One of the Internet's most popular storytellers is hosting a new podcast,

Mr. Bollin's Medical Mysteries.

Because we've all been there, turning to the Internet to self-diagnose inexplicable pains,

body aches, sudden fevers, or strange rashes. diagnose inexplicable few these symptoms can start the clock ticking on a terrifying medical mystery.

And each week on Mr. Bollin's medical mysteries, you can expect bizarre, unheard of diseases,

miraculous recoveries, strange medical mishaps, and everything in between, like the inexplicable

death of a retired firefighter whose body was reduced to ashes even though nothing around

him burned.

Or the time when an entire town became ill with nausea and

chills, the local doctor initially chocked it up to food poisoning until people started

jumping from buildings and seeing tigers on their ceilings.

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

You're about to hear a clip from Mr. Bollin's Medical Mysteries.

While you're listening, follow Mr. Bollin's medical mysteries on Amazon music or wherever you get your podcasts. On a humid summer morning in June 1999, 36 year old Sanju Bhagat was hard at work on a farm outside of Nogpur, a city in Central India.

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

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

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

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

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

At first, when he was in his early 20s, his family had thought he was just filling out a little,

like all young men do when they become adults. But Sanju's stomach didn't stop growing.

It kept getting bigger and bigger until it had swelled to the size of a massive

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