Mr. Ballin

Sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction, and today's podcast features three stories that demonstrate that.

The audio from all three of these stories has been pulled from our main YouTube channel and has been remastered for today's episode.

The links to the original YouTube videos are in the description.

The first story you'll hear is called Inkling, and it's about a homicide detective who stumbles upon a picture he can't believe is real.

The second story you'll hear is called The Nosebleed, and it's about a woman's scary nosebleed that just will not stop after she returns from vacation.

And the third and final story you'll hear is called James 3, and it's about a toddler who has this vivid recurring dream, and eventually his parents look into it, and they can't believe what they find.

But before we get into today's stories, if you're a fan of the strange, dark, and mysterious delivered in story format, then you've come to the right place, because that's all we do, and we upload four times a week.

Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Fridays.

So, if that's of interest to you, please offer to fill up the Follow Button's new waterbed.

But instead of using water, use quick-drying cement.

Okay, let's get into our first story, called Inkling.

On a Friday afternoon in late August of 2008, a homicide detective in Los Angeles, California named Kevin Lloyd grabbed a cup of coffee from the break room and then made his way to his office and he sat down at his desk.

Detective Lloyd had already had a very difficult week, but now he had all this paperwork on his desk that he basically had to go through right now.

He had put it off for too long, it was the end of the week, and so today was the day.

And so Detective Lloyd took one more sip of coffee and then began sifting through all the papers.

Now, this paperwork that Detective Lloyd was charged with going through was really just a huge stack of biographical information about gang members in and around Los Angeles.

Basically, any time a gang member got arrested for anything, could be super minor, their information was added to this big dossier of biographical information.

And it was the job of the homicide detectives to periodically basically go through all of this information and just kind of make sure you're up to date with what gang members were doing in and around the city.

And so this was highly monotonous work, but it was necessary.

So Detective Lloyd continued to flip through all these pieces of paper, and as he did, he slammed his cup of coffee, doing his best not to fall asleep from boredom.