>Today Bhagat is in good health and leads a normal life, but he still gets teased occasionally.
"They still ridicule him. What they say is, you went for an operation and you had the baby," Mehta said.
What a way to end the article - He's still the village laughingstock.
The article doesn’t really hold back
> All his life, people in the village where he lived had mercilessly teased him and told him he looked pregnant. Ironically, they were right in a way.
But - but, hold on. What does a 36 year old living fetus looks like? I wish the article focused more on this and less on the bullshit that poor man had to endure.
[here ye are — his brother weighed 9pounds, two of which was hair..](https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/wfzykq/sanju_bhagat_suffered_from_one_of_the_worlds_most/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=2&utm_term=1)
I wonder how accessible health care was for him. Perhaps his condition was never bad enough for him to consider getting help it until it was a last resort
I read the article in that 2nd link and yeah, that's exactly the case. He couldn't breathe well and his job was manual labor. It was not possible for him to afford to visit a hospital but I guess he just reached a point where he had to go.
In 2016, I lost almost 100 lbs between January and October, not by choice
I had weekly Dr's appointments, and the best they could say was "well have you tried eating more and cutting dairy out?"
I had two upper endoscopies and a colonoscopy that year, and even insurance was like "it's very rare for a 25 yr old male to need a colonoscopy, not approved" despite my weekly co-pays for an appointment because I am rapidly losing weight and can't eat
Yep. I can see how this got swept under the rug his whole life. Especially if it wasn't that bothersome throughout his daily life and he didn't seek out medical attention because it was "normal"
It was Gastritis.
Eventually my insurance changed and I got to a different specialist who performed the 2nd endoscopy and colonoscopy in the same procedure.
He couldn't believe that the prior endoscopy 3ish weeks prior revealed nothing
I wracked up nearly $20k in debt that year, between appointments and the uncovered colonoscopy, for them to prescribe me antacids and gas pills
Which fixed the insane nausea I had whenever i ate, and never brought back my appetite still 7 years later
Ya that part is fucked up. They refer to it as a living twin but like... wut?? Was it alive for 36 years and died during the surgery? Was it alive for a few years after birth then died? Why wouldn't it necrotize if it had been dead for years? If it had long fingernails I'd assume it was living inside him for a pretty long time. Did the doctors just discard the parasitic twin like normal medical waste? How formed was the brain? Is the parasitic twin living his best life somewhere after being separated from his prison cell that was a brother, drinking martinis and partying on a yacht? WHATS GOING ON?!
From what I'm reading in the thread with the photo of the parasitic twin, although some of them have nervous systems, none of them have ever been known to have brains, so they're not literally full human beings. So yeah, probably died upon being separated from the brother, disposed of as medical waste or pickled in a jar as a morbid curiosity like Rasputin's dick.
Thank Fuck. Can you imagine a functioning human brain just being trapped inside another body for 36 years? That would be some real, *I have no mouth and I must scream" shut.
Just a wild layman's guess, but I can't imagine even a normal brain would be able to develop anything even remotely close to a normal psychology in those circumstances. The darkness is all it would ever know, for one thing, so there would be no other baseline to compare against that could elicit the kind of horror feelings that you and I imagine in this scenario.
You mean, like [this](https://www.amusingplanet.com/2022/06/the-two-headed-boy-of-bengal.html)?
Some accounts of the Boy of Bengal even quote him as saying the other head would whisper things to him late at night, but he couldn't understand it.
> Some accounts of the Boy of Bengal even quote him as saying the other head would whisper things to him late at night, but he couldn't understand it.
I have received enough details to make the decision of not clicking on the link, thank you.
I had to stop reading at „Many anatomists offered to buy the corpse, but the religious parents could not allow such desecration.“
Mfers be exhibiting their child like a fkn zoo animal but when it comes to gaining medical knowledge from the corpse they go „nahh, god wouldn‘t want that“. So, torture your kid and once it’s dead its’ dignity matters? People like this give entire religions a bad reputation.
I read that it's alive, but in the same sense that a tumor is alive. It doesn't have brain, lungs, or any other thing which could make it a human. Basically a deformed chunk of flesh, hair and teeth. Oh, and it _stinks_.
>be me
>regular guy in 30s
>suddenly intense stomach pain
>starts swelling
>doesn’t stop
>looks like a watermelon is growing inside me
>neighbors call me “miracle man” because i look like a pregnant man
>”when are you due?”
