When I was a kid, I heard that earwigs can't walk backwards. (Later I found out there was a Star Trek episode about this, maybe?) I was terrified an earwig would go into my ear and, only being able to move forward, would have to eat through my brain to go out the other ear. I slept with my hands over my ears for years.
A childhood belief about creepy crawlies
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that "Earwigs lived in your ears", scared
me to death for years.— Will Chapman - I used to believe that the Captain's Log in Star Trek, was really a log— Anna
- I used to believe that earwigs crawl in your ears— Janice
- I used to believe that the visible rays of the sun were beaming people up to heaven. like in star trek.Anon
- I used to believe that earwigs lived on earwax, and that they would crawl into my ear canal and eat my brain.— dodyskin
- I was certain that "earwigs" were basically toupees you wear on your ears. Anon