The White String is a strange urban legend from Japan about ear piercing. During the 1980s, this legend was popular in japan and a lot of kids were afraid to get their ears pierced because they believed the legend was true.
A young girl desperately wanted to get her ears pierced. Her parents said she was too young, but she pleaded with them, saying that all the other girls in her class had pierced ears. Eventually, her parents relented and agreed to let her do it. They gave her some money and told her to go the the local mall and get her ears pierced in a jewelery store.
Instead, the girl decided to keep the money and do the piercing herself. She got her best friend to help her do it. They heated up a large needle and stuck it through both of the girl’s earlobes. It was quite painful, but in the end, her ears were pierced and she was delighted to be able to wear earrings.
However, a few days later, the girl was in school when she began to feel a pain in her left ear. Her earlobe was extremely itchy. During break time she went into the bathroom and looked in the mirror. Her earlobe was red and inflamed. She began scratching at it.
When she looked closely, she saw what looked like the end of a piece of white string sticking out of the hole in her earlobe. Thinking it was very strange, she started picking and pulling at it. After a few minutes, there was a long piece of white string hanging out of her piercced earlobe. There didn’t seem to be any end to it.
Finally, she got a pair of scissors and cut the string.
Suddenly, everything went black. She couldn’t see.
She was rushed to the emergency room of the local hospital where a doctor examined her. When she told the doctor what had happened, he was shocked.
“I’m sorry, you will be blind for the rest of your life”, he said. “That wasn’t white string. That was your optic nerve.”
@shadowcat Our ears, brain and eyes form a group. So that’s the explanation. BUT, HELL! THIS ONE WAS CREEPY! I already have ear piercings but this type of weird demonic experience never happened to me. Maybe she just had it coming…Poor girl. I have Nyctophobia, that is the fear of darkness. So, I don’t know if I would die if I had to see that complete darkness for the rest of my life, if I turned blind.
:3 i luv it!!! So great!!! My ears aren’t pierced, son i’m not that afraid… But it was a soooooo good story!!!!
the string should be in a loop for her to see. but optic nerve in the EAR? Still tryna figure that one out!
OK optic nerve have nothing to do with earlobe but i still feel pity for the girl…
Whoa how could the optic nerve got into the ear lobe that’s pretty confusing right? Any ways the end could have been better :-)
OMG! How can an optic nerve come out of an earlobe? It does not make any sense.
Anyways Moral: 1. Do what your parents say.
2. Do the things which you know properly.
… Why would ur optic nerve come out of your EARLOBE
YIKES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
its makes me feel funny…like nailes on chalk u know what i mean
Creepy, but why would the optic nerve be attached to the ear?
What the heck???!!
Seriously?? I mean whoever made this legend up had no idea about the words termed ‘biology’ and ‘common sense’ …. It was gross too… 5 outta 10 optic nerves
How….strange…
I dont like wearing earrings cuz sometimes my ear itches and gets red…i wont have to worry about it. and is that even POSSIBLE to become blind?
I’m 9 and not scard
And based in this story…
Did the doctor wonder about the optic nerve that was sticking out from the earlobe?
Wow, the story just not make sense…
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Ohoho, so, based in this story, your optic nerve can move to your ear hole or whateverthenameis??
Genious, verrrrrryyyyy genious!!
*standing applause*
Joke’s on you, kid!
I have two piercings in my ears and i want to get another one.
I didn’t see that coming ( no pun intended😕)
I got my ears pierced b4 I was one and I can see just fine. Well I do have glasses. Maybe they’re connected?! =d. Haha JK :)
that used to happen to me all the time and it was just innfected
yeah, like your optic nerve can travel all the way through your ear to reach a tiny hole in your earlobe… btw wouldn’t she have felt that???
I got my ears peirced when i was a couple months old. I’m so happy that i didn’t experience it recently
1-The optic nerve joins your eyes to the brain..not the ears to the brain.
2-Even if it is there, why would it stick out?
3-Even if it is there, why would it stick out of the EARLOBE???