Mr. Ballin

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MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories · The Clearing · 3 Sep 2026 podcast

And then the two friends walked side by side for a while, you know, passing back and forth the flask and the coffee pot. voice-verified

And then by late afternoon that day, when the snow was really starting to come down, the prospector who had volunteered to use his horse to help move some of their supplies, he had finally reached a point where he said, You know, my horse can't go any farther, the weather's too bad. voice-verified

And so he dropped all their supplies and then he turned and headed back down the trail. voice-verified

And very likely, as these men watched him disappear down the trail, they all had the same thought. voice-verified

I just gotta suck it up for two weeks to get through this treacherous journey, and I will get to Breckenridge, and I will become rich. voice-verified

However, two weeks would pass by, and Alfred, Israel, and the other four prospectors did not show up at that outpost that Chief Ure had pointed out, which was on the other side of the San Juan Mountains. voice-verified

That was going to be their first official stop before they continued the rest of the way to Breckenridge. voice-verified

And then another two weeks went by, and still they did not show up at the outpost, and they didn't show up at any of the other camps in the surrounding areas. voice-verified

Now, Alfred's voice-verified

Big plan for this group was really dependent on the weather holding up. voice-verified

When they left, it was true that the weather was improving, it was snowing less, but within a couple of days of this group setting off on the trip, those winter storms came back with a vengeance and just dumped snow all over the valley and all across the trail this group would have been on in their attempt to leave. voice-verified

But the only people who knew that these men had embarked on this perilous journey was the men themselves, and then also Chief Ure and the other gold prospectors who had decided to stay in the valley until spring. voice-verified

But even if Chief Uray and those other prospectors knew that Alfred, Israel, and the others were in trouble, you know, they would have no way of helping them or getting to them or even communicating to the outside world. voice-verified

They were completely stuck in the valley and basically couldn't do anything. voice-verified

And so, in short, it appeared that Alfred, Israel, and the other four men were totally lost somewhere out in the wild, but nobody knew. voice-verified

But that would all change on april sixteenth, eighteen seventy four, roughly two months after Israel, Alford, and the others had begun what was supposed to be a two week long journey. voice-verified

That morning, a group of officials who manned the outpost that Israel and Alfred and the others were supposed to go to, they were having breakfast in one of the outpost's little log cabins. voice-verified

And as they're eating and talking to each other, suddenly from behind them, the door to the cabin flies open, and these officials they turn around and they see standing in the doorway is this totally disheveled looking guy with long hair that's sticking up in the air and a huge bushy beard. voice-verified

In one hand he's got a rifle, and in the other hand he's got a metal coffee pot. voice-verified

And his eyes were darting like crazy side to side, and he was clearly in shock, and he was trying to speak, but he just couldn't. voice-verified

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