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Have you ever heard about an experience or a case that's unnerved you so much that it's stuck with you for years?

Well, it just so happens the Mr. Ballin podcast over at Amazon Music is nothing but these kinds of stories.

And each week you'll get a new episode full of inexplicable encounters, shocking

disappearances, and other strange, dark, and mysterious stories.

Stories like the spine-tinkling case of Haley Zega, who disappeared from a hiking trail

for 51 hours after getting separated from her grandparents.

When search and rescuers finally found her and asked how she survived, she simply said a friend helped her.

Now she described this friend as four years old with black hair and brown eyes.

Now this quote unquoteunquote friend was initially

dismissed until they realized a girl had gone missing in that exact spot 23 years

earlier and she was never found. Now get this. She was four years old had black hair

and brown eyes.

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Matt didn't have a planned route.

Instead, he had a map and a compass,

and he began just kind of wandering in the forest,

kind of exploring wherever he wanted to go,

and over the next two days,

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