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MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories
The Strange, Dark and Mysterious delivered in podcast format.
Episodes
- MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories
The Turquoise Necklace (PODCAST EXCLUSIVE EPISODE)
On an evening in March 1974, an investigator in Salt Lake City, Utah sat across an interrogation table from a man who claimed he had psychic powers. The deputy…
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Fan Favorite - "Murder by the Slice"
Today's story is a fan favorite that was previously published as Episode 269. On a spring night in 2009, a middle aged married couple was closing up the local…
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No Way Out Vol. IX
Today’s podcast features 3 stories that involve people who were trapped – with “no way out.” The audio from all three stories has been pulled from our main…
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The Best Laid Plans (PODCAST EXCLUSIVE EPISODE)
Today’s stories are about people who try to control fate… and end up causing historic levels of destruction. You can WATCH all new & exclusive MrBallen podcast…
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The Rumor Mill (PODCAST EXCLUSIVE EPISODE)
On the morning of December 10, 1995, a detective walked into a house on a quiet street in the suburbs of Tucson, Arizona. An officer led him down the hallway…
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Fan Favorite - "The Artist"
Today's story is a fan favorite that was previously published as Episode 251.On the afternoon of September 10, 2009, an art student walked inside her…
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Frozen Hell
Today’s podcast will feature 3 stories about people who headed into the extreme cold, and never returned. The audio from all three stories has been pulled from…
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The Devil is in the Details (PODCAST EXCLUSIVE EPISODE)
Today, I’m going to tell you two stories about people who wanted to do something impressive – and came up with a really ambitious plan. But they overlooked one…
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Cops and Robbers (PODCAST EXCLUSIVE EPISODE)
Just after midnight on May 12, 2006, a man woke up in his quiet London suburb to the sound of pounding on his front door. He answered it and found his neighbor…
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Monsters Among Us Vol. V
Today’s podcast will feature 3 stories that will make you wonder how many monsters you may have encountered in your life. The audio from all three stories has…
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Inspired By (PODCAST EXCLUSIVE EPISODE)
Today's story is about a fiction writer who used her own life as inspiration – until her life took a tragic twist that no one would believe if she wrote it in…
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The Green Monster (PODCAST EXCLUSIVE EPISODE)
In the early morning hours of March 27, 2003, a four-year-old boy was lying in bed in rural Ohio, when he suddenly heard his door open. He assumed it was just…
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The Death Song | Campfire with MrBallen
In today’s episode, we are doing something a little different. For the first time ever, I’m taking the "Strange, Dark, and Mysterious" stories outside to a…
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Devotion
Today’s podcast will feature 3 stories about acts so strange and unsettling, they blur the line between devotion and madness. The audio from all three stories…
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Desperate Measures (PODCAST EXCLUSIVE EPISODE)
Today, I’m going to tell you two stories about people who unknowingly risked everything to travel to their dream locations – and didn’t realize they were in…
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Dancer in the Dark (PODCAST EXCLUSIVE EPISODE)
In December 2005, a young woman walked down a sidewalk in New York City. There were Christmas decorations on all the buildings she passed – but as she walked…
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Fan Favorite - "You Can't Leave That Way"
Today's story is a fan favorite that was previously published as Episode 318.This story is about a woman who goes missing from a psychiatric hospital in 1900…
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The Unexplained Vol. II
Today’s podcast will feature 3 stories of missing people that we just can’t explain. The audio from all three stories has been pulled from our main YouTube…
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Panic Attacks (PODCAST EXCLUSIVE EPISODE)
Today, I’m going to tell you two stories about people who communicated with the right intentions, but didn’t fully think through the risks of what could happen…
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The Preacher's Fiancée (PODCAST EXCLUSIVE EPISODE)
One morning in May 1993, a man living outside Chicago, Illinois, stepped out onto his front porch – and froze. There was a shoebox sitting there, with a note…
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Storytime with MrBallen | Rosie Grant
Joining me is the amazing Rosie Grant! Rosie is the creator behind Ghostly Archive on Instagram & TikTok, where she researches and re-creates recipes found on…
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For a Price
Whether it's fame, fortune, or the thrill of adventure — none of it comes without a price, and today's 3 stories demonstrate that.Story names, previews & links…
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The Happy Couple (PODCAST EXCLUSIVE EPISODE)
On July 4th, 2018, a paramedic was hurrying through a hospital in England when his supervisor flagged him down, looking worried. She asked if he had been one…
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Fan Favorite - "The Red Sandals"
This story is a fan favorite that was previously published as Episode 344.In 1984, in a small city in northeastern China, a security guard stood outside of a…
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Origins
Today’s podcast will feature 3 stories about how a single decision changed the lives of the people in these stories, as well as millions of others lives around…
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When Your Eyes Deceive You (PODCAST EXCLUSIVE EPISODE)
Today, I’m going to tell two stories that highlight how the world around us – and even people’s own eyes – can play tricks on them. Sometimes, what people…
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The Devil's Diary (PODCAST EXCLUSIVE EPISODE)
One night in December of 2009, a man dug through a pile of papers and photo albums inside an RV parked in Texas. This man had recently bought the trailer after…
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Fan Favorite - "The Piranha"
This story is a fan favorite that was previously published as Episode 335.In 2011, a police officer spotted a woman on a busy street in Japan, and he couldn’t…
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Unreal
Today’s podcast will feature 3 stories that sound impossible – moments so unlikely, they shouldn’t exist… yet somehow, they do. The audio from all three…
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Shipwrecked (PODCAST EXCLUSIVE EPISODE)
