Woman Gets Platinum Jewel Implanted in Her Eye to Make Herself Unique
Lucy Luckayanko is perhaps the only New Yorker to have an eye-stud. She spent $3,000 on a one-minute procedure to have a heart-shaped piece of platinum inserted into the white of her right eyeball. Harvard and NYU-trained Dr. Chynn performed the procedure. Interestingly, he has been featured here on OC before. He made news last […]
Turkey’s Bushy Trend: Mustache Implants
Turkey’s delicious baklava and its crowded Grand Bazaar have always attracted tourists, but now there’s a new reason why men are flocking to the transcontinental country – bushier mustaches and beards. No, it’s not something in the air that makes your face hairier, but there are clinics specialized in this matter, so gentlemen, if you […]
Isaac Brown, the Five-Year-Old Boy Who Feels No Pain
Isaac Brown is a 5-year-old boy from Iowa who suffers from a rare genetic condition which makes him immune to pain, but not to the effects of his frequent injuries. Painful falls, deep cuts and other agonizing injuries that normally make children scream at the top of their lungs and cry out for their parents, […]
Steroids Turn Female Bodybuilder into a Man
Unsatisfied with her looks, Candice Armstrong, a former barmaid from London, started going to the gym and working out for three hours a day. After two years, Candice still wasn’t getting the results she wanted, so she began taking steroids and ultimately became addicted to them. Today, the young body-building enthusiast has virtually transformed into a man, […]
The World’s Biggest Albino Family
All eight members of the Pullan family from Delhi suffer from a rare genetic disorder called albinism which, as its name suggests, is characterized by the complete or partial absence of melanin pigment in the skin and hair. Because of this condition, Rosetauri Pullan, his wife Mani along with their three daughters Renu, Deepa and […]
Chinese Car-Accident Victim Has New Nose Grown on His Forehead
Meet 22-year-old Xiaolian. He is not wearing some bizarre special effects makeup, that is actually a real nose growing on his forehead. As strange as it looks, this is apparently a pretty common nose reconstruction technique. No too long ago, Xiaolian was involved in a car accident that damaged his nose. After he refused medical treatment, […]
Controversial Artificial Iris Implant Surgery to Permanently Change Eye Color
People unhappy with the way they look have been using plastic surgery to change their appearance for years, but now they can take their obsession to a whole new level by changing the color of their eyes through a controversial procedure known as artificial iris implant. Pioneered by Dr. Kenneth Rosenthal, as a way to […]
Girls Squeeze Limes in Sunlight, Suffer Severe Caustic Burns on Their Hands
Squeezing a slice of lime into a refreshing drink on a hot summer day isn’t as harmless as you may think. Fredrikke and Selma, two young Norwegian girls, found that out first hand after they suffered from severe Margarita Dermatitis during their vacation in Spain. Fredrikke and Selma, both seven years old, were vacationing with their families in […]
Man Who Can’t Make It to Anything on Time Gets Diagnosed with Chronic Lateness Condition
For as long as he can remember, 57-year-old Jim Dunbar has never been able to make it to appointments on time. His friends and family always thought he was making excuses, but after a recent doctor’s appointment, for which he was a half-hour late, Jim was diagnosed with incurable lateness. Jim Dunbar used to always […]
The Tapeworm Diet – Ingesting Dangerous Parasites to Lose Weight
The things people will do to shed a few unwanted pounds. A woman from Iowa has reportedly swallowed a tapeworm she bought from the internet in order to drop a few pounds, thus proving the tapeworm diet is more than a myth. You can buy a lot of crazy things online these days, and apparently […]
Indian Baby Suffers from Rare Spontaneous Combustion Condition
Rahul, a three-month-old baby from Villupuram, India, is believed to suffer from a rare condition known as Spontaneous Human Combustion, which causes his body to burn without any external source of ignition. Only 200 similar cases have been reported around the world in the last 300 years. Just nine days after he was born, Rahul was […]
Healthy Woman Dreams of Becoming Paralyzed from the Waist Down
Being stuck in a wheelchair for the rest of their lives is most people’s idea of hell, but not for Chloe Jennings-White. A 57-year-old chemist from Salt Lake City, Utah, has an unnatural desire to become a paraplegic (paralyzed from the waist down). Chloe lives the life of a disabled person. She moves around in a […]
Mysterious Condition Causes Girl to Cry Tears of Blood
20-year-old Yaritza Oliva is living a nightmare. For the last couple of weeks the girl from Purranque, Chile, has been crying tears of blood and so far no one has been able to explain her mysterious condition. Yaritza first noticed blood tears coming out of her eyes about two weeks ago, but due to her family’s […]
Woman Has Worn Corsets Every Day for the Last Three Years to Shrink Her Waist
24-year-old Michele Koebke wants to set a new record for the World’s Tiniest Waist. To reach her goal, she has worn corsets every day and night for the last three years, taking them off only when she showers. Unfortunately this unusual fascination with corsets is taking a toll on her health. Michele Koebke is a […]
Man Self-Injects Snake Venom to Boost Up His Immunity
Steve Ludwin, a 42-year-old snake obsessed rocker from California, is one of a just a handful of people who regularly inject venom from the world’s deadliest snakes into their bloodstream, in the belief that it will make them immune to it. Around 100,000 people around the world die from snake bites every year, and another 250,000 are […]