Mysterious Deaths Doctors Can't Explain

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As for saying Poe's death was scary because it was real, here is a fun fact: The military barracks he was trained in, upon renovations, found a body in the walls, dated to around when Edgar Allen Poe was there. So there is speculation that some of his works were based on real life, and he was venting his guilt into his works.

Mad respect for the animators who put this together!. Story time with Dr. Mike should be a regular thing!!! ️.

“Only this and nothing more” —brilliant use of Poe’s own words to wrap up the story of his death. I really really liked that addition, it was very clever and made me smile.

I cant believe someone as popular as Edgar Alan Poe’s death is still a mystery

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As someone who suffers chronic nightmares, I can 100% believe it can kill. There have been times I felt very close to being scared to death. I even have a heart monitor at home and nightmares are a big trigger for arrhythmia (the fear and breathe holding only amplifies this). I imagine that the chronic stress of adapting is what triggered the intensity of these nightmares. Now that I’m with a very loving partner for the first time in my life and feel safe, my nightmares aren’t as intense.

As a Baltimore native, I loved that you covered Edgar Allen Poe! Growing up, we were always told his death was syphilis & alcoholism-related complications.

Actually Edgar’s story after death gets more strange as he was in financial distress and was actually buried in a mass grave as a pauper in Baltimore. Funds were raised for a memorial but it took several years to get something there and even the body they took out was not even believed to be Edgar because his body was to the bones already. The people had no way of knowing who it was. The strange things is that every year on his death date a person sets out flowers and leaves red lipstick near the grave. The graveyard placed a fence to keep people out. But also a raven sits on the grave every so often despite the grave being straight white marble. It gives most people the creeps at night despite being fully lighted. Heck even Edgar’s spirit might appear as a ghostly head at least in local legend.

Fun fact, the Hmong deaths were one of the inspirations behind Nightmare On Elm Street because it’s correlated to the myths around sleep paralysis. Growing up, my grandparents told me it was the demons while experiencing sleep paralysis.

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What's kinda funny is that Edgar Allen Poe visited my school, Norfolk Academy, as a visiting author years ago. When he died soon after, everyone in the school said that the cafeteria food killed him.

My uncle once had a terrifying dream in which he felt suffocated and unable to breathe. My aunt noticed him shaking and making noises as if he were choking. My uncle explained in the dream, he found himself in a bed surrounded by elderly people who appeared to be asleep. Despite his efforts, he couldn't wake them or free himself from the bed. Upon closer inspection, he realized that these people looked deceased. Although he became aware he was dreaming, he couldn't wake up, even when he tried to yell in the dream, no voice came out. He began to struggle for breath. My aunt, witnessing his distress in the real world, noticed him shaking and making choking noises. She quickly woke him up by shaking him. Following this ordeal, they performed a Hmong ceremony with jingle bells to address the unsettling nature of his dream. Lastly, my uncle said he was fortunate his wife was there to wake him up. As he tried to awaken himself, he felt the dream becoming darker and began to sense a looming death within the dream.

The story of the man who died because of nightmares makes so much sense to me. As a Syrian who experienced and witnessed the tragedies of wars from a young age, to this day I still have nightmares of what happened, the poor guy probably felt devastated, lonely, helpless, unsafe with nowhere to belong or a place to feel safe and treated like a human.

Love this type of style videos along with learning different conditions or what have you in the body and more. Thanks for what you do, Dr. Mike. I appreciate this.

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In all honestly I think Edgar Allan Poe himself would want his death to remain a mystery, it would honestly fit the fact that he was known for the darkness in his stories

Thank you for talking about the unexplainable deaths that affected Hmong/Laotian refugees. It is something not many are aware of and needs to talked about more.

This was pretty good Mike! You should keep doing these storytelling vids.

He is such a good story teller I was listening to this while getting ready for school