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The Three Werewolf Sisters
Friday, February 10, 2012 · 1 Comment
Only one in a billion people are affected by an extremely rare condition termed Hypertrichosis Universalis or better known as Werewolf Syndrome. As fate would have it, 3 of 6 sisters Savita, 23, Monisha, 18, and 16-year-old Savitri Sangli, who live in a small village near Pune, central India, inherited ...
Til Death Do Us Part, Now Cut Your Finger Off
The indigenous tribe of the Danis inhabit the fertile lands of the Baliem Valley in West Papua, New Guinea. As one of the most decorative and well-known tribes in West Papua, they’re also given credit for an unusual and gruesome ritual involving amputation. As a way of displaying their grief ...
Two headed baby born healthy in Brazil
Thursday, December 22, 2011 · 7 Comments
The baby has a single heart but two functioning brains. Doctors in Brazil are unsure whether they can safely operate on a baby born with two heads. “When doctors scanned her they realized that the baby had two heads and that a normal birth would be a great risk both ...
How Can Some People Hear Their Own Eyeballs Move?
Thursday, November 17, 2011 · 4 Comments
A disorder of the inner ear called superior canal dehiscence syndrome causes every sound within the body to be amplified, even the movement of one’s eyeballs, all the time. Sounds strange, but it is true (and treatable) … Believe It or Not! A CACOPHONY OF BODILY FUNCTIONS: Superior canal dehiscence ...
Girl Has Tongue Lengthened So She Can Speak Korean
Thursday, November 10, 2011 · 7 Comments
Student Rhiannon Brooksbank-Jones has had surgery to lengthen her tongue so she can speak Korean like a native. Rhiannon, 19, who hopes to live in Korea after university, found she had difficulties pronouncing some words. Her dentist said it was because her tongue was shorter than average, which meant she ...
Two Headed Milk Snake
Wednesday, November 2, 2011 · 12 Comments
A University of Central Florida biologist says a rare, two-headed albino milk snake was recently born. Most two-headed snakes have typical coloration. Albino snakes don’t have dark pigmentation in their skin. Albino milk snakes appear in bright shades of red, orange and white. The biologist says two-headed snakes have been ...
The Mexican Vampire Woman Gets Immortalized at Ripley’s
Friday, September 16, 2011 · 28 Comments
I met Maria Cristina yesterday for the first time. She is here from Mexico to have her body casted at Ripley’s Art Department. It is the first step in the process to create a life-size replica of her. Every detail, in her body, every tattoo, every piercing … a journey ...
Can you spot Waldo?
Wednesday, August 31, 2011 · 3 Comments
Can you spot Waldo? John Mosley can after sitting for 24 hours while tattooist Rytch Soddy created a scene featuring 150 characters including Waldo hiding among them. ‘I still have not seen the finished result so I don’t actually know where Wally is on my back. Everyone says he is ...
Steer a wheelchair with a tongue piercing?
Monday, August 8, 2011 · 1 Comment
Researchers have tested a tongue piercing that will allow paralyzed people to steer their wheelchairs in any direction just by moving their tongue towards a specific direction (the chair will follow the direction of the tongue). The initiative is being run by the Northwestern University School of Medicine. Thus far ...
Amazing Medical Procedure
Wednesday, July 27, 2011 · 2 Comments
Check out this amazing story about 10 year old Dugan Smith. Dugan, when faced with a rare form of cancer, decided to beat all the odds to continue his love of baseball. Dugan had a procedure called a rotationplasty in which his lower leg was detached, turned 180 degrees, and reattached higher, allowing ...
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