Not much surprises us nowadays, but some things do happen to carry a significant shock value. One of these things is “stuff” found in the human body that isn’t supposed to be there. Documented accounts of notable cases usually involve medical malpractice and bugs that laid eggs under the skin (shivers), but there’s so much more to this category.

From bugs to surgical instruments and everything in between, here are the ten craziest—and some quite disturbing—objects ever removed from someone.

Related: 10 Bizarre Objects Found In Porta Potties

10 Cysts

Sometimes, the things that get “trapped” in our bodies are not by choice, like cysts. Besides all the pus and goo that can come out of larger cysts, when one is in you for so long, it can turn into a strange human pearl, brain-like and bizarre.

The clip above shows Dr. Sandra Lee, aka Dr. Pimple Popper, removing 35-year-old cysts from a woman’s head. If you have a weak stomach, you may not want to watch. However, this is not the first instance of someone having an antique cyst (not an official medical term) removed from them.

In another instance, one of her patients—Roger, for those who follow the show—had a cyst in his nose that developed its own blood vessel. Once a cyst finds a blood supply, it grows, much like tumors do. Roger’s cyst grew so large that it hung over his mouth. He eventually underwent surgery to have the cyst removed and reconstruct his nostril. After 10 to 12 years of dealing with rhinophyma, it was gone.

Dr. Pimple Popper is a great series to watch if you’re into cyst removal or are popaholics. It really does show you that some of the craziest things removed from our bodies are not because we stick them in there; it’s because our bodies are actually oysters in disguise.

9 Larvae

Yes, we are including bugs in this list. It’s not a mystery at this point that flies will lay their eggs under your skin, the eggs hatch, and then the larvae have a field day in there like it’s a Chuck E. Cheese. We’re looking at you, botfly.

Botflies are parasitic bugs that will burrow under the skin of mammals. They are fuzzy like bumblebees but are hellish nightmare insects that need to be destroyed with fire. The fly lays its eggs under your skin, or the larvae will travel to a host and burrow into the skin (very “Parasyte” for those familiar with the manga). The larvae leave a painful wound-like mark on the skin, sometimes with a pustule. You may even feel something wriggling underneath the spot.

To remove them, you should absolutely see a dermatologist; don’t try to do it yourself. If you keep the larvae in you for too long, which I don’t know why you would want to keep them in you at all, the infection they cause can become even more severe. If the doctor finds that the larvae are still alive, they will essentially suffocate the bugs by placing tape or Vaseline over the wound. This makes them easier to remove.

Fortunately, if you live in colder, drier areas of the world, you’re less likely to encounter botflies. However, if you live in or travel to Brazil, you may want to pay extra attention to what crawls on your skin.

8 It’s People

It’s not soylent green; it’s people. Every now and then, you hear about people getting pieces of a twin removed from them, usually hair, teeth, etc. This results from a twin forming inside the other fetus (fetus in fetu), but incompletely. Though these twins rarely develop fully, there was one instance in Malaysia in 2016 in which the twin was quite developed.

A 15-year old boy was rushed to the hospital after complaining of stomach pains. Doctors discovered that a parasitic twin was living inside his stomach. It had fully formed legs, hands, and genitals. The mouth and nose were not completely developed, though.

Unfortunately, removing the twin resulted in its death. Parasitic twins rely on the host for survival, and most die before birth. But sometimes, they live and continue to grow, only to be removed from the host when the host’s health begins to deteriorate.

7 Moths

You know when you have a porch light on at night, and you have to walk to your front door, but there are several inconveniently placed moths all over the place? You aren’t crazy for covering your face and ears as you barrel through.

Moths are just another kind of insect that like ending up inside of you. More often than you think, moths will crawl into your ears. Though you can remove the bug yourself, it’s better to go to a doctor. The doctor will then use warm water or oil to help get the bug out. With larger insects, like the moth, you may just need a good old pair of tweezers.

6 Roundworm

I thought tapeworms would end up on this list because the lengths these parasites can reach are insane, but I could barely get through the extraction videos. One came out of a nose, one from the mouth; I wasn’t even going to touch ones coming out the rear.

Anyway, I couldn’t get through it long enough to justify writing about it. So I decided to switch gears and go for a roundworm, still awful but more tolerable. People get infected with roundworms if they come into contact with infected fecal matter or parasite-ridden food. They operate similarly to tapeworms and are just as messed up to look at.

