Uninhabited island with a DARK HISTORY | The missing crew of the Sarah Joe
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- Опубліковано 14 тра 2024
- 10 years after a fishing crew goes missing, a discovery is made on an uninhabited island thousands of miles away, that changes everything.
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I've heard this theory: "One of the most popular theories seems to be that a Chinese fishing ship had found the boat drifting at sea along with the body of Moorman, who just may have lashed himself to the vessel to keep from being thrown off in the storm. The fishermen then may have guided the boat into the lagoon and then buried the one body they’d found out of respect. This theory is somewhat supported by the fact that the cryptic papers and the tinfoil resemble a Chinese burial rite in which papers, as well as gold and silver foil, are provided to the dead as currency and a source of fortune in the next life. As to why the finding was never officially reported, it is thought that this may be because the Chinese ship had been fishing the waters illegally."
Having a cultural explanation for a phenomenon that doesn’t make sense in the story makes the theory more convincing to me. That book is the best clue, and the most out of place thing about the story. The key fits the lock, so to speak. I’m not sure the rate of decomposition that would occur with a body adrift on the sea, but I’d bet its slower without much bacteria except what lived in the body when he died. If the decomposition timeline fits, this would be more than plausible.
This is a legit theory. My husband is a commercial fisherman and he's told me stories about guys finding bodies and they'll throw them back. If they call someone in it can mean an enormous monetary loss.
I can confirm tin foil paper thing. In Chinese, it is called“冥幣” basically currency for the dead people to use in the after life.
Wish I'd seen your post before I sent mine. That was the story I was looking for just couldn't remember it well as you did
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I work as a Law Enforcement US Park Ranger for the National Parks. I worked a season at Assateague Island National Seashore. On that island, there are remnants from a late 19th century shipwreck that occured there, but some days you could see it, and other days you couldn't. The island would perform an action called "turning over'. During storms, high winds etc, the sand would change the surf line dramatically within a few hours. Where land was flat, would now have a huge dune. Where massive dunes laid, were now exposed as a crater. It's a common occurrence. My theory is that the boat has been there the entire time, along with the grave but was simply being buried by the surf and sands during the first survey six years after. The body, being "recently buried" was most likely human error in dating the time of death. The saltwater can slow the decomposition of organic material and in some cases even preserve decaying bodies, thus contributing to the fact that the bones weren't on par with the decomposition timeline. The crew most likely attempted to flee the island when they realized there were no means of survival there, and possibly took a life raft or constructed a makeshift raft to attempt their chance of rescue at sea. Finally, the book was most likely a personal belonging of Scott's that was left with him along with other personal effects.
No words... sounds accurate
I went to Assateague one! I spent most of it in Chincoteague but went to Assateague twice, and saw some of the horses, that sounds really cool to work there!
Wow I'm going with you sounds logical to me
Scott was the only one to survive and used the tinfoil trying to signal aircrafts as he landed on the atol in question.
Then he died, and the rest is your assesment. Your scenario can easily explain why the PIs found his bones in other place.
Also, if we asses that he most possibly had cotton clothes, may be he was hiding the tinfoil on his body, under the clothing. As he was hiding from the sun behind the ship, he passed away and later his clothing will decompose and the "book" just stayed beneath his body.
Best I could come up with so far...
You just made a whole lot of sense and I am going to have to agree with you. Well said.
Another interesting detail: At around 1:00 PM, hours before the storm arrived, John Hanchett Sr (Peter's father) noticed a concerningly strong wind coming down the mountains, so he, and several others, went out to find the Sarah Joe to alert them of the impending storm, and have them return to shore. They looked for hours and no one could find them. Eventually, the storm arrived and John's worry for his son turned more into panic. So, John went BACK OUT into the storm and searched for several more hours until he was eventually forced back in. I think this is a very interesting detail because it raises the question of whether the boys were ALREADY GONE before the storm even hit? I know strong winds can wreak havoc on the water, but with the experience these 5 guys had, and the type of boat they had, everyone said they should have still been nearby and fairly easy to find. So, why weren't they?
Very intriguing
i agree, that's a VERY good point to bring up. Creepy in my opinion also!!!
But then the question remains who barried him there when it weren‘t other fishers !?
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Home boy ate the other guys that didnt die from the storm they where at thrown off course they used all the fuel trying to find the way home . then engine broke off they drifted to that island and the tin foils in the book was piece of the men he ate to bury with him .maybe he was buried by one of the other guys and a storm hit or a rouge wave hit the island took the survivor and the boat engine out to sea
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I just wish I had found a way to use the word “scour” a few more times 😂
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I think two survived they were trying to escape but Scott got sick and died so the other buried him and finished the raft and went away
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Occam‘s razor answer:
1, The foil paper is called Joss paper, also known as incense papers. These are often burned or buried in various East and southeast Asian funerals.
