Episode 24, The Toxic Lady: Gloria Ramirez
This is a tie-in episode to the Mad Gasser of Mattoon. On February 19, 1994, a very ill woman was rushed to the ER at Riverside Hospital in California. What happened next is a mystery. A chain reaction of illnesses ran rampant through the ER, affecting hospital staff and launching a mishandled and VERY dramatic investigation. The final conclusion(s) were: mass hysteria, or a chain of chemical reactions from DMSO cream. But are either of these official answers what actually happened that evening? Spoiler alert- absolutely fucking not. Come with me as we dissect this one-of-a-kind event and figure out what exactly happened to Gloria Ramirez.
Sources:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9248041/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Gloria_Ramirez
The Mad Gasser of Mattoon
by Scott Maruna
https://allthatsinteresting.com/gloria-ramirez
https://killzoneblog.com/2022/12/the-bizarre-death-of-gloria-ramirez-the-toxic-lady.html
https://killzoneblog.com/2022/12/the-bizarre-death-of-gloria-ramirez-the-toxic-lady.html
https://unresolved.me/gloria-ramirez
https://www.historydefined.net/gloria-ramirez/
https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/did-you-know/koalas-have-fingerprints-just-humans#:~:text=It seems that their fingerprints,difficult to find a match.