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Mystery House: What a Medium Found Inside a Centuries-Old Home | Dr. Oz | S11 | Ep 38 | Full Episode
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Inside the scariest house on the block.
There's definitely a lot of energy over there.
I hear footsteps coming up behind me.
And what we uncover...
You feel chairs moving somewhere in the house?
...will shock you.
Plus, how do you get into ghost hunting?
See where this team goes...
It's getting colder right now.
...that most wouldn't dare.
The car just moved!
Coming up next.
Season 11 starts now.
Today, we go inside the scariest house on the block, where a family of seven says they've been plagued by spirits for nearly 40 years.
It is evil lurking behind this seemingly pleasant exterior.
With so many reports of paranormal activity there, and even rumors of a suicide, we had to enlist medium Anna Ramondi to find out what she thinks is haunting this property.
The things this family has encountered will give you chills.
Take a look.
Just in the last week, I've heard chairs moving in the dining room when I'm upstairs working.
I heard a toilet seat slam down.
While I'm looking out the windows, I hear footsteps coming up behind me, which I automatically assumed was him.
I said, why were you in Haley's bedroom?
Why didn't you come talk to me?
He goes, I've been sitting here the whole entire time.
I know what I heard, and that freaked me out.
We've had doors slamming upstairs.
We go upstairs to see which door was slammed, and every door is open.
It certainly makes your life interesting every day living in this house.
Joining us now is medium Anna Ramondi.
Thank you for being here.
Thank you for always going to these houses.
It's scary just to think about these houses.
Oh, it's fun.
But you know nothing about this house.
Couldn't read up on it.
But you decided to meditate about it a bit.
What kind of experience did that yield to you?
You know, when I first meditated about the house, it was very confusing.
There's so much energy in that house that I wasn't sure what I was picking up on.
I later found out there's also antiques in the house, which also carry energy.
It wasn't just antiques.
The house itself is extremely old.
How does that change what you feel, generally?
Well, there's been so many people coming and going from that property over the years, so there's a lot of energy from the land itself, from who's lived there, who's walked there, the whole thing.
It's not good or bad, it just is.
It just is.
We sent Anna inside this New Jersey home, but what she found the minute she walked in completely shocked homeowners Randy and Janice.
Take a look.
Do you have antiques in this house?
Yes.
Yeah.
You have energy coming from every which way.
From the antiques, from the house, and who's Patricia?
My ex-mother-in-law.
She's here.
So you feel chairs moving somewhere in the house?
Oh, my God!
She moves the chairs.
She moves the chairs.
And I feel like your kids have seen her.
Like, is that their grandmother?
Yes.
She's a very protective energy.
There's a lot of activity in this room.
So you don't know anyone's name or anything?
So you don't know if there was an Elizabeth there?
Oh, Elizabeth's my grandmother.
Oh, well, she's here too.
It's funny, I don't really feel much around your family here.
It's your family.
You know, they're very, very protected of you.
These women are, they're good women and they're around you very much.
Do you know who, um, Jean, Eugene?
Oh, gosh.
That's my father and my ex-father-in-law.
Is he passed?
Yeah.
Well, he's here too.
So you got Eugene here as well.
They're with you.
They're not going anywhere, okay?
And the doll.
Where's the doll from?
My mother-in-law, ex-mother-in-law, gave me.
Yeah.
Because this doll is really important to her.
Um, you know, and she's happy that you have it, okay?
And that you have it out.
So did you put this in here?
Yes, that's all.
This is all new.
Now we're back into the addition.
Okay, now you're in the addition.
Because now the...
I don't know if you feel it, but going from that space into this space, the energy changes.
It's much more dense in there.
It's much lighter in here.
And your family likes it better downstairs.
Oh my goodness.
Coming up, homeowners Janice and Randy are here.
And you can only imagine how shocked they were to find out they were being haunted by Janice's own family.
Stay with us.
We are back with medium Anna Raimondi.
She says she had an immediate response in this house to some very strong energy from members of Janice's family.
Despite the house being hundreds of years old, it came from Janice's family.
What was the response?
