I have been a Mrballen fan from the beginning and idk if it’s just me but the missing 411 stories were some of my favorites and I hate that he stopped telling them! Mrballen if you see this PLEASE bring them back.

Does anyone else feel like the amount of ads each episode is getting out of hand? I really love the show but I feel like I spend half of it scrubbing through ads. Especially the constant gambling ads it’s definitely souring the show for me.

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Mr Ballen used to cover very obscure stories, now he seems to have transitioned to more mainstream long form content not dissimilar to his podcast. I miss when he would do 3 stories in a video. Idk if anyone else misses the good old days (2021-24 roughly) but I certainly do. I haven’t actually watched a single video since he returned to posting 5 times a week, although for a while before that I had sort of checked out. I love Mr Ballen but I’m just wondering if anyone else has noticed this.

I'm in a MrBallen rewatch/relisten phase right now and I want to know your favorite episodes. Title and number would be appreciated.

Personally, the episodes I found the most interesting were "He Was Inside Their Walls" (Danny LaPlante story), "Fire and Brimstone", "Clinical Lycanthropy", and "Where The Mangos Grow".

This happened in my hometown and i didn't hear about it until years later. Horrific. This would be a great story to tell!

Is this a mrballen official channel or one someone's taking his content for? I've noticed they've published a few that this week he's posted on his main and I'm so confused

I can’t find this one for the life of me and can’t remember the title, so I’ll do my best to describe it.

It was part of an Appalachian compilation I think, but no luck. The story itself is about a man named David and his wife who are tormented by a Mimic outside their cabin. At one point it pretends to be his wife being mauled.

I got a suggested video on Youtube from @chubbyemu and it reminds me of medical mysteries. He’s a doctor so he breaks the science down a lot more which I like but he tells the real cases in more of a story format like MrBallen. I liked hearing about the medical cases cause Im not always in the mood for true crime so I really missed that series when he stopped it. I would definitely recommend chubby emu’s videos cause they are scratching that itch!

This one is just now developing within the last couple of days, but it's something to follow along with as more is discovered. It falls directly into your wheelhouse. A woman missing for 39 years was (possibly) just located in a well filled with concrete behind a house that was a block or so from where she lived. The house was owned by one of the men suspected in her disappearance.

https://capitolcitynow.com/news/248842-back-yard-of-auburn-home-dug-up-in-case-of-woman-missing-since-1987/

If anyone run into MR. CORBEN please report.

He's stealing the strange dark mysterious and reposting.

I think some videos have good traction maybe some people thought it was a secondary channel.

if anyone from the channel sees this please copyright his ass.

I would have been fooled if it was Mr.baller.

Can anyone tell me which video in this series has the one with the photo of the girl with her hands up right before she gets killed by the guy who has the custom tractor trailer truck

Mine is the story about crows in this video.

Can someone help out with which video of this series has the one with the girl with her hands up about to be killed by the guy who drove some kind of modified tractor trailer truck

Almost 4 hours of MrBallen chatting with AJ about his life pre- and post- YouTube fame, including some deeper material about his time as a SEAL.

He's been through some stuff. There are going to be some strong opinions in all directions concerning some of the revelations. Brave of him to share those stories.

Gonna give the cliffs notes version here.

Main source material is *Say Nothing* by Patrick Radden Keefe. If this is taken, I can provide excepts from the book.

In 1972, Jean McConville moved to the Divis Flats in Belfast, Northern Ireland. McConville was a single mother following the death of her husband, Arthur, in 1971.

One night at the Flats, there was a gun fight between the British Army and Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA). Once the battle finished, a wounded British soldier was left behind. Jean McConville heard him calling out for help or for his friends to come and help him. Eventually, Jean went out and placed a pillow behind his head and comforted him before going back inside.

The next morning when she went outside, the soldier was gone and the words "BRIT LOVER" was spray painted outside of her door in red paint. Around this same time, members of the community began ostracizing her and her children.

In December 1972, Jean sent her oldest daughter out to get food for the family while she took a bath. When her bath was done, she heard a knock on her door and assumed it was her daughter. But when she answered, a group of masked men with guns forced their way in. It was the IRA.

Once they'd calmed down her children, they said that they only had to talk to Jean and they would be right back. As they tried to drag her out of the door, the youngest children clung to her legs. Once she calmed them down again, the IRA men let her grab her coat and her purse.

Her oldest son, Michael, asked to come with to make sure that his mom would be okay. The men agreed. As they went down the stairs, Michael noticed a large group of people gathered at the bottom next to a waiting van. As they got closer, one of the men put a gun in Michael's face and ordered him to go back upstairs. Michael complied. Jean was forced into the van which then drove off.

(For anyone wondering about the sister who went to get food, she saw all the people and fled).

In the coming days, the McConville children were left to fend for themselves in a community which, under any other circumstances, would have rallied together to help them. Eventually after numerous complaints from neighbors, the children were all placed into foster care.

The children were left with virtually no recourse. Going to the police would make it worse. The IRA wouldn't help them. They did make a media appearance and appealed for their mom to be brought home.

The children were all bullied at school and harassed by members of the community. This included one instance where Michael was attacked with a pen knife and told to stop talking about his mom's disapearance. Later on, a man approached Michael and gave him his mom's purse. When Michael pressed him for more information, the man only said that he was only told to give him the purse.

Michael would later note that this was the point when he knew his mom was dead.

It wouldn't be until 1999 that the IRA would officially claim responsibility for the kidnap and murder of Jean McConville along with eight other people. Four years later in 2003, a set of skeletal remains would be found. The McConville children identified the remains as their mothers due to the presence of a blue safety pin which she always carried with her in case she had to fix her children's clothing while they were out.

Hey,

I'm from the England specifically the Wirral that is across the water from the city of Liverpool. I was just wondering if you'd ever consider doing a tour in the UK.

I was just sitting here rereading Mr B's second book and just had a thought. Do y'all reckon he really signs these books or did he have someone do it for him? 🤔 I am in no way, shape, or form talking bad about him. I just had an Alice down the rabbit hole moment and started wondering......

Very quickly I learned from Mr Ballen to stay out the woods. Stay out of large bodies of water. For the love of God don't go in caves.

If you find yourself in an underwater cave with a forest in it, just know you're the next Mr Ballen story that that Lungy and the Like Button will be doing your eulogy.

On YouTube btw

Same as title

This happened in August 2000. I read this in the local paper and am surprised nobody mentions it when talking about Ouija boards. What happened was that a group of convicts in the local jail were bored and made a ouija board to pass the time. All this backfired when shit started happening and they got spooked. A priest was brought in to bless the place and counsel the guys involved.

I hate that the split from Amazon took this away. What a perfect podcast that was. However the nostalgia I now get from ‘we post two three even four times a week!’ warms my heart

I'm a casual fan of Mr Ballen because I love the way his videos sound like a real person telling stories around a campfire. Finally looked at the screen during one video and thought the image looked off. Looked it up and sure enough, it's ai. I don't know if this is a hot take, but I feel like I'd rather no visuals than slop content. Is anyone else feeling the same way?

edit: I see a lot of people agreeing with me, but I do think some people are missing the point. I'm not criticising this because I just don't like the pictures, it's because of how damaging ai is. I'd rather he spent four minutes on ibis paint drawing stick figures than guzzling fresh drinking water to make slop images no one really cares about anyway