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Podcast: Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Episode: PHINEAS GAGE: A Rod Blasted Through His Head, He Lost Half His Brain, Then He Got Up and Walked Away
Description: In 1848, a 13-pound iron rod exploded through Phineas Gage's skull, destroyed half his brain, and flew out the other sideābut instead of dying, he sat up, spoke clearly, and walked nearly a mile to see a doctor... and that's just the beginning of the story!Support our Halloween āOvercoming the Darknessā campaign to help people with depression:Ā https://weirddarkness.com/HOPEIN THIS EPISODE: Iāve covered numerous stories here in the podcast on people gone missing, never to be seen again. But itās much more rare to have a story about a corpse going missi...