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MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries

Audible | Ballen Studios

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4.7 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Following the epic crossover between MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries and Redacted: Declassified Mysteries, hosted by Luke Lamana, we’re revisiting some of our favorite episodes where the line between medical mystery and dark conspiracy becomes blurred.

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	Wondry Plus subscribers can listen to new episodes of Mr. Bollins Medical Mysteries early and ad-free right now.
0:06.0	Join Wondry Plus in the Wondry app or on Apple Podcasts.
0:15.0	In 1944, a doctor covered a deceased patient's body with a sheet and then wheeled their
0:24.9	stretcher out into the hallway.
0:26.8	The morgue at the Oregon State Hospital was already full, so the doctor planned to put this
0:31.5	body in the chapel.
0:33.2	But when he pushed open the chapel doors, there were already so many stretchers with dead
0:38.5	patients with sheets on them inside that there was no room for this patient.
0:43.4	The doctor closed the chapel's heavy wooden doors and just stood there his mind racing.
0:48.7	More than 400 patients had fallen violently ill in the past 12 hours, and dozens had died. The doctor had no idea what
0:56.4	the cause was, and if he couldn't figure it out, he knew more bodies would be joining the ones
1:01.3	already lining the inside of the chapel.
1:07.4	Hey, it's Mr. Ballin. Our new crossover episode, a redacted medical mystery, brings together medical
1:12.8	mysteries and redacted, declassified mysteries with Luke Lamana. If you like uncovering hidden truths about
1:18.5	history, well, you'll want to check out more episodes of Redacted. Listen to Redacted on the Wondry app,
1:23.5	or wherever you get your podcast.
1:50.2	From Ballin Studios and Wondry, I'm Mr. Ballin, and this is Mr. Ballin's Medical Mysteries,
1:56.0	where every week we will explore a new baffling mystery originating from the one place we all can't escape, our own bodies.
2:04.9	If you liked today's story, please invite the follow button on an African safari, but before you go, make sure you sneak 27 raw stakes into their backpack.
2:31.0	This week's story is called Blood Feast.
2:38.2	It was late in the afternoon on November 18, 1942.
2:43.7	A cook named Mickey McKillop opened the lid of a giant metal vat, then asked his volunteer sous chef, 27-year-old George Nosen, to carry it over to an industrial oven.
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