The two faces of Edward Mordrake (Image found on Assombrado.com)
I'm not a huge fan of macabre curiosities, but this case got my attention and it's probably going to cause me a fair share of nightmares.
The number of people who are born with deformities every year isn't so small as we tend to think, and siamese twins aren't so uncommon either, but Mordrake's case was something remarkably unique. His anomaly had something more about it, which Mordrake himself described as "demonic".
Mordrake was a man who had everything to be happy: he was an heir to an important English noble title (which he never claimed), a very talented musician and a brilliant gentleman. But, in the back of his head there was another face. And if you think it was always still, think again. It could laugh and cry, and sometimes whisper, which disturbed poor Edward deeply. Some reports claim that it was very unconfortable to look at the demonic face: people said that the eyes seemed to express inteligence and anger, and that they also followed them slowly, as if studying those who looked upon it. Others say that the face sometimes showed a sarcastic smile, as if it wanted to show an occult hate. It was almost impossible to observe it for long.
The man suffered deeply with confinement and solitude, and said it was impossible to live with that "demon". He often asked doctors to take the second face away, but they refused, since Edward would die in the surgery. He ended up killing himself at 23 years old, but no one knows certainly how (some say it was poisoning, others say it was a bullet in the middle of the demonic face). In his suicide note, he asked that the second face should be removed from his head before he was put to rest. This final request was attended and he was buried in a cheap earth grave without any headstone or sculpture, also according to his wishes.
The number of people who are born with deformities every year isn't so small as we tend to think, and siamese twins aren't so uncommon either, but Mordrake's case was something remarkably unique. His anomaly had something more about it, which Mordrake himself described as "demonic".
Mordrake was a man who had everything to be happy: he was an heir to an important English noble title (which he never claimed), a very talented musician and a brilliant gentleman. But, in the back of his head there was another face. And if you think it was always still, think again. It could laugh and cry, and sometimes whisper, which disturbed poor Edward deeply. Some reports claim that it was very unconfortable to look at the demonic face: people said that the eyes seemed to express inteligence and anger, and that they also followed them slowly, as if studying those who looked upon it. Others say that the face sometimes showed a sarcastic smile, as if it wanted to show an occult hate. It was almost impossible to observe it for long.
The man suffered deeply with confinement and solitude, and said it was impossible to live with that "demon". He often asked doctors to take the second face away, but they refused, since Edward would die in the surgery. He ended up killing himself at 23 years old, but no one knows certainly how (some say it was poisoning, others say it was a bullet in the middle of the demonic face). In his suicide note, he asked that the second face should be removed from his head before he was put to rest. This final request was attended and he was buried in a cheap earth grave without any headstone or sculpture, also according to his wishes.
~Ally
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