I'm not a woman or even a parent, but I can only imagine the sheer horror of hearing your son frantically exclaiming ''where are you?! Where are you?!'' only for the phone line to be cut off and for them to have disappeared is something that would haunt me for a lifetime.
I'm holding my baby boy in my arms right now, and I could not agree more with you! Then to have his murder hushed up by police.. really adds salt to the wound!
I think he was running away from an attacker and went to the hill because of the trees to hide but got lost and passed out from exhaustion + him being drunk caused his death from hypothermia. Wind can cover up the footprints with snow. animals picked up his pants and shoes possibly using them for nests
Regarding the last story you told about the (almost) invisible creature, I have been researching many stories regarding this phenomenon. It is collectively known as the Glimmer Man. This thing is real. There was a group of people playing music by a river who all witnessed the same thing. “It looked like the heat coming off the road on a summer day”.
I'm not even remotely interested in conspiracy theories. That said, the gov't has essentially said, "Yeah those ufo sightings by military pilots are something .... unidentifiable." It's possible there is a scientific explanation but it's also possible that there is a great deal we don't about in our world.
I hike all the time by myself and go pretty deep into the woods of Ohio, Maine, California and several other states. One thing I've learned over the years is that if you are in the woods and everything is deadly silent with no signs of wildlife you need to leave immediately. You are not necessarily in danger but bad things seem to happen when people push on after noticing the unnatural stillness.
Adam Schmidt, ive heard about the strange things that happen during the unnatural silence and stillness, out of curiosity have u ever experienced this yourself or personally know ppl who have?
@@glenakatsr it's not as obvious as you think. A large predator could be coming up behind you on the path you took, or coming onto you from your side. Turning around isn't always the safest option.
Soooo....the coroner, who attends at least 6 years of specialized schooling, JUST to determine cause of death, time of death, and manner of death, says its foul play...and people with zero specialized schooling fire him for doing his job and disagree? Nothing to see here folks
Sounds like he got kidnapped at the gas station raped murdered then dumped there somehow maybe from a road above or a small plane. 2nd story sounds like same person did the crime
@@donnacsuti4980 It's also possible that the assailants covered up all the footprints that had been left in the snow so that no one could follow the footprints to Dylan's body or to the culprits.
@@justinpowell3174 Yes, I'm aware that is the process in many places, my county included. I was referring to the video stating the "coroner" made the distinction of cause of death, not the medical examiner, with is why I composed my comment the way I did.
Mr. Ballen is the most detailed story teller to the point I can see it actually happening in my mind. He keeps you intrigued. Some stories are sad, but deserve attention. Almost like paying respect. I especially appreciate the respectful manner in which you do give us the whole story and don’t leave out the pets ❤ 😊
Always, always, always tell people where you are going and when you will be back if you are going into the wilderness. This was the golden rule when I lived in Alaska and we never deviated. So many people live their whole lives in this country with a false sense of safety, never realizing they’re sitting comfortably at the edge of chaos...
Sadly, in most modern education facilities these days topics like self awareness, letting friends or family know where you’re going, carrying some water and maybe something to eat, even items like alternate communication devices, is not taught and even not spoken about. I only spent 3yrs in the Boy Scouts when I was young, but those lessons have stayed with me.
@@realaussiemale567 What the fuck do you mean "sadly?" Name a nation that uses public education too teach common sense/Basic family teachings. Its sad the PARENTS dont understand shit.
Its also very lucky that he was an "optical physicist" and could examine this strange, strange photo that borked itself by magical means and such. What are the chances.... yep.
@@Trainwheel_Time it does not matter what he was there are millions of stories like this these figures and blue light's are linked together there is a reason why there so hard to see on camera and no one can take a good picture of these things there invisible like she said its almost like a blurry mirage like a heat wave you can only see the distortion. These things are happening all around the world 🌎
That last lady survived an encounter with the Predator, she is very lucky and my hero from this point on. Kudos to her for not screaming and running away, Predator knew courage when he saw it!
@day dazed Lol, for hunters it's not abnormal for us to be in complete silence. But there's mostly always some kind of natural sounds happening, a single leaf fluttering around on the tree, a squirrel or chipmunk jumping through leaves or snow, or just the wind itself. You have to admit, sometimes when all of it suddenly ceases, it can be a tad creepy. Lol. Exceptionally calming, but every once and a blue moon, it can be weird. Like you're being watched. Which, I have spotted other hunters and watched them in my binoculars for a short time...hence why I probably feel watched occasionally, you never know when somebody has you in their sights. Or something..lol..the Missing 411 really makes you wonder.
The person found naked with his head in the ground seems to me to be suffering from hypothermia (paradoxical undressing) and the reason he was found with his head in the dirt is because a feature of final-stage hypothermia is terminal burrowing, or "hide & die syndrome".
