Fan Favorite | Darkness in Donora
11 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Following the epic crossover between MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries and Redacted: Declassified Myste...
Fan Favorite | Culture Clash
09 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Following the epic crossover between MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries and Redacted: Declassified Myste...
Fan Favorite | The Carancas Curse
04 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Following the epic crossover between MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries and Redacted: Declassified Myste...
Fan Favorite | Sudden Insanity
02 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Following the epic crossover between MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries and Redacted: Declassified Myste...
Fan Favorite | Needle in a Haystack
28 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Following the epic crossover between MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries and Redacted: Declassified Myste...
Fan Favorite | It Came From the Basement
26 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Following the epic crossover between MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries and Redacted: Declassified Myste...
Introducing: American Criminal
25 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Henry Lee Lucas and Ottis Toole are two of history’s most prolific serial killers. Or they’re li...
Fan Favorite | The Philly Killer
21 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Following the epic crossover between MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries and Redacted: Declassified Myste...
Fan Favorite | Blood Feast
19 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Following the epic crossover between MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries and Redacted: Declassified Myste...
Fan Favorite | Village of Death
14 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Following the epic crossover between MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries and Redacted: Declassified Myste...
Fan Favorite | Death from Above
12 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Following the epic crossover between MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries and Redacted: Declassified Myste...
Ep. 96 | A Redacted Medical Mystery: Red Menace/Weather Warriors
05 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this special MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries and Redacted crossover episode, MrBallen and Luke Lam...
Ep. 95 | Two Hearts Beat As One
29 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After sitting down for a nice meal with her husband, a woman becomes violently ill and has to be hos...
Listen Now: Lawless Planet
28 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s not that hard to kill a planet. All it takes is a little drilling, some mining, a generous he...
Ep. 94 | The Leftovers
22 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After giving birth, an ambitious lawyer struggles through an avalanche of health issues that won’t...
Ep. 93 | Gut Check/Sleeping Beauty
15 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Gut Check”: When a 16-year-old girl starts experiencing constant and severe stomach pain, her f...
Listen Now: Flesh and Code
14 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Travis never thought he’d meet someone like Lily Rose. She was kind, passionate, beautiful. The wo...
Ep. 92 | Trigger Point
08 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After an uneventful flight, a college professor suddenly experiences severe pain in his cheek. The e...
Ep. 91 | The Mad Gasser
01 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
During World War 2, the small town of Mattoon, Illinois erupts into a panic. Some of its residents a...
Ep. 90 | Walk Like the Birds
24 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
One day at the park, a mother notices her young son is walking strangely – almost like Frankenstei...
Listen Now: Liberty Lost
Mon, 23 Jun
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In Evangelical homes across the United States, sex outside of marriage is a sin against God. So, whe...
Ep. 89 | Half a Face
17 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A teenage girl panics when clumps of hair start to fall off the right side of her head. From there, ...
Ep. 88 | 15,000 Coughs/The Putrid Smell
10 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“15,000 Coughs”: When an 11-year-old girl develops a worrisome cough, her workaholic mom drops e...
Ep. 87 | 99th Percentile
03 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After a difficult pregnancy, a woman is delighted to give birth to a baby girl. Her new child is per...
Wondery Presents: How to Survive Against the Odds
Mon, 02 Jun
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Inspired by Wondery’s hit podcast Against the Odds—learn how to survive whatever nature can thro...
Ep. 86 | Out of This World/A Good Scrub Down
27 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Out of This World”: In 2003, a treasure hunter in Chile makes a shocking discovery: a tiny, 6-i...
Ballen Studios Presents: A Twist of History
Wed, 21 May
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The course of history never follows a straight line. These are the epic stories that have shaped the...
Ep. 85 | Maximum Volume
20 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After a successful overseas tour, an American rock guitarist comes home with a troubling affliction....
Ep. 84 | The Sick Snowbird/A Spoonful of Sugar
13 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“The Sick Snowbird”: After a lovely winter in Southern California, an older woman is excited to ...
Ep. 83 | The Disappearing Girl
06 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When a vivacious preteen girl with Down syndrome suddenly becomes shy and withdrawn, her mother worr...
