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There is no shortage of bizarre stories these days, but an utterly bonkers tale from 2008 surfaced on our radars again this week, and we just had to share.

In 2008, detectives in the small town of Ness City, Kansas were called to a scene that left them stunned. They discovered that 35-year-old Pam Babcock had apparently been sitting on her boyfriend’s toilet seat for two years. The situation was so bad, the woman’s skin had actually grown around the seat and it had to be removed surgically.

At the time there were questions about why her boyfriend, Kory McFarren, waited so long to call anyone and whether he should be charged with a crime.

He claims the woman in question had a phobia about leaving the bathroom caused by beatings she received in her childhood – and that it was her choice to stay in there. “She is an adult; she made her own decision,” McFarren contends.

“I should have gotten help for her sooner; I admit that. But after a while, you kind of get used to it.”

The 36-year-old antique store worker insists the odd arrangement simply evolved over time and it got to the point where he no longer thought of it as strange. “It just kind of happened one day; she went in and had been in there a little while, the next time it was a little longer. Then she got it in her head she was going to stay – like it was a safe place for her,” he outlines.

During her time on the throne, she was believed to have taken baths, changed clothes and eaten the food he served her in the room. He would come in to talk to her and they had otherwise normal conversations. It’s just that they all happened in the washroom.

When Babcock appeared groggy and listless one day, after spending as much as a month on the seat, McFarren panicked and finally called for help. Paramedics found her disoriented, her legs atrophied from disuse, and she had literally grown into the seat.

“She was not glued. She was not tied. She was just physically stuck by her body. It’s hard to imagine.”

And even then it wasn’t easy. Babcock initially refused to leave her lavatory sanctuary but paramedics finally convinced her she needed to be checked out. The couple has been together for 16 years and McFerrin is adamant that he tried to coax her out of her hiding place every day since she took up her post, but to no avail. “Her reply would be, ‘Maybe tomorrow.’”

Naturally, a tale such as this is terribly sad, but the interview with her boyfriend on local TV news does provide a bit of hilarity to the otherwise strange situation.

 

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