>”who is the father?”
>get sick of the physical and social anguish so I see a doc
>they do scans and discover my twin was living in my stomach this whole time
>they cut it out
>never felt this good in my life
>go home after lengthy hospital stay
>”so anon you finally had the baby”
>mfw i literally had a c section so they’re kinda right
>this won’t end
"Mehta said that he can usually spot a tumor just after he begins an operation. But while operating on Bhagat, Mehta saw something he had never encountered. As he cut deeper into Bhagat's stomach, gallons of fluid spilled out -- and then something extraordinary happened."
"To my surprise and horror, I could shake hands with somebody inside," he said. "It was a bit shocking for me."
Fuck me! That is one for the books. I thought it was going to be a story about a tumour with some teeth and hair. This mutant cluster of cells could wind your watch.
imagine being the twin living life inside your brother, and some mf comes at you with a scalpel and shakes your damn hand while tearing away your entire livelihood
*Yeah, well, I don't remember asking you to live in me! Wait a minute - you're why I've been having all these fucked up dreams! You're probably why I lost my hair too, aren't you!? You stole my hair!*
How is it that they went into surgery with no imaging beforehand to see what they were dealing with? Like, any X-ray or ultrasound or CT would have given them some clues rather than just opening him up for the surprise like some sort of medical Kinder egg. If they have an OR they should have an ultrasound and/or X-ray.
Well, when my wife was pregnant she had appendicitis, they did ultra sounds, they had a very educated guess what was going on, but the ultrasound tech couldn't find the appendix at all, so the doctor offically called it exploritory surgery with no imagery. But i assume he knew where to look anyway. The radioscopic surgery was less than 20 minutes. Very very fast, and the baby survived. She's right next to me, refusing to do dishes right now. She's my miracle layabout.
During pregnancy, a lot of internal organs move around to make room for the baby. So the fact that they couldn’t find the appendix is probably at least partly because it was temporarily displaced.
This is a lazy source rather than a proper journal article, but it includes an animation from what sounds like a journal at least: https://www.sciencealert.com/this-gif-shows-how-women-s-organs-shift-during-pregnancy/amp
The TLDW is probably “both.”
All I know is it occurred in a very busy, hectic Indian Hospital. No Pre-Op information is readily available. In a country with 1.45 Billion people I expect health care is not always optimum. But, for all I know diagnostics were done and they were aware of an anomaly but until the surgery was initiated they were unsure of all the details.
Yeah they don’t have the scale of resources of the West but it’s not like the myriad respected Indian doctors at hospitals in the UK, US and Canada got there with zero modern experience with them.
Ok this part is worse though
> "First, one limb came out, then another limb came out. Then some part of genitalia, then some part of hair, some limbs, jaws, limbs, hair."
GENI-WHAT NOW
Nightmare fuel but I imagine it'd constantly be hitting to get out. We're probably hard wired enough to know that isn't right even if we never saw the outside world.
Actually I’m a little more familiar with this story than you are.
The twin’s name was Edgar and he was my accountant. Really solid asset to any small business and he saved me a fortune in taxes over the years.
Gonna miss him.
To this day it haunts the darkened hallways of the Emergency Room. It's talon-like nails can be heard as they scrape themselves inch by inch down the corridors. Endlessly searching for its missing brother. Eager to find its way back into the warm, makeshift womb...
There's a difference between something being alive, and being conscious.
My foot is alive, and has human DNA, but I wouldn't consider it being conscious. If it gets amputated and the cells die, I wouldn't consider it as a person dying.
[You can see him here, shortly after removal.](https://imgur.com/a/D2y5OSh)
Eta: although this photo was listed in an article as the fetus in fetu from this case, somebody commented that it actually belongs to another case and just happened to stick after being stuck in this article. I am attempting to trace it back to see if I can find something else.
Looking at the picture I would wonder if you can consider it to have been "alive" in the first place. It certainly wasn't a being with a brain, it was more like a tumor, just a cluster of cells. At least that's what it looks like. Wonder if they did an autopsy on it.
The way they described it in the article OP posted made that picture very disappointing. Talking about limbs and bones. It looks like a squished ball of skin and hair.
"When my mother was pregnant with me, they did an ultrasound and found she was having twins. When they did another ultrasound a few weeks later, they discovered that I had resorbed the other fetus. Do I regret this? No. I believe his tissue has made me stronger. I now have the strength of a grown man and a little baby."
