The Internets say it’s real so let’s go with it!

A woman in Russia was mugged on her way home and in the ensuing scuffle she was stabbed in the back of the neck.

However, she did not realized it until she got home later.

In a story that seems too crazy to be true, the story has circulated around as this picture lends credence to the events.

An extraordinary picture that has gone around the world of a knife plunged into the back of a woman mugging victim is genuine, it was revealed by doctors in Moscow tonight.

Julia Popova, 22, was stabbed by a mugger as she walked home from work one day last autumn – but she was so traumatised by the attack that she walked home without realising the knife was embedded in her, just a fraction of an inch from her spinal cord.

In the image, blood is shown gushing from the wound as surgeons stare in awe, apparently preparing to operate to remove the six-inch blade.