The human body grows and develops in accordance with the genetic program that is embedded in DNA. This molecule is made up of genes through which protein is produced. He serves building material for all life on earth. Each gene, to put it simply, is responsible for a particular organ. These are the heart, kidneys, liver, brain, and skeleton. etc. All of them begin to grow and develop even in the womb of the mother's body. At the same time, the process of their development follows a well-established scheme.
Genes scrupulously adhere to a certain program, direct cell division, and, in the end, a small man. He has a head, arms, legs, eyes and other organs necessary for normal life. Very often children grow up handsome men and women with perfect proportions body. Such bodies are pleasing to the eye and cause a feeling of admiration. Humanity owes all of this to DNA.
It would seem that a monument to this molecule, which gives people the joys of life, should be erected. But do not overpraise the complex biological design. She's not as perfect as she seems. Sometimes a systemic failure occurs in the molecule, and the development of individual parts of the body deviates from the given programs. In this case, creatures appear in the light of God, absolutely not similar to the surrounding people. Freak people - that's what they've been called since time immemorial. Physical deviations bring incalculable suffering to freak people, but it is impossible to help them. Science still has very little knowledge to on their own adjust the work of genes.
So perfect human bodies are born thanks to the precise work of DNA
From this we can conclude that the Higher Mind, which invented DNA at one time, was by no means distinguished by conscientiousness and responsibility. These guys obviously cheated and did such a responsible job in bad faith. A person can only state the facts of ugliness and meekly demolish the marriage of hacks.
Calms only the thought that it is for the time being. Genetics will soon go far ahead, and people will eventually learn to correct the flaws of others. Our descendants may even get to higher mind. They'll kick these guys' ears or take off their belts and unfasten them in a fatherly way in soft places. But this is a matter for the future, but we will turn to the past and talk about the clearly expressed ugliness, which has always aroused in people a feeling of great curiosity mixed with compassion.
hairy people
Doctors call increased hair on the body "hypertrichosis". This is when a person is covered from head to toe with hair. They do not grow only on the palms of the hands and soles of the feet. It is especially unpleasant when lush vegetation covers the face. The most famous person with this deformity was Jo-Jo. He was born in St. Petersburg in 1868. His name was Fedor Evtishchev.
Jo-Jo or Fedor Evtishchev
Thanks to the hairiness, the boy with early years performed first in Russian, then in French circuses. In 1884, the famous American showman Phineas Taylor Barnum (1810-1891) drew attention to him. The young man went to America and received the pseudonym Jo-Jo. He traveled all over the states, acting as a humanoid dog. The cunning showman told everyone that he was born by a woman who became pregnant from german shepherd. Fedor died in 1904 from pneumonia while on tour in Europe.
Freak people are not only among men. A terrible and terrible burden falls on the fragile female shoulders. An example of this is the Puerto Rican Priscilla Loter. The Loters themselves lived in the United States. They adopted the girl in 1911, paying decent money to her parents. The entire body of the child was covered with long black hair. On the face, only the nose, cheeks and forehead were devoid of vegetation. For the Lother spouses, who labored in the field circus attractions, the ugly girl was a real find.
Priscilla with her adoptive father Karl Lauter
In addition to hairiness, Priscilla had two rows of teeth growing in her mouth. However, that didn't bother her at all. The ugliness did not affect the intellect either. The child was exceptionally smart. He was a wild success with the audience. Respectable in all respects, Karl Loter, before Priscilla's performance, sincerely assured the audience that she was born by a woman who had an intimate relationship with a great ape. Of course, the master was a little cunning, but it was necessary to somehow stir up the interest of the satiated public. In confirmation of the invented “legend”, Priscilla performed on the circus stage only with monkeys.
One very rich and eccentric American woman wanted to adopt a girl. She cherished the dream of crossing her with a monkey. But Loters were not flattered by a large amount money and refused a lover of exotic experiments. Priscilla married circus performer who also had a deformity. The young man's skin on his body was covered with large scabs, and he portrayed an alligator in front of the audience. God did not give this couple children, but they lived a long and happy life together.
