MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries
Episodes
Fan Favorite | Darkness in Donora
11 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Following the epic crossover between MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries and Redacted: Declassified Mysteries, hosted by Luke Lamana, we’re revisiting so...
Fan Favorite | Culture Clash
09 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Following the epic crossover between MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries and Redacted: Declassified Mysteries, hosted by Luke Lamana, we’re revisiting so...
Fan Favorite | The Carancas Curse
04 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Following the epic crossover between MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries and Redacted: Declassified Mysteries, hosted by Luke Lamana, we’re revisiting so...
Fan Favorite | Sudden Insanity
02 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Following the epic crossover between MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries and Redacted: Declassified Mysteries, hosted by Luke Lamana, we’re revisiting so...
Fan Favorite | Needle in a Haystack
28 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Following the epic crossover between MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries and Redacted: Declassified Mysteries, hosted by Luke Lamana, we’re revisiting so...
Fan Favorite | It Came From the Basement
26 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Following the epic crossover between MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries and Redacted: Declassified Mysteries, hosted by Luke Lamana, we’re revisiting so...
Introducing: American Criminal
25 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Henry Lee Lucas and Ottis Toole are two of history’s most prolific serial killers. Or they’re liars who aren’t to be trusted. Either way, they’...
Fan Favorite | The Philly Killer
21 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Following the epic crossover between MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries and Redacted: Declassified Mysteries, hosted by Luke Lamana, we’re revisiting so...
Fan Favorite | Blood Feast
19 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Following the epic crossover between MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries and Redacted: Declassified Mysteries, hosted by Luke Lamana, we’re revisiting so...
Fan Favorite | Village of Death
14 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Following the epic crossover between MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries and Redacted: Declassified Mysteries, hosted by Luke Lamana, we’re revisiting so...
Fan Favorite | Death from Above
12 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Following the epic crossover between MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries and Redacted: Declassified Mysteries, hosted by Luke Lamana, we’re revisiting so...
Ep. 96 | A Redacted Medical Mystery: Red Menace/Weather Warriors
05 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this special MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries and Redacted crossover episode, MrBallen and Luke Lamana join forces to bring you two shocking stories ...
Ep. 95 | Two Hearts Beat As One
29 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After sitting down for a nice meal with her husband, a woman becomes violently ill and has to be hospitalized. But the problem isn’t her stomach –...
Listen Now: Lawless Planet
28 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s not that hard to kill a planet. All it takes is a little drilling, some mining, a generous helping of pollution and voila! Earth over. When you...
Ep. 94 | The Leftovers
22 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After giving birth, an ambitious lawyer struggles through an avalanche of health issues that won’t go away. As the years go by, she manages to power...
Ep. 93 | Gut Check/Sleeping Beauty
15 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Gut Check”: When a 16-year-old girl starts experiencing constant and severe stomach pain, her first concern is the effect it’ll have on her soc...
Listen Now: Flesh and Code
14 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Travis never thought he’d meet someone like Lily Rose. She was kind, passionate, beautiful. The woman of his dreams. There was just one small detail...
Ep. 92 | Trigger Point
08 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After an uneventful flight, a college professor suddenly experiences severe pain in his cheek. The excruciating spasms come on with no warning, and no...
Ep. 91 | The Mad Gasser
01 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
During World War 2, the small town of Mattoon, Illinois erupts into a panic. Some of its residents are falling prey to what seem like random gas attac...
Ep. 90 | Walk Like the Birds
24 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
One day at the park, a mother notices her young son is walking strangely – almost like Frankenstein. At first, she writes it off as an oddity. But s...
Listen Now: Liberty Lost
23 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Evangelical homes across the United States, sex outside of marriage is a sin against God. So, when Abbi becomes pregnant at 16, her devout parents ...
Ep. 89 | Half a Face
17 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A teenage girl panics when clumps of hair start to fall off the right side of her head. From there, the problem gets even worse - the entire right sid...
Ep. 88 | 15,000 Coughs/The Putrid Smell
10 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“15,000 Coughs”: When an 11-year-old girl develops a worrisome cough, her workaholic mom drops everything to get her help. But nothing seems to wo...
Ep. 87 | 99th Percentile
03 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After a difficult pregnancy, a woman is delighted to give birth to a baby girl. Her new child is perfect – though she has an unusually large head. A...
Wondery Presents: How to Survive Against the Odds
02 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Inspired by Wondery’s hit podcast Against the Odds—learn how to survive whatever nature can throw at you through gut-twisting true stories of surv...
