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Hello, fans of the Strange, Dark and Mysterious, Mr. Ballin here.

By now, you may already know about my other podcast called Mr. Ballin's Medical Mysteries, where I tell, you guessed it, medical mysteries.

Well, today, on this podcast,

I'm going to share with you one of my favorite episodes from my medical mystery show. It's called The Curse of Veneto, and it's got one heck of an ending. It's about a family in Italy that for

centuries is hit with one tragedy after another. Now, local legends suggest that this family was cursed,

which seemed like sort of a catch-all way of saying the family was just very unlucky.

However, by the end of this nightmarish episode, you might actually believe that this family

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Okay, enjoy the story.

In the summer of 1983,

a middle-aged Italian man held his mother's hands as they swayed about on a dance floor.

His mother was in her 90s and was not able to get out very much, so this was an extremely special occasion.

And this particular dance floor was on a cruise ship sailing on the Mediterranean Sea.

It was an unbelievable experience he knew they would never forget.

Then a slow song came on and as they danced together, the man began to feel abnormally hot.

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