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

Ballin's Medical Mysteries. It's hosted by Mr. Ballin, 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 spiral to 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. 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 at night. I'm about to play a clip from Mr. Ballin's Medical Mysteries, while

you're listening. Follow Mr. Ballin's Medical Mysteries on Amazon Music, or wherever you

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On a humid summer morning in June 1999, 36-year-old San Ju 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. San Ju and 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. San Ju moved a lot slower than his co-workers because of his

massive belly. For the past 15 years, San Ju had struggled beneath the weight of his

ever-growing stomach. At first, when he was in his early 20s, his family had thought

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