Poison Victims: Decades later, deformed babies are born in Vietnam. The scariest people in the world

1. Frog baby (Anencephaly)

This strange-looking baby was born in Charikota in 2006, Nepal. His neck is completely fused to his head, and his eyes are so big that they pop out of their sockets. This child suffers from anencephaly, a disease that develops on early dates pregnancy and is usually associated with exposure to harmful factors environment, toxic substances or infection. Most infants with anencephaly do not live to see birth. Unless the baby is stillborn, he or she usually dies within hours or days of birth.

2. A child with two faces (Diprosopus)

Lali was born with two noses, two pairs of lips and two eyes, but (!) only two ears. While she appears ugly and strange to those around her, her proud parents believe that she is the reincarnation of God. Her parents claim she is "a gift from God".

The girl was born with diprosopus disease - this is a deformity of the fetus: conjoined twins with one body, normal limbs, but two faces.

The doctors who examined the child said that she was in good condition and was leading a normal life without difficulty in breathing. They were not initially sure that the child would have normal functions, but as it turned out, she was doing well with two pairs of some organs. The most amazing thing is that she can open and close all four eyes at the same time.

3. Child with one eye (Cyclopius)

This child was born in Nigeria. He suffers from cyclopia, a fetal malformation in which eyeballs fully or partially fused and placed in one eye socket, which is located along the midline of the face. Usually Cyclopes do not have a nose. The defect is due to a chromosomal mutation or maternal ingestion of teratogenic substances

4. Striped baby tiger (Arlecchino ichthyosis)

This strange child was born in Pakistan in March 2010. He suffers from a strange skin disease - Jester's Ichthyosis. The first case of this disease was reported as early as the 1700s. With this rare disease, the skin hardens, becomes covered with cracks and scales. The child was in intensive care after birth due to his weak and terrible condition. Shortly after the birth, huge crowds of people gathered in the hospital to see the strange baby. It had red stripes all over its body just like a tiger, and blood-red eyes that looked like the eyes of movie aliens. According to the doctor, his chances of survival are only 10%.

A nurse holds an Egyptian child named Manar Magid at a hospital in the city of Banha, north of Cairo. He suffers from a rare disease in which the head of a twin that does not have a torso is attached to the head of a normal twin.

In total, there are 10 documented cases of this phenomenon in the world. Although currently at least 80 cases have been described in various sources. Only three of the newborns with this disease managed to survive.

6. Child with a heart outside (Ectopia of the heart)

This baby was born in 2009 with a heart outside of his body. He has an ectopic heart birth defect, in which the heart is not properly positioned. In most cases, children are stillborn or die during the first days of life. Causes of death are usually infections, heart failure, or hypoxemia.

7. Child with multiple limbs (Polymelia)

Polymelia is a birth defect. This is a deformity of development, consisting in the development of extra limbs.
Lakshmi was born in India and is accepted as a Hindu goddess in India who has multiple limbs.

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More than 30 years after the end of hostilities in Vietnam, relations between Hanoi and Washington remain strained. The reason is America's use of a chemical weapon, Agent Orange.

This war ended on April 30, 1975, but its curse affects both the second and third generations of Vietnamese people.

In the 60s and 70s, the Americans, trying to find the hiding places of the Viet Cong, sprayed Agent Orange from aircraft. The main component of "Agent Orange" - poison "number 1" - dioxin.

Dioxin is a generic name for a whole group of organochlorine substances with a rather specific structure. There are about eight dozen dioxins in total. The most common in the "language of chemists" is abbreviated as TCDD. Perhaps it is also the most dangerous, since it is 67 thousand times more poisonous than potassium cyanide. It can become a powerful immunosuppressant, like the AIDS virus. May cause serious cancer.

During the war, the United States sprayed about 80 million liters of Agent Orange over the territory of Vietnam ...

45 million liters were secretly sprayed over the southern parts of the country, close to the Cambodian border.

The Vietnamese had to sit in shelters for weeks due to American bombing. When they went outside, the trees around were already without leaves.

"Agent Orange" has had and is having a detrimental effect on the gene pool of the population of these regions.

A potent defoliant is responsible for the fact that in areas where this toxic chemical was sprayed, people experience elevated level birth defects.

