MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories
MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories

Legends of the Pet Cemetery (PODCAST EXCLUSIVE EPISODE)

December 15, 2025

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5 min read

🎙️ The Voices & The Context

  • The Format: This solo-narrated episode from the MrBallen Podcast delivers a gripping true crime tale of murder and mystery in a haunted Louisiana pet cemetery, blending atmospheric storytelling with investigative twists to captivate fans of the strange and dark.
  • The Format: This is a narrative story.
  • The Key Players:
  • If Just Hosts: Solo host MrBallen commands the episode with his signature eerie delivery and dramatic pauses, bantering lightly with listeners about podcast updates before diving into the core tale of Dorothy Thompson's unsolved-then-solved murder.

🗝️ Key Themes & Topics

The episode weaves a tapestry of small-town gossip, betrayal, and cold case justice, unpacking the layers of a 1985 homicide through vivid reconstruction and police insights.

  • Topic 1: Dorothy's Eccentric Life and Town Rumors. MrBallen introduces 60-year-old Dorothy Thompson, owner of St. Bernard's pet cemetery where she lives alone amid whispers of hauntings, her two dead husbands (one shot in self-defense, one suicide), and buried treasure, painting her as a reclusive figure burdened by depression, medication, and local judgment.
  • Topic 2: Troubles with Handymen and Property Disputes. Dorothy's vulnerability shines through high handymen turnover—thieves like Elkin Childress casing for treasure and Brandon and Bonnie Notier c

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What you'll learn

  • 1 (03:52) **Dorothy Thompson's Background**
  • 2 (06:35) **Hiring Handymen and Drive Home**
  • 3 (10:57) **Evening Routine and Visitor**
  • 4 (13:45) **Discovery of Disappearance**
  • 5 (17:32) **Detectives Investigate House**
  • 6 (23:52) **Body Found and Identified**
  • 7 (29:25) **Homicide Probe and Initial Suspects**

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Show Notes

In the early morning hours of September 21st, 2009, a man woke up in his bed in New Orleans with a start, to the sound of metal clinking in the dark corner of his room. The man’s heart raced as he peered into the shadows. And then he gasped – because there was someone standing in the corner, staring at him. As the figure stepped forward, the clinking sound got louder. And the man realized this person was wrapped in heavy, metal chains. And suddenly, he understood. What he was seeing was a ghost – and he knew exactly who had murdered them.

 

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MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories