Hi everyone. I’ve read these boards for few months now, but I never really had an urge to post… until now. It’s story time.
A man notices a bump on his arm. He goes to the local family doctor to have it looked at. Unsure of the bump, the doctor refers the man to a surgeon. The surgeon, also unsure of the bump, recomends a surgical procedure to find out what it is. (I am not a doctor, I’m sure a doctor would have said it more professionally) After the surgeon did his thing, he held in his hand a small ‘metallic’ tube. Described to me as about 1.5" long, and about the diameter of a nail (yes, I am aware there are quite a few nails out there). There was also a cap screwed on each end of the tube. One cap was removed, and a liquid was inside. The surgeon said he had never seen anything like it in his life.
Details and disclaimer: I do not personally know the man in question. I do know the doctor and the surgeon. The information came to me second hand. Therefore, I cannot guarantee the complete accuracy of all details, nor can I give any more details at this time. I personally questioned the liquid inside. “Was the liquid open to the air when the cap was removed?” I received an unsure gesture to that question. Back to the details. The man is in his 70’s, ‘normal’ by all accounts. As far as I know he has no stories of little green men. He was in the military. He claimed that he was never unconcious during his service.
The tube was sent to an independent medical lab.
Does anyone have any ideas as to what it might be? How it got there? Feel free to ask questions, I’ll answer them if I can.
Accident (motor vehicle, perhaps, other scenarios possible) embedded it, perhaps. You said the patient was in the military… maybe he was wounded in action, and the tube was embedded then, as shrapnel.
Pretty creepy. Do you “know” know the doctors or just know of their names? A lot of the Urban Legend passer-on-ers will inject well-known names into their rap to ensure believability.
As for how it got there? Aliens. That’s the only plausable answer.
So if the patient was elderly and suffering from cognitive deficit, it’s possible that he might not remember an implant, particularly if it were done many years ago.
Inside the metal tube, actually a minaturized submarine, do you see a tiny Arthur Kennedy, the world’s most talented brain surgeon, Donald Pleasance, a military doctor to keep an eye on Kennedy, and Kennedy’s assistant, Racquel Welch?
Well, The first doctor has also been my doctor for the past 15 years… so I’d say I know him pretty well. In fact, we are practically neighbors. I know the surgeon primarily by reputation, he is very highly regarded in his field. He has also performed a very minor surgical procedure on me. I had a mole removed, nothing out of the ordinary.
As most people are probably aware, this message board is on the internet. The last time I checked, they let EVERYONE on here. So, it would be a waste of everybody’s time for me to try to convince you of the accuracy of the story. I’m the biggest skeptic I know. I can tell you for a fact that this is not an urban legend. Why? Because I can take you to the surgeon that removed the item in question. But of course, anybody that reads this and retells it cannot do that. I guess that’s how urban legends get going. Case in point - I am not asking you to believe anything, I was just wondering if anybody had any good ideas on the matter. If I wanted everybody to believe the story and share their stories, I would have posted this on a ufo sightings board.
Anyway, this all happened in the past week. I think it takes a while to get a lab report back. At least a week… maybe two? I really don’t know.
It wasn’t clear from the initial post that the incident is very recent. I was going to suggest that the surgeon may have misremembered, or “surgeons can go nuts too”, but if there’s an actual capsule currently being analyzed, then I guess we can but wait and find out what the results are. Please do report back!
And of course, whatever it proves to be, we can’t retell the story, as we only read it third-hand on a messageboard… damn.
Tell your surgeon friend to get it written up in the New England Journal of Medicine. I think that would be an adequate cite.
I’m trying to think of what use a capped metal tube in someone’s arm would be. My theories would be:
a) Forgotten pilot medical study, just to see how well the body tolerates it.
b) WWII era espionage final solution, full of cyanide. Spy gets captured, rips it out of his arm, uncaps it, drinks, and then succumbs from the infection of the untreated gash in his arm.
c) A broken needle from some botched hypodermic/insulin injection/transfusion that over the years became incrusted with crud and unrecognizable.
Am I misreading this or was it that the cause of the bump was not the metal tube itstelf but the fluid within the tube? If so then perhaps it was a blocked lymphatic node?
