! Earwigs still give me the creeps.
A childhood belief about creepy crawlies
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that earwigs lived on earwax, and that they would crawl into my ear canal and eat my brain.— dodyskin
- I used to believe that earwigs crawl in your ears— Janice
- I was certain that "earwigs" were basically toupees you wear on your ears. Anon
- Just this moment I learned that earwigs do not go into your ears, i'm twenty-four.— Sheila
- I used to think that earwigs were a type of toupee that you wear behind your ears.— Elise
- I used to believe that "Earwigs lived in your ears", scared
me to death for years.— Will Chapman