Until now, children are born in Vietnam with different kind congenital deformities, physical and mental. Many of them are at high risk for cancer.

There are especially many disabled people in remote villages in the Mekong Valley.

In Vietnam, there are approximately 4.8 million victims of this poisonous substance, including three million directly affected by the so-called "orange rain".

Registered yet big number people who became disabled due to the fact that their parents and grandparents were subjected to dioxin treatment.

In the late 1990s, Canadian researchers took samples of soil, water, fish and ducks living in it, as well as samples of human tissues.

They found that in the contaminated areas, the concentration of dioxins in the soil exceeded the norm by 13 times, and in fatty tissues human body- 20 times.

Japanese scientists who compared infected and uninfected areas found that in infected areas, the risk of having children with a cleft palate, the so-called cleft palate, is three times higher ...

Or with extra fingers and toes.

In addition, children born in these places are eight times more likely to have an umbilical hernia ...

...and three times more likely to have congenital mental disorders.

The spraying of chemicals over Vietnam ceased in 1971 at the request of the public, but by that time 6,000 sorties had already been flown.

Nguyen Trong Nhan, a spokesman for the Vietnamese Association of Agent Orange Victims and a former president of the Vietnamese Red Cross, considers the use of the substance a war crime.

"We are trying to help those affected by this substance and the dioxins it contains, but our government's capacity is limited," he admits.

In 2004, the association's activists filed a lawsuit against the chemical companies in an American court. The plaintiffs sought compensation from chemical companies for damage to human health and the country's ecology.

The amount of monetary compensation in the event of a judicial victory could amount to several billion dollars.

Beauty is, of course, a relative concept, although the fashion and cosmetics industry tells us otherwise. There is another common expression - beauty is in the eye of the beholder. All this is true, but let's be honest with ourselves: there are many people in the world whose appearance does not correspond to our idea of ​​\u200b\u200bbeauty. And if some people were born not too beautiful or became so due to tragic circumstances, then others "worked" to their heart's content appearance on own will. We offer you a rating of the most terrible people in the world.

"The Scariest Woman in the World" - Lizzie Velasquez

A girl named Lizzy Velasquez, frankly, does not have an attractive appearance. She is even called the most terrible woman in the world. And people who saw videos of her on Youtube left dozens of the most offensive comments that only the imagination is capable of.

She was advised never to go outside, not to look in the mirror and even to commit suicide immediately - fortunately, Lizzie was strong enough to answer the haters. She became a motivational speaker (following Nick Vujicic, who was born without both arms and legs).

Lizzy Velasquez is sick with a rare disease - Wiedemann-Rautenstrauch syndrome. She cannot gain weight no matter how much she eats, and besides, she is blind in one eye. Her every day is a struggle with death, but Lizzy participates in medical research, writes books and does not hide from life.

Ugly but not unfortunate Godfrey Bagum

A shoemaker from Uganda named Godfrey Baguma is ill with an unknown and incurable disease. However, he does not lose heart and considers himself happy man. Once he even took part in a local anti-beauty contest and competed for the title of the most ugly person(Is it necessary to say that he won?) He came to this competition to earn extra money: the disease causes a lot of inconvenience and interferes with work.

Most scary man in Uganda - Godfrey Baguma

In 2013, Godfrey got married, and for the second time. He left his first wife after learning of her infidelity. After that he met new love- a woman named Kate, and dated for four years. and then lived with her before he decided to propose. He understood that his native girls were unlikely to accept him at first sight. Over the years, we note, Godfrey became the father of six children.

The man who had his face removed - Jason Schechterly

Jason Schechterly has been dubbed the ugliest man on the planet by the tabloids. He was the most ordinary American guy - he served in the police, went to a bar after work and courted girls. But he had to endure a great tragedy. In 2001, he received fourth-degree burns. It happened at work - Jason was driving a patrol car. A taxi crashed into the car at full speed. Moreover, the blow was so strong that both cars flared up like a match.

Unfortunately for Jason, he couldn't get out of the car right away. Firefighters and rescuers arrived quickly; they managed to get Jason out of the pile of metal and save his life. But the burns were so severe that the surgeons actually had nothing to save: the skin on the face was completely burnt. The skin was transplanted to the young policeman, but there was no trace of a completely pretty appearance.

