Anyone ever try ear candles for better listening?

I remember that Night Gallery and also that the bad guy got the caterpillar put in his own ear by his servent because of a mix up of which room to go to in the night time when they were sleeping which is when they did that to others...

there was also one where the worm laid eggs after traveling thru the brain...

and then there was the friendly aliens who had a book on how to serve man but it turned out to be a cookbook and they were not so friendly after all!

SHOCKING stuff for the day!

Remember the Star Trek movie where the slug/beetle type alien creature was put into the ear canal and drove the human insane? That would ruin a good day of listening.

CAUTION: CONTAINS PLOT SPOILERS!

Philjolet, your first two comments were from the same episode of NIGHT GALLERY. The gist of the story was that a visiting Colonel had the "hots" for the plantation owner's wife, so he hired some locals to put this caterpillar in the husband's ear, which would result in a horrible death. Unfortunately, the locals mixed up the bedrooms, and put it in the Colonel's own ear. He went through a week of such agony, that even his intended victim felt compassion. The punch line was that after a week of suffering, the doctor told him that there was some good news. The insect had eaten directly through his brain, and emerged from the other ear, a one-in-a-million chance, as no one had ever previously survived. When questioned further, since the doctor appeared hesitant, the Colonel was informed that the insect was a female which had laid eggs inside his brain...HORRIBLE SCREAM...FADE TO PORTRAIT...ROD SERLING'S EPILOGUE.

The second show was a TWILIGHT ZONE (this one was written by Rod) called "To Serve Man". First Aired: March 2, 1962. It starred the late Richard Kiel as the alien. He played "Jaws" in the James Bond movies.

Douglas_schroeder, that was STAR TREK 2, THE WRATH OF KHAN, starring Ricardo Montalban (..."Genuine Corinthian Leather!"...from the Chrysler Cordova TV commercials) as well as FANTASY ISLAND.

Only it wasn't called a caterpillar -it was an "ear wig".

Ear candling can cause severe ear damage; the thinge are so dangerous that they can't legally be sold in Canada for example. For more information on this fraud take a look at Quackwatch.