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in the UK, but in September 2006, it was taken over by ArkMedia. There have been three series since December 2003. * ''The Boy Who Gave Birth to His Twin'' ( Alamjan Nematilaev from

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) * '' Wild Child'' (also titled ''Wild Child: The Story of Feral Children'' in the United States) * ''Anatomy of a Shark Bite'' * ''Riddle of the Elephant Man'' (

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from the United Kingdom) * ''The Man Who Ate his Lover'' (

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from Germany) * ''The Man Who Slept for 19 Years'' (

Terry Wallis Terry Wayne Wallis (April 7, 1964 – March 29, 2022) was an American man from the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas who, on June 11, 2003, regained awareness after spending 19 years in a minimally conscious state. Early life Wallis was born on April 7 ...

from the United States) * ''Orgasmatron'' * ''The Girl with X-Ray Eyes'' (

Natasha Demkina Natalya "Natasha" Nikolayevna Demkina (russian: Ната́лья Никола́евна Де́мкина; born 1987 in Saransk, Mordovia) is a Russian woman who claims to possess a special vision that allows her to look inside human bodies and see ...

from

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, Russia) * ''Megatumour'' (Lucica Bunghez from Romania and Matt Peperell from England) * ''When

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Fails'' ( Anesthetic awareness) * ''The Curse of the Mermaid'' (

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from Peru) * ''Half Ton Man'' (

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from the United States) * ''The 80-Year-old Children'' ( The Hussein family from India) * ''Born with Two Heads'' (

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from Egypt) * ''The Boy in the Bubble'' (

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from the United States) * ''Kill Me to Cure Me'' ( Brett Kehrer from the United States) * ''World's Biggest Boy'' ( Dzhambulat Khatokhov from

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, Russia) * ''Half Ton Mum'' * ''The Girl with Eight Limbs'' (

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from

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, India) * ''I am the Elephant Man'' (

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from China) * ''The Girl with Two Faces'' (Lali Kumar from India) * ''Half Ton Son'' (Billy Robbins from

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, Texas, United States) * ''Two Foot Tall Teen'' (

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, from

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, India) * ''Age 8 and Wanting a Sex Change'' * ''The Girl Who Cries Blood'' (

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from

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, India) * ''Our Daughter, the Mermaid'' (Shiloh Pepin from Maine) * ''The Twins Who Share A Brain'' (

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from Vernon, Canada) * ''Dad's Having a Baby'' (Thomas and Scott Moore from California, US) * ''The 27 Inch Man'' (Edwardo Hernandez) * ''Turtle Boy'' * ''World's Tallest Man'' (

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from Turkey) * ''The Man with the 10-Stone Testicles'' ( Wesley Warren, Jr. from the United States) * ''The Girl who Never Ate'' (Tia McCarthy from the United Kingdom, who suffered from and received corrective surgery for

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)

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