Listen Now: MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries
Morbidology
Morbidology
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🗓️ 17 October 2023
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
The human body is a miracle. But when it’s not working, it can be the stuff of nightmares. On this new series from master storyteller MrBallen, we’re sharing medical horror stories and diagnostic mysteries that are surgically calibrated to make your blood run cold.
From bizarre, unheard-of diseases and miraculous recoveries to strange medical mishaps and unexplainable deaths — you’ll never hear the phrase “heart-stopping” in the same way again. MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries is a first of its kind collaboration between MrBallen and Wondery, the award-winning company behind Dr. Death. Listen Now:
https://wondery.fm/MBMM_MB
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| 0:00.0 | Hey listeners, I'm here to tell you about an all-new suspense-driven podcast, Mr. Ballin's Medical Mysteries. |
| 0:10.7 | It's hosted by Mr. Ballin, one of the internet's most popular storytellers. |
| 0:16.2 | Why medical mysteries? |
| 0:18.1 | Well, we've all been there. |
| 0:20.6 | Turning to the internet to self-diagnose |
| 0:22.6 | inexplicable pains, delimitating, body aches, sudden fevers and strange rashes. The worm minds spiral |
| 0:30.9 | to the worst-case scenarios, it's usually nothing. But for an unlucky few, these symptoms |
| 0:36.6 | can start the clock ticking on the terrifying |
| 0:39.5 | medical mystery. Each week on Mr. Boland's medical mysteries, you can expect, bizarre, |
| 0:45.5 | unheard-of diseases, miraculous recoveries, strange medical mishaps, and everything in between. |
| 0:51.1 | Like the unexplainable death of a retired firefighter, |
| 0:55.1 | whose body was reduced to ashes even though nothing around him burned. Or the time when an entire |
| 1:01.1 | town became ill with nausea and chills. The local doctor initially chalked it up to being food poisoning |
| 1:07.7 | until people started jumping from buildings and seeing tigers on their ceilings. |
| 1:14.2 | Each terrifying true story will be sure to keep you up at night. I'm about to play a clip from |
| 1:20.5 | Mr. Ballin's Medical Mysteries. While you're listening, follow Mr. Ballin's Medical Mysteries |
| 1:25.9 | on Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:33.1 | On a humid summer morning in June 1999, 36-year-old Sanju-Baghat was hard at work on a farm outside of Nagpur, a city |
| 1:46.4 | in central India. |
| 1:48.0 | The sun had just risen, and the air was already so hot that he found it hard to breathe. |
| 1:53.3 | Sanju in a group of farm hands were hard at work tending to the soybean crops. |
| 1:57.4 | He made his way through the field, stopping to catch his breath every few steps. Sanju moved a lot slower than his coworkers because of his massive belly. |
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