I used to be terrified of spiders when I was younger. My brother once told me they crawl into my ears at night and lay eggs in my brain. I sleep with a blanket around my head ever since then.
A childhood belief about creepy crawlies

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if I slept with my mouth open that spiders would crawl in there and live in my stomachAnon
- I used to believe that earwigs crawl in your ears— Janice
- I used to believe that earwigs lived on earwax, and that they would crawl into my ear canal and eat my brain.— dodyskin
- My sister used to believe if you stuck a Q-Tip in one of her ears her brain would pop out the other ear. — Mr.McMelon
- my sister when she was little thorght head lice tried to borrow into her head to get to her brainAnon
- I used to think that putting batteries in your ears could electrocute your brain. Hahahaha.Anon