In the early morning hours on a Saturday in 2013, a man dressed all in black hid in the shadows on a side street in downtown Antwerp, Belgium. The man had lost…
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Touch Me and Die (PODCAST EXCLUSIVE EPISODE)
On the afternoon of September 30th, 1991, an investigator in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania walked carefully through a college chemistry lab – that was also a…
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Vital Signs
Today’s podcast will feature 2 medical horror stories. The audio from both of these stories has been pulled from our main YouTube channel, which is just called…
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Life is a Circus (PODCAST EXCLUSIVE EPISODE)
On a chilly evening in early February 2010, a group of friends gathered around the table at a restaurant in a French ski resort. They had been out on the…
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Family Values
In today's story, a family uncovers a secret on a laptop. And after that, everything spirals completely out of control.Story names, previews & links to…
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Looking for Love (PODCAST EXCLUSIVE EPISODE)
A young man was watching the local news while he ate breakfast one day in 2004, when a story about a savage murder came on. At first, the young man wasn’t…
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Stranger Than Fiction Vol. XII
Sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction. And today’s podcast features 3 stories that demonstrate that. The audio from all three stories has been pulled…
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Legends of the Pet Cemetery (PODCAST EXCLUSIVE EPISODE)
In the early morning hours of September 21st, 2009, a man woke up in his bed in New Orleans with a start, to the sound of metal clinking in the dark corner of…
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Operation Mincemeat
Today’s podcast will feature 2 totally unbelievable stories from the battlefield. The audio from both of these stories has been pulled from our main YouTube…
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The Confession (PODCAST EXCLUSIVE EPISODE)
On April 29, 2002, in the small town of Pataskala, Ohio, a social worker sat on the floor with a two-year-old girl. The little girl's mother had been murdered…
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No Way Out Vol. VIII
Today’s podcast features 4 stories that involve people who were trapped – with “no way out.” The audio from all four stories has been pulled from our main…
- MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories
The Bedroom Window (PODCAST EXCLUSIVE EPISODE)
Around 3:00 AM on September 5th, 1981, a woman drove through a housing development in Lakeland, Florida. She was with two of her friends, who had agreed to…
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Nightmare Fuel
Today’s podcast will feature 3 horror stories that are just pure nightmare fuel. The audio from all three stories has been pulled from our main YouTube…
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Watch It Again (PODCAST EXCLUSIVE EPISODE)
On December 30, 2016, a woman sat down at her computer in her New Mexico home and pulled up the video feed from her surveillance system. Everyone in her…
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Storytime with MrBallen | Oz Pearlman
Joining me is a man you've probably seen all over the internet, the great Oz "The Mentalist" Pearlman. WATCH the full video here…
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We Are Not Alone Vol. III
Today’s podcast will feature 2 stories that reveal we may not be alone in this universe. The audio from both of these stories has been pulled from our main…
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Personal Business (PODCAST EXCLUSIVE EPISODE)
One afternoon in February 2007, a man walked across an icy parking lot to the front door of a police station in Merrillville, Indiana. Next to him was an…
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...Who's There?
You think you’re safe at home, but today’s 2 stories prove you’re not. The audio from both of these stories has been pulled from our main YouTube channel…
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The Shadow in the Doorway (PODCAST EXCLUSIVE EPISODE)
In the early hours of Thursday, February 21st, 2008, a six-year-old girl woke to a creaking noise down the hallway outside her bedroom door. It was a blustery…
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From Beyond Vol. II
Today’s podcast will feature 3 spooky stories about messages from beyond. The audio from all three stories has been pulled from our main YouTube channel, which…
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Getting to Heaven (PODCAST EXCLUSIVE EPISODE)
One morning in September 2016, a person sat in their home in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, holding a business card. Like always, the sight of it made their…
MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious StoriesMedical Mysteries - "False Alarm"
This story is a fan favorite from MrBallen's Medical Mysteries.When a woman gets sick with a mystery illness during the height of the COVID pandemic, she fears…
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The Knot (PODCAST EXCLUSIVE EPISODE)
On a September afternoon in 2000, an FBI forensics analyst stood in her lab in Quantico, Virginia, staring into a microscope in confusion. She was looking at…
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The Beast of Gévaudan
This story is about a 3-year period in France where people were going missing at an alarming rate and no one knew why. Eventually it was discovered, and let me…
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The Full House Heist (PODCAST EXCLUSIVE EPISODE)
On the morning of July 11th, 2009, an elderly woman grabbed a coffee and sat down at her kitchen table in Pensacola, Florida, to read the local paper. The news…
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Unanswered Vol. II
Today’s podcast will feature 3 stories about mysterious disappearances. The audio from all three stories has been pulled from our main YouTube channel, which…
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Death Of A Ladies' Man (PODCAST EXCLUSIVE EPISODE)
One afternoon in January of 1998, a prosecutor for the state of Georgia sat in the very back row of seats in a courtroom where a divorce trial was unfolding…
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Cost of Adventure
Today’s podcast will feature 4 stories about adventures… that go wrong. The audio from all four stories has been pulled from our main YouTube channel, which is…
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The Monaco Matriarch (PODCAST EXCLUSIVE EPISODE)
On the morning of May 17th, 2014, a detective wrote furiously as she sat next to the hospital bed of a mortally-injured 77-year-old woman. The woman had been…
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The Truth Beneath
Today’s podcast will feature 3 stories where things are not what they seem. The audio from all three stories has been pulled from our main YouTube channel…
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Three's a Crowd (PODCAST EXCLUSIVE EPISODE)
Late on a June evening in 2000, a detective with the Easton PA Police Department sat in his car on a darkened neighborhood street, surveilling a house nearby…