RUN, FOOL!
Out of the terrifying mind of Rodney Barnes comes RUN, FOOL!, a weekly compendium of grisly and harrowing tales guaranteed to make you scream. Pull up a seat at the campfire and lean in for a new breed of modern ghost story. If you get too scared ... RUN, FOOL!
From the page to the screen ? and now straight to your ears ? Rodney Barnes has created genre defining stories about monsters, demons, vampires, and the occult. With RUN, FOOL!, every week he?ll tell a new story, each of a different place and period, all equally frightening - and all brought together with gripping and immersive sound design.
New episodes every Tuesday.
RUN, FOOL! is presented by Ballen Studios, Campside Media, and At Will Media.
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The Lizzie Borden House
A desperate reporter enters the Lizzie Borden House to exploit its dark history for a true crime podcast ? only to find that the house?s ghosts may have other plans for him.
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2024-11-19Link to episode
Rodney Recommends - REDACTED: Declassified Mysteries with Luke Lamana
Behind the closed doors of government offices and military compounds, are hidden stories and buried secrets from the darkest corners of history. Each week, Luke Lamana, a Marine Corp Reconnaissance Veteran, pulls back the curtain on what once was classified inform®eation exposing the secrets and lies behind the world?s most powerful institutions. From the hitmakers at Wondery and Ballen Studios, we bring you REDACTED: Declassified Mysteries with Luke Lamana. The stories are real, and the secrets are shocking.
Listen Now: Wondery.fm/REDACTED_RUN
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2024-11-13Link to episode
The Bed of The Abyss
A single mother?s dream home becomes a nightmare when an ancient, cursed bed starts to prey on her family.
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2024-11-12Link to episode
Black-Eyed Children
After losing his job, a man?s weekend getaway with his girlfriend turns into a nightmare when they encounter eerie black-eyed children.
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2024-11-05Link to episode
Earworm Special
In this special, one-hour Season 1 finale, Rodney ? trapped in a recording studio ? receives a terrifying call from a survivor claiming a deadly pop song is turning listeners into violent killers. Now, Rodney must decide: stay safe in isolation or risk everything by facing the nightmare outside.
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2024-10-29Link to episode
Season 1, Look Back, Season 2, Look Forward
Rodney takes a look back at how we got here, and provides a sneak peek of next week's very special one-hour season 1 finale.
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2024-10-22Link to episode
The Raven Mocker
Rodney confronts the Raven Mocker, a deadly spirit targeting his dying best friend, only to realize that even defeating the supernatural can't stop the inevitability of death.
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2024-10-15Link to episode
Fan Favorite: Black Aggie
With the one year anniversary of RUN, FOOL! approaching, Rodney thought it'd be a great time to share one of his personal favorite episodes from this season: Black Aggie
One of the most insidious, abhorrent creatures comes after Rodney's grandmother Estelle and changes the way she sees the world forever.
Don?t forget to check back next week for a brand new episode of RUN, FOOL!
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2024-10-08Link to episode
Polybius Pt. 2
Now an adult and a disillusioned video game developer, Vinny is haunted by the disappearance of his friends Jenna and Jim. He returns to his hometown of Barnaby, Oregon, and attempts to recover the digital souls of his friends.
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2024-10-01Link to episode
Polybius Pt. 1
A group of friends ? Vinny, Jenny, and Jim ? discover a mysterious arcade game in an abandoned bar in Oregon. The game is rumored to cause seizures, hallucinations and night terrors, but that doesn?t stop them from playing.
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2024-09-24Link to episode
Rodney Recommends: The Figure in the Toy Store
The Strange, Dark & Mysterious delivered in podcast format.
Follow the MrBallen Podcast on Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcasts. New episodes publish twice a week?every Monday and Thursday. Prime members can listen to new episodes 1-month early and all episodes ad-free on Amazon Music. Wondery+ subscribers can listen ad-free in the Wondery App or on Apple Podcasts.
Listen here: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/6d261659-cc8d-478c-b052-19dfeb25dcf5/mrballen-podcast-strange-dark-mysterious-stories
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2024-09-17Link to episode
The Other Case of M. Valdemar
After receiving a terminal diagnosis, George seeks out an experimental treatment from a mysterious doctor. But his desire to cheat death takes a dark turn.
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2024-09-10Link to episode
Rodney Recommends: Pale Crawlers
Every soldier has a story. Some, they try to forget. Others, they can?t stop thinking about ? stories that no one else would believe happened. Something that terrified them. Something they cannot explain.
