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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

🗓️ 11 August 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

On the afternoon of March 24, 2006, an employee at a moving truck rental company in Ohio opened his desk drawer and grabbed a wad of cash. It had been a slow day, so the employee was using his downtime to organize a few recent payments. The money he’d just grabbed was from an all-cash deal that had happened a few days ago. At the time, the employee had been super busy, so he’d just taken the cash from the customer, flipped through it quickly to make sure the amount seemed right, then shoved the money in the drawer to deal with later. Now, he was actually counting it properly – and he really hoped the customer hadn’t shorted him, or he’d have to track them down to collect. But as the employee counted the bills, he paused. Not because the amount wasn’t right – but because there was something on the money that caught his attention. For a second, he wasn’t sure what it was. So, he looked closer. And then, all at once, he understood what he was seeing. He stopped counting the money and started flipping through it as quickly as he could – and he kept seeing the same thing on almost all the bills. With his heart racing, the employee dropped the money, grabbed the phone, and called the police.

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0:09.9	On the afternoon of March 24, 2006, an employee at a moving truck rental company in Ohio
0:15.7	opened his desk drawer and grabbed a wad of cash. It had been a slow day, so the employee
0:20.7	was using his downtime to organize a few recent payments. The money he had just grabbed was from an all-cash deal that had happened a few days ago. At the time, the employee had been super busy, so he'd just taken the cash from the customer, flipped through it quickly to make sure the amount seemed right, then shoved the money in the drawer to deal with later.
0:42.9	Now he was actually counting it properly, and he really hoped the customer had not shorted him or he would have to track them down to collect the rest. But as the employee counted the bills,
0:48.2	he paused, not because the amount wasn't right, but because there was something on the money
0:53.1	that caught his attention. For a second, he wasn't sure what it because there was something on the money that caught his attention.
0:54.8	For a second, he wasn't sure what it was, so he looked closer.
0:58.9	And then, all at once, he understood what he was seeing.
1:02.7	He stopped counting the money and just began flipping through it as quickly as he could,
1:06.7	and he kept seeing the same thing on almost all the bills.
1:10.7	With his heart racing, the employee just dropped the money, grabbed the phone, and called the police.
1:16.4	But before we get into that story, if you're a fan of the strange, dark, and mysterious,
1:20.4	delivered in story format, then you've come to the right podcast because that's all we do
1:24.3	and we upload twice a week, once on Monday and once on Thursday.
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1:32.5	but set the blades so low that it just obliterates the grass and leaves only dirt.
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