The human body grows and develops in accordance with the genetic program that is embedded in DNA. This molecule consists 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 specific organ. These are the heart, kidneys, liver, brain, skeleton, etc. etc. They all begin to grow and develop in the womb of the mother’s body. At the same time, the process of their development follows a clearly established pattern.
Genes scrupulously adhere to a certain program, guide cell division, and, in the end, a child is born. 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 bodies. Such bodies are pleasing to the eye and evoke a feeling of admiration. Humanity owes all this to DNA.
It would seem that it is necessary to erect a monument to this molecule, which gives people the joy of life. But one should not over-praise the complex biological structure. She's not as perfect as she seems. Sometimes a systemic failure occurs in a molecule, and the development of individual parts of the body deviates from the given programs. In this case, creatures appear in the light of day that are absolutely different from the people around them. People-freaks - that's what they've been called since time immemorial. Physical abnormalities bring untold suffering to deformed people, but it is impossible to help them. Science still has very little knowledge to correct the functioning of genes on its own.
Such perfect human bodies are born thanks to the precise work of DNA
From this we can conclude that the Supreme Intelligence that 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 endure the marriage of hacks.
The only reassurance is the thought that this is for the time being. Genetics will soon go far ahead, and people will eventually learn to correct the mistakes of others. Our descendants may even get to Supreme Intelligence. They'll kick these guys' ears or take off their belts and fatherly whip them soft places. But this is a matter for the future, we will turn to the past and talk about clearly expressed ugliness, which has always aroused in people a feeling of great curiosity mixed with compassion.
Hairy people
Doctors call increased body hair “hypertrichosis.” This is when a person is covered with hair from head to toe. 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 JoJo. He was born in St. Petersburg in 1868. His name was Fyodor Evtishchev.
Jo-Jo or Fedor Evtishchev
Thanks to his hairiness, the boy performed from an early age, first in Russian and 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 United States, performing as a humanoid dog. The cunning showman told everyone that he was given birth to by a woman who became pregnant from a German shepherd. Fedor died in 1904 from pneumonia while on tour in Europe.
Freaks are not only found among men. A terrible and terrible burden falls on fragile women’s shoulders. An example of this is Puerto Rican Priscilla Lauter. Actually, the Loters lived in the United States. They adopted the girl in 1911, paying decent money to her parents. The child's entire body was covered with long black hair. On the face only the nose, cheeks and forehead were devoid of hair. For the Loters, who worked in the field of circus attractions, the ugly girl was a real find.
Priscilla with her adoptive father Carl Lauter
In addition to being hairy, Priscilla had two rows of teeth growing in her mouth. However, this did not bother her at all. The deformity did not affect the intellect. The child was exceptionally smart. He enjoyed wild success with the audience. Before Priscilla’s performance, the venerable Karl Lauter sincerely assured the audience that she was given birth to by a woman who had had intimate relations with a large ape. Of course, the master was a little disingenuous, but it was necessary to somehow stir up the interest of the jaded public. To confirm 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 the Loters were not flattered by a large amount money and refused the lover of exotic experiments. Priscilla married a 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 freaks, because they turned out this way as a result of a genetic failure. In the old days, all monarchs kept dwarfs in their courts. Short men and midgets were believed to bring good luck. For more than a thousand years, this public enjoyed a favorable situation. They lived quite well near the royal table. If they also knew how to make people laugh, they became favorites of the reigning persons. Jeffrey Hudson is considered the most famous of all dwarfs.
The short one was eaten at the court of the English king Charles I (1600-1649). His height was only 75 cm in adulthood. As a child, he was 15 centimeters smaller, so he was often placed in a large cake and served to the table. Guests surrounded the confectionery miracle, and then a tiny man jumped out of it, like a jack out of a snuff box. For those who did not know, this had a stunning effect.
Little people in a big world
Geoffrey was very loved by the queen. Naturally, the kid took advantage of this. He behaved impudently and defiantly with the courtiers. One day the dwarf considered himself insulted by the marquis and challenged him to a duel. The kid had his own sword. It was made for 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.
Human freaks of enormous stature are no less popular. Ancient historians cite astonishing 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. Let it be so, but besides Goliath there are enough other giants who are in no way inferior to him in size.
