Ep. 6 | Blood Feast

MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries

Wondery | Ballen Studios

True Crime

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

One night in 1944, over 300 patients at a mental hospital in Oregon become violently sick after eating dinner. Many of them die. An investigation is quickly launched to determine the source of this deadly illness. Was there something wrong with the food itself? Or could it have been the work of a deranged killer?

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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. In 1944, a doctor.
0:14.0	In 1944, a doctor
0:20.0	in 1994, a doctor covered a deceased patient's body with a sheet and then wheeled their
0:25.9	stretcher out into the hallway.
0:28.2	The morgue at the Oregon State Hospital was already full, so the doctor planned to put this body in the chapel. But when he
0:34.8	pushed open the chapel doors, there were already so many stretchers with
0:39.2	dead patients with sheets on them inside that there was no room for this patient.
0:44.6	The doctor closed the chapel's heavy wooden doors and just stood there, his mind racing.
0:49.9	More than 400 patients had fallen violently ill in the past 12 hours and dozens had died.
0:56.0	The doctor had no idea what the cause was and if he couldn't figure it out, he knew more
1:00.7	bodies would be joining the ones already lining the inside of the chapel.
1:08.8	On the new podcast American Criminal, you'll learn about the fraud, theft, and murder that marks the dark
1:15.9	side of the American dream. Like the Menendez murders. Was it two greedy kids who killed
1:21.6	their parents for money or is there more?
1:24.8	Listen to American Criminal, wherever you get your podcasts.
1:28.9	Each week on the Mr. Ballin Podcast, now available wherever you get your podcasts, you'll hear strange, dark, and mysterious
1:34.9	stories about inexplicable encounters, shocking disappearances, true crime cases, and everything in between.
1:41.1	So go listen to Mr. Ballin podcast, Strange, Dark and
1:44.1	Mysterious Stories on Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcasts.
1:50.3	From Ballin Studios and Wundry, I'm Mr. Ballin, and this is Mr. Ballin's Medical Mysteries,
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