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 ...

Do you really eat spiders in your sleep? According to experts, no, we do not. Researchers are unsure where the rumor that we eat 8 spiders per year in our sleep came from. Most spiders are not toxic ...

The claim sounds precise enough to pass as true. Eight spiders a year, eaten while asleep. It’s the kind of fact people insist they picked up in school or heard repeated often enough to trust. The ...

Tom has a Master's degree in Journalism. His editorial work covers anything from archaeology and the environment to technology and culture. Tom has a Master's degree in Journalism. His editorial work ...

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 ...

According to the Associated Press, researchers videotaped and observed baby jumping spiders at night to see if they sleep and they actually learned that these spiders sleep in patterns similar to ...