WEBVTT 00:00.111 --> 00:02.712 [SPEAKER_00]: The human body is amazing, isn't it? 00:03.112 --> 00:07.333 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, did you know our bodies contain 100,000 miles of blood vessels? 00:07.973 --> 00:10.874 [SPEAKER_00]: Or that were made up of around 30 trillion cells? 00:11.494 --> 00:17.136 [SPEAKER_00]: The only thing that makes human anatomy more astonishing are the weird things some people put inside them. 00:17.816 --> 00:24.898 [SPEAKER_00]: Yep, whether on purpose or by accident, many folks out there have ended up with pretty mind-boggling things inside their bodies. 00:25.617 --> 00:34.649 [SPEAKER_00]: From seedlings sprouting an ears to entire spoons and stomachs, join me as we take a look at the craziest things ever found in the human body. 00:47.857 --> 00:51.420 [SPEAKER_00]: Most of us have suffered from a nasty ear infection or two over the years. 00:51.840 --> 00:55.302 [SPEAKER_00]: Fortunately, they tend to stop after a few days of TLC. 00:55.762 --> 00:59.965 [SPEAKER_00]: However, things didn't go so smoothly for a 16-month-old girl from Beijing. 01:00.286 --> 01:04.949 [SPEAKER_00]: The child was suffering from a painful ear infection not for four days or even four weeks. 01:05.449 --> 01:13.655 [SPEAKER_00]: Nope, it took four grueling months until the poor kid's parents took her to hospital after her mom spotted something strange in her ear. 01:14.472 --> 01:20.519 [SPEAKER_00]: After finally seeing a doctor, it was confirmed that this was no ear infection, but something far freaky here. 01:21.180 --> 01:28.508 [SPEAKER_00]: Turns out that a partially flowered dandelion seed had grown into the girl's ear and completely filled the canal wall. 01:29.202 --> 01:34.607 [SPEAKER_00]: Thanks to the warm and moist conditions inside the girl's ear, the dandelion grew to nearly one inch. 01:35.167 --> 01:40.312 [SPEAKER_00]: But not only does having a dandelion sprouting in your ear sound grows, it's also dangerous. 01:40.852 --> 01:47.578 [SPEAKER_00]: Doctors were worried about the possibility of the seedling growing anymore, putting the child at risk of permanent damage to her ear canal. 01:48.518 --> 01:52.601 [SPEAKER_00]: So they decided to perform surgery to completely remove the flower from her ear. 01:53.581 --> 01:58.724 [SPEAKER_00]: Luckily the operation was a success and the dangerous dandelion was removed from the girls ear. 01:59.285 --> 02:00.665 [SPEAKER_00]: Guess it didn't grow on her. 02:01.406 --> 02:08.490 [SPEAKER_00]: Now ears are not the only part of the human body that freaky fauna have somehow ended up in, just ask Archom Sidorkin. 02:09.090 --> 02:13.994 [SPEAKER_00]: Back in 2009, he began to experience extreme chespains in a persistent cough. 02:14.455 --> 02:20.760 [SPEAKER_00]: Doctors were worried about Archum's condition and were initially convinced that he was suffering from a form of lung cancer. 02:21.281 --> 02:28.287 [SPEAKER_00]: Their suspicions were virtually confirmed when an X-ray scan found what looked exactly like a tumor in his left lung. 02:28.848 --> 02:35.794 [SPEAKER_00]: Surgeon Vladimir Kamashev was about to remove a large chunk of Archum's lung when all of a sudden he spotted something. 02:36.294 --> 02:45.397 [SPEAKER_00]: This surgeon was stunned to discover that Archum's problems weren't caused by cancer, but by a two inch spruce of a fur tree launched inside his lung. 02:46.377 --> 02:50.099 [SPEAKER_00]: Yep, this guy basically had a tree growing inside him. 02:50.439 --> 02:56.841 [SPEAKER_00]: What makes this even more bizarre is the fact that our lungs have evolved to efficiently get rid of foreign objects like this. 02:57.261 --> 03:03.623 [SPEAKER_00]: They're lined with mucus designed to trap anything that's accidentally inhaled before being pushed out of the lungs by a coughing. 