India, July 22 -- A doctor has sparked widespread online curiosity after sharing a bizarre X-ray image that reveals a rare medical condition known as lithopedion, or 'stone baby'. The image, posted on X (formerly Twitter) by Dr Sam Ghali, quickly went viral, garnering more than 488k views and prompting numerous reactions from baffled users.

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"Here's one of the craziest X-rays I've ever seen," Ghali wrote in the caption. "What's the diagnosis?"

The image appears to show a foetus calcified inside a woman's body-a phenomenon so unusual that many users initially questioned whether it was real.

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In a follow-up post, Dr G...