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Listen Now: MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries

Dark House

House Beautiful/Hearst

Religion & Spirituality, True Crime, Society & Culture

4.4757 Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

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: Wondery.fm/MBMM_DAH Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey guys, I'm here to tell you about an all-new suspense-driven podcast, Mr. Ballin's

0:06.0

medical mysteries. It's hosted by Mr. Ballin, one of the internet's most popular storytellers.

0:12.0

Why medical mysteries? Well, we've all been there. Turning to the internet to self-diagnosed

0:17.4

inexplicable pains, debilitating body aches, sudden fevers and strange rashes.

0:22.3

Though our minds spiral to the worst-case scenarios, it's usually nothing. But for an unlucky few,

0:27.7

these symptoms can start the clock ticking on a terrifying medical mystery. Each week on Mr.

0:33.3

Bond's medical mysteries, you can expect bizarre, unheard of diseases, miraculous recoveries,

0:38.9

strange medical mishaps, and everything in between. Like the unexplainable death of a retired

0:44.7

firefighter whose body was reduced to ashes, even though nothing around him burned. Or the time when

0:50.4

an entire town became ill with nausea and chills. The local doctor initially chalked it up

0:55.1

to being food poisoning until people started jumping from buildings and seeing tigers on their

0:59.4

ceilings. Each terrifying true story will be sure to keep you up at night. I'm about to play a clip

1:05.3

from Mr. Ballin's Medical Mysteries. While you're listening, follow Mr. Ballin's Medical

1:10.3

Mysteries on Amazon Music or wherever

1:12.3

you get your podcasts.

1:17.6

On a humid summer morning in June 1999,

1:25.3

36-year-old Sanju Bagat was hard at work on a farm outside of Nagpur,

1:30.3

a city in central India. The sun had just risen, and the air was already so hot that he found

1:35.8

it hard to breathe. Sanju in a group of farm hands were hard at work tending to the soybean crops.

1:41.7

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

1:46.1

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

1:51.7

For the past 15 years, Sanju had struggled beneath the weight of his ever-growing stomach.

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