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EARLY Access [Audio] Shawn Ryan Show #249 MrBallen
🕑 Added 2025-10-29 16:30:01 +0000 UTCJohn B. Allen, known as MrBallen, is a former U.S. Navy SEAL and storyteller specializing in strange, dark, and mysterious true stories. A graduate of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Allen served as a Navy SEAL from 2010 to 2017, completing multiple deployments, including to Afghanistan, where he was wounded and medically retired.
Launching his content career in 2020 on TikTok and YouTube as a form of therapy, he quickly amassed millions of followers with his engaging narratives of true crime, mysteries, and the unexplained, becoming one of YouTube's biggest storytellers.
Founder of Ballen Studios, he hosts the top-rated MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories and has authored graphic novels like MrBallen Presents: Strange, Dark & Mysterious: The Graphic Stories (2024) and Where Nightmares Live (2025).
Through the MrBallen Foundation, established in 2022, he honors victims of violent crimes and supports their families with education, training, and financial aid.
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Drew Nichols
Man doing this episode at that cabin woulda been SICK!!!
Drew Nichols
"man this fuckin place is haunted as fuck"
KK
My mom and I were with my dad when he died (92 yrs old). Mom was wearing pink. Hours later I see someone wearing dark clothes walk down the hallway. I yell mom? I go in the kitchen nobody there. Mom did you change? No answer. I go into her bedroom and she’s there still in pink. I tell her what I saw and she said it wasn’t her. After I fall asleep my dad sits in his chair and I asked why he’s still here. He replied well Kathryn, it’s easier to wait for her. I know it was him in the hallway.
Jeff Ashley
Lets go! 🫡 🖖
