Have you ever heard the story about the boy who had a giant pimple?
The trouble was, it wasn’t a pimple.
A few weeks earlier, a spider had crawled across the boy’s face while he was sleeping. The sneaky creature stopped just long enough to lay eggs under his skin.
Then, a few weeks later, the boy stood in front of the mirror. He popped the pimple . . . and hundreds of baby spiders poured out!
This famous story has been repeated countless times. But here’s the thing: It never happened. The spider story is a type of folktale called an urban legend.