An Illinois woman with a rare medical condition almost died when her skull began sliding off her spine. Back in 2016, Megan ...

Megan King from Illinois survived a rare injury where her skull detached from her spine after a football accident at 16.

In 1848, the then-25-year-old Gage was in a work accident in which an iron rod shot through the front of his skull and all the way through and he survived, according to the outlet. However, he ...

Doctors opened the back of his skull and saw part of the cerebellum, the bottom-most portion of the brain, had been damaged by the rod, but the spinal cord and spinal artery remained intact.