One publication even published a photo of Jason Schechterly - the one where his wife hugs him. For this shot, the photographer who shot the couple received several awards (and a lot of money) at once. And Shechterly himself immediately filed a lawsuit against the newspaper. Naturally, he won the case. And now the corporation that manages the publication pays a considerable amount of money to the fund to support victims of burns. In addition, by a court decision, the employees of the newspaper, who allowed the picture to get into the room, were deprived of their jobs.

The Chinese Yu Junchang has a rare atavism: he is almost completely covered in hair. Since people are usually horrified when they see something unusual, the media also "honored" the young man the title of one of the ugliest people in the world. However, the editorial board of find out.rf notes that he is not particularly worried about this. Yu Junchan willingly participates in numerous talk shows, gives interviews and says in all programs that his heart is free and he will gladly give it to the girl he likes.

The girl with the tattoos of everything

A young woman with a not very harmonious surname, Gnuse, was unlucky in her health: she is sick with porphyria. American Julia Gnuse suffers from a rare disease: she cannot be in the sun, the light causes blisters on the skin. To hide the disease, she began to apply tattoos on her skin, but this gave a purely cosmetic effect.

Julia Gnuse covered 95 percent of her skin with tattoos and entered the Guinness Book of Records as the most tattooed woman in the world. She spent many years fighting the disease and posing for reporters' cameras (she was nicknamed the Painted Lady in the press): she believed that severe illness- no reason to hide from the world. In 2016, Julia died at the age of 48.

The scariest people in the world who did this to themselves voluntarily

Brazilian Elaine Davidson boasts a huge amount of scrap metal on her face: she wears at least three kilograms of piercings on it around the clock. Complement the crazy look of 2500 tattoos. Elaine Davidson has moved to Edinburgh and runs an aromatherapy shop there. It’s good that she doesn’t have to go to the office - hardly any large corporation would hire such an exotic (and, frankly, scary) looking lady.

Kala Kawai once failed to stop in time in his passion for body modification and covered his body with tattoos by 75%. But, apparently, this seemed not enough to him, and he decided to make his tongue snake, bifurcating the tip, and also to grow silicone bumps on his forehead, resembling bumps, and attach metal horns to his head. However, a quite prosaic motive is also possible: he decided to become a live advertisement for his own tattoo studio in Hawaii.

lizard man

Once upon a time, the lizard-man Eric Sprague was a respectable member of society, wore a suit and went to work - to the University of Albany. But one day everything changed. We at the site do not know exactly what prompted Sprague to do all this to himself, but the fact remains: the American, who is considered the founder of the body modification movement (decorative changes made to his own body), gradually turned into a lizard.

Eric Sprague's Scary Lizard Man Performance

Numerous tattoos, stylized reptile skin, piercings, and most importantly, a terrible forked tongue "helped" him in this. In addition, Eric Sprague sharpened his teeth. Now he makes a living showing all this goodness for money, and also swallows fire, hangs himself right by the skin on hooks and makes other similar things.

The scariest person in the world: cat man

His name is Dennis Avner. But great popularity came to him under the nicknames Cat, Man-Tiger or Man-Cat. Dennis changed his appearance not at all because he wanted to stand out from the crowd in an original way or was sick. From childhood, a man was attracted by the image of a tiger - and at some point, love for cats crossed all conceivable limits.

Today on the body of Dennis flaunts great amount tattooed stripes that imitate tiger ones. In total, there are more than a hundred of them. Dennis Avner's teeth are specially sharpened to look like a cat. The upper lip was surgically bifurcated, and in order to change the shape of the face, the man needed to place implants in the forehead area and on the eyebrows. Tiger Man also did a hairline correction. And to increase the resemblance, he regularly builds up his nails.

Hobbies for body modification and the passion to endlessly “improve” yourself do not lead to good. We invite you to read about the "terribly beautiful" stars who once went under the knife of a plastic surgeon - and could not stop.
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1 The Hilton Sisters
Violet and Daisy Hilton

These sisters are Siamese twins. They had a common circulatory and nervous system. This meant that they experienced one pain for two. The sisters were sold into slavery by their midwife mother, who greedily took advantage of their misfortune. They sang, danced, played various instruments in the circus. Their slave owner took all their income for himself, and forbade them to communicate with anyone. In the end, one lawyer helped them get out of the shackle, and even bought all the money they earned. The sisters went on to work in show business and at their peak earned $5,000.

