8 People With Horns

 12/2/2015

 

 by Grace Murano +

 

 Strange People

 

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The "unicorn lady" with a 5-inch horn

Chinese doctors are baffled by a bizarre, five-inch growth on an elderly woman's head. They aren't able to explain what it is exactly, but it bears an uncanny resemblance to a unicorn's horn!

It all started when the "Unicorn Woman," Liang Xiuzhen, developed a mole on her head about seven or eight years ago. “My mother complained about this mole-like growth on her head that itched all the time,” said her son, Wang Chaojun. “We found ways to cure her itch using traditional Chinese medicine, and then let it be.” However, matters continued to get out of hand, when a tiny horn-like mass erupted from the mole two years ago. It remained small until February 2015 when Liang accidentally broke it. A new horn grew in its place and now measures a whopping five inches in length.

87-year-old Liang's photographs are now all over the internet, and doctors are clueless about what to do with her grotesque horn. Some have diagnosed it as a "cornu cutaneum"—a keratinous skin tumor that looks like a horn. Surgery is the only option to have it removed, but Wang Chaojun is skeptical. (Source)

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The man who grew a horn on the back of his head

A man from Ziyuan, southern China has grown a bizarre horn on his head measuring three inches—and it's still growing.

Huang Yuanfan, 84, said the odd growth started two years ago as a small bump but continued to grow. He said, "I tried picking at it and even filing it, but nothing changed. The horn just kept getting bigger." Yuanfan says it has now reached three inches and is showing no signs of stopping. He added, "Doctors say they don't know what caused it but if they try to take it off it will just come back. I try to hide it beneath a hat but if it gets much longer, it will be sticking out the top." (Source)

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The Chinese grandmother who grew evil-looking horns

A 101-year-old woman in China has surprised her relatives by growing a six-centimeter-long horn from her forehead—and it looks like another one may be sprouting on the other side of her head.

Centenarian Zhang Ruifang, of Linlou Village in China's Henan Province, first started developing the strange growth in 2009, when a patch of rough skin appeared on the left side of her forehead. Her youngest son, 60-year-old Zhang Guozheng, said that when the growth first appeared they "didn't pay too much attention to it. But as time went on, a horn grew out of her head." The condition has left her family worried—especially now that it seems that she is developing a second horn on the right side of her forehead to match the first. (Source)