Just about everyone is familiar with Chang and Eng as they are by far the most famous of all Siamese twins, but there's still probably plenty of information you didn't know about these two brothers. For example, the term "Siamese twins" was actually based on them. There's also a chance you know someone related to them:
The twins adopted the last name Bunker, bought a plantation and slaves, and married two sisters, Adelaide Yates and Sarah Anne Yates. Chang had 10 children, Eng 11 or 12, and today the twins’ descendants are said to number more than 1,500, among them sets of non-conjoined twins.
Learn more about the brothers and about 6 other pairs of conjoined twins over at Environmental Graffiti.
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he wsa surely eating the insects around the body, but no way he "tore off larger pieces of flesh"
I'm from germany, and I did not hear that in our news so I searched the web for a german speaking version... and there seames to be none.
I tracked this info down to a british website of the questionable newspaper "The Sun":
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2004092008,00.html
You can google the story in almost any language - except for german.
And everything you find bases on stories from UK.
is this a hoax made up by ALLAN HALL from The Sun? Or are german newspapers not interested in people eaten by spiders?
And: geckos don't feast on rotten bodies.
Sounds like those animals were kept in different tanks and that the heating elements exploded all at the same time? Doesn't sound logically.
It was reported on february 27th, 2004. You'll have to do a search on the archives for this one.