Odd World

[muhsin]

As always, think a thread like this might have been written in this forum. I realize that threads, almost a number of them have had been in existing before my coming, notwithstanding the fact I am a member of the forum for more than a year.

I just feel like starting this very thread following something I heard on the radio some days ago happened in reality, which its oddness sounds very loud and strong, I can describe, to all ears, or particularly mine.

The story;
A woman, living in our city, gave birth to a lizard after living with the pregnancy for a year and a half and confinement of months. Further, she herself and the doctor (midwife) confirmed the incident.

After that, I still felt doubting the story till when my friend revealed that he even knows the women and the weird pregnancy.

Have you ever heard of something like this? Let’s share it good forumites.

-Muhsin

[Niamh]

thats just weird.

[SleepyWitch]

er, no offence, but that sounds like a fairy tale to me.
maybe the woman had a miscarriage or the child was still-born and she was so shocked she couldn't face reality and psyched herself into believing the lizard story?

[papayahed]

I'm not sure that's biologically possible. I remember hearing an urban legend about a woman giving birth ot an octopus that turned out not to be true as well.

[Logos]

Sounds like an 'urban legend' to me :)
http://www.snopes.com/pregnant/octopus.asp
http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/news/frogstory.html

[dramasnot6]

People believe what they want to believe.

[applepie]

It does sound like an urban legend, but I with Niamh... that is just plain creepy. I see stories like that pretty often, but they are normally gracing the covers of the same tabloids which heralded that they found Dracula's diary. It was written in blood:D They're fun stories, but I don't put much stock in them. If she really did give birth to a lizard, I want to know how a lizard egg, shell and all, got up there in the first place. I also don't think that the human body is the correct temperature to incubate a lizard egg. Some of my previous reading, I read science texts for fun, shows that lizards and reptiles keep their nests at temperatures ranging from 77 degrees Fahrenheit to around 95. The incubation temp determines the sex of the growing organism according to the popular belief of scientists. The human body is outside this range, and it would likely cause damage because of its elevated temperature. Just an odd little thing to think about:)

[chasestalling]

muhsin, that sounds like the second coming of hamlet.

in case you're wondering how i jumped to this outlandish conclusion, hamlet refers to himself as a chameleon.

a random thought on my part. sorry if i came off sounding like a pompous ***.

[Madhuri]

There is something I saw here say about 10 years back and everyone thought it was a miracle.

If you know Hindus do idol worship, and, on that particular day it was said that Lord Ganesh / Shiva (not sure which god it was) has started drinking milk. I could see huge queues in front every temple to make their offering. Everyone was saying that the idol has started drinking milk and they were using a spoon to make the offering. I thought it was quite absurd and just not possible. But, it was a fun thing to do, so I went too. I took some milk in the spoon took it near the mouth of the idol, and I actually saw that the milk disappeared. But, the thing is that the surface of the idol was so smooth that the milk was flowing down. What people thought getting disappeared from the spoon was not what the god was drinking, it was actually flowing down. I still don't believe that it's possible, unless the idol is made of some porous rock that it absorbed the milk. It has to do with the properties of the material the idol was made of, not with the god inside the idol drinking it.

[Lote-Tree]

Aye urban legends.

Hearsay...turned into stories...stories takes a life of it's own...there was never any factual basis to it...

[Neo_Sephiroth]

Dude...That's just...Eh?

[Pensive]

Odd indeed.

[Lote-Tree]

Odd indeed.

Not much. Hear about the Monkey Girl in Pakistan?

[Pensive]

Not much. Hear about the Monkey Girl in Pakistan?

Another thing even more odd-er doesn't disclude the possibility of a thing being odd.

As for the Monkey Girl, nope. I feel curious. What's it about?

[Lote-Tree]

As for the Monkey Girl, nope. I feel curious. What's it about?

It was about a girl being transformed into a monkey after kicking the Islamic holy book in a fit of anger...I shall find the details for you...

[bibliophile190]

Wow, ummmmmmm.....That's different. I'm pretty sure that's not possible. Maybe someone just made up the lizard story to see how far they could take it.

[Niamh]

its like something out of world weekly news (or what ever the mags called. Is that still being published?)

[muhsin]

Hi my good people,

Something kept me busy and quite engaged that I couldn't come-up here and make my replies to your sayings, comments, criticism, etc to my thread. Though I'm not going to pick any of these and reply but will do a general preview to that. And that’s...

Is good always to be honest and be telling facts even about you. Yep, that story, the media that aired it later reported a second report about the incident that proven the women was telling lie. She just toyed with people and played it as also vendetta to her husband. They had a misunderstanding.

Although, some of you have already brought up some points that showed this couldn't happen in reality. I, in particular, as an illiterate person in biological matters found it very hard to disbelief and further when that friend of mine informed (a lie also, I suspect) he knew the women.

Sorry my people. Wish you understand all what am trying to tell you for I know my English sometimes is a bit enigmatic and hence difficult to grasp.

Coincidently, I think this thread could go on. Members should be bringing their Odd World stories as already done Maddie. Thanks for your great understanding and judgments.:thumbs_up

-Muhsin

[Goodfella]

Unblievable! Incredible! The truth has at tail end portray.