Horror Story

[Yazata]

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2018/05/04...eping.html

This is a woman who had a cockroach crawl into her ear while she was asleep. She woke up and didn't know what it was at first, then it moved. (She says yes, it's just as horrible as it sounds.)

Her husband took her to the emergency room and they put some Lidocaine into her ear to dull the sensation and to kill the roach. Then pulled out what they thought was all of it. But her ear continued to feel wrong and she went back to the doctor nine days later. The doctor pulled more dead roach out and suggested she see an ear specialist. The specialist pulled still more roach out and verified that was all of it.

Then he said she was the second patient he saw that day with that problem.

So she sleeps with ear plugs now and they've had the exterminators in.

She's probably too young to have seen that old 'Earwig' Night Gallery episode. Lucky for her, the thought of it probably would have driven her mad.

[C C]

She's probably too young to have seen that old 'Earwig' Night Gallery episode. Lucky for her, the thought of it probably would have driven her mad.

Even though just Serling playing on urban legend, from a visual perspective it was still a pretty good thing that it wasn't a "gestating" cockroach that invaded her ear canal. (Images: "Study of a pregnant cockroach")

Bugs crawl into a person's ear and then slowly eat their way out through the brain
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/insects-on-the-brain/

Thanks to "ME-TV" and some of the other retro-networks occasionally running *Night Gallery*, she may suffer the added relief supplied by horror yet.

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[Magical Realist]

I was 12 when I would lay in front of my parents Zenith TV and watch Night Gallery. I think those little horror vignettes messed me up for life. Well written if not less well acted. But for a monster fan growing up in the 70's, it rang all the bells.

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[Yazata]

Even though just Serling playing on urban legend, from a visual perspective it was still a pretty good thing that it wasn't a "gestating" cockroach that invaded her ear canal.

That was the twist at the end of the Night Gallery episode. The villain protagonist pays a criminal to place the earwig in his romantic rival's ear. The thug screws up and puts it in his ear by mistake. He's tied to a hospital bed screaming in ultimate torment as it eats its way through his brain, begging the doctors to kill him. Finally it emerges from his other ear.

There's great relief that it's finally over and he's still mentally intact.

Then they discover that the earwig had been pregnant and his head is filled with babies.

There are parasites that can infest the insides of human bodies, typically worms (not insects). They even target brains where they typically form cysts. (It's when the worms eventually die that the biggest problems begin, since infection and inflammation cause the most damage.) Of course there aren't any pain or touch receptors inside the brain and you don't feel injuries in there. They just show up in unexplained seizures, motor and cognitive impairments.

This is relatively common (millions suffer from it) in some poor parts of the world and in some immigrant communities in the US.

https://www.merckmanuals.com/professiona...infections