I don’t usually care for podcasts but this one is superb! I can and have listened for hours! I get excited for new episodes every week because I have listened to every single episode. Thinking of going back and listening to all of the episodes again. Mr. Ballen is a fantastic storyteller. I wish I could give this 10 stars.

I so enjoy each story told in such a great narrative.

My only issue with this podcast are the ridiculously long pauses. I always think my phone has died or something.

Our family loves these podcasts but the sheer amount of ads are beyond frustrating.

It’s hard for me to find good quality podcasts I like, and this podcast is one of my favs🤩. Thanks MrBallen!

Sounds like it was written and read by a high school sophomore. Too distracting. How is this a 4.9 rating?

Been listening to ballen for years, I can’t count how many times I’ve been driving for work and he’s got me through a tough night. Greatest ever 10/10

This is my new favorite thing to do. Anytime I have a chance to listen to a Mr. Ballen story I take it. I’ve never been disappointed

So, long time listener and my biggest fear was to get to the end of this podcast, and sadly I did just a few weeks ago. I’m glad you post twice a week so I can listen to a bit more, but IVE been “saving” your episodes and only listen if necessary (mainly just me being on car rides that are long) thank you so much for starting this, and to Melanie and Zenida, thank y’all for introducing me to this. I miss and love y’all -Avery <3

I found MrBallen on YT & was obsessed after 1 video. I quickly found this podcast & have replaced my obsession for audiobooks with this podcast until I catch up. I cannot stop listening. You literally feel like you’re apart of the current story with how vivid the descriptions can be!

after listening to mr ballen my expectations are so much higher for a speaker of a podcast. 10/10

This is quite possibly my favorite podcast. Not a fan of his other podcast, but I do love this one. To each his own.

I stopped listening to all my other podcasts because this is the best! It’s perfect! I enjoy it more than I’ve ever enjoyed a podcast.

I really do love this podcast. I’ve been binging it over the last few weeks. BUT….Mr Ballen’s over use of the word “totally” is becoming distracting.

I have always watched his stories on YouTube and I love it! When I found out Mr. Ballen had a podcast, I nearly screamed in excitement lol now at night, I listen to his stories and it puts me right to sleep. Absolutely the best story teller!

i love this podcast and i love how he goes into detail and explains things thoroughly 100/100 i recommend

Well done, sir! Your gripping narratives prompt me to dig deeper on every case. By far, my favorite podcast. Mahalo nui loa!

This Baller is great at telling stories and captivating the audience. This is one of my favorite podcasts and all of the spin off podcasts are amazing too. Wartime Stories with Luke Lamota is a must listen…every episode

ITS SO GOOD

My besty put me on this and we both love horror and she said that she love this so I decided to listen my self and I love it so I will wach it when ever I go to work I love listening to this on car rides to give my something to think about. Love to listen to this content so I recommend this to everyone and everybody who loves the dark and mysterious. ( sorry for eney missed spelling I am righting this on my whay in to work and I have dyslexia)

I really like this podcast and medical mysteries is my favorite podcast but I wish they would put a content warning on a lot of these. Many of them are super gruesome and for people with trauma of ptsd a content warning would be much appreciated. Episode 58 was so gory I couldn’t listen all the way through the last part. I’m knocking it down a point for the lack of warning.

I genuinely like this podcast and Mr. Ballens voice. However, he can make a simple sentence that could be 5-7 words into a sentence with 12-17 words. It’s exhausting to listen to such long sentences and repetition of details when telling stories. Details are repeated in different ways multiple times. If you can get past this then the stories are good. For example: I would say: 100s of police officers were out searching the city for a missing person. He would say: 100s of police officers were searching in cars and trucks, on bikes, all over the city, they were all searching, 100s of officers searching for the missing person because they wanted to find them.

