No, this has got nothing to do with piercing, it's a strange, rare birth defect.A very small percentage of people are born with tiny, barely visible holes above their ears.They're not strange fish people. Or aliens. Rather, they're a tiny segment of the population who are born with something called a preauricular sinus.In the UK, just under one per cent of people have them. In the US, the frequency is lower, and in Asia and parts of Africa, around four to ten per cent of people may be affected.