Friday, May 02, 2003

Seven-year-old Mourat Zhanaidarov went to a hospital in Kazakhstan for stomach pains. Doctors operated on him, then found he had the dead remains of his twin brother inside him. The fetus tuned into a tumor, but it still had hair, fingernails and bones.

Mourat's life was in danger because it was feeding off his blood supply. Like a Vampire. The doctors say Mourat was destined to become one half of conjoined twins, but that the second twin ended up growing inside him, instead. The boy's organs were squeezed by a large hard swelling covered with black hair. Something had gone wrong during his mother's pregnancy and the baby grew inside his brother.

This is not the first time this has happened�other people have had operations for what they thought were tumors only to learn they had a twin. It's lived like a parasite inside the boy's body.

I wonder if Mourat felt psychically connected to his twin. And if the twin inside was pissed!