A 91-Year-Old Woman Visits The Doctor Who Reveals She’s Been Pregnant For 60 Years

our bodies are capable of doing extraordinary things both good and bad but you can never quite be sure what's going on inside them heck there might even be something living inside you from parasitic twins and insects to the incredible story of a 91-year-old woman who carried a baby for more than 60 years stay tuned as we discover some shocking things found living inside of people [Music] Estella Melendez children despite their capricious mood swings and uncanny ability to make impossibly Monumental messes are nonetheless incredibly precious that said for many people fertility issues mean they're unable to

conceive a child sadly this was the reality for Estella and Manuel Melendez a Chilean couple who despite their best efforts were never able to bear a child of their own however from their struggle comes a story so bizarre you'll be left completely shocked Estella did manage to get pregnant numerous times though heartbreakingly none of them made it to full term through all the heartache it seemed as if having children wasn't meant to be so the couple grew old childless at the age of 91 Estella who by that point had become a widow was taken into

hospital after having a fall having undergone some x-rays the doctors were shocked to discover something concerning in her tummy a large solid Mass the initial assumption was that it was a tumor however the truth was far more disturbing what they actually found was a baby but while there was a baby in her tummy it's important to clarify that Estella certainly wasn't pregnant uh what the tragic reality is 60 years prior the baby hadn't made it but had somehow remained in estella's uterus where it had calcified this rare phenomenon is known as lithopedion or the condition

lithop deriving from the ancient Greek words for stone and small child typically when a baby is Lost In Utero it's so small that it's absorbed back into the surrounding tissue or if larger and more developed it causes a host of uncomfortable symptoms like Li headedness and vomiting and will need to be burnt or surgically removed with lithop Dia however it's too big to be reabsorbed into the mother body yet the unusual symptoms don't occur instead something very peculiar happens the mom's body produces and deposits a payload of calcium which hardens The Unborn child's tissue and

prevents it from causing infection this is calcification and it's actually pretty clever but because it can happen as early as 3 months into a pregnancy and prevents the nasty symptoms of an infection many women have no idea what's happened this means they don't get it removed and it isn't N Found till much later which was the case with a Stella an undetected lithopedion though can have crucial implications like being unable to conceive again this is because the calcified fetus distorts the pelvic anatomy and hinders ovam pickup aka the process whereby embryos are created from fertilized

eggs now in the few cases where the fetus is identified and removed it's possible for the mother to conceive again but having gone 60 years completely unaware a Stella wasn't so fortunate while lithop can be unsettling and sad to contemplate it usually causes no real damage to the mother besides some general discomfort considering that plus Estella being 91 the doctors decided that putting her under general anesthetic and surgically removing the fetus would put her life in more danger than doing nothing so her unborn calcified baby was left to continue existing within her man I can't

even imagine what living with that knowledge would be like 91-year-old Estella may never have been able to fulfill her dream of having a child but this next woman is living proof that it's truly never too late meet Safina namuka a Ugandan woman who could be Africa's oldest mom at 70 years old having longed for a child her whole life Safina had her first at the age of 67 and then even more incredibly twins at 70 now biologically women around middle age will experience what's called menopause when their ovies stop releasing eggs for fertilization and they

can no longer get pregnant at least not naturally but Safina was able to Bear children at 70 thanks to IVF and the use of a donor egg well it's certainly Up For Debate as to whether having children so late in life is ethical there's no doubt that Safina will love and cherish the children she yearned so long for a and there's nothing so profoundly symbolic of the circle of life than seeing an elderly person with a newborn like this viral image from 2015 depicting an astonishing 101e age Gap the photo quickly picked up millions of

likes when it was shared to Facebook but before you go completely wild I did some digging and despite what certain channels have intimated it doesn't show a mother with her child it's incredible nonetheless though it's actually Arizona woman Sarah Ham's grandmother Rosa meeting her great grandchild for the first time boy all this has just made me want to go see m m and give her a good old hug the twin within one of the fundamental differences between men and women besides one finding fart funny and the other finding game and Schumer funny is that men

can't get pregnant that said despite having neither the organs nor orifices to Bear a child this next man got pretty close to being the world's first pregnant dude ah well kind of allow me to explain it was 1999 an Indian man Sanju bagat was struggling with an immensely swollen stomach and breathing difficulties oddly enough for as long as he could remember he'd always had a swollen stomach however at 36 years old it had gotten so bad he could barely breathe so he went to the doctors who examined him and found a large mass which they

