My mom told me that earthworms and even baby lizards love to enter human ears and build a nest inside where they lay eggs...till date I can never sleep with my ears uncovered...to my horror last year i woke up to find a little lizard smashed under my pillow...my fear is doubled now.
A childhood belief about creepy crawlies

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that my dad use to find magic balls behind my ears and catch them in a paper bag.— Netty
- I used to think that if I held in a sneeze, my ears would turn inside out.— Lori
- I used to believe that if I didn't clean my ears that carrots would grow inside.— Gilian
- 'I've got candy in my ears tonight, baby'.
~Canned Heat, Jimiroquai.— Nin - I used to believe that cows mooed out of their ears-because my older sister told me they did.— ella
- My dad told me "Hush Puppie" shoes were made from Basset Hound ears.— William