Ep. 86 | Out of This World/A Good Scrub Down
27 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Out of This World”: In 2003, a treasure hunter in Chile makes a shocking discovery: a tiny, 6-inch skeleton of what appears to be a human. But pa...
Ballen Studios Presents: A Twist of History
21 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The course of history never follows a straight line. These are the epic stories that have shaped the world we now live in. From Ballen Studios, join u...
Ep. 85 | Maximum Volume
20 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After a successful overseas tour, an American rock guitarist comes home with a troubling affliction. All of a sudden, his hearing is extremely sensiti...
Ep. 84 | The Sick Snowbird/A Spoonful of Sugar
13 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“The Sick Snowbird”: After a lovely winter in Southern California, an older woman is excited to enjoy the spring in her native New Jersey. But whe...
Ep. 83 | The Disappearing Girl
06 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When a vivacious preteen girl with Down syndrome suddenly becomes shy and withdrawn, her mother worries her precious daughter is getting depressed. Bu...
Ep. 82 | Running on Empty
29 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A young, active mother is dismayed when she starts feeling weak and exhausted – with small children and a business to run, she can’t afford to get...
Listen Now: Death County, PA
28 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Lamont Jones leaves Dauphin County Prison for the last time, a free man ready to move on with his life. But when his young cousin dies in that same ja...
Ep. 81 | Unraveling Bolero/Crossing Over
22 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Unraveling Bolero”: When a middle-aged scientist experiences unexpected success as an artist, it seems like little more than a surprising career ...
Ep. 80 | Stigmata
15 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When a little girl in Vietnam starts mysteriously bleeding from her scalp and hands, her doctors wonder if she’s faking it for attention – to make...
Ep. 79 | The Shining
08 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the early 1900s, a young woman gets a coveted job at a clock factory. But her work is interrupted when she feels terrible pain in her mouth. Soon, ...
Listen Now: Don’t Cross Kat
07 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Kat Torres has the insta-perfect life. She is rich, gorgeous and not ashamed to share it. Her posts about witchcraft and “alien baths” drew in ove...
Ep. 78 | The Unbearable Itch
01 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A recovering heroin addict wakes up one morning with an odd sensation on one side of her head: a nagging, constant itch. No matter what she tries, it ...
Ep. 77 | The Sliver/Killer Style
25 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“The Sliver”: After a man survives a terrible car accident with only a cracked vertebra, he feels grateful to have emerged relatively unscath...
Introducing: Law & Crime’s LUIGI
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When Luigi Mangione allegedly gunned down UnitedHealthcare’s CEO, the media called it a senseless crime. But online, a different story emerged—one...
Ep. 76 | Stage Fright
18 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When a high-achieving teenager suddenly starts to freeze up in social situations and her grades plummet, her mother tries to get her help. But doctors...
Ep. 75 | Death from Above
11 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the town of Oakville, Washington, chaos erupts when mysterious blobs start falling from the sky – and anyone who touches them ends up in the hosp...
Ballen Studios Presents: Late Nights with Nexpo
05 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From Ballen Studios, welcome to Late Nights with Nexpo, the official podcast of Youtube creator, Nexpo, featuring the most bizarre and chilling true s...
Ep. 74 | Sudden Insanity
04 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When an elderly man in New Brunswick, Canada, dies from what seems to be rapid-onset dementia, his doctor believes he had a rare condition called Creu...
Ep. 73 | Darkness in Donora
25 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the 1940s, the people of Donora, Pennsylvania fall prey to a deadly epidemic that destroys their lungs. Doctors suspect it has something to do with...
Ep. 72 | 17 Doctors
18 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
During the COVID pandemic, a boy starts experiencing sudden, inexplicable bursts of pain. At first, his symptoms seem psychological – but then docto...
Ep. 71 | A Clean Break/Look, Don’t Touch
11 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“A Clean Break” When a night out in Nepal leaves a tourist weak and hungover, he figures he’ll feel better after some rest and rehydration....
Listen Now: Bedtime Stories
10 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From Ballen Studios, welcome to Bedtime Stories. From the paranormal to the supernatural, unsolved mysteries, strange deaths, cryptids, and ...
Ep. 70 | It Comes Back
04 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For his entire adult life, a successful businessman deals with a bizarre problem: whenever he bends over, he throws up. On top of that, he struggles w...
Ep. 69 | Too Much of a Good Thing
28 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When a recovering alcoholic nearly dies after falling down his basement stairs, it seems like the tragic result of alcohol withdrawal symptoms. But wh...
Ep. 68 | Just Like the Movies/Headache from Hell
21 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Just Like the Movies”A popcorn factory worker comes down with a painful, frightening rash on his arms – and then, he struggles to breathe. He a...