Giants and dwarfs
History knows quite a few people with very small and large stature. These are also freak people, since they turned out like this as a result of a genetic failure. In the old days, all monarchs kept dwarfs in their courts. It was believed that shorties and midgets bring good luck. For more than a thousand years, this audience has enjoyed favorable situation. Near the royal table they lived quite well. If they still knew how to make laugh, then they became favorites of the reigning persons. The most famous of all dwarfs is Geoffrey Hudson.
Eaten up shorty at court English king Charles I (1600-1649). His height was only 75 cm in adulthood. As a child, he was less than 15 centimeters, so he was often put in a large cake and served at the table. The guests surrounded the confectionery miracle, and then a tiny man jumped out of it, like a devil from a snuffbox. For those who didn't know, it had a tremendous effect.
Little people in a big world
Geoffrey was very fond of the queen. Naturally, the kid enjoyed it. He behaved boldly and defiantly with the courtiers. One day, the dwarf considered himself offended by the marquis and challenged him to a duel. The kid had his own sword. It was made to him by order of the queen. With this miniature weapon, Geoffrey managed to wound the Marquis several times in the thigh, before the soldiers arrived in time to separate the brawlers.
No less popular are freak people of enormous stature. Ancient historians call startling figures. For example, the same Goliath had a height of 2 meters 90 centimeters. Many researchers who adhere to the alien version of the development of human civilization believe that Goliath was not a Philistine, but a representative of an alien race. So be it, but besides Goliath, there are enough other giants who are in no way inferior to him in size.
You can call Orestes, whose growth reached 3 meters. This is the son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra - the sister of Helen the Beautiful, because of which the Trojan War broke out. Here, the alien version will no longer crawl through, since the giant's sister was Iphigenia. The one beautiful girl, which they wanted to kill to appease Artemis. Rostom young creation nothing stood out from the other girls. Thus, if Orestes is an alien, then why is Iphigenia so small?
Let's leave ancient Greek mythology on the conscience of historians and turn to the ancient Romans. They, too, could boast of huge freak people. Judging by the memoirs of Josephus Flavius (37-100), who wrote the famous work "Jewish War", very tall slaves lived in Rome. Among them, one named Eleazar stood out in particular. His height reached 3 meters 30 centimeters. But this giant was no different physical strength. He was long and thin. But I ate for three. In the competitions of inveterate eaters, Eleazar always won everyone.
It is believed that high growth directly depends on the bones of the legs. The longer the legs, the taller the person. At the same time, the length of his body is not much different from standard sizes. Giants rarely have great physical strength. The real athlete was a giant named Angus MacAskill. He was born in Scotland in 1825. Until the age of 13 it was ordinary child. Then he began to grow rapidly. At the age of 21, his height was 235 cm with a weight of 180 kg. It was a mountain of muscle without a single ounce of fat.
Naturally, a huge strong man performed in the circus, while earning good money. He lifted weights, striking the audience with incredible strength. But there is a hole in the old woman too. MacAskill once made a $1,000 bet that he would raise sea water ship anchor. He weighed almost 900 kg, but the money was very good, and the mighty giant got down to business. The giant lifted the anchor, but at the same time injured his spine. I had to quit the circus. Already an invalid, Mac-Askill went to his homeland, where he died in 1863.
Robert Wadlow with his older brother
by the most tall man on the planet in the entire history of civilization is officially considered Robert Wadlow. This is an American who lived in Mississippi. He died at the age of 22 in 1940. The young man weighed 220 kg with a height of 267 cm. The cause of death was not high growth at all, but a banal blood poisoning. The guy cut his leg, which led to an untimely death.
Fat people are freaks
Fat people also belong to freak people. But not ordinary fat people, but immensely fat personalities. For them, elementary physical actions appear to be a problem. Even to walk around the room, fat people need to make a lot of effort. The American Robert Earl Hughes belongs to this company. He lived in Indiana, and left the mortal world in 1958. His weight was 468 kg with a height of 178 cm.