For one woman, doctors found a 6-inch roundworm in her lip. I can only imagine the relief she felt when she had it removed, but also the terror of knowing something like that was feeding off of her face.

5 Retractor

Welcome to the medical malpractice portion of this article, where doctors leave equipment in their patients and sew them up, unaware that they’ve caused a whole new problem. We start with a surgical retractor.

A retractor is what surgeons use to keep tissue and organs out of the way during surgery. One man by the name of Donald Church ended up with a forgotten 12″ retractor in his chest. After complaining of piercing pain, his surgeon brushed it off as standard recovery pain. However, after 30 days of no improvement, Church’s doctor ordered an x-ray and discovered the abandoned object.

Oops, doc. Oops.

4 Forceps

It took Mr. Church a little over 30 days to discover the doctor had left something in him. But can you imagine waiting 18 years?

In 2017, a man from Vietnam named Va Man Nhat underwent treatment for a road accident when surgeons discovered surgical scissors (forceps), broken in two and lodged in the side of his abdomen.

Nhat said that he had received surgery in 1998 and believed that surgeons had forgotten the scissors in him then. He also noted that he was left with lasting pain after that surgery, but doctors told him he had an ulcer.

Yeah, no. It was scissors.

3 Cell Phone

A guy from Kosovo once swallowed a Nokia phone. Yes, you read that correctly. He swallowed an entire cell phone. He was 33 years old and probably knew better, but he did it anyway. The cell phone was in his stomach for four days before surgeons removed it.

Fortunately, they were able to extract the phone in three parts without cutting him open. Unfortunately, they couldn’t figure out why he thought that swallowing a phone was a good idea to begin with.

If you’re a parent, you know that batteries are a huge health and safety hazard, especially since babies and toddlers discover the world by putting things in their mouths. The batteries contain toxic and corrosive chemicals that can be lethal to small kids, and Nokia’s battery is no different. Our very adult patient is very lucky.

2 Forks and Spoons

In 2009, Margaret Daalman went to the hospital complaining of stomach pain. An x-ray revealed that the 52-year-old woman had about 78 pieces of cutlery in her stomach. Obviously, they didn’t just appear there for no reason; she ate the forks and spoons. Daalman successfully underwent surgery to remove the cutlery.

About the incident, Daalman states that she felt compelled to eat the cutlery and ignore the food on her plate. Doctors also reported that she suffers from borderline personality disorder, which contributed to her obsessive desire to eat her silverware.

1 Butt Bottle

Time to end with an embarrassing and incredibly painful case.

A 73-year-old farmer, who happened to have a wooden limb (important detail), was out in the field one day when nature called. There was no modern plumbing where he lived, so he decided to defecate in an empty glass jar, formerly used for maraschino cherries.

Well, his wooden limb broke, and he fell on top of the jar. The jar effectively got lodged in his rectum. The neck of the bottle broke inside of him, which understandably caused a lot of bleeding. He was rushed to the hospital for treatment.

Surgeons removed the bottle using obstetric forceps (what they’ll sometimes use to help babies through the birth canal), and the man lived.

Moral of the story: don’t poop in a jar.

Every movie has to undergo an editing process to refine it down to something that tells a story. Mad Max: Fury Road director George Miller famously shot 480 hours of footage that his wife edited down to a 2 hour film. Not every movie has to cut so much, of course, and some edits are done to appease censors and studios rather than to just tighten up a story. That said, every so often a scene has to be removed from a film for a truly perplexing reason and it can either be to the betterment or the detriment of the final product. 

10. Tank Girl Deleted a Kangaroo Mutant Sex Scene

You may not remember the 1994 sci-fi/action/comedy Tank Girl, based on a comic book of the same name starring Lori Petty in the title role and Ice-T as a kangaroo man but it was a weird one. The comic was a true underground, punk-inspired trip of a story but the adaptation did not achieve the same aesthetic at all. The vagaries of Hollywood productions got in the way and made something still weird but less appealing to the fan base and non-fans alike. It has a cult following these days but, as is often the case, that’s code for the fact not many people like it. 