assumed to be a tumor as such it became a medical emergency but when they began operating on Sanju they found something so peculiar they were left Gob smacked for starters gallons of fluid Spilled Out of sanju's stomach this this raised alarm Bells but as the surgeon delved in further alarm turned a horror there lurking inside was a half formed creature with hands feet Jaws hair and even long fingernails creepy huh but what exactly was it in short it was a fetus but wait before anyone starts thinking that Sanju was actually pregnant that's not the case

see it turns out that while in his mother's womb Sanju had been a twin very early on however he'd wrapped around his wouldbe sibling to the point he completely consumed the other fetus this is an incredibly rare phenomenon known as fetus and fitu extraordinarily the consumed twin can continue to survive behaving almost like a parasite as it forms an umbilical cordlike structure and leeches on to its twins blood supply as the twin continues to feed it can grow so big that like in sanju's case it presses on vital organs such as the diaphragm and hinders

breathing breathing technically speaking the twin while not a conscious being was alive as it survived from sanju's blood and continued to grow but with it causing so much harm the doctors had no option but to evict sanju's little roommate or should I say wombmate inevitably causing it to perish and because I know you're dying to see here's a diagram of the parasitic twin nice beIN 2 while extremely rare and documented in less than 100 cases also affect a little Indian girl back in 2016 15-month-old Nisha had been similarly suffering from a swollen stomach most of

her life and looked impossibly pregnant however due to her parents being poor laborers they couldn't afford to have her examined it was only when it got so severe that Nisha could hardly eat nor breathe that they sought medical attention at first doctors assumed it was a huge cyst but they were astonished when it revealed itself as a massive tissue and Bone dwelling in the toddler's abdomen incredibly tiny 15-month-old Nisha had been carrying a huge 7 lb 11 oz fetus which would have been her twin to put that into perspective the average weight of a newborn

is around 7 lb jeez like any fetus in F2 case the parasitic twin had leeched from nisha's blood supply and grown debilitatingly large all that matters though is that it was removed and Nisha is now healthy and recovered phw funny actually I remember choosing to eat my twin in the womb but that's a story for another day teroma a tumor if you didn't know is a solid mass of tissue that forms when abnormal cells group together in your body while they're not always cancerous they can still be pretty scary but of all the tumors there's

one that'll really shiver your timers it's called a Teratoma or as I like to call it a teroma but what is a Teratoma well it to put it simply it's a rare type of germ cell tumor that can grow creepy stuff like hair bones muscles and even fully formed teeth yeah I wish I was kidding The only positive is that these hairy chopping tumors are rarely cancerous still when a Japanese woman had a Teratoma within her ovaries back in 2003 doctors discovered something especially concerning about it it had bones limbs teeth hair guts one eye

and even a brain leading the doctors to describe it as a small black and misshapen human jeez I mean imagine finding out that there is a literal brain in your stomach if my stomach Had a Brain it'd probably tell me not to Chomp through a whole pack of crispy creams in one sitting the worst part of this whole ordeal is that the teratoma had almost everything it needed to become a conscious being and that's seriously spooky but not nearly as spooky as this next story about a middle-aged woman who was correctly told by by the

voices in her head that she had a brain tumor yeah it's a bizarre one so keep watching the woman explained how she'd been home alone one day when she suddenly heard a voice talking to her a voice she realized was inside her head please don't be afraid I know it must be shocking for you to hear me speaking to you like this but this is the easiest way I could think of my friend and I used to work at the Children's Hospital and we'd like to help you naturally the woman was freaked out and initially

sought psychiatric help she was diagnosed with functional hallucinatory psychosis and prescribed medication which for a Time stopped the voice however while on vacation it returned with a startling new message this time she was told to immediately head back to her home England and it even gave her the address of a specific hospital and explained that her brain had both a tumor and an inflamed stem so she needed a scan the instructions were so specific that despite how crazy it seemed she felt compelled to follow them the hospital was at first reluctant to perform a scan

