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MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories

Fan Favorite - "You Can't Leave That Way"

MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories

MrBallen

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

4.930.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2026

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Today's story is a fan favorite that was previously published as Episode 318. This story is about a woman who goes missing from a psychiatric hospital in 1900. Now at first, this story will seem like a pretty ordinary missing person case. That is, until you reach the very end. Lets just say, this story has one heck of a plot twist.

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0:00.0

Today's episode is a fan favorite. The audio and the story has been remastered for today's episode.

0:06.4

Today's story is about a woman who goes missing from a psychiatric hospital in 1900.

0:11.4

Now, at first, this story will seem like a pretty ordinary missing person's case.

0:16.3

That is, until you reach the very end. Let's just say this story has one heck of a plot twist.

0:23.5

But before we get into that story, if you're a fan of the strange, dark, and mysterious

0:27.7

delivered in story format, then you come to the right podcast because that's all we do and we

0:32.3

upload twice a week, once on Monday and once on Thursday. As well as this very special episode of a new format I'm calling You Can't.

0:41.0

If you're a fan of my YouTube channel, you know that I've told several stories that revolve around

0:45.9

places you can't go and people who went there anyways.

0:49.1

And I decided to tell some stories like that here on this podcast, but a little different.

0:55.1

These are stories with some very unique twists like today's.

0:58.4

They aren't going to be the exact same type of stories you're used to hearing on YouTube,

1:02.3

but trust me, you will remember these.

1:05.1

And if it seems like people enjoy this particular format,

1:08.3

we will continue to add them periodically on this podcast, just to give

1:11.6

you even more of the Mr. Ballin's stories that you love. So, if that's of interest to you,

1:17.1

on the next hot summer day, open a can of sardines and pour the juice into the follow-button's air

1:22.5

intake of their car. Okay, let's get into today's story.

1:26.7

Okay. car. Okay, let's get into today's story. On the morning of March 11, 1900,

1:58.8

43-year-old Carrie Selvage stared out her bedroom window into the front yard

2:02.6

of the building where she lived in Indianapolis, Indiana. The sun shined bright on her face,

2:08.2

but it was surprisingly cold for March, and there was a chill in Carrie's room. She wore a heavy

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