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MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories

Unreal Vol. II

MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories

MrBallen

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

4.930.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2026

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Today’s podcast will feature 3 stories that sound impossible – moments so unlikely, they shouldn’t exist… yet somehow, they do. 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 that sound impossible.

0:04.3

Moments so unlikely, they literally shouldn't exist.

0:08.1

Yet, somehow, they do.

0:10.1

The audio from all three of these stories has been pulled from our main YouTube channel

0:13.8

and has been remastered for today's episode.

0:16.1

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

0:19.0

The first story you'll hear is called Scooped,

0:21.3

and it's about a tragedy at sea, and then a truly unbelievable discovery that is made after.

0:27.9

The second story you'll here is called One for the Road, and it's about a man's drunken walk

0:33.0

home that would take a dark turn. And the third and final story you'll hear is called Her Face,

0:39.2

and it's about a woman who wakes up in the middle of the night from a nightmare,

0:42.7

only to realize her dreams may be bleeding into reality.

0:46.6

But before we get into today's stories,

0:48.8

if you're a fan of the Strange, Dark, and Mysterious, delivered in story format,

0:52.5

then you've come to the right podcast because

0:54.3

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

0:59.9

So if that's of interest to you, please swap out the follow button spray deodorant for

1:04.5

extremely harmful pesticide. Okay, let's get into our first story called Scooped.

1:38.4

Okay? Okay, let's get into our first story called Scooped. In 1956, the SS Andrea Doria, which was a beautiful ocean liner, was considered to be Italy's largest, fastest, and safest ship. But those things would not be what this ship was remembered for.

1:45.1

On July 25th of that year, the ship was sailing towards the east coast of the United States

1:49.6

when it ran into some very heavy fog.

1:52.0

And so following procedure, the captain slowed the vessel down and turned on their fog whistle.

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