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Revision as of 15:26, 29 September 2022
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 has a unique skin condition which allows his skin to take in more oxygen than a normal person. 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 noticed 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.[3][4]
Keeton 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, and anything non-porous will stick to his skin.[3][4] He claims to have an average body temperature of 100 degrees Fahrenheit. He also states that as a result of his skin condition his wounds heal faster than a normal person, that his skin is smoother than most people's skin and that he is stronger than other people. The skin condition has no name and Keeton claims to be one of only four people in the world who have this type of skin. Keeton's blood type is A negative and he was born prematurely. Some people think that Keeton suffers from sticky skin syndrome.[4]
Career
He has made a career of making appearances and advertising products.[1] He claims that because of his skin condition, he can make ten to twenty thousand dollars per weekend from paid appearances at events and from 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 "the human-octopus hybrid guy".[5] In 2020 he appeared on the Go-Big Show on TBS, a television show that features extreme talents.[6]
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 d ""I'm a real-life mutant": Jamie Keeton on his amazingly sticky skin". Guinness World Records. Retrieved 7 September 2022.
- ^ a b c Weissman, Elena (12 July 2018). "Meet Kenosha's Jamie 'Can Head' Keeton, the human suction cup". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Retrieved 11 September 2022.
- ^ Varley, Ciaran (23 November 2016). "Five reasons why you have to watch Nature's Weirdest Events". 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.