{"podcast":{"title":"Mysteries and Histories","slug":"mysteries-and-histories-1576928","podcast_index_feed_id":1576928,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/10f731918/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBTMJwtvyuP7XMgpofJWH5g/","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/45441686/06037aa4e36546ef.png","author":"Georgia Marie","episode_count":302,"summary":"Join Georgia as each week she talks you through important pieces of history that more people should know about or true crime cases that require more public attention - awareness and education are key!","last_synced_at":"2026-07-21T00:18:28.244014+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/mysteries-and-histories-1576928"},"episode":{"title":"The Mysterious Illness That Caused You To Sleep For YEARS","slug":"the-mysterious-illness-that-caused-you-to-sleep-for-years","published_at":"2026-04-17T11:45:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/mysteries-and-histories-1576928/the-mysterious-illness-that-caused-you-to-sleep-for-years","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/mysteries-and-histories-1576928","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/georgiamariexo/episodes/The-Mysterious-Illness-That-Caused-You-To-Sleep-For-YEARS-e3i1t2f","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/APO2921230725.mp3","summary":"Imagine getting sick and then slipping into a sleep you can’t wake up from, not for days, not for months, sometimes not for years. In the early 1900s, a mysterious “sleeping sickness” known as encephalitis lethargica swept across the world, leaving people frozen between life and death: eyes closed, bodies still, but often aware of everything happening around them. Doctors watched as some patients never woke up, while others opened their eyes decades later with strange, permanent damage to their brains, turning one baffling illness into one of medicine’s most haunting unsolved stories.","meta_description":"Imagine getting sick and then slipping into a sleep you can’t wake up from, not for days, not for months, sometimes not for years. In the early 1900s, a m…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1578,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/mysteries-and-histories-1576928/episodes/the-mysterious-illness-that-caused-you-to-sleep-for-years/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/mysteries-and-histories-1576928/the-mysterious-illness-that-caused-you-to-sleep-for-years.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}