A Swedish woman had a black spider "the size of a thumbnail" nesting in her ear for 27 days, the Swedish tabloid Expressen reported Wednesday.The woman told the paper that she at first experienced "a slight loss of hearing" and assumed that she had a build-up of wax, but when she heard "a scratching sound" in her ear she decided to buy a cleanser to wash out her ear cavity.
When she did so, the spider was flushed out alive and crawled away.
I was scared to death of this when I was a child. Not just with spiders, but cockroaches, earwigs, you name the bug, I was terrified that it would crawl into my ear and lay eggs.
Come to think of it, there's probably a name for this fear...
Yuck....makes me want to flush out my ear right now.
ReplyDeleteThe fear you have is called Entomophobia.
Oh I did too, and seeing that thing crawl into Checkov's ear made it worse!
ReplyDeleteI'm officially creeped out right now.
phoenix: It was a childhood fear. Luckily, I outgrew it.
ReplyDeletesar: yes! the dreaded ceti eel, the last surviving life-form indigenous to Ceti Alpha V.
I think the word you're looking for is "spidearphobia."
ReplyDeleteDid you ever see that old TV show where the earwhig went through the guy's head and actually came out the other side? And everyone was happy for him, except they learned that the bug was female and had laid eggs in there? Yeah, that's always really bothered me...
Yes. I think that was a Night Gallery episode which starred Laurence Harvey who, BTW, was superb in The Manchurian Candidate, but I digress.
ReplyDeleteI grew up watching stuff like that and it warped my mind.
I never really thought about the possiblity of insects in my ears. Thanks for giving me something to freak out about. I use Q-tips, so maybe I would smash whatever was in there, or push it in deeper... yuck!
ReplyDeletej.d.: when these bugs get into your ear, they crawl deep inside, beyond the reach of your average Q-tip. That's why some of us worried about it as kids.
ReplyDeleteIn fact, I specifically remember hearing about a little girl in my great aunt's building in New York who had a roach crawl in her ear & it had an egg sack which, luckily, was unhatched when it was removed.
This was quite traumatic for me.
We can all thank TV for the fear of the earwig, or earwhig, in jen's world ;-)
ReplyDeleteAhA! My mom always yelled at me to clean out my ears, but with a good hunk of wax in there, ain't no way spidey's gonna feel at home.
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I dont know if anyone still reads this specific blog but, you might find this interesting. it is my friend, and i am interested to find out exactly what was in his ear! post back if you can help...
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Yesterday morning I woke up with a similar sensation to when water gets stuck in the ear. I didn't think much of it until I took a shower about an hour later and heard the noise again and felt something come out onto my hand. To my horror it was a live crawling spider about the size of a silver dollar. I was screaming too much to kill it before it went down the drain. From now on I'm sleeping with cotton in my ears or I won't be able to fall asleep!
ReplyDeleteThat is very scary!i am afraid every time my ear starts to ich!Did u here about that man that had 1 in his ear and it had babies so he went to the doctor and they were going to remove it but he wanted to wait until the egg sack hatched!HE IS CRAZY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI had a neighbor, who was anything but clean. She thought she had a tumor around her ear, so did her doctor.
ReplyDeleteShe got surgery, it was a dead cockroach wrapped up in ear wax.
A Ghetto-Pearl if you will.
It is the most disgusting thing I have ever heard of. I would have never believed anything like that, if it hadn't happened next door to me.
*Shudders*