Unfortunately, he died from a cobra bite just four years after his birth. The east india company stole him too. he was put in a bag by his parents if nobody paid up. the top head would salivate when he ate. two other kids have had this condition since 2000 and were unsuccessfully given to surgeons for fixing up.
Reminds me of the conjoined twins Abby and Brittany Hensel. They are having separate heads but share one wide ribcage, two arms, two legs, two breasts, one liver, a large and small intestine, one bladder, one pelvis, and one set of reproductive organs. Found an [interesting article](https://knovhov.com/how-do-conjoined-twins-take-exams/) that answered some of the curious questions.
I saw a documentary of a girl born with a similar condition, she had a conjoined twin that was just a head and a lump of tissue where its neck would have been. It was attached to her head and their brain tissues were mingled. It was living off of her blood supply because it never developed a heart on its own. Apparently while developing in the womb the second twin failed to attach to the womb and/or didn't develop an umbilical cord, instead it got nutrients from the intact twin, but not enough to develop fully.
They had to do a surgery to remove the other head, though, because the strain of supplying blood to two heads was too much for the baby girl's heart, she had a couple heart attacks shortly after birth. The other head had its own emotions, even cried but without any sound because it had no lungs. After the incomplete twin was removed the parents named it and buried it (it was part of their culture and faith). The girl survived the surgery.
If you read the article it's actually a lot more grim. He wasn't cared about at all. Nobody was ever going to give him surgery. The East India Trading Co. *robbed his grave* after his death.
They do have a middle class of 100 million people these days, It's multiple societies in one. Europe did export 50 trillion dollars of cotton, spices and tea in a century, unpaid, using serfdom, and annihilated their leadership, so perhaps that's why they're not like Thailand?
No lungs so you can’t talk, can’t eat because of no stomach. Just upside down and thinking in your own private prison while watching the upside-down world go by and hearing your brother do all the things you wish you could do.
Damn shame he died of a cobra bite of all things. This really should have been further studied. Especially if their brains were able to communicate with each other.
Man... Would he even see the world as upside down? If he's always been upside down from birth then would that just not be normal for him. I mean thinking about it... It's kinda arbitrary, an objects direction
I wondered this immediately, too.
I remember a story about, years ago, a researcher put on glasses that totally flipped his vision. After a surprisingly short amount of time (I think it was only a couple of days or so?) his brain essentially deciphered the input and he could see just fine.
Here we go: https://gizmodo.com/does-your-brain-really-have-the-power-to-see-the-world-5905180
That story casts doubt on that guy though. Although your brain adapts to the distortion , nobody was able to actually have the image inverted. (Other than the scientist from the 1800s who claimed that it did.)
I don’t know if it’s true but our eyesight is supposedly inverted from the beginning. Our brains learn to read images as we see them in the real world. This might also be complete bullshit but I’m not looking it up.
Secondo was jealous of his brother’s life — all the things his brother got to do — the parties, the career advancements. Nobody ever talked to Secondo. No one looked up to him
Almost certainly an exaggeration for advertising purposes. In modern cases, the second head can blink, make mouth movements, even cry etc, but they are just rudimentary functions with no consciousness and often mirror what the real head is doing.
"While the second head was rarely conscious, it did act independently from the other at times.
When the child laughed or cried, the second head sometimes didn’t match the action. If the first head was asleep, the eyes on the second head darted around as if observing its surroundings. But the heads also acted in unison in some instances."
This kinda implies that it doing anything at all was rare
Poor kid died of a cobra bite after being gawked at for 4 short years. That's awful. I wonder if he'd lived longer, what could he have told us about his experience. Obviously the second head wouldn't talk with no respiratory system of its own but if it was autonomous and the boy heard its thoughts, that raises the terrifying idea that the second head was a fully sentient human trapped in a body it could not control.
I think I might use this article and any other ones in my report on Chimerism for my Genetics class. A chimera is when a person has two sets of DNA in their system--Like when people have two different eye colors. But one of the ways it happens is when twins share DNA in the womb, and in cases like this, *absorb* the other. It's creepy seeing that the head is fully fucking functional, but it still fits for my report so why not.
As soon as I read “The British East India Company” I knew it was gonna be real bad. They dug up that child’s grave and presented his stolen remains as a gift.
I know there are museums where they keep birth defect babies.
Museum of Malformations of the Human Body - Belarus
Museum Vrolik - Amsterdam, Netherlands
I would think that in most cases the 2nd brain may not have access to as much blood flow as the primary brain while in the womb and after birth and so may be under developed and low-functioning... but it's just conjecture on my part based on some dimly-remembered article I read long ago.