One of the big hurdles for the movie is the fact that, in the source material, Tank Girl has a sexual relationship with Ice-T’s character and including human with not-quite-human sex is always a risky play in a film. The director wanted to go all in on the comic’s absurd and overt sexuality but the film studio balked and edited the movie behind her back. That means a kangaroo man sex scene was dropped, despite the fact that the production spent a few thousand dollars to make a prosthetic kangaroo penis for the scene. 

Arguably, if anyone had read the comics, they would have known all of this stuff would be in the movie. And they probably read the script, too. Maybe just seeing it in the footage proved to be too much.

9. Disney Removed a Scene From “The Program” After Someone Died

Sports movies are usually a niche thing but every year one or two come out that seem to do well. In 1993, Disney was the parent company behind the college football movie The Program. Critics didn’t like it, but audiences seemed to appreciate it more. But storyline aside, the movie is mostly famous these days for one specific scene.

The movie, starring James Caan and Halle Berry, was a dramatic and grim look at college football. The famous scene involved one of the players laying down on a busy highway, reading a magazine right on the centerline as cars speed by him. That sounds stupid, maybe, but innocuous enough for a movie, right? Well,the problem was that kids started doing it in real life. Two teenage boys were badly injured but one ended up dying as a result of trying to recreate the scene.

Disney responded by immediately editing the scene from the film while it was still in theaters, about a month after it premiered. Later releases of the film on DVD, Blu-Ray and on streaming are all devoid of the scene as well, which has been all but stricken from existence. 

8. “The Big Bang Theory” Pilot Dropped a Scene For Syndication

Heading to the small screen, the Big Bang Theory was one of the most popular sitcoms of the 2000s and the awkward, ultra nerd characters really struck a chord with some audiences such that it lasted an impressive 12 seasons.

Despite the success, there was one scene that was dropped from the show’s pilot episode on subsequent airings of the show, despite it being available for audiences to view for a short time. The show’s creator Chuck Lorre axed a scene from that first episode in which the characters of Sheldon and Leonard find themselves at a sperm bank.

You can still find the scene online and there’s nothing intrinsically unusual about it compared to the rest of the series, at least not on the surface. But if you’re a fan of the show and hadn’t seen that scene before, it would definitely strike you as out of character for Sheldon to be in a sperm bank. The character that the show turns him into never would have gone to such a place at all, so it made sense to remove the scene after the fact. 

7. Ed O’Neil Was Edited From a Movie Because Audiences Laughed at Him

Ed O’Neill rose to fame as Al Bundy on Married… With Children, a role that clearly defined him for a good part of his career. It wasn’t until Modern Family a full 12 years later that he found another major role in film or TV. That wasn’t for lack of trying, either. Al Bundy really ruined his shot at being taken seriously as an actor, a fact which was best displayed on the cutting room floor of the movie Flight of the Intruder.

Flight of the Intruder was a 1991 action film, made at what was arguably the height of O’Neill’s fame as Al Bundy. His role in the movie wasn’t even a big one, just a quick scene he wasn’t even being credited with. But audiences in test screenings laughed when he showed up on scene because, to them, Al Bundy had just appeared out of nowhere. It was such a problem the scene had to be deleted and then reshot with a different actor. 

6. FOX Cut Scenes From “The Predator” That Featured a Sex Offender

Shane Black is not the most prolific filmmaker, but he does make a splash with his movies. Black’s first film as director was Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, and he went on to direct Iron Man 3 and The Predator, while also writing some beloved classics like The Monster Squad and Lethal Weapon. 

Black’s work on The Predator was not particularly well received critically, but the movie did receive press for reasons no one, especially FOX, the studio behind the film, wanted. Black cast an actor in the movie named Steven Wilder Striegel. Previously, Striegel had also been in Black’s Iron Man 3 and The Nice Guys. He never played a major role in the films and he was cast because he and Black were buddies in real life. He was also a sex offender.

In the movie he had a very short scene where he tried to hit on Olivia Munn’s character. It lasted just a minute or two. It was Munn herself who discovered the actor’s history and then told the studio. Striegel, as it turned out, had pleaded guilty to trying to lure a 14-year-old girl on the internet.

Black was aware of Striegel’s past, as he had been when he cast him in those other films, and claimed he was just trying to help out a friend. FOX, for their part, cut ties with Striegel immediately, and deleted his scene. 

