4. Fur Babies

If we heard that a woman gave birth to a rabbit today, we would immediately peg it as a hoax. That wasn’t the case back in 1726. Mary Toft was an English peasant who convinced reputable doctors that she was giving birth to rabbits! It all started when Toft was 25 and pregnant. Since she was a peasant, she had to labor while pregnant, which resulted in a painful miscarriage for poor Mary. A month after this miscarriage, Mary again gave “birth” to a rabbit leg. 

The local doctor immediately wrote to esteemed doctors across England about this abnormality. Famous doctors flocked to see Mary, who had become a local celebrity and kept giving birth to unalive rabbits. Mary said the reason she kept giving birth to rabbits was that she was startled by one out in the fields while she was pregnant. The hoax was eventually revealed. To this day, we still don’t know Mary and her family’s motivation for pulling such a dangerous stunt.