During a family trip to the beach, 4-year-old Paul Franklin fell and scuffed his right knee. That 's not unusual; little boys do all the time. It 's what surfaced from his inflamed knee that makes this a story fascinating: a snail. Paul of California was walking along the beach in Alison Viejo, California when he grazed his knee against a rock. Paul’s dad Ken Franklin told CNN that they just cleaned the wound and put a Band-Aid on it. A couple of weeks later, his knee began to swell and looked somewhat infected. The boy’s mother, Rachael, promptly brought him to the doctor, who diagnosed that that it might be a vicious infection. The infection was minimized by the antibiotics, but black bump underneath the skin continued to grow. Racheal