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28 Medical Oddities That Have Absolutely Flummoxed the Experts

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28 Medical Oddities That Have Absolutely Flummoxed the Experts

March 18, 2024

In all your years of medical school (or just watching weird stuff on YouTube), have you ever seen anything like it?

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AN AUSTRALIAN WOMAN DEVELOPED A FRENCH ACCENT AFTER A CAR ACCIDENT. Leanne Rowe is not happy with having an accent that isn't her native Australian one, and often avoids talking to people. Her condition is called Foreign Accent Syndrome. CRACKED.COM — Source

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A middle-aged man was thought to have a tumor in his lung. IT TURNED OUT TO BE A TOY TRAFFIC CONE НЕ INHALED WHEN НЕ WAS SEVEN. 0.5 Не suffered no complications for 40 years, until recently when he suffered from pneumonia. The man's condition has improved since the removal of the 1-cm cone. CRACKED.COM — Source

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SANDRA LAING'S CONDITION IS THE COMPLETE OPPOSITE OF ALBINISM. After three generations of all-white ancestors, Laing was born with dark skin and curly black hair. Due to her skin color, she struggled with racism and discrimination in South Africa. Her life was later turned into a documentary film entitled Skin. CRACKED.COM — Source

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A MONTH AFTER A BANGLADESHI WOMAN DELIVERED A BABY, SHE WAS RUSHED TO THE HOSPITAL FOR STOMACH PAINS. It turned out she has two wombs and that she was in labor again, giving birth to twins. Arifa Sultana has a condition called uterus didelphys, where a woman develops two uteruses instead of one. CRACKED.COM — Source

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A WOMAN'S BRAIN TUMOR WAS DISCOVERED BECAUSE THE VOICES IN HER HEAD TOLD HER TO GET A BRAIN SCAN. The woman, called Patient AB, hallucinated the voices during a time when she showed no other symptoms of a tumor. When the voices wouldn't stop nagging her, she convinced a doctor to have her tested. Once she'd had surgery to remove the tumor, she says the voices thanked her for listening, then said goodbye. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Jo Cameron

JO CAMERON CAN'T FEEL PAIN AND HEALS WITHOUT SCARS. Doctors first found out about Cameron's condition when she seemed unbothered by a supposedly painful hip problem. She has a mutant gene that also makes her wounds heal without scarring. CRACKED.COM — Source

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A BOY FROM MANCHESTER WAS BORN WITH ONE KIDNEY IN HIS THIGH. Because of a missing chromosome called 7p22.1, Hamish Robinson also has a speech impediment and deafness in one ear. His condition, called Hamish syndrome, is so unique that it was named after him. CRACKED.COM — Source

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A JOCK GOT MUGGED, SUFFERED FROM A CONCUSSION, AND SUDDENLY BECAME A GENIUS. After recovery, Jason Padgett started seeing geometrical shapes everywhere. Не didn't know what it was, but after a few math classes, he realized it was math fractals he was seeing. Padgett's condition is called acquired savant syndrome. CRACKED.COM — Source

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A MAN WITH PANCREATITIS DEVELOPED PERSISTENT HICCUPS THAT CAN ONLY BE CURED WITH A RECTAL MASSAGE. Different medications were administered to him to no avail. After a few hours, his hiccups came back, and the doctor got rid of it by performing another rectal massage. CRACKED.COM — Source

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A PATIENT GETS SICK WHEN НЕ TELLS A LIE. The man, 51, experiences a loss of consciousness, convulsions, hallucinations, and anxiety for more than a third of the time when he lies. His condition is called Pinocchio Syndrome. CRACKED.COM — Source

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A BRITISH MAN HAD A FULLY- FUNCTIONING FEMALE REPRODUCTIVE ORGAN. The man, called Rob was thought to have bladder cancer after seeing blood in his urine. It was, in fact, his ovaries that were causing him to pee blood. Rob has a condition called Persistent Mullerian duct syndrome (PMDS). CRACKED.COM — Source

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A WOMAN LIVES A NORMAL LIFE WITH ONLY HALF A BRAIN. When she was 8, Christina Santhouse had to get the right hemisphere of her brain removed due to a condition called Rasmussen's Syndrome. Besides her paralysis in her left arm and visual impairments, she is pretty much fine. CRACKED.COM — Source

