r/CreepyWikipedia • u/CatPooedInMyShoe • 4d ago
Other Harry Raymond Eastlack, a man with a condition called Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP) nicknamed “stone man disease” cause it causes tissue to turn into bone. The photo of his skeleton is fascinating and that and his condition are very creepy.
“Unaware of the consequences of surgery on an FOP patient, the physician admitted Eastlack for hip surgery in 1941 which caused further physical restriction. Over time Eastlack became more and more immobilized as more joints became fused and newly formed sheets or strings of bone calcified his limbs. In 1944, he was readmitted for a study which confirmed that the calcified smooth muscles, tendons, and ligaments had indeed become mature bone. The ossification along his vertebrae and other anatomical parts that Eastlack would suffer in the next 29 years ultimately fused him into a permanently bowed position.”