Parasitic twin erupts from 30-year-old man's belly button

Gavin Hyatt of Witney, Oxfordshire went to the hospital with a bleeding belly button. The doctor said "It was like something from Alien. I didn’t believe Gavin when he said something was coming out of his belly button until I saw him." That something was a 4cm parasitic twin that had been stuck inside Hyatt for the last 30 years. Hyatt told The Sun:

"At first I thought I had been stung by something due to the burning pain in my belly button.

"But there was no sign of anything on the skin. Then I felt a large lump just above my navel, which was so painful that I nearly passed out.

"I couldn’t sleep and made an emergency appointment with the GP the next day.

"There was a red patch around the area which was hot to the touch. Dr Santos felt it and said it was a hernia."

Hyatt is keeping his twin in a small plastic jar.

Parasitic twin erupts from 30-year-old man's belly button (Via Arbroath)

[#1 posted by TJ S, May 11, 2009 10:21 AM]

Jonas Venture Jr.

[#2 posted by Rob Knop, May 11, 2009 10:22 AM]

ZOMG we need a Unicorn chaser in a big way and fast.

[#3 posted by rudezombie, May 11, 2009 10:33 AM]

Quaaaaid, start the reactor...

[#4 posted by Alys, May 11, 2009 10:44 AM]

Reminds me of Barbara Gowdy's short story 'The Two-Headed Man'. Creepy!

[#5 posted by Anonymous, May 11, 2009 10:50 AM]

@2 is right. In fact, I'm clicking fast and furious right now to find my own. I don't think I can wait for the editors...

[#6 posted by CT Moore, May 11, 2009 10:53 AM]

This is so "end of days"...

[#7 posted by Talia, May 11, 2009 10:55 AM]

Good GOD. *runs away screaming*

[#8 posted by echolocate chocolate, May 11, 2009 11:08 AM]

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaggghh!!

[#9 posted by Chrs, May 11, 2009 11:18 AM]

I'd probably take a trip, and bury it somewhere nice, but that I won't ever see again.

[#10 posted by dross1260, May 11, 2009 11:19 AM]

How to get ahead in firefightin' ?

Oh, and, huuarf.

[#11 posted by Gemma, May 11, 2009 11:24 AM]

Why is it a "parasitic" twin? If the surviving twin absorbed the wee tiny twin, then surely it's the twin which gobbles the other one up who is parasitic? Sort of?

[#12 posted by adamgreenwood, May 11, 2009 11:41 AM]

Don't you think it's just so cute that he keeps his dead fetus twin in a plastic jar?

[#13 posted by TJ S, May 11, 2009 12:00 PM]

@11:

That would be "cannibalistic". Parasitism implies a parasite living off of the host, rather than consuming them entirely.

Since this case involves a living group of cells tapping into the bloodstream and getting sustenance from the man, it definitely qualifies as parasitic.

[#14 posted by Moriarty, May 11, 2009 12:15 PM]

It doesn't say which one was evil.

[#15 posted by noen, May 11, 2009 12:18 PM]

Maggie would have provided pictures.

[#16 posted by avraamov, May 11, 2009 12:19 PM]

@13 - you're right. 'Fetus in fetu'

i'm surprised they let him keep it - i wonder what the rules are on those sorts of things?

i wasn't allowed to keep my cyst :-(

[#17 posted by Xander Crews, May 11, 2009 12:28 PM]

@1

That's exactly what I thought!

Also, that's exactly what he should name him.

[#18 posted by MadMolecule, May 11, 2009 12:29 PM]

@16: I don't know what the laws in your area are, but it's possible you just had to insist. When I had my wisdom teeth out, they didn't want to give me the teeth, but I argued (as best I could with a head full of novocaine and a mouth full of bloody gauze) and they finally gave them to me in a little jar of formaldehyde.

I took them home, looked at them once, saw that they had bits of meat hanging off of them, and threw them away. Gross.

[#19 posted by EH, May 11, 2009 12:45 PM]

here's my unicorn chaser suggestion for the desperate:

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[#20 posted by Enochrewt, May 11, 2009 12:56 PM]

Emergency appointment the next day!? Dude, you have a dead fetus springing out of your belly button, you should go the the motha f&*^ing emergency room!

[#21 posted by Gemma, May 11, 2009 12:57 PM]

@14. Check to see which one has a beard?

[#22 posted by Talia, May 11, 2009 1:02 PM]

I think I need a unicorn chaser for the unicorn chaser ;P

[#23 posted by Cefeida, May 11, 2009 1:51 PM]

He's 'happy to have his little friend'? Wow. I remember when the same thing happened to my godfather, except they found the fetus by accident during open-chest surgery. The man was traumatised to find out he had been carrying his unborn twin with him all these years.

Although he was a bit of a sad fellow to begin with so maybe it's a question of attitude.

Now I can't help but wonder what the chances are that my twin flatmates have parasitical quadruplets inside them...:P

[#24 posted by eljesusmartinez, May 11, 2009 1:54 PM]

parasitic twin? i think this is clearly a case of self-replication gone wrong.

[#25 posted by desiredusername, May 11, 2009 2:17 PM]

That plumber has a great sixpack

[#26 posted by chris, May 11, 2009 2:42 PM]

reminds me of dr. bloodmoney...
now only if the parasitic twin could talk to him and the dead... then i'd be freaked out

[#27 posted by Krisjohn, May 11, 2009 3:41 PM]

Humbug

[#28 posted by optuser, May 11, 2009 8:04 PM]

Nobody said Quatto? What's wrong with you people? Ok, Rudezombie got it.

If only it had been bigger! A cosmetic surgeon could've started a NICHE-NICHE industry of turning innies to outies. Maybe stretch it out with some fake bones, animatronic joints, RF receiver...

[#29 posted by strider_mt2k, May 12, 2009 3:51 AM]

Dibs on the killing sound!

[#30 posted by Anonymous, May 12, 2009 8:18 AM]

it's funny they make him kind of ripped in the little diagram, and he clearly is not...

[#31 posted by writesites, May 12, 2009 6:58 PM]

this was pretty crazy, I read some other coverage of it that listed some other instances of when a twin was absorbed and then kept on growing as a parasite inside of the alive twin, freaky.

[#32 posted by Anonymous, May 13, 2009 2:59 PM]

He should sell it on Ebay, I am sure he'd make a fortune!!