It was very interesting because it was her ex-mother-in-law who was coming through, very protective, very loving.
I feel like, you know, she wasn't as big a part of her grandchildren's lives as she may want it to have been, and she was absolutely there.
As well as Janice's grandmother.
You know, these are very beautiful energies, very loving energies.
So they came through pretty much saying, you know, or to me, that they were around them and loving the family.
So also joining us are homeowners Janice and Randy.
Let's go talk to them.
I'm just curious how their experience has been.
You say your family, your children, yourselves, have been haunted for years in this house.
And yet it wasn't...
Spirits from hundreds of years ago, these spirits are real and attest as your mother-in-law and your grandmother.
I mean, wasn't that surprising?
You got pretty emotional.
Yeah, I was surprised, but comforted too.
Why?
Why were you surprised and why was it comforting to know you were connected with both?
Well, they were good people and I enjoyed their company and I loved them and my kids did too.
So it's nice to know that they're still here.
Why do you think they were there trying to speak to you?
I don't know.
I think they missed my kids.
They missed me.
Was it closure they were seeking?
Maybe, yeah.
Yeah.
And when you heard, and I could see it in the tape when Anna mentioned it, you said you'd been hearing things and seeing things and the kids had been complaining about ghost, that you thought there were ghost stories, right?
But something that happened in the tape package that eluded you was something that Anna saw.
What was it?
What was reminiscent to you when she was speaking?
Well, the thing that shocked me is that she talked about, when she first came in the house, chairs moving.
And we really...
Never heard chairs moving against the hardwood floor until about five, six years ago.
And it just so happens that my mother-in-law passed five or six years ago.
So I thought that was significant.
You know, it kind of solidified what she was saying about when she said the name Patricia.
I was kind of shocked.
Why Patricia?
Was that her name for you?
Yeah, that was my mother.
That was her name.
My ex-mother's name is Patricia.
And she also said, oh, somebody had a birthday.
Tell her I said, happy birthday.
And three days before that, it was my daughter, Haley Patricia, that had a birthday.
She named after her.
Yeah.
Were you skeptical?
I was always skeptical.
With the kids growing up, five kids in a house that big.
Growing up, in the middle of the night, they'd come to me all the time, wake me up, and I'd just say, go back to bed.
I'm tired.
Go back to bed.
No such thing as ghosts.
Yeah.
Yeah, just go.
And they'd go back to bed, and it wasn't until he moved in, and he told a story, and they all joined in and said, see, Ma, we told you.
What was your story, Randy?
Well, my story was that I saw a shadow pass along the wall and then disappear into the staircase.
And I was playing a video game.
I'm not ashamed to admit.
And I threw the controller down and ran outside.
And her son was outside.
And I said, I just saw a shadow on the wall.
He said, stop right there.
He said, you didn't look at it directly, right?
And I said, no.
He said, you were looking at a reflection in the window, and when you turned to look, the shadow wasn't there.
I said, that's exactly how it happened.
So he actually validated what I had seen before I could even get the story out.
That's when I realized I was dealing with something that I didn't expect in the house.
How have you reconciled us together?
I would feel pretty stunned if my kids had been saying things and I sort of noticed things and all of a sudden this medium walks in and seems to validate.
I don't know if it's your worst nightmare or maybe it's confirmatory.
I think it's good.
It makes us feel we're not crazy.
That's a good point.
Like we're not imagining it.
Because that's how I dealt with it from the 80s into the 90s.
I dealt with it.
Well, maybe I'm crazy.
Maybe I'm imagining it.
Maybe what I hear is...
Not right.
Maybe what the kids are seeing is they're imagining it.
But then when he said it, it confirmed it.
When I actually saw it, that confirmed it.
And she came in and that was icing on the cake.
So up next, Anna says Janice's family may be the youngest members of the paranormal household.
The energy in this house, however, dates back 200 years.
So what else is there?
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We're back with medium Anarimandi and homeowners Janice and Randy, who say they've been plagued by spirits in their home for nearly four decades.
Turns out a lot of this energy came from Janice's own family.
We're stunned everybody.
