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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.

Spoken has transcripts of 568 MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories episodes, with the speakers named. The newest listed here is from October 19, 2026.

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Latest MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories transcripts

Under Construction (PODCAST EXCLUSIVE EPISODE)

October 19, 2026

MrBallen (0:00)

On an afternoon in the spring of 1999, a woman walked to her bedroom closet and opened the door with a shaking hand. She'd just gotten a very disturbing phone call from someone who begged her to go into this closet and find two very specific objects and get rid of them. But now, as this woman stared at these objects…

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MrBallen (2:40)

On the evening of Saturday, May 29, 1999, 66-year-old Angela Spenshaw pulled into the long driveway that led up to her house in the small seaside town of Little Compton, Rhode Island. She had just had dinner with her son Gerard and his family, who lived about 30 minutes away. Angela made the drive to her son's house…

She loved the fact that her son and his wife and their kids lived so close by, really because the rest of her family was pretty scattered. Her other son Justin, he lived in Washington, DC., and her extended family was all in Europe, in England, where Angela was born and raised. Angela had lived here in Little…

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