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Post details: Baby Cyclops Born In India

07/15/09

09:34:08 am, by

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Categories: Too Weird For Any Other Category, Extraordinary People

Baby Cyclops Born In India

I was surfing about my usual internet haunts this morning when I came across a news item being discussed on one of the paranormal forums. In part it goes something like this with photo:

"Two weeks ago, in the Kasturba Ghandi Hospital in the city of Chennai, a baby with one eye was born. Doctors believe that the baby has a good chance of living on. A similar case also occurred in Russia.

Typically, the nose and nostrils are missing, adding to the disfigurement. Only one in one million babies are born with this defect, as it is detected early in pregnancy and is almost always aborted. Not this time, however.

The parents elected to keep the child, whom is expected to survive, citing the otherwise excellent condition of her internal organs."

Now before the baby announcements are sent out to celebrate this odd, little, medical miracle it is best to try to track down the original source. In this case the source is Russian newspaper PRAVDA (ironically translated to mean the truth) which since the fall of the Iron Curtain has become Eastern Europe's equivalent to the Weekly World News. And we all know how believable the latter is ...right?

I highly doubt there is any truth to this story, and a quick check with Snopes will probably confirm it is just another hoax.

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Comment from: saint3 [Visitor]

· http://saint3zero.blogspot.com/

is that the pic of the 1-eye child? Looks like some fake to me.

Permalink 07/17/09 @ 04:12

Comment from: Sue [Member]

· http://seminars.torontoghosts.org/

saint3 -> Yes, and it looks really fake to me too.

Permalink 07/17/09 @ 08:19

Comment from: Ethan [Visitor]

This can actually be a symptom of Trisomy 13 called holoprosencephaly, although most fetuses are spontaneously aborted and never come to term.

Permalink 09/14/09 @ 23:19

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