Mr. Ballin

It would turn out Angela's primary care doctor had been right when he said he didn't think her nosebleeds had anything to do with that moped accident.

This was not a brain injury or anything connected to the trauma.

However, her nosebleeds were connected to something else she had done while in Vietnam.

Because in Vietnam, in between going out to nightclubs and partying and trying all that great food, Angela was also swimming in these local rivers.

And at one point when she was in one of those rivers,

something found its way into her nose, a three-inch-long, blood-sucking leech.

It had been living deep inside of Angela's nostril and sinus cavity for over a week, separated from her brain only by this extremely fragile bone that's only about a half-millimeter thick.

Hospital doctors would spend about 30 minutes painstakingly pulling this leech out of Angela's nose, and then once it was out, she would go on to make a full recovery.

The next and final story of today's episode is called James 3.

On the afternoon of Sunday, August 27th, 2000, a 50-year-old husband and father named Bruce Leninger sat in his living room in Lafayette, Louisiana.

He and his wife and his two-year-old son James had just gotten home from church, and now Bruce was just trying to relax.

However, it was proving very difficult to relax because as Bruce is trying to sit on the couch and just kind of close his eyes for a second, his son, James, the two-year-old, has his toy plane, his favorite toy plane, and he is repeatedly smashing it into the coffee table as loud as he can, saying, "'Plane crash, plane crash, plane crash.'"

And while, of course, like, you know, James is a kid, he's going to be loud and noisy and obnoxious, that's what kids do.

But for Bruce, he's watching his son do this, and he couldn't help but be really concerned.

Because lately, like over the past few months, James had become unnaturally fixated, not on planes, but on plane crashes.

And even more specifically, James had begun having these recurring nightmares, like,

four or five times a week where he'd wake up terrified and he would say he, James, had just been in a horrible, fiery plane crash.

And it was like every night that was the nightmare.

And it was like Bruce and his wife didn't even know what to make of this.

Like, where is he getting this from?