I used to believe that earwigs were ears that would crawl around and they wore a wig, I always ran away when my dad said there was an earwig because I didn't want to see it.
A childhood belief about creepy crawlies

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that earwigs crawl in your ears— Janice
- I used to believe that earwigs lived on earwax, and that they would crawl into my ear canal and eat my brain.— dodyskin
- 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