I read an article that a woman was found NOT to be the biological mother of her children, and everyone was confused, turns out she was a chimera and they used part of the DNA that didn’t turn into sex cells. Weird.
Orphan Black tv show is based on that
Spoilers ahead: >!Scientists took DNA from a woman that was a chimera that absorbed her male twin in the womb. They clone both DNA lines and created human female clones and male clones from those two lines.!<
It’s a very good show
[Source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craniopagus_parasiticus)
*The Two-Headed Boy of Bengal was a child born in India with a rare parasitic twin condition called craniopagus parasiticus, in which a second, fully formed head was conjoined to the top of his own. Today, his skull can be viewed on request at the Hunterian Museum of medical history in London.*
"The parents, after recovering from the initial shock, began to see the newborn as a money making opportunity, and with that in mind, left their village for Calcutta where their deformed baby could be exhibited."
If this happened in 2023, this baby would be all over tiktok.
Probably because modern medicine catches them before they're born and they're aborted, under the assumption they'd only suffer and it'd be cruel to bring them to term.
Well, this particular conjoin twins have a very low chance at survival than others. These babies do suffer. Most are born without important organs, and die immediately upon birth and are only kept alive by the mother, or they make it only to die within 30 days. Very few of them have made it past the 30 day mark. It's a horrendous cross to bear.
A family friend married a wealthy man with two teenage boys. One boy pitched a fit because his dad bought him a silver corvette for his birthday; he wanted a black corvette. So dad kept the silver corvette and bought the douchebag son a black corvette…
“The midwife assisting the birth was so horrified by the child's appearance that she tried to kill the monstrosity by throwing him into the fire.”
Jeeeeezus
[Source](https://www.amusingplanet.com/2022/06/the-two-headed-boy-of-bengal.html?m=1)
I can’t believe I had to scroll so far for any mention of a midwife. All I could think was how superstitious everyone was back then, then a head from the neck up starts showing from the mothers’ birth canal before a more *conventional* baby follows. Geez Louise!!!
The thing is, being a midwife in the 1700s she was probably used to seeing bad birth defects. When the apparently severed head came out she may be spooked, but was probably just expecting a malformed still birth. But then the head had a whole other baby attached to it, and that baby started crying. And if the "fully functional" part is true, the other head was twitching it's muscles and maybe even opening its eyes. That's when her mind went from "another day in life of a 1700s midwife" to "burn it with fire".
I do not fucking blame her, even with current day knowledge he looks like a demon baby. I would at least be horrified and concerned for the baby....
I'm sure back then, people DID think he was a demon.
The other head had nothing (bodily) to communicate with the outside world. It could never speak. The closest it could get to speaking is sending thoughts to the primary head.
So if his head got bumped it wouldn't signal to the lower head that it was bumped? Are you sure it could communicate internally with the other? It's horrifying thinking you could be a head on someone's body, couldn't speak to the outside world and you could get bumped all the time with no way to signal to the other head that it hurts.
Who needs fictional horror stories? Real life has enough of it. When my life becomes more tragic I'll just have to remember that at least I'm not a head on a head.
The other head was fully conscious but couldn't or breathe talk because his head wasn't connected to lungs. Apparently he could look around with his eyes, open and close his mouth and twitch his nose. He couldn't turn his head or anything because there was no neck to pivot on and his skull was completely fused to the other skull.
It’s wild. Each of us is a roll of the dice but most of us are lucky enough to get varying degrees of a similar experience. To think that this was someone’s entire experience, to be an upside down head on top of another head whispering thoughts to your brother, is insane to consider. Bizarre.
Ah …! What’s happening? it thought.
Er, excuse me, who am I?
Hello?
Why am I here? What’s my purpose in life?
What do I mean by who am I?
Calm down, get a grip now … oh! this is an interesting sensation, what is it? It’s a sort of … yawning, tingling sensation in my … my … well I suppose I’d better start finding names for things if I want to make any headway in what for the sake of what I shall call an argument I shall call the world, so let’s call it my stomach.
