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Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

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Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

True Crime, Fiction, Drama, History

4.83.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

A woman loses the ability to move her arms, A man bursts into flames from seemingly nowhere, and one of the most notorious assassinations in history. What they all have in common may surprise you.

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Heart Starts Pounding is written and produced by Kaelyn Moore.

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0:00.0

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0:34.0

On September 27, 1868, Dr. Louis Sayer made a house call to a 19-year-old girl who had been complaining of not feeling well for a while.

0:44.0

Her name has been redacted in the case file, but will refer to her as Alice.

0:49.0

Alice thought she may be suffering from a spinal disease.

0:53.0

She had been feeling a general malaise for a few years, but recently, her arms had gotten incredibly stiff.

1:00.0

When Dr. Sayer first arrived at her home, he was confused by her condition.

1:06.0

Alice greeted the doctor at the door with her arms hung by her side and her hands frozen at 90-degree angles.

1:13.0

She had lost the ability to extend her wrists beyond that, and her fingers seemed to be frozen in place as well.

1:21.0

It wasn't that she had lost the ability to move her wrists and hands, but almost like they had taken on a life of their own.

1:28.0

Upon closer inspection, Dr. Sayer could see the muscles and Alice's hands and forearms had atrophied significantly.

1:36.0

The bones in her hands were almost as defined as if there were no skin on them at all.

1:41.0

He described it as if there were a tight skin glove over her bones.

1:47.0

Because of this, Alice had stopped being able to do really anything that required her hands.

1:52.0

She could no longer brush her hair or even feed herself.

1:56.0

Dr. Sayer had asked how long she had been living like this, to which she responded that her hands started giving her trouble a few months ago.

2:04.0

First, it was stiffness and cramps, but recently, she stopped being able to use them at all, and now, she couldn't even get her fingers to bend.

2:15.0

Over the summer, she told him, she had a fever, after which she rode a horse and had trouble holding the reins.

2:22.0

Another doctor had told her it was a spinal issue and gave her a spinal supporter, telling her that she should be back to normal in a couple of weeks.

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