An Iranian newspaper has reported the controversial story of a woman who claims to have given birth to a frog. The Iranian daily Etemaad says the creature is believed to have grown from larva to an adult frog inside her body. While it is unclear how this could have happened, the paper carries quotes from medical experts who say there are human characteristics to the animal. It has been speculated that the woman, who has not been named, unknowingly picked up the larva while she was swimming in a dirty pool. The woman, from the south-eastern city of Iranshahr, is a mother of two children. The "so-called frog", as the newspaper puts it, has yet to undergo precise genetic and anatomic tests. But it quotes clinical biology expert Dr Aminifard as saying: "The similarities are in appearance, the shape of the fingers and the size and shape of the tongue." Medical history recounts stories of people who believed they had frogs - or even lizards or snakes - living and growing in their bodies.

One of the most famous was the 17th Century case of Catharina Geisslerin, known as "the toad-vomiting woman" of Germany. When she died in 1662 doctors are said to have performed an autopsy, but found no evidence animals had ever lived inside her body.

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Okaaaay!!! NOW I have heard it ALL!!!!

Don't worry, once he finds a girl that frog will grow up to be an Iranian Prince.

it's funny ypu should say that, burnside.

the iranian price, lives in CO, does look like a frog!

I suspect this is either a hoax, or the woman may have somehow gotten the larva inside her.
But they suggest the frog is human-like..
This could be true, since it was inside her.

Who knows?

*twitch*

i think my nic explains the comment i was about to make

I saw something like this in a side show/freak show when i was a kid.(mid to late 70's)
The guy had it in a huge glass jar, filled with liquid( about 8 to 10 liters) (2 to 3 gallons)
It had a human body, arms and legs. The hands and feet were webed, and the fingers and toes were elongated. The head looked human, but the top of the head, forhead and face looked like a giant frogs.
It was weird. I could never find any suture marks or any other peiced together evidence.( i was a very curiouse kid, and a pest)(I think it was when i was 12yrs.-14yrs)
I saw this guy for three summers in a row, and was able to figure out most of his displays ( as frauds ), he even told me about his pig boy,(in a jar), but the only thing he would ever say about the human frog baby, was that he received it from a country doctor.
I saw him a few years later at a fair, he had gotten rid of his human anomally exhibts, he said he had been forced by most of the states to get rid of them.
By this time freak shows had totally fallen out of favor.

It would be interesting to get some more facts about this Iranian womans case.

Frog larva? Is that what you call them?

I doubt this story is true. Sounds just as fake as those wemon having rabbits, snakes or octopi hoaxes and urban legonds.

Yes, tadpoles are a type of larva. I guess it is possible a frog could mature inside a woman's body, just like that insect larvae that grew inside a man's eye. The reports that the frog is somewhat human like are probably exaggerated.

No one can give birth to any animal like a frog if they go swimming, wow.

The difference between the frog larva(?) and the fly larva is that some species of flys are parasitic, why frogs are not biologically meant to grow inside another creature's body like that.

Okay, I didn't post this story....

....so my comments shouldn't be held against me

If the woman gave 'Birth' to a frog, then the frog came out of her vagina.

If the frog came out of her vagina, then it is reasonable to assume that it is only because the frog was initially inserted into her vagina.

It was a bizarre sex act in which the frog didn't perform as expected and would not 'come out' as anticipated. The ensuing emergency room visit resulted in the frogs miraculous birth.

phew..wipes forehead and opens another Beck's Dark

ps it is biologically impossible for a frog egg to hatch into a tadpole and then turn into a frog inside a woman's uterus.

*Is about to touch it with a ten foot pole than stops and reconsiders*

Maybe she stuck it up there to get some publicity.

If she did, it worked...

It's sad what draws crowds these days!

Biologically speaking, with the knowledge I have, I don't see how it's remotely possible.

So an egg went into her Uterus and somehow her eggs and that of the frogs eggs joined together, with a total of how many chromosomes? Shouldn't that be a frog's sperm within her pentrating her eggs? Two eggs can't naturally make anything. Unless you literally removed the chromosomes and transferred them to the other eggs.

If a frog's egg just accidentally got inside her, and somehow by a miracle this frog survived, there shouldn't be any genetic mixture between any cells.

Whoa, this is giving me a headache, maybe i'll leave this to the other scientist. Let's hope they don't get as much confused as I am.

The mind boggles on this one.

I actually hope this whole story is fabricated, if not, then it's very, very disturbing.

I don't buy it. That said, are there not certain animals that are close enough in their genetic make up that they are used as hosts so human cells can be grown on them? Please note that I'm not great in biology? Any one know any more?

Dot9M

why isn't there any pictures of it

QUOTE :(joc @ Jun 28 2004, 07:03 PM)
It was a bizarre sex act in which the frog didn't perform as expected

EEEEEEEKKS.....
Thats as bad as the lady with the brine shrimp from a lobster. UGH
{shudders....ooooo}

We've got a strange world going here....................................

The lobster thing is an urban legand.

hey...i cant get to the link...why...??

Here's what the helpful site Snopes.com has to say about the recent "woman gives birth to frog" story, comparing it to similar stories (which are urban legends).

Thank you Panthera, it is greatly apreciated when people research topics like this one ...

I've merged the topics though, no point having them all over the place looking untidy .

this story reminds me of the Fly, you know the part where she gives birth to the giant maggot? Kinda like that.

O, sorry! I'd thought that a new lead on the story could be considared a new thread.

Have some respect for the Prince you moron

It's fake, just like the woman that gave birth to an octopus, nothing like that can live in the human body as proven on myth busters.

What did the woman expect? there are no condoms that would fit a frog's ****, obviously shed get pregnant.


seriously, in the Philippines, there has been 2 cases of women claiming to give birth to fishes. and the ODD thing about it was she was breastfeeding the fish! :0

Is that out of the blue or what?

It doesn't really say anything about the size of the...whatever. Is it possible it was a very deformed fetus? I know the developmental stages for humans go through certain amphibian-looking phases.

Weird. Can you imagine giving birth to a frog it would be terrible.

*Barf*

whats next a man gave birth to a rabbit

I heard a man gave birth to a jellyfish once....

Man thats just funny and weird.

Moose where did you hear that.

LOL i'm kidding around.....

alright. lol lol lol

welllllllllllllllll.........

In my own opinion, I dont feel this is medically possible, but very bizarre...

Yeah....ok...no-one with half a brain or an IQ above 100 will believe that...the problem is that 99.9% of the worlds population does not meet the IQ requirement here...so they will believe the story....sad......

I want to make a joke about frog tadpoles and sperm 'tadpoles' but I dont know how to go about it

Eh well

Okay, a frog first needs to be a tadpole, right?
The whole amphibian thing.
HOW did it survive?

This is one of the most rediculous things ive ever heard. If ... IF it were true. It would have been proven.

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There is a great book out there with a whole section about people claiming to have given birth to animals or creature/human hybrids. It is called "A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities" by Jan Bondeson. You can find it online at Amazon.
I have this book at home and it is truly an excellent read!
Through out history many people have claimed to give birth to extraordinary things including snakes, lizards, frogs, and rabbits (you might know the famous Mary Toft who claimed the rabbit story.)
Frogs seemed to be a popular one as shown in the original poster's article. People claimed to have swam in or drank pond water containing tadpole larvae. And then supposedly the larvae grew from tadpole to adult frog in the womb.
You can be reassured that this is biologically impossible. Bondeson's book explains why this is so. Women claiming these amazing birth stories are just looking for publicity as there has never been a proven case of a woman giving birth to anything other than a human child.
I find it scary to believe that someone would potentially harm themselves by inserting decomposing objects in themselves for publicity
But, I guess in this world...nothing is impossible!
I just wanted to add if you want to check out Bondeson's book it also has sections on Spontaneous Human Combustions, Being Buried Alive, Giants, The Tailed Human Race, and many others. I highly recommend it

Ok this thread is pretty gross a frog. ugh!