Sanju Bhagat, who was born in Nagpur, India, in 1963, seemed to be a healthy child at first glance.However, as he matured and faced the challenges of providing for his family while working on a farm, his stomach became disturbingly enormous.
As a consequence, rumours began to circulate that he was really expecting a child, but the reality was far more unexpected.Find out about another instance of a child’s twin residing in his gut; this time he’s three years old.
Despite his starvation, Bhagat’s belly continued to expand, earning him the moniker “the pregnant man” in his rural community.
Even when his loved ones begged him to seek assistance, he persevered in his efforts to provide for them.
Bhagat’s expanding tummy eventually pressed on his diaphragm, making it difficult for him to breathe.
In 1999, he was sent to a Mumbai hospital after doctors there suspected a cancer.But the most incredible thing they found in Bhagat’s stomach was.After the incision, blood and other fluids gushed out, and a fully formed human being emerged.
“He just put his hand inside and he said there are a lot of bones inside,” the doctor is reported as saying in History Defined.
The first appendage to appear was followed by the others. Then there was some jaw, some arms, some legs, some hair, and some genitalia.
We were really shocked. We couldn’t believe our eyes… Shockingly, there was someone within who I could reach out and shake hands with. It came as a bit of a surprise to me.
At first, doctors thought Bhagat had a case of vanishing twin syndrome, in which one twin gets absorbed by the other during pregnancy.
However, it was subsequently revealed that Bhagat really had a foetus inside of another foetus, a very unusual occurrence.
This very rare phenomenon involves one twin growing within the body of the other, almost like a parasite.The host twin would normally detect such an anomaly, but Bhagat ignored them.
After the twin was removed, Bhagat made an effort to resume his normal life, despite the fact that he had refused for a long time to even look at the lump of flesh and hair that had once been his twin.
After he finally had some time away from his twin, he went back to working as usual.His neighbours continued to refer to him as “pregnant man” despite this.
On social media, many couldn’t help but share their shock and interest at the unbelievable event.Some people had a hard time believing it and questioned the story’s truthfulness, while others were amazed by how long it had lasted.
As one Twitter user put it, “This cannot be real!”Someone other put it this way: “So bizarre that it went on for decades.”