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 us - for the most heart pounding podcast in history.

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She was stuffed inside a tree and left to die. No name. No explanation. Then the graffiti appeared: “Who put Bella in the Wych Elm?” A chilling mystery was born — one that has haunted England for 80 years.

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In 1954, the brutally-decapitated body of Mary Grimes is found on the railroad tracks outside Xenia, Ohio. Then a bizarre rumor begins to swirl: Mary might secretly be alive. But if that’s true… who was the woman on the tracks?

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Whatever haunted North London’s Highgate Cemetery in 1970 was real enough to spark public hysteria — and a bitter lifelong feud between two real-life vampire hunters.

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In 1983, eight-year-old Nicole Morin got in an elevator — and was never seen again. The investigation would become one of the largest in Toronto’s history… but did Nicole even want to be found?

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The disappearance of Kurt Sova should have been an open-and-shut case. But the deeper you look, the stranger it gets: a mysterious van, a dirty cop, and a prediction that eerily comes true. What really happened that night in 1981?

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When a mummy is discovered in Pakistan, the entire world takes notice. But archaeologists soon realize they haven't unearthed an ancient mummified princess... they've unearthed a murder case.

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Can a song kill you? In the 1930s, Gloomy Sunday was accused of doing just that — sparking a global panic and a wave of government bans on the song. But what is the truth behind the so-called Hungarian Suicide Song?

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