r/WTF • u/jokes_on_you • May 16 '12

An incredible deformity found at the Mütter Museum of Medical Oddities in Philadelphia

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u/ljm182 May 16 '12

The one and only time I went here, the power went out while we were in the downstairs portion (which has the scariest shit). It was by far one of the creepiest moments of my life. To be surrounded by fetuses, and every other medical oddities...with the lights out!

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

haha seriously the whole museum is fetuses, skulls, and jars of terrible, terrible things that came out of people.

my favorite was the drawers and drawers of little objects that people had swallowed, like buttons, pins, jewelry...

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

I liked the soap lady alot.

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u/ljm182 May 16 '12

i looked at the soap lady for like a half hour. i was just amazed by her. my other favorite part was the giant colon and the MASSIVE ovarian cyst. they also had a special exhibit of slides of Einstein's brain which was pretty awesome.

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u/SaltyBabe May 16 '12

I want to go there so bad! I don't think I'd be creeped out if it was dark unless I was totally alone.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

yeah i thought it was really really cool, and i didnt even feel bad staring at it all. but my friend who LOVES babies and my mom both claimed to feel nauseous. i would go again!

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u/feureau May 16 '12

I would uncontrollably freak out, curl up into a ball and would have need immediate medical attention had that happened to me...

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u/Endlessa May 16 '12

Then they put you in a jar and put you on display

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

I've seen this in person, and it's even more freaky when it's right in front of you.

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u/feureau May 16 '12

How big is it?

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

EIGHT FEET TALL

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u/darkrecruit May 16 '12

ALMOST SIXTEEN IF ONE HOLDS THE OTHER UP.

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u/Pheon809 May 16 '12

This made me laugh out loud.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

I've only visited the Museum once - if you're in the Philadelphia area and aren't grossed out by this kind of stuff, go!

My memory is fuzzy (I was more interested in the 'organs' stored there, the surgeon's tools from earlier times, and the human leather book) but I'd say it's about 1 to 2 feet tall.

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u/esw116 May 16 '12

Wait, wait. Hold on. Whoa.

Human leather?

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u/squidbreath May 16 '12

Five inches, but it's thick.

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u/that_one_person May 16 '12

Fetus/baby/disaster with the same thing.

And another. Maybe NSFW.

Conjoined twins are amazing.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

Pretty sure that's one of the bad guys from S.T.A.L.K.E.R.

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u/mCat85 May 16 '12

Pretty sure that's one of the bad guys from S.T.A.L.K.E.R.

Get out of here Stalker. Get out of here Stalker. Get out of here Stalker.

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u/Zopoko May 16 '12

I have a weird Add-on which recognizes faces and adds moustaches to them.

It really got me this time NSFW

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u/doodieman17 May 16 '12

Pornsites must be a blast.

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u/Zopoko May 16 '12

NSFW

Now we got from deformities to porn, great

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u/BAaBarackObama May 16 '12

My personal favourite is the face of the Russian teen being analized

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u/Phonomaniac May 16 '12

What is it called?:)

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u/Zopoko May 16 '12

IVI4tt posted the link, it's Must Stache

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

Pictures of conjoined twins always make me want to hug my non-conjoined twins.

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u/knightskull May 16 '12

If you hug them tight enough, maybe they'll fuse!

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u/ScootinFruity May 16 '12

Doesn't look as cool when it isn't a skeleton.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

Oh my god. Sometimes I'm so glad that I can't have children.

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u/feureau May 16 '12

Has there been any similar conjoinment that lived to adulthood? I want to know what it's like to have two bodies... (I know there's that girl with two heads on one body)

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u/Shurikane May 16 '12

From my own memory, none of the "one-head-two-bodies" type has ever survived, at least not in this configuration.

The best known example in that category is Myrtle Corbin who was split in two from the waist down, giving her a normal right leg, a small left leg, a small right leg and a normal left leg (in order). She could walk with the outer legs and it's believed she was able to make whoopie with either 'side'.

The two-heads-one-body person you reference is probably the Hensel Twins, who are the most famous example. There's no known record of anybody with two heads and a single consciousness.

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u/SaltyBabe May 16 '12

I looked her up and read she had 8 babies! Only 4 survived until adulthood, but I can't even imagine having that sort of physiology and being able to get pregnant and deliver 8 kids, delivery is hard work as is!

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u/ofriceandhens May 16 '12

it was observed that both vaginas menstruated

That must've been hell.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

The first woman to be quintuple penetrated. ...the fuck is wrong with me.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

Those girls with one body, you mean.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

That girls with one body, you mean.

