As a young girl, I used to believe that, if I fell to the sidewalk on a rainy day on my way to school, worms would crawl into my nose and ears. I was terrified.
What's really weird is that I used to dig for worms at my grandfather's cottage in the summer and fish on the dock.
A childhood belief about creepy crawlies

others believed things like this
- I always thought that the gummy worms were real worms that had been mummified— The Ice Cream Sandwich Monster
- If you eat your boogers you'll get worms— Kit
- I used to believe that I would get worms if I bit my fingernails. — Leslie
- When I was five, I used to believe that worms grow into snakes.— Mz Dimple
- I use to believe that if I ate to much sugar just by itself, it would become worms inside my stomach.Anon
- I used to think that if I ate sugar out of the sugarbowl I would get worms in my stomach.— Arc