Indian youth with rare 'werewolf syndrome' receives prestigious Guinness world Record

An 18-year-old Indian youth has earned the Guinness World Records for the hairiest male face, with Guinness official measuring 201.72 hair per square centimeter on his face. 

Lalit Patidar has been awarded the record after living for 18 years with a rare hair growth condition called called hypertrichosis, also known as “werewolf syndrome”, as per UPI.

Only one out of a billion people have this condition, with only 50 such recorded cases since the Middle Ages making the hair growth ability a rare phenomenon.

Patidar has had hair on 90% of his face since he was a child.

He told the Guinness World Records that initially his school fellows were scared of him. "But when they started knowing me and talking to me they understood I was no different than them, and it was just on the outside that I looked different, but I'm not different inside."

Panditar added that people still tell him he should have removed the hair from his face.

"There is not much to say to people about that. I tell them that I like how I am and I don't want to change my look," Patidar said.

"I am speechless, I don't know what to say because I'm very happy to get this recognition," he said on achieving the record.