Ep. 2 | Tigers on the Ceiling

MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries

Wondery | Ballen Studios

True Crime

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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In 1951, dozens of people in the small French town of Pont St. Esprit fall ill with nausea, chills, and stomach pains. At first, the local doctor suspects food poisoning, but when the symptoms turn into hallucinations, violence, and even suicide, he realizes that something much more sinister is at play.

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0:00.0	Hey Prime members, you can binge episode 17 through 24 of Mr.
0:05.1	Bollin's Medical Mysteries right now and add free on Amazon Music.
0:09.4	Download the app today. One summer afternoon a French farmer stood at his kitchen door watching in fear as his dog ran in manic circles around his barnyard.
0:28.0	The normally gentle animal had gone insane.
0:31.0	Every time the farmer tried to grab him by the collar, the dog snapped at him and then
0:35.1	went back to running in its crazy circles. But suddenly, the dog stopped running. He sniffed at the
0:41.4	ground, then bit down on a rock and chewed on it so hard his mouth started to bleed.
0:47.0	Nothing the farmer did could get him to stop.
0:50.0	The dog just kept chewing on more and more rocks until blood was running down his mouth and his teeth were starting to fall out.
0:58.0	What the farmer couldn't know as he watched his beloved dog go crazy was that only two days later he the farmer
1:04.4	would be the one running around that same yard screaming incoherently like a madman.
1:09.1	It was an inexplicable horror that would spread throughout the entire village
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2:08.0	From Ballin Studios and Wundry, I'm Mr. Ballin, and this is Mr. Ballin's Medical Mysteries,
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