You can name Orestes, whose height reached 3 meters. This is the son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra - the sister of Helen the Beautiful, because of whom the Trojan War broke out. The alien version will no longer get through here, since sister Iphigenia was a giant. The same beautiful girl who they wanted to kill to appease Artemis. The young creature's height did not stand out among other girls. Thus, if Orestes is an alien, then why is Iphigenia so small?
Let's leave ancient Greek mythology to the conscience of historians and turn to the ancient Romans. They, too, could boast of huge human monsters. Judging by the memoirs of Josephus (37-100), who wrote the famous work “The Jewish War,” very tall slaves lived in Rome. Among them, one named Eleazar stood out especially. His height reached 3 meters 30 centimeters. But this giant was not distinguished by great physical strength. He was long and thin. But he ate for three. In competitions between 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. Moreover, 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 it began to grow rapidly. At the age of 21, his height was 235 cm and his weight was 180 kg. It was a mountain of muscle without an ounce of fat.
Naturally, the huge strongman performed in the circus, earning good money. He lifted weights, amazing the audience with incredible strength. But even an old woman can have trouble. MacAskill once bet $1,000 that he would raise sea water ship's 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 in the process injured his spine. I had to give up the circus. Already disabled, MacAskill went to his homeland, where he died in 1863.
Robert Wadlow with his older brother
The most tall man on the planet in the entire history of civilization, Robert Wadlow is officially considered. 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 simple blood poisoning. The guy cut his leg, which led to his untimely death.
Fat people are freaks
Fat people are also ugly people. But not ordinary fat people, but immensely fat individuals. For them, basic physical actions seem like a whole problem. Even to walk across the room, fat people need to make a lot of effort. American Robert Earl Hughes belongs to this company. He lived in Indiana and left this mortal coil 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 forklift. The cause of his death was excess weight, which is not at all surprising.
Fat freaks were not uncommon in other states of America. A similar situation was observed with Johnny Ali, who lived in North Carolina. He was born in 1853 and at first was no different from other children. When the boy turned 11 years old, he developed a voracious appetite. The child began to rapidly gain weight. By the age of 15, he could no longer walk through the doorway to leave the house on the street. At the age of 16, the young man switched to a semi-recumbent lifestyle.
He spent all his time at home, sitting in a special chair. He slept in it, since he simply could not move onto the bed, and his family were not able to drag his huge body back and forth. Weight 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 themselves.
The young man died in 1887 at the age of 33. The reason for this was basic human stubbornness. Johnny tried to get up from time to time so as not to feel completely inferior. This time too, he managed to lift his huge bulk from the chair and headed 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 guy fell down. There was a basement underneath the room, but Johnny didn't fall into it. He was stuck in the hole, his legs dangling helplessly.
Relatives and neighbors began hastily building a wooden platform so that the fat man could rest his feet on it. But while people were working, the young man could not withstand all the shocks and died. A huge body was pulled out of the basement with the help of horses. At funerals they also used artiodactyls and special blocks to lower the coffin with the deceased into the grave.
Freak people with two heads
Such monster people also appear sporadically, putting 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 glimpses of intelligence on her face. The heads grew from the same 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 were fused with each other. The body had two arms. It seemed that right hand obeys the orders of one brain, and the left - another. The Jones Twins died in 1891.
Infant 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 shared with two arms and legs. The 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 a curious public for money.
It all ended with the authorities banning such an immoral event. Parents abandoned Rita-Christina in an unheated room in the winter and went home. The child died very soon from hunger and cold. Doctors opened the 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 on the back of his head. It had muscles, so it could smile, frown and even laugh. But most of the time the face bore the stamp of gloomy doom. The owner of two persons could not bear such a burden weighing on his psyche. He went crazy and ended his life in a mental hospital.
Freak people with one eye
The first one-eyed people were the Cyclopes. Their only eye was located on their forehead. We know this from ancient greek mythology. Whether these monster people actually lived on earth or not is unknown. But medicine is well known to a black man named Nikolos. He lived in the first half of the 20th century in Mississippi. In the center of his forehead there was a normal-sized human eye. There were no eye sockets as such. These places were completely flat, covered with skin. Eyebrows grew like all normal people.
