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Mr Ballen
Strange, dark and mysterious true stories told in MrBallen's signature narrative style.
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A Hurricane Helped Solve This Crime
This episode presents three true-crime vignettes where everyday plans turn deadly. In Texas during a sudden 2017 Houston-area hurricane, Steve McDowell rushes home to check on his children and becomes obsessed when his ex-wife Crystal fails to arrive; police later link him to her disappearance after finding her abandoned car, and security footage plus storm flooding undermined his attempt to stage an alternate explanation. In Thailand, friends finish a night of drinking; Luke Goodyear sleeps in a hotel room and is later found fatally impaled on a shard of shattered balcony glass while his roommate Paul says he slept through it—investigators using forensics and photos conclude Luke likely tripped over a suitcase and died accidentally. The episode closes with a 1957 rural North Carolina collision triggered by a grocery-run timing coincidence that kills three friends.Episode guide
They Found Something Bizarre In Her Bathtub
MrBallen recounts the killing of Angela Spence Shaw in a quiet Rhode Island town. The narrative follows a disturbing discovery, an unfinished home renovation, competing suspects, and the witness testimony and forensic evidence used to reconstruct the crime.Episode guide
She Did Something Insane For Her Family
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They Crawled After Him | Campfire Stories With Mrballen
MrBallen tells two campfire-style stories linked by sisters facing frightening circumstances. One follows a late-night taxi driver in Bangkok, while the other begins with two young sisters and their mother in Kowloon Walled City. These are narrative retellings containing disturbing subject matter.Episode guide
New Zealand's Most Famous Disappearance
MrBallen presents three stories about ordinary days that took disturbing turns: a steel mill employee's disappearance in New Zealand, a factory disaster and a father investigating a strange noise at home. Each account follows the clues and unexpected circumstances described in the narration.FEATURED
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Episode 58
Love Makes You Do Crazy Things
The story of high-achieving Texas teens Diane Zamora and David Graham, whose intense relationship, infidelity, and demand for revenge led to the 1995 murder of Adrianne Jones—and a confession months later that reopened the case.Episode 56
A Truly Wtf Story
A Missouri woman survives what appears to be a bizarre home invasion, but the investigation into the dead intruder exposes an elaborate plot connected to the earlier murder of Betsy Faria and the wrongful conviction of her husband, Russ.Episode 52
Dead Man Walking
In 1984, SMU student Angela Samota is brutally murdered in her Dallas condo after calling her boyfriend to say she had let a strange man inside. The investigation stalls for decades until Angela's friend Sheila Wysocki relentlessly pushes police to use modern DNA testing, ultimately identifying convicted rapist Donald Bess.Episode 8
These People Actually Exist
On Christmas Eve 1992, the murder of 18-year-old Danita Gullette near a Dayton, Ohio payphone becomes the first visible piece of a shocking multi-day crime spree. As more victims are attacked, Detective Doyle Burke discovers that the apparently random violence is connected to a group of young offenders whose actions become increasingly brutal.Episode 1
The Plot
The story of 18-year-old Rachel Burkheimer, whose attempt to rebuild her life after a devastating series of losses became entangled with a self-styled criminal group in Everett, Washington. When Rachel disappeared in September 2002, an unexpected tip exposed a carefully planned abduction and one of the most disturbing betrayals imaginable.COMPLETE ARCHIVE
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Episode 58
Love Makes You Do Crazy Things
Episode 56
A Truly Wtf Story
Episode 52
Dead Man Walking
Episode 8
These People Actually Exist
Episode 1