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MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories

The Unexplained Vol. II

MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories

MrBallen

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

4.930.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2026

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Today’s podcast will feature 3 stories of missing people that we just can’t explain. The audio from all three stories has been pulled from our main YouTube channel, which is just called "MrBallen," and has been remastered for today's podcast.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Today's podcast will feature three stories about people who vanish under mysterious circumstances and the chilling questions that surface.

0:07.5

The audio from all three of these stories has been pulled from our main YouTube channel and has been remastered for today's episode.

0:13.6

The links to the original YouTube videos are in the description.

0:16.6

The first story you'll hear is called The Yellow Smoke, and it's about a family who's left searching for answers after a very bizarre series of events.

0:25.3

The second story you'll hear is called the Bennington Triangle, and it's about a hunter who goes missing in a truly infamous haunted forest.

0:32.7

And the third and final story you'll hear is called incommunicado.

0:36.4

And it's about a man who abruptly stops

0:38.5

receiving communication with a friend who's staying in this extremely remote cabin. But before we get

0:44.3

into today's stories, if you're a fan of the strange, dark, and mysterious delivered in story

0:48.5

format, then you've come to the right podcast because that's all we do and we upload four times a week,

0:54.0

Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Fridays. So, if that's all we do and we upload four times a week, Monday, Wednesday, Thursday,

0:55.3

and Fridays. So if that's of interest to you, please offer the like button a nice, fresh ice cream

1:00.8

cone, but don't tell them you've secretly hid a glass shard right in the middle of it. Okay,

1:05.8

let's get into our first story called The Yellow Smoke.

1:43.3

Okay. story called The Yellow Smoke. At around 8 p.m. on August 19, 1962, a 12-year-old boy named Remundo Marfa de Silva sat near the fireplace in the main room of a shack in rural Brazil. Remundo lived in the shack

1:45.8

with his father, Rivalino, as well as his two younger brothers, who were fast asleep in their beds

1:50.4

inside of this main room, only a few feet away. Remundo and his family were very, very poor. I mean,

1:56.4

the shack was very small. It was only composed of two rooms, the main room he was in right now, and also the kitchen, which was connected by a single door. And they were truly like out in the middle of nowhere in Brazil. They had no electricity, basically no money. I mean, they really had almost nothing. And so that night, as Reimundo sat by the fire, just kind of quiet, you know, there wasn't really much else to do here. His father, Rivalino, came into the room from the kitchen, and he sat down next to him. And the two just sat there quietly, you know, periodically poking at the fire with a stick and just sitting there and enjoying the silence, doing their best not to wake up the two younger brothers. And as these two were sitting there, suddenly, Reimundo heard a strange sound coming from

2:35.5

the kitchen.

2:36.5

And so he turned his attention and he looked into the dark kitchen and he saw this dark

2:40.8

figure on all fours quickly kind of maneuvering across the ground out of sight.

2:45.6

And immediately, Reimundo is terrified.

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