"Rice Krispies" noise in boy's ear turns out to be nesting spiders
 

"Rice Krispies" noise in boy's ear turns out to be nesting spiders

Okay, ew. I never knew stuff like that happened in real life. Has anything icky ever happened to you?

I remember seeing something like this on Discovery Health about some guy who got a mosquito in his ear. It was alive and was beating on his eardrum. He did eventually go to the doctor's where they killed it, and took it out with some tweezers. And I thought that was a little creepy...

Now this spider story, that tops the cake. Not only one spider, but TWO.

NO, THANK GOD. THIS IS DISGUSTING TO ME ON SO MANY LEVELS. :gonk: :gonk: :gonk: :gonk:

I've heard lots of icky stories over the years, like the woman who swallowed tons of frog eggs while drinking at the pond, and her stomach got really bloated when they hatched, and the story about cockroaches who was living in someone's gums, but they were all eventually turned out to be urban myths.

This story, though, is like a real-life urban myth. Ugh. Luckily nothing this bad has ever happened to me.

Ew. That's... almost as bad as the story about the 70 year old man who was living with maggots in his brain. He had a rare cancer that ate away the top of his scalp and skull, but wasnt in any pain, so he never went to the doctor. It was only discovered when he had to go to the hospital after a minor car accident.

If you click this link, please be warned... there are pictures... and they are gross. Not for faint of stomach. Granted, I dont think that applies to much of GFF. :p Story here...

As for me... I've never had anything like that happen to me... nothing I can think of anyways.

Ugh... I definitely shouldn't have clicked that.

Nasty as hell... <_<

Such gross things! It almost sounds like it exists as rumour only. Reminds me of the tale of the woman who cut her tongue on an envelope that had remnants of some kind of insect egg on the seal, and then the insects eventually grew inside of her tongue somehow.

How exactly did the spiders get in his ear? Not enough caution during playtime hopefully.

Pardon my french, but fucking gross. I always heard rumors that spiders crawl into your mouth and die when you're sleeping, but I havent heard anything about ears before.

Man. This reminded me of an article I saw about chewing your fingernails and how there's extremely tiny insects in there.

Yes, I still do this. I seriously need to get off the habit.

I know what you mean. I successfully stopped... most of the time. I still bite my nails during soccer games, starcraft games, and finals. Other than that, I've rid myself of the habit.

Hey man. Spiders are creatures too. They're just looking for a home! And while you sleep, I am sure anything is possible.

Incidentally, I know someone (I wont share names) who had a notorious roach problem in their house at the time. Fell asleep, woke up, and noticed there was an ear blockage going on, and a strange "tickling." Went to the doctor. Pulled out a cockroach. I'm unsure if it was alive or not when it was removed.

Pretty AWFUL.

As far as maggots growing in places they shouldn't: I was under the impression maggots only eat rotting flesh, and not healthy, live flesh. They actually use them in a medicinal form there days, I hear. To clear out bacteria and shit on wounds. (Saw on Discovery Channel at some point. On the same show, they displayed the benefits leeches still have in circulatory issues.)

And this is why I can not handle shows like Dirty Job's or Medical shows. I mean for Chris'sakes! I can't even handle Disecting a FROG or a COWS EYE let alone this stuff. For Once I'm glad I didn't klick on said link.

Oh shit. That freaks me out. I have a fear of cockroaches (I'm not sure if there's an official ~phobia word for it, though), so like I said, that freaks me out o.0". Gross.

As for the spiders, that's gross too, but compared to a cockroach in my ear, I would set up a resort for spiders in my ear. 'Cept for the poisonous ones. They're nasty. The other day, my father was just about to tell me this story but my mother didn't want him to, thinking it would freak me out. I ended up listening to him, and I wasn't shaken. Coincidentally, right after that event, a cockroach was found on the wall of our house. Naturally, I cowered, both due to my fear and the whole eerie event.

:(

Wow...
Right after I have an ear infection I read this story. As a matter of fact, my right ear is still plugged up, and I hear that "rice krispie" sound every so often when I swallow. :gonk:

Man, I've seen a fly get caught in the next door boy's ear once, but two spiders nesting? EWWWWWWW. Needless to say, I'm pretty anal about keeping my own ears clean so this is just beyond disgusting as hell.

NO. Fuck that shit. I would not want something like that to remind me of the horror of SPIDERS LIVING INSIDE OF MY HEAD.

Also, I'll never be able to enjoy Rice Krispies like used to ever again. Thanks for that. ;_;

Sounds like an excerpt out of a horror movie.

I was rather disorientated by the thought of it when I heard it over the radio today. Some way to have a pet, man.

But having the dead spiders as souvenirs shows one's sense of humor, though. I'd keep it in a bottle of those preservation liquids, and show the medical statement right next to it.

Pretty cool to show off, IMO.

I saw this on the news earlier and I cringed. I thought that earwax was sort of an insect repellent or something, so I've been wondering if these are super spiders or if the kid's earwax just didn't do its job. I don't have any gross stories like this of my own, but I did know this kid once who was thirteen when the doctor found wax-covered rocks in both of his ears that the kid must have shoved in there when he was young. It's no wonder he had hearing problems for so many years.

Nasty?

Apparently you guys haven't heard about the chick who had a headache, and it turned out to be spiders laying eggs inside her brain :tpg:

I remember reading about that in Lebanon's paper. The Albany Democrat Herald had a longer article (and the story made front page [hurray for local news]).