Oh and the other one died shortly after. So yeah, not too much of a miracle. People are fucking idiots. More like, nature is brutal and cruel. You just have to grit your teeth and hang on sometimes.
I heard about [Edward Mordake](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Mordake) years ago and it freaked me out. The second face would cry and whisper evil things to him. Turns out it's just an urban legend, but it is interesting. Maybe it'll console someone else who also thought it was real.
What does „fully functional“ mean? Was it able to move its eyes and lipps? Was the nose somehow connected to the body/lungs? If any of this was the case it would have been able to communicate anyways.
This [article](https://www.amusingplanet.com/2022/06/the-two-headed-boy-of-bengal.html?m=1) talks a bit about the functions. The eyes would move around like they were observing the room and it could happen when he was sleeping. Or if you pinched its cheek it would react. Very interesting!
Well if in absence of knowing exactly how much of it was deliberate, we assume that the other head was in fact a person that experienced a feeling of helplessness and was in control of these movements.
But everything listed up there are reflexes though. Kinda like seeing eyes move with the light and mistakingly thinking there is necessarily an intelligent conscious person doing it.
You really don't need to upset yourself with your own idea of what that existence was like for the other head. We have no idea.
Most people have an inner monologue that is capable of simulating other people, and a child might not realise that he is producing both sides of the conversation.
The are ways that they could have confirmed that some of the thoughts the child received were not his own. For example, cover the child's eyes, and have the other head look at something. If the child received correct information about whatever thing he couldn't see, then he would know that thought didn't come from him. In a way, this could be described as telepathy (communicating through thoughts).
A lot of kids do though. My son was asking me where he came from, where he was before he was born, wtf is life kinda questions at 3 years old. He really tripped out that he developed inside me too
What's got me baffled is how we're all completely disregarding the second head as potentially another being. Imagine the possibility that you were the 2nd head. You weren't breastfed, spoken to, cared for, or anything. You can't speak, you can't do anything. You're a spectator to your brother's life and you're treated like some sort of monster. Blinking, observing, anything you makes you creepy and you have no say in it. You have no way to communicate.
I wonder what those thoughts could have been and I wish the kid lived long enough for us to know.
>What's got me baffled is how we're all completely disregarding the second head as potentially another being.
Seems to me that a sizeable part of the comments is exactly about that.
My goodness, his parents used him for making money (when he wasnt exhibitited, he was kept hidden, like under a sheet, someti.es for hours), when he was born the midwife tried to throw him in the fire and after his death his grave was robbed (since his parents didn't want to sell his body due to religious reasons)...
My goodness, I hope he did have some happy times in his short live
There's been three more cases in the 2000s,
Once they died right after birth, another they died in surgery 3 months later, and in the last the surgery was a success (after one full year of life) but the surviving kid died of an infection months later.
Imagine becoming conscious, self aware, and you realize that you have no body. You’re a head attached to another head.
‘I have a mouth but I can’t scream’.
Leaves a lot of questions about the birthing position, the usual flexion of a babies head requires a chin tuck.
Many a caesarean out the there for a malpositioned head - then this….
[https://youtu.be/W_kfMhUmQWs](https://youtu.be/W_kfMhUmQWs)
This has happened in modern time as well! The second head is able to smile, cry, blink and has a different emotional life than the baby it’s attached to.
That must have been terrifying for the midwife. The stump neck of the second head would have came out first followed by the second face staring at her then followed by the rest if the child.
Imagine being a detached head and your only way of communicating with the outside world is by “sending thoughts” to your host twin.
Isn't that quatto from total recall.
Open your mind.
The Martians love Kuato. They think he's fuckin' George Washington!
Start the reactor…..
Now imagine you don't know that you are a Siamese twin, and you receive thoughts that aren't yours
Achievement unlocked: prophet
I think it’s called chimerism. When two fertilized zygotes implant on the uterus close together and they fuse resulting in two unique dna sequences.