2, So he was likely buried by east or southeast Asians probably illegally fishing in the area, and therefore not reporting it.
3, The lack of bleaching to his bones would not imply it was a fresh grave. It would imply that he was buried when there was still flesh, or some flesh, on him so he had been buried a long time before his grave was found.
4, I would have to assume that the survey was rushed or done really half a$%#d. Whoever was doing it didn’t even bother going ashore in some cases. So they just missed everything.
It may not have been a sloppy survey of the island. Another commenter says that the sands on the island “turn over” and can make huge dunes or at other times craters. These dunes may have covered up the boat and grave at the time of the survey.
The book would have been a flip book to get the attention of planes and ships. If you flipped through it in the sun it would look like flashes of light, like a signal. Very smart to use the sun to reflect the light like a beacon.
Great observation.
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The person that said it's a flip book👍. It's a good point, very very good explanation of point
I thought the same thing. Question is why bury it with him? Did whoever bury him give up hope so they didn’t consider the book useful anymore?
Boi u copied another comment wow
I have worked for the government and I can tell you that some employees merely fill out the appropriate documents like there was actually a thorough examination of the island when there wasn’t actually anything done at all. Very possible.
That lazy surveyor must have started SWEATING when this revelation occurred
That's a very plausible theory and if right, would make the best guess.
Sadly, not surprised at this
My first thought too. Likely, the survey was done badly/not done and the fishermen were there the whole time. How they lived for 9 years and who buried him are harder to answer. My guess is that somebody attempted to fashion a second boat and left the island and perished at sea.
Haha I was going to say the same thing! They 'scoured' it lol
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Took a look at the boat, fibreglass with foam core, very very small for five grown men, whoever kept that boat pointed into the waves ( away from the island ) during a violent storm and keeping it from getting swamped or rolled was very skilled, but burned all their fuel fighting the storm and found themselves adrift in the ocean currents.
A small boat in the vast ocean is very hard to spot and I believe the survivor(s) saw a plane and tried to signal it, perhaps with the tinfoil on the pages but why cut it down unless there're only scrapes or it kept breaking apart from every attempt to signal someone or it was pre made and thrown onboard in the " unlikely event ", great importance was attached to this and Scott carried it to his death.
Given how small that boat was and how violent the storm was four were washed overboard with no lifejackets, drowned and had fallen to predation leaving the last survivor ( perhaps lashed to and hanging onto the wheel to steer the storm ) to drift across the ocean, currents can carry you one way but wind, storms and waves can carry you another, leaving you doing long lazy circles in the middle of the ocean and in the calms the current will pick you up again and carry you along.
Another survivor lasted 14 months adrift at sea in the same ocean surviving on everything he caught and I believe Scott did the same thing with whatever fishing gear was left onboard, he was still alive as he approached that island but he had one problem, the reef surrounding it. In the picture of the boat the transom is still in one piece so I think Scott had jettisoned the motor to clear the reef and then made his attempt.
In the same picture there are two large gouges on the port gunnel, the boat had rolled on the reef throwing Scott onto the reef with the boat landing on him and perhaps causing an amputation ( the small amount of bones found ) but was able to make it to shore and crawl above the surf line where he eventually died from his wounds.
I believe a local ( one man ) was fishing in that area and if was designated a marine sanctuary or the island off limits, he was there illegally, saw the boat beached and knew a way around the reef and went to investigate and came across the skeletal remains of Scott and, being local, heard nothing about a missing person lost at sea so gave him a "Christian" burial and kept the secret to himself unless he had to answer questions has to why he was there, and eventually dying himself taking the secret to the grave.
As for the boat not being seen a large surf could have carried it up to the tree line where it sat for a long time unseen until another large surf carried it back to the beach, and then back and forth over the years. As for timelines and aging of the bones sometimes things are just a mystery.
Anyway that was my shot at this story.
R.I.P to the four lost at sea and to Scott.
I like your idea. The paper was 100% Joss paper. You can look it up, it’s very common. This leads me to believe that the person who buried him was east or southeast Asian. As you say, fishing illegally.
The non-bleaching of bones would not be such a mystery. If it was not a fresh grave. Bones are bleached when they’re left out under the sun for a long period of time exposed. If he was buried, not long after his death, sun bleaching would not have occurred.
That’s quite impressive Blackfoot! Very observant and you obviously know quite a bit so it makes sense to me! ❤
This is quite an impressive theory!!
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As a child of a Hawaiian, I can confirm, "they decided not to go to work and go fishing instead," is a totally Hawaiian thing to do😂
We have a similar response in Scotland just exchange fishing with "to the pub" 😄🍻
In Australia we take our drinks and go fishing 🎣🍺🍻🤦🏼♀️
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who the fk want live in island
As a land surveyor by profession, I completely 100% agree that the survey was probably not done well enough to find the grave.
What about the the boat?
@@RighteousRage Maybe they didn't think twice about the boat?
But they said the grave seemed to recent but the search wasn´t recent
A simple solution is being overlooked, if they tested the age of the bones and subtracted that age from the age he went missing we could tell how long it took for his body to arrive on the island.
@@chazbarns1410 if you test the age of bones are you testing the dirt or are you testing the life span of the bones which means it just tells what year the man was born?
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A crappy survey might miss a grave, but not a boat. Still, the grave was implied to be fresher than that survey. Crazy story.
I will not pay attention much with the "Goverment Survey" fact. They can simply said they done the survey, but actually used the taxpayer money for other thing. The island very unlikely change, so just copy previous survey report. No one will argue anything.
@@matjer2800 mmm, you've got a good point there...
Yeah that is true but it still doesn't alter the fact they found his recently deceased remains 9 years later??
@@matjer2800 Well I looked it up and bones bleach sometime between the 6-9 month mark. That means that the body was buried after the survey; if there was a survey
@@disser0145 Sorry, my English not very good, I never meant to disregard the fact that the grave is recently built. What i tried to said there is more possibilities what happened to the crew if we also take into account the survey is not been done. Maybe Scott arrive there earlier than 6 years after they disappeared, and survived by eating fish and drink animal blood, and live in the boat but still died years later, and poacher/illegal fisherman found the island and saw the boat, try to scavenge items in it. But instead found the body and buried it. Or more extreme thought the poacher killed Scott because they worried been reported to authority but still buried him out of respect. This is just a Big maybe's. What i try to said, we can't said for sure Scott not arrived to the island earlier than 6 years after they disappeared.
Many instances of corpses that had been buried even thousands of years earlier, where the bones are still in excellent condition. Not only are they not bleached at all but some are still wrapped in muscle and tissue. Not that strange that his bones appeared to have been buried not long before they were found and yet could be many years old.
Wow that’s interesting
I love that you leave in the out takes. It makes it more real, more humble, relatable. It also adds some comedic relief to the real horrors soon to come..
It's quite possible that the crew may have been on an island, possibly uncharted and uninhabitated, somewhere else for a few years and maybe they tried to leave there and ended up here years later.
its actually kind of scary to think about just how little we actually know about our seas...
@O. B. Nice I see what ya did there skippy 😂😂
Ok hear me out.
What if most of the people in the bout died one by one and tossed out to the sea
The last person died on the bout.the bout then stops in this island.years later someone just end up in that island.he sees the dead body of the last person.he gets so scared so he doesn't tell anyone about it.out of respect he buried the body and then got out of the island like noting happened
@@kingrazine1579 but if the body had been dead and the skeleton in the sun for even a couple months, it would be totally and completely bleached. Not to mention the scavengers that would pick him apart taking parts of him all over the place.
@@youtubeSuckssNow that didn't change anything
It could be the Seagles that messed whit the bones
And the rust of them got buried
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according to friends and relatives of the missing crew, the Sarah Joe (and grave) were discovered in 1984 - but this find was not reported by the personnel responsible. It seems the Sarah Joe (and its five crew) got caught in a bad storm, and at least one of the crew made it to the island (possibly after three months at sea). Whether he was alive or not is a matter of conjecture (one theory siggests he tied himself to the boat but died at sea). However, someone found and buried the dead body of Scott Moorman and within the grave was placed what seems to be Chinese ‘joss paper’, or a type of coloured tissue paper containig silver strips (this usually signifies good luck in the next life). It is thought that illegal fishermen from either Taiwan or China found the dead body and buried it with respect and consideration - even building a ‘cross’ out of driftwood.
The paper was a type of emergency sos signal that was made to hang from a branch and when it was hung the foil spots would act like a mirror and send out sos . The chinese idea while it's anyone's guess on if it happened and I can understand the thought behind , it was unlikely imo , since if they were following their culture the money would of have to been burned or they would be haunted . Along with that even a fresh body that's only been out in tropical weather and the sun for a few days would be completely unrecognizable so unless he had his id or he his body was in really good shape so they could identify some of his features why would they have put up a cross . Since they would have been very hard pressed to find out the guys nationality and probably even race depending on the location he died so I would not expect a cross because of that . Lastly his body wasn't completely buried so we know his body was already falling apart when it was buried. While last part is just speculation , the part about the sos is a known emergency trick so it's likely it is a sos signal so it is not complete speculation and is very likely , but no one can be 100% certain .
Yes the Joss Paper fits the exact description, and makes the most sense. It could have even happened after the survey, with the boat being at sea. The body's condition might have been a chance of conditions, and mummification.
