Claim Verification: "The average person swallows eight spiders per year while sleeping." — Disproved

Automated fact-verification of the claim: "The average person swallows eight spiders per year while sleeping." Verdict: DISPROVED Key Findings 4 out of 4 independent authoritative sources confirm the claim is a myth with no scientific basis (threshold: 3). No scientific study, medical record, or sleep research has ever documented a case of spider ingestion during sleep. Spider biology actively contradicts the claim: spiders are repelled by the vibrations, warmth, moisture, and air currents produced by sleeping humans. The claim likely originated as a deliberately fabricated "fact" to illustrate human gullibility, not from any scientific observation. Files proof.py — Re-runnable Python verification script proof.md — Structured proof report proof_audit.md — Full verification audit trail proof_narrative.md — Plain-language summary proof.json — Machine-readable structured data Generated by Proof Engine v0.10.0.