10 Horrifying Things Found Living In Human Bodies

8. Fir Tree Growing In Lung

What could possibly be worse than believing you have a tumour? When Artyom Sidorkin complained of extreme pain in his chest in 2009, doctors were 100% sure it was cancer - anyone's worst nightmare. During surgery, however, what they discovered was like something from one seriously messed up sci-fi movie. Just before they removed part of Sidorkin's lung, the surgeon saw what was unmistakedly, a fir tree. Turns out, the man had inhaled a seed and sprouted an actual tree inside of him, which was touching the man's capillaries and causing the immense pain. Fir real.
 
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