A railroad foreman’s survival after an iron rod shot through his brain became neuroscience’s most famous — and most distorted — case study.
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LIKE I NEED ANOTHER HOLE IN THE HEAD: The Man Who Lived Two Days with an Arrow Through His Brain
A 64-year-old Italian shopkeeper spent forty-eight hours alone in his Ancona home with a carbon crossbow bolt lodged through his skull — and somehow remained conscious the entire time.
Man Heads Into The New Year With A Hole In His Skull
One minute you’re ringing in the New Year, the next you find out that ‘New Year’s Rockin’ Eve’ was a bit too literal—because that wasn’t a rock, it was a bullet lodged in your skull for four days.