THE 19 WEIRDEST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD - ARTE - 2025

In this article I will talk about the 19 rarest people in the world, with a shocking appearance since they have been or are subject to rare diseases. However, don't be fooled by appearances, as many of these people have shown great abilities and inspire others.

There are people who unfortunately have suffered some type of malformation or disease that has led them to have to live a different life from the rest of the world. These people are the example that attitude is essential in life; You can have everything going for you, but if you don't have a positive disposition to appreciate what you have and not what you lack, it won't do you any good.

1- Sampson Berns

Sampson Berns suffered from Progeria, a genetic disease that affects him from birth. Berns was called as "the boy of the eighty years" and his is a well-known motivational story.

These types of boys are not born young. In fact, he looks like an older person and his life expectancy is no more than 15 years.

Progeria affects a tiny part of the population. Exactly one in seven million people.

2- Vincent Oketch

Vincent Oketch was a boy from Uganda who suffered from a type of disease commonly known as elephantiasis. The boy died at the age of ten after a tough fight with the disease that was reported by several international newspapers.

The symptoms are the increase of some part of the body in exorbitant proportions, although usually they are the lower areas. To date there are just over 200 confirmed cases worldwide, and it is one of the rarest diseases known to date.

Likewise, the causes are not exactly determined, but it is speculated with the existence of a type of parasite that is native to hot countries.

3- Paul Karason

Known as "Papa Smurf", Paul Karason was a man known worldwide due to his bluish skin color. The reason? He suffered from a disease called argyria, which changes the color of both the skin and the organs.

Karason explained that she had been taking colloidal silver for a while due to her skin problems. The concoction was to be taken orally, but the man decided to rub it on his face.

“The change was so gradual that I didn't notice it. Neither did my friends, "he said. The Californian died a few years ago for reasons unrelated to his illness.

4- Lizzie Velasquez

When Lizzie decided to go on YouTube, she came across a video titled "the ugliest woman in the world." The protagonist of the video was her, something that caused a terrible depression.

And is that the girl has two diseases from birth: Marfan syndrome, which affects connective tissues and increases the length of the limbs and lipodystrophy, which distributes body fat in an irregular way.

As time went by, Lizzie decided to raise her head, and now she is giving motivational talks around the world.

5- Wang Fang

This Chinese woman is famous for having the most peculiar feet in the world: they are upside down. Since birth, Wang was born with this malformation that draws the attention of local doctors.

At first, they thought that she could not even walk, and now the woman herself claims that she can run faster than most of her friends, leads a normal life and walks just like anyone else.

6- Abul Bajandar

The story of Abul Bajandar, "the tree man" is going around the world. He suffers from verruciform epidermodysplasia, a type of disease that only affects four people on the entire planet.

Its main characteristic is the appearance of giant warts on the feet and hands that impede their movement. The roughness is such that they come to look like branches of a tree, hence the nickname.

For years he has been undergoing different operations to be able to remove this type of wart.

7- Jesus Fajardo

Jesús Fajardo is famous in Mexico due to his strange disease, called hypertrichosis. The symptoms of this disease appear from birth and make your body completely covered with beauty. It also appears in the Guinness Book of Records as "the werewolf".

Jesus has known how to take advantage of his illness. He has worked in different shows such as El Gran Circo Royal, touring around the world.

8- Daniel Sáenz

Netherton syndrome causes this young boy to shed his skin every day and is characterized by its fragility and constant reddish color. His case is famous due to his desire to improve. Despite the fact that he is practically prohibited from receiving sunlight, the boy plays baseball every week.

Every Saturday she gets up at four in the morning to prepare her skin for the match: first she removes her dead skin with a shower, and then she massages and applies different oils and creams for two hours.

Daniel is an example that, if you really want something, you can fight for it.

9- Tom Staniford

Tom Staninford's appearance will surely catch your eye. This professional cyclist is famous for suffering from a rare disease cataloged as MDP syndrome. Its symptoms mean that the sufferer does not retain a single gram of fat in his body.

In addition, and paradoxically, the syndrome causes your body to behave as if it were obese, causing unusual fatigue and strong symptoms of fatigue.

Despite this, Staniford has become one of the benchmark Paralympic athletes. Without going any further, he qualified to compete in the next Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

10- Yaritza Oliva

Curious case of a young Chilean woman who went to the doctor when she saw that she did not cry like everyone else. Her tears were reddish.

After several studies, it was concluded that what came out of his tear ducts was blood. And it is that he suffers from a disease called haemolacracy.

The girl suffers this effect several times a day, and has described the pain it causes as "indescribable".

11- Rhett Lamb

This little kid may appear at first glance just like many others. The problem appears when night comes and you must sleep. Rhett never wants to sleep, he can go for weeks without shutting an eye, and in fact he has.

His parents, seeing that the boy showed unusual behavior, and fearing even for his life, decided to take him to the doctor. After several tests, little Rhett has been diagnosed with a disease called Chiari malformation.

12- Ashleigh Morris

This girl shows a peculiarity that few can detect with the naked eye. When you touch the water, be it from a shower, pool or even rain, your body creates an allergic effect that makes the hives appear.

From the age of fourteen, Ashleigh Morris has to live with this disease called Aquagenic Urticaria. Cases detected around the globe are counted on the fingers of the hand.

13- Arun Raikwar

He has appeared on countless television and news shows. If you're a fan of X-Men, this man is the closest thing you'll ever see to Magneto in your entire life. As if it were a power, it adheres to its body any type of metallic piece that comes close to it.

Arun himself has claimed that he has no idea how it happened and does not want to know. "This does not make me proud, but when people come to see my magnetic powers it makes me feel good," he explains.

To this day, the reason for this phenomenon remains a mystery.

14- Sarah Carmen

Sarah Carmen is a young English woman who has nothing more and nothing less than two hundred orgasms a day. The cause is a permanent sexual arousal syndrome, a totally rare and unusual disease.

His affirmations are not wasted: “I started in bed where the sex sessions lasted for hours and my boyfriend was surprised by the number of orgasms he had.

15- Cathie Jung

The smallest waist in the world. This world record is held by Cathie Jung, a woman with a 38-centimeter waist.

How he has managed to have it is quite a feat, since for more than twenty years he has been wearing corsets for twenty-four hours a day.

Doctors claim that your internal organs have shrunk and are displaced towards your lower body.

16- Christine Walton

As you can guess, Christine Walton has entered the Guinness Book of Records for being the person with the longest nails in the world.

17- Mandy Sellars

Mandy is famous because of her illness. She suffers from Proteus syndrome, and is characterized by abnormal growth of the legs.

18- Elisany de la Cruz Silva

Its striking quality is palpable. This young Brazilian is considered the tallest woman in the world, something she takes advantage of to work in the world of fashion.

19- Mikel Ruffinelli

Mike Rufinelli's hips are the most striking, since he is the woman with the most hip in the world.

20- Kim Goodman

Due to a strange illness, Kim is able to pop her eyes out of their sockets. He has the title of person with the most bulging eyes in the world, making them come out no more and no less than twelve centimeters.