Representatives of the circus business promised this man fabulous money. But he never entered the circus arena. Nikolos led farming and tried to avoid people. He felt comfortable only among animals. Nikolos was very fond of dogs, which did not care about 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 from time to time the DNA molecule produces amazing biological masterpieces. Freak people amaze humanity with their appearance, while experiencing unspeakable mental suffering. Even if they earn a lot of money performing in the circus, this is unlikely to provide them with moral consolation. Many of them would agree to live in poverty, but have a normal human appearance.
Nowadays, when the ecology 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 the belt” - the mysterious humanoids who invented DNA, or the owners of huge corporations that are gradually and steadily transforming human race into creepy mutants.
The article was written by Alexey Zibrov
Incredible facts
This list will tell you about ten unfortunate people suffering from severe deformities.
Some of them, with the help of modern medicine, were 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
Octopus Man
Attached to Rudy's pelvis and abdomen another pair of arms and legs, belonged to his brother, whom Santos absorbed while in the womb. Also on his body there is extra pair nipples and an undeveloped head with ears and hair.
Rudy became a national celebrity during his freak show travels in the 1970s and 1980s. Then he earned about 20,000 pesos per day, being the main “attraction” of the show.
It was then that he received 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 screens in the late 1980s and eventually He has been living in poverty for over ten years now. In 2008, two doctors examined him to see if he could survive surgery to remove unnecessary 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
Boy is a fish
Minh Anh is a Vietnamese orphan who was born with an unknown skin condition that causes his skin to peel off massively and form scales. His condition is expected to be was provoked by a special chemical(Agent Orange) which was used by the US military during the Vietnam War.
This condition is associated with constant overheating of the body, so it becomes extremely uncomfortable for a person to “wear” the skin without regular showering. The same orphans from orphanage They called him "fish".
Previously, Minh was subjected to violence by staff and other children living in the orphanage. They tied him to the bed and did not allow the boy to go to the shower so that "remove" old skin.
When Minh 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 visited the boy and became his good friend.
Brenda helped improve the life of the boy in the orphanage in many ways. She convinced the staff not to restrain him when he had another seizure, and she also found him a friend to take the baby swimming every week, which is now Min's favorite pastime.
7. Joseph Merrick
Elephant Man
Probably the most a famous person in 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 tissue growth on the skin that causes the bones to become deformed and thicken.
Joseph's mother died when the boy was 11 years old, and his father abandoned him. So he left home as a teenager, then worked in Leicester and a little later became a showman. He was extremely popular and at the peak of his popularity he received his stage name: “the elephant man.”
Due to the size of his head, Joseph had to sleep sitting up. His head was so heavy that the man could not sleep lying down. One night in 1890, he tried to go to the kingdom of Morpheus "like all normal people," and dislocated his neck in the process.
The next morning he was found dead.
The most unusual people
6. Didier Montalvo
Boy - turtle
Didier was born in Colombia rural areas with a congenital melanocytic virus, which causes the birthmark to grow throughout the body at an incredibly fast pace.
As a result of this disease, the birthmark became so huge that covered Didier's entire back. Didier's peers nicknamed him "the turtle boy" because his incredibly large "mole" was very similar to a turtle's shell.
Apparently Didier was conceived during an eclipse, because local residents considered it "the work of the devil." For this reason, he was not allowed to communicate with other children and was 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 unfortunate “mole”.
When the operation was performed, the boy was barely six years old. It was real success, because specialists were able to remove the entire birthmark. After the operation, Didier was allowed to go to school and began to live a normal and happy life.
People with unusual appearance
5. Mandy Sellars
Mandy Sellars from Lancashire, UK, was diagnosed with the same diagnosis as Joseph Merick - 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 that cost about $4,000. She also has a personalized car that she can drive without using her legs.
The tumor mass was completely removed after the first operation, the remaining three were aimed at facial reconstruction. The operations were successful, and a few weeks later, José was already on his way to Lisbon.