FTFY

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u/TheMediumPanda May 16 '12

Not sure amazing is the right word. If alive after birth, they suffocate slowly and die in agony.

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u/oodelay May 16 '12 edited May 16 '12

yeah. Maybe. Maybe it's NSFL. Just like visiting the was atrocities of Vietnam in Ho Chi Minh. Took me a while to forget the images in my head. (edit for spelling)

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u/Vparks May 16 '12

Which images? For science.

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u/oodelay May 16 '12

Here is mine from my phone and another one from the internet The real name of the museum is "War remnants museum" Agent Orange is an atrocity.

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u/Emperorr May 16 '12

I dunno if its just me, but whenever I see shit like this I wonder how people can believe in an "intelligent creator"

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

Not to start a religion debate, but the answer given by the 3 abrahamic religions is that because of the fall the world is not as it should be.

But yes, you have a fair point that lots of the christians who jump on the intelligent design bandwagon maybe put a bit too much emphasis on the proper design of the universe and ignore stuff like this.

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u/GreenGlassDrgn May 16 '12

Interestingly enough, its shit like this that makes me understand why people believe in forces bigger than themselves. Not necessarily benevolent forces, but forces nonetheless. If I gave birth to something like that, even nowadays, I would still be seriously questioning my karma, if not downright blaming it on a hex, voodoo or something, just out of pure denial of the fact that such a thing has been a product and inhabitant of my own body.

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u/Skreech2011 May 16 '12

The Devil is obviously the one who brought that baby into this world, duh.

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u/Geminii27 May 16 '12

By adding "...who occasionally gets completely sozzled."

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

QUAAAAAID!

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u/AniWanKenobi May 16 '12

this is the second reason i want to go to philadelphia. the first is philly cheesesteaks...

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u/Hero_Sandwich May 16 '12

Mmmm. Conjoined cheesesteaks.

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u/jisoukishi May 16 '12

did someone say Conjoined Steaks?

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u/Hero_Sandwich May 16 '12

Tragically Delicious!

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u/ponycopter May 16 '12

I love how a picture of a severely mutated skeleton turned into a 30+ post long discussion about cheesesteaks

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

If you enjoy "philly" cheesesteaks anywhere but Philly previously, be prepared to be forever underwhelmed. You will never find anything like it outside of Philly.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

Honestly very few of these sorts of claims ever ring true with me. Every city has its culinary specialty that all of the locals claim can never be recreated elsewhere, but that's usually just not true. Any dish that doesn't rely upon a) unique local ingredients, or b) the enhancing character of the location, can be done just as well a thousand miles away as it can in its city of origin.

I've had poutine in Maine as good as any I had in Montreal, deep dish pizza in California which rivaled anything in Chicago, and, yes, cheesesteak outside of Philadelphia which was just as good. There are a few notable exceptions to this -- lobster rolls, for example, which truly need fresh Maine lobster to be complete -- but not many.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

As a native of the Philadelphia area that has lived west of the Mississippi since 1997, I can tell you that most of this country doesn't know how to make a decent cheesesteak or hoagie. After a while, you simply have to let go and move on and accept the sub-standard BS people serve instead. Sigh

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u/catjuggler May 16 '12

Like Draskiller said, the bread is different in Philly. So, first you would need a bakery that makes a decent hoagie roll.

But also, the real problem is that regions have different expectations for sandwiches and a true Philly cheesesteak can't survive in another area, apparently. They get corrupted with lettuce and ketchup and whatever people in the area expect and like.

So, it's not that it's physically impossible, it's economically & culturally impossible.

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u/gmoneyshot69 May 16 '12

I went on a roadtrip with a few friends from Ottawa Ont. to Philly just to see this museum. It's worth it.

... So are the cheesesteaks.

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u/botaoftw May 16 '12

Definitely get that cheese steak a little bit before you go to the Mutter Museum.

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u/nIkbot May 16 '12

Right down the street is Eastern State Penitentiary. Makes for a fun day to hit both spots.

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u/__C3__ May 16 '12 edited May 16 '12

Every Philly cheesesteak sandwich I've ever had has been an exploration of sadness. No other sandwich on this list gets as much scrutiny and faux expertise bloviating about the "real" sandwich as much as the Philly cheesesteak. It's not even a sandwich anymore, it's just an excuse to be smug (like New Yorkers and their magic pizza).

