{"podcast":{"title":"MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories","slug":"mrballen-podcast-strange-dark-mysterious-stories-6133468","podcast_index_feed_id":6133468,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/5547463/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mrballen-podcast-strange-dark-mysterious-stories--5547463","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/733cf18fa269b8d4d7ff691746aec45e.jpg","author":"MrBallen","episode_count":575,"summary":"The Strange, Dark and Mysterious delivered in podcast format.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-23T16:18:09.656777+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/mrballen-podcast-strange-dark-mysterious-stories-6133468"},"episode":{"title":"Fan Favorite - \"Head for the Hills\"","slug":"fan-favorite-head-for-the-hills","published_at":"2026-06-19T07:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/mrballen-podcast-strange-dark-mysterious-stories-6133468/fan-favorite-head-for-the-hills","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/mrballen-podcast-strange-dark-mysterious-stories-6133468","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/fan-favorite-head-for-the-hills--72595380","audio_url":"https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72595380/default.mp3","summary":"Today's story is a fan favorite that was previously published as Episode 291. In January of 2012, a police truck parked on a trail in Griffith Park in Los Angeles, California. A member of the K-9 Unit opened the door, and a police dog named Indiana Bones jumped out. Indy quickly caught a scent and led his handler to a mound of dirt just off the path. Indy pawed at the dirt and revealed the top of a plastic bag. The dog’s handler reached into the dirt with her gloved hands, pulled out the bag, looked inside, and saw two dismembered human feet and a hand. Indy’s discovery would launch an investigation that would lead two L.A. detectives into the most insane case they’d ever worked – a case that would involve everything from Mexican drug cartels to a Canadian cannibal. You can WATCH all new & exclusive MrBallen podcast episodes on my YouTube channel, just called \"MrBallen\" - https://www.youtube.com/c/MrBallen If you want to reach out to me, contact me on Instagram, Twitter or any other major social media platform, my username on all of them is @mrballen Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.","meta_description":"Today's story is a fan favorite that was previously published as Episode 291. In January of 2012, a police truck parked on a trail in Griffith Park in Los…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2514,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/mrballen-podcast-strange-dark-mysterious-stories-6133468/episodes/fan-favorite-head-for-the-hills/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/mrballen-podcast-strange-dark-mysterious-stories-6133468/fan-favorite-head-for-the-hills.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}