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two headed baby runs amok in Iowa
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Posted By:
troubledexperiment001
Oct 07, 2004
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okay,so it didnt really run,but stiilll.my sister (who's name shall never be mentioned on this site EVER) took me to a "freak show" in someplace in....Canada? hmm...i cant really remember.....well,anyways,i then saw an exhibit of a 'two headed baby' perserved in fourmahdihide in what seemed to be an oversized mason jar.my sis was freaked out for eternity after that,but i still smell a hoax.they say it lived for about three weeks before the cross-kissers(chistians) kidnapped and strangled it,thinking it was the devil or something.
freaky,yes,but a possible fake.the second head wasnt deformed or anything.it could have been a stillborn whos had an extra head glued on or something.....i dunno....meh.
help me out here guys!!!!! '80
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Rochelle
Member
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Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 | 05:43 PM
I'm fascinated conjoined twins. As has already been mentioned, the Hensel twins are living proof that not only can two-headed babies exist, but they can survive as long as they have enough organs between them.
Pasqual Pinon, the two-headed Mexican, was a hoax. I've never heard of the Janus-person you mention, but the site I just linked to also has an article on Chang Tzu Ping, who had a malformed face on the side of his real face (warning: slightly disturbing picture). |
DFStuckey
in Auckland New zealand
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Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2005 | 02:10 AM
Gatti, speaking as one, I prefer the term 'mutant' to the other terms like monster, freak or biological prodigy.
I have mentioned this before; I will explain my non-human mutation at some point but not to amuse people. |
Gatti
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Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2005 | 08:15 AM
Oh, alright DFStuckey. It's just that mutant sounded a little harsh to me, that's all. If you're fine with it though, that's good.  |
D F Stuckey
in Auckland New Zealand
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Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 | 11:56 PM
No problem, Gatti 
It's like a lot of the backlash to the overuse of PC language or Newspaek by those who 'suuposedly' are being helped, like the "auditorially disenfrachised" who prefer the less complex term deaf.
Anyhoo, back slightly on topic - Has anyone else ever seen a real teratoma? I've seen a bovine one once and that was bizarre - A baseball-sized chunk of tiisues with a small patch of black and white hair ( It was a Friesan cow twin ), with teeth at odd angles and pieces of half-formed organs. |
Elizabeth
in Austin, TX
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Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2005 | 09:24 PM
"I recall reading about a case in Mexico where a guy had a head growing out of his forehead"
http://www.phreeque.com/pasqual_pinon.html
"and another where a person had a face on the back of his head (like Janus). The face could move it's eyes and cry, but couldn't talk. Presumably these were undeveloped twins, but I have no references, only memory."
You are probably referring to Edward Mordake, who was discussed by Gould and Pyle but to my knowledge never existed. The story goes that the face on the back of his head was that of a woman and that it whispered evil things to him at night. He called it his "devil twin" and desperately sought a surgeon who would remove the twin from his head, but was told that such an operation would kill him, so he took his own life. There are several simple medical reasons that this bizarre case couldn't have been more than a mere fiction.
That's not to say there haven't been cases of undeveloped (parasitic) conjoined twins attached to the host twin's head. Most famous is the Two-Headed Boy of Bengal, who was born in the late 18th century with the bodiless head of his twin attached upside-down on top of his cranium. The head could cry, salivate, and make facial expressions that corresponded to the boy's emotions. The boy was seen by Dr. Everard Home, the famous surgeon, but died of a snake bite before he could be brought back to England for proper study.
More recently, in 2003, Rebeca Martinez, a baby from the Dominican Republic with a very similar case of craniopagus parasiticus, died after an operation in the United States to remove the undeveloped twin. In 2005 Manar Maged, an Egyptian girl, became the first child to survive this kind of surgery.
Hope this answers some questions about "two-headed" babies.  |
Mary
in Houston, Texas
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Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 | 09:37 PM
I googled two-headed twins today because I saw a two-headed teenager yesterday at the Mall after leaving from work. She was coming into the mall with her family, or rather they were... I have done a little research online to figure out exactly what I saw and it turns out that it occurs when identical twins-- embryonic cells begin to divide and they do not completely seperate, resulting in a shared torso. It is sad that people are so callous, that they would go to a freak show and pay money to see such horrific humilating and dehumanizing displays. The dicephalus twins that I saw yesterday, seemed unphased by the mall's superficial culture. I too was shocked and curious about what I saw, it took me a while for my brain to process such a sight. It is a shame that people are so repulsed by it. Why would you call them a mutant? I find that to be very cold and heartless. I am a mother of two children, and I am thankful that my two kids, a six year old and a three year old, were not born with such hardships. --because I have become fully aware of the ignorance and disgusting incompassionate behaviour that we are all capable of as human beings. Perhaps you and your friend should be less "freaked out" by what you saw, and more "freaked out" by your own sickening thoughtlessness. What type of person has such little compassion for human dignity that you would attend a "freak show" ? ... You should be ashamed of yourselves. You know the more I think about it, I feel less sorry for the "two-headed girl" and more sorry for the rest of us and the sad state of Compassion, which should be the most simplist of qualities. |
amazed
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Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 | 10:15 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-headed_animal#Real_occurrences
Try this link. There are instances of 2 headed humans. They are a rare form of conjoined Twins. |
Cecilia
in Greenwood , Mississippi
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Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 | 09:14 PM
I was in the airport in Dallas Texas with my 5 years old son when we saw a girl about 16 years old... with two heads... one body .. two heads talking separetely with different people... I asked them to have a pic...they said "no thanks", the family was waiting for her there... I think they dont show up on TV as they were tryoing to be as much discret as possible and as much natural as the oww nature allows her to be... this is most amaizing thing I have ever seen in my life so is for my little son..we were shaking for hours...now... nobody believe us.... has somebody seen her ? |
Elaine
in BC, Canada
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Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 | 06:26 PM
The girls that you saw are probably Abigail and Brittany Hensel, they were born March 8, 1990.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abigail_and_Brittany_Hensel
Another case of craniopagus parasiticus:
A dicephalus baby was born Aug. 10, 2006 in Indonesia. Her name is Syafitri.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14359862/ |
oyunlar
in Maegan in Tampa, FL - USA Member
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Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 | 03:32 PM
Physically they move as one, in perfect co-ordination. Mentally they are independent, with different preferences and abilities. Their parents are opposed to separation, which would be highly dangerous. |
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