Ballen Studios Presents: Late Nights with Nexpo
Wed, 05 Mar 2025
From Ballen Studios, welcome to Late Nights with Nexpo, the official podcast of Youtube creator, Nex...
Ep. 74 | Sudden Insanity
Tue, 04 Mar 2025
When an elderly man in New Brunswick, Canada, dies from what seems to be rapid-onset dementia, his d...
Ep. 73 | Darkness in Donora
Tue, 25 Feb 2025
In the 1940s, the people of Donora, Pennsylvania fall prey to a deadly epidemic that destroys their ...
Ep. 72 | 17 Doctors
Tue, 18 Feb 2025
During the COVID pandemic, a boy starts experiencing sudden, inexplicable bursts of pain. At first, ...
Ep. 71 | A Clean Break/Look, Don’t Touch
Tue, 11 Feb 2025
“A Clean Break” When a night out in Nepal leaves a tourist weak and hungover, he figures he...
Listen Now: Bedtime Stories
Mon, 10 Feb 2025
From Ballen Studios, welcome to Bedtime Stories. From the paranormal to the supernatural, ...
Ep. 70 | It Comes Back
Tue, 04 Feb 2025
For his entire adult life, a successful businessman deals with a bizarre problem: whenever he bends ...
Ep. 69 | Too Much of a Good Thing
Tue, 28 Jan 2025
When a recovering alcoholic nearly dies after falling down his basement stairs, it seems like the tr...
Ep. 68 | Just Like the Movies/Headache from Hell
Tue, 21 Jan 2025
“Just Like the Movies”A popcorn factory worker comes down with a painful, frightening rash on hi...
Ep. 67 | The Endless Cry
Tue, 14 Jan 2025
The parents and grandmother of an infant boy are beside themselves when the baby starts crying, and ...
Ep. 66 | The Nest
Tue, 07 Jan 2025
Following the birth of her second child, a woman comes down with what appears to be a serious case o...
Ep. 65 | Brain Freeze
Tue, 31 Dec 2024
A heroin user wakes up one morning, feeling strangely stiff. At first, his symptoms are mistaken for...
Ep. 64 | No Reservations/The Bitter End
Tue, 24 Dec 2024
No Reservations:A Spanish marathon runner develops a mysterious obsession with gourmet food. But wha...
Ep. 63 | The Broken Sequence
Tue, 17 Dec 2024
A couple’s young sons both experience sudden reversals in their physical development, leaving doct...
Ep. 62 | Watch Out for the Worms
Tue, 10 Dec 2024
A mother is terrified when her five-year-old daughter suddenly develops obsessive compulsive disorde...
Ep. 61 | The Speckled Monster
Tue, 03 Dec 2024
In the late 1700s, a doctor in the English countryside battles to save his village from the devastat...
Ep. 60 | Godmother Knows Best/The Game
Tue, 26 Nov 2024
Godmother Knows Best: A 15-year-old girl develops mouth sores that are so painful, she can bare...
Ep. 59 | Monsters in the Wind
Tue, 19 Nov 2024
After a young man suffers devastating injuries from a tornado, doctors race against the clock to sav...
Ep. 58 | Down to 75 Pounds
Tue, 12 Nov 2024
An ambitious college student has to put her life on hold when she starts experiencing debilitating s...
Ep. 57 | Faces Everywhere/The Perfect Condition
Tue, 05 Nov 2024
“Faces Everywhere”A woman wakes up one morning to find terrifying faces floating above her. No m...
Ep. 56 | She Haunts Me
Tue, 29 Oct 2024
In the late 1800s, a young man in rural New England comes down with a deadly illness known as “the...
Ep. 55 | False Alarm
Tue, 22 Oct 2024
When a woman gets sick with a mystery illness during the height of the COVID pandemic, she fears her...
Ep. 54 | Root of All Evil
Tue, 15 Oct 2024
Doctors were sure they could help a man who was suffering from severe swelling in his spine. But not...
Ep. 53 | Rough Patch/ No Warning
Tue, 08 Oct 2024
"Rough Patch" When a young woman’s skin begins to break out after a wedding, she doesn’t think m...
Ep. 52 | A Dark Discovery
Tue, 01 Oct 2024
A little girl’s parents grow concerned when she develops a debilitating headache. They take her to...
Ep. 51 | Culture Clash
Tue, 24 Sep 2024
When a quiet town in Oregon is beset by a dangerous Salmonella outbreak, the health authorities mobi...
