The world of medicine is full of tales of the bizarre from the rarest and mysterious diseases to the oddest medical anomalies. Every so often, doctors encounter a patient with a problem so unusual that tests the limits and mysteries of the human body. The year has seen its fair share of heroes with physical irregularities to weirdos who do strange things to their bodies.

 

1. Doctors Find Teeth In Baby's Brain Tumor

A 4-month-old infant started to grow teeth in the most unusual and unexpected place — his brain tumor. The boy, who underwent brain surgery at the University of Maryland Medical Center, was diagnosed with craniopharyngioma. This brain tumor most commonly occurs in children but can also be found in men and women. The benign tumor develops near the pituitary gland, which is a small endocrine gland at the base of the brain.

 

Upon removing the tumor, Drs. Narlin Beaty and Edward Ahn, physicians at University of Maryland Medical Center and Johns Hopkins Children's Center, found multiple teeth forming inside the brain, according to the case report published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Despite its unusual occurrence, this isn’t the first time teeth have been found in a human brain. They’ve appeared in teratoma tumors. The boy’s teeth were sent to a lab for further examination.

 

 

 

2. Man 'Wakes Up From The Dead' Inside Body Bag

The notion behind “life after death” has been up for debate, but in this unusual case a man from Mississippi has proven you can “wake up from the dead” — sort of. Walter Williams, a 78-year-old man from Lexington was pronounced dead at 10:30 p.m. on a Wednesday night at his home only to be found alive hours later inside a body bag Thursday morning inside a funeral home.

 

The elderly man woke up from the dead just moments before funeral home workers were getting ready to embalm him. Although the funeral home manager and Williams's family members were baffled by the series of events, the coroner believes the man’s pacemaker was to blame, Medical Daily reported. It is believed Williams’s pacemaker stopped for a brief period and then started up again. The case is seen as a miracle in Mississippi.

 

3. Electric Shock Causes Bizarre Star Pattern To Form On Man's Eyes

Art often imitates life, and in the case of a 42-year-old electrician, this was no exception. The electrician became starry-eyed after being shocked by 14,000 volts of electricity while he was on the job. An electrical current went through the unidentified man’s entire body after coming into contact with his left shoulder. According to the case report published in the New England Journal of Medicine, the current struck the optic nerve and caused star-shaped cataracts to manifest in both of his eyes.

 

The electrician was treated after he went to see Dr. Bobby Korn, an associate professor of clinical ophthalmology at the University of California, San Diego four weeks after the initial incident. The man went to the ophthalmologist complaining of impaired vision. Three months after, the electrician had surgery to remove the cataracts from his eyes and implant a new lens. The man’s vision is still impaired after 10 years, but he still leads a normal life.

 

4. Woman Hospitalized After 'Potato Contraceptive' Grows Roots In Vagina

 

We are often told “Mother knows best,” but this unusual case proves mother was wrong — way wrong all along. An unnamed 22-year-old woman from Colombia was recently hospitalized after her “potato contraceptive” began to grow roots in her vagina after just two weeks of insertion. By the time the patient began to experience severe lower abdominal pains, the potato had germinated and grown roots inside her, Medical Daily reported.medicalworldnigeria.com

 

It is not surprising the potato flourished inside the woman’s vagina, since potatoes thrive in the dark because they’re tubers and develop off the roots of the potato plant. Doctors were able to remove the root vegetable without the need for surgery, and even assured the woman she would not experience any lasting physical effects. Unfortunately, this isn’t a bizarre case in Colombia and other parts of South America where there is a lack of sex education.

 

5. Man Drinks The Young People's Urine To Stay Forever Young

Addiction is a terrible thing as a person can become addicted to literally anything — including urine. Robert Wells is a man addicted to drinking other people’s urine, specifically from young children in order to remain forever young. The man’s fascination with urine is not sexually based but built on the strange fantasy that drinking kids’ urine will prevent him from ever aging.

 

“Robert is not a pedophile. Robert has a delusional belief. His end game is the urine. That is really all he wants,” Dr. Mike Dow, an addiction specialist, explained in the video, Medical Daily reported. Wells knows his unusual behavior is morally wrong, but like other addicts this is not enough to keep him satisfied from his urine urges.