X-ray shows SpongeBob SquarePants inside of child

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When Dr. Ghofran Ageely received the X-ray of his 16-month-old patient, he was not expecting to see SpongeBob SquarePants looking back at him.

The radiology resident at King Abdulaziz University Hospital in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, was caught off guard when he saw the cartoon character clearly show up in the image. "I thought it was just a pin," Ageely told ABC News in an email. "But when I opened the front view I was shocked to see SpongeBob looking at me with a big smile. Its angle and rotation are just perfect."

The tiny figure appeared to be a pendant, and it was safely removed from the child through a scope.

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.