Episode 72: A Grave Mistake

Lore

Aaron Mahnke

True Crime, Ghost, Folklore, Legends, Supernatural, Paranormal, Lore, Monsters, Myth, History, Spooky

4.6 • 46.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2017

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Humans have a seemingly never-ending list of fears. The dark of night, small spaces, open water…there doesn’t seem to be an area of life that doesn’t come with a few reasons to take pause and be afraid. But the greatest of those fears might just...

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0:00.0	Humans are emotional creatures, and for better or worse, those emotions are deeply connected
0:18.5	to our bodies.
0:20.2	You might think it's something that's impossible to prove, but the evidence is there, if you
0:25.1	know where to look.
0:26.6	Dr. Hunter Champion is one of those who's found it.
0:31.8	He is a heart failure cardiologist and medical researcher, and over the course of his career,
0:37.5	he's documented at least 250 cases of what he would call stress cardiomyopathy.
0:43.9	You and I might use another term for it though, and say that someone has been shocked to
0:49.7	death.
0:51.9	Some examples are connected to people who have lost a spouse or a child, while others
0:56.6	are simply victims of a sudden event, an armed robbery, a heated argument, or a surprise
1:03.0	birthday party.
1:04.7	It's biologically simple too.
1:07.2	Hormones like adrenaline and noripinephrine are released into our bloodstream every time
1:12.4	we experience a highly stressful situation.
1:16.0	Enough of them, and it can be toxic for our hearts.
1:19.7	And this includes fear.
1:22.1	People have been known to literally die of fright, which is troubling because if we're
1:27.2	honest with ourselves, we all have a lot of fears.
1:31.3	Natural disaster, fire, the IRS, and let's not forget spiders, especially those enormous
1:38.7	ones in Australia.
1:42.0	A brief survey of our most common fears highlights a pattern though.
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