Ep. 67 | The Endless Cry
14 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The parents and grandmother of an infant boy are beside themselves when the baby starts crying, and won’t stop for hours on end. They know something...
Ep. 66 | The Nest
07 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Following the birth of her second child, a woman comes down with what appears to be a serious case of the flu. Though she gets better, the illness com...
Ep. 65 | Brain Freeze
31 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A heroin user wakes up one morning, feeling strangely stiff. At first, his symptoms are mistaken for drug intoxication. But within days, the man is co...
Ep. 64 | No Reservations/The Bitter End
24 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
No Reservations:A Spanish marathon runner develops a mysterious obsession with gourmet food. But what seems like an innocent new passion may be more d...
Ep. 63 | The Broken Sequence
17 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A couple’s young sons both experience sudden reversals in their physical development, leaving doctors scratching their heads. Nobody understands wha...
Ep. 62 | Watch Out for the Worms
10 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A mother is terrified when her five-year-old daughter suddenly develops obsessive compulsive disorder, that leaves her completely unable to eat. Despe...
Ep. 61 | The Speckled Monster
03 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the late 1700s, a doctor in the English countryside battles to save his village from the devastation of smallpox. Then, almost by accident, he stum...
Ep. 60 | Godmother Knows Best/The Game
26 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Godmother Knows Best: A 15-year-old girl develops mouth sores that are so painful, she can barely eat. Her mother takes her to every doctor imagi...
Ep. 59 | Monsters in the Wind
19 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
After a young man suffers devastating injuries from a tornado, doctors race against the clock to save his life. But the real danger isn’t from his w...
Ep. 58 | Down to 75 Pounds
12 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
An ambitious college student has to put her life on hold when she starts experiencing debilitating stomach pain that leaves her dangerously unhealthy....
Ep. 57 | Faces Everywhere/The Perfect Condition
05 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“Faces Everywhere”A woman wakes up one morning to find terrifying faces floating above her. No matter how hard she tries to escape them, the faces...
Ep. 56 | She Haunts Me
29 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the late 1800s, a young man in rural New England comes down with a deadly illness known as “the White Death.” When his doctor can’t help, the...
Ep. 55 | False Alarm
22 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When a woman gets sick with a mystery illness during the height of the COVID pandemic, she fears her holiday season will be ruined. But as her entire ...
Ep. 54 | Root of All Evil
15 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Doctors were sure they could help a man who was suffering from severe swelling in his spine. But nothing worked, and as the man slipped away, doctors ...
Ep. 53 | Rough Patch/ No Warning
08 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"Rough Patch" When a young woman’s skin begins to break out after a wedding, she doesn’t think much of it…at first. But as the rash engulfs her ...
Ep. 52 | A Dark Discovery
01 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A little girl’s parents grow concerned when she develops a debilitating headache. They take her to the hospital but test after test returns negative...
Ep. 51 | Culture Clash
24 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When a quiet town in Oregon is beset by a dangerous Salmonella outbreak, the health authorities mobilize to trace it back to the source. What they fin...
Ep. 50 | Elephant Man
17 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When a routine medical study makes patients swell up like sausages, the doctors running it struggle to understand what went wrong. They have to act fa...
Ep. 49 | Hunger Games
10 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A college student’s return to school is cut short when she starts acting erratically and has to be committed to a psychiatric hospital. As she conti...
Ep. 48 | Cold Case
03 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A teenage girl comes down with unexplainable abdominal pain after spending a few days at a fair. Unbeknownst to her, the same thing is happening to hu...
Ep. 47 | The Tell-Tale Heartbeat
27 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
An avid runner is out for a routine jog when she suddenly feels dizzy and faints, dropping right in her tracks. Years later, it happens again and doct...
Ep. 46 | Bad Blood
20 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A single mother is terrified when her little boy becomes violently sick and doctors can’t figure out why. Every test is negative, yet the child seem...
Ep. 45 | The Buried Brain/Killer Jetlag
13 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“The Buried Brain”A young man barely survives being trapped in an avalanche while on a ski trip. Then, his recovery is derailed when he starts suf...
Ep. 44 | Needle in a Haystack
06 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A little girl falls prey to a disease so deadly and rare, the CDC fears it might be an act of bioterrorism. Investigators scramble to find the source,...
Ep. 43 | Hard Case to Crack
30 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A college student in Mississippi has to put his life on hold when his hips literally begin to die. Facing a life of unbearable pain, he must dig deep ...