We've already witnessed the first emotional moments of Anna's visit to Janice and Randy's home, but Anna says the paranormal activity in this house goes all the way back to the 18th century.
Take a look.
You have a lot of the energy from the farmhouse that's coming into here.
This was a barn, correct?
But they were in and out of the barn.
These are serious workers, okay?
And they had a big family.
Do you hear people going up and down the stairs?
Yeah, they were just, right after we built the addition, it was going up and down.
I feel like something, like, was left here.
When they built the house, did you find things of theirs?
Oh, yeah.
Because she's saying, look, a lot of things were left behind.
A lot of my stuff was left behind.
And she's still going up looking for it.
Like, she's looking for the stuff, okay, with the kids behind her.
Do the people who live in the farmhouse, do they feel things, you know?
Yeah, it's all three houses on the property.
Yeah, because I would think that, because I feel like they pop from house to house.
That's exactly how we feel.
We always say it'll go six to nine months of nothing, and then we have activity for like a couple of weeks where it just, everything starts popping.
But there's always a reason for it.
It's either around harvest time.
October.
Okay.
Because they're saying they're very big during like, when they have to be working, they have to be doing things, you know?
In March.
In March, springtime.
Okay, so they're planting and they're harvesting.
There's definitely a lot of energy over there.
I feel like somebody died accidentally.
Like, I feel like they drowned.
So, underneath that house...
What is that house built on?
There's a well on it.
Yeah, I feel like there's a well.
Okay.
I feel like it wasn't a murder.
Somebody did die, and it wasn't suicide.
It was an accident.
And it wasn't an old person.
It was a fairly young person.
Oh my goodness.
Anna, there's a lot going on in this property.
When you said that there's some drowning here, I thought you'd missed it.
You're in a landlocked part of the country, and yet there was a well there.
What did you find that was going on?
Well, what was interesting is the barn was part of a bigger estate, so there was a farmhouse.
Then there was the well.
Then there was the barn, which is where they live.
Somebody fell in the well and died.
So it wasn't a suicide.
It was an accident.
There's so many spirits on that land.
I mean, so many workers.
I kept seeing people working and a woman walking around in boots.
Why do they stay there?
If someone's on that property from before Janice owned the property, what are they looking for?
What's the closure for them?
Well, you know what?
These may be spirits who have crossed over but are still attached to the house because they're too happy.
Like, they're not stuck there.
So they're still attached to the house because their happiness was there.
This is a very happy property.
So Janice, how are you feeling about spirits inhabiting your property that go back hundreds of years?
I like it.
You?
Yeah, yeah.
It makes me feel happy that they like my house, that it's my house now, and it's still part of their house.
And I like knowing that there's something else after you die.
There is something.
So many spiritual traditions had that as a big part of it.
The American Indians who were there first.
Native Americans?
Right.
They probably had thoughts around that as well.
I know many other parts of the country can't dig up some of these ancient sites because of these beliefs.
How has your family, Randy, been since Anna visited?
What have you guys...
Reviewed.
Well, there hasn't been a whole lot of activity today when I was getting ready to come on the show.
I was putting my shoes on and the fan late came on, so it was almost like they were saying, hey, go get them.
And that was the first time that had happened.
Maybe they were saying, don't come back.
But, yeah...
But we are...
I just want everybody to know that I'm sure half the people watching this think that we're absolutely nuts and that's okay.
I completely respect that.
We're two of the most skeptical people you're going to meet.
We try to disprove everything that happens.
But there are some things that you just can't disprove if you hear...
Footsteps on a hardwood floor upstairs and you know that the entire upstairs is carpeted.
How can you possibly disprove that?
So it's all the things that happen, like the pounding on the wall in the bathroom when we're having the addition built.
That was really the only time that I was personally scared.
All these things put together means that there's something going on.
And of course, when you have contractors coming to the house and tell you that tools are sliding off the table and they call it a day early, when you have outside people coming in and reporting things, then it validates that you're not losing your mind.
Do you tell your friends that there's paranormal activity in your house?
Are you worried that they'll think you're a little bit off?
No, I don't care if people think we're nuts.
I really don't, because I know what we experience.
And like I said, I've got plenty of people that have been over the house and said, yeah, I was there when things went a little haywire.
So, Anna, these spirits are going to stay there.
They're not in any anxious rush to leave anyway.
They like the family, so they have no desire to leave.
They don't need to leave, whether it's the people from the farm or the relatives.
They're all good.
They're coexisting.
We don't want them to leave.
No rent.
Enjoy them.
We don't want them to leave.
If you or someone you know are experiencing paranormal activity, document your experiences.
You've got to do that.
Send us the details, the pictures, video, whatever.
Then go to DrRoz.com, and we'll see if Anna can help you, too.
We'll be right back.
Up next, these guys are tackling some of the most terrifying hauntings in the country.
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My next guests have dedicated their careers to investigating paranormal activity, whether there is life after death.
They became famous for ghost hunters and now this team is back together for Ghost Nation.
And this season the guys will come face to face with some of the scariest paranormal hauntings the country has ever seen.
Take a look.
There is something else in this house.
Make some sort of a noise.
Let us know you're here with us.
We are a community of searchers.
This family is under attack.
We are...
...Ghost Nation.
Joining me now are paranormal investigators, Jason Hawes, Steve Gonsalves, and Dave Tango.
Thank you all for being here.
Thanks for having us.
So, I gotta say, you are a paranormal, Jason, I'll start with you, with world-class investigators from around the country.
What kind of cases do you take on?
How do you pick which ones?
Well, cases that involve families, people who are scared in their home, and of course, any cases that involve small children jump to the front of the list.
It's people who are scared, who need help.
So, folks have been...
I mean, you've been doing this for 25 years, but a lot of people are still skeptical.
I must say, we have a family house That most of the family is convinced is haunted.
But most of the kids are worked up about this.
So how do you get past the skeptics?
Even in my own family, there are skeptics and they're believers.
Well, but we're not out there trying to help out the skeptics.
We let them do what they want to do.
We're out there just trying to help those who are calling us in for help.
So we're not here to cast no ones back and forth.
We're just trying to help those who need us the most.
Steve, I have a personal question.
How do you get into ghost hunting?
Is there a college major on this stuff?
What did your parents say when you first say, hey mom?
It started off as a hobby, obviously, but you have to take it really seriously and dive into science and energy study and know a lot about spirituality.
For me, it stemmed from fear and quickly became a very deep interest.
Fear because you'd seen something you thought was paranormal?
No, I was actually watching a movie and saw it come up.
It said, based on true events, and it sort of blew my mind.
And then I just started reading books from Lloyd Auerbach and different people trying to really discover the truth behind it.
And how do you know if what you're seeing is real or paranormal activity or something else?
Honestly, your body will react to it physically.
You will know that you are seeing something right in front of you physically.
Changes that obviously.
Obvious.
Yes, absolutely.
Hairs on the back of your arm go up.
Steve, do you ever get scared?
Be honest.
No.
Well, I get startled.
Why is Jason laughing?
He seems like he might know.
Startled for sure.
When something happens, like we have a few cases in an upcoming episode where revolving around a Civil War sword, you know, and the interactions we had based around that, you know, startles you, but then we get so excited that you get emotional and you start high-fiving, and it was...
It's fantastic.
You get emotional.
Absolutely.
I think the thing that you get scared of is, honestly, the homeowners, the living, because you never know what's on the other side of that door.
You never know who you're going to be dealing with, whether it's a paranormal issue or it could be a medical condition.
And so, really, you're walking into the unknown.
Yeah, that's a good point.
Sometimes you're seeing things, yeah.
And you hear voices sometimes, right?
That could be medical, it could be paranormal.
So we've dealt with everybody, people down dealing with schizophrenia and other issues.
People mixing prescriptions and creating hallucinogens.
Not on purpose, but by mistake.
So you're walking into the unknown, trying to help them with whatever their problem is, whether it's paranormal or not.
So I've got a clip that involves several of you that scared me when I saw it, which is why I was asking if you're scared.
This clip may get your attention as well.
