The Scheme
Episode Date: August 14, 2025Some people will lie, cheat, and steal to get ahead, but today’s podcast features two wild stories where those so-called “master plans” fall...
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368 episodes transcribedSome people will lie, cheat, and steal to get ahead, but today’s podcast features two wild stories where those so-called “master plans” fall...
On the afternoon of March 24, 2006, an employee at a moving truck rental company in Ohio opened his desk drawer and grabbed a wad of cash.&nb...
Today’s story is one I told several years back on YouTube, but in 2024 during my live tour, I brought this one back out and gave it a complet...
In June of 1980, a car jolted to a stop in a parking lot on the outskirts of a small Utah suburb. The car door opened, a man stepped out into...
This story is a fan favorite from MrBallen's Medical Mysteries.No Reservations:A Spanish marathon runner develops a mysterious obsession with...
On a morning in early-1986 in Arizona, someone sat hunched over a desk, furiously writing a letter. And almost every line of this letter incl...
Today’s podcast will feature 3 hiking horror stories that are still shrouded in mystery. The audio from all three stories has been pulled fro...
One September afternoon in 2003, a woman in Tucson, Arizona, heard a knock on her front door and answered it. She was surprised to see a Tucs...
Today’s podcast features 3 stories that involve people who were trapped – with “no way out.” The audio from all three stories has been pulled...
In December 2007, a lab technician sat at a table covered in dozens of evidence bags. The technician wasn’t sure where to start, because the...
Today’s podcast will feature 2 horror stories about manipulative people who twisted others’ faith into fear. The audio from both of these sto...
On a chilly night in March 2012, a wiry, 56-year old man with a patchy beard trudged through a backyard in rural Iowa with his coat pulled ti...
Today’s podcast will feature 3 medical horror stories. The audio from all three stories has been pulled from our main YouTube channel, which...
Today’s story is about a group of friends who travel to this supposedly haunted abandoned town up in the mountains in Spain, and when they ge...
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This story is a fan favorite from MrBallen's Medical Mysteries.In the late 1800s, a young man in rural New England comes down with a deadly i...
Today’s podcast will feature 3 military horror stories. The audio from all three stories has been pulled from our main YouTube channel and ha...
One day in the spring of 2006, a detective stood next to a refrigerator in her police station, holding a little container full of evidence. S...
Sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction. And today’s podcast features 3 stories that demonstrate that. The audio from all three stories...
This is a special bonus episode of "You Can't"Today, I’m going to tell two stories about how an idea that might seem brilliant in the mo...