I really like Mr Ballen and enjoy his style generally, but I’m getting really sick of what is blatant misinformation in order to add drama to the story. These stories are dramatic enough without the added details. At first I took issue with the descriptions about how murder victims felt or what they were thinking before they died. It’s unknowable and seems disrespectful, but while it irks me I can let it go. Then it’s skewing stories that have simple explanations to make them a mystery or the result of alien or supernatural activity. Kawagarbo mountain for example. It was an avalanche, period, not some angry mountain god. There are photos showing there was an avalanche, and the search afterward was hindered by more avalanches. They first started finding bodies/gear 7.5 years later and last found remains in 2019, because they’re coming out of a glacier as it’s moving/melting. Oh, and high altitude psychosis is a thing. This story was filled with lies and the disclaimer isn’t good enough. These are fictional stories and should be advertised as such, not just some changes for dramatic purposes. The deceit bothers me and the more of these I hear the more I question the ethics of Mr Ballen. Facts are more important than drama.

I’ve binged your youtube series and watched all your videos, this podcast is my favorite audio series! Storytelling doesn’t sound confusing and I don't miss anything even when I'm working on assignments or just drawing, revamped episodes are my favorite! ^^

I look forward to both of the podcasts… especially the medical mysteries! Thanks for your podcasts!

Best storytelling I have ever seen! I love this and the medical mysteries podcast. Keep on cranking out more!

Mr baller I like to say your medical mysteries are the MVP most valuable podcast and is the goat and your podcast rock and it would be cool if you did one that was ww2 theme, just an idea, so if. Your reading this, ur the goat an mvp

Needs work on audio, I listen to his other podcast which are awesome!! But for some reason the audio don’t sound good. Good storytelling though

My kids fall asleep to to this pod cast

I’m completely obsessed with this podcast. At first the story format was hard to get into but now I love it. Almost all the stories have a resolution, and I don’t care if some of it is played up for dramatic effect, because that’s how stories (as opposed to journalism) work. The ONLY change I’d want to see is a spoiler warning about harm to animals. Any time an animal is even mentioned I turn the episode off because I don’t know what will happen

I don’t know what all these bad reviews are about because this is the best podcast EVER!

I have watched his YouTube channel for years so having this podcast is the best treat. MrBallen is the best story teller of this century!!

My wife is the one who turned me onto true crime podcasts. I first saw your stories on YouTube and then discovered your podcast series. You have a fantastic story style and I love how you got your Mr. Ballen podcast name. Keep up the stories coming!!!

Such a great voice and simple delivery. Just the details and not a lot of wasted chatter. Don’t get me wrong those types of shows are ok but this style is a little bit of a relief. I’m a fairly new listener and glad I found it.

i love this podcast soo much!! it helps me get a lot of things around the house done and it’s one of the only podcasts that actually keep my interest. i recommend this podcast to all of my friends and if you have a hard time focusing on podcasts you should definitely give this one a listen! just one thing, it is pretty graphic so if you can’t handle that stuff then i might not recommend. but it’s a great podcast overall!

I just found this podcast! I love it but the pauses are just a bit too long! Otherwise it’s my new favorite!

I love listening to this podcast. My favorite episode so far is 137 with the war stories. Please make more like this.

Dear Mr. Ballen, I just recently found your podcast series, as I loved the ghost train episode about the couple, and so I listened to a few more, although I did start to realize these may be too much for me. I have adored the Noiser series, Detectives Don’t Sleep and other intriguing mysteries and crime solving. But the highly graphic detailed description of what they did to Eugene (Professor “Cold Fusion”) was so disturbing, and knowing that it is based on true incidents and cases, I’m sorry I will not be adding Mr. Ballen to my podcasts. I like your voice, and your narration and story telling is excellent overall; it’s just too disturbing and ceases to become entertainment for me when it crosses the line. Should you decide to present somethings less disturbing and super graphic delving into all the minutia, I might be interested. At least I gave it a chance. Thanks, and all the best.

