Today's podcast will feature two medical horror stories.

The audio from both of these stories has been pulled from our main YouTube channel and has been remastered for today's episode.

The links to the original YouTube videos are in the description.

The first story you'll hear is called Injection Site, about a man whose life spirals into a nightmare after a sharp pain in his shoulder marks the beginning of something far worse.

And the second and final story you'll hear is called clocked out.

And it's about a man who gets sick at work, which leads doctors to discover that his medical

condition is so rare it's only ever been documented three times in the previous century.

But before we get into today's story, if you're a fan of the strange, dark, and mysterious, delivered in story format, then you've come to the right show because that's all we do. So, if that's of interest to you, please ask the like button to walk your pet for you while you're on vacation. But don't tell them, your pet is actually a hungry Komodo dragon.

Okay, let's get into our first story called Injection Site. On the afternoon of January 22, 2024, an elderly woman named Janet Lee sat in front of her computer and an office on the second floor of her home in Newcastle, England.

She was going over some recent bank statements, but it was kind of hard. She was distracted, because all she could hear was her boyfriend downstairs talking to someone.

So Janet's boyfriend was a guy named Richard O'Connell, and he and Janet had been together for about 20 years.

Now, despite not officially being married, they sort of functioned like a married couple.

They lived together, you know, they shared everything. In fact, Janet had even written Richard into her will. Janet thought her and Richard would be together forever. I mean, clearly, if you're

writing him into your will, and she assumed that

that feeling was reciprocated, that Richard also felt like they were together forever. But lately,

their relationship had gotten pretty rocky, and in fact, both of them had begun openly

talking about the possibility that they might need to break up. Now, nothing was set in stone,

and by no means were they destined for a breakup, but it was

suddenly, you know, a possibility, and that was really hard for Janet to deal with. And so as Janet sat

upstairs trying to do these bank statements, but, you know, getting completely sidetracked just by the

sound of Richard's voice, you know, part of the reason that was so distracting is, you know,

Richard was all she could think about.

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