Take a look.
Did you hear like a voice?
Yeah.
I heard it too.
Dude, I'm getting chills.
Is it getting colder?
I do have chills.
Dude, look at this.
Wow.
I'll tell you what's going on.
I don't know, man.
It's getting colder right now.
This is crazy.
This is nuts.
This feels like gelatinous.
There's a substance to it.
It's gone.
you Whoa.
But, Tango, you said you get physical reactions.
You had the goosebumps.
Yes, I'm getting them now just when I watched it right there.
Look.
Just thinking about that.
You're not cold, right?
No, I'm not cold.
I see you.
Exactly.
All the hairs are up.
It's crazy.
Yeah.
When you think about a cold spot, you don't think that it has, like, physical properties to it, but it did.
It was my first time I've ever actually witnessed one, experienced one, and it was insane.
That was his first time ever experiencing that.
Yeah.
It was 12 years since I had had that experience as well.
We got emotional.
We started crying and then high-fiving, but your body goes through so many different emotions.
That can't be real.
There's no way I can be explaining that.
But I am seeing it.
I need to explain it.
It's pretty awesome.
It was a woman?
Yes.
What was she saying?
Do you know who she was?
We don't know what she was saying but it started where we were dealing with some other names and we were trying to call out with call and response and it wasn't until we started using the name Emma where we started getting responses and then utilizing the name Emma we heard a female voice and then that female voice just seconds later led to this cold spot where you know the cold is just absence of heat and that was fantastic.
My goodness.
Up next, one of the scariest properties in the country.
See firsthand why this family is terrified to sleep in their own home.
We've been talking about paranormal activity with the country's most famous investigators Jason, Steve and Tangum.
Now they spent one long scary week at a farm in rural Tennessee at a home the family says is so haunted they can't even sleep there some nights.
Take a look.
Was activity happening every day?
Yes.
We kind of like reached our wits in.
I have a really hard time sleeping because, for whatever reason, it likes to mess with me whenever she's asleep.
I guess it's like vice versa because every time I'm in bed before her, then she ends up having a story of, you know, guess what I heard, you know, that kind of thing.
So she just wants attention.
If you're asleep, it's going for you.
If you're asleep, it's going for her.
Now, since the last time Jessica and her team were here and investigated, has anything happened since then?
Well, we got the apparition on the picture.
Oh, okay.
Do you have that here?
Yeah, I do actually.
Yes.
There's a dark figure in the doorway.
That's you doing laundry or something, is it?
He's a tall gentleman and he's fully cloaked.
But we're seeing right here in the dining area.
My goodness.
So walk us through what you see in the photo.
I see the mother of the house on the left.
You do.
You see her standing there doing laundry, and from there you see what appears to be a hooded figure.
You all see that, by the way?
Look carefully.
Let's put a circle.
See that red circle?
You all see it now?
It's weird.
And you see what appears to be a hooded figure standing right behind her in the room.
And why that meant so much to us is upon really going through the evidence later on, we were able to find that the Sarton family who built the house had such strong ties to the KKK. And so the whole story really started coming together.
That's the family?
That's the family.
Let's go up there.
This is interesting because you sort of put the piece together, at least you can understand why this might be the case.
Yeah, really.
So this is from quite a while away.
They had the ties to KKK. Yeah, you can see the family and their sons there.
And they're the ones who originally built the house.
Their ties were, the family had a lot of ties to the KKK. And that meant, that really opened up really just chaos for us when we started getting into the investigation and really going through the history of it.
Because then we found out that the family that called us in was dealing with seeing what appeared to be a man in a tree, seeing a young African-American boy in the house as well.
Is that the African-American boy?
Yeah, they were seeing them up on the top.
I see the shadow there, yeah.
So it opened up a lot of different areas where we really had to dive deep into the history and try to figure out truly what's going on there.
Oh my goodness.
There are so many things that kept happening with his family keeping them up at night that these guys came face to face with a remote control car that the guys say kept moving on its own even with no batteries.
Take a look.
We were trying to talk to Ida, and that's when that bang happened, so let's continue trying to get her.
