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MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries

Ep. 25 | It Moves

MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries

Wondery | Ballen Studios

True Crime

4.71.9K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

A young woman working on a fishing vessel in Alaska begins experiencing a strange burning sensation in her eye. What she finds inside her eyelid makes her skin crawl.

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Hey Prime members, you can binge episodes 25 through 32 of Mr.

0:04.4

Bollin's Medical Mysteries right now and add free on Amazon Music.

0:08.4

Download the app today. One summer afternoon in 2016, in 2016, a young woman squeezed into the tiny bathroom on board a fishing vessel.

0:25.0

She locked the door behind her and leaned in close to the mirror to get a good look at her face,

0:30.0

in particular her left eye, which was disturbingly red.

0:35.0

She used both hands to stretch the skin back around her eye, and the tissue along the

0:39.6

edge of her eyelid looked totally strange. So she just ran a finger along it and then suddenly

0:45.4

something dislodged from her eye. It was the small sliver of fuzz about the size and thickness of a carpet fiber.

0:54.8

The woman leaned in closer to the mirror and delicately pinched this weird strand

1:00.2

and pulled it away from her eye.

1:03.0

She held it up to the bathroom light trying to figure out what it was,

1:06.0

and to her surprise, it was almost half an inch long.

1:10.0

As she stood there wondering how on earth this weird piece of fiber had gotten wedged in her eye,

1:15.9

something strange happened. The little strand began to move. from Wandaonary, this is The Spy Who. This month we open the file on Oleg Lellen, the spy who saved MI5.

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1:51.0

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