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Science/Tech See other Science/Tech Articles Title: 10 Strange Horror Stories Of Things Growing On People’s Bodies 9. In 1984, a woman known only as A.B. was sitting alone at home when she heard a voice in her head that said: Please don’t be afraid. I know it must be shocking for you to hear me speaking to you like this, but this is the easiest way I could think of. My friend and I used to work at the Children’s Hospital, Great Ormond Street, and we would like to help you.A.B. was sure she was losing her mind. She visited her doctor, who diagnosed her with functional hallucinatory psychosis and put her antipsychotic medication. But the voice kept talking in her head. Now, though, it was getting eerily specific. It told her that she had a tumor growing in her brain stem and that the doctors wouldn’t find it unless they scanned her brain. Then the voice directed her to the diagnostic imaging wing of the nearby hospital.[2]The doctors were reluctant to do it. From early tests, they’d found nothing wrong. But when the woman started pleading, they gave her a brain scan. Just as the voices (more than one now) had promised, they found a meningioma in her brain stem, right where it was supposed to be.It sounds like a ghost story, but it really happened. The doctor who treated her believes that the tumor created a sensation in her brain that she could just slightly feel and that her subconscious mind created the delusion to communicate it. When the surgery was over, A.B. says that she heard the voices one last time. “We are pleased to have helped you,” she heard them say. “Goodbye.” 5. In 1951, a tobacco farmer in Virginia named Henrietta Lacks was diagnosed with cervical cancer. There was a tumor growing inside her body, but this was no ordinary growth. Lacks’s tumor was immortal.Her doctors discovered that her tumor had immortal cells that would never die. It grew at an alarming, too. Her cancerous cells would double every 24 hours.The doctors didn’t tell her. Instead, they ran secret experiments on her and the growth inside her body, using her as a human guinea pig while it ate her alive. Henrietta Lacks died before the year was over.Her tumor, though, lived on, even after she had died—and it’s still growing today. It’s been the subject of countless experiments ever since, and the extracted “HeLa cells” have been responsible for some of the most incredible breakthroughs in medicine of the past 100 years.Obviously, Henrietta never found out that her death had done the world some good. All she knew was that something was growing inside her at an alarming rate and that the doctors were telling her nothing as they swarmed around her, experimenting on her body.[6] 1. In 2003, an ovarian tumor was found growing inside a 25-year-old Japanese woman. It was a teratoma—one of the tumors that grow teeth—but this one was unlike any other before.The tumor in her body had taken the shape of a small child. It had limbs, ears, teeth, bones, blood vessels, and guts, all in the form of some black and misshapen human being. On its head, it had grown one, single, staring eye. It even had a brain.The brain was too underdeveloped to function. It was little more than a tiny lobe covered in a paper-thin skull, coated with a greasy matting of little hairs. Still, the tumor inside her had nearly every part it needed to become a living, thinking thing.Hers was by far the most humanlike growth ever found on a human body. But she is not the only person to have a tumor with a brain. When a tiny brain grows in a tumor in your body, doctors say that it can affect the way you think.[10]Women like her tend to start having bouts of confusion and paranoid thoughts. Their immune systems, confused by the new presence, will start acting like their brains by mistake. Under the influence of a little foreign mind growing inside their bodies, their entire personalities can change. Poster Comment: This is one of the creepiest, most grotesque lists LV has seen in a long time -- and that's saying something. (No time to restore formatting, alas.) It includes 3 cases of brain tumors drastically altering behavior for extremes of both good and evil, including the Texas Tower Sniper. Don't miss a word of it even tho it may change YOUR view of life and fate! As I write there are no comments there challenging the list's veracity -- mebbe some of you will debunk parts. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread
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