The Polaroid in Room 412: Two Girls, One Impossible Date
A Polaroid dated May 3, 1991 was found in a hospital chart sleeve on May 3, 2023 - thirty-two years before it was discovered and before either girl in the photo had been born. The photo shows two girls in yellow dresses in front of a green door, and the woman who woke up in Room 412 the same day drew the same house and spoke the name "Sandra Voss." How did a patient who had been unconscious after severe hypoglycemia produce drawings and a name that match a decades-old photograph?
In this episode, we follow the sequence of events at a hospital on May 3, 2023: the discovery of the photograph, the awakening of a patient from a coma, and the drawings and words she produced. We describe what was found in the chart sleeve, what the patient drew and said, and the personal connection that emerged between a nurse and a name from his grandmother's estate records.
Person: Rebecca Tillman
Date: Photograph dated May 3, 1991; found May 3, 2023
Location: Room 412, fourth floor of the hospital
Condition: Blood glucose 31 mg/dL on admission
Witness: Kevin Marsh, nurse, age 28
- The Polaroid was discovered face-up in a chart sleeve outside Room 412 on May 3, 2023 with a handwritten border date of May 3, 1991.
- The photo depicts two girls in yellow dresses standing in front of a green front door.
- Rebecca Tillman, age 31, awoke on May 3, 2023 after hypoglycemia and requested paper and a pencil.
- Over about forty minutes she filled six pages, with the fourth page containing a drawing of a house matching the photograph and a mailbox number written inside it.
- Nurse Kevin Marsh, age 28, recorded that Rebecca said the name "Sandra Voss," a surname he had only learned weeks earlier from his grandmother’s estate paperwork.
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