People with the most unusual disabilities
2. Dede Koswara
Man is a tree
Dede Koswara is an Indonesian man who has suffered from a fungal infection called epidermodysplasia verruciformis for most of his life. It causes the growth of large, tough fungal growths that look much like 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 this, skin grafts were done on the face and hands. Unfortunately, the operation failed to stop the growth of the fungus, so another surgical intervention was performed in 2011.
There is no cure for Dede's disease.
1. Alamjan Nematilaev
Fetal congestion is an extremely rare developmental anomaly that occurs once in 500,000 births. The reasons for this anomaly are unknown, but many scientists believe that it occurs in the early stages of pregnancy, when one embryo is literally “enveloped” by another.
In 2003, the 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.
Unfortunately, not all people on the planet have an attractive appearance. Some suffer from incurable diseases, some have been victims of accidents or other incidents. But there are also those who deliberately disfigure themselves, guided by the desire to be different from everyone else. They pay huge amounts of money to mutilate their body and become the happiest. In our review 7 not ordinary people, who were included in the ranking of the ugliest people on the planet.
Zombie fight
Rick Genest or zombie fight
Rick Genest gained popularity and the title of one of the most terrible people on the planet thanks to his extraordinary appearance, or, more precisely, the tattoos that cover his face. First of all, the attention is drawn to the fake teeth like a skeleton (in their proper place), dark circles under the eyes and a black nose with a ring, which makes the guy look even more menacing. Rick probably often hears the frightened screams of passers-by.
Woman piercing
Elaine Davidson - female piercer
The well-deserved leadership in this category belongs to the Brazilian Elaine Davidson. She is the woman with the largest number of piercings: on her body there are more than 9 thousand punctures, the total weight of which is more than three kilograms. Now Edain lives in Edinburgh with her husband, who, by the way, does not have a single puncture on his body. The couple are happy together.
Lizard Man
Eric Sprague - Lizard Man
Eric Sprague? the first man in the world to make his tongue like a snake's by cutting the tip in half and day after day stretching the halves apart so that they would not grow together. Almost his entire body is decorated with green tattoos that imitate the scales of a lizard. And sharpened teeth complete the picture.
Vampire woman
Marie José Cristerna or the Vampire Woman
Mexican Marie Jose Cristerna is very popular in her homeland. Thanks to her unconventional appearance, she received the nickname "Vampire Woman". The fact is that Marie grew fangs on all her teeth, then sewed implants simulating horns into her forehead, and covered most of her body, including her face, with tattoos and piercings. In addition, a woman loves to wear colored lenses, which makes her appearance even more expressive.
Woman illustration
Julia Gnuse was nicknamed the female illustration
But there are those who are on the list of the ugliest people on the planet not of their own free will. For example, Julia Gnuse is recognized as the woman with the most tattoos in the world. And all because since childhood he has suffered from an incurable skin disease - porphyria. This is what forced Julia to cover her body with tattoos for 10 years. Some compare the girl to painted dishes or a matryoshka doll.
The most scary woman planets
Lizzie Velasquez is officially recognized as the most ugly woman planets
Lizzie Velasquez, also against her will, was recognized by the media as the scariest girl in the world. This is due to a rare combination of two diseases - Marfan syndrome and lipodystrophy, due to which her body has lost the ability to form subcutaneous fat. For the same reason, he cannot see in one eye. But, nevertheless, this did not stop her from leading a more or less normal life. Today, Lizzie is a motivational speaker. She travels around the world giving seminars and writing inspiring books.
Man Without a Face
Doctors literally removed Jason Shechterly's face
There is another person who, thanks to the media, received the title of the ugliest man on the planet. Retired police officer Jason Shechterly, while on duty, was involved in a terrible accident: a taxi crashed into a police officer's car. The blow was so powerful that it immediately caught fire. The policeman was not pulled out immediately. The result is fourth degree burns. Doctors, in order to save Jason's life, had to literally remove his face. It was this incident that gave rise to the Weekly World News newspaper to include the policeman in the list of the ugliest people on the planet.
1. Hilton Sisters
Violet and Daisy Hilton
These sisters - Siamese twins. They had a common circulatory and nervous system. This meant that they experienced one pain between them. 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 and forbade them to communicate with anyone. In the end, one lawyer helped them escape the shackles, and even bought back all the money they earned. The sisters continued to work in show business and at the peak of their careers earned $5,000.