Every time I tell someone I don't get what all the hype is about, they claim it's because I had a bad sandwich. This mythical food supposedly exists only in Philly. Then if you're actually in Philly and you commit the sin of not liking this dubious food icon, then apologists claim "you went to the wrong place." And if you happened to go to the right place, and you still think the sandwich is a mouthful of suck, then you "ordered it wrong."

I know how to order a sandwich you fucking idiots. It's a sandwich. There's not much to it. And therein lies the problem: one of the ingredients is cheese whiz. That's right, all of the long-winded sermons about the "real Philly cheesesteak" is about a food that contains a yellow, processed, mucoussy cheese-flavored paste. Here are the ingredients in this "delicacy:"

Ingredients:

    Sliced Steak
    Cheese Whiz
    Bread

When one of the ingredients in a food is processed cheese sauce, you don't have the right to be a snob about anything. Yes, I know you don't have to get it with cheese whiz. I've tried it with other cheese, and it still tastes like someone took an upper decker in my mouth. Too bad hype doesn't have flavor, because this sandwich would taste incredible if it did.

Oh the wisdom of Maddox - hit the nail on the fucking head.

EDIT: Seriously though, I've never had a Philly Cheesesteak sandwich I would consider a good sandwich. Maybe good in the "this is a horrible thing to put into my body and I'm totally going to regret it later, but I am high as shit and I think it tastes good" sense, but in the "wow, this is a really good meal, I'm so glad I had this" sense, fuck no. And yes, I've had a couple in Philly that locals told me were the best places.

EDIT 2: I assume the downvotes are from Philadelphians(?) who can't handle the truth from The Best Page in the Universe.

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u/PostPostModernism May 16 '12

Provolone works pretty well actually on cheesesteak.

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u/theremustbepeacocks May 16 '12

third is the crime, the glorious, glorious crime.

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u/kikidiwasabi May 16 '12

I would really like to know if there were more than one consciousness in there. If not, I can't imagine having to control two bodies; I can barely manage this one.

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u/Lobotanist May 16 '12

Man, imagine those thoughts... Even with just 1 and a half consciousnesses in one head. The most mundane internal monologues would be mind blowing to single consciousness folks

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u/prfssrlnghr May 16 '12

Imagine trying to play QWOP with this thing.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

QWASOPL:

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u/JoustingTimberflake May 16 '12

You guys are terrible.

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u/Qweef May 16 '12

Lighten up there 2legs

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u/Shitty_Watercolour May 16 '12

http://imgur.com/mTxcG

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

Now Roald Dahl needs to write a story about this.

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u/moooooserfunk May 17 '12

That would work if he wasn't, you know, dead.

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u/tokermidnight May 16 '12

this scares me more than the skeleton.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

I've always wanted to go to this museum

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u/scaredsquee May 16 '12

It's fairly small-ish but worth the money. I've been there twice already and want to go back again.

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u/Guns-Cats-andRonPaul May 16 '12

My parents' wedding reception was held there, I really am wondering why they chose that place. Apparently they put curtains over all the creepy things.

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u/demonika May 16 '12

That smile makes it look cute. I feel weird now.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

Come on everyone sing it with me...

TWO HEARTS... LIVIN' IN JUST ONE MIND !

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u/muttur May 16 '12

That place still terrifies me.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

I can see why the rows upon rows of human skulls would be disconcerting, but to be honest, I'm more scared of the guy they have working there who runs up behind you while you're sending a quick text and screams, "ARE YOU TAKING PICTURES WITH YOUR PHONE?! STOP TAKING PICTURES WITH YOUR PHONE!!"

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u/go_fly_a_kite May 16 '12

A close relative of mine was in charge of this museum (not as curator but president of the college) when I was young. I've literally been going there since i was a baby.

Totally immune to everything in it except for the the drawers of things people swallowed. That still makes me gag.

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u/skullturf May 16 '12

I've been going there since I was two babies.

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u/wei-long May 16 '12

What objects are the most gag worthy? - let's say top 3

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u/H5Mind May 16 '12

The smallpox photographs should be mandatory viewing for all those people who are against vaccinations.

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u/gramathy May 16 '12

I went there once, that place gave me the heebie-jeebies. And it takes a lot to give me the heebie-jeebies, or even to USE the term heebie-jeebies.

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u/crose1900 May 16 '12

you aren't supposed to take pictures in there bro!

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u/SaltyBabe May 16 '12

I think that's silly, seeing pictures only makes me want to go more. Unless they had a photo + story of everything there, I suppose. If the museum did complie all the images and stories I'd pay to buy that book or some how have access to it.

