Mystery Illness Hospitalizes 27 Santa Barbara Runners

SportsGrid
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Nov 12, 2026
Let's talk about weird things
because something really mysterious happened
last weekend in Santa Barbara,
California and it wasn't me going to fire this weekend.
We can watch it later.
Half marathons that surprisingly struck over 25 people.
Sick, after, they don't know if it's a mystery illness,
they don't know if it was just a stroke, a heat stroke.
I don't know how to read that.
Please, bring your conspiracy theories.
That's not what I know.
Drop the...
Okay, and then I want to know from you what you've
been hearing, but here's what I've read.
I read, at this point, 27 runners have been hospitalized.
Yes.
They were saying...
That it might have been, they're thinking that some
of the water stations were spiked or they were contaminated
because it's weird that 27 people after a half marathon, by the way,
we're not talking about 26 miles, we're talking about 13 miles,
I've ran a half marathon before, they were blaming it on the heat,
but it was 80 degrees. Now that's a warm day, but that's not so hot.
That's such an, I think maybe one person
who's never ran a half marathon before might have had a heat stroke,
but 27 people in the hospital. So, you know, the symptoms are strange.
So for me, I always lean on the conspiratorial.
I think somebody in Santa Barbara
might have spiked those water stations
because I can't blame it on 80-degree weather.
What do you think?
What have you been hearing in Santa Barbara?
I definitely think.
God, you didn't run.
I know.
You almost did.
I mean she, she almost ran the marathon, drank from the water station,
and then she wouldn't be here.
Then I wouldn't be here today.
What I've been hearing also similarly, something suspicious, right?
Listen, Santa Barbara's been hot recently.
It's not like, it's not like, and this is also a young,
athletic, thick crowd, especially going to run this.
A lot of people I know have been running this.
It's just suspicious, right?
The water stations, is there regulations behind that?
I don't know how that works.
Maybe they left it there for days.
I think that the fact that there was parent weekend
the same weekend has something to do with it.
I think some naughty parents were spiking the runners just for kicks.
Oh, my God.
And they were having a lot of fun.
Where were you?
On Saturday, I don't know, guys.
I don't know.
We'll never know.
We'll never know what happened in Santa Barbara without bacon.