Talking to her.
Yeah.
Ida, is that you who made that sound before?
for?
Who was that?
Ida, can you come talk to us?
Oh, the car just moved.
Come on.
Now, Steve, how do you explain that?
What was going on?
Well, you know, this is one of those cases where, you know, we weren't able to explain it, to be honest.
We tried quite a bit, and we do believe that 80% of most claims, or all claims, can be Discounted and 20% would be most likely something paranormal, but we tried everything we could imagine to get this car to move on its own and nothing would work.
We even scanned frequencies.
We were covering frequencies to see if any frequencies out there were setting the car off.
We had nothing.
You took the battery out?
We took the batteries out.
We scanned frequencies.
We even moved the location of the car and put it somewhere else to see if maybe it was just location-based or if it would just fire off for no reason.
And it never did.
Only when it was in that area.
And to be honest, you go into that and you see that sort of phenomenon, you just go, we're going to be able to figure that out in five minutes.
But we were not able to.
So what do you think was going on?
I mean, you have to guess.
What paranormal activity?
Can ghosts move things?
Yeah.
Well, we have to think intent.
What would that intent be there?
It would be to let somebody know that, hey, I'm here as well, you know, to get attention.
So I believe that that was something trying to get the attention of us or the family that's there.
So how's the family doing?
You've been a week with them.
Well, and the family's actually doing great.
They've moved back into the house.
We're not going there telling them that we can make something leave.
We're going there trying to figure out what's going on and empowering them with knowledge and understanding of how to coexist.
If they want something gone, they're going to have to sit around as a family and ask this thing to leave and hope it does.
But we always stay in contact with the families that we go and assist.
And we've talked to them many times.
The family, they're happy to be in the house.
Again, the children, they're not scared to be in the house.
So just knowing they're not in danger is enough to get past the problem.
Yeah, because I think movies and all stuff like that make ghosts automatically terrifying.
Well, when you take that away and make it more intriguing to them, more of, hey, it's a mystery, let's try to solve the mystery, I think that really empowers them, takes away the fear.
So if people at home, Steve will ask this to you, want to investigate paranormal activities, what kind of experiences do they need?
What tools do they require?
If they're just starting off and they just want to document things in their home, I say a video camera, even a cell phone, but put it on airplane mode or something similar so it's not sending and receiving signals.
And just record what you are trying to experience.
Listen for voices, listen for different things, and keep a bit of a scientific method in mind.
Two is a coincidence, three is a pattern.
I think that will help people.
And on Ghost Nation, we've been very fortunate.
It feels very good to us where, you know, we're able to take the case from the beginning and all the way to resolution, which is really helping families.
And I think part of them being able to continue the investigation once we're gone is part of bringing them help.
And it's been so fulfilling.
And we weren't able to do that until this show.
All right, Ghost Nation premieres on the Travel Channel on Friday, October the 11th at 10 p.m.
Eastern.
To share your paranormal experiences, go to dros.com.
Be right back.
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We wrote the book.
It's called that.
That's the title.
It's a good title.
So, why do you think the book was so necessary?
Are folks really panicking themselves?
Well, yeah, I mean, everyone has new symptoms all the time.
You can't, for the most part, call up a doctor any time you have something new.
So most people go online, Google their symptoms, and inevitably, no matter what you put in, you're told that death is, like, around the corner.
You're like, your hangnail is the earliest sign of cancer.
Get your stuff in order.
So we wanted to make a resource that was comprehensive, accurate, not alarmist, has no hidden agenda, and just gives people good information, lets them know if it's something that's probably okay, something that's probably not okay and they need to make an appointment for, or something that's definitely not okay and you need to go to the emergency room for.
Of course.
We're going to tackle a couple of these topics, ones that are asked quite quickly.
First off, of these biggest am I dying questions...
Is around bloating.
Explain, Mark, what are the non-deadly reasons you may get bloating?
These are the non-deadly reasons why you might get bloating.
These are what we call the musical fruits.
There's beans, lentils, milk.
Musical fruits?
Do you know why they call them the musical fruits?
I actually don't know why.
