As a child I always used to think that an earwig could crawl into your head through your ear and eat your brain
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
- my sister when she was little thorght head lice tried to borrow into her head to get to her brainAnon
- I used to believe that your brain was a red rubber ball inside your head.— Greg
- I used to believe that a monster would crawl out of the bath tub and eat me— Alex
- i used to think when i was like 5 or 6 that a leprechaun would crawl up into me when i was peeing.— anonymous
- I used to believe that foxes crawl like crocodiles!— Viktor