@@rickyricardo3551 You are assuming that there are no Christians in Taiwan or that whomever finds the body or bones would only post a grave marker that matched the belief of the dead individual. It makes more sense that they didn't know the ethnicity or religion and either were Christians or assumed that the cross is used to mark all graves from 'western' countries. I would use a cross to mark the grave because a single stick of driftwood wouldn't convey "grave marker' in my opinion.
@@rickyricardo3551 I think they was on other spot and tryed reach land and went on that islands ...
This seems like the most plausible explanation I've read so far.
My father was stationed at wake island during Vietnam. He was a master sergeant in the Air Force and he had went all over visited many of the islands around Hawaii. He even took a trip down to the Marshall Islands with a few of his friends towards the late 70s. He said they have been on an island where they were skeletons and World War II Japanese personal items. He said he felt so bad for Monday’s live in an island where they were American or Japanese. My father believes all life mattered whether it was the enemy or a friend. When I was a little kid I stepped on a Bug! My father grabbed me by the arm and pointed down at the squished bug and said you just created the worst day of this animal life I want you to remember this thing was happy but you ended his happiness. That always stuck with me my entire life and I get along with just about everybody. I believe it was because of my father’s lesson……
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Wow, I was a kid growing up on Wake during the Viet Nam war.
I remember seeing a TV show similar to this. It was about a boat full of people that left Hawaii on a three hour tour.
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A three hour tour...
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.... most definitely.... that laugh is infectious.... and complimented the rest of the video quite nicely....
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The tinfoil on the pages would be a signaling device. When fluttered, it gives off many flashes, not to be mistaken with a whitecap.
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All joking aside, tinfoil hats not so bad afterall are they!? Haha
When a boat sits on a beach for a long time it will fill with sand and the water washing over it will bury it with sand allso. That's one way it my have happened.
Thay where in a storm so thay might have gone through a time slip and only too came back.
A u.f.o. might have taken them and brought him back
And buried him. There's so many things that may have happened.
Very possible for a sailor to have that to signal an incoming ship.
That's neat. I figured it was something similar
It is absolutely horrifying what some people have experienced and suffered through in this life on earth. I couldn’t imagine a worse fate than to be lost at sea for 5+ years in complete survival mode. This is a very odd story, definitely intriguing,
I think Whoever did the survey 6 years later didn’t actually go to the island and probably looked at old aerial photos of the island that’s why the boat wasn’t found.
Yup. Another commenter who claims to have done surveys referred to it as a “bar stool survey,” when for remote areas you pretend you did a labor intensive survey, and move on to another job knowing it will be years before anyone notices if there are mistakes.
Absolutely. That was the very first thing I thought - “they pencil whipped that survey”.
Guaranteed. They’re not gonna waste the time, effort and resources for a “routine” survey of uninhabited islands. Just pocket the funds/grant money. Now if it WASN’T routine and there was to be work done on the island, then not possible. But a routine survey, that’s just on a rotating 3-5yr calendar or something? Definitely pencil whipped. That boat been there for nine Damn years.
Or actually didn’t walk all over the island like they claimed.
@@maximiliankolbe_NIN and the fact that the rest of the or some fisherman (one dead) ended up on that island and buried the guy they would most likely want to swim to the mainland (assuming island was completely empty of any resources to build a raft or something) so probably they lost their way and ended up drowning somewhere in the ocean or sharks ate them.
Or they just hung out with Gillian and the skipper a millionaire and his wife,a movie star and the professor and Mary Ann! And they couldn’t get home because Gilligan just kept fucking it up!
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The "tinfoil" in that book sounds like silver Joss Paper, which is an offering to the dead. It's likely that some Asian fishermen found the body, and gave him as decent a burial as they could before moving on.
Oh wow! I had assumed it was perhaps some kind of attempt to get attention of passing planes by reflecting the light, but this makes a lot more sense since the book was buried WITH the body. I think you nailed it.
Maybe the Asian looking Guy in the Crew was the last alive and buried Scott with the Joss Paper.
The area is uninhabited who would of found him though?
@@87apizzi maybe people out fishing in the ocean?
I think this is definitely what happened. They starve or get dehydrated on the boat while it is adrift and then die off one by one. Once someone died he'd either get eaten or floated off the boat. Last survivor eventually dies and is adrift for who knows how long (bottled messages can take decades to reach land). The boat then finally reaches land on the atoll with the body on board. The body gets found by a fisherman or an explorer who gives it a burial without reporting it and that is the only explanation I can think of that explains why some bones belonging to this body were found on the shore and not in the grave.
Maybe one of his friends buried him, made a makeshift raft and tried to go out to sea to be rescued and died in his effort.
