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Jamie "Canhead" Keeton was born c. 1969 and is also known as a "human suction cup". He now lives in Kenosha, Wisconsin and has made a career out of demonstrating his abilities. He holds the Guinness World Record for the most cans stuck on his head using air suction.
Background
Keeton has a medical condition which allows his skin to act like a suction cup. He can hold non-porous items to his head and other parts of his body. Because of this condition he has been called the human suction cup.[1] He claims that when he was a child, he began to notice that his toys and other objects were sticking to his body. His parents suspected that he had sticky pine sap on his body from climbing trees.[2] He discovered that he could stick items to his body when he attended a baseball game. During the game he was rubbing a can on his head to cool down when a player hit a home run. he went up to get the ball and discovered that the can was stuck to his head. He sought a medical opinion and his doctor determined that his skin takes in more oxygen than average. This causes his oxygen level to be 23 percent higher than normal.[3]
Career
He has made a career of making appearances and advertising products.[1] He claims that he makes ten to twenty thousand dollars a weekend going to events and marketing products.[3]
He has appeared on television shows to demonstrate his talent. He was on The Ellen DeGeneres Show and The Late Late Show with James Corden. In 2016 he appeared on a British nature documentary series produced by the BBC called, Nature's Weirdest Events. In a teaser for the show they called Keeton "Human-octopus hybrid guy".[4] In 2020 he appeared on a television show that features extreme talents: the Go-Big Show on TBS.[5]
On 1 June 2022, he broke the Guinness World Record for the most cans (10) stuck on his head using air suction. It was a record that he had previously held. He had originally set the record in 2016 with 8 cans, but in 2019 Shunichi Kanno of Japan broke the record with 9 cans. In 2022 Keeton again became the record holder when he was able to stick ten cans.[3]
References
- ^ a b Tan, Avianne (20 January 2016). "Illinois Man's Mysterious Medical Condition Makes Him a Human Suction Cup". ABC News. Retrieved 7 September 2022.
- ^ Johnson, Mike (14 July 2022). "Kenoshan of the Week: Jamie "Canhead" Keeton". Kenosha. Retrieved 7 September 2022.
- ^ a b c ""I'm a real-life mutant": Jamie Keeton on his amazingly sticky skin". Guinness World Records. Guinness World Records Limited. Retrieved 7 September 2022.
- ^ Varley, Ciaran. "Five reasons why you have to watch Nature's Weirdest Events". BBC. BBC. Retrieved 7 September 2022.
- ^ Foran, Chris (31 December 2020). "Jamie 'Can Head' Keeton, Kenosha's human suction cup, is hoping to stick on TBS talent competition 'Go-Big Show'". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Retrieved 7 September 2022.