
MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories
by Ballen Studios
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Audience Interest
- true crime stories
- mystery narratives
Podcast Focus
- true crime and mystery
- story format delivery
Publishing Consistency
- 464 episodes released
- active for 4 years
Platform Reach
- available on SiriusXM Podcasts+
- Apple Podcasts access
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Total monthly reach
Estimated from 44 chart positions in 44 markets.
By chart position
- 🇺🇸US · True Crime#9300K to 1M
- 🇨🇦CA · True Crime#10300K to 1M
- 🇦🇺AU · True Crime#14300K to 1M
- 🇬🇧GB · True Crime#17300K to 1M
- 🇩🇪DE · True Crime#9230K to 100K
- Per-Episode Audience
Est. listeners per new episode within ~30 days
780K to 2.5M🎙 Daily cadence·464 episodes·Last published today - Monthly Reach
Unique listeners across all episodes (30 days)
2.6M to 8.2M🇺🇸12%🇨🇦12%🇦🇺12%+41 more - Active Followers
Loyal subscribers who consistently listen
1.0M to 3.3M
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From 16 epsHost
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Recent episodes
Teke Teke | Campfire Stories with MrBallen
Jun 12, 2026
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Deadly Plans
Jun 11, 2026
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An Unlikely Witness (PODCAST EXCLUSIVE EPISODE)
Jun 10, 2026
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Too Much Blood (PODCAST EXCLUSIVE EPISODE)
Jun 8, 2026
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Fan Favorite - "The Lipstick on the Wall"
Jun 5, 2026
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 6/12/26 | ![]() Teke Teke | Campfire Stories with MrBallen | Tonight, I have a great story to tell you. It reminds me of when I was a kid, I used to go camping with my family out in western Massachusetts – we'd sit around a campfire, and my parents would tell me and my sisters ghost stories. It was unclear how true the stories really were, but they were all terrifying. And this story that I'm going to share with you is from Japan, and it happened over 50 years ago. And over the last 50 years, it's been shared many times, and there are many versions of this story, so it's up to you to figure out how much you believe is really true here. But it's a genuinely frightening story. Also, according to some versions of this story, once you hear it, you only have three days left to live, unless you follow really specific instructions... which I'll give you at the very end. Be sure to WATCH this episode on my YouTube channel on Friday, June 12th at 2:00 p.m. | — | ||||||
| 6/11/26 | ![]() Deadly Plans | Today’s podcast will feature 2 stories about people who went to disturbing lengths to carry out their plans. The audio from both of these stories has been pulled from our main YouTube channel, which is just called "MrBallen," and has been remastered for today's podcast. | — | ||||||
| 6/10/26 | ![]() An Unlikely Witness (PODCAST EXCLUSIVE EPISODE) | Today, we have two stories about individuals who go above and beyond to make sure investigators have what they need. And in both instances, this turns a case that should be straightforward into something completely shocking. | — | ||||||
| 6/8/26 | ![]() Too Much Blood (PODCAST EXCLUSIVE EPISODE) | One night in the summer of 2003, a man approached a drug dealer on a corner in Rochester, New York. The man stepped close to the dealer and whispered that he was a cop... but he wasn’t here to bust the dealer, or to buy from him. Instead, he had a request: he wanted the drug dealer to help him catch a killer. | — | ||||||
| 6/5/26 | ![]() Fan Favorite - "The Lipstick on the Wall" | Today's story is a fan favorite that was previously published as Episode 285. On a summer morning in 2001, a woman in Alabama woke up in a cold sweat – like she’d just had a nightmare. But the woman knew what she saw while she was sleeping was not a bad dream – it was real. So she grabbed her phone and made a frantic call. Later that morning, police arrived at an old wooden house on the outskirts of a small rural town. They stepped inside, and they were absolutely shocked, because the woman really had led them to a horrifying crime scene. | — | ||||||
| 6/4/26 | ![]() A Trail of Questions Vol. II | 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 main YouTube channel, which is just called "MrBallen," and has been remastered for today's podcast. | — | ||||||
| 6/3/26 | ![]() You Next (PODCAST EXCLUSIVE EPISODE) | Today’s story is about a simple family living a simple life on a simple farm in England. And even though that might sound really nice, this simplicity is actually the exact reason that everything goes wrong. | — | ||||||
| 6/1/26 | ![]() Closing Time (PODCAST EXCLUSIVE EPISODE) | On an evening in September 2017, a woman in Massachusetts came home from work to an empty house. Her boyfriend was gone, but she saw that his wallet and phone were still right there on the counter. And on the kitchen table were three envelopes. She opened them. One was his last will and testament. The second was a note for her. And the third... was a letter addressed to the family of a woman who'd been murdered 25 years ago. | — | ||||||
