Siavash Boushehri

Siavash Bushehri (; 1913 – ), also known as Siah Khan or Siavash Khan , was a tall Iranian man from Shiraz, who suffered from physical and mental disability, as well as Proteus syndrome.

Biography

Siah Khan was born in 1913 in Lapui, a village in the Zarqan district, near Shiraz.

He grew normally until the age of six, but grew rapidly after that. His family migrated to Shiraz, and earned money by displaying their large and unusual child in the streets.

At the end of September 1920, he was rented for some time by a person named Khoshorkhan for 6,000 Tomans to be exhibited in Tehran. Dr. Ghorban, the founder of the Shiraz Medical School, found him in 1931 and provided him with financial and medical support. When he was taken to the hospital, Siah Khan was hospitalized for the rest of his life and eventually died of pneumonia and sepsis in 1938. His skeletal remains are now on public display in a glass case at Shiraz's Medical School.

Height Siah Khan often claimed and and later claimed to have grown to 8 ft 6. His arms measured 3 ft 10.06 in (117 cm), his legs were long, his skull weighed , and he couldn't stand due to his head being too heavy for him. His arms were reportedly so long that he had to wrap an arm once around his head to put food in his mouth.