In 1726, a woman convinced doctors she was giving birth to rabbits. 🐇

Filed by Max the Cryptid Reporter

Mary Toft, a 24-year-old English woman, claimed she was repeatedly giving birth to rabbits. And doctors actually believed her. The story became such a sensation that physicians were sent from London to investigate, and she was eventually brought before the royal court. Then she confessed. She had been secretly inserting pieces of rabbits and other animals and producing them as “births.” Several doctors had been completely fooled. Imagine being the doctor who had to explain to the King that