That would explain many stories on this channel, like why soldier hide to crack in boulder on that winter island etc.. Profound discovery, at least to me. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothermia#Paradoxical_undressing
When you bite the hot pocket but don't get all the way through the ham and when you pull back you pull out the ham and then it falls on your lip and scalds your lips so much that they blister. That is the biggest hot pocket injury possible. *RIP Lips*
or you somehow get some that had thawed and refroze and end up getting food poison from one and then all you taste for a week is pepperoni while throwing up everything eww lol
That last story is so weird! I remember something similar happened to me once when I was out at night in the middle of the desert. I remember that we were walking down this path, and I suddenly felt the urge to stop and stare at one particular direction, not even knowing why. I was slightly scared, but not enough to tell the others, and I just felt something was out there, so I took out my phone and took a picture... but it came out *really* weird. I was only able to see the cactus directly in front of me, but they were enveloped in this weird rainbow-y light, like there were red, blue and yellow rays coming from somewhere to my right, but everything was in complete darkness. I took another picture, thinking maybe my finger had gotten in the way, but it came out the same. I even took off my phone case, but to no avail; according to my phone, there was some kind of light comming from somewhere even if I couldn't see it. I'm thankful I wasn't alone that night, and that I was relatively close to civilization, because otherwise idk what could've happened.
Sometimes i go back to the time stamp n look where the commentor said it was. And i still miss the clue. I dont even bother trying anymore. Just enjoy the stories. No stress
Story #1 about Dylan Parker was actually one of my best friends brother. It is incredibly sketchy and was super sad because he was so young. He was an awesome guy and actually just got his life back on track right before this happened. Around the time he went missing/died there were two other girls from around the area that had weird deaths too. Brianna cook was one of them.
Thanks for the info Tanieka, those were strange deaths indeed, really bothers me that those police people didn't bother looking into them more, looks like someone was covering up something!
Dylan Parker's death seems like something much more sinister was going on there, especially after the medical examiner was fired so viciously. They're probably covering up some murderer there.
@@alsimonuk Maybe not something as Ludacris as that, but something clearly was off about how Dylan died, I mean zero tracks whatsoever by the body or even leading to or away from it on that mountain, David was right to question what the police were doing with the case as it seemed like they were sweeping it under the rug as they didn't immediately have any clues to determine the cause of death. But I think that's where the police were also trying to sweep it under the rug as now, they have the equipment to detect harmful substances inside someone's blood, which I believe during 2014 was when that tech was either already fully incorporated into police stations for that very purpose or was just beginning to get around, if that station had that tech they could have taken a sample of his blood to see if there were any harmful substances in his blood. They know he was drunk or at least tipsy but parties also tend to have at least that ONE PERSON smuggle drugs into the party and spike a few drinks with those drugs and Dylan might have been under the effects of those drugs if they had an extremely strong dose, perhaps enough to where he just started thrashing around which could explain why there were no tracks, which was why his pants and boots could have been removed from his person especially if that was done when he reached where he was found or at least up in a tree somewhere.
Add in brianna cook also went to a party at the same house in osborn roughly 3 months prior then died by hanging herself at her fsthers house after leaving the party angry. Ashely sullivan also hung herself a few months after dylans death and apprantly knew them both..
It is much more sinister than they are letting off. Not too long after he died another girl he was with "hung" herself, she couldn't tie a knot by herself and everyone that knew her knew that. There is a lot of unanswered questions surrounding this case. I live in the area and know many people who knew Dylan personally.
The final story reminds me of Predator, the movie. I would be Flippin TERRRRRIFIED if I saw that. These stories have me literally on the edge of my seat, and I've been marathon watching you for over a week now. Love what you do!! Thanks for the adrenaline rush, the entertainment, and the reminder to always be aware of my surroundings.
Yes, it is, isn't it? 😨 But luckily, a lot of these entities seem "allergic" to being videoed! They seem to leave the area if you do that, Bigfoots and ETs included. Best self defence against the bastard things? Take a picture!.🙂 I do believe this story to be true, btw.
I definitely thought of the movie Predator. One of MrBallen's videos popped up onto my home screen about 2 weeks ago, I watched that video, watched a couple more after that then immediately subscribed to his channel. Watching his videos has become a nightly ritual now 😊. He's such a fantastic storyteller!