2. Wild men from Borneo
These " wild people"were actually doppelgängers, mentally retarded dwarfs who had no hope of employment other than to entertain circus audiences. At the age of 26, they were purchased from their birth mother by a man named Lyman Warner. They were taught acrobatics, dancing, with which they performed in front of audiences, enslaved by the Warner family, for fifty years they continued to bring prosperity to this family.
3. Woman doll
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 United States at the age of 12, she was the highest paid midget at the time ($20 per hour). Unfortunately, she died at the age of 26 on a train.
4. Texas Giant
Jack Earl
Al had a condition called acromegaly. Jack Earle performed in the circus with famous circus performers. He also starred in films such as Jack and the Bean Tree (guess who?). Despite the fact that it was difficult for freaks to find work, Earl showed everyone that you can use your extraordinary appearance in any profession. He was a salesman for a wine company and later became their PR representative. He also sculpted, painted, and wrote poetry (his book Long Shadows was published in 1950).
5. "The Hunchback"
Quasimodo - no fictional character. The eponymous Hunchback of Notre Dame in Victor Hugo's story actually lived in Notre Dame. One British researcher found fragments of a memoir that told of a “hunchbacked stone cutter” who worked at Hugo Cathedral. It is not difficult to understand why he was given the nickname "Le Bossu" - the Hunchback.
6. The woman with the face of a mule
Grace McDaniels
This woman was born with a facial deformity that made many people uncomfortable looking 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 got married and had a child who did not inherit her facial features, but he became a drunkard and a social outcast.
7. Jo-Jo, the boy with the dog face
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 his father died, and the boy performed for a long time in shows organized 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 more than 137 cm. Despite her deformity, Pastrana danced well and was very kind and welcoming. She had a husband, Theodore, who bought her and taught her everything she surprised people with 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, and later their bodies were displayed in various Panic Rooms.
9. Schlitzi
Simon Metz
Schlitzi 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 incongruously on the shoulders of an adult. His brain was about 3 years old, yet he sang and danced like a 10 year old. Already physically an adult, he starred in the film “Freaks” (1932), then “Island of Lost Souls” (1933). After his death, Schlitzi became a true 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 a torso and looked like he was paralyzed, although he could light a cigarette with just his mouth. He had a wife, with whose help he learned to move. Fame came to him in 1932, after cameo role in Todd Browning's "Freaks." Prince Randian lived to be 63 years old.
The King's Favorites
Siamese twins are not that rare. Nowadays the most simple cases The fusion of uterine babies is successfully cured by surgeons. But previously, such twins were doomed to live in fused bodies for life.
The most amazing of these creatures were the French nobles Lazare and John Baptista Colloredo, born in 1617. They grew together in a completely monstrous way in the womb - it was as if a second one was growing out of the belly of one, and facing his brother. The brothers had common digestive organs, and each breathed with his own lungs.
Interestingly, the second brother, who grew out of his belly, experienced a much faster aging process and looked many years older. He did not eat, did not drink, could not talk, but at the same time he sighed and made various sounds.
The family and relatives were quite upset by the brothers’ deformity, but it was thanks to him that they made their “career.” King Louis XIII heard about them, and so the twins ended up at court. They say that the eldest of the brothers had the brains between them, and he could always make the king laugh, as a result of which he became his favorite...
In the 18th century, two horned people were born: Francois Trouillou and Madame de Manche. The first had a horn length of 30 cm, and the second had a horn that grew throughout his life and at the age of 78 it was 46 cm. The Church considered them the children of the devil...
One of the most unusual deformities was possessed by a woman born in early XIX century in Iceland - instead of a nose she had a boar's snout. Nowadays, in Portugal there lives a donkey woman - her mouth is located directly under her nose, which gives her face the appearance of a donkey.
Foma Ignatiev lived in Russia at the turn of the 17th-18th centuries. He had an amazing physical handicap. His hands, feet and fingers were twice as long as those of ordinary people. In addition, his fingers were fused two or three at a time, resulting in the limbs resembling crayfish claws. Cancer Man once successfully met with Peter I, who designated him as a living exhibit in the Kunstkamera, ordering him to be given a considerable salary - one hundred rubles a year, where he served until his death... It is interesting that in Africa today there is a whole a tribe of crayfish people with fused fingers and toes.
