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MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories

The Figure in the Toy Store (PODCAST EXCLUSIVE EPISODE)

MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories

Ballen Studios

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

4.927K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Just before dawn on the last Saturday of June 2013, an employee at a Toys ‘R’ Us store in upstate New York was working in the stock room, when suddenly he heard an alarm going off somewhere inside the store. He radioed his manager to turn off that alarm, but the manager didn’t respond. Another employee went to the front office to check on the manager, and they found him unconscious and bleeding from a hole in his chest. Police and paramedics responded and rushed the man to the hospital, but sadly, he was dead on arrival. The store had been locked all morning, and the four surviving employees had been working in separate parts of the store. Each of them claimed to have seen nothing out of the ordinary that morning. And all investigators had to help them find the manager’s killer was surveillance footage of a shadowy figure moving in and out of the security camera’s view, almost like they were toying with the police.


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0:10.5

Just before dawn on the last Saturday of June 2013, an employee at a Toys R S store in upstate New York was working in the stock room when suddenly he heard an alarm going off somewhere inside the store.

0:22.0

And so he radioed his manager to turn off the alarm, but the manager didn't respond.

0:26.4

And so another employee went to the front office to check on the manager.

0:30.4

And when they went inside that office, they would find the manager unconscious and bleeding from a hole in his chest.

0:37.0

Meanwhile, the four surviving employees who had been there all morning said the store had been locked the whole time and all four of these

0:43.8

employees basically didn't see each other the whole time they were there.

0:47.2

They were working in different parts of the store and each of them said they had

0:50.4

nothing to do with this and didn't see anything out of the ordinary.

0:54.0

But when investigators reviewed the security footage from inside the store that morning,

0:59.0

they would find something that was very, very suspicious.

1:02.0

But before we get into that story, if you... that was very, very suspicious.

1:06.4

But before we get into that story, if you're a fan of the Strange Dark and Mysterious delivered in story format, then you've come to the Right Podcast because that's all we do and

1:11.3

we upload twice a week, once on Monday and once on

1:14.0

Thursday. So if that's of interest to you, please sneak in to the follow button's office,

1:18.6

break all the lead tips off their pencils, and steal their pencil sharpener.

1:23.0

Okay, let's get into today's story. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,

1:33.4

and oh, yeah.

1:35.0

Oh, yeah.

1:37.0

Oh, yeah.

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