# People with horns

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-with-horns/33471>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 17, 2000, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-with-horns/33471 "2000-09-17T05:26:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![davejg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ec9cab/32.png) [@davejg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davejg)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2000, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-with-horns/33471/1 "2000-09-17T05:26:33Z")

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Now, granted, this picture can be a fake, but I don’t think so. Please, look at it, and tell me why this woman has a horn growing out of her head:

[http://www.weirdpics.com/pastpics/pastpics98/hornlady.html](http://www.weirdpics.com/pastpics/pastpics98/hornlady.html)

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**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2000, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-with-horns/33471/2 "2000-09-17T05:34:02Z")

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it happens man. some people have tails.

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**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2000, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-with-horns/33471/3 "2000-09-17T05:46:43Z")

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It’s a “skin horn,” a kind of “ACTINIC KERATOSIS” (a premalignat lesion caused by excess exposure to sunlight). See [http://www.pathguy.com/lectures/skin.htm](http://www.pathguy.com/lectures/skin.htm) There’s a link about halfway down the page to the same picture you linked to.

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**Author:** ![Montfort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Montfort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Montfort)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2000, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-with-horns/33471/4 "2000-09-17T05:57:50Z")

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Ewww. I thought this was a thread about Jewish people.

Nevermind.

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**Author:** ![Montfort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Montfort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Montfort)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2000, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-with-horns/33471/5 "2000-09-17T06:00:03Z")

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(Uhh, disclaimer: I’m Jewish, just in case someone takes offense at my last post)