Shipwrecked (PODCAST EXCLUSIVE EPISODE)
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MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories
28 min
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4 chapters
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In the early morning hours on a Saturday in 2013, a man dressed all in black hid in the shadows on a side street in downtown Antwerp, Belgium. The man had lost track of how long he'd been there, but he didn't care. He'd hide in the shadows for as long as he had to, waiting patiently for the perfect moment that he knew was going to arrive eventually. And then finally, stumbling footsteps approached, and the man crouched down and got ready. But before we get into today's story, you may be wondering why you're getting a new episode on a Wednesday. Well, I am now going to be uploading four episodes to the Mr. Boland podcast each week. Now, Mondays and Thursdays won't change. But beginning today, you're also going to get new slash exclusive episodes on Wednesdays.
And on Fridays, you'll get a mix of news stories and also fan favorites. And these Wednesday stories, they aren't just going to be true crime. In fact, many of them will be based on the kind of stories that you already love if you're a fan of my YouTube channel. I call this series Places You Can't Go and People Who Went There Anyways. Or maybe more accurately, Things You Really Can't Do But People Who Did Them Anyway and Here's Their Story. These stories are insane. And I'm telling you, if you've not heard this series before, you're really going to like it. So make sure you check them out here each Wednesday. And you can also watch me tell these stories on my YouTube channel each week. So if you're a fan of the strange, dark, and mysterious delivered in story format, then you've come to the right show because that's all we do.
So if that's of interest to you, please sneak into the Follow Buttons house and lay hundreds of mousetraps inside of their bed. Okay, let's get into today's story.
After midnight on Saturday, October 19th, 2013, a 23-year-old man named Odey Egilus stood at the bar in a packed dance club in Antwerp, Belgium. The bartender slid two shot glasses across the bar towards Odey, and he grabbed both of them, he held one, and he handed the other to his friend, Kevin Rodriguez-Fuentes, who was standing right behind him. It was Kevin's birthday. So O'Day raised his shot glass and shouted happy birthday in Spanish over the pounding dance music, and then the two young men slammed back their drinks. O'Day had moved to Antwerp, Belgium from Spain about six months earlier when he had gotten a job as a computer engineer. When he'd arrived, he hadn't known anybody. But he'd met Kevin at a beer festival, and the two of them had gotten along right away.
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And Kevin was from the area, so he'd introduced O'Day to a bunch of his friends and shown him the best spots to hang out in the city. And the two had gotten very close very quickly. Now, standing at the bar after, you know, taking their shots, Kevin tapped on O'Day's shoulder, and he pointed out at the dance floor, and he grinned. because there was a group of young women about their age all dancing together out there. And so the two young men, they headed out to the dance floor to go speak with these girls. And from this point on, the night really became a blur for O'Day, who kept going back and forth from the dance floor back to the bar for more drinks. But, you know, despite that, O'Day was having a great time.
It was really nights like this that made him feel like Antwerp was his new home. But he also knew if he stayed out much longer here, he might end up passing out right on the dance floor. So O'Day and Kevin and some friends they had just met on the dance floor stumbled out of the club and into the city. When they got out there, the streets were pretty empty, and so O'Day reflexively pulled his phone out of his pocket and looked at the time. Now, his vision was fuzzy, but even still, you know, one-eyeing it, he could see that it was close to 4 a.m. And given the fact that it was so, so late, basically it was the next day at this point, he just told the group goodnight, and then he turned around to start walking home to go to bed.
The next morning, O'Day's friend, Kevin, woke up with a pounding headache.
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