The Minnesota Woman Who Froze Solid Overnight — And The Medical Miracle That Saved Her Life
Youth, health, and body composition may have contributed to Jean Hilliard’s survival without fully explaining it.
The specific chain of physiological events that allowed her to survive six hours at -22 degrees Fahrenheit with the degree of apparent freezing that the clinical observations document remains, at some level, incompletely explained.
The Retelling And The Reality
In the decades since December 1980, Jean Hilliard’s story has been retold many times — in newspaper articles, in books, in podcasts, in online articles, in videos.
With each retelling, the story has sometimes picked up details that are not well-supported by the original documentation.
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