RUN, FOOL!

A lonely foster kid with mysterious powers begins to grow — literally — feeding off the rage around him until he transforms into an aggrieved giant. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 29 April 2025

A grieving teen yearning to reconnect with his late grandfather unknowingly summons a burned ghost that begins stalking the streets of Ojai, California. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 22 April 2025

When an ambitious influencer and her struggling musician boyfriend attempt to renovate a cursed lighthouse, they’re possessed by the vengeful ghosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 15 April 2025

Rodney’s old friend joins a survivalist group deep in the Alaskan Wilderness, only to discover that a shape-shifting creature lurks in the shadows. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 8 April 2025

Stranded in the Wyoming wilderness, a group of friends is hunted by rolling, flesh-eating heads that whisper their victims’ final words. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 1 April 2025

When a corrupt businessman crosses the wrong family, La Lechuza is summoned and no amount of money can save him from the creature’s vengeance. Subscribe now at joinrunfool.com to get access to extended and ad-free episodes, and even an AMA with Rodney!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 25 March 2025

Rodney runs into a mysterious man who knows too much and learns about a dancer’s deadly final performance. Subscribe now at joinrunfool.com to get access to extended and ad-free episodes, and even an AMA with Rodney!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 18 March 2025

A young Rodney and his grandmother welcome a charming stranger at the door, only to realize he’s the devil and he won’t leave without a soul. Subscribe now at joinrunfool.com to get access to extended and ad-free episodes, and even an AMA with Rodney!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 11 March 2025

From Ballen Studios, welcome to Late Nights with Nexpo, the official podcast of YouTube creator, Nexpo, featuring the most bizarre and chilling true stories and mysteries to be found. Listen to unravel the unexplained. New and exclusive episodes every Wednesday. Listen now: https://ballen.lnk.to/latenightswithnexpo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 5 March 2025

A lonely boy runs away into the Smokey Mountains, only to be hunted by a shapeshifting witch who preys on his deepest fears. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 4 March 2025

A woman obsessed with the internet clicks a mysterious link and finds herself trapped in a terrifying digital nightmare that warps reality and won’t let her go. Subscribe now at joinrunfool.com to get access to extended and ad-free episodes, and even an AMA with Rodney!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 25 February 2025

After the radioactive hornets leave a trail of destruction, Caroline discovers the queen is still alive and the nightmare is far from over. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 18 February 2025

As radioactive hornets terrorize a small Nebraska town, star athlete Caroline must confront her biggest fear or become its next prey. Subscribe now at joinrunfool.com to get access to extended and ad-free episodes, and even an AMA with Rodney!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 11 February 2025

When Rodney was a young kid, his grandma opened their home to a war vet and they soon learned he had a terrifying secret. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 4 February 2025

A woman uncovers the sinister truth behind a famous barbecue joint and must escape before she becomes the next ingredient in their 'whole hog' recipe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 28 January 2025

A gas man out on a routine delivery discovers a corpse on a rural property in the tiny town of Noble, Georgia. Listen to Noble wherever you're listening now! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 21 January 2025

Three tech founders encounter a mysterious pink haze during a desert retreat that follows them home and unravels their lives. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 14 January 2025

Two college roommates explore a cursed chapel rumored to house a stairway to Hell, only to awaken their darkest fears. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 7 January 2025

A boy’s bond with a terrifying creature offers solace from his loneliness, but its lethal instincts threaten to destroy everything around him. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 31 December 2024

Today we're bringing you an episode of Scared To Death, the scary popular series that's received more than 60 million downloads and is produced by our friends at Bad Magic Productions. In this episode, co-host Dan Cummins shares two bizarre mysteries: one that really leaves you scratching your head. A man makes a dinner reservation with WHO? Then, Dan takes us to Canada to look for a missing village. Then, Lynze shares a giant, twisty ouija board tale that will take you back to your childhood sleepovers and awaken all of your fears. Listen to Scared To Death wherever you're listening now! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 24 December 2024

A cursed family faces a malevolent spirit, forcing a son to choose between his own freedom and saving the ones he loves. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 17 December 2024

A deadly creature lurking in the shadows of Oregon’s forests turns a logging site into a massacre, forcing a survivor to confront the price of destruction. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 10 December 2024

When a grieving med student returns to her hometown in Nebraska for a funeral, a vengeful salt witch forces her to confront her guilt. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 3 December 2024

When Rodney discovers his mother drinking from a mysterious river that erases memory, he races against time to save her before she forgets him and herself forever. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 26 November 2024

A desperate reporter enters the Lizzie Borden House to exploit its dark history for a true crime podcast – only to find that the house’s ghosts may have other plans for him. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 19 November 2024

Behind the closed doors of government offices and military compounds, are hidden stories and buried secrets from the darkest corners of history. Each week, Luke Lamana, a Marine Corp Reconnaissance Veteran, pulls back the curtain on what once was classified inform®eation exposing the secrets and lies behind the world’s most powerful institutions. From the hitmakers at Wondery and Ballen Studios, we bring you REDACTED: Declassified Mysteries with Luke Lamana. The stories are real, and the secrets are shocking. Listen Now: Wondery.fm/REDACTED_RUN Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 13 November 2024

A single mother’s dream home becomes a nightmare when an ancient, cursed bed starts to prey on her family. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 12 November 2024

After losing his job, a man’s weekend getaway with his girlfriend turns into a nightmare when they encounter eerie black-eyed children. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 5 November 2024

In this special, one-hour Season 1 finale, Rodney – trapped in a recording studio – receives a terrifying call from a survivor claiming a deadly pop song is turning listeners into violent killers. Now, Rodney must decide: stay safe in isolation or risk everything by facing the nightmare outside. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 29 October 2024

Rodney takes a look back at how we got here, and provides a sneak peek of next week's very special one-hour season 1 finale.

