Reality Glitch
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MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories
28 min
2 speakers
2 chapters
transcribed 5 months ago
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What are the three paranormal stories featured in this episode?
Today's podcast will feature three stories that are all about people who appeared to have a paranormal encounter. 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 The Friend, and it's about a girl who gets lost hiking, and while she's lost, she makes contact with a very strange companion. The second story you'll hear is called The Midnight Man, and it's about a woman who wakes up in the middle of the night and sees a man just in her room. And the third and final story you'll hear is called From the Field, and it's about a man who gets into a freak accident while riding his motorcycle, but no one can explain the series of events that happen next.
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 two, three, even four times every week. So if that's of interest to you, please replace the Follow Buttons 2026 calendar with a 2025 calendar that just has a 6 glued over the 5. Okay, let's get into our first story called The Friend.
On April 29th, 2001, six-year-old Haley Zega was on a hike with her grandparents in a very rural part of Arkansas called the Upper Buffalo Wilderness Area. For an area to be deemed a wilderness area, that means no vehicles of any kind can come through there, making it incredibly remote and incredibly wild, hence the name. They had taken this trail that brought them up to the top of this bluff that was about 200 feet higher than where they started. And they got to this incredible overlook and they're looking down over this river. And at some point at about 11 in the morning, they turn around to head back. On the return trip, by about 1130, they're making their way down and Haley spots a waterfall that's off the side of the path.
And she wants to go to it. She asks her grandparents, can we go check out this waterfall? And the grandparents kind of scope it out. And it seemed like the only way they could get down to view this waterfall would be by literally climbing a tree and descending over this cliff. And it was something that the grandparents just did not feel comfortable letting their granddaughter do. And so they told Haley, no, we need to keep going. We're not going to go check out that waterfall. And Haley, being a six year old, she really wanted to see this waterfall and she wanted to get her way. And so she threw a tantrum and she sat down on the trail and she said, well, if you're not going to take me to the waterfall, I'm not going to move.
You're going to have to carry me. And the grandparents were like, no, we're not going to carry you. You need to be a big girl. I need you to stand up and start walking with us. And Haley refused. And so her grandparents said, OK, we're going to leave you. And they turned around and they kept walking down the trail. not far and they were still totally in view and it's broad daylight. And they would turn around expecting their granddaughter to stand up and begrudgingly walk after them. And at some point she did. Haley stood up and she's like, okay, you know, wait for me. And so she starts walking and the grandparents are like, all right. And so they're walking ahead of Haley. And as they're walking, Haley would just slow down more and more and more.
And her grandparents could tell she was doing this. She was just trying to be frustrating and she was intentionally trying to take as long as she could. But the grandparents made sure they kept her in their view. So they would walk a little ways and turn, and she'd be right there. They'd walk a little ways, they'd turn, and she'd be right there over and over again. And then at some point when they turned, she wasn't there. And so the grandparents immediately run back up and they're looking around for Haley thinking she probably darted behind a tree to hide because she wants, you know, to be a little bit more frustrating for them.
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