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Every couple of months I notice an abnormal, particularly thick whisker growing out of the right side of my neck just above my laryngeal prominence (Adam’s apple). The most recent time I found one of these I pulled it out and saved it so that I could photograph it. Here it is compared to a normal whisker removed from the same part of my neck after not shaving for approximately one week. Click on the photo or here for the photo at full resolution.
I get those too. Usually 1-3 over a week or two in the “fu manchu” area of my goatee and on my upper neck. I call them “monster whiskers” and they are very thick and very easy to pull as if the body wants them gone. I have also had some that grew undetected in my beard until much longer and they have split into many branches and look like a tiny bonzai tree when I pull them.
Must be some kind of follicle mutation.