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133. The Hmong Sleep Deaths

133. The Hmong Sleep Deaths

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In this episode, The Sisters explore the mystery of the Hmong sleep deaths. In the late 1970s and ’80s, healthy young men were dying in their sleep with no medical explanation, a phenomenon later called Sudden Unexpected Nocturnal Death Syndrome.

In Hmong belief, a night spirit known as Dab Tsog comes in dreams, sits on the chest, steals breath, and can kill. The Sisters examine chilling first-hand accounts, the medical theories behind fatal heart rhythm disturbances, and the eerie overlap between science and the supernatural.

Was it a genetic condition… or something that followed them in the dark? Thoughts?

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