My Shocking Story

My Shocking Story is a documentary television series originally broadcast in 2008 on Discovery Channel UK. It was broadcast by The Learning Channel in the United States, Discovery Channel Australia and Seven Network in Australia and Discovery Channel Italy in Italy. The series documents unusual or shocking medical ailments and conditions.

Episodes

Series One

"Half-Man Half-tree
"World's Fattest Kids"
"My Big Foot"
"The Man With No Face"
"World's Smallest Mom"
"World's Smallest Kids"

Series Two

"Octoboy"
"Human Spider Sisters", about the Spider Girls, conjoined twins from India
"Treeman Meets Treeman"
"World's Tallest Giants"
"Albino Crisis"
"Giant Head"
"Treeman: Search for The Cure"
"Human Face Transplant"
"Real Wolf Kids"
"Octopus Man"
"Electric Human"
"Freak Show Family"
"Coma Miracle"
"Burnt And Survived"
"Which Sex Am I?"
"World's Heaviest Man"
"Reconstruct My Face"
"Can't Stop Growing"
"Rewire My Brain"
"Save Me Before I'm Born"
"Sleep Sex"

Reception

Laura Brown of the Sunday Times called the series "spectacular as it chronicles the lives of patients with unusual medical conditions". The Age television critic Brad Newsome praised as "wonderful" the moments during which Dede and Zainal, two people afflicted with warts, meet. Kerrie Murphy of The Australian said the show "handl[es] the topics with the sort of sensitivity unexpected from a show with that title" and called it an "affecting documentary".

References

↑ "Five takes on 'My Shocking Story'". Digital Spy. 7 April 2008. Retrieved 1 January 2026.
↑ https://www.tvsa.co.za/shows/viewshowabout.aspx?showid=780
↑ Beckett, Angharad E. (3 July 2013). "Non-disabled children's ideas about disability and disabled people". British Journal of Sociology of Education. 35 (6): 856–875. doi:10.1080/01425692.2013.800444. ISSN 0142-5692.
↑ Durbach, N. (1 January 2014). ""Skinless Wonders": Body Worlds and the Victorian Freak Show". Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. 69 (1): 38–67. doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrs035. ISSN 0022-5045.
↑ Souza, Virgínia Laís de (17 July 2013). "O corpo monstruoso: da espetacularização midiática às práticas de resistência". Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo.
↑ Brown, Laura (24 May 2009). "Pick of the Week". Sunday Times. Retrieved 1 January 2026.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
↑ Newsome, Brad (28 February 2010). "Pay TV - Sunday, February 21". The Age. Retrieved 1 January 2026.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
↑ Murphy, Kerrie (11 December 2010). "Quick Bites --- Friday December 17". The Australian. Retrieved 1 January 2026.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
↑ Murphy, Kerrie (9 October 2010). "Quick Bites - Friday October 15". The Australian. Retrieved 1 January 2026.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)

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[1] "Five takes on 'My Shocking Story'". Digital Spy. 7 April 2008. Retrieved 1 January 2026.

[2] ttps://www.tvsa.co.za/shows/viewshowabout.aspx?showid=780

[3] Beckett, Angharad E. (3 July 2013). "Non-disabled children's ideas about disability and disabled people". British Journal of Sociology of Education. 35 (6): 856–875. doi:10.1080/01425692.2013.800444. ISSN 0142-5692.

[4] Durbach, N. (1 January 2014). ""Skinless Wonders": Body Worlds and the Victorian Freak Show". Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. 69 (1): 38–67. doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrs035. ISSN 0022-5045.

[5] Souza, Virgínia Laís de (17 July 2013). "O corpo monstruoso: da espetacularização midiática às práticas de resistência". Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo.

[Brown2009-05-24-6] Brown, Laura (24 May 2009). "Pick of the Week". Sunday Times. Retrieved 1 January 2026.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)

[Newsome2010-02-28-7] Newsome, Brad (28 February 2010). "Pay TV - Sunday, February 21". The Age. Retrieved 1 January 2026.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)

[Murphy2010-12-11-8] Murphy, Kerrie (11 December 2010). "Quick Bites --- Friday December 17". The Australian. Retrieved 1 January 2026.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)

[Murphy2010-10-09-9] Murphy, Kerrie (9 October 2010). "Quick Bites - Friday October 15". The Australian. Retrieved 1 January 2026.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)