Indonesian lady says gust of wind made her pregnant, police start investigating
Indonesian police in the town of Cianjur, West Java, Indonesia are looking into a strange claim made by a 25-year-old woman who says that she was made pregnant by a gust of wind – not via sexual intercourse – and proceeded to give birth to a baby girl.
Even more strange is the claim made by the woman named Siti Zainah that it all happened within the span of an hour. According to news outlets with whom she spoke to, Zainah apparently found herself pregnant one Wednesday afternoon whilst idling in her living room.
“After afternoon prayers, I was lying face down on the floor when I suddenly felt wind enter my body through my vagina,” she told a local news outlet.
She said that a pain in her stomach appeared 15 minutes after the incident, and the bump in her abdomen grew bigger. Shortly after, she gave birth to a healthy baby girl at a nearby community clinic.
Zainah’s story spread rapidly, earning her widespread ridicule, and more importantly, attention from the authorities. Over the weekend, the head of the sub-precinct and the head of the local community clinic visited the mother – who already had one child with an ex-husband that she separated from four months prior – and her newborn.
Zainah (left) and her newborn baby (right). IMAGE: LADbible
“After checks, the mother and baby are healthy and the birth was normal. The baby’s gender is female and weighs 2.9 kilograms,” said the head of the community clinic Eman Suleiman.
Supernatural or something else?
According to Suleiman, the incident was likely a case of cryptic pregnancy, where the mother isn’t actually aware of her own pregnancy until the moment she enters labor – the most probable explanation and one that dismisses her claims of having a one-hour gestation period before birthing her baby girl.
Police investigating the issue have noted all possibilities, including her previous marriage to her now-separated husband.
“We want to clear up the confusing news about the woman’s birth which many perceive to be unnatural,” said the sub-precinct chief Sumardi. “We want to avoid this incident from creating rumors among the public.”
Some have suggested that Zainah also possibly used the story as a cover-up for a pregnancy outside of wedlock – a stigma-loaded circumstance that tends to draw plenty of scrutiny and ire within Indonesia’s more religious communities.
Curiously, this also isn’t the first case of such “immaculate conception”-type incidences in Indonesia. According to news portal Coconuts, one such similar case happened in July last year, while in 2017, a supposed virgin gave birth to a “magical baby” after a three-hour gestation period.
Were all of these supernatural incidents or simply far-out alibis? You decide for yourself.
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