The Virgin Whose Body Tried to make A Baby

An ovarian tumour is a generally a benign growth in the ovaries, also called a germ cell tumour or dermoid cyst, which occurs when an immature egg attempts to create various body parts on its own. These cysts are composed of different types of tissue, such as, hair, muscle, or bone.

In 2003, Japanese doctors were operating on a 25-year-old virgin female when they found the most advanced ovarian teratoma yet found. What the doctors saw, was a small, mostly complete doll-like body, which appeared similar to a normal foetus.

The deformed body of this foetus-like thing was covered with fine, downy hair; it had spina bifida (“split spine” in Latin) and its brain failed to divide into two normal hemispheres. A single “eye” with long, thick eyelashes was set in the centre of its forehead. It had one ear, all its limbs, a brain, a spinal nerve, intestines, bones, and blood vessels and a jaw, with a few teeth. And even more disturbingly, it had something that looked like a phallus between its legs.

Cyclops-genetic condition which causes a foetus to have only single eye in the centre of head

Another nightmare inducing ovarian teratoma was found during an appendectomy on a 16-year-old female patient. The doctors found a partially formed brain with its cerebellum covered by thin skull bone.

A baby girl in China was found to be “pregnant” with twins after being born in Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Hong Kong. She underwent surgery at 3 weeks of age to remove the foetuses that were believed to be at 8 to 10 weeks of gestation.

In 2009, a British man named Gavin Hyatt “gave birth” to an “undeveloped identical twin” when a 4cm growth parasitic twin that he had absorbed after it had died in the womb, early in their mother's pregnancy. Hyatt named the tiny creature “little Gav.”