r/mrballen

...the name of a Mr Ballen story where a certain species of plant makes a man go insane? I'm writing a book and was hoping to use the story in it as inspiration for a scene.

Its quite an old one from what i can remember but if someone has some superior memory I'd appreciate it 🙏

Maybe i’m just now noticing and it’s always been like this but i swear the podcast exclusives used to actually only be on the podcast, now he posts an exclusive and it’s the same episode that’ll be posted to youtube that same day just a couple hours later, it feels like a work around to get more posts out but not keeping that same quality, again maybe he always did this but i just never noticed but i don’t think so.

Greggory Bigg's Windshield Murder 2018, Driver hit pedestrian, drove home with him in the windshield. https://people.com/crime/chante-mallard-2017-movie-about-homeless-man-murder-windshield/

Instead of calling police or seeking medical help after the accident of him stuck in the windshield, Mallard drove her vehicle home and parked it in her garage. Biggs remained in her windshield, bleeding and pleading for help. According to subsequent trial testimony, Mallard checked on him several times and apologized, but she never sought treatment for his injuries.

Hi, all.

LOVE Mr Ballen. Gotta say that first right off the bat.

Huge fan...but I've noticed something that kind of gave me pause.

I often look up some of the stories after I watch or listen to get any details maybe left out, and usually I find his stories are fairly accurate, except of course for the dramatic additions...BUT on a few occasions I could find nothing at all.

Case in point: the recent video about Carolyn Jones (the actress who portrayed Morticia Addams). In his telling, >!at the age of 8 she answered a phone during a Easter party at neighbor's house... a call which turned out to be from someone who'd died the year before. !<

Curious to see if there was ever a logical explanation for this, and I could not find anything on it. On the contrary, the biographical info I found stated not only was her mom an agoraphobic who wouldn't leave the house for years at a time, but Carolyn herself was so asthmatic she couldn't attend school, couldn't go to the movies, couldn't play outside. The chances of her >!attending an Easter party at a neighbors or of her mom "making an effort to get to know the neighbors"!< are slim.

Does anyone know the source he used for the story? Honestly, it doesn't matter to me if the story was embellished or mistaken (I always check anyway), but I'd love to see what the source for this one in particular was. Anyone know?

I have tried to listen to him over and over again over the past few weeks.

While I fall asleep, while I'm driving etc.

And I just cannot do it anymore because it seems like the stories have way too much detail..too much fluff.

He used to get right to the point and it was so interesting I loved every second of it. Now it's just full of unnecessary detail and it seems like it's just to make it as long as possible.

If he'll go back to the way he used to tell the stories I will be a patreon customer again but I'm out.

For me, definitely Mary the Elephant

does anyone know the video on the Mrballen YouTube channel where he covers the story of Larry Bader?

(edit) nvm I found the video!

Mine was the disappearance of Bobby Panknin

I’ve been listening to Mr. Ballens for years and absolutely love the stories and the way he tells them. After switching to XM radio, the podcast went from being ad free to having ads.

I’m not mad at the ads, but they are very long (multiple 2 minute ads throughout an episode). I typically would listen to these while at work but because my job (tattoo artist) I can’t fast forward through the ads while I’m working. As a result I just stopped listen as often as I use to.

I’m listening on Amazon - does anyone know of a different platform this is on that is ad free? I would absolutely pay to not hear the ads but I didn’t see him on Patreon.