The Dwarf Village | The Twin Town | Unexplained phenomena | Mysterious Towns |

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China’s Dwarf Village & Twin town The Village of Dwarfs! Located in Sichuan Province in southwest China is a remote village known as Yangsi. This village is pretty unusual because it is full of dwarfs. 40% of the residents in the village are dwarfs. It is not that the dwarfs came in from all around China and settled there. They were all born and raised in Yangsi. The unusually high density of the dwarfs in this remote village has managed to baffle scientists because the odds of a person born as dwarf is 1 in every 20,000 newborns! The tallest dwarf in the village is 3’ 10” tall while the shortest one is 2’ 1” tall. Scientists even went to the extent of testing the individual dwarfs but with no luck. Currently the number of villagers stand at 80 but there was a time when there were more souls living in the village and at one point and a total of 119 dwarf residents were spotted. In 1997, it was suggested that highmercury concentrations in soil is the possible reason but nothing was found despite a thorough investigation. The condition of stunned growth in Yangsi was officially discovered in 1951 but reports of dwarf sightings date as far back as 1911. Dr. Karyl Robin Evans – an English scientist claimed that he actually saw a few hundred dwarfs in the area where the Village of Dwarfs is located. He made his claim in 1947, which is 4 years prior to the official discovery. Villagers have come up with several other explanations. For instance, some say that when the Japanese invaded China, they released toxic gases which caused this problem. However, during the Japanese invasion, the Jap soldiers didn’t really reach the Yangsi village. Proponents of this toxic gas theory are simply reluctant to accept that the Japs never reached place. Some say that it is their ancestors who have brought down this wrath on them because they were not give the much deserved better burial. Others say that the area’s bad feng shui is responsible for the stunned growth. While these reasons are pretty out-worldly, the most bizarre of all explanations is that of the curse of a black turtle. According to the story, a black turtle with strange feet was spotted by a man named Wang. The villagers suffered a dilemma between letting the turtle go and feasting on it. And, because of the rebellious taste buds and the cynic mentality, they ended up killing the turtle, roasting it and feasting on it. Villagers now believe that it was the turtle’s curse that laid down the wrath on the children and the future generations. The Twin Town : Twins are in no way not creepy. They can very much freak you out from time to time. Imagine what happens when you get in an area, perhaps a small village where, no matter which direction you look in, you will get to see twins! Isn’t that going to make you feel that you have gone nuts? Well, this is not any fantasy story we are narrating. India, which has a very low rate of twinning in world has one small village known as Kodinhi which far surpasses the world average of twins born in a year. It is because of this, Kodinhi has been given the title of Twin Town. Located in Kerala, this small village is situated 15 miles off Malappuram and boasts a population of only 2,000 people. This nondescript backwater village in South India is freaking out scientists all over the world. In this population of 2,000 lives a stunning number of 220 pairs of twins. Yeah! 220 sets which equates to 440 individuals. What’s really spooky about the whole thing is that women of the village who have been married off to far away lands (we mean far away villages) have actually given birth to twins. Also the reverse is true. Men who have come and started living in Kodinhi from other villages and married a girl from Kodinhi have been blessed with twins. In this Twin Town, of every 1,000 births, 45 are twins. This is an extremely high rate compared to entire India’s average of 4 out of every 1,000. A local doctor named Krishnan Sribiju has studied the twinning phenomenon of the village for quite some time now and found out that twinning rate in Kodinhi is actually increasing. Scientists have considered almost every factor that can possibly lead to high rate of twins. They have considered things like climatic conditions, heredity, molecular factors, biological factors and even genetic factors but failed to get an answer that properly explains the phenomenon. According to Sribiju, high twinning is caused by something that the villagers are drinking or eating. Whatever is causing this, the bottom line is that 220 pairs of twins in a population of 2,000 is outright bizarre.