Rumour has it that when he was a youngen of about 8 or 9 he had black-man calves, so his father took him to a farm where they found a dead, bloated cow. The cow had been in its second month of pregnancy. Legends say that if you stab a dead cow and harvest the gas that is bloating it, and remove the baby cow fetus you can make an elixir that will bestow the drinker with calves of elephantine proportions. The exact recipe for this concoction has been lost over time, but as you can see Fankhouser's calves are now at such a size that they dwarf his entire body. Be careful what you wish for...