Hey, everybody. I'm here to tell you about an all-new suspense-driven podcast, Mr. Ballin's

medical mysteries. It's hosted by Mr. Ballin, who's one of the Internet's most popular storytellers.

Why medical mysteries? Well, we've all been there. Turning to the Internet to self-diagnose

inexplicable pains, debilitating body aches, sudden fevers,

and strange rashes. Though our minds usually spiral to the worst-case scenarios, it's usually nothing.

But for an unlucky few, these symptoms can start the clock ticking on a terrifying medical mystery.

Each week on Mr. Ballin's medical mysteries, you can expect bizarre, unheard-of diseases,

miraculous recoveries, strange medical mishaps, and everything in between.

Like the unexplainable death of a retired firefighter whose body was reduced to ashes,

even though nothing around him burned.

Or the time when an entire town became ill with nausea and chills and the local doctor

initially chalked it up to being food poisoning,

until people started jumping from buildings

and seeing tigers on their ceilings. Each terrifying true story will be sure to keep you up all night.

I'm about to play a clip from Mr. Ballin's Medical Mysteries. While you're listening,

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On a humid summer morning in June 1999, 36-year-old Sanju Bagat was hard at work on a farm outside of Nagpur, a city in central India.

The sun had just risen, and the air was already so hot that he found it hard to breathe.

Sanju in a group of farm hands were hard at work tending to the soybean crops.

He made his way through the field, stopping to catch his breath every few steps.

Sanju moved a lot slower than his co-workers because of his massive belly.

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