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 ...

You might've heard the urban legend that sleeping people swallow about eight spiders a year. The "factoid" is definitely eye-catching — but it's also improbable. A spider could do this only a few ways ...

(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 ...

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 ...

You may have heard that spiders crawl into your mouth when you sleep, but this isn't why an expert is urging us to close our gobs. While the rumour that we swallow eight arachnids each year while ...