Twenty years ago, Beverly Drottar was a family doctor in Oregon. But she can't work anymore because of what she calls an illness straight out of "The Twilight Zone."

"I could feel things basically moving under my skin," she said.

She says she constantly feels something like bugs crawling beneath her skin. She also claims to have fibers growing out of her body. All that scratching has left scars on her arms.

In Shelton, Wash., Lisa Wilson says her 23-year old son Travis had the same disease.

"He would stomp up and down and try to get rid of them, he would try to get rid of them taking shower after shower. And that made them worse," she said.

Travis couldn't get any help.

"The doctor totally ignored us," Wilson said.

Travis felt the only escape was to take his own life.

"People didn't believe him, he had no hope,” said Wilson.

"This is perhaps one of the greatest mysteries that I have ever heard of," said Dr. Randy Wymore, a microbiologist at Oklahoma State University.

He's also the lead researcher for the  Morgellons Research Foundation, a nonprofit group raising awareness about the condition.

Dr. Wymore admits that at first even he was skeptical.

"However, after just a few hours of looking into this, I began to reassess this and I have absolutely no doubt in my mind now that it's real," he said.

However, most doctors don't recognize Morgellons as a disease. Instead they usually diagnose it as "delusional parasitosis."

Dr. James Hancy, who heads the Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Clinic at Portland’s Oregon Health Sciences University, compares Morgellons patients to people who repeatedly wash their hands.

Travis' mom won't give up on finding answers. She wants more money spent on research.

"I don't want his death to be in vain,” she said. “I want something good to come of this... if it saves one person's life."

Dr. Beverly Drottar has been suicidal and she's afraid more sufferers will end up killing themselves if the disease isn't taken seriously.

"I don't think we have seen the tip of the iceberg with this,” she said. “We are like ostriches sticking our heads in the sand.”

The Centers for Disease Control is now looking into this mystery disease.