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MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries

Ep. 26 | The Birds

MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries

Wondery | Ballen Studios

True Crime

4.71.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

In the summer of 1999, a mysterious outbreak rages through New York City, paralyzing and even killing its victims. Doctors scramble for a solution, not realizing the answer is lying at their feet.

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Download the app today. In late July of 1999 a 35 year old woman stepped out of her apartment building in Manhattan, New York, just as the sun was coming up.

0:26.0

It had been an especially hot summer, so she'd been going for runs as early as possible to try to beat the heat.

0:32.0

She strapped her walkman to her waistband and settled headphones over her ears

0:36.0

as she jogged down the sidewalk toward the park.

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But when she turned the corner, she came to a sudden stop.

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Just in front of her in the middle of the corner, she came to a sudden stop.

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Just in front of her in the middle of the sidewalk lay something big and black.

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The woman peered at the motionless object and saw that it was covered with these blue and black

0:52.3

feathers.

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She inches closer and realized it was a huge dead crow.

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Then she glanced at the sidewalk ahead of her and she gasped.

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Dead crows were all over the sidewalk. She counted six or six. and she

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counted six or seven scattered all down the street.

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The woman looked around her trying to find some kind of explanation for what she was

1:11.3

seeing, but as she did, another crow right above her suddenly stopped flying and fell to the ground with a thud.

1:18.0

Clearly something in this park was killing these birds, but the woman had no idea what it was.

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I'm Peter Frankapern.

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And I'm Afro-Hirsch.

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1:40.6

Full disclosure this is a big one for me.

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