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In May 1783, in a small village of Bengal, India, a baby was born with two heads. This rare condition, known today as craniopagus parasiticus, shocked everyone who saw it. The child lived for four years, became a source of both wonder and exploitation, and later became one of the most studied medical curiosities of the 18th century.  This video tells the incredible and tragic story of the Two-Headed Boy of Bengal, his short life, his fame, and what science has discovered about this rare condition. From early medical reports to modern cases around the world, the story remains one of the strangest events in medical history.  👉 Watch the full story and discover how rare parasitic twins occur, why survival is difficult, and how history remembered this extraordinary child.  📌 Hashtags  #TwoHeadedBoy #MedicalMystery #StrangeHistory #Bengal1783 #ParasiticTwins #RareDiseases #TrueStory #HistoryFacts #MedicalCuriosities

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00:00In May 1783, there is a small village called Mundal Gaut in Bengal, India.

00:05A very unusual baby was born.

00:08The child had two heads.

00:10The midwife who helped with the birth was so shocked that she tried to kill the baby

00:14by throwing him into the fire.

00:16Luckily, the baby was saved, though he got some burns on one eye and ear.

00:22At first, the parents were horrified, but soon they realized they could earn money by

00:26showing the child to others.

00:28They left their village and went to Kolkata, where they displayed their baby for money.

00:33The two-headed boy quickly became famous.

00:36People paid to see him, and his parents often kept him hidden under a sheet so no one could

00:42look for free.

00:43Nobles' government officials and wealthy people even invited the family to their homes

00:48for private viewing.

00:49One visitor wrote about the child and shared the accounts with Sir Joseph Banks, the president

00:55of the Royal Society.

00:56Later, the story reached Sarjan Iward home.

00:59The boy's second head did not grow beside the first but on the top of it, upside down,

01:05ending in a short neck-like stump.

01:08The second head had some differences.

01:10Its ears and jaws were smaller, but both heads were the same size and had black hair where

01:16they joined.

01:18The second head seemed to act on its own.

01:20It did not always copy the expression of the main head.

01:24Sometimes when the child was asleep, the second head's eyes were open and moving.

01:29If someone pinched its cheeks, it made a face.

01:32If milk was offered, it tried to suck.

01:34It produced tears and saliva, but its eyes reacted weakly to light.

01:39Despite looking strange, the boy seemed healthy and lived a normal life until the age of four.

01:45One day while his mother was fetching water, a cobra bit him and he died.

01:51Many doctors wanted to buy the body for study, but his parents refused.

01:55They buried him near the Boop Norain River, close to the Tum Lodge.

02:00However, his grip was later robbed by a man named Mr. Dent, an East India Company worker.

02:06He dissected the body and gave the skull to Captain Buchanan, who later sent it to England.

02:11The skull is still kept in the Hunterian Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons in London.

02:17When Mr. Dent studied the heads, he found that the boy had two separate brains, each covered

02:22by its own protective layer and supplied with its own blood vessels.

02:26The boy's condition is now known as Cronio opagus parasiticus, a very rare form of parasitic

02:33twinning.

02:34It happens in only two to three cases out of every five million births.

02:38In this condition, twins start to develop, but do not separate fully, and one twin remains

02:43underdeveloped, attached to the other.

02:46Most babies with this condition are still born or die soon after birth.

02:50Surgery to remove the second head is the only option, but it is very dangerous.

02:55In 2004, a baby named Rebecca Martins was born with this condition in the Dominican Republic,

03:02but she died after surgery.

03:04In 2005, an Egyptian girl survived a 13-hour surgery but died weeks later due to infection.

03:11In 2021, another baby was born with two heads in Romania but sadly survived only a few hours.

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