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MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories

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MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories

MrBallen

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

4.930.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2026

⏱️ 31 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.

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0:00.0

Today's podcast will feature three stories that sound just impossible, moments that were so unlikely that they really should never have existed. Yet, somehow, they did.

0:10.3

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

0:16.3

The links to the original YouTube videos are in the description. The first story you'll hear is called Just a Bit Cramped, and it's about a horrifying accident

0:24.0

that has a very unlikely outcome.

0:26.6

The second story you'll hear is called Scenic Route, and it's about a woman who gets into a car

0:30.9

accident on her way to work, but not everything is as it seems.

0:34.9

And the third and final story you'll hear is called Out with a

0:37.8

Bang, and it's about a funeral that ends with a deafening roar and chaos. But before we get

0:43.8

into today's stories, if you're a fan of the Strange, Dark, and Mysterious delivered in story

0:48.0

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

0:52.9

a week, Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Fridays.

0:56.3

So if that's of interest to you, please install hidden cameras all around the like button's house

1:00.7

and then live stream that footage to Facebook.

1:03.7

Okay, let's get into our first story called Just a Bit Cramped. The At 4.45 a.m. on Saturday, January 17th, 2015, a.m., a.m., a 27-year-old farmer named Caleb

1:37.2

Whitby drove his pickup truck down a highway in southeastern Oregon. Caleb knew conditions for driving

1:42.8

were not great. In fact, they were kind of awful.

1:45.0

The road was icy, it was foggy out, the sun wasn't up, so it was pretty dark out.

1:49.0

But he felt like he didn't really have a choice. He had to go pick up a shipment of cattle for his family's farm.

1:55.0

After driving for another 10 minutes or so down this road, so it's just before 5 a.m. at this point,

2:00.0

Caleb found himself right behind this big semi-truck, who was going under the speed limit. And so Caleb's cruising along here, getting frustrated, and he's thinking about passing the truck. But when he kind of peeked around the side and looked up ahead of the truck, he saw there was a very sharp turn coming up, and he didn't really have enough runway to make the pass, at not safely. And so Caleb just kind of throttled back and decided he would make the pass after making the turn. And so the semi truck, which is right in front of Caleb, it ends up making this turn and gets out of sight of Caleb. And then a moment later, Caleb makes the same turn, and as soon as he does, he sees something that he couldn't have seen before.

2:35.5

He's seeing it right now that sends a jolt of panic through his body, and reflexively he jams on his brakes,

2:41.2

he loses control of his truck, it starts to slide, and all Caleb can do is just brace and pray

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