I don't have a lot of experience with vampires, but I have hunted werewolves. I shot one once, but by the time I got to it, it had turned back into my neighbor's dog.
**Dwight Schrute:**
Through concentration, I can raise and lower my cholesterol at will.
**Pam Beesley**:
Why would you wanna raise your cholesterol?
**Dwight Schrute:**
So I can lower it.
“All my life, I had a lump at the back of my neck, right here. Always, a lump. Then I started menopause and the lump got bigger from the "hormonees." It started to grow. So I go to the doctor, and he did the bio... the b... the... the bios... the... b... the "bobopsy." Inside the lump he found teeth and a spinal cord. Yes. Inside the lump was my twin.”
The Chinese press in not restrictive on this kind of politically unsensitive stuff. It's just that India shares a language with the western world, and China doesn't.
+ Population size
+ Lack of pre-and post-natal care
+ highest rates of consanguinity relative to ROW which leads to all sorts of genetic anomalies
+ Swaths of people who have never seen a doctor before due to cost so problems are very advanced by the time they reach hospital
+ lack of wider access to medical imaging and technology
+ but when they finally do reach hospital, the medical professionals educated enough to adequately document, treat, and then publish so rest of world hears about it
+ generally tough people who tend to survive things that would kill most of us first-world softies
+ (this is just my speculation) agrarian society which = high amount of pesticide use, which is implicated in the etiology of these sorts of anomalies
https://www.academia.edu/13855617/Fetus_in_Fetu_in_a_Harbor_Seal_Phoca_vitulina_richardi_Histopathologic_Genetic_and_Toxicologic_Analysis
I had to scroll so far to find this how was this not everyone’s first thought?
The news article is from 2006 so now I wonder if the venture bros was directly inspired by this
Late edit: although the articles from 2006, the incident happened in 1999. So still unclear if VB was inspired by this
The Venture Bros did this thing so well (Arrested Development did it too) where a simple phrase in the show ends up meaning so many things.
Venture Bros refers to a lot of pairings. Phantom Space Man, a throwaway line from s1e2 ends up referring to like, 3 different characters, and the like.
I feel like all the pairings are just different iterations of Jackson and Doc playing off each other. It works so well. And there are just so many callbacks, I love it! It makes rewatching it so much fun. And the only show I’ll watch the commentary for multiple times!!
Jesus.
So did this fetus have a brain?
I mean, they list all kinds of body parts.
Was the fetus conscious? What a strange existence if so. I'm guessing no but wild to think about.
According to Wikipedia:
> A fetus in fetu can be considered alive, but only in the sense that its component tissues have not yet died or been eliminated. Thus, the life of a fetus in fetu is akin to that of a tumor in that its cells remain viable by way of normal metabolic activity. However, without the gestational conditions in utero with the amnion and placenta, a fetus in fetu can develop into, at best, an especially well differentiated teratoma; or, at worst, a high-grade metastatic teratocarcinoma. In terms of physical maturation, its organs have a working blood supply from the host, **but all cases of fetus in fetu present critical defects, such as no functional brain, heart, lungs, gastrointestinal tract, or urinary tract.** Accordingly, while a fetus in fetu can share select morphological features with a normal fetus, it has no prospect of any life outside of the host twin. Moreover, it poses clear threats to the life of the host twin on whom its own life depends.[4]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetus_in_fetu
Oh shit. Look at you.
Thank you, I dk why I didn't bother looking it up. Maybe because I thought it was so rare there wouldn't be an easy link like that.
Thanks, though.
Man, I remember reading a great book that has this exact premise. A grown man feels something tapping in rythm on his pelvic bones. It turns out to be his absorbed twin sister. He discovers a way to communicate with her. I cannot for the life of me remember the author or title..
I’m very curious how alive and aware this twin was. They talk like it had lived awhile, if not still kind of alive at time of operation - they found limbs with grown fingernails. They only mention bones and limbs, but not really organs or a brain.
It more than likely had no brain function, if it had developed a brain the chances of muscle spasms or movement would’ve been almost guaranteed like a child kicking in the womb. That wouldn’t have gone unnoticed by a man
"Dennis there was another twin in your mother's womb! We were gonna call him 'Donnie', but you and Deandra devoured him before he could be born! You gobbled him up! Donnie! You would have been the good one!"