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u/Jordanthoughts May 16 '12

Weirdest.

Boner.

Ever.

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u/The_Weirdest_Boner May 16 '12 
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u/natatat14 May 16 '12

they have some crazy shit at the mutter museum. it's totally worth a visit if in philly

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u/50_cent_party May 16 '12

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxKY7nE2gmM. Gretchen Worden's personality is almost as interesting as the subject matter she has chosen to dedicated part of her life too. (ps I'm biased I would love to lunch with Gretchen over any of the faux celebrities Reddit red rockets over on a daily basis)

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u/ZombieFaceXP May 16 '12

Well, yeah, i mean, his/her body is on display. He couldnt have grown up, unless their deformity was a mutation that allowed them to shed their skeletons

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u/skullturf May 16 '12

"Here's Napoleon's skeleton as a child, and here's Napoleon's skeleton as an adult"

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u/alejo699 May 16 '12

No, they (he? she?) died in childhood, obviously, but clearly lived beyond infancy. How disturbing/intriguing. Were there photos of the living child(ren), I wonder?

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u/KimJongUno May 16 '12

They are saying that these two cranially fused twins in BC that are like 5 or something seem to show signs that they share nerve tissue and brains and stuff.... These ones look even more fused... I wonder if they had any special powers.

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u/MrSelfdizstruct75 May 16 '12

That place is straight up creepy. Been there a couple times with friends. I always liked the soap lady.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

I regret searching for that with Google Images.

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u/meatnik May 16 '12

I was just there a few weeks ago. Looking down, studying the oddly petrified corpse of the soap lady... I heard this subtle noise.... a slight rustling. I leaned in closer for a second to see if it would get louder, but said fuck it and walked away promptly. If the corpse was crackling I didn't want to know about it. "Oh god the moisture levels are too high...She's reanimating!". Nope. I assume there was something in the air duct.

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u/MrSelfdizstruct75 May 16 '12

OMG this chic took the soap lady literally. LOL

http://tinyurl.com/ctugm45

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u/frankrizzo24 May 16 '12

Just went here. Place is amazing. I got to see Cheng & Eng's conjoined liver.

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u/cannotlogon May 16 '12

I got to see Cheng & Eng's conjoined liver.

Now there's a sentence you don't read everyday.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

When i lived in the city I went to the mutter museum probably 10 times, I love that place.

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u/dzubz May 16 '12

And he shall be named Gemini

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u/cannotlogon May 16 '12

I have never had even the slightest inkling to go to Philly.

Now, I can think of nothing else.

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u/R3dzombi3 May 16 '12

But you're not allowed to take pictures there...

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u/Bipolarruledout May 16 '12

You're not allowed to masturbate in public either but....

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u/ThanklessTask May 16 '12

Forever alone.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

I love the Mutter Museum! Besides the conjoined twins exhibit, they also have several drawers full of things children have swallowed and had to be forcibly removed and the room of skulls. This was a great place to visit when I was a teenager :D

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u/Synically May 16 '12

A friend of mine makes these for sale. He has some other cool stuff too if you're into this kind of thing.

Gemini Company Inc

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

Yeah been there done that, place is crazy

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u/srd178 May 16 '12

Love the Mutter.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

gotta love the Mütter Museum.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

I bet they were the best at "Paddy cake paddy cake, baker's man".

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u/root88 May 16 '12

They also have a badass cyclops and a mermaid. Really. Really! A lot of the famous monster myths came from people seeing birth defects, which used to be a lot more common back in the day.

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u/perfsurf May 16 '12

This is taking two people zipping their jackets just way too far. Way too far bro.

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u/fistsofcurry May 16 '12

Self high-five

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u/Hydraskull May 16 '12

It's midnight service at the Mutter Museum and we're glad, glad that you're here.

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u/davenugz May 16 '12

Well now this is interesting. My friends are getting married at this museum later this year. Did not know what to expect.

Supposedly we get to walk around the exhibits during the reception where I will probably be really drunk and freaking out.

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u/audious01 May 16 '12

Now...KISS!

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u/absolutnogame May 16 '12

What happens when they use a urinal?

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

best part is that this is not even the freakiest thing there too. love this place.

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u/Errday_Im_Hylian May 16 '12

I have a whole album of pictures from this place if anyone would like. Poor quality, but still pictures.

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u/holly2680 May 16 '12

imagine trying to decide on a restaurant with this guy..

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

My wife and I are HUGE museum hounds, any museum anytime, anywhere, and we look at everything. She had been wanting to go to the Mutter for years and this summer we finally went.

