Wartime Stories

Ballen Studios

<p>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.</p><p>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 &amp; mysterious meets the battlefield and beyond. </p><p>New episodes every Monday.</p><p>Share your stories: <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a></p>

  • 32 minutes 11 seconds
    A Man Who Just Liked Killing...

    Before the Civil War, Champ Ferguson was a quiet mountain farmer, a loving husband and father living a simple life in the hills of Kentucky. But when the conflict came to his doorstep, something broke, unleashing a savage brutality that would make his name whispered in terror across the border states as one of the Confederacy's most infamous and bloodthirsty guerrilla fighters.

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    26 January 2026, 8:00 am
  • 47 minutes 2 seconds
    Hawaii is Haunted

    On the island of Oahu, the US military stands as a symbol of modern power, a high-tech fortress in a tropical paradise. But when the sun sets over the volcanic peaks, an older power awakens, and today’s soldiers come face to face with the ghostly armies of Hawaii's ancient warrior kings.

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    19 January 2026, 8:00 am
  • 55 minutes 39 seconds
    Depraved Doctors of the Third Reich, Pt. 2

    This is Part Two of the story of the Depraved Doctors of the Third Reich.

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    12 January 2026, 8:00 am
  • 24 minutes 8 seconds
    Depraved Doctors of the Third Reich, Pt. 1

    The Nazi obsession with creating a pure Aryan race was not just a political ideology; it became a twisted scientific mission. Entrusted with this dark purpose, German physicians abandoned their ethics to perform monstrous experiments on children, the disabled, and prisoners of war, all in a depraved attempt to engineer their vision of humanity.

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    5 January 2026, 8:00 am
  • 43 minutes 2 seconds
    The War of Radio Broadcast

    In 1938, with the world on the brink of war, Americans anxiously tuned their radios, fearing an attack from a foreign power. But on the night before Halloween, the most terrifying broadcast reported an invasion not from across the ocean, but from across the stars, as a chillingly realistic drama sent a nation into panic.

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    29 December 2025, 8:00 am
  • 32 minutes 29 seconds
    There is Something Lurking in Ukraine

    The war in Ukraine has turned vast swaths of the country into a modern-day wasteland, where the constant threat of death hangs in the air. For soldiers enduring this brutal reality, the line between the living and the dead has begun to blur, as they share chilling stories of spectral figures and inexplicable whispers haunting the battlefield.

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    22 December 2025, 8:00 am
  • 26 minutes 14 seconds
    Saved by a Ghost

    In the brutal chaos of war, the line between the living and the dead is often dangerously thin. These are the accounts of survivors who cheated death, not through training or luck... but by heeding the warnings of spirits from beyond the grave.

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    15 December 2025, 8:00 am
  • 31 minutes 47 seconds
    Stalked by Bigfoot

    The sounds of the forest are a language any seasoned outdoorsman can understand, a familiar rhythm of life and survival. But for two veterans on opposite sides of the country, that language became a weapon turned against them, as they were stalked by a massive creature that could perfectly mimic the calls of lesser animals to draw its human prey into the dark.

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    8 December 2025, 8:00 am
  • 33 minutes 35 seconds
    It's Not Easy Being a Military Police Officer

    In the desolate Mojave Desert, Edwards Air Force Base is home to America's most advanced and secretive aircraft, a place where the boundaries of technology are pushed daily. But according to chilling eyewitness accounts from service members, the greatest secrets aren't in the sky, but on the ground... where a massive, hairy, ape-like creature has been seen stalking the restricted military installation.

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    1 December 2025, 8:00 am
  • 30 minutes 29 seconds
    A Sergeant Goes Missing at a Nuclear Testing Range

    The vast, empty deserts of New Mexico became the proving grounds for America's nuclear arsenal, a landscape of secrets and strange phenomena. It was here that a routine missile recovery mission turned into a gruesome mystery, leaving one Air Force Sergeant surgically mutilated and drained of blood, apparently at the hands of something not of this world.

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    24 November 2025, 8:00 am
  • 33 minutes 14 seconds
    Documented Military Reports of Vampires

    In the age of enlightenment, the disciplined Austrian army brought order and science to its newly acquired territories. Yet in the rugged mountains of Serbia, they stumbled upon a darkness that defied all logic – a plague of undeath that forced hardened soldiers to take up wooden stakes against the walking dead.

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    17 November 2025, 8:00 am
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