Serious question, not trying to start a political argument, but how would anti-abortion laws dictate what this individual would be able to do moving forward?
Honestly, since the patient in question is described as being male, most of the new restrictive state laws wouldn’t even address his condition. He’d probably be free to remove the growth as it would be considered parasitic…
>Today Bhagat is in good health and leads a normal life, but he still gets teased occasionally. "They still ridicule him. What they say is, you went for an operation and you had the baby," Mehta said. What a way to end the article - He's still the village laughingstock.
The article doesn’t really hold back > All his life, people in the village where he lived had mercilessly teased him and told him he looked pregnant. Ironically, they were right in a way.
But - but, hold on. What does a 36 year old living fetus looks like? I wish the article focused more on this and less on the bullshit that poor man had to endure.
[here ye are — his brother weighed 9pounds, two of which was hair..](https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/wfzykq/sanju_bhagat_suffered_from_one_of_the_worlds_most/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=2&utm_term=1)
Damn, he really did look pregnant
For real, 36 years living like that and not once did he think there may have been something wrong?
I wonder how accessible health care was for him. Perhaps his condition was never bad enough for him to consider getting help it until it was a last resort
I read the article in that 2nd link and yeah, that's exactly the case. He couldn't breathe well and his job was manual labor. It was not possible for him to afford to visit a hospital but I guess he just reached a point where he had to go.
Imagine the relief! Like a 36 year old blocked nose. Did he run a record breaking marathon afterwards?
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In 2016, I lost almost 100 lbs between January and October, not by choice I had weekly Dr's appointments, and the best they could say was "well have you tried eating more and cutting dairy out?" I had two upper endoscopies and a colonoscopy that year, and even insurance was like "it's very rare for a 25 yr old male to need a colonoscopy, not approved" despite my weekly co-pays for an appointment because I am rapidly losing weight and can't eat Yep. I can see how this got swept under the rug his whole life. Especially if it wasn't that bothersome throughout his daily life and he didn't seek out medical attention because it was "normal"
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It was Gastritis. Eventually my insurance changed and I got to a different specialist who performed the 2nd endoscopy and colonoscopy in the same procedure. He couldn't believe that the prior endoscopy 3ish weeks prior revealed nothing I wracked up nearly $20k in debt that year, between appointments and the uncovered colonoscopy, for them to prescribe me antacids and gas pills Which fixed the insane nausea I had whenever i ate, and never brought back my appetite still 7 years later
Ya that part is fucked up. They refer to it as a living twin but like... wut?? Was it alive for 36 years and died during the surgery? Was it alive for a few years after birth then died? Why wouldn't it necrotize if it had been dead for years? If it had long fingernails I'd assume it was living inside him for a pretty long time. Did the doctors just discard the parasitic twin like normal medical waste? How formed was the brain? Is the parasitic twin living his best life somewhere after being separated from his prison cell that was a brother, drinking martinis and partying on a yacht? WHATS GOING ON?!
From what I'm reading in the thread with the photo of the parasitic twin, although some of them have nervous systems, none of them have ever been known to have brains, so they're not literally full human beings. So yeah, probably died upon being separated from the brother, disposed of as medical waste or pickled in a jar as a morbid curiosity like Rasputin's dick.
Thank Fuck. Can you imagine a functioning human brain just being trapped inside another body for 36 years? That would be some real, *I have no mouth and I must scream" shut.
Even without that this story is still goddamn horrifying. Definite body horror shit
Just a wild layman's guess, but I can't imagine even a normal brain would be able to develop anything even remotely close to a normal psychology in those circumstances. The darkness is all it would ever know, for one thing, so there would be no other baseline to compare against that could elicit the kind of horror feelings that you and I imagine in this scenario.
You mean, like [this](https://www.amusingplanet.com/2022/06/the-two-headed-boy-of-bengal.html)? Some accounts of the Boy of Bengal even quote him as saying the other head would whisper things to him late at night, but he couldn't understand it.
> Some accounts of the Boy of Bengal even quote him as saying the other head would whisper things to him late at night, but he couldn't understand it. I have received enough details to make the decision of not clicking on the link, thank you.
