A question I often get from researchers is: do I have any unusual marks or scars on your body?
At first I just answered no, and later I realized I have a scar on my nose (click HERE for more info). And recently I found an odd scratch on my torso (click HERE).
There are only two dots that remain distinct, the third has almost completely faded away. I can still see the third dot in certain light, but it is very indistinct. I drew in a red circle where it appears on my arm.
I realized that I have a funny triangle shaped set of three pock-marks below my wrist on my left arm. I have had these since (as best as I can recall) elementary school, and that means about 1974 or so. I just turned 48, so these marks have been on my arm for about 36 years (and that is a rough guess). As a boy, I would marvel at how perfection of the triangular shape. I have no memory of getting any sort of medical inoculation. If this is simply a vaccine scar, someone PLEASE tell me. I did a quick search for "vaccine scars" and "inoculation scars" and saw a lot of gruesome images, but none that even remotely matched what I have on my arm.
I took photos today, after shaving the hair off the small area. I put a little vegetable oil on the area to help see the dots and took macro photos with a digital point and shoot in the bright sunshine next to a window. I also increased the contrast on the digital photo (using photoshop) and this helped bring the image out a little more clearly. Please note, I included an un-altered photo at the end of this post, as well as a photoshop recreation as to how they appeared in my youth. The dots are all 3/8 inch apart from each other.
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This is a photoshop recreation. This is how I remember it looked in my youth, I was fascinated by the curious symmetry of the dots.
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The red lines show the location of the triangular dot pattern on my arm. The tiny dots themselves are difficult to see in this wide view. |
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Digital image without any contrast change. This is how the dots presently appear. You can see how the lower left dot has faded, but it still visible. |
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ADDED TEXT June 2011:
There is a follow up to this post. This essay has been one of the most popular on this blog, here's a LINK where I speculate why that might be.
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