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MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories
Ballen Studios · True Crime · 567 episodes
Strange, dark, mysterious stories delivered with military precision.
dread · tense · atmospheric
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iHeartPodcasts · Society & Culture
Strange events delivered with restraint
The difference: British calm over precision punch
Quiet British explorations of events that refuse explanation.
Aaron Mahnke · History
The dark folklore behind real fears
The difference: Historical, more atmospheric
The dark folklore behind real places and the fears we inherited.
Creative Reason Media Inc. · Science Fiction
The campfire-dread delivery, fictional
The difference: Horror fiction, full casts
Original horror fiction performed like campfire stories for adults.
KQED and Snap Studios · Performing Arts
First-person supernatural stories, beautifully produced
The difference: Told by the people themselves
True supernatural stories told fireside by people who were there.
Astonishing Legends Productions · Society & Culture
Deep dives on the world's strangest cases
The difference: Longer, research-forward
The world's strangest legends, researched to the ends of the earth.
Casefile Presents · True Crime
Precision storytelling in the true crime lane
The difference: Crimes only, no mysteries
Anonymous, meticulous true crime with zero banter and total focus.
Audiochuck · True Crime
shares that tense, atmospheric feel
Murders and disappearances in America's national parks.
DeepNerd Media · Science Fiction
shares that dread, atmospheric feel
Appalachian horror folklore in a world where the mountains keep old, hungry things.
Rusty Quill · Performing Arts
shares that dread, atmospheric feel
An archive of paranormal statements that slowly reveals it is one enormous story.
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