People Swallow 8 Spiders a Year while You Sleep

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Rod Crawford has heard numerous firsthand reports of slumbering spiders. “Every once in a while, someone tells me they found a spider leg in their mouth,” says Crawford, curator of arachnids at Seattle’s Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture.

Fortunately for all of us, the “fact” that humans swallow eight spiders each year during sleep is not a natural — far cry. Myths are…