This man could not move. In order to sit, a special chair was made for him. He slept on a special bed. Its frame was welded from steel corners. The mattress was placed on a steel sheet welded to the corners. When Robert was taken to the hospital, they had to order a crane and a loader. The cause of his death was overweight, which is not at all surprising.
Fat freak people were not uncommon in other states of America. A similar situation was observed in Johnny Ali, who lived in North Carolina. He was born in 1853 and at first was no different from other children. When the boy was 11 years old, he just had a wolfish appetite. The child began to rapidly gain weight. By the age of 15, he could no longer pass through the doorway to leave the house on the street. At the age of 16, the young man switched to a reclining lifestyle.
All the time he spent at home, sitting in a special chair. He slept in it, because he simply could not get over to the bed, and the family were not able to drag the huge body back and forth. The weight of the young man reached 509 kg. This data was obtained after Johnny died. During his lifetime, no one weighed him, so as not to create unnecessary problems for himself.
A young man died in 1887 at the age of 33. The reason for this was elementary human stubbornness. Johnny tried to get up from time to time so as not to feel completely flawed. So this time, he managed to lift his huge carcass from the chair and went to the window of the room to admire the world around him. The floorboards could not withstand the enormous weight. The floorboards broke and the poor man fell down. There was a cellar under the room, but Johnny didn't fall into it. He was stuck in the hole, legs dangling helplessly.
Relatives and neighbors hastily began to build a wooden platform so that the fat man could lean on him with his feet. But while people were working, the young man could not stand all the upheavals and died. A huge body was pulled out of the basement with the help of horses. At the funeral, artiodactyls and special blocks were also used to lower the coffin with the deceased into the grave.
Freak people with two heads
Such people-freaks also occasionally appear in the world, introducing eyewitnesses of this phenomenon into a state of superstitious horror. In 1953, a two-headed baby was born in Indiana. He lived for several weeks. One of the heads was completely normal. The other had a mouth, eyes, ears, but there were no glimmers of intelligence on her face. The heads grew from one body, but each moved, slept and ate independently of the other.
Much earlier, in 1889, also in the state of Indiana, a creature was born, which in official medicine is called the "Jones twins." They had a common body, but their heads were directed in opposite directions. The "twins" had 4 legs, and each two fused with each other. The body had two arms. It gave the impression that right hand obeys the orders of one brain, and the left - the other. The Jones twins died in 1891.
Baby with two heads
In 1829, a freak with two heads was born on the island of Sardinia. Each head "sat" on a long neck. The body was common with two arms and legs. Parents gave the child the name Rita-Christina. The family lived very poorly, so the father and mother took the two-headed creature with them to Paris and began to show it to the curious public for money.
It all ended with the fact that the authorities banned such an immoral event. Parents left Rita-Christina in the winter in an unheated room and went home. The child very soon died of hunger and cold. Doctors opened a small body and made sure that, apart from two heads, there were no more paired organs in it. The skeleton of the unfortunate child is still kept in Paris today.
History knows a man with one head but two faces. This is Edward Mordrake. He lived in the 19th century and was a representative of an aristocratic English family. His second face was located at the back of his head. It had muscles, so it could smile, frown, and even laugh. But most time, the face bore the stamp of gloomy doom. The owner of two persons could not bear such a burden that weighed on his psyche. He went insane and ended up in a psychiatric hospital.
Freak people with one eye
The first one-eyed people are the Cyclopes. Their only eye was located on their forehead. We know about this from ancient Greek mythology. Whether these freak people actually lived on earth or not is unknown. But medicine is well known to a Negro named Nikolos. He lived in the first half of the 20th century in Mississippi. In the center of his forehead was the usual size human eye. There were no eye sockets, as such. These places were absolutely flat, covered with leather. Eyebrows grew, like all normal people.
Representatives of the circus business promised this man fabulous money. But he never went out circus arena. Nikolos ran a farm and tried to avoid people. He felt comfortable only among animals. Nikolos was very fond of dogs, which were up to the lantern that their owner had one eye. The one-eyed American did not start a family and died quietly alone in the 60s of the last century.
