Bizarre Eyes You Can't Unsee

#1 Pupula Duplex

Pupula Duplex is a condition that causes a normal eye to become a bizarre eye. It is an extremely rare condition in which a person has two irises and two pupils in the same eye. Pupula duplex is Latin for "double pupil." There are only 9 known cases of Pupula Duplex in the world, and seven are in India. Experts believe this is a contrived condition and is actually something else since it is so confined to one locale and virtually unheard of.

#2 Gaping Eye Socket

This man had sinonasal undifferentiated carcinoma (SNUC), a rare form of cancer affecting the nasal cavity that had only a 10 percent survival rate. In his case, the cancer had spread so extensively that doctors had to remove half his face, including his right eye, the muscles, and nerves. That left him with a large opening where his eye would normally be. As the skin healed, it formed over his scar and left him with a hole big enough to put his fingers through without any pain.

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#3 Eye Popping

Jalisa Thompson looks like a normal woman until she pops her eyeballs out. She is able to pop her eyes out of her eye sockets by 12 millimeters (0.47 inches). She holds the world record for the farthest eyeball protrusion. She discovered her eyeball popping talent one day when she was hit on the head with a hockey mask. Her eyeballs popped out much further than usual and ever since that day she could pop them out on cue, and has appeared in numerous television commercials and even a movie where she plays a psychic with eye-popping abilities.

#4 Golf Ball Eye Pimple

Dirty contact lenses caused this man to get a very painful infection that caused his eyelid to itch and become irritated. After applying several treatments, the pimple formed, and within days it was as big as a gold ball. He was unable to open his eye for weeks and required two different precise surgeries to remove the puss filled pimple, and another to clean out the infection. Doctors say that it was the worst case of an eyelid with a pimple infection that they had ever seen.

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#5 Popping An Eye Stye

External styes form on the outside of the lids and can be seen as small red bumps. Internal styes are infections of the meibomian sebaceous glands lining the inside of the eyelids. They also cause a red bump underneath the lid with only generalized redness and swelling visible on the outside. They normally only last 4-7 days and can be bothersome because of the itchy feeling that something is in your eye. However, in this case, the person dug at the red and swollen bumps with dirty hands and the results caused permanent eye damage after they infected stye had to be surgically removed.

#6 Spotted Eye

Eye with polycoria (multiple pupils). This condition is very rare and other conditions are frequently mistaken for it. Polycoria is a pathological condition of the eye characterized by more than one pupillary opening in the iris. It may be congenital or result from a disease affecting the iris.

#7 Squirting Eyes

Ilker Yilmaz might just hold one of the world's most bizarre world records. squirted milk from his eye a distance of 279.5 cm (9 ft 2 in) at the Armada Hotel, Istanbul, Turkey on 1 September 2004. "I learned by chance that I had such a talent. When I was swimming with friends, I noticed water squirting out of my eye," he said. "When I saw (a previous Guinness attempt) on TV, I thought, maybe, I could do that too."

#8 Eyeball Tattoos

A new trend in extreme body modification is sweeping the globe. People everywhere are getting eyeball tattoos. The process is quite painful, and the results range from mildly spooky to downright demonic. Despite medical professionals warning that this procedure can cause blindness and cancer, it has become a popular fad among teens in recent years. Though the (still experimental) practice of injecting pigment into the whites of people's eyes has been around for nearly a decade, it's still considered one of the last frontiers of tattooing. However, there have already been over three dozen cases where people have lost vision because of the dye and one case where a girl had to have her eyeball removed because of a dirty syringe.

#9 Implanted Eyetooth

Martin Jones, an Englishman, lost his power of vision and remained blind for almost a decade. However, he has now regained his sight. This has been accomplished by implanting a piece of tooth in his eye. The tooth that was implanted was a canine tooth which is also known as the "eyetooth" and it was pulled out of Martin Jones' own mouth. They then placed a man-made eye lens into its base and placed it under the lid of his eye, allowing the tissue to grow over the canine. Also, a flap of his skin was taken from his mouth and implanted over the tooth in his eye which later had access to its own supply of blood. The doctors then cut a hole in the cornea that permitted light to enter the eye. This procedure has given six hundred people the power of vision.

#10 Hairy Eyeball

In very rare cases, a hairy mass of tissue can begin growing one of the eyes. It is never found in both eyes, usually only one, and it is not painful. However, it causes extreme discomfort when the hair grows and can cause scratching, itching. and irritation to the lid or eyeball. It is easily removed by pulling with tweezers, but there is no treatment for it and it grows back. Once the hair is removed from the tissue, it normally goes away for about 3 weeks until the hair begins to sprout once more.