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MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories

The Death Mask (PODCAST EXCLUSIVE EPISODE)

MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories

Ballen Studios

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

4.927K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

In 2017, an aspiring teenage artist was invited to come out to an art college in Florida for a personalized tour of their campus. They told him to bring along some of his best artwork to show the staff, and so the teen decided he would make a special papier-mâché mask just for the occasion. After it was complete, he packed it up, along with his other things, and then he got ready to board a bus bound for Florida. Three weeks later, the police would learn the horrifying truth about what that mask was actually used for.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

In today's story, the most unlikely person did the most unlikely thing.

0:06.0

And even when you get to the end and you hear the details as to how and why they did it,

0:11.0

it won't make sense, because no sane person would ever do this. But before we get into

0:16.1

today's story, if you're a fan of the Strange Dark and Mysterious Deliberate and Story format,

0:20.8

then you come to the Right Podcast because that's all we do.

0:23.6

And we upload twice a week, once on Monday and once on Thursday.

0:27.0

So if that's of interest to you, please cut in front of the five-star review button, who's

0:31.5

been patiently waiting for their turn in the 10 items or less

0:34.6

checkout line at the grocery store and then proceed to pay for your completely overflowing

0:39.4

cart with a ziploc bag full of change.

0:42.2

Also, please subscribe to the Mr. Ball and Podcast, wherever you listen to podcasts,

0:46.0

so you don't miss any of our weekly uploads.

0:48.0

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0:54.6

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0:58.1

Okay let's get into today's story. It was mid-June 2014 in Highland Springs, a small blue-collar town about four miles outside of Richmond, Virginia.

1:21.0

By 3 p.m. that day, it would be hot, 91 degrees Fahrenheit.

1:25.9

But right then, at 6.30 in the morning, it was cool.

1:29.5

With the sun fully visible in the sky, 16-year-old Martray Coals watched from the living room window of his

1:35.2

family's single-story plain White House as his father climbed into his car, turned on his engine, and

1:40.4

drove off to work. After he was gone, Martrey left the window and walked

1:44.4

through the empty house to his bedroom. Once inside, he sat down at his desk, he

1:48.8

opened a sketchbook, and he started to draw. Unlike his usual artwork, which consisted of anime stylized faces and figures full of color,

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