Ultimately, it only extended details on the family's reaction: the parents freaked, the kid was "uneasy", blahdie blahdie blah... They belive that the spiders got into his ear canal while he was weeding. Apparently he was really ripping weeds up, and dirt was flying. They may have landed in his hair and from their crawled into his ear.

I've been fortunate to never have spiders in my ear, but there has been other foreign objects...

I remember seeing something like this in real life. My little brother, when he was about a year old, kept crying and holding his ear. When my mother finally got him to hold still, we looked in his ear and it just looked really HAIRY in there. She got some tweezers, pulled at the hair, and an extremely hairy, surprisingly large spider crawled out and ran away quickly. Freakiest thing I've ever seen in my life. The spider's body was pretty big by itself, probably the largest it could have been while still being able to fit into his ear, and its legs were all folded up in weird ways. Makes me glad my ears are large but the holes are small.

Ugh.. Reminds me of this time I was watching TV... Just chillin' on the couch... All of a sudden I feel something on my leg, and it's fucking cricket. Me, my brother, and cousin (who were there at the time) had no idea how it got inside the house to begin with. It was probably 2 o'clock at night also, and we didn't have any windows or doors open. <_<

Still kinda freaked me out. T_T

More like the mom probably cleaned that kid's ears with Q-tips every day. If that kid had a normal amount of earwax, this story couldn't have been possible; I guarantee it. It's almost sad, because this obsession with cleanliness is why kids today wind up with allergies and asthma.

Also, eww. :><: I feel bad for the kid. The most disgusting thing involving insects that has ever happened to me was drinking some Diet Rite with a moth in it. I took a sip, realized it tasted like ass, and upon pouring it out, saw a moth, one wing ripped off, still squirming about. Yeah, those things taste a million times worse than that awful stench that stays around when you squish them.

One time at work last summer, a fly flew into one of my coworker's ears.

That's happened to me before, Ceres.
A bee also flew up my pants, but it didn't sting my twig or berries. Talk about a close call. :tpg:

For some reason I find the whole thing to be hilarious. The human body is already host to a number of miscellaneous parasites in one form or another, I'm not sure what the problem is with those spiders except for the fact that they were larger than the usual parasite and could be heard. If anything they're less threatening as they could be removed easily.

That article was an interesting read. I guess a spider will dwell anywhere where it's dark and solitary. The child didn't seemed too freaked out about the situation, either. He certainly has more nerve than I do; I would've been getting chills up my spine if I learned about some insect crawling around in my ear.

This would be the first instance I've heard of spiders laying eggs inside someone's brain. Is there some sort of link where I can read about this?

If Syndrome's post is supposed to be sarcastic, please disregard the question. =p

Ouch. Did it manage to sting anything else for that matter? And i'm left to wonder how you got it out. I'm thinking of a simplistic, logical way and a complex, "probably not gonna happen" way. <_<

Once when I was a young kid, I had a wasp or related insect fly into my mouth while I was yawning (or something) and land on my tongue. If I was another kid, I'd be screaming right there, but nope. I knew that panicking will only scare it into stinging me.

I left my mouth open and patiently waited for it to fly away. It took quite a while, though, before it left. Luckily it did, for my jaws were getting pretty sore by that time.

OK... THAT is officially one of the most gut-wrenchingly disgusting things I've ever seen. But hey! If I didn't have an incentive for daily hygiene before I sure as fuck do now.

THIS IS NOT WORK SAFE, BY THE WAY

I am 100% agreement with this! :(:(:(

Normally, I have a retarded amount of insensitivity built up for this kinda shit. However, after one brief look, I could not get the image out of my head and rocked myself back and forth in my chair wondering if the image would EVER go away.

I can't even imagine that. An insect of some sort flew into my ear during a soccer practice, and I spent the next 5 minutes panicking and holding open my ear and shaking. I can't imagine having eggs laid instead, as it was frightening enough as it was.

As someone who has severe arachnophobia, I would have had a panic attack x10000 and probably vomited if I learned I had spiders in my ears. That kid definitely has some humor if he's willing to keep the spider. I can just imagine him going to show & tell at school, "Hey Mrs. B! Look what the doctors found in my ear! Ain't it cool?!"

That article about the man's infected brain makes me think twice about ever trying sushi. Ugh.

My three year old cousin landed upon an ants' nest once and ended up having several hundred(maybe even thousands?) crawl all the way up his legs and into his diaper. (Well, come to think of it, maybe it was when he was two.) Needless to say, he's terrified of ants now.

Great advertising for Rice Krispies

That reminds me of a video I saw of a woman in the ER with some sort of beetle in her ear. She freaked out bad; even after they killed it, she kept saying it was moving and screamed hysterically.

I heard a story at work, not sure if it's urban legend or not, but it's worth bringing up here anyway.

Apparently this couple had a fetish where the guy would eat food out of his girlfriend's cooter. They would do this alot, which as it stands is disgusting enough as it is. Now the story gets worse. Not for the faint of heart.

Apparently she would start randomly having orgasms in class. She went to the doctor to have it looked at, and it turns out that MAGGOTS started to inhabit her vagina thanks to all the excess food left there from eat-out sessions (pun 100% intended).

To this day, that's the only story that's ever made me sick.

Maggot induced orgasms! The day she found out that maggots could get her off better than her bf!