Welcome to AirNManky's Cabinet of Curiosity's, a production of I Heart Radio and Grimm

and Mild.

Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

First impressions are everything.

What others think about us is usually cemented only after a few minutes, how we look, our

mannerisms, the way we even talk, even what we smell like can have a lasting effect on

how we are perceived from that point on.

And in the case of Gloria Ramirez, she was a perfectly nice woman, she just made people

sick to their stomachs.

On the night of February 19th of 1994, Gloria was rushed to California's Riverside General

Hospital Emergency Department.

She was having trouble breathing and her heart was beating out of her chest.

The doctors had rarely seen a woman as young as Gloria with such symptoms.

She was only 31 and suffered from late-stage cervical cancer.

The paramedics wheeled her into a small curtain room as the doctors swarmed around her.

They asked her questions about what had happened and if she knew where she was.

To try to answer, muttering sounds no one could understand.

Gloria was pumped with a cocktail of drugs to calm her heart and sedate her.

A respiratory therapist named Maureen Welch clamped a self-inflating resuscitator over

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