Transcribed - Published: 22 October 2024

Rodney confronts the Raven Mocker, a deadly spirit targeting his dying best friend, only to realize that even defeating the supernatural can't stop the inevitability of death.

Transcribed - Published: 15 October 2024

With the one year anniversary of RUN, FOOL! approaching, Rodney thought it'd be a great time to share one of his personal favorite episodes from this season: Black Aggie One of the most insidious, abhorrent creatures comes after Rodney's grandmother Estelle and changes the way she sees the world forever. Don’t forget to check back next week for a brand new episode of RUN, FOOL!

Transcribed - Published: 8 October 2024

Now an adult and a disillusioned video game developer, Vinny is haunted by the disappearance of his friends Jenna and Jim. He returns to his hometown of Barnaby, Oregon, and attempts to recover the digital souls of his friends.

Transcribed - Published: 1 October 2024

A group of friends — Vinny, Jenny, and Jim — discover a mysterious arcade game in an abandoned bar in Oregon. The game is rumored to cause seizures, hallucinations and night terrors, but that doesn’t stop them from playing.

Transcribed - Published: 24 September 2024

The Strange, Dark & Mysterious delivered in podcast format. Follow the MrBallen Podcast on Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcasts. New episodes publish twice a week—every Monday and Thursday. Prime members can listen to new episodes 1-month early and all episodes ad-free on Amazon Music. Wondery+ subscribers can listen ad-free in the Wondery App or on Apple Podcasts. Listen here: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/6d261659-cc8d-478c-b052-19dfeb25dcf5/mrballen-podcast-strange-dark-mysterious-stories

Transcribed - Published: 17 September 2024

After receiving a terminal diagnosis, George seeks out an experimental treatment from a mysterious doctor. But his desire to cheat death takes a dark turn.

Transcribed - Published: 10 September 2024

Every soldier has a story. Some, they try to forget. Others, they can’t stop thinking about — stories that no one else would believe happened. Something that terrified them. Something they cannot explain. From Ballen Studios, and hosted by Marine Corp Reconnaissance veteran, Luke Lamana, this is Wartime Stories. A weekly podcast that is a mix of horror, mystery, and awe inspiring tales. Where the strange, dark & mysterious meets the battlefield and beyond. New episodes released every Monday. Listen here: https://ballen.lnk.to/Fz9J66

Transcribed - Published: 3 September 2024

In part 2, Rodney’s new friend Evie decides to help him escape. While fleeing both the Outsiders and the Broussard family, the pair uncover the unsettling truth behind the longstanding feud between the warring families.

Transcribed - Published: 27 August 2024

A young Rodney visits the Grunches, a freakish tribe who live in the Louisiana swamps, after his laptop is stolen by one of them. When the group’s matriarch discovers he’s trespassing, she decides Rodney must be fed to the bloodthirsty monster that protects them.

Transcribed - Published: 20 August 2024

Lauren’s soulmate, Brian, is swallowed whole by a mysterious portal while the couple is picnicking at Beaver Dunes Park in Oklahoma. Every year on the anniversary of Brian’s disappearance, Lauren returns to the same spot in hopes of finding answers, and then one day, she’s confronted with an existential question.

Transcribed - Published: 13 August 2024

In part 2, as the trio gets closer to finding the treasure, they’re confronted by tortured souls who’re trapped between worlds and doomed to haunt the burial site.

Transcribed - Published: 6 August 2024

Three friends set out to find treasure buried on a little island off the coast of South Carolina. They traverse swamps and avoid traps, oblivious to what lurks in the shadows.

Transcribed - Published: 30 July 2024

Kam returns to Hawaii, where he spent much of his childhood, for spring break with a few college friends who make a mockery of the ancient tribal warriors and protectors of the land. He initially joins them to fit in, but has to make a difficult decision when the crew is confronted by the Night Marchers.

Transcribed - Published: 23 July 2024

When a subsidized housing complex in a Colorado mining town collapses, Trish Manners’s company is accused of corporate negligence. She hires a renowned geologist to figure out what happened and learns the destruction may have been caused by monsters lurking in the mountain.

Transcribed - Published: 16 July 2024

A drone is possessed by the spirit of a North African date-farmer who, along with his pregnant wife, was targeted because he was believed to be a high-priority “insurgent.” Now the drone haunts the airman who operated it.

Transcribed - Published: 9 July 2024

From Ballen Studios, and hosted by Marine Corp Reconnaissance veteran, Luke Lamana, this is Wartime Stories. A weekly podcast that is a mix of horror, mystery, and awe inspiring tales. Where the strange, dark & mysterious meets the battlefield and beyond. New episodes every Monday. Listen now: https://ballen.lnk.to/Fz9J66

Transcribed - Published: 8 July 2024

In Part 2, Rachel learns the factory workers behind the gruesome attacks are actually ancient, vampiric creatures who’re preparing to massacre everyone. She needs to get out of there, but leaving her town to the wolves doesn’t sit right with her.

Transcribed - Published: 2 July 2024

A failed journalist moves back home to take care of her sick mom. She considers her town dull as dirt until she finds a flattened corpse hanging from a tree and uncovers what’s behind the gruesome attack.

Transcribed - Published: 25 June 2024

When a counselor is bullied by her peers and struggles to fit in at Camp Harmony, she summons the spirit of an old man who was burned alive by campers’ fire to get revenge.

Transcribed - Published: 18 June 2024

A lab develops a chemical spray that shrinks trash as part of an effort to curb New York’s waste problem. But the plan backfires when the spray inadvertently spawns a ravenous, filthy monster.

Transcribed - Published: 11 June 2024