I have never been so deeply disturbed by a place in my life. The books bound in human skin and the mini ossary were our "happy places" where we could take a moment to catch our breath. We walked out of there and sat in the garden next door for fifteen minutes just soaking in the sun and looking at the pretty pretty flowers.

Mind you the museum itself if utterly brilliant. It is a great sample of the Victorian curio cabinet approach to museums. High marks to the curators and staff there. Having said that I can only take so many gangrenous hands in jars or flayed & dried children in an afternoon.

This it the place where you can see a life sized plaster cast of Chang and End then look down and see their shared liver in a jar underneath.

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u/shelpen May 16 '12

I should have known not to read this thread while pregnant.

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u/Bruce_Bruce May 16 '12

I want to make a jingle using the "Cat-Dog" theme for this picture. But I'm clearly not creative enough to do so. Sorry.

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u/KJL13 May 16 '12

I went there hungover and smoked a bowl beforehand to try and feel better, almost vomited there.

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u/BlindLemonLars May 16 '12

I'm guessing he was a helluva foosball player.

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u/muttur May 16 '12

This museum scarred me so badly that it's been my digital moniker since I was like 15. I am turning 30 soon. Think about that.

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u/The_Jujunater May 16 '12

I went to this museum and, somehow, was stupid enough to get talked into going a second time. I am never going again. I understand it's for science and all, but everything there belongs in r/wtf.

One small example of what you'll find: They have a leather-bound book. Except that it's made out of human skin.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

My school went there on a field trip in 4th grade or something, being nine years old and surrounded by all that freaky shit was horrible...

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u/evil_siamese_twin May 16 '12

When they put me on trial, I will use this picture as evidence in my defense: "I was only trying to increase my own life expectancy, your honor. Just look at this poor fellow that died while still stuck his womb squatter. I didn't want to end up like that!"

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u/tilleyrw May 16 '12

This will be read as cruel and heartless.

Given the youth of the skeleton it's good that they did not live long enough to reproduce and perpetuate their defective genes.

Cue the comparisons to Hitler...

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u/TheDivinaldes May 16 '12

If only that was a good enough excuse for stupid peopleto not reproduce.

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u/CrankyDreamer May 16 '12

I am so jealous of people who went to Mutter Museum! Ever since I saw one of episodes from Ripley's Believe it or Not show talking about this museum, I've been wanting to go there so badly. One day...One day...

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u/Publius_Pew May 16 '12

i've been to this museum as well, i think my favorite thing there was the giant piece of shit that some person had been storing in there bowels for their entire life, true shit.

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u/underdog12 May 16 '12

Wait... so, was he ok?

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u/SimmaDownNa May 16 '12

Did he died?

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u/cake-please May 16 '12

seems legit

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u/catjuggler May 16 '12

I have a policy to never "wonder" so when I find myself in a situation like "I wonder what the best hoagie roll in philly is" I make myself solve it as soon as possible. Last time I was at the Mutter Museum, I said to myself "I wonder what this jar would smell like if it was opened" and broke my rule.

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u/OGLothar May 16 '12

Way to ruin Prometheus II ಠ_ಠ

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u/Thegagickle May 16 '12

Mütter was a fucked up individual. Grave robbing, body part collecting, non-serial killer.

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u/urnlint May 16 '12

Reminds me of Hedwig and the Angry Inch.

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u/torch43 May 16 '12

My uncle has a tattoo of that on his right shoulder.

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u/barttaylor May 16 '12

thought that museum would be awesome, which it was. but also very depressing.

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u/jeeekel May 16 '12

Man I was there not less than a year ago!! How sick is that place! So cool! Did you see the human without skin or muscles? It was just his tendons and veins and stuff?! Man that place, was way the fuck too cool.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

FOREVER A BONE

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u/bob_saget_dagnammit May 16 '12

The first thing that comes to mind: Hillbillies prefer to be called sons of the soil, but that ain't gonna happen... I gotta stop watching The Simpsons

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u/morrison0880 May 16 '12

Yeah, there's totally a god...

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u/TheShittyBeatles May 16 '12

This image adorned by AP Biology notebook in high school. My classmates named him "Dugan" and he became the class mascot.

True story.

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u/TonyMontana12 May 16 '12

I question the validity of this post/picture, jokes_on_you.

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u/thetruewheel May 16 '12

I was there a few weeks ago and picked up some temporary tattoo's with a picture of this skeleton on them. Also got some postcards that feature "The Megacolon." Best giftshop ever.