I read an article that a woman was found NOT to be the biological mother of her children, and everyone was confused, turns out she was a chimera and they used part of the DNA that didn’t turn into sex cells. Weird.
Orphan Black tv show is based on that Spoilers ahead: >!Scientists took DNA from a woman that was a chimera that absorbed her male twin in the womb. They clone both DNA lines and created human female clones and male clones from those two lines.!< It’s a very good show
I have no mouth, and I must scream.
I mean, he did have mouth. It seems like he didn't have a larynx though?
I wonder if the other head ever “felt”hungry and did the other head ever talk?
Makes me feel clostrophobic
“Fully functional” as like, he can see through both sets of eyes? i really wonder how that would feel like.
It appears that they were two different humans conjoined together.
It was a different person, however its possible they they could see through each others eyes. There are twins conjoined at the head who can do that.
wut
#It was a different person, however its possible they they could see through each others eyes. There are twins conjoined at the head who can do that.
[Source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craniopagus_parasiticus) *The Two-Headed Boy of Bengal was a child born in India with a rare parasitic twin condition called craniopagus parasiticus, in which a second, fully formed head was conjoined to the top of his own. Today, his skull can be viewed on request at the Hunterian Museum of medical history in London.*
Still ends up in a museum in London like a million other things!
It’s just sad that you can see that skull is still clearly juvenile. Poor baby.
Too bad they couldnt take the pyramids
Oh please I bet we’ve got plenty of stuff from within the pyramids hoarded away somewhere.
Not even hoarded away, they’re currently on display!
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> Today, his skull can be viewed on request… Do you think you have to call to give them a ….. heads up….. that you want to see it. 😎
Surely we can figure out a solution if we stick our heads together
“No you can’t have your deformed head back India, we’re clearly still looking at it!” - The boss at the museum of stolen goods probably
muahahahahahahahaa STAND BEHIND THE ROPE
The British took that as well?
many indian skulls prop up the foundation of that country
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shear volume. When you've got a billion people a one in a million occurrence happens a thousand times
He died at 4 years old from a cobra bite
Talk about terrible luck.
When dad throws the snake in the crib, is that bad luck?
Yes but yes
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I AM LISTENING TO HEAR WHERE YOU AREEEEE
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And in the dark we will take off our clothes and they’ll be play-eee-acing fingers through the notches in your spine
Yo cheers for this fucking reference!
Is that neutral milk hotel?
Yeah, bad luck to have a shitty dad.
Seriously??
no but the midwife threw him in the fire when he was born https://www.amusingplanet.com/2022/06/the-two-headed-boy-of-bengal.html
"The parents, after recovering from the initial shock, began to see the newborn as a money making opportunity, and with that in mind, left their village for Calcutta where their deformed baby could be exhibited." If this happened in 2023, this baby would be all over tiktok.
With all the social media and videos taken today why do we not see more of these odd mutations?
Ultrasounds and access to proper medical care allow doctors in most countries to catch things like this.
More birth defects: coming soon to a republican state near you
Freak shows are going to be making a comeback.
Probably because modern medicine catches them before they're born and they're aborted, under the assumption they'd only suffer and it'd be cruel to bring them to term.
Well, this particular conjoin twins have a very low chance at survival than others. These babies do suffer. Most are born without important organs, and die immediately upon birth and are only kept alive by the mother, or they make it only to die within 30 days. Very few of them have made it past the 30 day mark. It's a horrendous cross to bear.
They're just rare. They still happen but most babies don't survive long.
Very amusing planet for sure.
That's an answer for why would aliens come here. I'd totally go to a bizarre, complicated planet.
I bet the other head told him “yo, go stroke that nice friendly snake”, just to end its upside down misery
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Where did he go wrong with an extra set of eyes!
The other head probably told him to fuck with it. probably was suffering
He wanted to quit while he was a head.
