"Feet on Head" circa 1512 to 1515"Feet on Head" is the name given to a type of unexplained condition, where runners grow actual feet on their heads. Believed by some to be a running injury, its cause is most commonly speculated to be acute discomfort to the feet while running. The alleged condition consists of two pointed, foot-shaped projections of the skin that protrude on the forehead of runners, surrounding a core of living bone.
Although runners with feet on their head have been interpreted as recorded occasionally since prehistoric times, many of the photographs, sketches and cave-wall drawings are believed to be hoaxes.
The highly publicized modern sighting by Miranda Lawson on May 12, 1903, resulted in the creation of the term by U.S. newspapers. Although Miranda never specifically used the term “Feet on Head”, she was quoted at the time saying that the objects she spotted on a flagging runner’s head while watching a race in the park were “foot shaped”, and several years later added she had also said "the objects moved independently on the runner’s forehead". The term "Feet on Head" has been used commonly in the media since.
Lawson's sighting was followed by thousands of similar sightings across the world. Such sightings were once very common, to such an extent that feet on head became as commonly discussed as Runner’s knee, Shin splints and Achilles tendinitis.