Methinks she had a moment, maybe a mental freakout or break of some sort. We don't know her mental health history but could play. The camera can output a picture at pretty much any arbitrary aspect ratio. The resolution thing is kind a red herring, the app is just giving you three options. So she might have had another camera app on her phone or used a different app that also made use of the camera and took the picture using that while she was incapacitated and didn't realize it. Maybe a game camera app was used to take the picture, those will use low resolutions. As for the picture itself, low light, maybe the lens was covered but it was definitely taken with a slow shutter speed judging by the streaks in it. Nothing remarkable about it really. If the camera settings can be accessed by app programmers they could tell the camera to take a picture at any resolution that the camera sensor supports, which will be waaay more than just 3. Typically. The light in the forest her nephew saw, almost certainly just a person with a flashlight walking around. It was the evening after all. Reason the instructor got spooked was because of the strange person in the woods with a flash light stalking around near school grounds. Reason it happened the year before, same guy likes the seasonal weather of the time of year and also enjoys going out into the woods. Her scientist husband? He is just being a good husband and supporting his wife anyway he can. Sadly, I think the story might be more of a story mental decline in older age rather than of Predator roaming through the forest of oregon, stalking and toying with potential pray. For everyone involved in that story, I think they'd rather it was Predator.
isn't it at least a possibility that the police were in fact correct and the man was incapable of doing his job? what if the police were actually right and the dude was being biased? just saying that it can't be ruled out. maybe he was wrong and his judgment was biased
@@Maintenance_Mark that, to me, is the main reason it would be interesting to talk to him. To try to gage whether he’s credible or not, cause it could very well just be him trying to sound more important than he is.
@@emdove oh I absolutely agree I wish we could get word directly from the horse's mouth on this one. We might be able to see right off the bat that he's a quack or we might see that he's very credible and documented his work well.
I know what you mean! I have a beautiful property with a great area that's really dense woods. I walk laps around an open field that's right along the woods and I used to walk through the woods all the time too but now I won't go alone. I make my 21 year old son go with me or I don't go. He carries survival gear with him down there.Lol
I have always loved to walk alone in the woods even as young as 5 years old. It was my happy place . We lived on a farm with woods all around for miles. I’ve never been scared in the woods, alone in the city on the other hand😓
me too! I had just listened to a bunch of people going missing in the forest or like weird and creepy things happening and then I had to go camping like then next day it was terrifying 😭
It's amazing to me how many cops in these stories rule out foul play when they've got descriptions of their victims calling their loved ones sounding panicked and saying people are following them...you'd figure that would point to some degree of foul play?
Something about his case (Dillon) doesn't sit well in my stomach...when his mom said there was fear in his voice, she heard fear, a mother knows her child...I don't know who or what happend but I believe with all my heart, Dillon had help getting to where he was found.
@@roseredadonna8174 right but no one heard him scream. His mom was right around the corner. He saw something that scared him like a lot of the missing do.
The last story reminded me of an experience I had. I was doing Advanced Individual Training (AIT) in the army back in the summer of 1991 at Redstone Arsenal, AL. My platoon was doing land navigation training exercises in the forest and had separate into squads to work on our objectives. It was a hot, bright, sunny day and the woods were alive with sounds...crickets, cicadas, birds, squirrels, etc. The noise was incredibly loud. My squad was moving along from point to point on the topographical map and recording our progress. At around midday, we were walking up this short hill and reached the flat top of it, about 50 meters across, when we noticed that all sounds had stopped. We were in an old-growth section of the forest that had gone completely silent. And it wasn't a normal silence. It was almost like the silence in one of those hearing test chambers. We could hear each others' voices, but they seemed to fall completely flat...no echoes whatsoever. We looked around and there were probably a dozen or so depressions in the ground scattered around us that were around 6 feet long, 2-3 feet wide, and maybe 6-8 inches deep. To me, they looked as if they were maybe very old graves that had sunken in. I was never able to find any information about them later, nor do I know if they had anything to do with what followed. In what seemed like a very sudden event, we were all overcome with this intense sleepiness. It hit us all at once. We could not hold ourselves up any longer, so we just lied down on the ground and immediately fell asleep. I think it was about 30 min later when I was awakened by a cheeky squirrel throwing acorns at my head out of the tree I was under. The sounds had returned. Everyone sort of came to at the same time, and we just got up and continued on our way. I would have to say that's one of the strangest things I have ever experienced, and I have no explanation for any of it.
"Ranger graves" are hasty 1-2 man fighting positions, a dozen or so being a typical squad sized element. Very common in a military training area. Can't speak to the rest of it though other than being sleepy in basic/ait is also not that strange haha!
@@danielpulley3891 Ok, thanks for the info. It makes sense given the hilltop position I guess, even if there didn't appear to be any displaced soil. But the sleepiness was not a typical AIT thing. It was literally irresistible. I never get that way, and I was very young back then, and 5 or 6 guys all at once? I think we all had our hair standing on end after that experience.
