Things that could be living inside you – Vlogger and stunt eater Louis Cole made a stink on his YouTube channel – “Food for Louis” –when he posted videos of himself eating locusts, a raw bull’s heart, a rotting frog, live crayfish (hello, paragonimiasis), a live lizard from the Brazilian jungle, and a turkey leg crawling with maggots, among other things.
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While Cole’s eating antics rode a wave created by Fear Factor, Bear Grylls, and Andrew Zimmerman’s Bizarre Foods, the RSPCA found him “gratuitously cruel” and PETA even went so far as to suggest he go through a thorough psychological evaluation. What’s even more shocking, however, is that all the money-shots of devouring ragworms and mashed-up scorpions didn’t leave Cole with a life-threatening infection from a parasite or some other nasty microscopic creature.
Monsters Inside Me is a documentary series on Animal Planet about rare parasites, infectious diseases, and other unusual medical afflictions. From Botfly maggots to pork tapeworms, the show highlights all the lurkers, breeders, stowaways, and flesh eaters the human body is susceptible to. A 59 year-old carpenter gets infected with a Japanese lung fluke. 60 percent of a schoolteacher’s liver is eaten byEntamoeba histolytica. A 16-year old gets a maggot in his eye –in other words, it’s not the type of show you want to watch if you just ate. The human body is a scientific marvel, and because it’s a scientific marvel it can also play host to an array of strange and shocking creatures. Here are 10 examples.
10. Fir Tree in Lung
It’s like something out of a story by Franz Kafka. Russian doctors found a fir tree growing in Artyom Sidorkin’s lung. In 2009, Sidorkin experiences severe chest pains and starts coughing up blood. He thinks he has cancer. The 28-year old visits the doctor and has an X-ray, which, at first, seems to confirm the cancer diagnosis. It’s later determined, however, that the mass isn’t a tumor. When the doctors open up his chest, they find a two-inch fir tree. “I thought I was hallucinating,” said Dr. Kamashev. “I asked my assistant to have a look. Come and see this: we have a fir tree.” Doctors believe Sidorkin somehow inhaled a seed that sprouted in his lung.
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