MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories
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MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories
MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark and Mysterious Stories is a true crime and mystery podcast that presents strange, dark and mysterious content delivered in story format. The program is hosted by John Allen a.k.a. MrBallen. Subscribe to SiriusXM Podcasts+ to listen to new episodes 7-days early and ad...
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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 chann...
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 th...
Medical 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 pan...
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 lo...
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, a...
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....
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...
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 unf...
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,...
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 h...
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 cha...
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...
Monsters Among Us Vol. IV
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 sto...
Detail in the Dark (PODCAST EXCLUSIVE EPISODE)
One evening in the summer of 1998, homicide detective Danny Payne sat in a dark room in a Tennessee suburb police station. He was focused on a TV scre...
Prey
Today’s podcast will feature 3 chilling horror stories that serve as a stark reminder – we’re not always at the top of the food chain. The audio from...
Medical Mysteries - "17 Doctors"
This story is a fan favorite from MrBallen's Medical Mysteries.
During the COVID pandemic, a boy starts experiencing sudden, inexplicable bursts...
Stranger Than Fiction Vol. XI
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...
Holiday Fear (PODCAST EXCLUSIVE EPISODE)
One day in mid-December 2003, Detective Mark Kelly walked into a small kitchen at a home in Fort Worth, Texas. The house belonged to a potential suspe...
The Condition
Today’s podcast will feature two medical mysteries that sound like they are straight out of a horror movie. The audio from both of these stories has b...
One Foot Out The Door (PODCAST EXCLUSIVE EPISODE)
Just after 7 p.m. on June 16th, 2010, an employee at the Palmdale, California Sheriff’s Department tapped his fingers on his desk and sighed. The depa...
Tight Squeeze
Today’s podcast will feature two claustrophobia inducing stories about cave explorers. The audio from both of these stories has been pulled from our m...
The View From Above (PODCAST EXCLUSIVE EPISODE)
On a crisp fall morning in 2007, a small airplane took flight over the forested town of Graham, Washington. The pilot was a detective with the Pierce...
The Last Trip
Today’s podcast will feature 3 stories of journeys that promised adventure, but led somewhere far more sinister. The audio from all three stories has...
Storytime with MrBallen | Tom Segura
Today's episode is something completely new! But don't worry, it's in addition to the regular episodes!
For the first time ever, I am interviewi...
The Fugitive (PODCAST EXCLUSIVE EPISODE)
In September of 2021, a young woman named Anna Moriah Willson – who everybody just called “Mo” – stood in front of a cheering crowd at the end of a lo...
The Scheme
Some people will lie, cheat, and steal to get ahead, but today’s podcast features two wild stories where those so-called “master plans” fall apart in...
The Receipt (PODCAST EXCLUSIVE EPISODE)
On the afternoon of March 24, 2006, an employee at a moving truck rental company in Ohio opened his desk drawer and grabbed a wad of cash. It had been...
What's in the Basement?
Today’s story is one I told several years back on YouTube, but in 2024 during my live tour, I brought this one back out and gave it a complete overhau...
The Late Shift (PODCAST EXCLUSIVE EPISODE)
In June of 1980, a car jolted to a stop in a parking lot on the outskirts of a small Utah suburb. The car door opened, a man stepped out into the dark...
Medical Mysteries - "No Reservations/The Bitter End"
This story is a fan favorite from MrBallen's Medical Mysteries.
No Reservations:
A Spanish marathon runner develops a mysterious obsession...
The Watercooler (PODCAST EXCLUSIVE EPISODE)
On a morning in early-1986 in Arizona, someone sat hunched over a desk, furiously writing a letter. And almost every line of this letter included a di...
A Trail of Questions
Today’s podcast will feature 3 hiking horror stories that are still shrouded in mystery. The audio from all three stories has been pulled from our mai...
Murder and Meditation (PODCAST EXCLUSIVE EPISODE)
One September afternoon in 2003, a woman in Tucson, Arizona, heard a knock on her front door and answered it. She was surprised to see a Tucson police...
No Way Out Vol. VII
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...
Listen Now: Flesh and Code
Travis never thought he’d meet someone like Lily Rose. She was kind, passionate, beautiful. The woman of his dreams. There was just one small detail:...
Tinseltown (PODCAST EXCLUSIVE EPISODE)
In December 2007, a lab technician sat at a table covered in dozens of evidence bags. The technician wasn’t sure where to start, because the bags didn...
Follow the Leader
Today’s podcast will feature 2 horror stories about manipulative people who twisted others’ faith into fear. The audio from both of these stories has...
Bad Blood (PODCAST EXCLUSIVE EPISODE)
On a chilly night in March 2012, a wiry, 56-year old man with a patchy beard trudged through a backyard in rural Iowa with his coat pulled tight, drag...
Diagnosis Vol. III
Today’s podcast will feature 3 medical horror stories. The audio from all three stories has been pulled from our main YouTube channel, which is just c...
The Body in the Bathtub (PODCAST EXCLUSIVE EPISODE)
On the morning of January 13, 2010, two twin girls nicknamed Tas and Jas stood at the kitchen counter in their home in Conyers, Georgia, writing notes...