@@DoubleplusUngoodthinkful Just a theory, but if the humidity, temperature, and the aforementioned "Ranger Graves" spacing were just right it would be the cause of the almost noise canceling effect. The heat and the baffling of noise would also be a cause to have the massive fatigue. Again, just a theory of what may have caused the phenomenon you experienced.
It’s odd how many phone calls are made where people claim they are being chased by a person or persons and then they are never found. A lot of your stories have this detail. Has to be something to these claims.
Watched this last night and heard “Dustin Self” and was totally shocked. It’s been almost a decade since he left. We both went to the same school and he was by far the best skater out of all of us. RIP Audio!
@@anomaly3215 “I have no reason to not believe that you’re not lying but if not…” How many negatives can you throw in a sentence? It no longer means what he thinks it does. An accidental space before a period because I’m typing on an iPad is completely different. You are as dumb as it gets.
When people die of hypothermia they feel a really hot sensation which cause them to shed some clothes. Because of that a lot of hypothermia victims are thought to be victims of sexual assault
There is also an hypothesis that in the very last moments of consciousness, people dig/seek out holes or nooks to hide in. They call it terminal burrowing. This in relation to the Dustin Self story.
This actually kinda makes me want to be aggressively friendly. If I'm going hiking/camping, I'm going to a nearby store first and will make sure they remember me and where I'm going. I am going to detail every moment of my life beforehand and what I'm planning to the poor clerk. That way, if I come up missing, I will have been so annoying and have over shared so much that the nearby store would DEFINITELY remember me. 😅
Not just the clerk now knows every detail that you spit out but so does everyone around that could overhear. Watch some more of his videos, a lot of people with bad intentions take opportunity for easy prey. It is possible to make yourself easy to remember, loud, overly friendly etc. without giving away a bunch of personal details to perfect strangers. Instead tell a trusted loved one where you’ll be.
There’s an interview with this woman somewhere, Maybe it’s in one of the 411 films, or with David Paulides. She talks about how she could “see” it moving and grasping branches that were farther away than anything with normal appendages could get to. Like this shimmering holographic being would reach out and then the “arm” would stretch out and lengthen to reach the next tree, which would dip down towards this creature. And this happened well before the “Predator” films came out. Really creepy.
It was 'The Hunted", missing 411 documentary. The lady said she saw it reach over and climb on to another tree that was 12 feet away from the tree it was already on. Then she took pictures, and the shot she took of it came out in a resolution her camera didn't have an option for. This isn't the first time I've heard of digital equipment malfunctioning when trying to capture something weird. I think film would be immune to that interference. It's a chemical medium and therefore should be less prone to scrambling. But the chances of someone being out when they notice something odd, and having a film camera on them instead of digital is probably almost non existent.
I try to be as open minded as possible, but the fact that the ONE PHOTO she was able capture of this thing JUST HAPPENS to be distorted, 99% lens flare, and a smaller aspect ratio. Why would the aspect ratio change? I think she was just looking for something to talk with her husband about because he was all into this shit.
Listening to the story about Dustin I immediately remembered a fellow I rescued in the Smokey's a number of years ago, he was acutely hypothermic and having lost much of his cognitive ability he stripped nude believing he was overheating and took shelter under what he thought was a large rock outcropping. In reality when I found him he was on the summit of the mountain (Either Thunder Head or Rocky Top, I can't remember atm), nude, and pressed up against a small bolder covering only his head and face with the rest of his body exposed to a constant icy mist.
@@Zorro9129 Yeah, we carried him down to a nearby AT trail shelter where some backpackers took over caring for him while we went back out to locate and care for another couple victims. That first fellow was later evacuated by horseback along with his brother in law who we also were able to bring to the same shelter (Spence Field if I recall correctly), the third victim though took us longer to locate and had to be evacuated by chopper.
I heard the Dustin story on another video. They said he was hoping to find hallucinations mushrooms out there. And thinks he probably just bought hallucinations before he left. Not sure why Baller didn't mention that
Love how this channel has permission from David Paulides, the original person and founder of the missing 411 and you provide links to his works and promote him and his work.
Agreed, so many channels use sources without permission or even citing them. It’s great he is acknowledging the people that did the larger part of the work finding and compiling all these stories that he uses instead of. Pretending that he deep dive researched everything.
Story #3, the gas station the teen called his mom from - no-one thought to review the security footage to see if he walked off or was abducted? I feel like something huge is missing here!
Really interesting story about the woman who saw a blurry, "saran-wrap" image! Thanks for covering this. I really enjoy the way you tell stories--animated, energetic, and great hand gestures! :)
When I first heard of missing 411, my friend had shown me a documentary where they cover a couple of the stories and explain the details of what makes a missing 411 case and that story was the last story on the documentary and I thought the same thing! Really strange why this story get lumped in with the rest.... perhaps a nudge towards what they think could be causing some of these stories?