Why would you make a new boat though. Just make a couple oars and and hop in that little boat that was gutted.
Thank you Mel Gibson now someone makes sense
Maybe. I wonder, if there's no wildlife that can move his remains why were part of his remains in the grave and others close to it? Why not bury him whole? You think they... Were on survival mode and he was their victim?
Yeah but then what were they doing for the 6 years between them going missing and that survey of the island being done?
Is that you, Mel!!??
Being from Massachusetts as well John the saddest maritime story I remember was a boat out of Beverly MA. There was a strong north easter that was wiping up a wicked sea. A lobster boat was caught it and sent out an SOS. The weather was so bad the coastguard couldn't go out. The captain and crew of the Beverly based boat was listening on the radio to the conversation. They knew some of the crew on the other boat so they decided they were going to try to rescue them. Sadly the Beverly crew never even made it a mile out before it was capsized and the crew drowned except for one I believe. The boat was raised and towed back to Beverly and she was restored and put up for sale. It never left that mooring it just sat there as you drove over the Kenwood bridge. The other crew was eventually rescued by the coast guard everyone on that boat survived.
Amazing videos John keep it up, I'm not sure if many noticed this, but you mentioned your were in the army and surely that wouldn't have been easy , and also mentioning the depression part afterwards after leaving the force and then doing what your doing with your amazing videos now and have changed your life along with millions is very cool & inspiring ! My best wishes and if you ever happen to come to nz would love to show you around & visit a few paranormal sites if your into it !!! Best of luck!
Navy, actually. He was a Navy Seal. So cool, isn't it? 😀
First time I’ve heard him laugh. It really makes him better
He has a good one where he talks about incinerating the like button a just keeps giggling.
@@Whin556 I remember that one he cut some out though, this one he just left in
JOHN HAS LAUGHED MANY TIMES!!! HE HAS A BEAUTIFUL SMILE & IS A VERY HANDSOME YOUNG MAN!!! HE HAS A BEAUTIFUL WIFE & 3 BEAUTIFUL CHILDREN ALSO!!! HE IS A VERY SPECIAL EX NAVY SEAL!!!
I like that he leaves it in, i think some people would edit it out (the laughing)
@@Whin556 😂
When MrBallen can’t control his laughter, is one of my favorite parts of these videos 😂❤️
I’m going back and watching old Mr Ballen videos.
Your original sayings are awesome.
It’s the too long to read story , and how much you laugh at the Like Button jokes.
When you keep the "outtake" ...that, my friend, is priceless!! 😂
I love even more the fact he left the bloopers in at the beginning. For anyone wondering, this guy is 100% as cool as he seems. When I had instagram, I had numerous one on one conversations with him. Badass but down to earth. HOOYAH, Mr. Ballen!
ur cool for the hooyah.
@@bradleybouton2138 what do you mean exactly?
@@JacobASmith59 I think he just means that you're cool for giving Mr Ballen a Navy shoutout when you said/yelled/grunted HOOYAH!!!
@@jamssnana4084 Oh gotcha. Thanks
#1 best human being
I haven't been able to stop watching you since I discovered you, dude I can't sleep
Ditto i found this channel and then got addicted and am now filled with paranoia
love it when he cracks up, he has a wonderful laugh and it makes him so real. I think he most be a kind soul. And what a great smile as well.
17:25 As a continual job in the Navy, there's something called a Planned Maintenance System. It's a daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, check and servicing of the systems on the ship. Every work group for every rating has it for their equipment. I found a sprinkler alarm system that probably hadn't been checked since the Vietnam war but had been signed off every whatever it was since then into the late 70's. It's called "gun decking" when you don't do the work but you sign off on it. It wasn't done because it was hard to do (it was also hard to find. No specific location notes were given before I found it and did it).
The scan of the islands (depending on who did them) was more than likely gun decked. You've got over 1100 islands and islets. There's a lot of room for sloppiness. Someone that was sailing the islands, finds Mr. Moorman sick or dying or dead, and buries him and sails off. There are people out there that almost never hit land for more than supplies.
“Gently liquidate the like button!” lol I couldn’t stop laughing
Hahahah
I thought Jon said "lick". 😂😂😂😂😂
Veronica Reilly same😂
pls explain
Idly I wonder why that's so funny.
I love it when John laughs while trying to tell us what to do with the like button 😂 cracks me up every time!
he's such a cutie patootie!! :-D
ME TOO, MAKES ME LAUGH
@Pisha Pye I DON'T KNOW, BUT HE COMES UP WITH SOME CRAZY THINGS
Same 😂
It’s different then just asking for likes
I found your channel last week and I’ve been hooked since then. You are by far one of the best storytellers on UA-cam. I’m really enjoying every episode ❤
Omg I love all your stories, thank you for sharing with us ❤️
Instructions unclear,
Accidentally vaporized the like button.
