Ep. 65 | Brain Freeze

MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries

Wondery | Ballen Studios

True Crime

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

A heroin user wakes up one morning, feeling strangely stiff. At first, his symptoms are mistaken for drug intoxication. But within days, the man is completely unable to move – and completely terrified. His doctors realize they’re dealing with something much more serious than a bad trip, but they have no idea what.

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime members, you can binge episode 65 through 72 right now and add free on Amazon Music. Download
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0:13.5	Early in July of 1982, a corrections officer made his rounds at a jail in San Jose, California.
0:20.4	Everything seemed normal as he inspected each inmate's
0:22.6	cell. But as the guard peered into the last cell on the row, he was startled by what he saw.
0:29.1	The inmate was sitting on his bunk, staring forward, his mouth hanging open. He looked
0:34.0	completely frozen, almost like something out of a wax museum. The guard gave the cell door a few loud knocks with his flashlight, but the inmate didn't move or even blink. The guard was afraid that the inmate was dead. So he unlocked the door and stepped into the cell, and he got right up next to the inmate, and when he did, he could feel breath coming from the man's
0:54.9	open mouth. So he knew he was alive. He gently touched the inmate to try to get him to react,
1:00.7	but he didn't. And that gentle tap made the man's whole body rocked back and forth on the bunk
1:06.0	like a rocking chair. The guy was stiff as a board. The guard had no idea what was going on, and he was feeling
1:12.2	very freaked out. But then he noticed the inmate's eyes. They had a look of absolute terror in
1:18.9	them. And the guard knew this man needed help right now. Kill List is a true story of how I ended up in a race against time to warn those who lives were in danger.
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2:13.9	From Ballin Studios and Wondry, I'm Mr. Ballin, and this is Mr. Ballin's Medical Mysteries,
2:19.4	where every week we will explore a new baffling mystery originating from the one place we all can't escape,
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