Ep. 82 | Running on Empty
29 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A young, active mother is dismayed when she starts feeling weak and exhausted – with small childre...
Listen Now: Death County, PA
Mon, 28 Apr
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Lamont Jones leaves Dauphin County Prison for the last time, a free man ready to move on with his li...
Ep. 81 | Unraveling Bolero/Crossing Over
22 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Unraveling Bolero”: When a middle-aged scientist experiences unexpected success as an artist, i...
Ep. 80 | Stigmata
15 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When a little girl in Vietnam starts mysteriously bleeding from her scalp and hands, her doctors won...
Ep. 79 | The Shining
08 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the early 1900s, a young woman gets a coveted job at a clock factory. But her work is interrupted...
Listen Now: Don’t Cross Kat
Mon, 07 Apr
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Kat Torres has the insta-perfect life. She is rich, gorgeous and not ashamed to share it. Her posts ...
Ep. 78 | The Unbearable Itch
01 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A recovering heroin addict wakes up one morning with an odd sensation on one side of her head: a nag...
Ep. 77 | The Sliver/Killer Style
25 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“The Sliver”: After a man survives a terrible car accident with only a cracked vertebra, he...
Introducing: Law & Crime’s LUIGI
Mon, 24 Mar
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
When Luigi Mangione allegedly gunned down UnitedHealthcare’s CEO, the media called it a senseless ...
Ep. 76 | Stage Fright
18 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When a high-achieving teenager suddenly starts to freeze up in social situations and her grades plum...
Ep. 75 | Death from Above
11 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the town of Oakville, Washington, chaos erupts when mysterious blobs start falling from the sky –...
Ballen Studios Presents: Late Nights with Nexpo
Wed, 05 Mar
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
From Ballen Studios, welcome to Late Nights with Nexpo, the official podcast of Youtube creator, Nex...
Ep. 74 | Sudden Insanity
Tue, 04 Mar 2025 08:01:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
When an elderly man in New Brunswick, Canada, dies from what seems to be rapid-onset dementia, his d...
Ep. 74 | Sudden Insanity
04 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 08:01:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In the 1940s, the people of Donora, Pennsylvania fall prey to a deadly epidemic that destroys their ...
Ep. 73 | Darkness in Donora
25 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the 1940s, the people of Donora, Pennsylvania fall prey to a deadly epidemic that destroys their ...
Ep. 72 | 17 Doctors
18 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
During the COVID pandemic, a boy starts experiencing sudden, inexplicable bursts of pain. At first, ...
Ep. 71 | A Clean Break/Look, Don’t Touch
11 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“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
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
From Ballen Studios, welcome to Bedtime Stories. From the paranormal to the supernatural, ...
Ep. 70 | It Comes Back
04 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For his entire adult life, a successful businessman deals with a bizarre problem: whenever he bends ...
Ep. 69 | Too Much of a Good Thing
28 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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
21 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Just Like the Movies”A popcorn factory worker comes down with a painful, frightening rash on hi...
Ep. 67 | The Endless Cry
14 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The parents and grandmother of an infant boy are beside themselves when the baby starts crying, and ...
Ep. 66 | The Nest
07 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Following the birth of her second child, a woman comes down with what appears to be a serious case o...
Ep. 65 | Brain Freeze
31 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A heroin user wakes up one morning, feeling strangely stiff. At first, his symptoms are mistaken for...
Ep. 64 | No Reservations/The Bitter End
24 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
No Reservations:A Spanish marathon runner develops a mysterious obsession with gourmet food. But wha...
Ep. 63 | The Broken Sequence
17 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A couple’s young sons both experience sudden reversals in their physical development, leaving doct...
Ep. 62 | Watch Out for the Worms
10 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A mother is terrified when her five-year-old daughter suddenly develops obsessive compulsive disorde...
Ep. 61 | The Speckled Monster
03 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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
26 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Godmother Knows Best: A 15-year-old girl develops mouth sores that are so painful, she can bare...
Ep. 59 | Monsters in the Wind
19 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
After a young man suffers devastating injuries from a tornado, doctors race against the clock to sav...
Ep. 58 | Down to 75 Pounds
12 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
An ambitious college student has to put her life on hold when she starts experiencing debilitating s...