Conclusion
Thus, it is clear that the DNA molecule from time to time "gives out on the mountain" amazing biological masterpieces. Freak people amaze humanity with their appearance while experiencing unspeakable mental anguish. Even if they earn a lot of money performing in the circus, this is hardly a moral consolation for them. Many of them would agree to live in poverty, but have a normal human appearance.
Nowadays, when the environment leaves much to be desired, abnormal deviations in people are becoming more common. These are no longer flaws in the work of the Higher Mind, but the irresponsible activities of individual representatives of the human race. So it is still unknown who needs to be "given a belt" - to the mysterious humanoids who invented DNA, or the owners of huge corporations, gradually and steadily turning human race into creepy mutants.
The article was written by Alexey Zibrov
1 The Hilton Sisters
Violet and Daisy Hilton
These sisters are Siamese twins. They shared a common circulatory and nervous system. This meant that they experienced one pain for two. The sisters were sold into slavery by their midwife mother, who greedily took advantage of their misfortune. They sang, danced, played various instruments in the circus. Their slave owner took all their income for himself, and forbade them to communicate with anyone. In the end, one lawyer helped them get out of the shackle, and even bought all the money they earned. The sisters went on to work in show business and at their peak earned $5,000.
2. Wild men from Borneo
These " wild people"were actually doubles, mentally retarded dwarfs who had no hope of a job other than entertaining circus goers. At the age of 26, they were bought from their birth mother by a man named Lyman Warner. They were taught acrobatics, dancing, with Enslaved by the Warner family, they continued to bring prosperity to the family for fifty years.
3. Doll woman
Lucia Zarate
Lucia was born in Mexico in 1864. She weighed 8 ounces and was 7 inches tall. She weighed less than a kitten. To this day, she is the smallest woman on Earth. Arriving in the US at the age of 12, she was the highest paid midget at the time ($20 an hour). Unfortunately, she died at the age of 26 on a train.
4. Texas giant
Jack Earl
Al had a condition called acromegaly. Jack Earl performed in the circus along with famous circus performers. He has also starred in films such as Jack and the Beanstalk (guess who?). Despite the fact that it was difficult for freaks to find work, Earl showed everyone that you can use an extraordinary appearance in any profession. He was a salesman for a wine company, and later became their PR representative. In addition, he sculpted, painted and wrote poetry (his book Long Shadows was published in 1950).
5. "Hunchback"
Quasimodo is not fictional character. The eponymous Hunchback of Notre Dame in Victor Hugo's story actually lived in Notre Dame. A British explorer found fragments of a memoir that spoke of a "humpbacked stone carver" who worked in Hugo's cathedral. It is not difficult to understand why he was given the nickname "Le Bossu" - the Hunchback.
6. The mule-faced woman
Grace McDaniels
This woman was born with a facial deformity that made many people hate to look at her. She was declared "the ugliest woman in the world". This is also a kind of achievement. Despite her appearance, she was very a good man. Grace married, she had a child who did not inherit her facial features, but he became a drunkard and an outcast of society.
7. Jo-Jo, dog-faced boy
Fedor Evtishchev
The boy, like his father, suffered from a rare disease - hypertrichosis. His father lived alone in the forest, away from people, so as not to listen to their ridicule. To earn money, he performed in the circus. After Fedor was born, they began touring together. Soon the father died, and the boy for a long time performed in shows hosted by the famous American entrepreneur F. T. Barnum. Like a trained dog, Fedor could bark and growl on command, but he was not a dog. He could speak English, Russian and German.
8. Julia Pastrana
This girl suffered from hypertrichosis - her face and body were covered with black coarse hair. Outwardly, Julia resembled a gorilla. Her height was a little over 137 cm. Despite her deformity, Pastrana danced well and was very kind and friendly. She had a husband, Theodore, who acquired her and taught her everything that she surprised people in the circus. Soon Julia gave birth to a child who lived only 3 days, and she herself died 5 days after this event. Theodore mummified the corpses of his wife and child, later their bodies were put on display in various Panic Rooms.
