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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

🗓️ 13 May 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

One morning in November of 2011, a wheelchair-bound woman and her full-time caregiver were at home when there was a knock on the front door. The caregiver got up and walked over to the door and opened it up, but there was no one there. And when she looked up and down the road, she didn't see anyone walking or driving away. Then, she looked down and noticed there was what appeared to be a gift on the porch, but there was no tag on it. So, the caregiver brought it inside and put it on the kitchen table, and told the woman she was caring for that because this was not labeled, they shouldn't open it for now. However, later that day, when still they didn't know who had sent it or what it was, the woman in the wheelchair was curious, so she secretly grabbed the gift off the kitchen table and opened it up. And the second she did, absolute chaos ensued...

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0:00.0	Hey Prime members, you can binge eight new episodes of the Mr Ballin podcast one month early
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0:09.7	One morning in November of 2011, a wheelchair-bound woman in her full-time caregiver were at home when there was a knock on the front door
0:17.5	The caregiver got up and walked over to the door and opened it up, but there was no one there and when she looked up and down the road she didn't see anybody walking or driving away
0:26.0	which was kind of odd but then she looked down and noticed there was what appeared to be a gift
0:31.2	sitting on the front porch but there was no tag on it.
0:34.4	So the caregiver brought the gift inside and put it on the kitchen table and told the woman
0:38.5	she was caring for that because this package was not labeled, for now they shouldn't open it.
0:43.8	However, later that day, when the caregiver was not paying attention,
0:47.3	the woman in the wheelchair was so curious about what this gift was, that she grabbed the gift,
0:52.0	went into the other room, and opened it up.
0:54.6	And the second she did that, absolute chaos ensued.
0:59.1	But before we get into that story, if you're a fan of the Strange Dark and Mysterious delivered in Story format,
1:04.8	then you come to the Right Podcast because that's all we do and we upload twice a week, once
1:09.3	on Monday and once on Thursday.
1:11.7	So if that's of interest to you,
1:13.2	please offer to teach the Amazon Music Follow button
1:15.6	how to ride a bike, and the second they actually start to get it,
1:19.2	go ahead and stick a huge branch into their front wheel
1:21.9	as they drive by.
1:23.0	Okay, let's get into today's story. Oh, yeah. We are driven by the search for better, but when it comes to hiring, the best way to search for a candidate isn't to search at all.
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