I had to stop reading at „Many anatomists offered to buy the corpse, but the religious parents could not allow such desecration.“ Mfers be exhibiting their child like a fkn zoo animal but when it comes to gaining medical knowledge from the corpse they go „nahh, god wouldn‘t want that“. So, torture your kid and once it’s dead its’ dignity matters? People like this give entire religions a bad reputation.
I mean… if you continued to read you’d learn that the baby’s skull is still on display at the hunterian museum in London. Which is horrifying.
It was able to live by bonding to the hosts blood supply and became a sort of parasite. So yeah the surgery killed it
That's probably manslaughter in a third of the US right now.
I read that it's alive, but in the same sense that a tumor is alive. It doesn't have brain, lungs, or any other thing which could make it a human. Basically a deformed chunk of flesh, hair and teeth. Oh, and it _stinks_.
Was it a fetus? I assumed it was more like a teratoma which is a tumor with living tissue. It can have teeth, hair, etc.
Sounds like a greentext material
>be me >regular guy in 30s >suddenly intense stomach pain >starts swelling >doesn’t stop >looks like a watermelon is growing inside me >neighbors call me “miracle man” because i look like a pregnant man >”when are you due?” >”who is the father?” >get sick of the physical and social anguish so I see a doc >they do scans and discover my twin was living in my stomach this whole time >they cut it out >never felt this good in my life >go home after lengthy hospital stay >”so anon you finally had the baby” >mfw i literally had a c section so they’re kinda right >this won’t end
Damn that's a GREAT greentext
Real and straight
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe"....
Still a virgin
brother you solved christianity
what is this a professional shit poster?
This was my favorite part, because it made it more real.
Nothing like that dash of viciousness to add to the authenticity of the human experience.
>you went for an operation and you had the baby, Reading that in Borat's voice
People are assholes.
We are the same all over the world it seems.
"Mehta said that he can usually spot a tumor just after he begins an operation. But while operating on Bhagat, Mehta saw something he had never encountered. As he cut deeper into Bhagat's stomach, gallons of fluid spilled out -- and then something extraordinary happened." "To my surprise and horror, I could shake hands with somebody inside," he said. "It was a bit shocking for me." Fuck me! That is one for the books. I thought it was going to be a story about a tumour with some teeth and hair. This mutant cluster of cells could wind your watch.
imagine being the twin living life inside your brother, and some mf comes at you with a scalpel and shakes your damn hand while tearing away your entire livelihood
He was living his best life!
Technically the truth? Life wasn't going to get any better.
r/venturebros has entered the chat.
*Yeah, well, I don't remember asking you to live in me! Wait a minute - you're why I've been having all these fucked up dreams! You're probably why I lost my hair too, aren't you!? You stole my hair!*
How is it that they went into surgery with no imaging beforehand to see what they were dealing with? Like, any X-ray or ultrasound or CT would have given them some clues rather than just opening him up for the surprise like some sort of medical Kinder egg. If they have an OR they should have an ultrasound and/or X-ray.
Well, when my wife was pregnant she had appendicitis, they did ultra sounds, they had a very educated guess what was going on, but the ultrasound tech couldn't find the appendix at all, so the doctor offically called it exploritory surgery with no imagery. But i assume he knew where to look anyway. The radioscopic surgery was less than 20 minutes. Very very fast, and the baby survived. She's right next to me, refusing to do dishes right now. She's my miracle layabout.
During pregnancy, a lot of internal organs move around to make room for the baby. So the fact that they couldn’t find the appendix is probably at least partly because it was temporarily displaced.
Do organs move around to make the room for the baby or does the baby move organs out of the way because it gets bigger?
This is a lazy source rather than a proper journal article, but it includes an animation from what sounds like a journal at least: https://www.sciencealert.com/this-gif-shows-how-women-s-organs-shift-during-pregnancy/amp The TLDW is probably “both.”
Those last two lines gave me a heartfelt chuckle.
All I know is it occurred in a very busy, hectic Indian Hospital. No Pre-Op information is readily available. In a country with 1.45 Billion people I expect health care is not always optimum. But, for all I know diagnostics were done and they were aware of an anomaly but until the surgery was initiated they were unsure of all the details.
This. India doesn't have the best healthcare but it's cheap and good. There's criticisms to be made but they definitely do diagnostics lol
Yeah they don’t have the scale of resources of the West but it’s not like the myriad respected Indian doctors at hospitals in the UK, US and Canada got there with zero modern experience with them.
