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add free on Amazon Music. Download the app today. In November of 2007, a scientist stood on the edge of a 50-foot-wide crater in the Peruvian high desert.

The crater was full of water.

But despite its innocent-looking appearance, this crater full of water held incredible danger.

When it formed two months earlier, hundreds of people and animals in the area had gotten

violently sick, and so far no one had come up with a good explanation

for how this was possible. In fact according to the laws of physics the

crater shouldn't even exist it was a mystery that had researchers all over the planet scratching their heads.

But as the scientist stared down into the big crater, he thought he might have the answer to both of these mysteries.

And if he was right, it would mean that the threat

posed by this crater was far greater than anyone imagined. Each week on the Mr. Ballin podcast, now available wherever you get your podcasts,

you'll hear strange dark and mysterious stories about inexplicable

encounters, shocking disappearances, true crime cases, and everything in between.

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wherever you get your podcast. From Ballin Studios and Wundry, I'm Mr. Ballin, and this is Mr. Ballin's medical mysteries,

where every week we will explore a new baffling mystery originating from the one place we all can't escape, our own bodies.

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