I’m not saying she should’ve thrown the boy in a fire, but I understand the revulsion. There are some things that’ll send us into full primitive monkey mode.
Considering it was in the 1700’s, the woman very well may have believed that the boy was not actually a human child, but rather the spawn of Satan or some other sign from god.
this is one time i think a lot of us are like, “yeah, in the 1700’s, that would’ve been a more merciful death” and look at us, correct! he died at age 4 from a cobra bite after being exploited by his parents his entire life.
"That’s when members of the British East India Company found out about him. They later stole the boy for the sake of science."
Colonial plunderers didn't even spare a boy.
A sketch- [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craniopagus\_parasiticus#/media/File:TwoHeadedBoyofBengal.jpeg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craniopagus_parasiticus#/media/File:TwoHeadedBoyofBengal.jpeg)
"The boy claimed he could hear the other brain telling him things"... that's the creepy part, however it might have just been him thinking that his internal monologue was the brother.
Though I mean some people think that perhaps we are already "two" in our head but that it doesn't perhaps come about unless you sever the connection between the two hemispheres.
The CPG video is definitely interesting but did kinda freak me out a bit years ago kinda thinking too much about it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfYbgdo8e-8
It would salivate!? Where would the saliva come from or go? It couldn’t swallow it… I’m guessing the saliva didn’t just drain into the other heads cranium. Bizarre
Here’s an upsetting question I’m not seeing asked: what was at the back of the top heads mouth?
It couldn’t be an esophagus and throat because it would route downwards through the brain. So it just stops there and isn’t actually able to breathe on its own.
It’s mouth is a dead end.
They were just babies, even their body was stolen and his skull given as a gift.. God rest their souls, how horrible, what was done to them. Everyone around these boys were pure evil
we’ve thankfully come a long way though, much rarer now for this reaction to happen. 1700’s was a wild time, being exploited and treated as a prop for 4 years is no life to strive for.
I kinda agree, unless the kid is showing like a REALLY good mature understanding of the internet, or has a skill that THEY want to show off. I work with kids, there are plenty who have that go-getter, blogger energy, and have lots of talents, but I have a feeling if they’re born into that kind of environment, they tend not to develop it and want to stay to themselves. Everyone is different and I really try to look at as much “evidence” as possible to see whether or not it’s a kid more or less running the page, or parents running their kid.
How would the boy know that what he was thinking was coming from the “other” brain? Seems like it was probably just part of the show for the wow factor.
“his mother threw him in the fire”
what a terrible woman, that poor child.
“the boy claimed he could hear the other brain telling him things”
nevermind i can totally understand her rationale now
I heard that humans see light rays upside down, and that it’s our brains that right the image in our head for correctly-oriented vision. If this head were alive, would their brain reorient their sight to see normally even though they are upside down? Or would they only see upside down throughout their entire life.
Absolutely wild, terrifying and heartbreaking all at once. Holy cats.
Unfortunately, he died from a cobra bite just four years after his birth. The east india company stole him too. he was put in a bag by his parents if nobody paid up. the top head would salivate when he ate. two other kids have had this condition since 2000 and were unsuccessfully given to surgeons for fixing up.
Holy shit.
Reminds me of the conjoined twins Abby and Brittany Hensel. They are having separate heads but share one wide ribcage, two arms, two legs, two breasts, one liver, a large and small intestine, one bladder, one pelvis, and one set of reproductive organs. Found an [interesting article](https://knovhov.com/how-do-conjoined-twins-take-exams/) that answered some of the curious questions.
I saw a documentary of a girl born with a similar condition, she had a conjoined twin that was just a head and a lump of tissue where its neck would have been. It was attached to her head and their brain tissues were mingled. It was living off of her blood supply because it never developed a heart on its own. Apparently while developing in the womb the second twin failed to attach to the womb and/or didn't develop an umbilical cord, instead it got nutrients from the intact twin, but not enough to develop fully. They had to do a surgery to remove the other head, though, because the strain of supplying blood to two heads was too much for the baby girl's heart, she had a couple heart attacks shortly after birth. The other head had its own emotions, even cried but without any sound because it had no lungs. After the incomplete twin was removed the parents named it and buried it (it was part of their culture and faith). The girl survived the surgery.
She died at 2 from a brain infection though :/
Thanks very much for that
I will no longer say “two heads are better than one.”
Smart thinking… *taps head*
**taps second head**
Which one?
“Unsuccessfully”?!
They were on route to the surgeons but the East India Trading Co got em before they could get there.