Ep. 57 | Faces Everywhere/The Perfect Condition
05 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“Faces Everywhere”A woman wakes up one morning to find terrifying faces floating above her. No m...
Ep. 56 | She Haunts Me
29 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the late 1800s, a young man in rural New England comes down with a deadly illness known as “the...
Ep. 55 | False Alarm
22 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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
15 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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
08 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"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
01 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A little girl’s parents grow concerned when she develops a debilitating headache. They take her to...
Ep. 51 | Culture Clash
24 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When a quiet town in Oregon is beset by a dangerous Salmonella outbreak, the health authorities mobi...
Ep. 50 | Elephant Man
17 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When a routine medical study makes patients swell up like sausages, the doctors running it struggle ...
Ep. 49 | Hunger Games
10 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A college student’s return to school is cut short when she starts acting erratically and has to be...
Ep. 48 | Cold Case
03 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A teenage girl comes down with unexplainable abdominal pain after spending a few days at a fair. Unb...
Ep. 47 | The Tell-Tale Heartbeat
27 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
An avid runner is out for a routine jog when she suddenly feels dizzy and faints, dropping right in ...
Ep. 46 | Bad Blood
20 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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
13 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“The Buried Brain”A young man barely survives being trapped in an avalanche while on a ski trip....
Ep. 44 | Needle in a Haystack
06 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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
30 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A college student in Mississippi has to put his life on hold when his hips literally begin to die. F...
Ep. 42 | Deadly Tourist
23 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A man vacationing in Germany becomes violently ill, and no medicine is helping. The solution may be ...
Ep. 41 | Adrian's Leg
16 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A teenage boy suffers pain and embarrassment when his leg becomes grotesquely swollen and infected. ...
Ep. 40 | Glass Baby
09 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A couple in Colorado is accused of child abuse when their infant daughter is diagnosed with multiple...
Ep. 39 | Family Ties
02 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Seemingly out of nowhere, an otherwise healthy man’s body starts filling with a thick, lemon merin...
Ep. 38 | After the Bell
25 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
One night, two girls from the same school are rushed to the hospital with the same deadly disease. A...
Ep. 37 | River of Blood
18 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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
11 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“A Step Too Far”A man in Scotland suffering from crippling breathing difficulty is mystified whe...
Ep. 35 | Common Ground
04 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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
28 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When a young mother’s baby is suddenly hospitalized, doctors accuse her of intentionally harming h...
Ep. 33 | Sunless Burn
21 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In December 1979, young women all over Wisconsin fall ill with a mysterious disease that starts with...
Ep. 32 | Scourge of the South
14 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A doctor in the early 1900s is tasked with discovering the cause of a sometimes-fatal disease ravagi...
Ep. 31 | Jade’s Eye
07 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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
30 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“Look Closely”A teenage boy suddenly falls into critical condition while on vacation with his fa...
Ep. 29 | It Came From the Basement
23 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When a woman’s five-year-old son in Niagara Falls, New York, suddenly develops epilepsy, she becom...
Ep. 28 | Dead Tired
16 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A mother in Fresno, California races her young son to the emergency room after he goes limp and his ...
Ep. 27 | Deadly Cramp
09 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A semi-pro tennis player nearly drowns in the pool when she suffers sudden, cramping pain in her mid...
Ep. 26 | The Birds
02 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the summer of 1999, a mysterious outbreak rages through New York City, paralyzing and even killin...
Ep. 25 | It Moves
26 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A young woman working on a fishing vessel in Alaska begins experiencing a strange burning sensation ...
Ep. 24 | Blood on Their Hands
19 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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
12 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“Gut Instinct”In the summer of 2021, a doctor celebrates his retirement with a rafting trip in t...
Ep. 22 | Surf’s Up
05 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On Christmas Day, 2008, a surfer living in Hawaii wakes up with a splitting headache and itching all...
Ep. 21 | Breathless
27 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In 2012, a healthy high school volleyball star suddenly has to fight for every breath she takes. Wit...
Ep. 20 | The Mist
20 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In 2007, a worker at a pork processing plant in Minnesota suffers nerve damage so severe that he can...