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Mysterious Deaths Doctors Can&#39;t Explain

a nightmare so scary you die is that even possible today we're taking a look at a series of deaths throughout history that doctors are still struggling to explain let's get started [Music] Rodney marks was a bright young Australian astrophysicist who remains the only person to potentially have been murdered on the continent of Antarctica it was spring in the year 2000 when Rodney was working his second stint in Antarctica he'd been there a couple of years before conducting research and enjoyed the work he was passionate about his field and was engaged to a woman at the base he was surrounded by intelligent peers and had plenty of access to food water and alcohol for those cold Antarctic nights life was good chilly but good one may afternoon Rodney was walking outside between two buildings a walk you'd want to keep as brief as possible given that the temperature outside in Antarctic winter was around negative 80 degrees Fahrenheit he found himself struggling to breathe concern for his health he rushed to see the research station physician Dr Robert Thompson who was concerned to see the young and otherwise healthy Rodney in distress he attempted to treat him but Rodney's condition only worsened over the course of just 36 hours Rodney went from walking between stations to visiting the doctor to hopping on emergency satellite calls with medical professionals around the world to suffering Cardiac Arrest Dr Thompson was stunned but the mystery was just beginning to unfold and autopsy would need to be performed to determine the specific cause of death but because Antarctica was heading into its southern hemisphere winter flights in and out of the base would pause for at least six months Rodney's body was kept in a freezer until flights resumed half a year later taking him to a medical examiner in New Zealand the cause of death methanol poisoning methanol is a non-drinking type of alcohol used for industrial purposes it's highly poisonous with as little as two ounces being all that's needed to kill an adult and those who survive are oftentimes left blind the methanol and Rodney's body most likely came from the cleaning chemicals he used on the telescopes which he operated so what was methanol doing in Rodney's body according to the New Zealand pathologist who tested the contents of Rodney's blood the methanol was virtually certain to have been ingested unfortunately the clarity ends there some speculate that Rodney had accidentally consumed a chemical while attempting to brew his own private stash of moonshine but with plenty of alcohol available on the base this doesn't quite make sense the most controversial opinion is that Rodney was poisoned to death in either negligent homicide or murder investigations into Rodney's death have been deeply deeply complicated the research station Rodney was working on was operated by the United States the actual land the base was on is claimed by the country of new Zealand acclaimed the U.S rejects meanwhile Rodney was an Australian National the New Zealand Authority spearheaded an international investigation into Rodney's death but were met with Steve opposition by the U.S intelligence agencies who refused to share their own findings of the 49 people stationed at the base New Zealand was only able to receive information from 13 of them with the rest refusing to cooperate not to mention aside from a few sentimental personal effects Rodney's property and workstation was cleaned out and reset eliminating any hopes of a fruitful in-person investigation after years and years of digging investigators concluded that while methanol poisonings were killed Rodney how it got inside his body would remain forever unknown the infamous poet and author Edgar Allan Poe published classic works of chilling American literature such as The Tell-Tale Heart and the Raven but what happened to Poe was even more terrifying than anything he put on the page because it was real it was a dark rainy October afternoon in 1849 when a man stumbled his way down the street in Baltimore Maryland he was filthy he was deranged he was in fact Edgar Allan Poe he was also ignored strangers passed by paying little attention to the figure they believed to be a drunken vagrant fortunately a man named Joseph Walker spotted Edgar wallowing in the gutter Walker who worked for the Baltimore Sun newspaper recognized Edgar got him to his feet and took him to a nearby Tavern Edgar was delirious speaking nonsense he was in horrible shape and mysteriously wasn't wearing his own clothes instead of his classic black wool suit he was wearing a cheap ill-fitting suit and a straw hat Joseph managed to speak some sentence to Edgar and got him to say the name of a local physician Dr J.E Snodgrass Joseph quickly penned the following letter and sent it off Dear Sir there is a gentleman rather the worst for wear at Ryan's Fourth Ward pulse who goes under the cognament of Edgar a Poe and he appears in great distress and he says he is acquainted with you he is in need of immediate assistance yours in haste Jos W Walker the letter was received and Edgar was quickly transported to the hospital where he stayed for several days constantly drifting in and out of Consciousness on October 7th he