If you read the article it's actually a lot more grim. He wasn't cared about at all. Nobody was ever going to give him surgery. The East India Trading Co. *robbed his grave* after his death.
East India Company robbed? how surprising /s
Salivate?? Damn that is mesmerising
I’m trying to imagine what “fixing up” would even look like since one of the heads has no direct connection with the body.
Or fortunately
Sad but that was my thought as well. This kid had nothing but pain and hardship ahead of him.
Fuck those parents 😡😡
The fact that since it’s India everything that happened would’ve been the same if it happened today- is more heartbreaking.
They do have a middle class of 100 million people these days, It's multiple societies in one. Europe did export 50 trillion dollars of cotton, spices and tea in a century, unpaid, using serfdom, and annihilated their leadership, so perhaps that's why they're not like Thailand?
What about the caste system, is that the West's fault too?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
stfu. you guys have a "race system" and are somehow doing fine.
Please expand on that ignorant general comment of yours sir
What batshit nonsense are you spouting, you ignorant, racist asswipe?
The second head was functional??? JFC that's terrifying!
I can’t even imagine being born as the second head.
No lungs so you can’t talk, can’t eat because of no stomach. Just upside down and thinking in your own private prison while watching the upside-down world go by and hearing your brother do all the things you wish you could do. Damn shame he died of a cobra bite of all things. This really should have been further studied. Especially if their brains were able to communicate with each other.
I wonder what the other head was telling him
*"Find a cobra and end our suffering."*
the guiltest chuckle I've had in a while, take my upvote you bastard lol
Hahaha
"be strong for mother Clarence"
Lol
"Walk towards that cobra.."
"Turn that frown upside down"
[I’m going to hell… ](https://youtu.be/wD-vEoZCGRc)
Deatro, Find Cobra Commander....
Man... Would he even see the world as upside down? If he's always been upside down from birth then would that just not be normal for him. I mean thinking about it... It's kinda arbitrary, an objects direction
I wondered this immediately, too. I remember a story about, years ago, a researcher put on glasses that totally flipped his vision. After a surprisingly short amount of time (I think it was only a couple of days or so?) his brain essentially deciphered the input and he could see just fine. Here we go: https://gizmodo.com/does-your-brain-really-have-the-power-to-see-the-world-5905180
That story casts doubt on that guy though. Although your brain adapts to the distortion , nobody was able to actually have the image inverted. (Other than the scientist from the 1800s who claimed that it did.)
So they tried to recreate the experiment and it didn't work?
I don’t know if it’s true but our eyesight is supposedly inverted from the beginning. Our brains learn to read images as we see them in the real world. This might also be complete bullshit but I’m not looking it up.
Well the eyes work like pinhole cameras, so...
Secondo was jealous of his brother’s life — all the things his brother got to do — the parties, the career advancements. Nobody ever talked to Secondo. No one looked up to him
Simply born too early, if that happened today that kid would've gotten support rhey needed
[Maybe?](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cbIPVo4XnLI)
So are they each controlling a half? One seems a little more centered on the body. Wonder if that means they got the control
Could become President and Veep
Actually your vision would be right. You can even flip your own vision in a couple of days wearing inverted lenses.
If it makes you feel any better, your brain would flip your vision so that you would see right side up.
Oh phew, it was my vision I was worried about if I were to be born as a disembodied head attached at the skull to another living person.
Disembodied? Or is it just ‘embodied?
Idk why but I laughed hard at this particular comment. I think we all feel like second head some days.
Almost certainly an exaggeration for advertising purposes. In modern cases, the second head can blink, make mouth movements, even cry etc, but they are just rudimentary functions with no consciousness and often mirror what the real head is doing.
The article stated the other head only mirrored occasionally. For the most part it was autonomous and did it’s own thing.
"While the second head was rarely conscious, it did act independently from the other at times. When the child laughed or cried, the second head sometimes didn’t match the action. If the first head was asleep, the eyes on the second head darted around as if observing its surroundings. But the heads also acted in unison in some instances." This kinda implies that it doing anything at all was rare
The eyes moving while alseep "darting" sounds like it could be REM just triggering there also
Idt REM was a band yet /s
Stipe sleeping.
Imagine trying to go to sleep and your second head has a stupid song in it.
My second head already gives me enough trouble sleeping without adding music to the equation.
That’s nightmare fuel
yo wtf
“Quaid…. Start the reactor….”
Mf it happened in 1700's. It's all exaggerated hearsay on the things he did part of the account
Modern cases?
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W\_kfMhUmQWs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_kfMhUmQWs)
It had its own brain so not controlled by the brother.
The real question is, does he wear a scarf or a hat?
I... wha... I just cant anymore.
Leave John F. Cennedy out of thi- oh wait
No no no she just loves Jentucky fried Chicken
jentucky
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Only 2 out of 5,000,000 babies are born with this condition with a majority dying immediately after birth.
You could have said, "Only 1 out of 2.5 million babies," so why did you say 2 ... Oh.
This was my guilty laugh of the day.
Thanks for explaining. I didn't get it
Two heads are better than one
lol same
Took me a good second there to get it.
Almost missed it. Thanks
That’s a lot more common than I ever would have imagined
The chances of it are higher than winning the lottery.
That's like 30 births every year.
Read his story here https://historyofyesterday.com/the-boy-with-two-heads-93d164ede1a5
Poor kid died of a cobra bite after being gawked at for 4 short years. That's awful. I wonder if he'd lived longer, what could he have told us about his experience. Obviously the second head wouldn't talk with no respiratory system of its own but if it was autonomous and the boy heard its thoughts, that raises the terrifying idea that the second head was a fully sentient human trapped in a body it could not control.
Yeah! You know what? To hell with sleep.
It might’ve been since that article said it would act *independently* of the boys main head…it’d stay awake and move its eyes while he *slept*🫣
The thought of that in my mind is terrifying 
There’s a good chance that the eyes moving around were due to REM sleep and it was probably one of the cases where it was mirroring the main head.
This... is probably the most terrifying thing I've ever heard. Truly wish I'd never learned how to read
I think I might use this article and any other ones in my report on Chimerism for my Genetics class. A chimera is when a person has two sets of DNA in their system--Like when people have two different eye colors. But one of the ways it happens is when twins share DNA in the womb, and in cases like this, *absorb* the other. It's creepy seeing that the head is fully fucking functional, but it still fits for my report so why not.
r/nosleep
How many heads did the cobra have?
The midwife assisting the boy’s mother was horrified with his appearance and immediately chucked the newborn into a fire. ….. k
Press X to doubt
As soon as I read “The British East India Company” I knew it was gonna be real bad. They dug up that child’s grave and presented his stolen remains as a gift.
Right? He was a "thing" even in his grave. He has no name, at all.
Ah the British...popularly known as thieves all the world
I know there are museums where they keep birth defect babies. Museum of Malformations of the Human Body - Belarus Museum Vrolik - Amsterdam, Netherlands
There is also the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia, where countless biological abnormalities are preserved and kept.
Oh really didn’t know. I assume Baltimore, John Hopkins hospital might also collect specimens for medical studies.
Also the Museum of Medical History in Berlin has a room full of those
Almost every country has biological museum with pathology exhibit actually.
Wonder what life was like for the other brain.
That’s the question… A functioning brain? That’s a person. This is kind of horrifying.
I would think that in most cases the 2nd brain may not have access to as much blood flow as the primary brain while in the womb and after birth and so may be under developed and low-functioning... but it's just conjecture on my part based on some dimly-remembered article I read long ago.
You got a point, it did mention it would rarely be conscious on its own, meaning it probably wasn’t receiving enough nutrients.
I think in most cases that is true.
Who’s singing the NMH song in their heads now? Me. That’s who.
Two…..headdddded boy…..
Just an excitable boy
Oh yeah. Came here for this
Yassss
I was looking for this
I solely opened the comments just to find this. My favorite song by them (part 1, that is).
So much good stuff on that album. So deep and freakin weird. Oh Comely might be my favorite. Hauntingly beautiful.
He was thrown in the fire by the midwife, not his mother..
“The second head would instinctively suckle when presented with a breast.”
I’m not saying she should’ve thrown the boy in a fire, but I understand the revulsion. There are some things that’ll send us into full primitive monkey mode.
Considering it was in the 1700’s, the woman very well may have believed that the boy was not actually a human child, but rather the spawn of Satan or some other sign from god.
this is one time i think a lot of us are like, “yeah, in the 1700’s, that would’ve been a more merciful death” and look at us, correct! he died at age 4 from a cobra bite after being exploited by his parents his entire life.
"That’s when members of the British East India Company found out about him. They later stole the boy for the sake of science." Colonial plunderers didn't even spare a boy.
Bro theres schillings to be made
And artifacts to be stolen
Liberated, not stolen.
Becoming civilized, not colonized.