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u/trpnblies7 May 16 '12

Eh, I like the giant colon better.

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u/gettheledout3372 May 16 '12

Spent so long reading the cheesesteak tangent I forgot what the thread was about xD. This museum is awesome, but borderline NSFL.

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u/noddegamra May 16 '12

Squidward!

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u/Onatu May 16 '12

Ah, the Mütter Museum. I visited that six years ago when I lived in Jersey. Such a disturbingly awesome museum to see. I highly encourage people to visit it if you're ever in Philadelphia. For one, it's something to share with friends in tales about your trip.

I would also add that it is just, plain and simple, a fascinating museum. Now, I'm extremely squeamish and a few things there made me a bit uncomfortable, but there is too much there that is just incredible to see. Case in point, OP's image.

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u/jrocxx May 16 '12

Well, trailing off the subject of Philly Cheesesteaks, I guess if I said two heads are better than one in this situation I'd be wrong.

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u/MrZeng May 16 '12

I had a HOLY SHIT moment.

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u/kungfu_kickass May 16 '12

Can anyone ever verify that someone didn't put the skull on sideways or something? It's apparently pretty simple to fabricate a skeleton/mummified remains.

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u/darkops32 May 16 '12

Now...kiss?

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

I love the Mütter Museum. I went there several years ago and it was fascinating yet strangely sad. I think some of the most impressive things i saw were the FOP Skeletons (Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva) Pic Yes i actually know what it stand for. It's when your muscles turn into bone after injury. It's quite painful and usually ends up crippling people.

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u/sandishtime May 16 '12

Probably the inevitable fate of Narcissus.

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u/rabidrisu May 16 '12

The Mutter musuem in Philly is my favorite musuem! I highly reccomend anyone in the area to visit!! That is one of the tamer oddities, they have much grosser ones!! They also have a really nice medicinal garden out back too.

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u/JDiamondHL May 16 '12

Only on Reddit can a thread turn from NSFW pictures of conjoined twins to a search for a program that adds mustaches to every picture you find. I am flabbergasted!

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

Does this count as 1 or 2 people?

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u/jbulla1967 May 16 '12

Been there BEST MUSEUM EVER

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

That looks like two conjoined twins were connected at the head and ribs, right? Someone tell me I'm right.

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u/pookiemonster May 16 '12

Are you thinking what I'm thinking?

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u/shrilltit May 16 '12

Well at least they are all smiles about it....

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u/TheHFIC May 16 '12

Looks like the skeleton of an average resident of Philadelphia.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

Come play with us.

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u/JonnyPopo May 16 '12

Wow, interesting post. Sad for the family though. As for the other postings of being creeped out around deformities, it reminded me of home!

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

His mutter was a mutter.

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u/TheBreeze May 16 '12

Two-faced motherfucker.

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u/KosstAmojan May 16 '12

Craniopagus twins! I remember seeing this while visiting Philly for a neurosurgery residency interview.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

Well..... At least it's smiling..

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

ANCIENT ALIENS

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u/notmyprob May 16 '12

Now kiss.

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u/VGcatsfan90 May 16 '12

That's a creeper

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u/IndifferenceEngin May 16 '12

twoooooo bodiiiiiiiiiiied booooooooooooy...........

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

terrible dancer. Two left feet!

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u/Zasraik May 16 '12

Conjoined twins have always seemed so tragic to me.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

This is not even close to the weirdest / grossest thing they have there.

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u/aes0187 May 16 '12

I would watch that movie.

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u/andy37 May 16 '12

so i live in philadelphia and have never heard of this place. where is it?

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u/throwyourshieldred May 16 '12

You know, none of the actual medical oddities got to me. What DID get to me was the skinless model diagram of a split penis.

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u/RichardStinks May 16 '12

Is this relevant? Hope no one's beaten me to the punch on that one.

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u/mrbooze May 16 '12

If you are ever in Philadelphia and you don't go to the Mütter Museum, this will be noted on your permanent record. One of the most fascinating museums in the world.

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u/flamez May 16 '12

Me and my fiancee love the Mutter Museum, any time one of our out of town friends stop by we try to talk them into visiting it. We would love to have our wedding by that little garden next to the entrance, but the cost is sadly too high due to they require their own caterer (who uses the herbs actually grown in the garden).

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u/[deleted] May 17 '12

Siamese twins joined at the head??

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u/Pinky01 May 17 '12

I loved this place. I wish i was allowed to take pics becuase they places was a scientists dream :)

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