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MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries

Ep. 29 | It Came From the Basement

MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries

Wondery | Ballen Studios

True Crime

4.71.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

When a woman’s five-year-old son in Niagara Falls, New York, suddenly develops epilepsy, she becomes determined to figure out what made him sick. What she finds leads her to one of the biggest cover ups in American history.

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

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

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Download the app today. On a late summer morning in 1977, a five-year-old boy ran around the school playground with his friends.

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It was his first day of kindergarten in Niagara Falls, New York, and the little boy was having a blast.

0:29.0

He'd just gotten over a nasty cold, and so now he was thrilled to be feeling good

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enough again that he could actually keep up with the other kids.

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But as he chased after them over to the swings, the little boy began to feel strange. His head began to feel really heavy and also he

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couldn't really concentrate and then the next thing he knew he was waking up in the

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school nurse's office. The nurse was looking at him with a smile on her face, but the little boy could tell she was clearly worried about something.

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She told him he'd had something called a seizure.

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Now the boy wasn't sure what that was, but just way the nurse said it he knew it had to be serious

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Tears began to well up in the boy's eyes and the nurse immediately told him that his mom was on the way and she'd be there soon

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The boy wiped the tears away and tried to

1:14.3

put on a brave face but inside he was terrified. He wanted to believe his mom would

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show up and make everything okay again but at the same time he had never felt so strange

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before in his whole life and he knew deep down that there were some things

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parents just couldn't fix. He just hoped whatever was happening to him was not one of those things. I'm Aufu Hirsch, I'm Peter Francopan, and in our podcast, Legacy, we explore the lives of some of the biggest characters in history.

1:50.0

This season, we delve into the life of Alan Turing.

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Why are we talking about Alan Turing, Peter?

1:55.6

Alan Turing is the father of computer science,

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and some of those questions we're thinking about today

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around artificial intelligence, Turing was so involved in setting and

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