The Toxic Woman: Gloria Ramirez and the ER Anomaly In the bustling, controlled environment of a hospital emergency room, a place of life-saving miracles and predictable medical protocols, a chilling and utterly inexplicable event unfolded in Riverside, California, on a February night in 1994. Gloria Ramirez, a 31-year-old woman suffering from terminal cancer, was rushed in, her condition critical. Yet, it was not her illness that would truly terrify the medical staff, but the terrifying phenomena that erupted around her. ER personnel, attempting to save her life, began to inexplicably fall violently ill and faint, some even suffering severe organ damage. Her very body seemed to become a source of contagion, her blood emitting a pervasive ammonia smell and containing bizarre, floating crystals. She died shortly after, but the true cause of this toxic ...