4-year-old Paul Franklin knee scratch revealed growing see snails - an incident earlier at a beach was pointed out to be the cause.

During a family trip to a local beach, Franklin fell on his knees against a rock. He was not seriously injured, only a minor scratch was the visible on the area that hit the rock.

"We just cleaned it up, put a Band-Aid on it," Paul's father, Ken Franklin, shared. "Before you know it, a couple weeks later, his knee was very swollen and somewhat infected."

His attending doctor told Paul's mom that it was possibly a staph infection, and prescribed some antibiotics to get rid of the bacteria.

His mother became very worried, and began to suspect gangrene when the antibiotics didn't seem to work. Later, she became very aggressive towards the situation when she finds a black bump starting to appear overtly under her son's skin.

She inferred that the wound needed to be drained, so she squeezed it using her own hands and out popped the black bump.

"It looked like a rock. It was a black thing. I put it on a paper towel and I'm like, 'That is a weird looking rock. It has swirls on it,' and I turn it over and it is a sea snail," she told the nearby station.

It was only then when the family then realized that a snail egg penetrated Paul's knee scratch a few weeks earlier during that unfortunate event at the beach.

Paul's reaction on the issue however was a simple, "I thought it was kind of crazy."

Moreover, he took full responsibility of owning, and taking care of the snail.

According to the Orange County Register, he even named it 'Turbo' after a character from an animated feature.