Medical Mysteries

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Graham Harrison woke up convinced he was dead—his brain showed activity patterns resembling a vegetative state. Carol Klein's muscles are gradually transforming into bone, building a skeletal prison around her body. Marcus Webb hears deafening explosions that don't exist whenever he tries to sleep. Gretchen Moyer experiences hundreds of unwanted, painful orgasms daily. Rebecca Sharrock remembers every single day of her life in perfect detail—a gift that became torture. Episode three explores medical phenomena so bizarre they challenge our understanding of human biology. Host Lucien Graves documents conditions where bodies malfunction in ways that seem impossible until they're diagnosed, measured, and cataloged with terrifying precision.Click here to browse handpicked Amazon finds inspired by this podcast series!https://amzn.to/42YoQGIThis content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI

Patricia Chen was awake during her surgery, paralyzed but conscious, feeling every cut for forty-seven minutes. Willie King went in to have his diseased left leg amputated—surgeons removed his healthy right leg instead. Darlene Gomez lived with a twelve-inch surgical drape sewn inside her abdomen for six years. Shannon Rodriguez's cosmetic liposuction perforated her intestine, leaving her with permanent disabilities. Episode two examines surgical nightmares where human error transforms healing into horror. Host Lucien Graves documents cases of anesthesia failure, wrong-site amputations, and retained surgical objects with mathematical precision, revealing that hundreds of these catastrophic errors occur annually. Surgery requires absolute trust. Sometimes that trust is fatally misplaced.Click here to browse handpicked Amazon finds inspired by this podcast series!https://amzn.to/42YoQGIThis content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI

A woman discovers a five-inch worm crawling across her eye. A man's brain is riddled with dozens of calcified tapeworm cysts. A photographer feels movement beneath his scalp—seven bot fly larvae feeding on his flesh. A librarian's liver harbors fifty thousand parasitic worms in a volleyball-sized cyst. Episode one of Medical Mysteries explores the horrifying reality of parasitic infections that transform human bodies into landscapes for ancient organisms. Host Lucien Graves catalogs these documented cases with clinical precision, examining how parasites migrate through tissue, colonize organs, and wait in darkness. More than one billion people currently harbor parasitic worms. You might be one of them.Click here to browse handpicked Amazon finds inspired by this podcast series!https://amzn.to/42YoQGIThis content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI