Origins Vol. II

Both of our stories today start with people who are just looking for a solution to their problem. But finding that solution… ends up being the worst thing that ever happened to them. You can WATCH all new & exclusive MrBallen podcast episodes on my YouTube channel, just called "M ...  Show more

On an evening in August 2000, a city council candidate stood behind a podium at a high school in small-town Alabama. He was speaking about why he'd entered the race, and he said he wanted a platform to discuss an important issue – the unsolved murder of a local school district em ...  Show more

Would you spend a night in the Screaming House? How about 13 nights? That’s the number of nights the LaChance family made it before running for their lives. And yes, the house really does scream.  This episode highlights the dark history of the land on which the Screaming House ...  Show more

Josh Mankiewicz and Andrea Canning discuss Andrea’s episode, “Noises in the Night.” In November 2016, 16-year-old cheerleader Emma Walker was found dead in her Knoxville, Tennessee home. An investigation revealed she was killed by a bullet shot from outside her house that pier ...

In the blistering summer heat of 1971, a quiet village in southern Spain became home to one of the strangest haunting cases ever recorded. When María Gómez Cámara found a face staring back at her from her kitchen floor, it launched a decades-long mystery that blurred the line bet ...  Show more

When a curious teenager dares to visit a haunted asylum in Illinois, she has no idea she’s opening a door that will never fully close. Over the years, unexplained events follow her across states, homes, and generations from a possessed family campsite to a haunted workplace in D. ...  Show more