Ep. 50 | Elephant Man
Tue, 17 Sep 2024
When a routine medical study makes patients swell up like sausages, the doctors running it struggle ...
Ep. 49 | Hunger Games
Tue, 10 Sep 2024
A college student’s return to school is cut short when she starts acting erratically and has to be...
Ep. 48 | Cold Case
Tue, 03 Sep 2024
A teenage girl comes down with unexplainable abdominal pain after spending a few days at a fair. Unb...
Ep. 47 | The Tell-Tale Heartbeat
Tue, 27 Aug 2024
An avid runner is out for a routine jog when she suddenly feels dizzy and faints, dropping right in ...
Ep. 46 | Bad Blood
Tue, 20 Aug 2024
A single mother is terrified when her little boy becomes violently sick and doctors can’t figure o...
Ep. 45 | The Buried Brain/Killer Jetlag
Tue, 13 Aug 2024
“The Buried Brain”A young man barely survives being trapped in an avalanche while on a ski trip....
Ep. 44 | Needle in a Haystack
Tue, 06 Aug 2024
A little girl falls prey to a disease so deadly and rare, the CDC fears it might be an act of bioter...
Ep. 43 | Hard Case to Crack
Tue, 30 Jul 2024
A college student in Mississippi has to put his life on hold when his hips literally begin to die. F...
Ep. 42 | Deadly Tourist
Tue, 23 Jul 2024
A man vacationing in Germany becomes violently ill, and no medicine is helping. The solution may be ...
Ep. 41 | Adrian's Leg
Tue, 16 Jul 2024
A teenage boy suffers pain and embarrassment when his leg becomes grotesquely swollen and infected. ...
Ep. 40 | Glass Baby
Tue, 09 Jul 2024
A couple in Colorado is accused of child abuse when their infant daughter is diagnosed with multiple...
Ep. 39 | Family Ties
Tue, 02 Jul 2024
Seemingly out of nowhere, an otherwise healthy man’s body starts filling with a thick, lemon merin...
Ep. 38 | After the Bell
Tue, 25 Jun 2024
One night, two girls from the same school are rushed to the hospital with the same deadly disease. A...
Ep. 37 | River of Blood
Tue, 18 Jun 2024
In late 1976, a terrifying new disease that causes eyes to bleed grips the country of Zaire. D...
Ep. 36 | A Step Too Far/Dying of Boredom
Tue, 11 Jun 2024
“A Step Too Far”A man in Scotland suffering from crippling breathing difficulty is mystified whe...
Ep. 35 | Common Ground
Tue, 04 Jun 2024
A boy in Minnesota is rushed to the emergency room with one of the worst food poisoning cases the do...
Ep. 34 | Mother or Murderer
Tue, 28 May 2024
When a young mother’s baby is suddenly hospitalized, doctors accuse her of intentionally harming h...
Ep. 33 | Sunless Burn
Tue, 21 May 2024
In December 1979, young women all over Wisconsin fall ill with a mysterious disease that starts with...
Ep. 32 | Scourge of the South
Tue, 14 May 2024
A doctor in the early 1900s is tasked with discovering the cause of a sometimes-fatal disease ravagi...
Ep. 31 | Jade’s Eye
Tue, 07 May 2024
A 9-year-old girl in Hawaii suddenly loses vision in one eye, and nobody knows why. And by the time ...
Ep. 30 | Look Closely/Burning From the Inside
Tue, 30 Apr 2024
“Look Closely”A teenage boy suddenly falls into critical condition while on vacation with his fa...
Ep. 29 | It Came From the Basement
Tue, 23 Apr 2024
When a woman’s five-year-old son in Niagara Falls, New York, suddenly develops epilepsy, she becom...
Ep. 28 | Dead Tired
Tue, 16 Apr 2024
A mother in Fresno, California races her young son to the emergency room after he goes limp and his ...
Ep. 27 | Deadly Cramp
Tue, 09 Apr 2024
A semi-pro tennis player nearly drowns in the pool when she suffers sudden, cramping pain in her mid...
Ep. 26 | The Birds
Tue, 02 Apr 2024
In the summer of 1999, a mysterious outbreak rages through New York City, paralyzing and even killin...
Ep. 25 | It Moves
Tue, 26 Mar 2024
A young woman working on a fishing vessel in Alaska begins experiencing a strange burning sensation ...
