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Feb 2024
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Ep. 18 | Man With the Blue Skin

Wondery | Ballen Studios
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In 1944, nearly a dozen men show up at a hospital in New York. All are violently ill and passing out – and they all have bright blue skin. A medical investigator rushes to figure out what is making them sick… and what is causing their bizarre appearance. 



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