When I was young I was told that if gnats landed on you they laid thousands of eggs in your skin. Even if they just landed for a second, and that a month later they would all come flying out of your skin. I was terrified of the things
A childhood belief about creepy crawlies

others believed things like this
- I used to be terrified of fire-flys because I believed they would burn if they landed on me.— kevin
- In 'Call Me Maybe', I misheard 'Ripped jeans skin' as 'Rich cheese skin'. — Carly Rae Cheddar
- I used to believe that cows laid beef, like the way chickens laid eggsAnon
- I used to think if a moth landed on you , you would get a mole. — karen
- My parents told me that scotch eggs were laid by a Haggis. — sarah c
- When I was young I thought that police had soft skin, because this is how it sounds in French " Peau lisse "
— amine