died doctors just as confused as the day he was brought in several theories do exist regarding what exactly killed Edgar Allan Poe in the aftermath a local Baltimore newspaper said he died of congestion of the brain perhaps they meant the stroke a cerebral hemorrhage maybe a blood clot maybe an aneurysm a diet diagnosis of congestion of the brain especially at that time was a reasonable diagnosis he was acting unusual he wasn't moving normally these are all signs of some kind of neurologic disease actually Dr Snodgrass believe Edgar died of alcohol withdrawal personal accounts of Edgar's life indicate he was a heavy drinker and Tremors and delirium is a symptom of someone whose body is withdrawing from addictive substance like alcohol none of this would answer why he was wearing someone else's clothes and the straw hat which has led others to believe he was a victim of some sort of Foul Play another interesting Theory rabies a viral infection often caused by animal bites that is nearly always fatal unless you've been vaccinated the ups and downs of delirium are consistent with rabies patients and hospital records indicate Edgar had trouble drinking one of the more unusual symptoms of rabies is an actual phobia or fear of water we'll never actually know what happened to Edgar Allan Pope it will forever remain a medical Ministry only this and nothing more jockey Frank Hayes died atop his horse while winning a race it was a warm summer day in 1923 at Belmont Park in New York crowds gathered and Bets were placed as horses and their jockeys prepared for a day of racing the most excited of all was Frank Hayes a 22 year old jockey according to Frank's mother he had dreamed of being a jockey since he was a little boy and had been working as a horse trainer for three years finally after long paying his dues Frank's big opportunity presented itself he was given a chance to ride a horse named sweet kiss who was coming in at five to one odds to take home the gold Frank had dreamed that this moment his entire life and he wanted to make the most of it Frank attempted to drop as much as 12 pounds over the course of a single day for going water and attempting to sweat out as much weight as he could to make himself lighter and give him a Winning Edge atop sweet kiss this is actually very common for those who are boxing or practicing MMA but not something recommended by medical professionals because a set and drop in water weight can actually cause an electrolyte abnormality causing a person to develop delirium kidney disease or even death with the sweltering Summer Sun bearing down upon Him Frank and sweet kiss took their spot at the starting line the smell of freshly cut grass in the infield and the hum of the crowd filled the air everything Frank had dreamed of was about to come true but just as quickly as he would achieve his dreams it would also come to an abrupt end the gun fired and the horses took off Frank had sweep his Barrel the head as fast as they could overtaking their competition hurdle after hurdle Frank charge forward slowly establishing a lead from the rest of the pack faster faster Frank peaked to his sides he was ahead by a nose dust from the track flew into the air the crowd roared like the Roman Coliseum he put his head down and pushed sweet kiss even harder run baby run he commanded as sweet kiss inched further and further ahead of the competition in the stands children were dancing women were cheering men were clutching their betting slips praying for an underdog payday from Frank and sweet kiss the horses made their final turn they cleared their final Steeples sweet kiss was in the lead a hundred meters 50 meters 20 meters ten to five sweet kiss by ahead in his first race as a jockey Frank had achieved his dream he was a winner but he was also dead the crowd erupted with celebration followed by laughter as sweet kiss came to a stop and Frank Hayes fell lifeless to the ground they thought he'd been joking maybe he slipped maybe he was celebrating the last half slowly ceased as Frank laid there in a heap completely motionless as a crowd gathered around him Dr John a Voorhees rushed to Frank's side he turned him over almost immediately Frank was pronounced dead according to his mother Frank Hayes had a weak heart which made her worry about his future as a jockey it's believed a combination of the extreme exhaustion he pushed himself to lose weight plus the incredible intensity of the race itself became too much for Frank's heart to handle and he suffered a cardiac arrest before crossing the finish line of course this is just speculation and his exact cause of death will forever remain unknown regardless Frank Hayes Remains the only jockey in recorded history to win a race while dead his record stands forever at 1-0 in the 1970s the Southeast Asian nation of Laos was embroiled in a civil war a peaceful Mountain society called the Hmong wanted no part of the conflict and sought Asylum around the world 35 000 Hmong made their way to America and started new lives but for some the horror they fled back home followed them to the new world they settled in welcoming cities across the U.S places like Missoula Montana Providence Rhode Island and Santa Ana California they began the process of picking up the pieces of their lives getting new jobs joining new