So I have kids, so probably some people in the audience know this.
Beans, beans.
The magical fruit, the more you eat, the...
More you toot, right?
They sing to you.
Yes, they do.
You put these guys in your belly and the bacteria in your gut digest them and make a lot of gas.
And so, you know, I like to have a big, you know, bowl of beans before getting on a crowded elevator.
That's how I make a lot of friends.
It builds character.
But it's not just beans, right?
No, it's not just beans.
It's beans, it's milk.
People sometimes basically don't have the enzyme that could digest the milk.
And because of that, the bacteria gets onto it and it causes a byproduct of gas.
Cola, because it carbonates your belly.
Yes, so then there's gum, there's cola.
Anything that makes you chew and you're swallowing air will go into your stomach.
Let's talk about gum.
If you chew gum and you swallow air, it goes into your stomach and it could actually make you feel very bloated.
And in addition to that, why don't you demonstrate?
Why don't you, here, take a few pieces.
This is a normal amount of gum for a person to eat that we have right here.
Cardiologists chew a lot of gum, I should say.
So yeah, and it's good for silencing people who talk about it also.
So the gum, in addition to swallowing all that air here, I think you need a little more.
In addition to swallowing all that air, the artificial sweetener in gum also gets broken down by the bacteria in your gut and makes more gas.
So you're burping, you're passing gas, your breath smells good, but the rest of you, I don't know.
So...
It's a minty friend that we all love.
We chew it often, but we spend all night long coming up with this demonstration to show you exactly what's happening.
Keep chewing.
Yeah, right.
Keep chewing, Eisenberg.
So there are two ways, right?
The first is you can literally just have too much air in your belly when you're chewing or swallowing things.
Or drinking carbonated beverages.
But you gulp in air with everything else.
So that air actually stays down there, and it doesn't smell when it comes out.
I can attest to that.
But it does make you bloated and increases your waist size.
So I've been keeping this in my attic since my eighth grade science fair because I knew one day that this would come in handy.
And I'd like to demonstrate now.
So this is the mouth.
This is like the stomach and the intestines.
Down here is your colon.
That's where the poop gets made.
And let's pretend that this beaker here is full of the artificial sweetener that's in gum.
It's called sorbitol.
Sorbitol.
So we're going to show you the sorbitol, what happens when we pour it in.
So this is a normal amount of gum.
Again, like eight to ten sticks somebody might have.
So you put it in there.
So you pour it in there, and you can see that the bacteria, these green guys, are processing it.
What have you done here?
Turning it into a lot of gas, and at this point you're foaming, frothing at the mouth, walking around, looking like you have rabies, and you're feeling really bloated.
So you've got bloat and stuff all over you, but examine your partner there, because Mark's been chewing his gum.
Is he bloated?
Yeah.
Yeah, I think he's gone up at least three bulk sizes right here.
That's me on a normal day.
So again, it's not toxic, but the bacteria don't recognize this.
When it gets into your colon, it digests it.
It's a meal for them.
Exactly.
When they go to the bathroom, they release gas.
That gas doesn't smell that badly either, but some of the gases that we make smell putrid, right?
That bad egg smell.
That's because some of the foods you're eating can do the same thing.
Okay, is there ever a time when you should freak out if this is happening?
No, I mean, this is normal.
I think that if this happens a lot when you eat, you should look at what you're eating.
You may be lactose intolerant, for example, and you can take supplements for that.
If you start having abdominal bloating, nausea, vomiting, and a fever, you should actually go to the emergency room because you could actually be having an obstruction, and only an x-ray and a good doctor's exam will be able to tell you that.
Yeah, which is uncomfortable and not painful.
Yeah, and when you go to the bathroom, it should feel better.
Yeah, you should feel better afterwards.
Call somebody.
Okay, next, the viewer found something strange growing on her body, and she's asking, am I dying?
Are Asia's here?
What was it that you found that worried you imprompted the email?
Okay, so I found some moles, some beauty marks that popped up too.
New beauty marks.
Yeah, after 30 they came, and freckles, what we call them.
Yeah, so I was trying to figure out why.
