Medical Oddities

Nov 13, 20151 min read

Man attacked by brain-eating worm given only 30 minutes to live

Luis Ortiz, a California college student, was suddenly struck by a crippling headache and became very ill. His mother rushed him to the...

Jul 15, 20151 min read

Flame on—spontaneous human combustion

A recent rash of news articles has focused on the strange case of the nine-day-old child of Karna Perumal, an agricultural labourer, and...

Jun 5, 20151 min read

Bizarre medicine

Punishment? No! Cure! This cage was a 1909 treatment for Arteriosclerosis. Click the picture for the article in a 1909 science magazine....

Feb 9, 20151 min read

UPDATE: The Creature From The Tuna Can Is More Horrifying Than You Could Ever Imagine!

Stuart Hine, a veteran from the Natural History Museum in London said that this thing was a Cymotha Exigua, otherwise known as the...

Feb 7, 20151 min read

I’M NEVER EATING TUNA AGAIN! Woman Finds Scary Yet Cute Creature in her Tuna.

Good lord. I can’t even keep my cool as I write this, but a woman named Zoe Butler from the UK bought an off brand can of Tuna and got...

Dec 5, 20142 min read

The University of Texas is Short a Few Brains

That’s the kind of headline that I’m pretty sure is going up in newspapers at rival school Texas A&M, whose rivalry with UT goes back to...

Oct 17, 20142 min read

That Stuffed Nose Might Actually be a GIANT LEECH!

I don’t know if this is technically Halloweeny…it’s certainly the grossest story I’ve come across at least since the Rat Kings. Check out...

Oct 11, 20143 min read

The Walking Dead….Syndrome

There are a lot of seriously strange neurological disorders out there. The brain is a barely understood piece of wet ware that can get...

Oct 9, 20142 min read

Healer Licks Eyeballs to Cure Patients

There’s no shortage of ‘miracle healers’ out there. None are given much credence by the scientific community. As the American Cancer...

Sep 22, 20142 min read

Man Wakes From Coma Speaking Fluent Mandarin Chinese

Ok, so those of us searching for real-life super-human abilities have comes to terms with the unlikeliness of it. I mean, since...

Sep 4, 20142 min read

The Museum of the Weird Recommends: “Dr Mütter’s Marvels”

Many of our website’s/museum’s fans are no doubt familiar with Philadelphia’s Mütter Museum. Started from the collection of oddities...

Aug 25, 20142 min read

The Boy with the GIANT hands

A 8 year old boy in India named Kaleem is suffering from an extremely rare (so rare doctors aren’t really sure what it is) condition that...