5. Deleted Frames Make the “Raiders of the Lost Ark” Villain Look Like He Eats a Bug

Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark is a hugely popular film that’s still a standout classic even today. One of the more infamous scenes in the film features the villainous Belloq, played by Paul Freeman, talking to Harrison Ford’s Jones. In the scene, a fly lands on Belloq’s lip and then seems to crawl into his mouth. You don’t see it fly out again and it seems like the character, or rather the actor, actually ate the bug.

In reality, a fly did land on Freeman’s face and director Steven Spielberg looked at it as an opportunity. A couple of frames of footage were deleted from the final scene, just enough to hide the fact that the fly flew away and instead make it look like he eats it. The sound team for the movie even included a more noticeable buzzing in the scene as well to really hammer the effect home as something of a joke on the unseemly character.

4. Several Minutes Were Cut From “Rain Man” When it Was Shown on Airplanes

In the movie Rain Man, Dustin Hoffman’s autistic character shares a wealth of random knowledge with his brother in various scenes but one of the more memorable ones includes the two of them at an airport with Hoffman rattling off statistics about airplane crashes as his brother tries to get him on a plane. 

The movie would go on to be very popular, one of Tom Cruise’s biggest hits of the 80s and, as was common for any popular movie of the time, it was shown as an in-flight movie sometimes. But no one wants to be on a plane listening to someone explain how often planes crash and kill people, so 15 airlines ended up editing the movie to remove the scene so no one on board would have to get stressed out as they watched. 

Not showing them in the airport does alter the narrative to a fairly significant degree since it explains why the characters had to drive and not fly, and the director wasn’t happy about it. A lot of context is loss and later scenes make no sense, but apparently airlines were more worried about keeping passengers docile than fully engaged in plot.

3. “Dr. Strangelove” Was Supposed to End With a Pie Fight 

Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove is considered one of the greatest satirical films ever, and is a classic of the black comedy genre. So it’s weird to imagine that there was another ending that went completely slapstick and included a pie fight.

Kubrick shot the ending scene in which everyone on set ended up covered in custard. He even had a photographer on set taking pictures which can still be found online. But the director ended up not liking the scene, feeling it was out of place in the greater picture. It was aired for test audiences right around the time of JFK’s assassination as well, and that seemed to have made the whole thing hit differently. He cut the scene, rewrote the film’s ending, and the pie scene has lived on in infamy, having been aired once in 1999.

2. LaToya Jackson’s Scene in “Bruno” was Cut When Her Brother Died

Sacha Baron Cohen is not a man known for having much tact and subtlety on camera, but we have to remember that’s mostly the characters he plays, not the man himself. Behind the scenes he clearly has a different mindset as witnessed by the scene he deleted from his 2009 movie Bruno.

Bruno is another of Cohen’s characters who, like Borat, blurs the lines between reality and fantasy. In this case, Bruno is an Austrian fashion journalist who is very openly gay and inappropriate most of the time.

There was to be a scene in the film featuring Bruno taking LaToya Jackson’s phone and getting her brother Michael’s phone number. On the day the movie was set to premiere, Michael Jackson died.

In response to the death, the studio cut the scene very quickly and never restored it to subsequent releases though it was available to watch as a special feature on the DVD release.

1. The Reason Yukon Cornelius Licks His Pickaxe Got Cut in 1965

You have probably seen the 1964 stop-motion Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer movie because they seem to have aired it literally every year since 1964 multiple times on multiple channels. It’s considered a holiday classic and features the story of the eponymous reindeer along with some friends including a fellow named Yukon Cornelius.

Since 1964, audiences have been perplexed by one aspect of the film relating to the prospector character of Cornelius. The man is constantly licking the end of his pickaxe and, in the context of the film, it makes no sense whatsoever. But that’s only because we lost the scene that explains it.

In 1965 there was apparently a write-in campaign from people who had watched the movie when it aired the previous year. They wanted more Misfit Toys. Jules Bass, one of the producers of the film, recalled that they tweaked the movie and that meant the loss of something called “The Peppermint Scene.”

It turns out, in the original broadcast, Yukon Cornelius discovers a peppermint mine. After that, he keeps licking his pickaxe because there’s peppermint on it. But with the loss of the scene he just seems like a bit of a weirdo.