Well, freckles is what I like to call a lot of things, but sometimes they're not freckles.
So maybe we can get an expert here.
Yeah.
Take a look at that.
What do you think?
Let's see.
And while Chris, while you're examining, Mark, explain why a mole should worry us.
When should it freak us out?
So doctors use the ABCD mnemonic to decide when a mole could be dangerous.
So, A stands for asymmetry.
If one part of the mole looks not the same as the other part, that's worrisome.
So where are they?
Yeah, we've got one right here on the cheek.
I don't know if you guys can see that.
I'm making it larger than...
Look over here.
We can say that to everybody.
Mark, keep going.
So A stands for asymmetry.
B stands for borders, being irregular.
If it's not a complete circle and it's jagged, that could be very worrisome.
C stands for coloring.
If it's multiple colors, like black, blue, brown, variegated colors, that could be extremely worrying.
D stands for diameter, six millimeters.
Or, actually, if we have it...
Yeah, and actually, a little tip here.
You could take a regular pencil...
This is about six millimeters or so.
If you can cover the mole completely with the eraser on your pencil, that's a good sign.
So if you can't cover it, it's a bad sign.
So if it's greater than six centimeters, it could be worse.
Millimeters.
Millimeters.
E stands for evolving or something new.
So if it's getting bigger.
So a great thing you should do is when you have a mole, take a picture of it with your cell phone.
And then you can compare it, take another picture a week or two later.
So as I look at, it is evolving because it's new.
But you don't have any of the other ones, A, B, C, or D. No.
And the pencil covered it up, so...
Yeah.
Should she go see someone or not usually worry?
I mean, it's always a good idea to have a skin exam every few years by a dermatologist because in addition to the moles that you see, you may have ones on parts of your body you just don't see that well.
Your back, your legs.
Especially fair-skinned people.
Like, I'm usually translucent.
This is a tan for me.
So I am very prone to moles and increased risk of melanoma.
So Star Asia's been taking photos.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Over time we have images of them.
Take a look at these.
Give me a rough idea of whether Star Asia's dying or not.
Mm-hmm.
Well, Star Asia, unfortunately, is definitely dying.
All of us are dying.
But it's not gonna be from this, I don't think.
This looks like a pretty benign-looking mole.
Like I said, I think it's good to get a skin exam every few years, but I don't think that this one has to worry you.
You know, I'm very proud you took pictures of it.
That was the most important thing we did.
It helps us figure out what's going on.
If you go to a doctor without any backup, we don't have much we can do except for cutting things out.
You bring a couple pictures like that, it changes everything.
Yeah, it does.
Next job.
All right, now what's the classic concern that folks who are Googling are fearful of?
I'll just stand in front of you because I'm sure some of you have done this before.
The most concerning Googling sign they have is?
Chest pain.
No joke.
It's a big problem.
So we can all agree.
So what do you tell patients when they're having chest pain?
What's a tip whether they should be concerned or not?
Well, you should usually be concerned about chest pain because of the many things that cause it, most of them are life-threatening.
And as cardiologists, we deal with this all the time.
The times when you can be reassured and probably not seek medical attention is if you get like a sharp little pain between the ribs when you take a deep breath and it lasts for just a few seconds, that's probably a pulled muscle.
But if you have pain that's more severe than that, it's not related to breathing, it doesn't go away after a minute or two, you should definitely go to the emergency room because you could be having a heart attack or something equivalent.
All right, so we've created a guide that you can use to check your chest pain.
It's literally called that, Check Your Chest Pain.
You can find it on dros.com.
There's the guide right there.
Take a picture of it, share it to your friends, share it around.
You might save some lives.
Chris Mark, wonderful job, as always, for a complete guide on ways to decode your body pain.
Pick up Dr. Kelly and Dr. Eisenberg's fantastic book.
It's called, Am I Dying?
In fact, you know what?
What about the audience?
The audience is worried.
Should they be getting something?
They should all get a copy of Am I Dying?
And I think we're gonna give them all out today.
You want some?
You're all going home to copy the book in case you're dying.
We'll be right back.
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