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MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories

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The Strange, Dark & Mysterious delivered in podcast format.

Follow the MrBallen Podcast on Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcasts. New episodes publish twice a week—every Monday and Thursday. Prime members can listen to new episodes 1-month early and all episodes ad-free on Amazon Music. Wondery+ subscribers can listen ad-free in the Wondery App or on Apple Podcasts.


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Our Editor's Take

After surviving a near-death experience in Afghanistan, John Allen turned to storytelling. The Navy SEAL, better known as MrBallen, discovered his passion for true crime. MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories explores chilling stories and cryptic mysteries.

MrBallen is all too familiar with horror stories. His deployment in Afghanistan ended abruptly when a grenade bounced off his shoulder. The blast sent shrapnel flying into his hips and legs. Momentarily deaf and blind, he was sure he would bleed to death. Medics kept him alive. While recovering from his injuries, he turned to social media. He rose to popularity after sharing military stories on platforms like TikTok. But stories of his own experiences and time in the service soon became discussions with different interests.

MrBallen decided to explore the realms of a new topic on YouTube. It began with a short video in 2020 that discussed unsolved mysteries. It was an immediate success. His subsequent stories of serial killers and unexplainable disappearances gripped the Internet. His stories had become so captivating that he moved toward longer video content. The mini-documentaries expanded into MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories in 2022.

The podcast covers a myriad of true crimes. These include shocking thrillers and unexplainable disappearances. The episodes are so intense that they come with warnings. They are not for the fainthearted.

Listeners can join MrBallen for biweekly episodes. New episodes release every Monday, and bonus episodes come out on Thursdays.

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Episodes

Ice Man
Available on 23-03-2024
Ice Man
10,000 feet up, deep inside of the beautiful Austrian Alps, lies a very unique and not well-known tourist destination. The only way you can get to this destination is to ride a gondola, or if you’re feeling really motivated, you could in theory hike up to it, but very few people do that. Once you reach this tourist destination, you walk over to this string of buildings, and right away you start to see all these warning signs about this area. Telling you that while, of course, it’s stunning and beautiful, remember, it’s also very dangerous. Today I’m going to tell you a horror story that happened at this unique location. And make sure you stick around until the end, because there are actually two plot twists in this story. The first one you might see coming... the second one, you won’t.Story name, preview & link to original YouTube video:#1 -- "Ice Man" -- Today's story involves a very unique location in the Austrian Alps, and make sure to stick around to the end for the 2 crazy plot twists. (Original YouTube link -- https://youtu.be/BqboEgA4EgA?feature=shared)For 100s more stories like these, check out our main YouTube channel just called "MrBallen" -- https://www.youtube.com/c/MrBallenIf you want to reach out to me, contact me on Instagram, Twitter or any other major social media platform, my username on all of them is @mrballenSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.