9. Schlitzie
Simon Metz
Schlitzie was very popular in the circus. He was a microcephalic - a man with a small skull and a small brain. His child's head sat awkwardly on the shoulders of an adult. His brain was about 3 years old, yet he sang and danced like a 10 year old. Already as a physically adult, he starred in the film "Freaks" (1932), then - "Island lost souls"(1933). After the death of Schlitz, he became a real legend.
10. Caterpillar Man
Prince Randian
Prince Randian was an amazing man - he wore sleeveless clothes and no socks. He had only a head and torso and looked like a paralyzed man, although he could light a cigarette with one mouth. He had a wife, with the help of whom he learned to move. Fame came to him in 1932, after episodic role in Tod Browning's Freaks. Prince Randian lived to be 63 years old.
Beauty is, of course, a relative concept, although the fashion and cosmetics industry tells us otherwise. There is another common expression- beauty is in the eye of the beholder. All this is true, but let's be honest with ourselves: there are many people in the world whose appearance does not correspond to our idea of \u200b\u200bbeauty. And if some people were born not too beautiful or became so due to tragic circumstances, then others to their heart's content "worked" on their appearance according to own will. We offer you a rating of the most terrible people in the world.
"The Scariest Woman in the World" - Lizzie Velasquez
A girl named Lizzy Velasquez, frankly, does not have an attractive appearance. She is even called the most terrible woman in the world. And people who saw videos of her on Youtube left dozens of the most offensive comments that only the imagination is capable of.She was advised never to go out, not to look in the mirror and even to commit suicide immediately - fortunately, Lizzie was strong enough to answer the haters. She became a motivational speaker (following Nick Vujicic, who was born without both arms and legs).
Lizzy Velasquez is sick with a rare disease - Wiedemann-Rauthenstrauch syndrome. She cannot gain weight no matter how much she eats, and besides, she is blind in one eye. Her every day is a struggle with death, but Lizzy participates in medical research, writes books and does not hide from life.
Ugly but not unfortunate Godfrey Bagum
A shoemaker from Uganda named Godfrey Baguma is ill with an unknown and incurable disease. However, he does not lose heart and considers himself happy man. Once he even took part in a local anti-beauty contest and competed for the title of the ugliest person (do I need to say that he won?) He came to this contest to earn extra money: the disease causes a lot of inconvenience and interferes with work.The scariest man in Uganda - Godfrey Baguma
In 2013, Godfrey got married, and for the second time. He left his first wife after learning of her infidelity. After that he met new love- a woman named Kate, and dated for four years. and then lived with her before he decided to propose. He understood that his native girls were unlikely to accept him at first sight. Over the years, we note, Godfrey became the father of six children.
The man who had his face removed - Jason Schechterly
Jason Schechterly has been dubbed the ugliest man on the planet by the tabloids. He was the most ordinary American guy - he served in the police, went to a bar after work and courted girls. But he had to endure a great tragedy. In 2001, he received fourth-degree burns. It happened at work - Jason was driving a patrol car. In the car for at full speed taxi crashed. Moreover, the blow was so strong that both cars flared up like a match. 
Unfortunately for Jason, he couldn't get out of the car right away. Firefighters and rescuers arrived quickly; they managed to get Jason out of the pile of metal and save his life. But the burns were so severe that the surgeons actually had nothing to save: the skin on the face was completely burnt. The skin was transplanted to the young policeman, but there was no trace of a completely pretty appearance.
One publication even published a photo of Jason Schechterly - the one where his wife hugs him. For this shot, the photographer who shot the couple received several awards (and a lot of money) at once. And Shechterly himself immediately filed a lawsuit against the newspaper. Naturally, he won the case. And now the corporation that manages the publication pays a considerable amount of money to the fund to support victims of burns. In addition, by a court decision, the employees of the newspaper, who allowed the picture to get into the room, were deprived of their jobs.