Bahaha!! Thx for the good laugh!!!! 🤭🤭😉
angel cake he has a secret?
@@moldy_banana5015 perhaps...🤔🙄😝
Instructions still unclear,
Licked the like button instead.
@@Melodyofthesea78 lol I thought he way gonna say lick when he was laughing to much to say liquidate
I love when John cracks himself up bashing the like button..
Thanks for all the content John
Loved the story & love you! Ty again.
Im born and raised in Hawaii and this is actually a very popular mystery that still gets brought up very often amongst “Watermen” (people who surf, dive, fish and swim) thank you so much for giving this the attention it deserves, there are a lot of things about my home state that get covered up by the beauty and perfection or more tourist-y side of things
Ain't that the case with everything in life, the glamorous side is fixated on while the rotten underbelly is ignored and rarely acknowledged.
Sounds like we're talking about new vs classic cars
What other interesting things are covered up?
The storm was a Perfect cover to get away from them pesky extended car warranty calls
Now we ALLL know what we must do
Omg !!😂😂😂😂😂 best comment!!!
@@christalellard5059 Ok, ok now who's got a boat that I could borrow, and where can I get an extended warranty. And put it in your name.
IKR blocking doesn’t stop them, ugh ... they reincarnate with new numbers 😑
Joke or not but comment now we know what we must do to get away from car warranty calls. Really really I would rather take the call then go through that storm the way those poor people did
that selflaugh overown joke..(is this the right word?)..make my day cheerful..kudos John!!glad u join this kind of..branch ent..
More of these stories are true than we will ever know. God bless everybody.
So this is where the hostility towards the Like button started...
I think so.
And it makes me sick! His psychopathic hatred of the like button only increases as he makes more videos. I put the like button into the witness protection program.
@@machrisr2000 I don't think that will protect the Like button. 😄
We always find it anyway.
@@machrisr2000 traitor,you have no right to watch these videos.
@@machrisr2000 he's even rick rolled the poor like button..messed with it's coffee and cere
I think they landed on a similar island, survived for a while, but then ran out the resources on that island. Then they patched up the boat and set sail again. Landed there a little after 6 years later. Scott died of starvation, they eat his body, and whoever is left buries the remaining bones. Hence why there are other bones not in the grave. The remaining make some kind of a raft and leave before the 9 year mark
near-perfect explanation, except why would they build a raft instead of sailing the actual boat that they had? was the boat so badly damaged that it became inferior to a raft? or did they just wanna ditch their boat at all costs, believing it was cursed as it seems to have brought them nothing but trouble?
@@CemEke_CIO so the simplest explanation is usually the correct one. And in this case, that's the fact that it was damaged. The probably took some stuff from it, but decided a huge boat with limited crew is tough.
@@brokenmember1658 someone has to take a break and rest
I'm choppy water, you need 2
This is the worst trip I’ve ever been on
Think you are close, but why wait 6 years if the boat is "ok" . Or They or some ended up here, he died and the other('s) left on a raft
Mr.Ballen, I really enjoy your stories, esp. your animated way, and sound effects. Your awesome at phrasing the story. Thank-you
Hello! Thanks for all the great stories it makes my work day much shorter!
My guess: they all died at sea, each time one of them died they were dropped overboard. Scott was the last to die on the boat. Boat floats around for years until it washes up and grounds after the survey has taken place. Either someone who shouldn’t be there discovers him and does the burial or someone who decides not to report it does the burial. The book is a flip book signalling device that the crew made. The person who does the burial doesn’t know what it is but assumes it has some significance to the deceased and buries it with Scott.
In the story it says the bones are recently buried, not that Scott was recently deceased. If Scott’s body was inside the boat for years the bones wouldn’t get sun bleached.
It might be that scavenging animals moved some of the bones and the person who buried Scott just buried what was left in the boat.
This seems like the most plausible explanation.
I think you’re exactly right. Extremely creepy and sad.
What would they be eating and drinking while on the boat for 6 years? Could catch fish maybe but nothing to drink.
@@jollyscarecrow my guess is each other... hence the bone they found on the shore...
one of those Moby Dick kinda situation..
@@jollyscarecrow why 6 years? Might have been 6 days or 6 weeks before they all eventually died and the boat floated around before coming to rest on the island after the survey. Wouldn’t be unheard of for a boat to float around for years, being pushed and pulled by the currents.
Maybe they landed on another island where they survived for years then finally set sail to try to find inhabited land and ended up in the atoll.
That was my thought, too.
I was thinking that but theres always the question of who burried the other sailor.