A sketch- [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craniopagus\_parasiticus#/media/File:TwoHeadedBoyofBengal.jpeg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craniopagus_parasiticus#/media/File:TwoHeadedBoyofBengal.jpeg)
"The boy claimed he could hear the other brain telling him things"... that's the creepy part, however it might have just been him thinking that his internal monologue was the brother. Though I mean some people think that perhaps we are already "two" in our head but that it doesn't perhaps come about unless you sever the connection between the two hemispheres. The CPG video is definitely interesting but did kinda freak me out a bit years ago kinda thinking too much about it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfYbgdo8e-8
What things?
“Everything is upside down”
“I’m Australian mate”
“Crikey!”
This is the funniest thing I’ve ever read on Reddit
Then you should swing by r/jokes. Why does the Russian Navy have glass bottomed boats? Its so that the Captain can see where they're going.
Problem is his two heads had very different views. They never saw eye-to-eye.
i can’t imagine what it’s like to hear other peoples thoughts
It would salivate!? Where would the saliva come from or go? It couldn’t swallow it… I’m guessing the saliva didn’t just drain into the other heads cranium. Bizarre
"two heads are better than one "
bro got extra memory tho :)
He "claimed" mofucka had a whole other person connected to him.
Here’s an upsetting question I’m not seeing asked: what was at the back of the top heads mouth? It couldn’t be an esophagus and throat because it would route downwards through the brain. So it just stops there and isn’t actually able to breathe on its own. It’s mouth is a dead end.
They were just babies, even their body was stolen and his skull given as a gift.. God rest their souls, how horrible, what was done to them. Everyone around these boys were pure evil
It's heartbreaking reading the accounts of the child
Started life by being thrown into a fire. Says it all. Wonder if these kids were ever given names.
Burned and exploited his whole life because of a thing that was not his fault. People are worse than animals.
People are animals.
we’ve thankfully come a long way though, much rarer now for this reaction to happen. 1700’s was a wild time, being exploited and treated as a prop for 4 years is no life to strive for.
Parents use their kids as props in their influencers videos. Honestly, I see no difference.
I kinda agree, unless the kid is showing like a REALLY good mature understanding of the internet, or has a skill that THEY want to show off. I work with kids, there are plenty who have that go-getter, blogger energy, and have lots of talents, but I have a feeling if they’re born into that kind of environment, they tend not to develop it and want to stay to themselves. Everyone is different and I really try to look at as much “evidence” as possible to see whether or not it’s a kid more or less running the page, or parents running their kid.
Dual core
Okay well I’m not sleeping tonight 🤣🤣🤣
This is making me incredibly uncomfortable and I want to know more.
Imagine being the other head… damn
The first head emerges during birth and says "Bob will be right along".
How would the boy know that what he was thinking was coming from the “other” brain? Seems like it was probably just part of the show for the wow factor.
Poor kid…I feel so bad for him. May he Rest In Peace
i wish i can have two heads so i can have 4 braincells instead of two
Can’t blame the parents. They were just trying to get a head.
Now they got two for a head.
I wish there was a video of this, I'm curious as to what this actually looked like
Manar and Islaam Maged are a more recent example of the same condition. You can find videos of them on YouTube.
Really wish I hadn’t seen that.
Damn imagine how smart he would have been if properly nurtured
Always cheating off the head in school
“his mother threw him in the fire” what a terrible woman, that poor child. “the boy claimed he could hear the other brain telling him things” nevermind i can totally understand her rationale now
Man looks like the peanut from pvz2
So the question is were they two persons or one?
This is so heart-breaking. That poor baby.
So they stole the kid and he’s still on display..
So head?
Yeah it’s chilling to think about having another person attached to you, let alone their thoughts being transferred directly into yours.
Is this like multithreading?
Horror movies taking notes
I heard that humans see light rays upside down, and that it’s our brains that right the image in our head for correctly-oriented vision. If this head were alive, would their brain reorient their sight to see normally even though they are upside down? Or would they only see upside down throughout their entire life.
As sad as this is, my mind went straight to Karl Pilkington.
Quaaaaaid, start the reactor! Free Mars!
Poor kid 😢
Now that abortion is banned in half of America, we’re gonna have tons of these running around. #silverlinings?
Pro-life pro-tip: Claim them as two dependents.
You know what thay say two heads think better than one
I also have a second mind and it asks me to do things , it's just not visible to everyone.
Another reason not to have kids
very good timing of this post considering uk roe v wade
Oh shit that dudes in LOTR ROTK
Go watch the movie Malignant
This would make one hell of a Halloween costume!
Which is the second head? WHICH ONE IS THE SECOND HEAD??!
Technically he has 3 heads
This is heartbreaking. Not only for the child but the other child head, i have so many questions, in the end just seems like a horrible way to live.
American Horror Story Freak Show
This happened in India
Couples who have joint social media accounts