My Nana told us as kids that earwigs crawled into your ear and ate through your brain before emerging out the other ear. Me and my brother would tease them by lying on the laundry floor with an ear on the lino. Very brave (or so we thought).
Nana also said that ticks burrow into you and lay eggs under your skin. I believed this until a Wilderness camp instructor got the s***s with me for making my fellow campers hysterical with the news.
A childhood belief about creepy crawlies
you weren't the only one
36 of you believed this
- I used to believe that ear wigs would climb in your ears while you slept and make you go mad— troy
- for the longest time, i believed that earwigs would crawl into my ears and eat my brain— Sarah
- I used to believe that "Earwigs lived in your ears", scared
me to death for years.— Will Chapman - i believed for awhile that earwigs would burrow into your ear canal and eat away at your brain. — Renae
- Earwigs crawl into your ears when your not looking and make nests in your brain.Anon