The Chinese Yu Junchang has a rare atavism: he is almost completely covered in hair. Since people are usually horrified when they see something unusual, in the media the young man was also "honored" with the title of one of the most ugly people in the world. However, the editorial board of find out.rf notes that he is not particularly worried about this. Yu Junchan willingly participates in numerous talk shows, gives interviews and says in all programs that his heart is free and he will gladly give it to the girl he likes. 
The girl with the tattoos of everything
A young woman with a not very harmonious surname, Gnuse, was unlucky in her health: she is sick with porphyria. American Julia Gnuse suffers from a rare disease: she cannot be in the sun, the light causes blisters on the skin. To hide the disease, she began to apply tattoos on her skin, but this gave a purely cosmetic effect. 
Julia Gnuse covered 95 percent of her skin with tattoos and entered the Guinness Book of Records as the most tattooed woman in the world. She spent many years fighting the disease and posing for reporters' cameras (in the press she was nicknamed the Painted Lady): she believed that a serious illness was no reason to hide from the world. In 2016, Julia died at the age of 48.
The scariest people in the world who did this to themselves voluntarily
Brazilian Elaine Davidson boasts a huge amount of scrap metal on her face: she wears at least three kilograms of piercings on it around the clock. Complement the crazy look of 2500 tattoos. Elaine Davidson has moved to Edinburgh and runs an aromatherapy shop there. It’s good that she doesn’t have to go to the office - hardly any large corporation hired such an exotic (and in truth, scary) looking lady. 
Kala Kawai once failed to stop in time in his passion for body modification and covered his body with tattoos by 75%. But, apparently, this seemed not enough to him, and he decided to make his tongue snake, bifurcating the tip, and also to grow silicone bumps on his forehead, resembling bumps, and attach metal horns to his head. However, a quite prosaic motive is also possible: he decided to become a live advertisement own studio tattoo in Hawaii.
lizard man
Once upon a time, the lizard-man Eric Sprague was a respectable member of society, wore a suit and went to work - to the University of Albany. But one day everything changed. We at the site do not know exactly what prompted Sprague to do all this to himself, but the fact remains: the American, who is considered the founder of the body modification movement (decorative changes made to his own body), gradually turned into a lizard.Eric Sprague's Scary Lizard Man Performance
Numerous tattoos, stylized reptile skin, piercings, and most importantly, a terrible forked tongue "helped" him in this. In addition, Eric Sprague sharpened his teeth. Now he makes a living by showing all this goodness for money, and also swallows fire, hangs himself right by the skin on hooks and makes other similar things.
The scariest person in the world: cat man
His name is Dennis Avner. But great popularity came to him under the nicknames Cat, Man-Tiger or Man-Cat. Dennis changed his appearance not at all because he wanted to stand out from the crowd in an original way or was sick. From childhood, a man was attracted by the image of a tiger - and at some point, love for cats crossed all conceivable limits.Today, Dennis's body is adorned with a huge number of tattooed stripes that imitate tiger stripes. IN total there are more than a hundred of them. Dennis Avner's teeth are specially sharpened to look like a cat. Upper lip bifurcated surgically, and in order to change the shape of the face, the man needed to place implants in the forehead and on the eyebrows. Tiger Man also did a hairline correction. And to increase the resemblance, he regularly builds up his nails.
Hobbies for body modification and the passion to endlessly “improve” yourself do not lead to good. We invite you to read about the "terribly beautiful" stars who once went under the knife of a plastic surgeon - and could not stop.
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Everyone knows the canons and generally accepted indicators of an ideal human appearance. At the same time, there have long been recognized norms among people, which biometrically and visually must correspond to specific parts of the body. People with proportions as close as possible to ideals are considered the most beautiful and attractive.
But there is also the other side of the coin - when people look so unusual, especially, and sometimes just scary, which causes a certain interest in society. This can be caused by artificial changes in appearance, which a person can make consciously various reasons. And perhaps - the natural development of human deformity, which occurs due to mutations.
