A man born with two faces. In 1896, the American medical encyclopedia "The Anomaly and Curiosity of Medicine" recorded a strange case of a "two-faced man" and was made into a movie. The "Two-Faced Man" is named Edward Mordrek. Unlike other Siamese, Mordrek's two faces, although they can speak alone, are connected in consciousness, meaning that he is essentially a person.
Angels on one side, demons on the other
Mordrek was born into an Aristocratic English family. At an early age, Mordrek showed an astonishing musical talent. As an adult, however, the ambitious musician did not receive the title of nobility, and many speculated that his astonishing talent was related to the fact that he had a second face on his head after birth.
In many reports, Mordrek's second face has been described as "as cute as an angel and as ugly as a devil." Ugly because the second face is not a normal face, but a deformity that occupies only a small part of the back of the skull. Cute is that the eyes and lips of this face will also move, and when Moody Modrake's sadness, sadness and other emotions appear, the second face will smile, as if to comfort Mordrek.
However, as Mordrek grew older, he hated his second face more and more. In addition to discrimination from the outside world, he also told the doctor that we are one person, but he always kept talking nonsense. His smile seemed to change, like a sneer, and most of his self-deprecating face was hidden under his hair. But I'm not him, I hate him, I'm him again, and I'm laughing at myself. It's like having two people in my head, and when we want to express our opinions about him, our consciousness is reunited, making it impossible for me to express my consciousness, and this indescribable feeling often drives me crazy.
Even if others don't feel that feeling, just imagining that there is a voice whispering in your ear at all times is enough to make people crazy. This kind of inextricable whispering also often appears at night when Modrake sleeps, often waking Up Modrake.
Later, the gentleman's side of Mordrek disappeared completely, and he often walked down the street and suddenly cursed loudly into the air. Unlike the street homeless, Mordrek is not talking to himself, but to the second face.
As his "mental" problems became more serious, he began to live a life of seclusion and refused to be visited by his family. Outside Mordrek's residence, the sounds of "angels and demons" can often be heard, one is a roar, the other is a beautiful music.
Sadly, the talented musician freed himself at the age of 23. Before leaving, he repeatedly asked the doctor to remove his "demon face", but no one dared to try. After a final unsuccessful plea, he said to the doctors Manforth and Tridwell:
Because of some unforgivable evil of my ancestors, I was closely associated with this demon. He was always nagging me in his sleep, I couldn't sleep at all, I never wanted to live like this again.
That night, he left a letter hoping that the doctor could destroy the demon's face after his death, and he didn't want to continue to hear the devil's whispers in the grave. He hoped that his family would find a deserted wasteland, without erecting a monument or leaving any markers. Next to the letter was a bottle with some poison left behind.
Fiction, or reality?
Opinions differ as to whether Modrake's case is true. Some say it's a story based on a certain musician with mental problems.
It has been pointed out that Mordrek's case in "Abnormalities and Curiosities in Medicine" comes from an article in the Boston Post. The article notes that the case originated from the early "Royal Society of Science (Royal Society of London)".
Due to its age, many things can no longer be verified. After all, information and technology at that time were not developed, and even mainstream newspapers may appear false information in order to win the attention of readers.
However, the author of "Medical Anomalies and Curiosities" describes in the article that "two-faced people" are real, and there are three main possibilities:
Parasitic dicephalus: During the development of twin embryos, one of them absorbs part of the cells of the other embryo, making the body unable to forensically treat, and the remainder parasitizes on the head of the twin brother.
Diprosopus: Due to genetic mutations, forked duplications occur on the skull, resulting in the appearance of two faces on the head, sometimes the two will overlap or share part of the facial features, common in animals.
Extremely short parasitic twins: Unequal conjoined twins.
Although we can't tell if Modrak is real or fake, the above three situations have appeared in modern times similar to Mordrek's "two-faced person" (afraid of causing discomfort, I will not put photos here), so pregnancy tests are very important.