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What if it's True Podcast

Mr Ballens Medical Mysteries

What if it's True Podcast

Cameron Buckner

Drama, Fiction, Science Fiction

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Listen Now: https://wondery.com/links/mrballens-medical-mysteries/?ol=am

Follow MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries wherever you get your podcasts. You can binge the first 8 episodes, early and ad-free on Amazon Music. Download the Amazon Music app today.

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.com/links/mrballens-medical-mysteries/?ol=am

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey listeners I've got an announcement. I'm here to tell you about an all new suspense-driven podcast, Mr. Bollin's Medical Mysteries. It's hosted by Mr.

0:16.4

Ballin. Everybody knows Mr. Ballin. He's one of the internet's most popular

0:20.9

storytellers. Why medical mysteries? Well we've all been there

0:26.1

turning to the internet to self-diagnosed inexplicable pains, debilitating body aches,

0:32.1

sudden fevers and strange rashes.

0:35.0

And though our minds spiral to the worst case scenarios, it's usually nothing.

0:40.0

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

0:46.0

Each week on Mr. Bollin's medical mysteries you can expect bizarre unheard of diseases, miraculous recoveries, strange medical mishaps, and everything

0:57.0

in between, like the inexplicable death of a retired firefighter whose body was reduced to ashes even though nothing around him burned.

1:06.8

Or the time when an entire town became ill with nausea and chills, the local doctor initially chalked it up to being food poisoning

1:15.2

until people started jumping from buildings and seeing tigers on their

1:18.9

ceilings. Tigers! Each terrifying true story will be sure to keep you up at night.

1:25.0

Now I'm about to play a clip from Mr. Bollin's medical mysteries,

1:29.0

and while you're listening, follow Mr. Bollin's Medical Mysteries on Amazon Music, or wherever you get your

1:36.7

podcast.

1:38.6

Click or copy and paste the dedicated link in the description of this podcast or just search for Mr.

1:46.2

Bollin's Medical Mysteries. On a humid summer morning in June 1999, 36 year old San Ju Baghat was hard at work on a farm outside of Nagpur, a city in

2:06.0

Central India.

2:07.0

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

2:12.0

Sanju and a group of farmhands were hard at work tending to the soybean crops.

2:16.0

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

2:20.0

Sanju moved a lot slower than his coworkers because of his massive belly.

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