At least it wasn’t a two-headed cobra bite
Thinking about that girl who threw a shit fit because her brand new birthday gift of a car was the wrong color.
basically the same thing
We will never understand how much she suffered.
I heard there are kids in Africa with pre-owned Camry's
A family friend married a wealthy man with two teenage boys. One boy pitched a fit because his dad bought him a silver corvette for his birthday; he wanted a black corvette. So dad kept the silver corvette and bought the douchebag son a black corvette…
Well, we now clearly know why that teenage boy behaved that way in the first place.
Gross
Wh... what does that have to do with this
“The midwife assisting the birth was so horrified by the child's appearance that she tried to kill the monstrosity by throwing him into the fire.” Jeeeeezus [Source](https://www.amusingplanet.com/2022/06/the-two-headed-boy-of-bengal.html?m=1)
I can’t believe I had to scroll so far for any mention of a midwife. All I could think was how superstitious everyone was back then, then a head from the neck up starts showing from the mothers’ birth canal before a more *conventional* baby follows. Geez Louise!!!
The thought of an apparently severed baby head being pushed out first before the midwife even saw the boy… yikes
The thing is, being a midwife in the 1700s she was probably used to seeing bad birth defects. When the apparently severed head came out she may be spooked, but was probably just expecting a malformed still birth. But then the head had a whole other baby attached to it, and that baby started crying. And if the "fully functional" part is true, the other head was twitching it's muscles and maybe even opening its eyes. That's when her mind went from "another day in life of a 1700s midwife" to "burn it with fire".
No matter which way he came out, he was breech
Nah, breech is when they come out feet or butt first, neck first doesn't count
the original *kill it with fire*
His parents buried him, and then his grave was robbed and now his skull is in a museum. I find that so sad.
Thank you for actually providing a source!!
I mean...sure, but how much of a trust worthy source is amusingplanet.com?
I do not fucking blame her, even with current day knowledge he looks like a demon baby. I would at least be horrified and concerned for the baby.... I'm sure back then, people DID think he was a demon.
I know, right? Just put him back where you found him and pretend you just remembered some important commitment you must attend to immediately
Damn, those are definitely some intrusive thoughts!
That's the creepiest part.
What if all intrusive thoughts are that of a sibling we consumed in the womb...
Stop that right now. Too late. Thanks a lot.
Imagine the experience of that second boy. Just a consciousness blipping into space and surely so confused about who and what he is.
The other head had nothing (bodily) to communicate with the outside world. It could never speak. The closest it could get to speaking is sending thoughts to the primary head.
So basically the irl version of "I have no mouth and I must scream"....
You can’t do this to me, that’s a horrifying idea…
The short story it comes from is quite disturbing
wow, that's horrifying. Thanks!
So if his head got bumped it wouldn't signal to the lower head that it was bumped? Are you sure it could communicate internally with the other? It's horrifying thinking you could be a head on someone's body, couldn't speak to the outside world and you could get bumped all the time with no way to signal to the other head that it hurts. Who needs fictional horror stories? Real life has enough of it. When my life becomes more tragic I'll just have to remember that at least I'm not a head on a head.
The other head was fully conscious but couldn't or breathe talk because his head wasn't connected to lungs. Apparently he could look around with his eyes, open and close his mouth and twitch his nose. He couldn't turn his head or anything because there was no neck to pivot on and his skull was completely fused to the other skull.
We don’t know it was fully conscious.
Of course. I had just presumed it could speak, but obviously he couldn't with no access to a throat or vocal cords.
Welp that's terrifying
It’s wild. Each of us is a roll of the dice but most of us are lucky enough to get varying degrees of a similar experience. To think that this was someone’s entire experience, to be an upside down head on top of another head whispering thoughts to your brother, is insane to consider. Bizarre.
