Jean Hilliard, 19, lived in her small hometown of Lengby, Minnesota, in December 1980. On a cold night, the temperature dropped to minus 22 degrees Fahrenheit (-30 degrees Celsius). Jean Hilliard was driving from her friend’s house to her parents’ house in Lengby, Minnesota.
While driving, she suddenly lost control of the car and swerved off the road, causing the entire car to stop and stall. At this time, Jean decided to walk to Wally Nelson’s house, near the house of a friend she had forgotten, about 2 miles away. She walked in the cold night and her vision gradually blurred.
Around 7 a.m., her friend Wally went outside and found Hilliard frozen on the front lawn of his house, her eyes wide with fear.
“I grabbed her by the collar and tried to pull her onto the porch. I thought she was dead because her whole body was frozen but I could still see some bubbles coming out of her nose,” Wally Nelson recalled. Wally then quickly put Hilliard in the car and took her to the nearest hospital in Fosston. There, doctors said there was no hope of reviving Jean Hilliard.
While doctors at that time almost no hope of survival for Hilliard. Because she had been frozen for so long, her skin was so frozen that they could not inject it anymore, it was like a piece of frozen meat for a long time. Her body temperature was so low that it did not even show on the thermometer, everyone thought she was dead.
However, the doctors still proceeded to warm her body with a heating pad. And luckily a miracle happened. After the ice melted, Jean’s heart rate only beat 8 times per minute. Her body temperature was about 26 degrees Celsius. But then we suddenly heard a very small sound from Hilliard. We knew she might still have some life left and tried to save her.
And at about 11 am, Hilliard began to have convulsions and miraculously regained consciousness. All the doctors and everyone around there were extremely surprised.
The girl, Jean Hilliard, coming back to life after being frozen for 6 hours is a miracle.
Modern medicine explains this strange phenomenon
According to the explanation of Dr. David Plummer of the University of Minnesota, an expert on reviving people with hypothermia, a condition in which the human body “shuts down” due to extreme cold.
The girl from that year is now a healthy adult
According to this doctor, when a person is cold, the body gradually cools down, the blood flow slows down like a bear in hibernation. At this time, the body needs less oxygen to protect itself. However, as a person’s blood flow increases at a rate equal to their body temperature, they will slowly recover.
