MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories
A Dead Body for Christmas (PODCAST EXCLUSIVE EPISODE)
Mon, 27 Jan 2025
On Christmas morning of 2010, snow fell on a quiet suburb in South West England. But just after 9:00 a.m., the quiet was shattered by the sound of police sirens racing through town. The police cars came to a screeching stop on a wet street, and a veteran Detective Inspector stepped out into the cold. He walked towards a stone wall that separated the road from a tree-covered field on the other side. The Detective Inspector reached the wall, crouched down, and started digging through a pile of snow and leaves. And when he saw what was underneath this pile, he knew he would not be spending Christmas with his family.For 100s more stories like these, check out our main YouTube channel just called "MrBallen" -- https://www.youtube.com/c/MrBallenIf you want to reach out to me, contact me on Instagram, Twitter or any other major social media platform, my username on all of them is @mrballenSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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On Christmas morning of 2010, snow fell on a quiet suburb in southwest England. But just after 9 a.m., the quiet was shattered by the sound of police sirens racing through town. The police cars came to a screeching stop, and a veteran detective inspector stepped out into the cold. He walked towards a stone wall that separated the road from a tree-covered field on the other side.
The detective inspector reached the wall, crouched down, and started digging through a pile of snow and leaves. And when he saw what was underneath this pile, he knew he would not be spending Christmas with his family.
But before we get into that story, if you're a fan of the Strange, Dark, and Mysterious delivered in story format, then you've come to the right podcast because that's all we do and we upload twice a week, once on Monday and once on Thursday. So if that's of interest to you, please glue together every other page of the book that the follow button is currently reading.
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