03:04.203 --> 03:12.995 [SPEAKER_00]: But somehow doctors believe Archam inhaled a spruce seed which are barely bigger than the nib of a pencil, and was so small the lungs couldn't eject it. 03:13.535 --> 03:21.726 [SPEAKER_00]: What's more the dampened dark conditions of the lung were perfect for the seed to germinate, which is why when it was removed it looked like it had been grown in soil. 03:22.607 --> 03:30.954 [SPEAKER_00]: Company's life in the lung was for the little fur tree spruce, a successful surgery removed it from Archum's body, restoring the patient back to full health. 03:31.534 --> 03:34.857 [SPEAKER_00]: I guess you could say it was a furry tail ending for him. 03:35.477 --> 03:39.841 [SPEAKER_00]: Strange as it sounds, trees aren't the only things that have made their way into people's logs. 03:40.261 --> 03:43.644 [SPEAKER_00]: In fact, living things can end up in the body's breathing mechanism, too. 03:44.204 --> 03:46.986 [SPEAKER_00]: And no one knows that better than a Neil Morella. 03:47.487 --> 03:49.588 [SPEAKER_00]: When he was 12 years old, a Neil attempted 03:52.338 --> 04:00.665 [SPEAKER_00]: Now normally pranks are pretty fun, like drawing a fake mustache on your sleeping friender, sticking googly eyes on everything in the refrigerator, classic japes. 04:01.286 --> 04:04.349 [SPEAKER_00]: Save to say a nil's prank wasn't so fun. 04:04.749 --> 04:09.253 [SPEAKER_00]: He decided it'd be a great idea to inhale a live fish on a river bank. 04:09.833 --> 04:17.941 [SPEAKER_00]: If that didn't sound nasty enough, the three and a half inch long fish must have gone down the wrong hole as it didn't settle in a nil's stomach, but it is long. 04:18.541 --> 04:29.650 [SPEAKER_00]: Not long after he was struggling to breathe and was quickly taken to hospital, where Medix discovered that his oxygen levels in his blood drop to 80% – 18% lower than they should have been. 04:30.591 --> 04:34.974 [SPEAKER_00]: After a 45-minute long surgery, the fish was finally removed from the kid's lung. 04:35.494 --> 04:42.040 [SPEAKER_00]: Luckily, a nail made a full recovery, but I can't stop imagining the incredibly confused look on the doctor's face. 04:42.820 --> 04:48.061 [SPEAKER_00]: Animals becoming lodged in the human body is, weirdly, a more common occurrence than you'd think. 04:48.722 --> 04:55.123 [SPEAKER_00]: For seven years in Australian woman constantly complained about awful headaches that came around two to three times a month. 04:55.583 --> 05:02.185 [SPEAKER_00]: However, one particular headache in 2020 was much worse than usual, lasting more than a week in blurring her vision. 05:02.705 --> 05:10.130 [SPEAKER_00]: Unsurprisingly, that led her to the hospital and after an MRI scan doctor's revealed that a tumor might be the cause of the discomfort. 05:10.590 --> 05:19.096 [SPEAKER_00]: However, after operating and removing what they thought was a tumor they discovered it was actually, wait for it, a cyst full of tapeworm larvae. 05:20.577 --> 05:24.320 [SPEAKER_00]: The question is, how could something so gross end up in someone's nugget? 05:24.761 --> 05:33.948 [SPEAKER_00]: It's believed to be down to neurosis to secosis, a parasitic infection that occurs when someone swallows microscopic eggs from an intestinal pork tapeworm. 05:34.489 --> 05:41.435 [SPEAKER_00]: This can happen if someone either ingest raw pork or comes into close contact with someone with an intestinal tapeworm infection. 05:42.135 --> 05:43.916 [SPEAKER_00]: And let me tell you, it ain't pretty. 05:44.536 --> 05:52.219 [SPEAKER_00]: When these wretched eggs hatched the larva can travel through the body, including the muscle skin, eyes, and, you guessed it, the brain. 