based on well a disembodied voice however to keep her withering mind at ease they eventually gave in unbelievably the voice was right doctors were shocked to find exactly what the woman had described and quickly got to work thankfully the operation was a resounding success but the weirdness doesn't stop there after having the the tumor removed the woman claimed the voice returned one last time to say we are pleased to have helped you goodbye then it vanished forever how any of this is possible remains a medical mystery though some medical professionals reckon the Fantastical tale might

not have been completely true whether they're right we may never know still I'd like to think that the voices in my head would tell me if something was wrong Spider-Man not your home despite what the Spider-Man franchise might portray being bitten by a spider is rarely a stroke of good luck but what's worse well just imagine a spider literally living inside of you sounds like something from a horror movie but this I'm afraid actually happened to one guy it was 2014 and Upon returning from vacation in Bali Aussie man Dylan Thomas noticed a strange painful

Red Line appearing near his belly button and running up to the center of his torso concerned he paid a visit to the doctors where he was prescribed some antihistamines but they did nothing to stop the Lin's Advance eventually after three excruciating days the doctors figured out the cause or rather culprit yep there was a literal spider scuttling around under Thomas's skin but how I'm sure you're wondering well Thomas had recently had an appendex toy and it's believed that the spider which was about the size of a match head had somehow burrowed itself into the resulting

scar then traveled under Thomas' skin and set up camp at his sternum for 3 Days truly horrifying if you didn't have Arachnophobia before then yes sure do now but while a spider crawling beneath a man's skin certainly makes a great headline spider expert Christopher Buttle from McGill University doesn't buy it according to him the story goes against the typical understanding of the biology and behavior of spiders leading him to conclude that it was far more likely to be a tick or a might both may I add pretty horrifying in their own ways onto a similarly

terrifying arachnet encounter and British man Colin Blake got very up close and personal with one while in a French Cruise back in 2023 Colin realized his big toe had suddenly become severely swollen in purple having made a visit to the onboard medic he was told the swelling was due to a wolf spider bite which was horrifying enough but while that was somewhat true the whole truth was much more gruesome as the medic began to Lance the wound something completely unexpected flowed out a whole host of tiny spider eggs meaning a wolf spider had not only

bitten his big toe but laid its eggs in there too holy mother of but before you decide wolf spiders are the devil there's more it turns out this story is about as likely as me winning the Boston Marathon according to a arachnologist no spiders lay their eggs and mammals in fact wolf spiders carry their egg sacks on their back and even after they've hatched continue to carry the spiderlings around so whoever reported on this got their facts wrong whatever really was the case after a short course of antibiotics Colin and his big toe made a

full recovery just like my heart after that initial Panic about the eggs speaking of which you know that Panic you get when you think you've missed one of my amazing videos I have the perfect solution just hit subscribe and while you're at it you might as well give me a like too cool now let's get back to some more strange things found living inside of people breathe Your Greens as a child your parents were probably constantly telling you how you needed to eat your greens if you wanted to grow up big and strong well look

at me now Mom anyway it turns out eating peas specifically might actually be pretty dangerous how so well back in 2009 75-year-old Massachusetts resident Ron Sweden began to experience a severe cough and shortness of breath as his respiratory issues worsened he became convinced that he had a tumor in one of his lungs eventually his concerned wife insisted he visit the doctors and while they did find something in Ron's lung it certainly wasn't a tumor sprouting within his lung was a literal pea plant yeah sounds impossible but Ron had evidently accidentally inhaled a pee while eating

dinner and given the warm and more environment of his lung the doctors explained how it provided the ideal conditions for the plant to bloom worst of all it caused said lung to collapse KY fortunately the pee plant was removed successfully and Ron recovered just fine though I'm sure he won't be in the mood for peas anytime soon still a happy ending right shell shock in life there are plenty of things worth worrying about terrible things like getting into a car accident or forgetting to wear my cool merch into class but I guarantee you haven't worried

about this next one yet back in 2018 an 11-year-old boy was out at California Beach when he fell and scraped his elbow in a tide poool as his parents began cleaning the wound they noticed something strange a blister had formed from it and was growing in size concern they took their son to the doctors upon examination the doctors found no immediate cause for concern he had no difficulty moving his arm nor fever however the blister was sore and full of fluid which can develop into a bacterial infection so they decided to Lance and drain it

