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A purported x-ray image supposedly showing a long slender creature inside of a person's stomach has been attached to a wide variety of stories over the years: In addition to the aforementioned tale of a snake crawling into a woman's vagina and eating her appendix, this image has also been accompanied by stories about tapeworms, eels, and anal insertions, and is frequently included in galleries exhibiting examples of the weirdest things found inside the human body. For example, the website Bold Sky used this image in March 2016 to illustrate a story about a man who inserted an eel into his anus: Although some news stories have chronicled tales (accurate or not) of people eating tapeworms to lose weight and inserting eels or snakes into their anuses in pursuit of sexual thrills, the above-displayed image did not stem from any such activities. This image originally appeared on Cyberium.net, a web site dedicated to strange and manipulated digital artwork, circa 2002. The artwork on the web site was divided into punny categories, such as HumAnimals, WoManipulations, and surRealities: The images you find here are the result of digital manipulation of photos that try to capture the reality of the world in which we live, my purpose consists in recycling their meaning to explore a different hidden reality, my mind ... The artist behind this picture, who identified himself only as Guido on the web site, initially posted the artwork under the title Original Sin: While Guido didn't provide additional information about this particular image, he did explain in the web site's FAQ section how he created most of his work: We also located the snake x-ray that Guido used in his digitally manipulated creation, showing that the reptile was not inhabiting anyone's innards at the time it was scanned:
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