If this doesn’t give you the creeps, I don’t know what will. A woman in Sweden had a spider crawl into her ear while she was sleeping, and nest there for nearly a month! She thought it was just wax build-up until she heard a scratching sound. I might start sleeping with ear plugs in.
That also reminds me of a story that one of my college professors told us on the first day of class. It has always stuck with me. One day a fly was buzzing around his head, and it ended up flying into his ear. The fly ended up getting stuck in there. He claimed that the fly’s leg got caught between two of the bones in the ear, but according to this diagram, that requires the fly to get past the ear drum as well. Anyway, the fly was stuck in his ear and the buzzing was driving him insane. Can you imagine how loud and annoying that would be? So he called up a friend of his that was a doctor and had him remove it with a pair of tweezers. Now whenever a fly is buzzing around my head, I always think about this story and cover my ears. I’m sure the odds are very small for the fly to get into the ear, but it does happen!
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That reminds me of the story (read: urban legend) where the guy was taking a nap outside on the grass, and an ant or something crawled up into his nose and laid eggs in his sinus cavity. A little while later he had an intense itching feeling in his face, and as he kept scratching at it, a bunch of larvae came bursting out and stuff.
Sleep with a noseplug too.
Good point Emily. My dad took me to the theater to see that movie as a kid and it freaked me out more than anything I'd seen in a movie up to that point.
Khan, Kahn.... still can't get over that.
Good call on the Hamster Urban legend... I might start sleeping with a butt plug in order to prevent that from happening to me.
Any other holes I need to worry about plugging????
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