but beneath all the P the doctor was surprised to find a hard object roughly 4 mm in diameter there could be no doubt what it was a sea snail and worst of all it was somehow still alive identified as a checkered perrywinkle this sea snail has gills but typically lives in high tidal zones which often expose it to air as a result it avoids Suffocation by preserving water and moisture within its shell retreating inside and closing the shell tightly with a little trap door this is probably how it survived for so long inside the little

boy's cut regardless the slimy lodger was promptly evicted and the little boy recovered just fine after a course of antibiotics I mean when you literally got a home attached to your back you have no business trying to live inside somebody else Eerie if you're not really a fan of bugs then you're not alone from all those gangly legs to their antennas and beady eyes they can be pretty Sinister looking what's more they're often so small they can wind up in some tight places as I'm sure this next guy would tell you after complaining that he

could apparently hear a bug inside his ear he got a family member to have at it with a pair of tweezers M yeah that ear candle that's good ide [Music] oh my god dude oh my God thank you yikes yep there was a literal moth flooding about in there I'm never leaving the house again luckily besides being aad traumatized the guy was fine as far as I'm aware but if the sight of that didn't jeeper your creepers then just get a load of this next clip where one poor woman suspected she had a spider in

her ear no it bubbles when you put it on ear wax he does yep that's cold no see yeah it came out I told you Yep this this right here is my 13th reason now you're probably wondering what it was they poured down her ear that repelled the eight-legged it was hydrogen peroxide which is the same chemical that's widely used as a stain remover and wound cleaner while I've seen conflicting claims on its bug repelling Effectiveness it certainly made this little scramble uncomfortable now the dreaded seaword cancer can be frightening to contemplate so you can

imagine how concerned 28-year-old Russian archel sidorin was back in 2009 when he thought he was going to be diagnosed with lung cancer having suffered from extreme chest pain and inflamed cough for some time archam took a visit to the doctors and sure enough he was diagnosed with a cancerous tumor in his lung while things seemed as if they couldn't get worse though they certainly got weirder archam was rushed into hospital to have the tumor removed and can you guess what the docks discovered they weren't actually dealing with the tumor at all let's just say judging

by what they found they'd have been better employing an arborist to deal with it uh-huh sprouting inside his lung was a genuine fur tree and no you must know I'm not joking by now it may sound physically impossible but the doctors believe AR Chum had unintentionally inhaled a fur tree seed which wound up in his lung and much like how that pea plant was able to grow in Ron Sweden's lung the warmth and moisture in our Chums allowed the fur seed to somewhat Thrive reaching 2 in in length all I can say is thank God

they dealt with it when they did who knows what catastrophe might have occurred where it left to carry on growing w d you can never be fully prepared to be a parent however some issues like if your kid gets a fever or an ouchie on the knee can be easily dealt with this next story though not so much back in 2013 the parents of a 16-month-old girl noticed how she was in a constant state of discomfort with her ear for months she scratched at it in pain until they finally took her to the doctors to

have it checked out what was found was perhaps the last thing they expected somehow a dandelion seed had made its way into the little girl's ear canal and started to grow it wasn't literally coming out of her ear but it completely filled her ear canal as you can imagine this wasn't just uncomfortable for the girl but dangerous too even the slightest bit of pressure from the dandelion could have put her at risk of internal bleeding fortunately they were able to weed out the weed if you will and all was well not Mushroom in here you

might think that mushrooms are a healthy and tasty addition to your meals packed with protein and fiber however this next gruesome tale may make you think twice before chowing down on some fungi the year was 2017 and a 50-year-old woman from China Was preparing shitake mushrooms for her dinner if you didn't know shitake often come dried and therefore requires soaking for a while before eating so they could be rehydrated in a pinch for time however the woman skipped most of this step and tossed them in her stew prematurely so when it came time to eat

they were tough and she could hardly chew through them it wasn't until the following day though that she realized the true error of her ways see when the unwed dehydrated mushrooms had hit her stomach they reacted with their stomach acid and continued to inflate and inflate and inflate after several days this led to a very painful blockage in her intestines crippled the woman dragged herself to the doctors where they discovered the fungal infestation that was causing her issues astonishingly the mushrooms were actually alive but some measuring as long as 2.7 in now luckily they were

surgically removed without any further complications but let this be a lesson beware mushrooms or just you know cook and chew your food properly and then my friends is all for me today let me know down in the comments which story shot you the most and be sure to hit those like And subscribe buttons thanks for watching and I'll see you in the next one [Music]