They include situations which might be evidence of some unexplained beings. The implication is that those beings might be responsible for missing people.
Yeah they said he was hit by a tree ok like dude said why would all the clothes be neatly spread out eerily near his skull and femur bones if it was a “ tree” also if he got hit by that tree wouldn’t there be more remains than just his a couple bones ? surely they would’ve have found him around that area before… sketchy af an trippy af especially for that hunter that’s some horror movie shit with the crow
The stories are fascinating, but what is just as impressive is Mr. Ballens superb ability as a storyteller. Just enough detail to paint an incredible picture but not too much to slow or impede the tension and growing wonder. Cheers.
Oppression and tyranny presented as a virus along with wearing a mask that has been proven useless and non scientific causing more harm than good isn't your favorite? Hmmm guess I'm alone on that. ua-cam.com/video/GuhAKXQTc04/v-deo.html
@@preddowr9597 I don’t know if that would be better though? If there’s only two people I think I would want to be taken first....lolz. If you’re second you’d have to think about what’s coming after you.
In the last story, Jan did get a photo of what she was looking at, but the problem is the microchip in the Blackberry wasn't powerful enough to figure out what it was seeing. The distortion was of some *thing* or some *one* bending light around themselves, so what the camera picked up was the light refracting and fracturing around the moving object/subject. Had she held a regular camera, she would've gotten a motion blur similar to what you might see in the Predator movies. Even a video would've been better due partially to the fact that the camera would have time to figure out the proper resolution.
I believe her. My dad and I were on our way to meet my mother for lunch one day back in 1997, we both saw an “invisible” entity- it looked like heat vapors, completely invisible but, also completely outlined, noticeable and detailed. We will never forget it and still talk about it to this day!
@Witty Witty I doubt you make up wild stories to seek attention, especially if its hard to explain other than how it was just now. People like you tend to not believe things that eventually come true like the idiots who thought Earth was flat just to be proven wrong lol
i believe you, but i found the best way to start the "unbelievable" convo is "fat air". Everyone at some point has set something down turned away and it Vanished, Gone, "it didn't disappear into thin air" but we all know this one and it makes you feel crazy. then you can tell the crazier stories with more confidence, and get more stories in return. but again i do believe you
@@bluenightfury4365 Do you actually believe that people dont make up wild stories for attention? lol. Come on now. Nobody is that naive. You must be joking right?
In terms of the immediate circumstances of Dustin's death, it's a perfect example of the common, but paradoxical, behaviour of someone experiencing hypothermia. As one's blood begins to move to the core regions of their body to keep the vitals warm while feeling is simultaneously being lost in the extremities, they can mistake the sensations associated with these processes with overheating, convincing their hypothermic mind that it's a good idea to strip. Combined with this is an extremely primitive mammalian response to hypothermia called "terminal burrowing" or "hide-and-die syndrome." In our ancestors it likely served a purpose, but now it leads to people who have lost heating in their homes being found naked under their beds or in closets, or in Dustin's unfortunate case, in a hole in the ground in a highly disturbing, primordial attempt to escape the cold. The circumstances that led him to that point, however, I have no explanation for.
As opposed to staying in the warmth of his nearby truck? Or using the supplies he packed? Or lighting a fire with the abundant woodland nearby? Making wacky theories is fine but you gotta respect the details given not just inject cavemanology bias into it. His own family couldn’t understand why he would do that, the search & rescue were confused as to why there was no camp or why he didn’t stay in his car and his ex reported him fearful of a stalker. All that kinda suggests the typical 411 anomalous third party not the ancient ancestral jam your head in a hole to warm up remedy.
@@therealdonaldtruth Terminal burrowing is a real and fairly well-documented phenomenon. Most likely he only stuck his head in because he could only fit his head in. As for why he left his truck, he said that he believed someone was following him. It's possible he had become paranoid, either because someone actually was following him or simply because he believed they were, and didn't want to set up camp or light a fire in case they managed to locate him due to the fire. If someone was following him they likely lost him at some point and eventually gave up but Dustin didn't know that and thus kept wandering until his death. There could be another explanation but that seems like a very likely one to me.
But he said to his girlfriend on the phone that some person was trying to attack him. Also some of his belongings were not found. So, it's possible that someone was behind his death.
Thank you Mr Ballen. You are the best storyteller. This batch of 3 stories are mindboggling, comme habitude. What on earth drove Justin to abandon his truck where it was parked. How on earth did he wind up dead, naked, or near naked, with his head in a hole. It's frustrating for me, but what must it be like for the poor families, I can't begin to imagine.
Beginning to wonder if removing clothing is a true symptom of hypothermia...what if it is made up just to give some kind of explanation? Those that have died of hypothermia can’t tell you.
