Wow, it's true, huh? I remember all those "urban legends" our moms told us when we were young about girls with beehive hair-dos who got roaches in their ears & heads because they never washed their hair!

I had my ears "coned" once, it's an old Indian method for removing debris from one's ear canals. Cones (like a funnel) are made of strips of cloth & wax. One end is inserted into your ear, and the other end is lit, and it creates a draft that draws stuff up out of the ear canal. The woman who did it swears she often sees bugs come out of peoples' ears. Creepy.