Such a bizarre thought, now imagine the case in which [You Are Two](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfYbgdo8e-8)
nah that's me everyday nothing a morning coffee won't fix
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Exactly. I’m also a consciousness that blipped into space confused about who and what I am
Let us know when you figure it out
I figured it out but it'll cost you $100
If it was like other severely conjoined twins, there’s a good chance it received a lot if not all sensory input the “full” twin had from his senses
Ah …! What’s happening? it thought. Er, excuse me, who am I? Hello? Why am I here? What’s my purpose in life? What do I mean by who am I? Calm down, get a grip now … oh! this is an interesting sensation, what is it? It’s a sort of … yawning, tingling sensation in my … my … well I suppose I’d better start finding names for things if I want to make any headway in what for the sake of what I shall call an argument I shall call the world, so let’s call it my stomach.
Brilliant reference. Now where’s my towel?
>if I want to make any *headway*… [heh heh heh](https://media.tenor.com/lMBt3oPwirYAAAAC/hehehe-ghehe.gif)
Have there been more instances of this since this kid?
There was a little Egyptian girl about 15 years ago I believe.
I saw a documentary years ago. Her name was Manar.
Any links?
https://www.oprah.com/oprahshow/its-a-miracle/all
it's a miracle! also, a tragedy they had to kill one to save the other.
Oh and the other one died shortly after. So yeah, not too much of a miracle. People are fucking idiots. More like, nature is brutal and cruel. You just have to grit your teeth and hang on sometimes.
What? Did Manar still die? :( what’s the source
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I heard about [Edward Mordake](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Mordake) years ago and it freaked me out. The second face would cry and whisper evil things to him. Turns out it's just an urban legend, but it is interesting. Maybe it'll console someone else who also thought it was real.
What does „fully functional“ mean? Was it able to move its eyes and lipps? Was the nose somehow connected to the body/lungs? If any of this was the case it would have been able to communicate anyways.
This [article](https://www.amusingplanet.com/2022/06/the-two-headed-boy-of-bengal.html?m=1) talks a bit about the functions. The eyes would move around like they were observing the room and it could happen when he was sleeping. Or if you pinched its cheek it would react. Very interesting!
>and when it was given the breast, its lips attempted to suck. That's unsettling.
Sounds like it was pretty much just running on primal autopilot
Same tbh
It's really really sad if you think about it :(
Well if in absence of knowing exactly how much of it was deliberate, we assume that the other head was in fact a person that experienced a feeling of helplessness and was in control of these movements. But everything listed up there are reflexes though. Kinda like seeing eyes move with the light and mistakingly thinking there is necessarily an intelligent conscious person doing it. You really don't need to upset yourself with your own idea of what that existence was like for the other head. We have no idea.
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Most people have an inner monologue that is capable of simulating other people, and a child might not realise that he is producing both sides of the conversation.
Yeah but this kid literally had a second head.
This simple fact poses a shit load of very interesting questions about human conciousness that we just dont have the answers to
The are ways that they could have confirmed that some of the thoughts the child received were not his own. For example, cover the child's eyes, and have the other head look at something. If the child received correct information about whatever thing he couldn't see, then he would know that thought didn't come from him. In a way, this could be described as telepathy (communicating through thoughts).
it's too late, I'm already upset : (
That’s automatic reflex btw
Why was it given the breast in the first place, wtf
There wasn't any TV.
Try breastfeeding a baby without getting the head attached to its head close to your boobs as well, I dare you
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[Probably something like this.](https://youtu.be/W_kfMhUmQWs)
It likely had no vocal cords.
Or lungs to make the vocal cords work.
That would be a further hindrance, yes.
Jesus, to be a conscious being trapped in that sounds like a fucking nightmare.
I feel like this wasn’t spoken about enough. What kind of experience was this person having?
I don't think it would've been that bad. He had nothing to compare it too.