2. Wild men from Borneo

These "wild people" were actually doppelgangers, mentally retarded dwarfs who had no hope of a job other than entertaining circus goers. At the age of 26, they were bought from their birth mother by a man named Lyman Warner. They were taught acrobatics, dances with which they performed in front of the audience. Enslaved by the Warner family, for fifty years they continued to bring wealth to this family.

3. Doll woman
Lucia Zarate

Lucia was born in Mexico in 1864. She weighed 8 ounces and was 7 inches tall. She weighed less than a kitten. To this day, she is the smallest woman on Earth. Arriving in the US at the age of 12, she was the highest paid midget at the time ($20 an hour). Unfortunately, she died at the age of 26 on a train.

4. Texas giant
Jack Earl

Al had a condition called acromegaly. Jack Earl performed in the circus along with famous circus performers. He has also starred in films such as Jack and the Beanstalk (guess who?). Despite the fact that it was difficult for freaks to find work, Earl showed everyone that you can use an extraordinary appearance in any profession. He was a salesman for a wine company, and later became their PR representative. In addition, he sculpted, painted and wrote poetry (his book Long Shadows was published in 1950).

5. "Hunchback"

Quasimodo is not fictional character. The eponymous Hunchback of Notre Dame in Victor Hugo's story actually lived in Notre Dame. A British explorer found fragments of a memoir that spoke of a "humpbacked stone carver" who worked in Hugo's cathedral. It is not difficult to understand why he was given the nickname "Le Bossu" - the Hunchback.

6. The mule-faced woman
Grace McDaniels

This woman was born with a facial deformity that made many people hate to look at her. She was declared "the ugliest woman in the world". This is also a kind of achievement. Despite her appearance, she was very a good man. Grace married, she had a child who did not inherit her facial features, but he became a drunkard and an outcast of society.

7. Jo-Jo, dog-faced boy
Fedor Evtishchev

The boy, like his father, suffered from a rare disease - hypertrichosis. His father lived alone in the forest, away from people, so as not to listen to their ridicule. To earn money, he performed in the circus. After Fedor was born, they began to tour together. Soon his father died, and the boy performed for a long time in shows hosted by the famous American entrepreneur F. T. Barnum. Like a trained dog, Fedor could bark and growl on command, but he was not a dog. He could speak English, Russian and German.

8. Julia Pastrana

This girl suffered from hypertrichosis - her face and body were covered with black coarse hair. Outwardly, Julia resembled a gorilla. Her height was a little over 137 cm. Despite her deformity, Pastrana danced well and was very kind and friendly. She had a husband, Theodore, who acquired her and taught her everything that she surprised people in the circus. Soon Julia gave birth to a child who lived only 3 days, and she herself died 5 days after this event. Theodore mummified the corpses of his wife and child, later their bodies were put on display in various Panic Rooms.

9. Schlitzie
Simon Metz


Schlitzie was very popular in the circus. He was a microcephalic - a man with a small skull and a small brain. His child's head sat awkwardly on the shoulders of an adult. His brain was about 3 years old, yet he sang and danced like a 10 year old. Already as a physically adult, he starred in the film "Freaks" (1932), then - "The Island of Lost Souls" (1933). After his death, Schlitzie became a real legend.

10. Caterpillar Man
Prince Randian


Prince Randian was an amazing man - he wore sleeveless clothes and no socks. He had only a head and torso and looked like a paralyzed man, although he could light a cigarette with one mouth. He had a wife, with the help of whom he learned to move. Fame came to him in 1932, after episodic role in Tod Browning's Freaks. Prince Randian lived to be 63 years old.

The modern world is frighteningly diverse. It has manifestations of the beautiful and the ugly, the divine and the devilish. Truly strange subcultures are born, the adherents of which disfigure themselves beyond recognition in order to become ... recognizable. Others become victims of image or genetic mutations. In today's selection, the most scary people peace.