Mutations as a natural process
Scientists have proven that mutations are generated by freely drifting genes and develop as a result of anomalies in fetal development. At the same time, a mutation is considered to be a part of evolutionary development, bearing the form of a one-time, conditioned deviation.
Mutations can be pronounced, affecting the appearance, limbs and other parts of the human body. Variants are possible when the level of mental development in such cases is not affected, and consciousness remains full. But it often happens that mutations affect not only the appearance external signs deformities, but also directly affect internal development. Such children show dementia, significantly lag behind their peers in development.
Mutations can be either congenital or conditional. The main reasons for such interference of nature in the natural processes of fetal development can be considered:
- Congenital diseases that are inherited;
- Acceptance of the "wrong" medicines during pregnancy;
- Abuse of the expectant mother with drugs, alcohol, tobacco products and chemicals;
- When the body of the mother or the fetus itself was exposed to radioactive radiation.
In addition, the probability of the birth of an inferior, mutating organism in people who are closely related to each other is quite high. It has been proven that incest directly leads to the development of mutations in the body.
Is the desire to become a “freak” a perversion or self-expression?
And yet, despite any canons of beauty and attractiveness, some prefer to approach the issue from the other side. People who do not stand out with beautiful features of the face or body tend to be the first with reverse side list - turning into real freaks and mutants.
There are many individuals in the world who have chosen to change their appearance to a frightening spectacle around them. For example, this is "Cat Man" Denis Anver, who, thanks to his non-standard appearance and the many manipulations done on the face and body was recognized as the most scary person in the world. Among the actions that he performed on his poor body, one can single out surgical operations, applying various tattoos, piercings and much more.
No less famous all over the world are the "Lizard Man" Eric Spraga with his tattoos and forked tongue, or Elaine Davidson, a resident of Brazil, on whose face alone you can count about 3 kilograms of piercing jewelry.
It should be noted that most people, even in Everyday life strive to stand out from the gray mass, either decorating or disfiguring themselves. External and inner beauty depends only on ourselves, and the personal choice of each is to create an image that is close to a person and his inner world. But don't overdo it with in unusual ways"self-expression" in order not to become this very freak with kilograms of metal ruthlessly piercing the whole body in pursuit of the attention of others. Or a bunch of meaningless tattoos that leave no living space on the skin.
Incredible Facts
This list will tell about ten unfortunate people suffering from severe deformities.
Some of them, with the help of modern medicine, have been able to live more or less normal lives.
Some of the stories are tragic, others are hopeful. Here are ten shocking stories:
Human deformation
10 Rudy Santos
Man is an octopus
Attached to Rudy's pelvis and abdomen another pair of arms and legs, belonging to his brother, whom Santos devoured while in the womb. Also on his body is an extra pair of nipples and an undeveloped head with an ear and hair.
Rudy became a national celebrity while traveling as part of a freak show in the 1970s and 1980s. Then he earned about 20,000 pesos per day, being the main "attraction" of the show.
That's when he got his stage name- "octopus". Rudy was likened to God and women lined up just to stand next to him or take pictures with him.
Oddly enough, Rudy disappeared from the screen in the late 1980s and eventually has been living in poverty for more than ten years. In 2008, two doctors examined him to see if he could survive after surgery to remove unwanted body parts.
9. Manar Maged
two-headed girl
Less than a year later, Manar herself died due to a brain infection, the development of which was provoked as a result of complications that arose after the operation.
Unusual people of the world
8. Minh Anh
The boy is a fish
Ming Anh is a Vietnamese orphan who was born with an unknown skin condition that causes his skin to flake massively and form scales. His condition, as expected, was triggered by a special chemical(Agent Orange) used by the US military during the Vietnam War.
This condition is associated with constant overheating of the body, so it becomes extremely inconvenient for a person to “wear” the skin without regular showering. The same orphans orphanage They called him "fish".
In the past, Ming was abused by the staff and other children who lived in the orphanage. They tied him to the bed and prevented the boy from taking a shower to "take off" the old skin.
When Min was just a child, he met Brenda, a 79-year-old resident of the UK. Now she travels to Vietnam every year to see him. Over the years, the woman came to the boy and became his good friend.