05:52.899 --> 05:58.942 [SPEAKER_00]: As a result of these cyst forming in the brain, people can suffer from headaches, nauseous, stiffness, and even seizures. 06:00.063 --> 06:03.428 [SPEAKER_00]: Thankfully, things didn't escalate quite so far in this instance. 06:03.928 --> 06:09.436 [SPEAKER_00]: After the doctors removed the larvae, the patient got the all-clear and was cured of her headaches once and for all. 06:10.378 --> 06:14.784 [SPEAKER_00]: Saying that, I don't think I'd ever be able to look at a plate of spaghetti in the same ever again. 06:15.325 --> 06:23.077 [SPEAKER_00]: Back in 2019, a 72-year-old man from Norfolk Britain underwent routine surgery to remove a benign lump from his abdominal wall. 06:23.537 --> 06:29.446 [SPEAKER_00]: At first, the surgery seemed successful, but after the patient went home, he began to notice that something was wrong. 06:30.167 --> 06:39.894 [SPEAKER_00]: He'd not been able to swallow any food after the operation, so he returned to hospital where a chest X-ray showed a little inflammation, but nothing else to be overly concerned about. 06:40.474 --> 06:46.718 [SPEAKER_00]: Soon after he was discharged with some antibiotics and steroids, however, just two days later he returned. 06:47.079 --> 06:51.502 [SPEAKER_00]: This time the pain in his throat was so unbearable he couldn't swallow his medication. 06:52.222 --> 06:57.449 [SPEAKER_00]: Doctors performed at Nasendoscopy, sticking a small telescope tube into the throat. 06:57.930 --> 07:01.034 [SPEAKER_00]: What they saw ironically, took their breath away. 07:01.775 --> 07:06.621 [SPEAKER_00]: Ubstructing the patient's vocal cords was a strange metallic semi-circular object. 07:07.342 --> 07:13.687 [SPEAKER_00]: An X-ray scan of his neck revealed that mysterious metallic object was in fact, the patient's own dentures. 07:14.367 --> 07:15.308 [SPEAKER_00]: How'd they get there? 07:15.908 --> 07:19.491 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, we'd lost them during General Surgery eight days earlier. 07:20.111 --> 07:24.394 [SPEAKER_00]: So chances are he swallowed them without him or the doctor's realizing. 07:24.895 --> 07:26.056 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not sure how, though. 07:26.396 --> 07:28.237 [SPEAKER_00]: Doesn't exactly look comfortable. 07:28.798 --> 07:32.941 [SPEAKER_00]: Thankfully, another operation removed the dentures from his throat and on this occasion, 07:36.363 --> 07:40.526 [SPEAKER_00]: Back in 2021, a teenage girl from the UK was admitted to hospital. 07:41.046 --> 07:45.929 [SPEAKER_00]: Not for a persistent cough or horse voice as we've seen before, but because she fainted frequently. 07:46.389 --> 07:53.013 [SPEAKER_00]: That coupled with the fact she'd been experiencing pain in her abdomen for the past five months left doctors fearing the worst. 07:53.599 --> 08:01.081 [SPEAKER_00]: After examining her further, the doctors finally discovered the cause, which they had to check and pre-check because they couldn't believe it. 08:01.702 --> 08:05.203 [SPEAKER_00]: Inside her upper abdomen was a strange tangled mass. 08:05.643 --> 08:08.004 [SPEAKER_00]: Turns out her stomach was filled with 19 inches of, 08:09.064 --> 08:10.124 [SPEAKER_00]: human hair. 08:10.765 --> 08:16.187 [SPEAKER_00]: But before you start thinking this girl is some sort of hair specific cannibal this wasn't from someone else. 08:16.587 --> 08:19.088 [SPEAKER_00]: She'd been jowing down on her very own hair. 08:19.708 --> 08:27.732 [SPEAKER_00]: She suffers from both tricotelio mania, the urge to pull her hair out, and tricophasia, the urge to eat her out hair. 08:28.192 --> 08:33.154 [SPEAKER_00]: The human body doesn't have the ability to digest keratin, which is the protein that helps 08:35.755 --> 08:39.698 [SPEAKER_00]: So, the more she'd eaten, the more had accumulated and clogged in her stomach. 