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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

🗓️ 28 July 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

On a morning in early-1986 in Arizona, someone sat hunched over a desk, furiously writing a letter. And almost every line of this letter included a direct threat of violence this person was going to inflict on the recipient. They kept writing, embellishing every horrible thing that they wanted to do. Finally, they finished writing and read over the letter—it was explicit and terrifying, just as they’d hoped. They put the letter down, glanced at a cardboard box sitting on the floor, and smiled. Nobody would ever suspect that the contents of that plain box would soon help them carry out the bizarre murder plot they’d had running through their head for months.

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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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0:10.2	On a morning in early 1986 in Arizona, someone sat hunched over a desk, furiously writing a letter.
0:16.6	And almost every line of this letter included a direct threat of violence this person was going
0:21.1	to inflict on the recipient.
0:23.3	They kept on writing, saying every horrible thing that they wanted to do.
0:27.3	Finally, when they were done, they read the letter over.
0:30.2	It was explicit and terrifying, just as they'd hoped.
0:33.9	They put the letter down, then glanced over at a cardboard box sitting on the floor, and they smiled.
0:39.6	Nobody would ever suspect that the contents of that plain box would soon help them carry out this very bizarre plot they'd had running through their head for months.
0:48.8	But before we get into that story, if you're a fan of the strange, dark, and mysterious delivered in story format,
0:54.6	then you come to the right podcast because that's all we do and we upload twice a week,
0:59.0	once on Monday and once on Thursday. So, if that's of interest to you,
1:03.4	please get a hold of the Follow Button's house keys and swap them out for random fake keys.
1:08.4	Okay, let's get into today's story.
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