Really love this podcast. Mr Ballen is a good story teller and keeps the listener engaged. His stories are always, well…strange, dark, and mysterious. One of my go-to podcasts for spooky and creepy stories.

This used to be a very good podcast but now there’s a ton of ads and he posts episodes from his medical mysteries show instead of true crime stories. Very sad to see a great podcast sell out and become unlistenable.

Easy to binge and almost always entertaining, BUT they often choose entertainment over facts. Totally makes sense doe this podcast. Make sure to check sources before sharing these stories as facts, since sometimes truthful details are less sensational or have since been reported. Also I really wish they would put more effort into saying non-English words and names correctly, especially Spanish ones. Sometimes they are said so incorrectly it takes me out of the story even as a native english speaker.

I listen to a lot of podcasts, mostly true crime. I just discovered the Mr. Ballen series. I listen on Apple podcast and YouTube. I have binged more than I can count. Far superior to others of his genre. What a gem! So glad I discovered these. Medical mysteries are also amazing! Chef’s kiss! Thank you.

I used to love this podcast. Then one of the stories covered (that I was familiar with) had a lot of inaccuracies. I double checked facts to see if perhaps new information was available and found that not only did Mr. Ballen report inaccurate information, he had selected the sensational inaccuracies that have been proven to be lies. I then checked comments and saw numerous comments from listeners correcting these inaccuracies. Ballen NEVER made corrections or owned up. I then started fact checking, and he regularly sensationalizes stories. Understood if it was perhaps adding colorful wording to make dry information a bit more interesting but nope… repeating misinformation because “it tells a better story”. At that point, I lost interest in his content. Wish he recognized his talent for story telling as it is strong enough to stand on its own without pulling in lies to make the “story better”.

Dude you’re great at making podcasts, keep it up! You give so much detail into the story, I wonder how long it would take to get all of that detail and how you got it. Five stars.

this is my comfort zone. The way MrBallen tells stories is unlike anyone else. He is so engaging and I could listen to him talk for hours. Truly if I could have one more piece of entertainment for the rest of my life it would be MrBallens stories.

I have been binging Mr Ballen and other shows relentlessly! You are a natural born journalist and narrator! Love your inflections, crescendos and fingers snapping for extra effect! Love your shows!

Thank you 🙏 so much MrBallen. I’ve been listening to podcasts, since the iPod was invented.I was shocked when I discovered your podcast because I couldn’t believe after listening to podcasts for over 20+ years, that I finally found You, someone that is so interesting that I literally have listened to only MrBallen for 2 weeks, while I heal from cataract surgery. I even have my Mon and Stepfather and Brother. E Komo Mai, You’re Welcome from Kailua , Hawaii, Not Kona!!! Thank you for your Service to our country and God Bless You and all the knowledge that you are dropping on the undereducated. Mahalo and Aloha!!! Thank you!!!

I’ve been listening to his stories for the last few years, and I have to say the show has extremely fallen off after his YouTube days. Before the money hungry companies like wondery and Amazon have taken over, this show used to be so nostalgic and extremely gripping & entertaining. Now the show has constant adds, two in the intro, some in the middle, and sometimes in the end all in the same episode. I get it, someone has to make money, and I have nothing against Ballen. It’s just sad to see such a show fall off from having constant advertisements. The world is expensive and the last thing I want is my money to go to rich power hungry companies buying out smaller businesses to shove advertisements into people face just for people to pay a subscription to have no advertisements. I just miss the good ol days of this channel, and ballens independent business with this channel before he partnered with big time money munching corporations.

MrBallen's podcast is the ultimate sleep aid. His soothing voice and mesmerizing true stories weave a cozy blanket of sound that'll lull you into a peaceful slumber. Dark tales, calming tone - the perfect recipe for a restful night's sleep.

So my parents Listen to mr ballon to go to bed and it helps so I put my head phones in and lay down and mr ballon deep voice makes me go to bed faster I am 11 and to be a honest this does not scare me. My favorite episode is THE BRAIN FREEZE