When someone is described as a “toxic” person, the individual is considered poisonous, harmful, controlling, narcissistic, and prone to gaslighting those around them. But for one woman the term meant something much more literal.
Gloria Ramirez died in 1994, and at the time of her death was literally toxic. Something strange had been observed happening when doctors and nurses were trying to save Gloria Ramiez’s life. Staff started fainting, vomiting, convulsing, and having trouble breathing.
Something about Gloria Rameriz or something happening to her was releasing toxic gas, making people sick. While there are many possible theories about what happened in the ER on the last night of Rameriz’s life, the incident is still considered an unsolved mystery. What was happening to Gloria?
Gloria Ramirez
On February 19, 1994, at 8:15 pm, 31-year-old Gloria Ramirez arrived via ambulance at the Emergency Room at the Riverside General Hospital in Riverside, California. She was experiencing a rapid and irregular heartbeat and decreasing blood pressure, was almost incoherent, and was having trouble breathing.
Gloria Ramirez was already a very sick woman. She had been suffering from late-stage cervical cancer, and was dying.
Gloria Ramirez’s condition rapidly declined, and she needed to be defibrillated. That is when the medical staff began noticing strange things about their patient. When her shirt was removed, several ER staff saw Gloria Ramirez’s body was covered in what was described as an “oily sheen”.
