This is a horror story inspired by LinkedIn. Written at 4 AM, in a half-dreaming haze, it's a 3 minute survival-horror story about balloons, and life.

A question for the comments: what scares you?

Huge thanks to Juliana Paige for narrating this piece. This is the final episode of season 1, Mindbender. The first fiction episode. Visit mindbender.run to subscribe or vladdit.com for my blog.

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In part two of the ghost radio station story, we dive back into the apocalypse, . Did the earth survive the spirit station’s computer crash? What do the scary signals mean? 

In the concluding chapter, we intercept more number station transmissions and try to decipher one of the signals. We encounter spies, secrets and terrifying lullabies.

Guests:

We’re joined by the wildly popular host of the Cold War Conversations podcast, Ian Sanders. 

We’re also joined by Josh Nass, call tag KI6NAZ, of the #1 Ham Radio Youtube Channel, Ham Radio Crash Course. 

Marie Roeder - Journalist and Podcaster. 

We are also joined by friend of the show, Susan Lee. 

Mindbender is a show that searches for secrets - the secrets of magicians, tricksters, spies and death. It’s a new podcast genre: magic audio. It fuses principles of magicians and mentalists like David Blaine and Derren Brown, with historical nonfiction shows like Hardcore History and Radio Lab. If The X-Files was a true-life podcast, it would be Mindbender. 

If you like this episode, please tell a friend. <3

Visit Mindbender.run to subscribe and learn more. 

Visit Vlad’s blog, vladdit.com to learn more about the host.

This is a true story. Today, in late 2022, the radio waves are littered with secret radio stations broadcasting mysterious and spooky transmissions. Known as “number stations,” nobody knows their origin or purpose.

In this episode, we listen to transmissions from these stations, and investigate their unknown origins. 

We’re joined by the wildly popular host of the Cold War Conversations podcast, Ian Sanders. 

We’re also joined by Josh Nass, call tag KI6NAZ, of the #1 Ham Radio Youtube Channel, Ham Radio Crash Course. 

You can listen to a live stream of a number station without a shortwave radio! Just go to the UVB-76 Livestream.

Mindbender is a show that searches for secrets - the secrets of magicians, tricksters, spies and even death. It’s a new podcast genre: magic audio. It fuses principles of magicians and mentalists like David Blaine and Derren Brown, with historical nonfiction shows like Hardcore History and Radio Lab.

If The X-Files was a true-life podcast, it would be Mindbender. 

If you like this episode, please tell a friend. <3

Visit Mindbender.run to subscribe and learn more. 

Visit Vlad’s blog, vladdit.com to learn more about the host.

The cast:

-Gary - young man down on his luck, raised in abuse and alcoholism. 

-Vlad (http://vladdit.com) - a magician trying a psychological experiment; can Gary change his life thanks to a magic trick?

-Oracle - a mysterious character that blesses Gary with a lucky number that will change his life. 

This is a real experiment. A psychological thriller.

What happens when you fuse magic with psychology? What happens when you take a young man with a dark past and throw him into a dark magic trick? Does his life get any better?

Mindbender is a show that searches for secrets - the secrets of magicians, tricksters and death. It’s a new podcast genre: magic audio. It fuses principles of magicians and mentalists like David Blaine and Derren Brown, with historical nonfiction shows like Hardcore History and Radio Lab. If The X-Files was a true-life podcast, it would be Mindbender. 

If you like this episode, please tell a friend. <3

Visit Mindbender.run to subscribe and learn more. 

Visit Vlad’s blog, vlad.blog to learn more about the host.

Mindbender is a non-fiction psychological thriller.

A podcast about the unusual and paranormal. Sounds that shouldn't exist. Experiments with magic.

It's like Fringe meets David Blaine. Like X-Files meets Hardcore History.

If you like Derren Brown, mentalism, paranormal activity, Soviet spy stories - then Mindbender might be for you.