@@HiroshiNu109 Well maybe there was nobody else to bury him. It's a stretch, but the first thing that came to my mind was the possibility that he buried himself when he knew that he wasn't making it back to the main land
@@disser0145 that is very true because the grave wasn’t that deep but we will never know
Maybe! But the question remains..where are the rest of the men and if they left, how did they do it? if the boat was on the island too and there no means for them to build a raft.
This is a fascinating story. I've seen many of your videos and enjoyed them very much.
I love all your videos. I've watched over a hundred of them! It's my favorite thing to watch!
My guess is that the auditors did not actually go to the atoll but wrote up a bogus report. as if they did. Government in action!
On the surface I'd normally agree. But In These instances creating wildlife sanctuaries typically includes very VERY environmental minded ppl. They're not the type to cut corners on something they think would benefit wildlife esp potentially endangered wildlife. It's not rely the same as say a survey team checking an area for a future govt building or something. Plus hawaii is pretty well known for being pretty green. Pun intended
Note : Never send Marshall islanders to survey anything
Lol the government probably hired a private company to do it for them, as most do. So no, it’s typical profit-driven corporations cutting corners.
@@darcgibson5099 Yeah, that's a double pile of bullshit. A) Not every person presenting themselves as an "environmentalist" is a f'ing saint. B) You don't know the terms and conditions surrounding the this sanctuary. There may very well have been some incentive to deliberately "overlook" any finding like a grave or a boat. C) If your "theory" conveniently fits exactly with your preconceptions, it's quite likely to be crap.
I hadn’t thought of that, but that makes sense more than anything.
One question I have that I didn't really hear is why were some of his bones in a grave and some found a good distance away from the grave on top of the ground...
They probably ate the parts of him with more meat you know. You bury your friend with much respect but you still got to eat
@@jmarco335 I never thought of that
They died separately
Crabs, other animals possibly
Animals
Mr Ballen, thank you for sharing your awesome gift os story telling
I love hearing him chuckle. Too cute!
Achievement unlocked: gently liquidate the like button
Lol 😂
Mrfrostypoo stassutssotss
Trophy earned
The Destroyer 679 - Did anyone look at the pages of the book,closely ? i think it’s a Code ? !
I dont know how to kill a button.
Thanks for leaving the gaff/laugh. Made me smile watching a trained killer tickle himself.
Any man who uses the word bevy in a sentence is the kind of man I like to listen to.
Indeed
the BEST storyteller of our time!!!! Thank you Thank you !!!!
It’s possible they landed on another island where they stayed for years. Eventually they got their boat sea worthy and tried to get to a more inhabited island but ran ashore at this island. Scott may have died so they buried him and the others build a raft to try and continue their journey leaving their old boat behind.
Bermuda triangle thingy, time warping, other people right boat washed up later someone passing by buried him, book used to signal.
Agreed
But remember, John said there was nothing there and the boat had not been disassembled to build a raft. The removal of materials to make a raft would have been very obvious to the forensic investigators. But, the other island theory is very likely. If the engine had been damaged during the storm or some other damage making the boat inoperable would certainly account for the time. These were experienced fisherman and they would have known how to survive out there, at least for a while.
With a little modification, this might work: when they were ready to leave that other island, only Scott and another person were still alive. Sadly, they only reached this place which could not sustain them for long and the boat was inoperable. Scott died first and his friend buried him, then succumbed himself somewhere close to the waterline, and his body washed into the sea in a storm.
This was my first thought is this was not the first island they came to but merely a stop along the way. I don't see how the others could have stayed alone so long. Really strange story
The atoll govt survey possibly illustrates the wisdom behind the saying, "close enough for government work!"
The like button laughter you couldn't control at the beginning of the video genuinely made me laugh too 😂 I was having a cruddy day and I loved that. It was so cute 🥺
Swear I’ve never seen this video before… how. This is a gift finding an unwatched video!!! Love you ballen
My boring theory: the crew likely stayed alive adrift at sea for a while until one by one they eventually perished and were buried at sea, leaving only Scott alive. Some time later Scott perished inside the ship (I think this explains why the bones weren't bleached). After at least 6 years adrift (so after the survey) the ship washed up on the atoll eventually to be found by a local fisherman (sometime around the 9 year mark) who removed the bones piece by piece in order to lay the man to rest. This explains why other bone fragments were found lying around, accidentally dropped along the way whilst being moved. The person must not have known the significance of the Sarah-Joe. Seeing the book as being likely the only procession this person had they elected to bury them with it out of respect. The book, as others have speculated, was likely created in hopes of signaling a plane.
BUT there were huge searches for them before so why they didn't saw a ship
Yes but someone made a deliberate grave which means someone buried him.
@@Bomba_drastic because they were marooned somewhere else first.
One problem. There are no "local fisherman" on the atoll. Hence "perfect atom bomb test site"
@@UA-camrw-si6ei Yeah it's probably pretty unlikely that anyone would even get close enough to the atoll to see the ship in the couple years it couldve been there at most
If my teacher was telling this story I wouldn’t even listen but a former navy seal telling I’m into. Love the stories. I miss the seal stories too
Robert R who you calling ‘we’?
I had no idea the dude was a ex-navy seal I thought he was some gay guy just telling stories
Lewis Sharpe wow you thought he was gay 😂. I found him talking about seal stories cuz I thought he could provide good information that I could use to prepare for training. You thought he was gay😂😂😂 yea he’s pretty far from gay
If your teacher told this story nearly as well, you would probably be more likely to listen I think.
@@donny-2964 Who cares either way? 🤷♀️
Your story-telling has gotten so much better.
You can tell me a story anytime!!! You're brilliant and so intense.i just love listening to you!! Brilliant story!!!
the 18 people who disliked this video have no soul.
hahaha
Lol..rofl.. they are "soulless"...☠🧟♀️🧟♂️☠
Demons, surely.
What, gingers? 😋
Jack Strüb 🤣😂🤣😂
The rare times MrBallen can’t keep it together and stop laughing about the like button
So funny! What a cutie pie Mr.Ballen is! So entertaining!! Love it!
I love that he’s laughing
@@cindymamon8001 he’s basically my dream guy, if I could order one of those now please 💥👩🏼💻💋
Thank you for all your hard work.
John, I love to see him smile and hear him laugh....I have a John crush
“They didnt wanna disturb the grave” “They find bones in the grave”
nvsbl2 watch the story again.
“Found bones, a book and then notified authorities” 🤔
Disturb the grave, as in they didn't want to move the rocks or the cross out of way. They just dug in the middle a little to check if it did indeed contain a body
they didn't want to *totally* disturb the grave
just what they do in Egypt for 5,000 years later
First adult contemporary death metal band, "Gentle Liquidation".
lol
Ahaha!
Hahahahah yes GENTLE LIQUIDATION HAHAHAHAHAHA
Or genital liquification as a new pornogrind band
So nice to re-watch some videos from so long ago, cuz I had forgotten about this story, it felt like a fresh story xD
This man started telling stories 5 months ago and has over 600 thousand subscribers
Wow
He is a navy seal. It’s normal to out do every civilian you tuber.
I found him in tictok now im here ha
@@donnahuscroft1 lol
Because he came from tik tok where he already had a fan base
@@ginaclame20 Not just that but he honestly has a talent in storytelling and ever since i discovered his channel, I have been wonderfully occupied on youtube with actually intriguing content which is so lovely for a change.
I've watched so much of his videos, my favorite ones are when he laughs while trying to describe how to torture the like button! Watching his older videos is so weird, but love how much he has grown and turned into this badass story teller.
I was thinking this myself. It's like watching a baby MrBallen!
Totally, he's SO much more polished now
@@jasonbowman6931 he didn't say the Marshall Islands were uninhabited. He said the Taongi atoll was uninhabited, which was true.
This is the very first video where he talks about abusing the Like button!!!!! I just started watching all of his videos from the beginning and this video is the origin of the whole history of the like button abuse.
same 😂
Seeing cuts of this man laugh during the like button sections and whenever there’s a sponsor gives me life
At 6:47 John moves his right hand in such a surfer-dude style that I rewound it three times
The story your talking about actually sounds like the one that happened near the cook islands with 3 guys who fled their catholic school, unhappy with their life.
They borrowed a fishermen's boat and found a deserted island where they decided to stay, they ended up thriving and even made a court to play on, along with growing plants but after so many year's things went wrong.
One broke his leg and died from sepsis.
It actually inspired the book "lord of the flies"
Borrowed the boat implies they returned it at some point, I assume they straight stole that dude’s livelihood
@@RighteousRage hopefully it was insured.
@@RighteousRage errrr..... Get-'em.... Make right the lively hood of the owner by lecturing the messenger... Lol
What are the names
As far as I know they all survived
John could you please do a video on your own life story? I've done some research & the more I learn about you the more I want to know. You are such an inspiration & a true American hero. I'm honored just to listen to you tell these stories & am left speechless with how humble you are cause your own story is far more interesting than anything you tell/talk about. God bless you my brother and thank you for your service.
He did. There is a video on his channel where he talks about himself and his life. It's called something like "from a navy seal to a scary youtuber"
@@annalucy89 yes I found it after I posted this. Thank you!
His life story is super sad. He died in a crazy freak accident followed by a heinous crime. Pretty strange. Pretty dark. Fairly mysterious and according to the story……………it could have happened at any time during the week.
Loved the video keepem coming