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One Strange Thing

True Crime, History

4.4 • 697 Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

A boy’s unknown illness leaves him without the capability to feel hunger or thirst—and in a quest to find updates on his possible cure, information is unearthed on a very different kind of medical mystery. An enlightened leader, half a world away, had been baffling scientists not with his illness, but with his ability.

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0:00.0	I'm Laura Norton, and this is one strange thing, the show where we search the nation's news archives for stories that can't quite be explained.
0:27.0	Just a heads up, we'll be talking quite a bit about eating and not eating in this episode.
0:36.3	In 2014, a flurry of news stories about a little boy named Landon Jones appeared.
0:39.9	Landon, who lived in Iowa, had totally lost the ability to feel either hunger or thirst. According to the Des Moines Register, it had begun
0:45.8	the year before, in October of 2013. Then 11 years old, Landon had come down with a rather
0:52.6	nasty bacterial lung infection, and he'd needed
0:55.7	medication. He'd been dizzy, and he'd lost his appetite. Normal enough for anyone who was feeling
1:01.7	ill, but after he was better, Landon still wasn't hungry. He still wasn't thirsty, and his father
1:08.8	Michael told NBC News that he and his wife Debbie
1:12.2	couldn't tempt their son with the foods that used to be his favorites.
1:16.7	Landon's father Michael told CBS News,
1:19.4	You can put food in front of him.
1:21.2	He won't touch it.
1:22.2	It'll just sit there all day and all night.
1:24.6	Landon didn't even want to eat the treats that he collected on Halloween.
1:29.0	Per the Des Moines Register, Landon's worried parents began to take him to doctors. At first,
1:35.0	it seemed like it might be something lingering from his lung infection, though an unusually intense
1:40.2	one, as his parents even had to remind him to drink water, and his father found himself
1:45.6	following behind his son, the same one who'd always enjoyed pizza and hamburgers,
1:50.6	begging him to take just a bite of this or a sip of that.
1:54.7	McDonald's fries, milkshakes, candy, a preteen boy's catnip, but they sat untouched.
2:03.2	Landon brought his school lunches home with a single bite taken from sandwiches. Michael and Debbie, they scheduled more appointments,
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