Brenda did a lot to improve the boy's life in the orphanage. She convinced the staff not to tie him up when the next attack started, she also found him a friend who goes swimming with the child every week, which is now Min's favorite pastime.
7. Joseph Merrick
Elephant Man
Probably the most a famous person on this list is Joseph Merrick, the elephant man. Born in 1836, the Englishman became a London celebrity and later gained fame all over the world.
He was born with Proteus Syndrome, a condition that causes unusual growths of tissue on the skin that cause the bones to deform and thicken.
Joseph's mother died when the boy was 11 years old, and his father abandoned him. Thus, he left home as a teenager, then worked in Leicester, and later became a showman. He was extremely popular and at the peak of his popularity received his stage name: "elephant man".
Due to the size of his head, Joseph had to sleep sitting up. His head was so heavy that he could not sleep lying down. One night in 1890, he tried to escape into the kingdom of Morpheus "like everyone normal people", And sprained his neck in the process.
The next morning he was found dead.
The most unusual people
6. Didier Montalvo
Turtle boy
Didier was born in Colombian countryside with congenital melanocytic virus, which contributes to the fact that birthmark grows at an incredibly fast pace throughout the body.
As a result of this disease, the birthmark became so large that covered Didier's entire back. Peers nicknamed Didier "turtle boy", because the incredible size of the "mole" was very similar to a turtle shell.
Apparently Didier was conceived during an eclipse, because locals considered it "the work of the devil." For this reason, he was prevented from interacting with other children and banned from attending the local school.
When British surgeon Neil Bulstrode learned of Didier's problem, he headed to Bogota, where operated on the child and completely removed the ill-fated "mole".
When the operation was performed, the boy was barely six years old. It was a real success, because the specialists were able to remove the entire birthmark. After the operation, Didier was admitted to school, he began to live a normal and happy life.
People with an unusual appearance
5. Mandy Sellars
Mandy Sellars from Lancashire, UK, was diagnosed with the same diagnosis as Joseph Merik - Proteus syndrome. This resulted in Mandy's legs becoming incredibly huge, with a total weight of 95 kg and a diameter of 1 meter.
Her legs are so big that she orders herself specially equipped shoes, which cost about $4,000. She also has a personalized car that she can drive without the help of her legs.
The tumor mass was completely removed after the first operation, the other three were sent for facial reconstruction. The operations were successful and a few weeks later José was on his way to Lisbon.
People with the most unusual abnormalities
2. Dede Koswara
Man is a tree
Dede Koswara is an Indonesian man who has been suffering from a fungal infection called epidermodysplasia verruciformis for most of his life. It causes the growth of large, tough fungal growths that look very similar to tree bark.
Over time, Dede became extremely uncomfortable using his limbs, they became so large and heavy. The fungus grows throughout the body, but manifests itself mainly on the arms and legs.
In 2008, Dede underwent a course of treatment in the United States, as a result of which 8 kg of warts were removed from his body. After that, a skin graft was made on the face and hands. Unfortunately, as a result of the operation, it was not possible to stop the growth of the fungus, so another surgical intervention was performed in 2011.
There is no cure for Dede disease.
1. Alamjan Nematilaev
A fetus in a fetus is an extremely rare developmental anomaly that occurs once in 500,000 newborns. The reasons for this anomaly are unknown, but many scientists believe that this occurs in the early stages of pregnancy, when one embryo is literally "enveloped" by another.
In 2003 school doctor noticed that the child's stomach was very swollen and sent him to the hospital. Doctors examined him and concluded that the patient had a cyst. The following week, the boy was operated on, and, to everyone's surprise, a child weighing two kilograms and 20 centimeters long was found in Alamyan's stomach.
The doctor who performed the operation noted that the boy looked as if he was six months pregnant. The boy's parents believe that the development of such an anomaly was provoked as a result of radiation after the Chernobyl disaster, but experts rejected this idea.
Alamyan fully recovered from the operation, but to this day he does not know that his twin was growing inside him.
