In 2010 Forrest Fenn set out to flip the treasure hunting game on its head. He wanted to level the playing field and give anybody with a sense of adventure and imagination to be able to feel the excitement of tracking down $2,000,000. And from that the Fenn Treasure hunt began….only it wasn’t all fun and games as was intended

If you were around int the 1980’s and early 90’s then you remember those faces of kids on the side of your milk carton. There you were having a bowl of Lucky Charms or Frosted Flakes and in front of you a pixelated but smiling face of somebody you didn’t know, staring right back With the word Missing in large font above them.

A young woman opened the door to her place of work, a sporting apparel store in Washington DC, and immediately realized something was wrong. Too afraid to investigate what she saw and heard, she ran from the store and called 911. When police arrived and entered the store, they heard a sound coming from a hallway in the back, and they began to move toward it... This is just one example of an unbelievable story you’ll hear on the MrBallen Podcast. Follow the MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories on Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcasts. Prime members can listen to new episodes 1-month early and all episodes ad-free on Amazon Music.

5 year old Anna Waters story remains one of the most mysterious missing persons cases in all of Californias history. The reason for that is fairly simple to understand once you hear the details of her case, however her story and those around her is anything but basic.

“Many people assume that serial killers are just a thing of the past, but the truth is there are active and prolific murderers living among us.” - Sarah Langan

A serial killer who would be linked to as many 14 murders and likely more was out here hunting along the west coast of Florida throughout the early and mid 1990’s. This is the case of The Hog Trail Murders, The Fort Myers 8 and the unsuspecting man who committed these insane acts of violence.

Approximately 630,000 people around the globe go missing every year. While many of these cases are resolved with the person being found alive and well, there are still thousands that remain unsolved. One of these cases is the disappearance of Katheryne Eggleston.

"For Jesus had said to him, 'Come out of this man, you unclean spirit! Then Jesus asked him, 'What is your name?' 'My name is Legion,' he replied, 'because we are many.'" Mark 5:8-9

Can a man die twice? No of course not, that goes against everything we understand in this world. And yet here we are with the story of Clarence Roberts a man who died in a fire in 1970 and then died in a fire in 1980. The issues in this case aren’t from the paranormal realm. They come from a man desperate to get his head above water…Someone willing to do anything to survive even if that means dying.

Today we’re heading to Columbus Ohio to learn about an utterly disturbing case. It’s a story of a life cut short due to a series of circumstances that could have been avoided, but of course hindsight is 20/20 and unfortunately, we can’t go back in time to fix things.

Today we’re checking out a very creepy case that grew out of a perfect storm of circumstances. Were the townsfolk justified in their panic when their children fell ill, or was this a case of Mass hysteria in the modern era?

It’s been called one of the most curious cases of A Missing person in New Hampshire history because there are so many questions when it comes to the disappearance of 14 year old Laureen Rahn.

Today we’re headed back to the late 1980s, when a series of gruesome discoveries were made deep within the beauty of Molalla Forest. Hikers and locals seemingly one after another kept on stumbling upon skeletal remains of people that had been brutally murdered, their bodies left out there to the elements.

Today we have one of the wildest stories, in my opinion we’ve ever covered. It is so insane that the entire thing sounds made up. So let’s head on over to Indy, and learn all about Herb Baumeister, his Fox Hallow Farm and the i-70 strangler.

On December 13th of 2020, a young college student embarked on a routine journey, one he had done many times before…..only on this day it would end in becoming one of Texas's most baffling modern mysteries.

The vast man made Lake Lanier in Georgia, In its nearly seventy years of existence, is a body of water that has claimed close to 1000 lives. It is an imposing and mysterious lake, where people keep dying and disappearing, each tale getting weirder then the next. And when you find out what lies beneath it, well for some reason all the tragedies and strange occurrences just start to make sense.

In 1990, dreams turned into nightmares for the students at the University of Florida. What was supposed to be the exciting start of a new chapter, with eager young people flocking to their campus homes, became a super dark reign of terror.

Hysterical investigates a mysterious illness that spreads among a group of high school girls in upstate New York. What is causing their sudden, often violent symptoms? Is there something in the water or inside the school? Or is it “all in their head?” The series examines the outbreak in LeRoy, NY, believed by some to be the most severe case of mass hysteria since the Salem Witch Trials.

All throughout history and in basically every culture around the world, you’ll find stories about creatures with eyes so black, they’re like staring into the abyss. If you’re one of the unlucky ones that finds yourself making contact with them, they invoke a feeling of immense dread, and there’s good reason for that… its’ because these beings are actually taking a part of your soul.

Today we’re going to learn about the wicked ways of Terry Rasmussen. A serial killer who stands in a league of his own. Because unlike most serial killers Terry didn’t pick out strangers. No he killed the ones he was closest with. So lets head over to New Hampshire and a few other spots and learn about Terry a.k.a The Chameleon Killer

For years, too many years actually, the Wackers asked themselves the same questions over and over: "Who?", "How?", and most of all, "Why?". Because for nearly a decade, Bill and Dorothy Wacker, who were just a peaceful elderly couple living in small town Ohio, were the victims of constant and persistent harassment. Harassment that defied logic and only continued to escalate over the years.

He murdered, broken peoples car windows and threatened contless individuals who were just unlucky enough to have been in the wrong place at the wrong time. When you see this psychopath, you’ll know it right away.., it’s likley he’ll be carrying an axe. And he always dressed head to toe in a grown mans rabbit suit earning him the nickname The Bunnyman.

It was just after Christmas, December 29th of 1980 when 3 regular folks cruising through the small town of Dayton Texas ran into an unidentified object that would change their lives forever.

The disappearance of Jennifer Kesse is a frustrating case because there’s so much evidence to point to exactly what happened, and yet, no one has ever been caught for the crime and Jennifer still remains missing. It’s a situation where an innocent young woman was just going about her daily routine when she crossed paths with someone who intended to do her harm and ever since then its been a nightmare for her family who just wants to know what happened and for justice to be served.

16 year old Don Henry and Kevin Ives who was 17 were best friends who did everything together and in the early hours of August 23, 1987, they also died together.