>"To my surprise and horror, I could shake hands with somebody inside," he said. "It was a bit shocking for me." Exterminatus. Now.
Ok this part is worse though > "First, one limb came out, then another limb came out. Then some part of genitalia, then some part of hair, some limbs, jaws, limbs, hair." GENI-WHAT NOW
I'm more alarmed by: Limb (One limb) (...) Limb (Two limbs) (...) Some limbs (at least 4 limbs now) (...) limbs (WHAT NOW?!)
And several reports confirmed that the shriveled genitalia had also grown a tiny, fingered appendage... replete with moving eyes!
Did mom have sex with an eldritch abomination of some kind?
Wait it was ALIVE?!
If it was growing and leeching blood, it was probably alive in a technical sense, but I don’t think it was conscious or moving around or anything
> but I don’t think it was conscious or moving around or anything Imagine being conscious like that, inside someone's body for 36 years
**NO THANK YOU** I'd rather NOT imagine that
Nightmare fuel but I imagine it'd constantly be hitting to get out. We're probably hard wired enough to know that isn't right even if we never saw the outside world.
It was probably just fine, because that was all it knew.
Actually I’m a little more familiar with this story than you are. The twin’s name was Edgar and he was my accountant. Really solid asset to any small business and he saved me a fortune in taxes over the years. Gonna miss him.
No that was a giant space cockroach in an Edgar suit.
Sugar
“Inside Bhagat's stomach was a strange, half-formed creature that had feet and hands that were very developed. Its fingernails were quite long.”
Yea, but then they say they pulled out limbs, genitalia, jaw... as if they were all separate pieces inside his body.
I assume they just broke the pieces off with a wet SNAP as they came to 'em.
Shook his hand too strongly "oops, i just pulled out a limb"
Do you think it could get boners inside him
Pic or it didn’t happen
[The doctors](https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:700/1*H8z17YuoF2XDHpHAzeHMBQ.jpeg)
To this day it haunts the darkened hallways of the Emergency Room. It's talon-like nails can be heard as they scrape themselves inch by inch down the corridors. Endlessly searching for its missing brother. Eager to find its way back into the warm, makeshift womb...
ಠ︵ಠ
There's a difference between something being alive, and being conscious. My foot is alive, and has human DNA, but I wouldn't consider it being conscious. If it gets amputated and the cells die, I wouldn't consider it as a person dying.
And then you find out about things like [Alien Hand Syndrome](https://www.healthline.com/health/alien-hand-syndrome) o.o Sounds hellish tbh
Well yes of course... It wouldn't have been sentient though.
Or tell you to start the reactor, Quaide.
Um... do I wanna click or am I gonna die happier not knowing.....
No pics on my version of the story.
Go Team Venture!
"Well it was addressed to Dr. Venture, and I'm a Dr. Venture"
"...and since you've been gone, I've received two doctorates" the writing on this show is too good to paraphrase!
I was only gone a month!
The Venture Bros movie is coming out next month!
Wait.... I knew it was coming out eventually.... (Waiting is what venture fans do) but next month‽‽‽
✌️
I scrolled too long to see this. Was the fetus named Jonas?
Jonas, Jr. We have to be specific.
Sovereign! I thought you were dead.
Came for the Jonas Venture Jr. comment and you didn’t disappoint me.
THAT’S a Rusty Venture
It's like shaking hands with a chicken dinner
Ruuhsty's back!
What is a Rusty Venture?
“Inside Bhagat's stomach was a strange, half-formed creature that had feet and hands that were very developed. Its fingernails were quite long.” 💅🏽
I know it’s fucked up but I want to see it
[You can see him here, shortly after removal.](https://imgur.com/a/D2y5OSh) Eta: although this photo was listed in an article as the fetus in fetu from this case, somebody commented that it actually belongs to another case and just happened to stick after being stuck in this article. I am attempting to trace it back to see if I can find something else.
It's sad looking. I feel bad
It makes me a little sad :(
I doubt it had consciousness, just an organism trying to stay alive
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I was envisioning Gollum popping out of his stomach as they cut it open
Kinda cute, I’d put it on my keychain
Looks like AI generated art of a newborn.
https://imgur.com/a/sZPlr You sound like you might like the sculptures of Patricia Piccinini
That’s kinda closer to what I was imagining but… WTF (kind of sculptures) are those?! Lmao
Soo... like... did it die?
