RUN, FOOL!

A single mother’s dream home becomes a nightmare when an ancient, cursed bed starts to prey on her family. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After losing his job, a man’s weekend getaway with his girlfriend turns into a nightmare when they encounter eerie black-eyed children. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One of the most insidious, abhorrent creatures comes after Rodney's grandmother Estelle and changes the way she sees the world forever. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Helene, Leon and Davey are known as the arrogant, cool kids at their New Orleans Catholic school. When the teens choose to give up nothing more than an eye roll for lent, the town turns dark, as does their fate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A group of former college friends meet for a reunion in a small Kentucky town called Hopkinsville. The drinks start to flow, the laughter spreads – until something violent and angry descends from the sky. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jacob Henderson is desperate to be liked by his high school classmates. So desperate that he accepts a dare to visit a cursed place known as Voodoo Village. What he finds inside will make him question his sanity, his faith – and his assumptions about good and evil. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rodney attends a wedding in Georgia, near the site of an old medical college. There, he learns about the centuries-old legend of Grandison Harris, an enslaved man once tasked with obtaining corpses for white doctors. What became of the so-called "Resurrection Man" – and does his ghost still haunt the halls of the school? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the pilot episode of RUN, FOOL!, our host travels to Minnesota, where he encounters an Ojibwe woman who claims to have survived an encounter with the bloodthirsty snow beast called the Wendigo. But nothing is what it seems. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Out of the terrifying mind of Rodney Barnes comes RUN, FOOL!, a weekly compendium of grisly and harrowing tales guaranteed to make you scream. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices