I don’t know if I can stress this enough: THIS IS SOME CRAZY SHIT YOU’RE ABOUT TO SEE. You will probably scream. And maybe retch. There’s this boy…. His name is Sam… He’s from Colorado… And he can stretch his uvula THREE AND A QUARTER INCHES! What’s a uvula, you ask innocently? It’s that dangly thing in the back of your throat. That tiny little thing that PROBABLY OUGHT NOT TO BE TUGGED ON LIKE A PIECE OF TAFFY.
From HuffPo:
He noticed his unusually stretchy uvula by chance a couple years ago. “I was super tired and bit it one night,” he says, “Everyone does stupid things when they’re tired, so I pulled on it and it started to get stretched out.”
It didn’t hurt, so he kept on tugging. He didn’t mean to stretch it out, but would subconsciously pull on it from time to time until it reached its current length.
Ireland says that his parents were initially amazed when he showed them what he could do, but also kind of concerned.
“I’ve gone to the doctor twice and talked about my uvula,” Ireland said. “Both doctors didn’t know what it was, so they said it was a cool party trick.” He said it was the first time they’d ever seen anyone do that.
If you’re still reading, now is the time to prepare yourself for the LIFE-CHANGING photos below. You have been warned: What is seen can never be unseen.
Behold:
Sam and stretchy uvula are so astounding they’ve made it into Ripley’s Believe It or Not.
“I’m baffled,” said Edward Meyer, the Vice President of Exhibits and Archives at Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! “I compare it to people who can swallow swords or breath fire.”
Meyers says he’s never seen anything like this before, and explained that the sheer strangeness of discovering you are capable of such a thing is what is so interesting. Editors decided to include Ireland and his uvula in the newest issue of Ripley’s Believe It or Not!: Eye-Popping Oddities!
“The oddness of somebody being able to discover that they can do something that nobody else can, thats what a real believe it or not is,” Meyers said.
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