15 Horrifying Things Found Living Inside A Human Body #11 is Dare To Watch it
#1 Bugs in scalp
In 2007, a man from Colorado had a terrible itch in his scalp. Although he tried all kinds of special shampoos, ointments and other products, the itching got worse and worse until it turned into unbearable pain. When doctors finally examined his scalp, they found botfly maggots, each about the size of a penny.
#2 Spider in ear
What Hendrik Helmer only thought was in his ear, actually came true in the case of Katie Melua, a Georgian-British singer. For a week, Melua was experiencing strange noises and feelings in her ear. When doctors examined her they found a little jumping spider dwelling in the singer´s ear canal. After the doctor removed the spider via a suction device, Melua decided to set the arachnid free in her garden.
#3 Fly maggots in ear
If you thought 57 maggots was a bit much, you're out of luck. A man in India visited a hospital complaining about a pain in his ear. After the doctor examined his ear, he found hundreds of larvae feeding on the man´s flesh. If the maggots hadn't been removed, they could have burrowed into the man´s brain and killed him.
#4 Squid spermatophores in mouth
After eating a partially cooked squid at a local restaurant, a 63-year-old South Korean woman felt like something was spreading in her mouth. Since this strange sensation persisted, she decided to visit a doctor. To her astonishment, the doctor found small white spindle-shaped bug-like organisms called spermatophores in her mouth
#5 Teratoma
This thing is neither an animal, nor a plant but it can be regarded as a living thing in a way. Colloquially known as "The Monster Tumor", the teratoma is a very specific type of tumor with tissue or organ components resembling normal derivatives of more than one germ layer. The tumors have been reported to contain hair, teeth, bone and sometimes even more complex organs such as eyes, torsos or limbs. Allegedly, there have even been cases of the teratoma trying to possess the host and attack its brain.
#6 Eel in bladder
The odds of a fish finding your penis and making it all the way to your bladder are higher than you might think. In 2011, a Chinese man was having a bath with little eels that were supposed to nibble the dead skin off his body but he ended up just like the poor boy from India. However, there was a difference. While the Indian boy´s fish was just 2 cm (0.8 inch) long, the eel that entered the Chinese man´s bladder measured 15 cm (6 inches).
#7 Cricket in ear
An unidentified man from India found an almost 8 centimeter (3 inches) long live cricket inside his ear. OUCH! Doctors managed to remove the cricket with a pair of tiny tweezers.
#8 Cockroach in ear
But wait, if you think a cricket in your ear is gross, think again. When Hendrik Helmer from Australia was experiencing unbearable pain in his ear, he thought a spider had gotten inside. But he was wrong. It wasn't a spider but a 2.5 cm (1 inch) long cockroach. After an unsuccessful attempt to vacuum out the invader, Helmer had to visit a doctor who eventually removed the cockroach with a pair of tweezers.
#9 57 maggots
A 92 year-old woman was found with not one, not two, but 57 maggots inside her ear! Medics treating her believe that a fly crawled into her ear and laid eggs which hatched into something straight out of a nightmare. And what's worse, the maggots had apparently been inside her ear for two to three days before they were found!
#10 Amoeba in nose
Also known as the "brain-eating amoeba", naegleria fowleri is a free-living, thermophilic excavate form of protist found in warm fresh water such as ponds, lakes, rivers, and hot springs. In humans, the amoeba enters the central nervous system through the nose, from where it migrates to the cranium and eventually to brain. Once there, it starts eating the brain cells, causing primary amoebic meningoencephalitis, a disease with a fatality rate of greater than 95%.
#11 Worm in brain
Finding a parasitic worm in a human body is disturbing enough but if the worm is discovered burrowing in your brain, that's just absolute madness. But as revolting as this may sound, that's exactly what happened to a 50-year-old Chinese man. After experiencing severe headaches, the man went to a hospital where doctors discovered a rare species of tapeworm known as Spirometra erinaceieuropaei in his brain.
#12 Mrs. Lee and the hairy spider.
Ms. Melua got off easy, in August 2012 a Mrs. Lee checked into a hospital complaining that her ear was itchy. After looking inside, doctors discovered a decently sized, 4-eyed, fur-covered, and barbed-feet spider that had apparently crawled into Lee's ear for shelter five days earlier.
#13 Your own twin
Probably one of the most disturbing things to live inside a person's body is their own twin. In June 1999 Sanju Bhagat discovered that his abnormally sized belly was not due to a lack of an exercise routine, but rather his twin parasitically living off of him. The horrifying operation involved removing this half formed creature which had even developed hands and feet.
#14 Spider in stomach
Speaking of spiders, after Australian Dylan Maxwell returned home from his holiday on the Indonesian island of Bali, he found a strange red scar-like trail leading from his navel up to his chest. He originally thought something had bitten him but when he went to a hospital, the shocked doctors found out the trail was burrowed by a little tropical spider that got in his body and survived there for several days.
#15 Botfly larvae in eye
Everybody has experienced the uncomfortable feeling of having a bug in the eye. Usually, after a bit of winking and tearing up, you just remove it and off you go. But what happened to a 5-year-old boy in Honduras is much worse. Actually, it's a real nightmare. A botfly, a parasitic insect, not only got into his eye, but it even laid eggs. The larvae had to be removed surgically.