From Ballen Studios, and hosted by Marine Corp Reconnaissance veteran, Luke Lamana, this is Wartime Stories. A weekly podcast that is a mix of horror, mystery, and awe inspiring tales. Where the strange, dark & mysterious meets the battlefield and beyond.
New episodes released every Monday.
Listen here: https://ballen.lnk.to/Fz9J66
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2024-09-03Link to episode
The Monsters of Grunch Road Pt. 2
In part 2, Rodney?s new friend Evie decides to help him escape. While fleeing both the Outsiders and the Broussard family, the pair uncover the unsettling truth behind the longstanding feud between the warring families.
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2024-08-27Link to episode
The Monsters of Grunch Road Pt. 1
A young Rodney visits the Grunches, a freakish tribe who live in the Louisiana swamps, after his laptop is stolen by one of them. When the group?s matriarch discovers he?s trespassing, she decides Rodney must be fed to the bloodthirsty monster that protects them.
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2024-08-20Link to episode
The Shaman?s Portal
Lauren?s soulmate, Brian, is swallowed whole by a mysterious portal while the couple is picnicking at Beaver Dunes Park in Oklahoma. Every year on the anniversary of Brian?s disappearance, Lauren returns to the same spot in hopes of finding answers, and then one day, she?s confronted with an existential question.
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2024-08-13Link to episode
Plat-Eye Pt. 2
In part 2, as the trio gets closer to finding the treasure, they?re confronted by tortured souls who?re trapped between worlds and doomed to haunt the burial site.
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2024-08-06Link to episode
Plat-Eye Pt. 1
Three friends set out to find treasure buried on a little island off the coast of South Carolina. They traverse swamps and avoid traps, oblivious to what lurks in the shadows.
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2024-07-30Link to episode
The Night Marchers
Kam returns to Hawaii, where he spent much of his childhood, for spring break with a few college friends who make a mockery of the ancient tribal warriors and protectors of the land. He initially joins them to fit in, but has to make a difficult decision when the crew is confronted by the Night Marchers.
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2024-07-23Link to episode
The Slide-Rock Bolter
When a subsidized housing complex in a Colorado mining town collapses, Trish Manners?s company is accused of corporate negligence. She hires a renowned geologist to figure out what happened and learns the destruction may have been caused by monsters lurking in the mountain.
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2024-07-16Link to episode
The Possessed Drone
A drone is possessed by the spirit of a North African date-farmer who, along with his pregnant wife, was targeted because he was believed to be a high-priority ?insurgent.? Now the drone haunts the airman who operated it.
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2024-07-09Link to episode
The Night Folk, Pt. 2
In Part 2, Rachel learns the factory workers behind the gruesome attacks are actually ancient, vampiric creatures who?re preparing to massacre everyone. She needs to get out of there, but leaving her town to the wolves doesn?t sit right with her.
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2024-07-02Link to episode
The Night Folk, Pt. 1
A failed journalist moves back home to take care of her sick mom. She considers her town dull as dirt until she finds a flattened corpse hanging from a tree and uncovers what?s behind the gruesome attack.
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2024-06-25Link to episode
Fingernails Freddie
When a counselor is bullied by her peers and struggles to fit in at Camp Harmony, she summons the spirit of an old man who was burned alive by campers? fire to get revenge.
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2024-06-18Link to episode
The Trash Pit
A lab develops a chemical spray that shrinks trash as part of an effort to curb New York?s waste problem. But the plan backfires when the spray inadvertently spawns a ravenous, filthy monster.
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2024-06-11Link to episode
Skinwalkers, Pt. 2
After the neighbor and her cat show up dead, Jaya feels that something terrifying was responsible. And that thing might be living in her house.
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2024-06-04Link to episode
Skinwalkers, Pt. 1
A married couple from Maine visits a ranch on a Navajo reservation and leaves with a mysterious stray dog. Except the dog isn?t really a dog.
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2024-05-28Link to episode
Eastern State Penitentiary
Ghosts of the departed prisoners come alive, ready to feast on the living, and a security guard fights for his life inside the fortified walls and stone arches of the notorious penitentiary.
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2024-05-21Link to episode
Hotel Monte Vista, Pt. 2
After Rodney?s life flashes before his eyes, he learns why his friend Lottie turned on him and failed to fulfill her promise to help the ghosts of Hotel Monte Vista.
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2024-05-14Link to episode
Hotel Monte Vista, Pt. 1
Rodney?s high school friend Lottie invites him to a haunted hotel in Flagstaff, Arizona. Lottie helps trapped ghosts crossover to whatever comes next, but not every spirit wants her aid.
