
Edward Mordrake was a person of the 19th century who was born to an English family with a double face.
He had a face at the back of his head which could whisper, laugh and cry. Although Mordake was very worried about his double face, he talked to many doctors to remove it since the face whispered to him late at night, which was terrifying, and eventually, he committed suicide.
Is there any truth behind his double face? What did Edward Mordake use to say about his face? & why did he commit suicide? Let’s find out.
The Truth Behind The Story?
Edward Mordrake was a talented young man who belonged to an English background. He had a great ability in music.
Although he was a person with a lot of credibilities and exceptionalities, he had another face on his back which was problematic for him, and he was terrified by his double face.
The second face was called “lovely as a dream, hideous as a devil,” it was terrifying and frightening for the entire community and for Edward as well.
Whenever Mordake cried, the other face used to ‘smile and sneer’, though it was bizarre for him, which made him depressed at a young age.
He went to the doctor to remove the face claiming that the face whispered to him late at night and kept whispering hell things the whole night.
The situation made him mentally sick and depressed, and he committed suicide at 23; and left the note behind that the evil face would be destroyed and wrote: “lest it continues its dreadful whispering in my grave.”
The Story Spreads Like WildFire
In the 19th century, when people came to know about the man having two faces, it spread like a fire across the country, and people started talking about the man weirdly and astonishingly.
The people of the country demanded the details of the man’s story, and there were many questions raised in everybody’s minds.
And even many experts and medical professionals approached the story without any doubt.
Doctors used to give a reference to his story in their books. In 1896, American doctors George M. Gould and Walter L. Pyle included the Mordrake story in their book Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine — a collection of peculiar medical cases.
Although Gould and Pyle were authentic ophthalmologists having successful medical practices, both were also persuaded by the Mordrake story.
Eventually, the result came that the story of Mordrake was fake, and there was no truth.
Was It A Fictional Story, Or Was It Truth Based?
The fact is that the story gained fame and spread like a fire only because it was included in “Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine,” which is a medical case study book.
The book was published in 1896 by doctors George M. Gould and Walter L. Pyle, and it was copied by the fictional newspaper.
Alex Boese – a historian and curator of the famous myth-busting website Museum of Hoaxes, revealed that the story, which is written in the medical book by Gould and Pyle, had been copied by the fictional newspapers in 1985.
However, there were no other sources and authenticity that the case ever existed naturally.
No claims match the Royal Society of London and royal scientific society, which is called USA Today, it was founded in 1970, but there is no matching proof for the medically proven story of the double face.
No records are found to prove Mordake’s doctors, and there are no other authentic resources that claim the actual evidence to support the case.
Two-Faced Skull Sculptures Supposedly Created By Social Media User
Recently, when the Buzz story became viral, many social media users created the two-faced sculptures after assuming the real story. Undoubtedly, the sculptures seem to be man-made works and show art.
The picture shows one black-and-white photo and displays the man’s nose and chin while the other side of the face is quite small to the front.
Some of the posts reportedly show the other side of the face and are read and heard in a story.
Snopes is an independent fact-checking website that identified the photos as a wax figure displayed at Panoptikum, a museum of oddities in Hamburg, Germany.
However, it was also posted on Instagram by Tom Kuebler, a sculptor who has sold many similar two-faced skulls with the caption #edwardmordrake.
Prior to Kuebler’s sculpture posting on th social media, some users said that initially, papier-mâché made the skull of Mordrake, which was created by Ewart Schindler in 2015.
Mordake’s Story Has Not True Basis With Medical Condition
Mordake’s story shared some medical conditions that contrast with two natural but extremely rare medical conditions: craniopagus parasiticus and diprosopus.
Craniopagus parasiticus is a type of asymmetrical conjoined twinning in which one twin is considered parasitic due to its underdeveloped body.
But the case of Mordak’s story is quite distinct; according to the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, conjoined twins met only once with roughly 50,000 to 60,000 births, barely able to survive if they come out of a woman’s womb.
The gender ratio of these types of cases: 25% are males, 32% and only 2% are joined by their heads.
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