08:40.199 --> 08:47.384 [SPEAKER_00]: Fortunately, this particular hairball was removed by doctors and after being admitted to the intensive care unit she made a full recovery. 08:48.064 --> 08:50.986 [SPEAKER_00]: Still, this whole horror story sounds hair-raising. 08:51.927 --> 08:57.311 [SPEAKER_00]: It's time to lighten things up, and what better way to do that than with a cute little wedding proposal. 08:57.831 --> 09:04.356 [SPEAKER_00]: In an ideal world, you'll only propose one, so, many make sure it's an extra special occasion for their future partner. 09:05.103 --> 09:10.326 [SPEAKER_00]: That's exactly what Reed Harris was hoping for when he proposed to his girlfriend back in 2009. 09:10.827 --> 09:14.169 [SPEAKER_00]: However, this romantic gesture didn't quite go to plan. 09:14.549 --> 09:22.334 [SPEAKER_00]: Reed planted the engagement ring in his girlfriend's milkshake hoping to film the romantic reaction when she'd made the diamond discovery at the bottom of her drink. 09:22.795 --> 09:26.697 [SPEAKER_00]: Except she didn't find it, at least not at the bottom of her glass. 09:27.197 --> 09:32.401 [SPEAKER_00]: Yep, the lucky lady accidentally swallowed the diamond band hole without even realizing. 09:32.941 --> 09:40.746 [SPEAKER_00]: To make things right, Reed decided to take his would beefy on say-to-hospital where an X-ray scan confirmed the ring was, in fact, inside her. 09:41.627 --> 09:48.232 [SPEAKER_00]: So Reed did the only thing he could, to get down on one knee and propose to mount with the ring, but the X-ray copy of the scan. 09:48.952 --> 09:51.674 [SPEAKER_00]: Two days later, the ring finally, uh, reappeared. 09:52.282 --> 09:53.384 [SPEAKER_00]: hell romantic. 09:54.045 --> 09:59.475 [SPEAKER_00]: While that wedding ring experience was a pure accident, some people swallow an edible objects on purpose. 09:59.955 --> 10:04.584 [SPEAKER_00]: Strange as it sounds, that was the case for one woman from Rotterdam Hallen back in 2009. 10:06.106 --> 10:26.554 [SPEAKER_00]: Margaret Dalman was admitted to hospital after complaining of stomach pains, what he reckoned she ate, something delicious but forbidden, like these laundry detergent packets that look like marshmallows, or this delicious looking sorbet which is actually spackle, no, not for Margaret, instead she goes down a whopping 78 spoons and forks. 10:27.194 --> 10:28.675 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, she wouldn't play in. 10:29.135 --> 10:38.260 [SPEAKER_00]: Imagine how hard it must have been to eat one item of cutlery, but alone 78, but the real question is why was she so keen to munch down on the silver stuff? 10:38.980 --> 10:42.462 [SPEAKER_00]: It seems she was suffering from a condition known as Peacum. 10:42.922 --> 10:49.005 [SPEAKER_00]: Peacum is a neurological disorder characterized by the consumption of an edible food items like spoons and forks. 10:49.605 --> 10:55.589 [SPEAKER_00]: Typically, it's brought on by stress, nutritional deficiencies or even an underlying mental health condition. 10:56.030 --> 11:04.115 [SPEAKER_00]: In Margaret's case, doctors at the hospital believed she was suffering from a borderline personality disorder, leaving her with an odd appetite for civil war. 11:04.416 --> 11:09.539 [SPEAKER_00]: Thankfully, after they surgically removed the cutlery piece, Margaret returned back to full health. 11:10.160 --> 11:12.902 [SPEAKER_00]: Man, was that story hard to swallow for anybody else? 11:13.422 --> 11:19.624 [SPEAKER_00]: While having spoons and forks in your stomach sounds pretty hellish, there are cases of people taking things a step further. 11:20.544 --> 11:25.005 [SPEAKER_00]: John L. Singh from India spent two whole months swallowing a different type of cutlery. 11:25.425 --> 11:29.046 [SPEAKER_00]: Yep, you guessed it, the guy indulged on a diet of knives. 11:29.746 --> 11:33.587 [SPEAKER_00]: He was admitted to hospital after complaining of abdomen pain and weakness. 11:34.120 --> 11:36.241 [SPEAKER_00]: Gee, I wonder what was causing that. 11:36.921 --> 11:43.885 [SPEAKER_00]: After X-raying Jernale's body, doctors initially thought he was suffering from a tumor due to a large solid mass showing up on the scan. 11:44.385 --> 11:48.967 [SPEAKER_00]: Turns out that this mass was actually dozens of folding knives sitting in his stomach. 11:49.587 --> 11:56.911 [SPEAKER_00]: Immediately, the doctors' conference surgery where they took five pain-staking hours removing each and every knife from Jernale's abdomen. 11:57.811 --> 12:00.892 [SPEAKER_00]: by some miracle, John L. hadn't suffered any lasting damage. 12:01.372 --> 12:03.913 [SPEAKER_00]: So what the heck compelled him to eat literal knives? 12:04.613 --> 12:10.615 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, he claims spiritual powers made him do it while also saying he enjoyed the taste. 12:11.095 --> 12:14.256 [SPEAKER_00]: Whatever the cause of John L's horrifying habit, one thing's for sure. 12:14.536 --> 12:16.677 [SPEAKER_00]: His body wasn't cut out for it. 12:17.197 --> 12:21.158 [SPEAKER_00]: Now as I said before, some people have ended up with crazy things in their body 12:23.019 --> 12:26.281 [SPEAKER_00]: and no one knows that feeling better than this next guy from New York. 12:26.981 --> 12:35.665 [SPEAKER_00]: At first he assumed he had a sinus inflammation but in 2022 after the problem had persisted for years he finally decided to get a professional opinion. 12:36.225 --> 12:36.566 [SPEAKER_00]: Dr. 12:36.626 --> 12:41.708 [SPEAKER_00]: Saw, he hadn't suffered any blows to the face nor did he have any visible facial abnormalities. 12:42.108 --> 12:49.152 [SPEAKER_00]: However, one thing they did notice was that his septum, that's the cartilage that divides the nose into two chambers, was deviated. 12:49.792 --> 12:55.876 [SPEAKER_00]: To get to the root of the problem, they performed a nasal exam using a tube with a light and lens to have a closer look. 12:56.577 --> 13:01.681 [SPEAKER_00]: And it was here where they found a strange horn white mass in his nose. 13:02.361 --> 13:07.845 [SPEAKER_00]: As much as it sounds like a cement boogie, to let the doctors it actually discovered was jaw-dropping. 13:08.225 --> 13:12.608 [SPEAKER_00]: This patient had a half inch tooth inside his right nostril. 13:13.048 --> 13:16.350 [SPEAKER_00]: Crazy as it sounds, this was an ectopic tooth. 13:16.951 --> 13:24.515 [SPEAKER_00]: These teeth sprout up in abnormal places, and are extremely rare affecting between just 0.1% of the population. 13:24.956 --> 13:29.839 [SPEAKER_00]: However, most of the time they just crop up in the jawbone under the gum, not in the nose. 13:30.539 --> 13:35.461 [SPEAKER_00]: It's not clear what caused them, although in the past doctors have blamed trauma and infections. 13:35.881 --> 13:41.244 [SPEAKER_00]: Whatever the cause of this guy's condition, he made a full recovery after the tooth was removed in surgery. 13:41.964 --> 13:46.766 [SPEAKER_00]: And at a follow-up three months later, his nasal obstruction symptoms were completely resolved. 13:47.286 --> 13:49.487 [SPEAKER_00]: Man, talk about a nasal cavity. 13:50.287 --> 13:53.729 [SPEAKER_00]: Get it, teeth get cavities, and you're now, has cavities? 13:54.009 --> 13:57.430 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, listen, there's a doctor out there laughing himself silly at that dumb joke. 13:57.830 --> 13:58.651 [SPEAKER_00]: Get on his level. 