More like its Perfect for not getting any sleep hahahah, I agree though it’s a very nice format and honestly less freaky than the vids w the jump scare images
I read something once about the McCandless story, and you're actually right on both counts. He did eat poisonous berries, they made him weak and unable to move & also exacerbated the starvation process leading to death.
You're a clown, stop acting like you know what you are talking about when you clearly don't. You weren't there, neither was anybody else. Nobody knows exactly what happened; only GUESSES. Even after his body was found, nobody knew whether or not he died of starvation or poisonous berries.
Or something could have been chasing him seeing as his tracks stopped and he was seen with not scrapes on his feet but he had no boots on, a giant bird could have been chasing him I don’t mean like, a vulture or something I mean something bigger that we as humans haven’t discovered yet. So the bird could have picked him up and dropped him off at the top of the hill
@@theTrend7 Dylan and Brianna both died right after leaving the same party house - and the habitants of that house and the house itself weren't investigated!? This just SCREAMS small town coverup. And Brianna saying "I won't keep quiet anymore" along with how the murderers put Dylans head in a hole so he couldnt see/hear anything seems like a pretty obvious indicator that there's a plethora of foul play and that something MASSIVELY fishy - and illegal - is going on in that town. FBI needs to get in there and do some real investigating ASAP.
@@WyspyMyst I do belive we have yet to discover all life on this planet and even belive it's possible we have interdimensinal creatures and or beings visiting us on our plane but giant bird being responsible for his death is highly unlikely seeing as how his body was discovered man. Also birds wouldn't leave prey behind uneaten specially if it's large empty to snatch a full grown man and fly off with him. But again I do belive there is much more to this world/universe than meets the eye so your hypothesis as crazy as it sounds to me could be the exact right one. So I won't rule it out completely just because we don't know and maybe never will but I think he was simply murdered by some assholes who as it sounds have done it multiple times and it's a small town cover up dilly.
Yep, i live in Northern California in the mountains. Lots of cartels and illegal pot growers. Hell, I've been shot at while driving dirt bikes with friends on federal land. I think a lot of the missing folks could be attributed to the local cartels.
@@ateosedm5690 you are fucking insane for staying there. Lived here all 20 years haven't had 1 bad thing happen and after watching this video, and many other death videos I'm paranoid af
@@beamills9205 what if some sick person made him strip down, took his stuff, and made him burry his own head at gun point? And I guess walked 9 miles into some trees to do it
It was more than how you put it plainly.. it’s about discovering nature on a level you can’t comprehend.. the feeling of complete freedom being out in the wild is a feeling you can’t find anywhere but that place.
probably as a city person, he would think country and even wild would be better than current situation he was in, cutting off those annoying human connection and be one with the wild its just common _greener grass_ case but in actuallity, living in a wild with NO IDEA what you are doing, like what kind of community you would had, is just homeless and got stranded with extra step
Yep Mr. Ballen's stories will mess you up! I've been sleeping with my light on at night for days. The first 2 nights after bingeing it took me forever to fall asleep. I finally had to limit myself on how late I would watch his stories so that I would have time to watch other stuff like asmr to get my mind off of it! But overall it has been soo worth it!!!
When I was a child I found a toad stuck in a street drain croaking and in distress. I flagged two little boys I didn't know and asked them to lower me into the drain. They held my feet and lowered me into the narrow drain, my whole body length in I grabbed Mr toad and they pulled me back. Today I still think of the horrific end if those two boys had lost their grip, it was straight down and full of water.
I use to go caving back when i was a teen in the mountains of Ohio. Some of those entrances were as big as football stadiums and other ways to get to another was just big enough to lay on your stomach and wiggle. God if i got stuck,i still go what was i thinking. Those caves were 60 degrees while the outside was snowing at -10 degrees.
Robert Guffy wrote a book about them testing it on a childhood pal of his because he was a ne’er-d-well with a drug problem, thus plausible deniability called Project Chameleo.
Did anyone notice, the case of Dustin, that he never mentioned the people chasing after Dustin again. And that the people only talked about theories of how he died but never, who were those people.
personally i think he was quite literally bullied to death and made to walk home in embarrassment and he instead died of hyperthermia since he was drunk underage and probably didnt know how to handle himself too well from the inexperience. however i also believe the case was quickly rushed close because the child's death wasnt intentional by his attackers and the attackers belong to a high standing family in the town. instead of hating the possible attackers i feel lots of anger toward the mother. she knew her son, underage, was drunk at night walking down the side of the road to a gas station of all places. knowing this, when her son called for a 2nd time in distress, she decides to just say "i'll be there in a minute" and he hangs up the phone. yea, she should've told her son to STAY on the phone. personally i wouldve told my son to do that the first time he called simply because he is a minor who is drunk and going to be walking down a used road at fucking night time. like come the fuck on.