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2024-05-07Link to episode
Black Aggie
One of the most insidious, abhorrent creatures comes after Rodney's grandmother Estelle and changes the way she sees the world forever.
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2024-04-30Link to episode
The Montauk Project
Rodney is at a glitzy industry party in the Hamptons when he uncovers a treasure trove of horrors hidden behind the extravagance and all hell breaks loose.
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2024-04-23Link to episode
The White Lady Tree
Three friends take a late-night trip into a dimly lit park in New Jersey to look for a rumored ghost. Their lives would never be the same again.
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2024-04-16Link to episode
La Llorona
New parents Anya and Rafa move to a secluded house in rural Texas and get a visit from a mysterious elderly woman who?s hellbent on tearing their family apart.
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2024-04-09Link to episode
Lone Pine Mountain Devil Pt. 2
In part 2 of Lone Pine Mountain Devil, a journalist sets out to uncover what really happened to Maxine and Shane faces something far more dangerous and bloodthirsty than some monster.
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2024-04-02Link to episode
Lone Pine Mountain Devil Pt. 1
In part 1 of Lone Pine Mountain Devil, an internet rabbit hole leads Rodney to the social media channel of a cryptid hunting couple. Shane and Maxine are on the verge of internet fame when tragedy strikes.
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2024-03-26Link to episode
The Snallygaster Gang
A kid from a broken home falls in with the wrong crowd. Driven by a desire to belong, he becomes more of a monster than the one he encounters.
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2024-03-19Link to episode
The Mermaid
A grieving man returns to a resort where his wife had drowned to get some closure and finds himself allured by an ancient sea creature who preys on people yearning for a connection.
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2024-03-12Link to episode
The Vampire of Mercy Notch Pt. 2
In the second and final episode of this horror mystery, Sheriff Bill's investigation leads him to an unlikely suspect and uncovers an assortment of body parts belonging to imprisoned kids.
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2024-03-05Link to episode
The Vampire of Mercy Notch Pt. 1
In the first episode of this horror mystery, a Maine teen vanishes in the middle of the night and the town's sheriff is determined to track him down before it's too late. But each new clue leads to more questions than answers.
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2024-02-27Link to episode
The Dark Watchers
Rodney takes a writing trip to a secluded cabin in Big Sur, but is unsettled by what he learns happened to the last writer who visited that eerie place for some inspiration.
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2024-02-20Link to episode
La Mala Hora
An old evil spirit finds a new way to lure victims. When Jay gets on the dating app Moment, following a pretty bad breakup, he inadvertently swipes right on the date from hell.
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2024-02-13Link to episode
The Phantom Hitchhiker
When Rodney was trying to break into Hollywood in his early 20s, he'd often drive from Maryland to LA through the barren, dusty backroads of the Southwest. Then he had an inexplicable encounter with a hitchhiker that convinced him to avoid the desert route.
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2024-02-06Link to episode
The Monster of Chesapeake Bay
A father and son go out on a routine crabbing excursion in the Chesapeake Bay when their boat begins to rock violently. They initially write it off as some rogue wave, but then they see the shadow of a massive snake-like creature glide by.
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2024-01-30Link to episode
Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp
Rodney meets Hank, a blogger who?s made a career out of debunking local legends, at the annual Lizard Man Festival in Bishopville, South Carolina. The pair head into the nearby swamps to uncover the truth behind one of the most lethal monsters.
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2024-01-23Link to episode
Boo Hags
Miri begins to have terrible nightmares and sleep paralysis when she moves into a new house in rural Georgia. She isn?t too concerned about it at first, but then she encounters something that literally gets under her skin.
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2024-01-16Link to episode
Goatman
Rodney revisits a story his grandma used to tell him about a local goat farmer who was taken in the night and hanged off the Kootenai County Bridge. Although that night was the end of the farmer?s life, it was the beginning of something far more terrifying.
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2024-01-09Link to episode
Dead Children?s Playground
Rodney drives to an eerie playground in Huntsville, Alabama where he encounters a pediatric nurse seeking solace. When she?s lured into a spectral world, she finds herself grappling with the boundary between the living and the dead.
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2024-01-02Link to episode
The Jersey Devil
When a master poker player gets unlucky in a seedy underground gambling ring, a couple of mobsters drop him deep in the woods of New Jersey. Then he hears a tortured shriek.
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2023-12-19Link to episode
The Little Girl on Knock-Knock Road
Roger finds himself wrestling with a dark secret when he decides to take the long way home from dinner with his wife. Suddenly, a chilling knock on their car?s window changes everything. Turns out, Roger isn?t the only one hiding a secret.
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2023-12-12Link to episode