13:59.431 --> 14:06.155 [SPEAKER_00]: As horrific as having a tooth jammed inside your nostril would be, it probably sounds like sunshine and roses to Nikolai Pesenko. 14:06.595 --> 14:17.681 [SPEAKER_00]: In 2022 Pesenko, a junior sergeant, was struck by a projectile fired from an automatic grenade launcher, but rather than detonate on impact, the projectile became embedded inside his body. 14:18.541 --> 14:22.866 [SPEAKER_00]: Oraculously, the artillery got lodged next to a spinal cord without exploding. 14:23.467 --> 14:31.737 [SPEAKER_00]: Pesingo was quickly rushed to a medical facility where surgeons donned body armor as they tried to save the life of the soldier who effectively became a human bomb. 14:32.218 --> 14:35.381 [SPEAKER_00]: Sounds like the most extreme game of aberration ever. 14:36.102 --> 14:43.165 [SPEAKER_00]: Medical experts said the chances of an explosion were extremely high, but failure to operate would have left the trooper at risk of fatal bleeding. 14:43.765 --> 14:51.428 [SPEAKER_00]: So dangerous was the procedure that a second operating room with additional surgeons were on standby in case the grenade exploded mid-surgery. 14:52.108 --> 15:00.257 [SPEAKER_00]: Against all the odds, the medical workers successfully extracted the explosive from Pesenko's mid-rift without blowing up their patient or themselves. 15:00.698 --> 15:03.401 [SPEAKER_00]: Who did the life of a surgeon could be such a blast? 15:04.061 --> 15:10.268 [SPEAKER_00]: Back in 2017, a 49-year-old Chinese man was rushed to hospital after suffering from unbearable stomach pain. 15:10.769 --> 15:13.692 [SPEAKER_00]: It didn't take doctors long to find the cause of the discomfort. 15:14.310 --> 15:19.373 [SPEAKER_00]: After opening up the patient's stomach, they were greeted by a 20-inch Asian swamp eel. 15:19.953 --> 15:21.914 [SPEAKER_00]: Man, I hope you're not eating right now. 15:22.834 --> 15:32.099 [SPEAKER_00]: During surgery, Medix discovered the animal had actually made its way into the stomach via the intestines, which means it didn't get inside him through his mouth if you get my draft. 15:32.579 --> 15:35.820 [SPEAKER_00]: Thankfully, the surgery to remove the eel was a success. 15:36.161 --> 15:38.722 [SPEAKER_00]: There was just one more thing on the doctor's minds. 15:39.062 --> 15:42.823 [SPEAKER_00]: why on earth was the eel in his intestines in the first place. 15:43.743 --> 15:47.145 [SPEAKER_00]: The patient later claimed it swam up there by itself. 15:47.705 --> 15:48.945 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, sure buddy. 15:49.405 --> 15:54.287 [SPEAKER_00]: However, he later admitted that he put it there himself to help him relieve his bowels. 15:54.967 --> 16:01.709 [SPEAKER_00]: That may sound like another unconvincing excuse, it's true that this is a Chinese folk remedy for curing constipation. 16:05.692 --> 16:13.178 [SPEAKER_00]: While we're on the topic of skin-crilling animals burying their way into people's bodies, it'd be rude not to mention the terrible tale of a milio Gonzales. 16:14.299 --> 16:18.742 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, quick warning for any arachnophobes you may want to go stretch your legs for a few minutes. 16:19.303 --> 16:20.043 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, here they go. 16:20.484 --> 16:27.950 [SPEAKER_00]: Dylan Thomas was having the sound of his life holidaying in Bali when one day he woke up to a peculiar red trail on his stomach. 