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A GENETIC DEFECT MADE STEPHEN CROHN IMMUNE TO AIDS. Crohn had a mutation in his white blood cells that kept most strains of HIV from penetrating and affecting them. Не helped advance research towards combating the disease. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Baffling Corpse Discoveries LOCKED IN A CLOSET In 2017, a 60-year-old woman was found in the cupboard of a holiday apartment in North Wales a week after going missing. While on vacation, she went to the bathroom at night, but entered the cupboard instead and spent days trying to claw her way out. Her noises were ignored, and a burst water pipe caused her to freeze to death. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Baffling Corpse Discoveries TRAPPED IN A DINOSAUR LEG In 2021. a man was found upside down inside the leg of a Stegosaurus sculpture in Spain. Apparently, he lost his cellphone and dived headfirst in order to find it, but couldn't get out. Не is said to have spent a few days there, and was only found when the stench caught the attention of a nearby family. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Baffling Corpse Discoveries STANDING UP A 24-year-old diabetic German woman was found dead and standing up. The first hypothesis was instantaneous rigor mortis, but the doctors who did the autopsy discarded this, suggesting a ketoacidotic coma instead. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Baffling Corpse Discoveries INCINERATED IN HER SOFA In 1964, a 51-year-old Pennsylvanian woman was found on her bedroom couch, with her head and torso completely cremated, but her legs and surroundings notoriously unburned. A normal fire takes about seven hours to burn a body, but the insane localized heat here is estimated to have burned for around 20 minutes. So how the hell didn't it burn the room? CRACKED.COM — Source

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Baffling Corpse Discoveries IN A WATER TANK A classic of the Internet age: hotel guests in California complained about the dark, bitter water. The hotel then found a 21-year-old woman in the water tank, 18 days after her disappearance. The tank was locked from the outside, and the cameras showed nothing, except her hiding in the elevator and trying to escape an unseen presence. Pure. Nightmare. Fuel. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Baffling Corpse Discoveries

Baffling Corpse Discoveries SAMPLE TUNIN TWO YEARS LATER, IN FRONT OF THE TV In early 2006, the body of a 38-year-old English woman was found in her apartment, with the TV still on. She suffered from domestic abuse and had isolated herself from friends and family, so nobody noticed her lifeless body for two whole years. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Baffling Corpse Discoveries MOTHER AND DAUGHTER In 2014, police found the bodies of a mother and a daughter in an England home. The daughter died the year prior and was lying on the floor. The mother, however, had died in 2012, and so her the daughter body was already wrapped mummified her by the her time in it the was found. had and placed bathtub, CRACKED.COM — Source

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Baffling Corpse Discoveries IN AN ETERNAL EMBRACE In 1978, archaeologists found in Iran the remains of what are now known as the Hasanlu Lovers. They re dated from around 800 ВСЕ, and are estimated to have died when an unknown invader took over the city of Hasanlu. For years our cultural goggles had deemed them to be man and woman, but research actually indicates they're both male. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Baffling Corpse Discoveries MELTED TO THE COUCH In 2022, the body of a 36-year-old woman was found in a small town in Louisiana. She was melted to her couch. Literally. She was covered in feces and maggots and she had died a while back from disease and malnutrition, since her parents had left there on the sofa for around 12 years. Oh, and they 're now free. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Baffling Corpse Discoveries 20 YEARS LATER, IN A SECRET ROOM In late 1973, a 73-year-old man disappeared without a trace. By 1991, his house had gone through several owners. Exterminators were called over a termite infestation in the crawlspace, and while checking it out they found a very small secret room. There, the man's skeleton was found with a self-inflicted shot to the head. Got questions? Get in line. CRACKED COM — Source

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Baffling Corpse Discoveries IN A GYM MAT In 2013, the body of an 18-year-old boy was found inside a vertical rolled-up mat in a school gym in Georgia, U.S. The official statement is that it was an accident: Не apparently tried to get his shoes back, entered the mat headfirst, and couldn't get out. No foul play has been found, something the family disputes. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Baffling Corpse Discoveries HANGING IN A SCHOOL BATHROOM In 2009, a ten-year-old was found hanged in a bathroom stall in a Chicago elementary school. Doctors immediately concluded suicide, but the family claimed he was a happy kid and that he had been the victim of bullying in the days prior. Moreover, the kid is said to have communicated suicidal ideas to teachers, but they were not taken seriously. CRACKED COM — Source

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Baffling Corpse Discoveries INSIDE A FRIDGE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STREET California, 2017. The body of a 36-year-old man was found in an abandoned refrigerator in the middle of the street. Camera footage showed a pickup truck dumping the fridge there, but while the truck was found, no arrests were made. Little else is known about the circumstances that led to the grisly finding. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Baffling Corpse Discoveries UNDISCOVERED FOR ALMOST 40 YEARS Reports differ, but a 42-year-old Croatian woman was last seen in the late '60s or early '70s. Then, in 2008, neighbors broke into her Zagreb apartment. They found her body on the couch, with the TV still ОП, and a cup of tea in her hands. Nobody had checked on her for almost four decades. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Baffling Corpse Discoveries ANNOUNCED BY A STRANGE FIGURE In mid-1994, a car was found by the side of a snowy road in California. The woman at the wheel died instantly, but her three-year-old-son survived five days in the freezing cold. The mind-boggling part is that the car was found because a couple saw a naked woman the night before, that couldn't possibly have been the victim. CRACKED.COM — Source

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