Medical Mysteries - "Blood Feast"
MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories
Ballen Studios
4.9 • 27K Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
This story is a fan favorite from MrBallen's Medical Mysteries.
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?
Listen Now: Wondery.fm/MBMM
For 100s more stories like this one, check out my YouTube channel just called "MrBallen" -- https://www.youtube.com/c/MrBallen
If you want to reach out to me, contact me on Instagram, Twitter or any other major social media platform, my username on all of them is @MrBallen
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Hey, Prime Members, you can binge eight new episodes of the Mr. Ballin podcast one month early |
| 0:04.9 | and all episodes ad-free on Amazon Music. Download the Amazon Music app today. Hey, it's Mr. Ballin here. |
| 0:11.3 | If you're a fan of the Strange, Dark, and Mysterious, then you should check out my other podcast, |
| 0:16.3 | Mr. Ballin's Medical Mysteries. Each week, I dive into some of the most bizarre, mind-bending medical |
| 0:21.9 | stories you've ever heard, cases that leave doctors scratching their heads, miraculous |
| 0:26.4 | recoveries that defy logic, and strange medical mishaps that seem too wild to be real. |
| 0:32.1 | These stories are more than just eerie. They are a reminder of how unpredictable and sometimes terrifying life can be. |
| 0:39.8 | Up next is one of my recent favorites from the series. Whether you're new to Mr. Ballin's |
| 0:44.1 | medical mysteries or a longtime listener, I think you'll find it just as captivating as I did. |
| 0:49.2 | If you like this content, make sure to follow Mr. Ballin's Medical Mysteries on Amazon |
| 0:53.3 | Music or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:56.2 | We put out new episodes every week and each one dives into a bizarre, mind-bending medical mystery |
| 1:01.4 | that will leave you questioning what you thought you knew about the human body. |
| 1:06.8 | Ready to launch your business? Get started with the commerce platform made for entrepreneurs. Shopify is specially designed to help you start, run and grow your business with easy customizable themes that let you build your brand, marketing tools that get your products out there. Integrated shipping solutions that actually save you time. From startups to scaleups, online, in person, and on the go. |
| 1:29.1 | Shopify is made for entrepreneurs like you. |
| 1:31.5 | Sign up for your $1 a month trial at Shopify.com slash setup. |
| 1:52.7 | In 1944, a doctor covered a deceased patient's body with a sheet and then wheeled their stretcher out into the hallway. |
| 1:54.6 | The morgue at the Oregon State Hospital was already full, so the doctor planned to put |
| 1:59.1 | this body in the chapel. |
| 2:02.1 | But when he pushed open the chapel doors, there were already so many stretchers with dead patients with sheets on them |
| 2:07.7 | inside that there was no room for this patient. The doctor closed the chapel's heavy wooden doors |
| 2:13.6 | and just stood there his mind racing. More than 400 patients had fallen violently ill |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Ballen Studios, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Ballen Studios and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.