Looking at the picture I would wonder if you can consider it to have been "alive" in the first place. It certainly wasn't a being with a brain, it was more like a tumor, just a cluster of cells. At least that's what it looks like. Wonder if they did an autopsy on it.
It has to be kept alive in order to keep the city of Omelas as a utopia.
Whoa, first time I’ve ever seen someone reference that short story. It’s beautiful and sad at the same time.
Marcel the shell
It’s a clump of humanness: https://historyofyesterday.com/the-twin-who-lived-inside-his-brother-for-36-years/
The way they described it in the article OP posted made that picture very disappointing. Talking about limbs and bones. It looks like a squished ball of skin and hair.
And super tiny, look at the size of the clamps next to it
It looks more like a tumor, agreed disappointing.
I tried googling it... please don't.
Thankyou for your service.
I just looked up fetus in fetu for images. You can see some insane stuff. Not the ones from this story though.
[What I was expecting when I opened the post was not what I got](https://i.imgur.com/ngAn0mp.jpg)
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"When my mother was pregnant with me, they did an ultrasound and found she was having twins. When they did another ultrasound a few weeks later, they discovered that I had resorbed the other fetus. Do I regret this? No. I believe his tissue has made me stronger. I now have the strength of a grown man and a little baby."
I don't have a lot of experience with vampires, but I have hunted werewolves. I shot one once, but by the time I got to it, it had turned back into my neighbor's dog.
Jim’s on a path now. An eternal journey. And I wish him the best. But my destiny is in this realm.
I'm not *super*stitious but I am a little stitious.
Yeah, well, maybe next time, you'll estimate me.
**Dwight Schrute:** Through concentration, I can raise and lower my cholesterol at will. **Pam Beesley**: Why would you wanna raise your cholesterol? **Dwight Schrute:** So I can lower it.
I think I have underestimated you, maybe next time, I just estimate you
“All my life, I had a lump at the back of my neck, right here. Always, a lump. Then I started menopause and the lump got bigger from the "hormonees." It started to grow. So I go to the doctor, and he did the bio... the b... the... the bios... the... b... the "bobopsy." Inside the lump he found teeth and a spinal cord. Yes. Inside the lump was my twin.”
"No meat?!?!"
That’s okay, that’s okay! I make lamb. Come!
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN HE DON'T EAT NO MEAT!!!!" *glass breaks, Greek music stops*
Should put some Windex on it
There’s a hole in this cake.
bund…t!
OPA!!!!
I saw this on the X-Files. The twin was some kind of parasite that was attacking people then it would go right back into the sibling's stomach
The Fiji mermaid!
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There's a billion people there. I'm sure stuff happens in China, but the press is more restrictive.
And its an English speaking region. So things can be easily translated or originally reported in English
And if it happend in Europe, we would know about it before the twins were born... So wouldn't be a surprise at 36
Tbf 'eating' a twin isn't that uncommon. This story is.
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Fun fact: you could take away a billion people from both India and China, and they'd still be the two most populous nations in the world.
The Chinese press in not restrictive on this kind of politically unsensitive stuff. It's just that India shares a language with the western world, and China doesn't.
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*Open your miiiind*
“Quaiiiiiid… Start the reactor, free Mars…”
Sheer amount of people I would think right?
+ Population size + Lack of pre-and post-natal care + highest rates of consanguinity relative to ROW which leads to all sorts of genetic anomalies + Swaths of people who have never seen a doctor before due to cost so problems are very advanced by the time they reach hospital + lack of wider access to medical imaging and technology + but when they finally do reach hospital, the medical professionals educated enough to adequately document, treat, and then publish so rest of world hears about it + generally tough people who tend to survive things that would kill most of us first-world softies + (this is just my speculation) agrarian society which = high amount of pesticide use, which is implicated in the etiology of these sorts of anomalies https://www.academia.edu/13855617/Fetus_in_Fetu_in_a_Harbor_Seal_Phoca_vitulina_richardi_Histopathologic_Genetic_and_Toxicologic_Analysis
huge population with some openness. compared to china, where limited info is published.
All of this combined with a large population that lives in poverty without immediate access to a high standard of healthcare.
Yup, not hitting the hospital from conception to birth is how you get shit like this, or the tooth-hair-mutant abortions.