There are many cases like this, I read some of Paulides' books. While talking on a cell they never describe what these people look like prior to going missing as they are being chased. Interesting. Thanks to Mr. Ballen for his stories.
Omg I just love your stories I know I’m late but better late than never I’m one of your biggest fans keep doing what you’re doing you’re one of our best messengers of this generation
I'm in ohio too, not that far of Lake Erie, either... but also, not heard this one.. still, rather interesting story.. so, glad to heard it, now!! I was thinking the scariest places are either, many remote areas, like in West Virginia or them overly crowded one's..🤔. But guess, ohio is getting crowded, anyways. Well, that Ohio, might be one place of not so many, alien abuductions, or much crazy happenings, about!! Lol... maybe, UFO's passing by, just not abductions, though... maybe, a hairy giant but, doubt it even, stuck around! Lol 🤔..
@@paigeelaine9766 I think the people at the gas station were involved. If he was at the gas station when he called then they said he wasn't, and the kid had lived there his whole life, something doesn't add up, I'd be checking the relations between employees at the gas station and the police station. Small towns have big secrets.
Or that he rang his mum panicking about something but didnt say what was scaring him, surely if someone was there he would of ran towards his mums car not run into forest?? Seems suspicious
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I've been watching your videos every single day for the last couple of weeks. I love the fact all the stories are true. Keep doing you Mr ballen you are a great story teller and very authentic 🙌
The chances of this happening to u are slim to none. Plus you can't sit behind a computer the rest of your life. Mother nature provides us with this beautiful planet to take in an explore. Enjoy yourself while your on this planet for such a short tine. I'll take my chances scuba diving,spelunking, hunting and camp in the forest, getting away from people and technology, leaving that crap behind ....now thats something to me relish. I been doing these things for half century, no problems here. Your more likely to get electrocuted by your computer then come even remotely close to going out doing one of these outdoor activities . Don't be scared . . ..
So many people in his comments section say this. You are more likely to get into a car accident, so you better not drive!! Live your life and enjoy it. Much better option.
So many people in his comments section say this. You are more likely to get into a car accident, so you better not drive!! Live your life and enjoy it. Much better option.
1. No caves 2. No diving in caves 3. No hiking alone 4. Always lock the doors 5. Never go ignore a warning sign or go someplace you shouldn’t be 6. Never cram yourself into a tight space.
Yea but whats weirder is that they're usually found without clothes on or very little and any remaining clothes are neatly set next to them....like wtf....aliens
The lesson here should be if you find yourself in a strange situation where you call a loved one in a panic, immediately tell them exactly where you are in great detail and tell them what strange crap is going on.
It must make it worse for the person they call, so near but still destined for termination. I have the books, its the weirdest stuff I have ever read, truth is stranger than fiction, but why are the authorities trying to keep it quiet?
Thank you John always love your content 💕 David Politis 411 missing is incredible. The more he investigates, the more strange cases he finds. He's strictly authentic, an ex policeman. He states the facts of the cases backed up by overwhelming evidence. It's great that John is spreading some of these disappearances. People should pay attention. Jen is a good example of what others have experienced.
My brother was dropped off drunk right in front of our house once and got lost walking. It can happen if you are really drunk even if you know the area. He walked right passed us and was picked up 6 miles away
My husband went to the neighbors once while drunk...scared her to death. Next day we all laughed it off.But this can be a terrifying experience.I also had it happen to me.🙈🙈
Yea it definetly can happen. I tried going in the wrong apartment building and trying to unluck someone elses door, bc i was drunk :S and another time i got told was when my Nephew and his friend dropped me off 3 mins walk from my House, But they took me inside the car again when they realized i was walking the wrong way
The third story sounds like the wife came across the Predator while trying to take a picture of him when he was on camouflage mode!! She's lucky that the Predator didn't consider her an opponent worth battling!!
The story is part of the Amazon Prime documentary Missing 411: The Hunted (good watch if you have Prime) and they described it as being like the movie Predator.
I KNOW THIS IS OLD BUT YOOOOO the Jan Mcabee story is WILD to me because They’re my grandmas neighbors, who I used to live with. I know those woods like the back of my hand and I’ve literally sat in Jan’s Hunting stand many times. My homie and I used to go explore back there all the time and I’ve always said there’s some weird shit going on back there . Like whole landmarks I’ve mentally made note of just straight vanishing one day and then they’re back the next. it threw me off hearing a story about my own neighbors !
Dr Bruce Maccabee is one of this world's most intelligent people and anything he says or investigates is done with complete honesty and integrity. Im a huge follower of his studies.
