10 Real-Life Horror Stories That Will Probably Ruin Your Day

3. Flesh-Eating Maggots In British Woman's Head

We're used to travel vaccinations before going on your jollies, to avoid nasties like yellow fever and typhoid; however, no one prepares you for FLESH EATING MAGGOTS. When British woman Rochelle Harris went on holiday to Peru with her boyfriend in 2013, little did she know what she'd brought back with her.

On the flight home she had excruciating headaches, pains in her face and scratching sounds in her head. When fluid began leaking from her ear, doctors thought it was a minor ear infection... until they saw a writhing mass of maggots deep inside her ear. Tell me no more, you cry!

Well, it turns out a New World Army Screw Worm Fly had laid eggs inside her head: the further doctor's delved into her ear, the more the larvae retreated into her head, chewing a 12mm hole into her ear canal. All of the NOPES.