Donatella Versace - a victim of plastic surgery

The representative of the fashion house might not have been included in this list, since she was born as a cute Italian girl from Calabria. But now no one remembers her natural beauty because of dozens of plastic surgery, some of which have been very unsuccessful. The sister of the late Gianni Versace is proof that excessive appeal to plastic surgery may turn out to be ugly. The Italian has not only big lips and nose. unnaturally thin, and the remnants of the skin treacherously hanging down. Sad spectacle.

Marilyn Manson is a freak by nature

The shock rocker from the United States holds the lead in the category " The scariest person on the stage". Moreover, he wants to appear ugly. A rare third-party layman has seen a rock star without a “combat color”, as the outrageous showman appears in public in frightening costumes and with a ton of makeup on his face.

They say about Manson: "If you do not know this guy and, God forbid, you see him on the street at night, you will think that the fiend has broken through to Earth."

Clint Howard is not Eastwood

The American actor completes the group of the most terrible people on the planet from show business. Clint Howard's success is proof that beauty doesn't matter in the Hollywood Hills if you have the talent. The comedian has dozens of memorable roles that brought him fame and millions of dollars. Ugly Clint even won an MTV award. Not an Oscar, but not bad either.

Leopard Man Tom Leppard

The next participant in the "Circus of Freaks" is Tom Leppard, who covered his entire body with spotted patterns imitating the skin of a leopard. A strange man gracefully moves on four "legs", imitating a predator. Tom, like the other scariest people on the planet, has become a celebrity. He is often seen on television. Leopard Man Leads active life, participating in various show programs and photo shoots.

Reptile Man Eric Sprague

This member of the list of the most terrible people on the planet gravitates towards reptiles. Eric Sprague chose the image of a lizard for himself. His entire body is covered with tattoos imitating scales, and false incisor teeth complete the ugly image. In addition, Eric had implants inserted above his eyes to emphasize the resemblance to reptiles. As the freak himself admits, he has to stretch the halves of the cut tongue every day so that they do not grow together.

Bull Man Etienne Dumont

Etienne Dumont is no different strange people in this list. Etienne, having higher education, and working literary critic in Geneva, completely covered himself with tattoos. And he seems to be happy. Journalists compare his image with a bull. Only now the hoofed animal has two powerful horns, while Etienne has only one, and even then it is turned. It's funny to see a bull man reading new novel Haruki Murakami in a coffee shop in the center of Geneva, right?

The most terrible people on earth are not only freaks, victims of plastic surgery and genes. Not at all by choice, the following participants got into our rating.

Jason Schechterly - fire victim

Former police officer from the United States received fourth-degree burns as a result of an accident. AT police car a taxi crashed at full speed. A fire broke out, but Jason was unable to get out on his own. In the hospital, doctors had to literally peel off the burnt skin from the face of a policeman. Despite significant changes in appearance, the officer's wife did not leave him. The support of his beautiful wife and family helped Jason get out of the psychological hole and start new life.

Yu Junchan is the hairiest man in the world

The Chinese Yu Junchan looks like the hero of the "Planet of the Apes". Being sick with a rare genetic disease, the poor fellow resembles an animal. Dense vegetation covers 96% of Junchan's body. After a terrible childhood, the Chinese decided to start a new life and loudly declared himself. At the moment he became famous for the light of his extraordinary appearance. Now Yu Junchan is a local celebrity. He is invited to talk shows and interviews. The guy says that he enjoys a new life. The only thing is that he has not yet met a girl who will love him for who he is.

Tree Man Dede Koswar

Indonesian Dede Koswar is just right to regret. At the age of 10, the boy got hurt in the forest. Since then, his life has become like nightmare. Probably, an unknown infection got into the wound, and ulcers began to appear around it. After that, they hit the entire leg and even the arms. For several years, Dede watched how he turned into a monster.

Becoming a tree, the guy lost the ability to walk. A mysterious infection deprived him of marriage, work, the happiness of fatherhood and independence. To support himself, he began to travel with a freak circus.

Indonesian doctors removed the warts on Dede's body with a laser, but they soon reappeared. The young man lost faith in healing and plunged into despondency.

As you can see, the scariest people in the world have personal stories. Someone wants to be like a beast, the other wants to be no different from their peers. But each of them assures that external attractiveness is a shell, and it is more important to recognize the inner beauty of a person.

As old Hugo said, no outer beauty is complete unless it is enlivened by inner beauty. It spreads over bodily beauty like light.