Ep. 42 | Deadly Tourist
23 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A man vacationing in Germany becomes violently ill, and no medicine is helping. The solution may be hidden somewhere on the man’s home of Vancouver ...
Ep. 41 | Adrian's Leg
16 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A teenage boy suffers pain and embarrassment when his leg becomes grotesquely swollen and infected. His doctors can’t stop it from getting worse, an...
Ep. 40 | Glass Baby
09 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A couple in Colorado is accused of child abuse when their infant daughter is diagnosed with multiple fractures in her legs. The ordeal threatens to br...
Ep. 39 | Family Ties
02 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Seemingly out of nowhere, an otherwise healthy man’s body starts filling with a thick, lemon meringue-like liquid that is slowly drowning him in his...
Ep. 38 | After the Bell
25 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
One night, two girls from the same school are rushed to the hospital with the same deadly disease. At first, doctors worry the girls’ entire school ...
Ep. 37 | River of Blood
18 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In late 1976, a terrifying new disease that causes eyes to bleed grips the country of Zaire. Doctors from all over the world arrive to search fo...
Ep. 36 | A Step Too Far/Dying of Boredom
11 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“A Step Too Far”A man in Scotland suffering from crippling breathing difficulty is mystified when his doctors can’t figure out what’s wrong wi...
Ep. 35 | Common Ground
04 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A boy in Minnesota is rushed to the emergency room with one of the worst food poisoning cases the doctors have ever seen. A short while later, a littl...
Ep. 34 | Mother or Murderer
28 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When a young mother’s baby is suddenly hospitalized, doctors accuse her of intentionally harming him. Desperate to prove that she’s innocent, the ...
Ep. 33 | Sunless Burn
21 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In December 1979, young women all over Wisconsin fall ill with a mysterious disease that starts with a bright red rash – and sometimes leads to deat...
Ep. 32 | Scourge of the South
14 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A doctor in the early 1900s is tasked with discovering the cause of a sometimes-fatal disease ravaging the American South. But in order to figure it o...
Ep. 31 | Jade’s Eye
07 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A 9-year-old girl in Hawaii suddenly loses vision in one eye, and nobody knows why. And by the time she gets an answer, it might be too late to save h...
Ep. 30 | Look Closely/Burning From the Inside
30 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“Look Closely”A teenage boy suddenly falls into critical condition while on vacation with his family in Orlando, Florida. When his doctors find ou...
Ep. 29 | It Came From the Basement
23 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When a woman’s five-year-old son in Niagara Falls, New York, suddenly develops epilepsy, she becomes determined to figure out what made him sick. Wh...
Ep. 28 | Dead Tired
16 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A mother in Fresno, California races her young son to the emergency room after he goes limp and his eyes roll back in his head. It turns out, the boy ...
Ep. 27 | Deadly Cramp
09 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A semi-pro tennis player nearly drowns in the pool when she suffers sudden, cramping pain in her midsection. Her doctors fear she has cancer, but then...
Ep. 26 | The Birds
02 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the summer of 1999, a mysterious outbreak rages through New York City, paralyzing and even killing its victims. Doctors scramble for a solution, no...
Ep. 25 | It Moves
26 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A young woman working on a fishing vessel in Alaska begins experiencing a strange burning sensation in her eye. What she finds inside her eyelid makes...
Ep. 24 | Blood on Their Hands
19 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the summer of 1846, a young doctor is thrilled to join Austria’s prestigious Vienna General Hospital. But he soon discovers that new mothers in o...
Ep. 23 | Gut Instinct/Into the Woods
12 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“Gut Instinct”In the summer of 2021, a doctor celebrates his retirement with a rafting trip in the Grand Canyon. But shortly after he gets back, h...
Ep. 22 | Surf’s Up
05 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On Christmas Day, 2008, a surfer living in Hawaii wakes up with a splitting headache and itching all over his body. Soon, the man is comatose and near...
Ep. 21 | Breathless
27 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In 2012, a healthy high school volleyball star suddenly has to fight for every breath she takes. Within a few weeks, she’s on the list for multiple ...
Ep. 20 | The Mist
20 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In 2007, a worker at a pork processing plant in Minnesota suffers nerve damage so severe that he can no longer move his legs. Within a few months, his...
Ep. 19 | Life in Paradise/The Stranger
13 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“Life in Paradise”In 1993, a man living in a retirement community in Tennessee falls ill with what he thinks is the flu. But, within hours, he’s...
Ep. 18 | Man With the Blue Skin
06 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In 1944, nearly a dozen men show up at a hospital in New York. All are violently ill and passing out – and they all have bright blue skin. A medical...