creepy crawlies

I used to beleive when a mosquito buzzed around your ears it actually flew up in your ear and around your brain.

Kate Young

I used to think that when my foot was asleep that invisible bugs were poking me with needles.

Chantal

I lived in the desert and there were flying orange beetles we called June bugs that only came in the summer. My dad used to always tell me that if they landed on me they would stick and someone would have to burn them off me. I believed this until I was 12 and one actually fell on me. My scream was finally cut off after a full minute when my friend brushed it off.
My dad swears he maybe said that about ticks but I don't know why I would have confused ticks with these things.
Either was, they don't stick.

beforeburningtrytoflick

When I was small I beleived that if a JuneBug landed on your arm it would take the patch of skin it landed on with it when it flew away. This is thanks to my two older brothers. I'm still terrified of this harmless beetle

Lorraine Gorski

I used to be scared of having any spiders in my room, and coming from a country that has a LOT of spiders, that can sometimes be difficult. I was afraid that even tiny spiders would crawl in my ear or up my nose, and bite me on the brain, killing me. I had to check there were no spiders before I went to sleep, and if I had to kill one, I always said sorry to it first.

Allison

My cousin and I were constantly on the lookout for crawdads whenever we went to the creek every summer. After all, we were told that if one got you with it's pinchers, it would stay there until it thundered. Needless to say, we practiced sounding like thunder too (BOOOM!!!), just in case it ever really happened.

Dawn

I used to beleive that if we didn't spray the ants, there would be hundreds of them in my house taking over.

Rob

I used to play with ants. I put them on my little people swingset and spun them around and stuff. I fed them little containers of juice. I actually got jealous that they were having so much fun and I couldn't because I was so big.

Tracey

When I was little I heard things wrong all the time (due to multiple ear infections) and I went through life thinking that snakes that live around the house (like in the garden) were called Gardener Snakes! Now that I'm 18, I finally realized they are garder snakes...

Audrey P.

I had seen the movie Cleopatra and got the idea from that that cobras lived in bowls or boxes of berries because in the movie she pulled it from a box of dates and it bit her. I was always very, very careful when I was eating a box of blueberries, because i was scared that I'd be bitten by a snake.

Lyssa

When I was little, my mom told me that bugs and mosquitos try to get into your ear and your ear canal when you go to sleep, so naturally, I slept with a pillow below me and a pillow above me. I got two small pillows, the type that babies sleep on, and still use them to this day.

Alyssa

I used to get scared to wash spiders down the bath or sink, because they always seemed to reappear in the sink in my bedroom, and I was convinced they'd gather all their spider friends together to gang up on me. To combat this, as I didnt fancy taking baths with spiders, I used to put the plugs in all the surrounding sinks as soon as I'd done it.

Nowadays I'm not so scared, primarily because I dont have a sink in my room anymore, and also because if there is a spider in the bath I'll have a shower, and vice versa, like last week, when there was a spider above the shower and I was scared it would fall into my hair.

Gemz

When I was little, a kid at school told me that if a bug goes up your nose and gets to your brain, it'll take over your mind.

i still have my brain

My mum told me as a little kid that all feathers had bird lice on them so you couldn't pick them up. This was because I would always come home with collections of objects in my pockets. When I was 19 this had still never been contradicted and I told my then boyfriend (now husband) to quickly drop a feather in great panic!!!! How embarrasing.

Sarah

I know this isnt a huge funny belief, but I used to think that all spiders were poisonous. I love spiders now!

Sammy

I used to think that if you went outside without your shoes on there were little bugs that would get into your feet, climb up your body and eat your brain!

Ela

As a child, I believed that if a little bug that I call a genie (don't know if that is the real name) landed on your finger and you made a wish while she was sittling there your wish would come true. To this day this 27 year lod believes that if a genie lands on yur finger you will have good luck!

Anon

I used to believe that if you killed an ant or two that were traveling in their line formation, that at night the rest would come in your house and try and kill you for revenge.

Anon

In kidnergarten, my friend Warren brought a dead (petrfied? fake? Hey I was 5, i dont know) starfish to school to show me. He said that even if it was dead, if i touched it then it would flip over quicker than lightning and poison me. I didn't believe him, and I slowly reached my hand over... and WHAMM! he flipped it over onto my hand and I ran screaming to the other side of the room. Even though now i realize that HE flipped it -clever guy!- I still don't like starfish.

Ruth N.

When I worked at a children's camp in France, we told them that they had to tie a piece of string across the bottom of their tent door (about 20 cm above ground). This was to stop the scorpions walking into their tents - they would walk up to the tent, catch the string in their tails and turn around again. Worked well, and every week we got the kids tying string to their tents, until one bright spark asked "but what about the baby scorpions?!"

sorry we lied!