I do not swallow eight spiders a year in my sleep, and neither does anyone else. The familiar statistic survives as a viral scare line, not as a finding from sleep labs or arachnology research. By ...

As the temperatures drop, you may notice some extra visitors in your home - of the eight-legged variety. Whether you’re a friend of spiders or foe, the idea of spiders near the space we sleep can be ...

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The widely believed myth of swallowing eight spiders annually in sleep is a fabrication. Scientists confirm this never happens, as spiders actively avoid sleeping humans due to vibrations and warmth.

You've heard about this swallowing spiders while you sleep thing right? And supposedly it's just part of sleeping. Ewwwwwww! Chalk this up as something I just don't want to know. Except, how true it ...

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 ...

Source: Nosferattus, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. This time of year, spiders receive a lot of attention for their creepier qualities. But Ximena Nelson, a biologist at the University of Canterbury in ...