| 5/29/26 | ![]() The Devoted Wife | Campfire Stories with MrBallen | Tonight, I'm going to tell you a very famous story from Thailand. The story was recommended to me by a fan, and I had never heard of it before. And the second I started looking into it, I knew – that I had to tell this one sitting in front of a campfire. As you listen, you might think you can guess what’s going to happen next – but I had never heard anything like this before, and I bet you haven’t either. Be sure to WATCH this episode on my YouTube channel! | — | ||||||
| 5/28/26 | ![]() The Mistake | Today’s podcast will feature 3 stories about people who made grave mistakes. The audio from all three stories has been pulled from our main YouTube channel, which is just called "MrBallen," and has been remastered for today's podcast. | — | ||||||
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| 5/27/26 | ![]() Stuck (PODCAST EXCLUSIVE EPISODE) | Both of today’s stories are about people who made big choices that they thought would improve their lives. But neither of them took the time to learn exactly what they were signing up for, and that led to disaster. | — | ||||||
| 5/22/26 | ![]() Fan Favorite - "The Monaco Matriarch" | Today's story is a completely NEW retelling of a fan favorite that was previously published as Episode 382. The audio has been newly recorded and edited. 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 in a coma for the last ten days, and the detective had been desperately working to figure out who had tried to kill her. Now that the woman had woken up, the detective was finally getting the chance she’d been waiting for – to ask her victim directly. But the woman was afraid. She told the detective she had a lot to say, but she couldn’t say it here, at the hospital – because she was still in danger. | — | ||||||
| 5/21/26 | ![]() Stranger Than Fiction Vol. XIV | 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 from our main YouTube channel, which is just called "MrBallen," and has been remastered for today's podcast. | — | ||||||
| 5/20/26 | ![]() Safe for Now (PODCAST EXCLUSIVE EPISODE) | Today we have two stories about people who had close brushes with death, and were absolutely certain that they had escaped harm and could move on with their lives. They... were wrong. | — | ||||||
| 5/18/26 | ![]() The Night Shift (PODCAST EXCLUSIVE EPISODE) | On an afternoon in December 1991, a woman in small-town Utah opened her mailbox. Inside was a credit card bill, addressed to her husband, who'd disappeared a week ago. The woman found this strange, because she didn't even know her husband had a credit card. And when she ripped open the envelope and read over the charges, she realized that her missing husband had been keeping an even bigger secret from her. | — | ||||||
| 5/15/26 | ![]() Healed and Hunted | Campfire Stories with MrBallen | Tonight at the campfire, I'm going to share one of the most credible alien abduction stories ever. Be sure to WATCH this episode on my YouTube channel! | — | ||||||
| 5/14/26 | ![]() Origins Vol. II | Today’s podcast will feature 4 stories about how a single decision changed the lives of the people in these stories, as well as millions of others lives around the world. The audio from all three stories has been pulled from our main YouTube channel, which is just called "MrBallen," and has been remastered for today's podcast. | — | ||||||
| 5/13/26 | ![]() Strange Solutions (PODCAST EXCLUSIVE EPISODE) | Both of our stories today start with people who are just looking for a solution to their problem. But finding that solution… ends up being the worst thing that ever happened to them. | — | ||||||
| 5/11/26 | ![]() The Mayor's Wife (PODCAST EXCLUSIVE EPISODE) | On an evening in August 2000, a city council candidate stood behind a podium at a high school in small-town Alabama. He was speaking about why he'd entered the race, and he said he wanted a platform to discuss an important issue – the unsolved murder of a local school district employee. Right there, in front of all the news cameras and microphones, the candidate said he knew who committed the crime – because it had been revealed to him in a dream. | — | ||||||
| 5/8/26 | ![]() Fan Favorite - "The Shadow in the Doorway"✨ | supernaturalchildhood fears+3 | — | — | Nevada | shadowdoorway+5 | — | 32m 38s | |
| 5/7/26 | ![]() In Plain Sight✨ | dark secretstrue crime+1 | — | Ballen StudiosMrBallen | — | dark secretstrue crime+3 | — | 31m 31s | |
| 5/6/26 | ![]() Tragedy by Design (PODCAST EXCLUSIVE EPISODE)✨ | tragedydesign+4 | — | — | — | tragedydesign+3 | — | 20m 20s | |
| 5/4/26 | ![]() A House Divided (PODCAST EXCLUSIVE EPISODE)✨ | murderalibi+3 | — | — | France | murderalibi+5 | — | 33m 00s | |
| 5/1/26 | ![]() The Cemetery/Kandahar Giant | Campfire Stories with MrBallen✨ | campfire storiesmystery+3 | — | — | — | campfire storiesmystery+3 | — | 50m 13s | |
| 4/30/26 | ![]() No Way Out Vol. X✨ | trappedsurvival+3 | — | Ballen StudiosMrBallen | — | trapped storiessurvival+3 | — | 27m 29s | |
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