Ep. 24 | Blood on Their Hands
Tue, 19 Mar 2024
In the summer of 1846, a young doctor is thrilled to join Austria’s prestigious Vienna General Hos...
Ep. 23 | Gut Instinct/Into the Woods
Tue, 12 Mar 2024
“Gut Instinct”In the summer of 2021, a doctor celebrates his retirement with a rafting trip in t...
Ep. 22 | Surf’s Up
Tue, 05 Mar 2024
On Christmas Day, 2008, a surfer living in Hawaii wakes up with a splitting headache and itching all...
Ep. 21 | Breathless
Tue, 27 Feb 2024
In 2012, a healthy high school volleyball star suddenly has to fight for every breath she takes. Wit...
Ep. 20 | The Mist
Tue, 20 Feb 2024
In 2007, a worker at a pork processing plant in Minnesota suffers nerve damage so severe that he can...
Ep. 19 | Life in Paradise/The Stranger
Tue, 13 Feb 2024
“Life in Paradise”In 1993, a man living in a retirement community in Tennessee falls ill with wh...
Ep. 18 | Man With the Blue Skin
Tue, 06 Feb 2024
In 1944, nearly a dozen men show up at a hospital in New York. All are violently ill and passing out...
Ep. 17 | The Curse of Veneto
Tue, 30 Jan 2024
In 1983, an Italian man finds himself completely unable to sleep, and when he looks in the mirror, h...
Ep. 16 | The Carancas Curse
Tue, 23 Jan 2024
In September 2007, a meteor strike leaves a massive crater in the high Peruvian desert, drawing curi...
Ep. 15 | The Philly Killer
Tue, 16 Jan 2024
Throughout the United States, the summer of 1976 is a celebration of two hundred years as a nation. ...
Ep. 14 | Chimera
Tue, 09 Jan 2024
In late 2002, a 26-year-old single mother and her children take a DNA test as part of a welfare appl...
Ep. 13 | Village of Death
Tue, 02 Jan 2024
In September of 1998, people throughout Malaysia start dying of a disease that attacks their brains....
Ep. 12 | Dark Killer
Tue, 26 Dec 2023
In 1998, a new mother begins experiencing intense full-body aches, unstoppable itching, and crushing...
Ep. 11 | What’s Wrong with Vince?
Tue, 19 Dec 2023
In the spring of 2009, Dr. Benjamin Gilmer takes over a country medical practice in Fletcher, North ...
Ep. 10 | Sin Nombre
Tue, 12 Dec 2023
In the spring of 1993, young, healthy people of the Navajo nation start dying from a mysterious dise...
Ep. 9 | Sleep Addict
Tue, 05 Dec 2023
In 2005, a high-powered attorney starts falling asleep for dangerously long periods at a time. No ma...
Ep. 8 | A Rare Bird
Tue, 28 Nov 2023
In 2020, a career-driven young woman in Ohio begins to hallucinate strange sounds and feels phantom ...
Ep. 7 | The Shadow/The Experiment
Tue, 21 Nov 2023
“The Shadow”When a woman’s unexplainable heart condition threatens her life, surgeons turn to ...
Ep. 6 | Blood Feast
Tue, 14 Nov 2023
One night in 1944, over 300 patients at a mental hospital in Oregon become violently sick after eati...
Ep. 5 | Silent Scream
Tue, 07 Nov 2023
In September 2004, a 15-year-old girl is suddenly struck with fatigue and blurred vision. When she’...
Ep. 4 | Sanju’s Belly/One by One
Tue, 31 Oct 2023
“Sanju’s Belly”For decades, a 36-year-old Indian man has been plagued by a mysterious swelling...
Ep. 3 | A Change in Fortune
Tue, 24 Oct 2023
On a hot September day in 1986, a family in Goiania, Brazil, suddenly begin feeling sick after a cel...
Ep. 2 | Tigers on the Ceiling
Tue, 17 Oct 2023
In 1951, dozens of people in the small French town of Pont St. Esprit fall ill with nausea, chills, ...
Ep. 1 | Ashes to Ashes
Tue, 17 Oct 2023
In the Spring of 1986, a man discovers that his elderly father has been trapped inside his home that...
Introducing: MrBallen's Medical Mysteries
Tue, 03 Oct 2023
Follow MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries wherever you get your podcasts. You can binge the first 8 epis...