Two-Faced Janus
In 1790, a boy with two heads was born in India. His parents immediately began showing him at the market for money. In the same market, he died at the age of two from the bite of a cobra that had escaped from a snake charmer.
The Mexican Pascual Pinon also had two heads. He had one normal head, on the top of which there was another one - small and wrinkled. The second head could not speak, but could blink and move its lips. It is interesting that Pinon was extremely proud of his ugliness, did not hide it, but, on the contrary, emphasized it in every possible way. So, all his cylinders had a window for a small head.
“Two-faced Janus” was born in the 19th century. U young man there were two faces - one normal, the second - on the back of the head. Like the mythical Janus, faces could live own life- when one laughed, the second was sad. Sooner or later the owner could not stand this duality and shot himself...
Wolf polyglot
It is interesting that most people with certain birth defects and deformities were born in the second half of the 19th century. Mystics claim that this time was marked by an evil omen - during the same period people were born who turned out to be the terrible fate of the 20th century - Hitler, Lenin, Stalin, Mussolini, Mao Zedong, Rasputin...
And precisely in late XIX- At the beginning of the 20th century, many panopticons and traveling freak shows appeared all over the world. The wolf man, covered in fur, was very popular in these shows. He was born in 1870, the same year as Lenin.
Boy with early childhood drove around different countries, exhibiting for the amusement of the public. When he became a teenager, his owners suddenly discovered that their pet, whom they did not consider human, spoke perfectly the languages of the countries where he had visited. The boy turned out to have incredible linguistic abilities - he mastered eighteen languages. The Wolf Man became seriously interested in philology, published a series of scientific works, but at the age of 33 he died of pneumonia...
No arms, no legs
At the end of the 19th century, a girl without arms and legs was born into a rich aristocratic family. The parents hastened to get rid of the deformed child and sent him to a shelter for cripples. The girl at the shelter was named Violetta. Surprisingly, the child not only did not die, but also managed to adapt to life. Violetta learned to paint with her teeth and even became a fairly famous artist...
In 1911, John Eckhart was born in the United States - the boy was missing his legs and lower torso. But nature rewarded him with irrepressible energy.
Already as a child, he began acting in films, then became an eccentric circus acrobat - he performed tricks exclusively on his hands, then he learned to play the saxophone and entered the top ten saxophonists in the United States. And then Eckhart graduated from the Higher Economic Academy and a few years later became a millionaire.
Dragonfly Man
Deformities associated with eye abnormalities are quite common. IN mid-19th century in England, a four-eyed man was very popular - one pair of eyes was located above the other. He made a living by showing off his ugliness and the fact that he could roll his eyes in different directions.
American Michael Perry had 3 eyes - and in addition to this, a harelip and two noses... Recently, the unfortunate man shot himself.
But the dragonfly man has completely gotten used to his ugliness. The volume of his eyes was 3 times larger than that of a normal person and at the same time he looked at the world at an angle of 320 degrees - I saw everything that was happening behind my back without turning my head. Thanks to his peculiarity, the dragonfly man became a circus performer and made a good living.
Lose a ton of weight
The fattest man on the planet was an American, the only son of Texas oil magnates Buster Simkus. At 36 years old, his weight reached 970 kg, and a year later - 1141 kg. All his life he hardly moved, but he ate a huge amount of food every day - 8-10 kg of meat, 8 chickens, 6 buckets of juice and 4 buckets of beer.
At 37, Buster fell in love and decided to lose weight. The fat man went to the clinic, and the doors of the mansion had to be broken on his parents because he would not pass through them. He spent 8 months in the clinic and lost almost a ton of weight!
But then another problem appeared - his skin sagged in huge folds. Buster underwent several skin excision operations and became... normal person. But the girl probably still rejected his hand and heart, because Buster remained to live with his parents and again began to absorb kilograms of food. After just a couple of years, he again began to weigh more than a ton. In 2005, he died, weighing 1600 kilograms...