communities and establishing new identities as refugees looking for peace it wasn't easy very few of them spoke English in fact their native tongue had largely not even been written down this made assimilation into American culture difficult unfortunately the weight became too much for some to Bear over the next several years dozens of Laotian refugees most of them young men with an average age of 33 died in their sleep autopsies were performed on the deceased which led to more questions and answers Dr Michael McGee an assistant medical examiner from Saint Paul Minnesota where several of the deaths occurred said the following I know what they didn't die of didn't die of getting shot in the head stabbed in the heart they didn't fall off the roof they didn't get poisoned because we did an autopsy in each case we got a big zero several the deaths were witnessed by those living with the deceased while reports differ amongst Witnesses some claim to have noticed something was wrong with the person as they began breathing abnormally in their beds their limbs would go rigid they would salivate excessively and were unresponsive 10 to 30 minutes later they died how do so many otherwise healthy people from a single Community die without any evidence or apparent cause of death there is one Theory they're nightmares in the Philippines it's called banging God in Hmong it's called dabsog in Western Medical textbooks it's called sudden arrhythmic death syndrome or an immediate and unexpected Cardiac Arrest we know that there's times where in immense stress the heart can react in a way that it actually stops beating but why the Hmong many small isolated Asian communities practice animism or a common belief system in indigenous groups that all beings places and things possess A Soulful and spiritual presence the Hmong Community believe deeply in spiritual experiences such as a shaman using spiritual energy to heal them the theory goes that the Hmong experienced significant trauma whilst fleeing Laos in the form of war and culture shock upon entering the U.S so much so that it haunted them in their nightmares because of their deep belief that visions and Spirits are impacting their reality these nightmares became so overwhelming that it resulted in Cardiac Arrest killing otherwise healthy and young refugees the exact cause of this Cardiac Arrest is still unknown nor do we know exactly why it happened specifically to these young men not to mention doctors have never figured out why later groups of Mong Refuge never suffered the same fate it's truly a medical mystery John F Kennedy Abraham Lincoln William McKinley and James A Garfield are all U.S presidents who were assassinated on the job but was there a fifth allow me to introduce you to Zachary Taylor the 12th President of the United States Taylor's one and only term in office was cut abruptly short after only about a year on the job on the 4th of July 1850 President Taylor was out on the town celebrating America's birthday in the streets of Washington DC it was a swelteringly hot and humid summer but not too hot for the president he walked amongst the people he laughed amongst the people he imbibed amongst the people specifically on water iced milk and many cherries and if you ask most doctors and historians they'll tell you that's what did him in five short days after the festivities Zachary Taylor fell ill he was cramping and nauseous suffering from dehydration and diarrhea killing him in just a few days the prevailing theory was tail or contracted a case of dysentery or cholera a bacterial illness that spreads in contaminated water and milk the Washington DC sewage system was in its infancy in the mid-1800s resulting in regular cholera outbreaks when the air was hot humid which are ripe conditions for the spread of the illness it makes sense this is what killed President Taylor but if it's so simple why is he in this video that's because there have been strong conspiracy theories that Zachary Taylor did not die of Cholera but that he was poisoned by pro-slavery Southerners in the eventual lead-up to the Civil War the theory goes that an assassin poisoned the president's water with arsenic an element found naturally in the Earth's crust but also made into an inorganic form used for chemical purposes that is highly poisonous to humans interestingly the symptoms of arsenic poison are very similar to that of Cholera and considering the frequency that people in DC died of Cholera in the summer it would be a perfect cover store allowing the Assassin to get away with the crime and a new political agenda to unfold this isn't just a tinfoil hat conspiracy either it gained so much steam that the descendants of President Taylor approved the examination of his grave in 1991. his remains were retrieved and tested for arsenic the conclusion not overwhelming enough to confirm that President Zachary Taylor was our nation's first assassinated leader but whether it was infected water spoiled milk rotten cherries or something else that killed President Taylor doctors will never be able to say for sure what killed all the other U.S presidents though click here to check out the video and learn about the causes of death of all presidents click here and Zoe stay happy and healthy [Music]

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