Speaker 1: Three two one shelter. Hi you old Hi, Hi, your
Speaker 1: mom's Yeah, I'm not bad. I'm not too bad. Great? Great?
Speaker 1: Isn't that lovely for a change. I mean, if I
Speaker 1: was really honest, I'm probably not grouse.
Speaker 2: But still good enough.
Speaker 1: I'm good enough. I'm good enough.
Speaker 2: Hi.
Speaker 1: Everyone, thanks for listening. It's Mela Monte Obbs, and you
Speaker 1: are listening to your lucky dip, your bite sized little crumper.
Speaker 2: You into crumpets.
Speaker 1: I haven't had a crumpet in god knows how long.
Speaker 1: Or a muffin, you know, the muffin.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all the crumpets and muffins downstairs. Yeah, like an
Speaker 2: English muffin.
Speaker 1: To English muffin. Yes, do you have them in the
Speaker 1: house all the time.
Speaker 2: My kids, especially my son, he loves muffins, English muffins,
Speaker 2: hair light. Remember the good on your mom tiptops, the
Speaker 2: one they were like soldiers?
Speaker 1: Yes, m all right, what you've got today?
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm gonna send you a photo of what my
Speaker 2: lucky dip is on today. Oh God, And it is true.
Speaker 2: It's true even on Snopes. You know Snopes, that website
Speaker 2: that validates the authenticity of stories.
Speaker 1: Doesn't know. I have never heard of that, and who
Speaker 1: validates them too.
Speaker 2: I think it's just like journalists and stuff that look
Speaker 2: into it. Okay, I know it doesn't seem right, So
Speaker 2: I'm going to tell you what Monty's looking at. Yes,
Speaker 2: Monty is looking at a picture of a lady named
Speaker 2: Josephine Myrtle Corbyn who was known as the four legged Woman.
Speaker 2: Now it's an old picture, obviously. She was born in
Speaker 2: eighteen sixty eight.
Speaker 1: Yes, very oldie. Yes.
Speaker 2: And what it looks like is she's sort of sitting down.
Speaker 2: Imagine you're sitting with your legs spread open. Yeah, And
Speaker 2: she's also got then it looks like another set of legs,
Speaker 2: smaller legs in between her regular legs. It looks like
Speaker 2: the legs, and so her right leg is also bent.
Speaker 2: So she's clearly got issues with her legs. I mean,
Speaker 2: she's got four of them, but the other one, one
Speaker 2: of them clearly doesn't work properly. But the ones in.
Speaker 1: The middle that are half the size of the other
Speaker 1: ones look like they're just coming out of her moot.
Speaker 2: Well, the two smaller ones, she can move them. She
Speaker 2: can move them, but they're not strong enough for her
Speaker 2: to walk on.
Speaker 1: But they're not long enough, they're not long enough. You'd
Speaker 1: either do the splits with the other legs to walk.
Speaker 1: Can you put a photo in show notes?
Speaker 2: Oh, if we do a social media grab, I'll put
Speaker 2: a picture. Oh, you put it up.
Speaker 1: Okay. So if you are following, go onto our Instagram,
Speaker 1: show and Towel online so you can see this photo.
Speaker 1: You've got to see this photo.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So the other the foot that's turned inwards that
Speaker 2: you can see. So the I'm gonna call them regular legs,
Speaker 2: not the two that are on the inside. One of
Speaker 2: them she had a club foot, right, the foot's facing inwards,
Speaker 2: And I'm like, is would that be ironic that she
Speaker 2: has four legs and only one works? Would you call
Speaker 2: that ironic? Yes, that's what you would call ironic, right, Okay,
Speaker 2: so this is what happened she's born. What has happened
Speaker 2: is she's referred to as a dippigus, which is when
Speaker 2: she was developing the they say the axis of her body.
Speaker 2: So say, I guess, like the center of her body
Speaker 2: split in two. So imagine it's like her body from
Speaker 2: the waist down has split in half. So it looks
Speaker 2: like there's the two little legs in the middle and
Speaker 2: the two outer legs. What it is is that it's
Speaker 2: like she's say, her left side has grown a regular
Speaker 2: leg and then a smaller leg, and then her right
Speaker 2: side has grown a regular leg and a smaller leg. Wow,
Speaker 2: side by side she has two palvis's.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, she's got two vaginas.
Speaker 2: Listen, this is this is unbelievable. So this is where
Speaker 2: we know it's true because it was documented in medical journals.
Speaker 2: She has two of everything. This is what was written
Speaker 2: when she was examined as a baby. The infant Myrtle
Speaker 2: Corbyn has four legs and two distinct external female organs
Speaker 2: of generation. So she's got two vaginas with two external
Speaker 2: openings of the urethra and two external openings of the rectum.
Speaker 1: Thank god.
Speaker 2: So it's like imagine from the waist down she's split
Speaker 2: in two, almost like two people. So she's got two uteruses,
Speaker 2: two vaginas, two two bums yep.
Speaker 1: Two like digestive systems. So does each bum work and
Speaker 1: each vagina work?
Speaker 2: Well, I'm gonna get there. Oh hello, the digestive the
Speaker 2: digestive system and stuff I think is just one but
Speaker 2: they must just channel into both sides of from the
Speaker 2: waist down her. I guess the food goes down and
Speaker 2: she shits out of both holes. Oh, it says the
Speaker 2: feces and urine are past most generally simultaneously, particularly the urine.
Speaker 2: So she's pissing out of both wi holes and so
Speaker 2: close enough together. I mean, imagine the mess.
Speaker 1: The mess because like, if you think of two lower bodies,
Speaker 1: like sitting on a toilet's really hard.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know urine is passed most generally simultaneously, particularly
Speaker 2: the urine from both external urinary and intestinal openings situated
Speaker 2: respectively between the left and right pairs of legs. The
Speaker 2: head and trunk are those of a living, well developed, healthy,
Speaker 2: active infant of about five weeks, so she was five
Speaker 2: weeks old when this was diagnosed. The lower portion of
Speaker 2: the body is divided into the members of two distinct
Speaker 2: individuals near the junction of the spinal column, So it's
Speaker 2: like she's literally split in She's become two different people
Speaker 2: from the waist down.
Speaker 1: Could it be one of those situations where it was
Speaker 1: a twin morphed into one, you know, sometimes it will
Speaker 1: be like somebody will find a set of teeth somewhearing
Speaker 1: the body or yeah, anything like that and it's like,
Speaker 1: oh no, there was a twin and that part developed and.
Speaker 2: I guess it could be, but this is I guess
Speaker 2: from that time. I mean we're talking about eighteen sixty eight. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you know, so as things were back in those days.
Speaker 2: She ended up becoming a circus performer at thirteen, right, God, yeah,
Speaker 2: but she made good money. It says here that she
Speaker 2: reportedly made four hundred and fifty dollars a week, which
Speaker 2: back in back in eighteen hundreds, that's a forge shit
Speaker 2: ton of money.
Speaker 1: I mean, she would have spent most of it on
Speaker 1: her psychological issues of people like gasping at the four
Speaker 1: legged woman.
Speaker 2: Well, she put like the same socks and shoes on
Speaker 2: all the legs and people loved her. When she was nineteen,
Speaker 2: she married a doctor called Clinton Bicker and they went
Speaker 2: on to have five children. Wow, And it's reported.
Speaker 1: Okay, like how do the kids come out?
Speaker 2: Okay, it's reported that she birthed three from one vagina
Speaker 2: and two from the other. My assumption is whichever hole
Speaker 2: is being penetrated, so whichever vagina she gets pregnant in
Speaker 2: is the vagina she delivers in. Because remember she's got
Speaker 2: two palvis's two uteruses, so if he if she'd gotten
Speaker 2: pregnant on the left side, then that is the part
Speaker 2: that would grow the baby.
Speaker 1: Is that not? It's fascinating because also where would her
Speaker 1: stomach kind of grow out to the side, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean.
Speaker 2: Like think about Oh yeah, well, I don't know. It's
Speaker 2: very annoying. There aren't pictures of her pregnant.
Speaker 1: How Like the doc is like, I got two holes,
Speaker 1: I can, I've got I got four holes. I can
Speaker 1: if he's into bum bum stuff, but he's got two
Speaker 1: vagina holes and then he just chooses what one he
Speaker 1: wants on the set occasion. If she's birthed from both,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: I know, and I wonder if she had a preference
Speaker 2: one side better than the other. I don't know. Oh,
Speaker 2: it's horrible. What I was gonna say, I was gonna
Speaker 2: say my interchange between two.
Speaker 1: Oh in the one session, yeah bang bang bang left
Speaker 1: left right. Yeah.
Speaker 2: But yeah, so she had she has these five pregnancies,
Speaker 2: five healthy babies. So her case was reported in a
Speaker 2: book written by two doctors who spent time like evaluating
Speaker 2: her and stuff later on called Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine. So,
Speaker 2: and they they determined that, yes, the two vaginas were
Speaker 2: fully functional, both had independent period cycles. Oh that can
Speaker 2: you imagine?
Speaker 1: I wonder though, if because you know, when you're around
Speaker 1: other women and you sync up, if she sunk up
Speaker 1: with herself.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, I know that's actually a myth. I
Speaker 2: heard the sinking. It's not true. It's been disproven. I
Speaker 2: believe that that's not I believe that it's true. My mum,
Speaker 2: my sister and I used to all the time and
Speaker 2: then best friends when we were together all the time,
Speaker 2: would be the same. Yeah, true, true, But yeah, and
Speaker 2: you also wonder, like, if you look at that picture,
Speaker 2: she's very like I guess her hips would be so
Speaker 2: have to be so wide because even think about imagine
Speaker 2: you'd have to be making custom undies. Yeah, oh no,
Speaker 2: hang on, no, you wouldn't. You'd be wearing two pairs
Speaker 2: of undies, one on each side. Oh yeah, but no,
Speaker 2: but you couldn't pull it all the way up. Yeah
Speaker 2: you could, because remember, like you've got a big leg
Speaker 2: and a little leg, and so is she split in
Speaker 2: between the legs. I just picture it's like an egg
Speaker 2: with four legs coming out. It does look like imagine
Speaker 2: you get to your tummy. Imagine like a oh my god,
Speaker 2: like a fish tail.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: That so one side has two legs vagina bum. The
Speaker 2: other side has two legs vagina bum.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So I mean on a fish towel, you'd need
Speaker 1: one pair of undies because the one side of the
Speaker 1: undies wouldn't go, do you know what I mean? In
Speaker 1: the middle, the undies wouldn't grip.
Speaker 2: I figure that in between, Yeah, there would be maybe
Speaker 2: like a space there in between.
Speaker 1: I'm not visualizing a space. I wonder what we're all visualizing.
Speaker 1: We're all visualizing different things at the moment.
Speaker 2: You can't actually wrap your head around the fact that,
Speaker 2: oh that's actually for real.
Speaker 1: Yes, Wow, it's just amazing. Good on her for getting
Speaker 1: through life. You know.
Speaker 2: She died in nineteen twenty eight at the age of
Speaker 2: fifty nine, and doctors offered lots of cash to take
Speaker 2: her body to study it, but the family didn't want that,
Speaker 2: and apparently they had her coffin covered in cement and
Speaker 2: they waited there until the cement dried because they knew
Speaker 2: that grave robbers had held to go and.
Speaker 1: Take God grave grave robbers.
Speaker 2: I know. Yeah, so that's how claustrophobic.
Speaker 1: Having your coffin covered in cement to even though you're dead,
Speaker 1: like that makes me feel hectically claustrophobic.
Speaker 2: Ah, it's like the it's like the idea of a mausoleum,
Speaker 2: Like my grandmother's in a mausoleum. I hate them. I
Speaker 2: know the ground sounds yuck. But it's like they're in
Speaker 2: the wall.
Speaker 1: Oh is it?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it feels really impersonal to me.
Speaker 1: She's standing up in the wall with.
Speaker 2: Not standing so it's like, so, imagine you're looking at
Speaker 2: a big wall, right they put the coffin. It's almost
Speaker 2: like a draw, so you're actually like you're going that way,
Speaker 2: but they're stacked. So she's there, and then there could
Speaker 2: be you know, Barbara on top, and then there's John
Speaker 2: on top of that and your family. No, it's like
Speaker 2: walls of it's all people. But obviously the price is
Speaker 2: like if you're at eye level, that's a price your
Speaker 2: option than someone who's up high. It's like, I don't know,
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: And so can you see the coffins when you go
Speaker 1: in there?
Speaker 2: No, because the coffin gets put inside and then it's
Speaker 2: like the inside is sealed with some sort of I
Speaker 2: don't know, limestone or whatever, and then they put like
Speaker 2: the plak it gets closed up and then the plak
Speaker 2: is on the outside. Wow, that's wild them.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, because I've seen like at the at the cemeteries,
Speaker 1: there's always like the big so the house things you
Speaker 1: see are they them?
Speaker 2: Know, the houses are a whole other different thing, Like
Speaker 2: they're like almost like not crips, but you know, like say,
Speaker 2: like I say, there was a Kavanagh one white Sam
Speaker 2: and his siblings and his parents or whatever had just
Speaker 2: bought their whole thing to go in there together. They're
Speaker 2: all in the one thing. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Wow, that was fascinating, malth Thank you for that, like
Speaker 1: you dip, no worries the four legged women. Make sure
Speaker 1: yes that you check that photo. It is fascinating. Thank
Speaker 1: you for joining us, your Championkens. We will be back
Speaker 1: and we'll chat to you really soon and they love you.
Speaker 1: Is I really butchered that story