A popular and successful horror movie shows a woman sharing her head with a "teratoma" (not giving any spoilers). The teratoma gradually takes over her body and mind as the story progresses!
As we know, teratomas sometimes have bones, teeth, muscles, and hair. In simpler words, these are tumors that can look like a part of the body. But can they be alive and have intentions?
The popular horror movie with an evil teratoma as the protagonist's evil twin shared the same brain and fought for total control. Eventually, it takes over the brain and automatically the body.
Before you discard the possibility of an evil teratoma taking over a human body, know the story of Edward Mordrake.
Who was Edward Mordrake?
In 1895, Boston Sunday Post shared the story of Edward Mordrake in a section where they chronicled cases of human oddities. The story shook the readers, and the Boston Sunday Post claimed that British scientists studied all the cases.
Edward Mordrake was a creative and good-looking man who was passionate about music. He was known for his creativity, impeccable intellect, and his work on music. But when people said that Edward had a beautiful face, they meant the one on the front. Edward Mordrake had another face on the back of his head!
While the second face couldn't eat, speak or see, it used to sneer while he was happy and smile when he wept.
The "demon face" tormented Edward Mordrake and had malignant intentions. The Royal Scientific Society corroborated this information, and some of them were included in Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine in 1896.
Reportedly, Edward Mordrake couldn't sleep as the "devil face" kept whispering things that were said to be "spoken only in hell" until dawn. Edward saw no way to escape his evil twin and eventually ended his life at 23. He was buried with no legend or stone to mark his final resting place.
Edward Mordrake is still a topic of discussion among supernatural enthusiasts and is still widely popular in various media. Wes Bentley played the role of Edward Mordrake in three episodes of American Horror Story: Freak Show.
However, many experts discard the story of Edward Mordrake as fiction, and many still believe that there was once a man who had an evil being attached to him till death. There are no tangible pieces of evidence that can prove Edward Mordrake's story true, but the very idea of a person having a malignant being attached to him is scary.
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