When I was younger my cousin told me that earwigs get into your ear at night and eat your brain.I could barely sleep for years.I actually just recently found out that that wasn't true.And that was like 5 years ago!!! Ha ha.
A childhood belief about creepy crawlies
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that a vitamin was a small animal
only recently I have found out that it is not true... :)— Sylwia - 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 lived in your ears", scared
me to death for years.— Will Chapman - i was always told if i picked my nose my brain would fall out! i belived it for years!Anon
- I used to think that if you ate cat food you would die. I found out it wasn't true
— Bob#4 - I thought that some animals had just been "invented" recently (like within the last 50 years or so)— Makron