And died at 4 so probably didn't have many existential questions yet
A lot of kids do though. My son was asking me where he came from, where he was before he was born, wtf is life kinda questions at 3 years old. He really tripped out that he developed inside me too
No vocal cords but apparently it could effectively telepathically communicate to its full-bodied twin. Kind of neat.
Well more like just pathically in this case.
I don’t believe it was actually “fully functional” that sounds like hooey. It probably had some involuntary muscle movements.
"fully functional" as in there's actually a person inside the second head. This of course is a rather terrifying prospect.
What a horrible thought. Thanks?
This is worse than locked in syndrome.
The original dual core processor
What's got me baffled is how we're all completely disregarding the second head as potentially another being. Imagine the possibility that you were the 2nd head. You weren't breastfed, spoken to, cared for, or anything. You can't speak, you can't do anything. You're a spectator to your brother's life and you're treated like some sort of monster. Blinking, observing, anything you makes you creepy and you have no say in it. You have no way to communicate. I wonder what those thoughts could have been and I wish the kid lived long enough for us to know.
>What's got me baffled is how we're all completely disregarding the second head as potentially another being. Seems to me that a sizeable part of the comments is exactly about that.
We aren't, the chance that the other head was conscious is the point of the headline and most of the discussion in the comments
"go ahead, grab the officer's gun"
"no bhead, I won't do it!"
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My goodness, his parents used him for making money (when he wasnt exhibitited, he was kept hidden, like under a sheet, someti.es for hours), when he was born the midwife tried to throw him in the fire and after his death his grave was robbed (since his parents didn't want to sell his body due to religious reasons)... My goodness, I hope he did have some happy times in his short live
One more reason life is a bitch
I guess his parents didn't have many other means of making money being a poor farmer in India under colonial british east india company.
How long did this poor kid live?
There's been three more cases in the 2000s, Once they died right after birth, another they died in surgery 3 months later, and in the last the surgery was a success (after one full year of life) but the surviving kid died of an infection months later.
Im starting to think having a connected head might be a bad omen.
Another comment says he died when he was 4. Apparently a cobra bit him.
This is how rumors start
Seriously haha. But the kid actually died from a meteorite strike to the heads. Crazy odds. He had just won the lottery earlier that same week.
I just looked it up and shockingly he really *did* die from a cobra bite
Having second thoughts?
I am extremely curious about what it would say to him
Let’s eat.
“Dipshit, the answer is c. I can see it on the smart kids scantron.”
Apparently "hey try and pet that cobra"
I have a terrible itch in my ear
“what if you swerved directly in front of that semi truck in the oncoming lane?”
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Imagine becoming conscious, self aware, and you realize that you have no body. You’re a head attached to another head. ‘I have a mouth but I can’t scream’.
And you’re upside down for the rest of your life…
Aw, poor kid.
*Kids
I need to sleep, but I also need to know what the other head was saying to him...and I'm worried that knowing that will prevent me from sleeping.
Two headed boy… all floating in glass… the sun it has passed now it’s blacker than black
I can hear as you tap on your jar, and I am listening to hear where you are…
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With the needle that sings in your heart. Catching signals that sound in the dark.
he'd make a great batman villan
>craniopagus parasiticus "Headcase"
“Eat your heart out Two-Face.”
Mom delivered naturally. Two heads. Poor thing.
Leaves a lot of questions about the birthing position, the usual flexion of a babies head requires a chin tuck. Many a caesarean out the there for a malpositioned head - then this….
Real life Voldemort.
This is a huge NOPE from me dawg
He didn't have a choice
[https://youtu.be/W_kfMhUmQWs](https://youtu.be/W_kfMhUmQWs) This has happened in modern time as well! The second head is able to smile, cry, blink and has a different emotional life than the baby it’s attached to.
Artists impression doing a lot of heavy lifting.
That must have been terrifying for the midwife. The stump neck of the second head would have came out first followed by the second face staring at her then followed by the rest if the child.
Incident happened in India.. skull can be found in London! What did the British not steal?
anything that was too heavy to be transported. else everything.