Urban legend has led many to believe that we eat spiders in our sleep, up to as many as eight a year. To put at ease the 3%-15% of people who suffer from arachnophobia (the intense and irrational fear ...

(WGHP) — Few things will cause nightmares quite like the image of spiders crawling in your mouth while you’re helpless and asleep. Yet that’s exactly what one of the most enduring urban legends claims ...

I recently read that the average person will ingest eight spiders in his or her lifetime. Apparently, this happens when we are sleeping, which would make sense, because I don’t know anyone in their ...

Is any urban legend more shudder inducing than the one about humans swallowing an average of eight spiders a year in their sleep? The idea of unwittingly ingesting eight-legged interlopers is ...

Social media posts that claim we swallow several spiders while sleeping have been horrifying people online for years. Some of the claims suggest humans swallow up to eight spiders per year in their ...

Approaching a sleeping human face would be pointless: there's no reason to risk your life only to fall into the mouth of a sleeper. And if, by some improbable turn of events, a spider were to touch ...