Meet the Mexican 'Wolf Man' Battling Isolation of Rare Medical Condition Agence France-Presse
go to original October 14, 2015

Chuy, El Hombre Lobo: Jesus Aceves, Mexican 'Wolf Man' Star of Documentary (IMCINE)

Jesus Aceves may never get used to people’s stares, but after decades of alcoholism and a painful career as a circus freak, he has made a resolution: To stop burying his hair-covered face in his hands.

Aceves, a 41-year-old Mexican man, has an extremely rare condition called hypertrichosis, also known as “werewolf syndrome” — an abnormal amount of hair growth on the face and body.

Just 50 cases of hypertrichosis have ever been documented. Thirteen of them — seven men and six women — are members of the same Mexican family from the town of Loreto in the central state of Zacatecas.

One of those family members is Aceves, who goes by the nickname “Chuy” and has struggled to deal with the social fallout of the condition all his life.

“Why did God make me this way? Why am I different?” Aceves says he has asked himself since he was small.

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