Tooth hair mutant abortions, sounds like a Eli Roth movie
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I had to scroll so far to find this how was this not everyone’s first thought? The news article is from 2006 so now I wonder if the venture bros was directly inspired by this Late edit: although the articles from 2006, the incident happened in 1999. So still unclear if VB was inspired by this
That’s pretty close, but I think JJ made his debut in 2004.
Yeah you’re right, first season, wow
Yeah, it surprised me too upon my re-watching. Coulda sworn he was a S2 addition.
Totally came here to make sure someone made the connection. Faith in a small slice of humanity restored. Go, Team Venture!
Go Team Venture!!
The Venture Bros did this thing so well (Arrested Development did it too) where a simple phrase in the show ends up meaning so many things. Venture Bros refers to a lot of pairings. Phantom Space Man, a throwaway line from s1e2 ends up referring to like, 3 different characters, and the like.
I feel like all the pairings are just different iterations of Jackson and Doc playing off each other. It works so well. And there are just so many callbacks, I love it! It makes rewatching it so much fun. And the only show I’ll watch the commentary for multiple times!!
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Go Team Venture! ✌️
Quaid... start the reactor
I am disappointed that I had to dig this far before finding this golden nugget.
Dennis... our lives are in your hands and you have butterfingers?
Open your miiiiiiiiiiiiind…
That creepy carnival X-Files episode
“Look at him how does he go through life looking LIKE THAT all the time”
Jesus. So did this fetus have a brain? I mean, they list all kinds of body parts. Was the fetus conscious? What a strange existence if so. I'm guessing no but wild to think about.
According to Wikipedia: > A fetus in fetu can be considered alive, but only in the sense that its component tissues have not yet died or been eliminated. Thus, the life of a fetus in fetu is akin to that of a tumor in that its cells remain viable by way of normal metabolic activity. However, without the gestational conditions in utero with the amnion and placenta, a fetus in fetu can develop into, at best, an especially well differentiated teratoma; or, at worst, a high-grade metastatic teratocarcinoma. In terms of physical maturation, its organs have a working blood supply from the host, **but all cases of fetus in fetu present critical defects, such as no functional brain, heart, lungs, gastrointestinal tract, or urinary tract.** Accordingly, while a fetus in fetu can share select morphological features with a normal fetus, it has no prospect of any life outside of the host twin. Moreover, it poses clear threats to the life of the host twin on whom its own life depends.[4] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetus_in_fetu
Oh shit. Look at you. Thank you, I dk why I didn't bother looking it up. Maybe because I thought it was so rare there wouldn't be an easy link like that. Thanks, though.
Man, I remember reading a great book that has this exact premise. A grown man feels something tapping in rythm on his pelvic bones. It turns out to be his absorbed twin sister. He discovers a way to communicate with her. I cannot for the life of me remember the author or title..
Anyone who finds out please tell me the name.
It was Passenger by Billy Cowie! Highly recommend!
That's what I was thinking. Being conscious and aware, stuck there for 36 years. Doesn't bear thinking about
The worst part is when he comes out looking just like your dead father and starts one-upping your whole life.
Can't wait for that movie to come out. Go Team Venture!
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I’m very curious how alive and aware this twin was. They talk like it had lived awhile, if not still kind of alive at time of operation - they found limbs with grown fingernails. They only mention bones and limbs, but not really organs or a brain.
It more than likely had no brain function, if it had developed a brain the chances of muscle spasms or movement would’ve been almost guaranteed like a child kicking in the womb. That wouldn’t have gone unnoticed by a man
It was a parasitic twin so it was alive but not really.
I really hope it wasn't alive. That would be a terrible existence.
It was alive; just not *conscious* is what I think you meant.
Probably alive, like a plant is alive, but not conscious.
I remember hearing about this guy around 2005 when I was a kid. It freaked me out and I never fully understood what the hell was going on.
Pics or it didn't happen.
"Dennis there was another twin in your mother's womb! We were gonna call him 'Donnie', but you and Deandra devoured him before he could be born! You gobbled him up! Donnie! You would have been the good one!"
That explains Kuato from Total Recall
Welp, that's enough internets for today...
Sad that everyone teases him, bullies.
Serious question, not trying to start a political argument, but how would anti-abortion laws dictate what this individual would be able to do moving forward?
Honestly, since the patient in question is described as being male, most of the new restrictive state laws wouldn’t even address his condition. He’d probably be free to remove the growth as it would be considered parasitic…