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MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories

Ballen Studios

True Crime, Mrballen, Mysterious, True Story, Storytelling, Strange, Dark

4.9 • 27K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

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 and has been remastered for today's episode.

Story names, previews & links to original YouTube videos:

#3 -- "The Overlook" -- He turned around and couldn't believe what he saw... (Original YouTube link -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhOpd5lJU4Y)
#2 -- "One Sock" -- A Boy Scout walks down a populated trail, but doesn't come out the other side (Original YouTube link -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UR5ZTc9ZwxU)
#1 -- "I’m Looking For You" -- Authorities are faced with a bizarre mystery on a mountain in China (Original YouTube link -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EI_rbrVhAG0)

For 100s more stories like these, check out our main YouTube channel just called "MrBallen" -- https://www.youtube.com/c/MrBallen

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime members, you can binge eight new episodes of the Mr. Ballin podcast one month early and all episodes ad-free on Amazon Music.
0:08.0	Download the Amazon Music app today.
0:10.0	Today's podcast will feature three hiking horror stories that are still shrouded in mystery.
0:15.7	The audio from all three of these stories has been pulled from our main YouTube channel and has been remastered for today's episode. The links to the original YouTube videos are in the description.
0:25.3	The first story you'll hear is called The Overlook, and it's about a hiking trip that turns into
0:30.0	a nightmare. The second story you'll hear is called One Sock, and it's about a Boy Scout who
0:35.4	disappears down a well-marked and populated trail.
0:38.7	And the third and final story you'll hear is called I'm Looking for You.
0:42.9	And it's about a bizarre mystery on a mountain in China that leaves authorities clueless.
0:47.8	But before we get into today's stories, if you're a fan of the Strange, Dark, and Mysterious,
0:52.3	delivered in story format, then you've come to the right podcast because that's all we do and we upload twice a week, once on Monday and once on Thursday.
1:00.5	So, if that's of interest to you, please move into the apartment directly above the Amazon Music Follow buttons apartment and then make it a habit to sprint on your treadmill every morning at 3 a.m.
1:14.5	Okay, let's get into our first Montana with her husband of 14 years.
1:49.0	In July of that year, her husband's cousin named Donna and Donna's boyfriend named Jim Raemaker came to stay with them for a couple of days.
1:58.0	On the evening of the 17th, Barbara offered to take the couple hiking with her the following
2:03.0	morning at her favorite hiking spot, which was this totally unspoiled wilderness area on
2:08.2	the border of Idaho.
2:10.2	Barbara liked to hike a particular trail that brought her up to the Bear Creek Overlook
2:14.1	that had this incredible view down to the valley below.
2:17.3	The couple happily agreed, but the following morning, Donna was not feeling so good so she
2:22.1	couldn't go on the hike.
2:23.7	But her boyfriend, Jim, was still feeling up for it and said, I'd still like to go.
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