On a report
published on May, 10 1981 by the NYTime, 18 Laotian refugees were reportedly
killed by a nightmare. Federal Center for Disease Control was conducting a
thorough examination about the death of 18 Laotian refugees in four years. One of the cause they are looking at is that
they were frightened by a nightmare while they were sleeping.
Surprsingly,
unlike similar cases, this case involves a young Laotian woman. The 17 men and a woman was a member of a
Laotian group called the Hmong. Most of
the refugees went to United States to escape after it was overrun by Pathet Lao
on 1975. By the time that the incident happened, there were at least 35,000
Hmong living in the US.
Members of
Hmong grew up in a very isolated place like the Indian tribes. Aside from that , very few of them can speak
the English language. The death of those
18 Laotian remained a mystery. The
deaths were said to be associated with irregular heartbeats and “probable
cardiac Arrhythmia”.
Dr. Roy
Baron said that their deaths can be caused by a nightmare but they cannot still
give a distinct conclusion. There were
no foul plays, accidents or suicide, apparently the 18 Laotian just died while
they were sleeping. Doctors said that
they could pinpoint the reason why they didn’t die but they could not uncover
the reason why they die.
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