16:28.590 --> 16:33.895 [SPEAKER_00]: Curious and a little creeped out at this weird marking, Dylan visited the hospital to get it checked out. 16:34.415 --> 16:40.460 [SPEAKER_00]: Doctors told him he'd been bitten by a small insect and gave him an antihistamine tablet to relieve the bite. 16:40.981 --> 16:45.545 [SPEAKER_00]: However, the next day, Dylan woke up to see the marking head grown and had become painful. 16:46.005 --> 16:49.008 [SPEAKER_00]: So this time, he decided to visit a dermatologist. 16:49.628 --> 16:53.532 [SPEAKER_00]: And it was here where doctors discovered the true cause of Dylan's marking. 16:54.052 --> 17:00.955 [SPEAKER_00]: It wasn't down to a small insect bite, but a spider that burrowed its way through a small scar from a previous operation. 17:00.975 --> 17:01.035 [SPEAKER_00]: Ew! 17:01.055 --> 17:07.957 [SPEAKER_00]: That is retrieved the spider that was a bit bigger than the size of a matchhead from under Dylan's skin. 17:08.377 --> 17:16.861 [SPEAKER_00]: While the species of spider wasn't known, having any type of hairy, eight-legged critter crawling through your skin no matter how big your small is enough to make my head spin. 17:17.821 --> 17:22.163 [SPEAKER_00]: What if I told you that animals aren't the only living things found inside the human body? 17:22.704 --> 17:26.305 [SPEAKER_00]: As you know, pregnancy involves the development of a fetus inside a womb. 17:26.686 --> 17:31.108 [SPEAKER_00]: Pretty normal so far, that wasn't the case for one person from India, however. 17:31.788 --> 17:36.891 [SPEAKER_00]: Sanju Bajhat had the pregnancy bump except one thing made this a little odd. 17:37.597 --> 17:46.379 [SPEAKER_00]: Sanju's biologically male, for over 30 years his stomach grew becoming so swollen that his neighbors referred to him as the pregnant man. 17:46.859 --> 17:50.740 [SPEAKER_00]: However, his family were more concerned that the big bump was something more serious. 17:51.840 --> 17:59.741 [SPEAKER_00]: As he got older and older, the boat continued to balloon, but as it did, Sanju's health dipped with the big bump pushing against his diaphragm. 18:00.222 --> 18:05.283 [SPEAKER_00]: He had difficulty breathing, but soon things got worse when he was rushed to hospital after 18:07.983 --> 18:18.633 [SPEAKER_00]: So, doctors opened Sanju's stomach expecting to remove some sort of abdominal tumor, but instead the doctors were greeted by what looked like an arm, a human arm. 18:19.353 --> 18:23.197 [SPEAKER_00]: As they looked further, they discovered limbs, hair, a jaw, and more. 18:23.797 --> 18:27.800 [SPEAKER_00]: Was Sanju some kind of twisted cannibal that couldn't digest his food properly? 18:28.621 --> 18:33.967 [SPEAKER_00]: It turns out that he'd been hosting the mutated body of his twin brother inside his abdomen. 18:34.508 --> 18:42.217 [SPEAKER_00]: The extremely rare condition known as fetus infitude occurs during the early stages of pregnancy when one twin envelopes the other. 18:43.178 --> 18:48.965 [SPEAKER_00]: As a result, the enveloped twin's development is severely impaired as it becomes trapped within the body of its sibling. 18:49.579 --> 18:50.640 [SPEAKER_00]: how horrifying. 18:51.141 --> 18:56.866 [SPEAKER_00]: While fetus infatu is extremely rare, it's even more uncommon for one of the twins to come out unharmed. 18:57.928 --> 19:12.623 [SPEAKER_00]: Sadly, due to both twins having the strain of sharing one placenta, the infant mortality rates in cases like this is extremely high, making the fact that Sanju live for over 30 years while his parasitic twin existed inside him, ha, the more mind-boggling. 19:13.183 --> 19:19.407 [SPEAKER_00]: Thankfully, for Sandra the Surgery was successful, and just like that, his big ballooning bulge was begun. 19:19.847 --> 19:21.988 [SPEAKER_00]: While he also quickly got back to full health. 19:22.708 --> 19:24.129 [SPEAKER_00]: Ah, don't you love a happy ending? 