47-year-old Jamie Keeton also known as the “human suction cup” has a mysterious medical condition in which his skin acts like a suction cup.
According to Dr. Win Myint, Keeton’s doctor in Oak Lawn, Illinois, his skin acts like suction cups on the tentacles of an octopus. Keeton’s skin can “suck up things”, including bottles, cans and other inanimate objects to his head and other body parts. He can do it without the things falling off.
“I’m not quite sure why his skin is like that, but he is definitely not sick and in fairly good shape,” Myint said. “It’s a mystery.”
Keeton first discovered his unique ability over 20 years ago.
“I had shaved my head for the first time,” he said. “It was a hot day, and I was trying to cool my head down by holding a soda pop to it. But then the team hit a home run and I let go of my soda to try and grab the ball, but I missed. Then I was like, ‘Where’s my drink?’
“It turned out, it was stuck to the back of my head horizontally and the drink was pouring out. Everyone was laughing,” he explained.
Keeton says that he can stick “just about anything” to his head and the rest of his body. However, not “everything”. He can’t stick any porous material on his head or body, such as clothing. He said, “I’m famous for cans, but I can do other objects: cellphones, keys, bottles.”
His ability was so entertaining to people that he’s built a full-time career out of it. “In the last five years, I’ve made it into a business,” he said. “People pay me to wear their products, to advertise their names or business on my shirt or cans. I also MC events, concerts, sporting events, parties, anything.”
He further added that at the NASCAR event, 80,000 photos of him were taken in just one day! He says it’s exciting for him and his family. However, he tries to stay humble about it. He said, “It’s exciting for me and my friends and family. But I try to stay humble. One of my friends said if my head gets too big, he’ll knock me out.”
