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MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories

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MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories

MrBallen

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

4.930.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

One afternoon in the summer of 2001, a man pulled up to a pump at a gas station and began fueling his car. Once his car was full, the man put the nozzle back into its holster, he hopped back inside of his car, and he was about to fire up the engine again when he stopped. Because something had caught his attention. There was something or someone moving around outside of his car to the left. But when this man turned to look out the window to see whatever it was, the world suddenly went black, and the air outside was filled with the sound of people screaming. For 100s more stories like this one, check out our main YouTube channel just called "MrBallen" -- https://www.youtube.com/c/MrBallen If you want to reach out to me, contact me on Instagram, Twitter or any other major social media platform, my username on all of them is @MrBallen

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0:00.0

One afternoon in the summer of 2001 a man pulled up to a pump at a gas station and began fueling his car.

0:07.0

Once his car was full, the man put the nozzle back into its holster, he hopped back inside of his car, and he was about to fire up the engine again

0:14.8

when he stopped, because something had caught his attention. There was something or someone

0:19.6

moving around outside of his car to the left. But when this man turned to look out the window to see

0:26.0

whatever it was, the world suddenly went black and the air outside was filled with the sound

0:31.8

of people screaming.

0:33.6

But before we get into that story, if you're a fan of the Strange Dark and

0:37.3

Mysterious Delivered in Story format, then you come to the Right Podcast because that's all we do and we upload twice a week once on

0:44.4

Monday and once on Thursday. So if that's of interest to you, repeatedly

0:48.8

text the Amazon Music Follow button saying that they need to call you immediately but when they do

0:55.2

dismissively tell them you can't talk right now. Okay let's get into today's story. This episode is one of five Mr. Ballin podcast episodes that we are currently offering for free on all

1:24.6

podcast platforms. You can listen to many more Mr. Ballin

1:28.1

podcast episodes on Amazon Music. Download the Amazon Music app and sign in with your Prime account to listen to the Mr Ballin

1:35.6

Podcast ad free today. In Akron, Ohio, Ohio, June is typically the gloomiest and

1:46.2

wettest month of the year. But on one particular morning in June of

1:50.4

2001, when Akron resident, Jeff Zach Zach poked his head out of his bedroom window,

1:55.9

he was thrilled to discover that the sun was out and the sky was clear.

2:00.1

Jeff immediately rushed to his closet to change into his yard work clothes.

2:04.6

He pulled on a t-shirt and then he zipped up a pair of beat-up old cargo shorts and then

2:08.8

he raced down the stairs, grabbed his pruning shears, and then dashed out the back door without even putting his shoes on.

2:15.3

On the stoop behind his house, the 44-year-old gardening enthusiast slash professional landscaper

2:21.8

paused briefly to admire his work.

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