19:24.409 --> 19:37.457 [SPEAKER_00]: We've seen all sorts of strange items and living things somehow make their way into human body so far, but as puzzling and peculiar as many of those have been, none were more dangerous than what James Valentine found inside himself. 19:38.177 --> 19:39.538 [SPEAKER_00]: James was a tree surgeon. 19:39.858 --> 19:41.299 [SPEAKER_00]: Can you see where this is going? 19:41.659 --> 19:45.922 [SPEAKER_00]: That's part of a crew of tree tremors who were pruning some foliage back in 2014. 19:46.482 --> 19:52.346 [SPEAKER_00]: The work was going smoothly until his chainsaw suddenly kicked back hitting him between his neck and shoulder. 19:53.147 --> 19:53.427 [SPEAKER_00]: Ouch. 19:54.367 --> 19:58.550 [SPEAKER_00]: Immediately his co-workers brought him down from the tree and took him to the nearest hospital. 19:59.050 --> 20:03.053 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, this guy was rushed to hospital with a literal chainsaw sticking out of him. 20:03.513 --> 20:09.136 [SPEAKER_00]: Emergency workers removed the motor of the saw but left the blade in the tree cutter to prevent additional blood loss. 20:09.716 --> 20:16.439 [SPEAKER_00]: As grizzly as that sounds, James should have been counting his lucky stars considering the blade nearly avoided his major arteries. 20:16.920 --> 20:23.223 [SPEAKER_00]: Following surgery to remove the chainsaw, James was patched up with stitches and sutures to the neck and made a full recovery. 20:23.843 --> 20:26.284 [SPEAKER_00]: Let's just hope this lumberjack hasn't eaten anymore, 20:30.107 --> 20:35.748 [SPEAKER_00]: Horfying is having a chainsaw lodged inside your neck sounds, one man from Chicago went, one better. 20:35.768 --> 20:37.648 [SPEAKER_00]: Or should I say, one worse? 20:38.388 --> 20:44.730 [SPEAKER_00]: Dante Altulo was working with a nail gun doing some DIY in his own one suddenly, all hell broke loose. 20:45.370 --> 20:52.091 [SPEAKER_00]: He must have accidentally pulled the trigger as a 3.5-inch nail came whizzing through the air firing straight into his head. 20:52.811 --> 20:58.692 [SPEAKER_00]: But astonishingly, Dante didn't even notice, I'm sure of what happened he asked his fiancée to check his head. 20:59.212 --> 21:01.834 [SPEAKER_00]: She said everything seemed okay other than a small gash. 21:02.475 --> 21:03.756 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, she was wrong. 21:04.356 --> 21:09.280 [SPEAKER_00]: The nail had actually gone so far into a skull that it had penetrated his brain. 21:10.100 --> 21:12.422 [SPEAKER_00]: Despite this Dante couldn't feel a thing. 21:12.882 --> 21:19.968 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, for a while at least, it wasn't until a few days of persistent nausea and headaches that he noticed that something wasn't right. 21:20.568 --> 21:26.194 [SPEAKER_00]: So Dante took himself to hospital where an X-ray revealed that three and a half-inch nail large deep in his head. 21:26.774 --> 21:31.399 [SPEAKER_00]: By some miracle, the nail narrowly missed the portion of the brain that controls motor function. 21:32.200 --> 21:33.761 [SPEAKER_00]: Talk about a close call. 21:34.702 --> 21:42.409 [SPEAKER_00]: After surgery removed the nail, the damage part of his skull was replaced with a titanium and mesh plate, and with that Dante made a full recovery. 21:43.306 --> 21:45.909 [SPEAKER_00]: safe to say this guy is tougher than nails. 21:46.650 --> 21:49.953 [SPEAKER_00]: Have you ever seen any other crazy things inside the human body? 21:50.634 --> 21:51.875 [SPEAKER_00]: Or even put them there? 21:52.196 --> 21:53.838 [SPEAKER_00]: Thanks for listening to the podcast. 21:53.898 --> 21:55.459 [SPEAKER_00]: We'll see you again next time. 21:55.479 --> 21:56.761 [SPEAKER_00]: You'll want to be amazed.