From a news story: "Dylan [drunk teen walking to gas station] was hanging out with friends at the same house Brianna Cook left back in October, two hours before she was found dead [under suspicious circumstances, not in this video].
I'm surprised he didn't mention that in the story cause that makes it waayy more suspicious. He left some really strange things out of that Dustin guy's story too.
@@priscillamontalvo7051 The fact that he had his head burried i guess. Why would he ever do that ? Was there a hole ? Was he told to be in this position and then killed ? That's really strange
The story with the hunter came across something that was blurry and looked like heat rising off of the pavement was interesting. I was watching a show called Mountain Monsters a couple of years ago. One of the guys in the group was talking to a cameraman. His nickname is Huckleberry and they are all from West Virginia and they were out in the forest. He told the cameraman that something has been following them for a while now. He described it as being blurry and looked like heat rising off of pavement. I was so shocked when I heard you read off the exact same thing. I just thought you might want to know about it. I love your channel, keep up the great job you're already doing. :)
The description reminds me of the video where you see a soldier wearing cloaking “camouflage”. The basically seem to have disappeared, but you can see the outline of the soldier if you knew where he had been standing.Otherwise they are invisible.
Dude. I’m from West Virginia, and I’ve seen one of the see through distorted people many times. My husband calls it his demon that he picked up at his childhood home in the forest of WV. It follows us every time we move. It’ll be quiet for a few months. Then we’ll start seeing it outside around the house. Then eventually it comes into the new house and weird stuff will happen, usually electrical issues or stuff going missing. We’ve been together almost 13 years and this thing has followed us everywhere we’ve lived in WV and VA. My sister in law blessed our new house though and we haven’t seen it here yet. Knock on wood lol
Im from Indiana and that "saran wrap" thing in the trees ive seen before. I lived in the woods in the country side and used to have to get wood for the fireplace. I went out one night and it was dead quite and i got goosebumps and felt like something was looking at me. I looked around and then up and in the trees it looked like something was fading across the trees and i took off. I still think about it to this day and that was 10 years ago.
It's friendly if you don't approach it. I don't know many specifics, but to my understanding it's just an observational being. Approaching or attempts to communicate with it are often undocumented because they don't survive to tell what happened. There is, however, a man in Fort Wayne named Matt Turner and he managed to yell at it and it made some kind of clicking noise back as it receded away. I don't know much after that except he passed away sometime last year around the same time he seen it the previous year. Late September if I'm not mistaken. I'm glad you got away to tell the tale. Ask around town about it, lot of us are partial to seeing it in the woods.
@@reapening1959 I know it's dumb because everyone is from somewhere lol but it's cool to hear about something like this so close to me. I'm from northwest ohio, and travel to Ft Wayne often. EDIT: ok I commented this before I finished the video, I'm from Lima, Ohio and hadn't heard this story. I wonder where specifically it was.
@Jackson Sellers My mistake, I was going off of what someone else commented and I should have gone back and listened to the date again on the video. You are correct.
I had something similar happen to me. I was working on a trail in the woods of a state park, and all of a sudden everything went silent, no birds, no sounds of distant traffic. I could not even hear the gator that was idling about 500 feet away. I could see that it was still there, but I could not hear it. My first thought was that the gator must have stalled, and then I was mad at myself because, my next thought was that it ran out of gas, and I could not remember if I had checked it before I left maintenance. Then the feeling of being watched by something very dangerous hit me in a big way. I have never had this feeling before or since. It felt like a bored cat watching a mouse, not really so interested as to ponce, but just watching. I wanted to run toward the gator and just take off, but at the same time, there was a voice in my head telling me to stay calm, that any sudden movements could trigger whatever was watching me. I looked all around trying to see whatever was by now freaking me out, but I could not see anything out of the ordinary. The strong feeling that I was in a lot of danger intensified. I struggled to maintain my composure, focusing on my breathing and I slowly walked toward the gator, carefully measuring my steps. I got about 50 feet from the gator when all the sounds returned at once, and I could hear the gator idling again. I had been on that trail many times before and since and nothing like that had ever happened before, or since.
Check out the book " Hunt for the Skinwalker" By Colm A. Kelleher if you're interested in a scientific report done on this same type of experience along with several other related phenomena that seem to be connected. Evidence points to some sort of "doorway" that the invisible being mentioned in the 3rd story (and a couple others) pass through at will. It mentions the birds going quiet around the time this happens, and the bright light, which one research scientist described as a window because he could see that the sky was different in the middle of the light upon further examination. This study was done in Utah on some land populated by native American tribes. I'd be interested in understanding what that connection might have to do with these types of events. It's a subject that has fascinated me for years.
When the woods go silent, it's not a good sign. Whenever out in the woods, be very observant of your surroundings and if it gets quiet, seek shelter/prep your weapon/prepare to run because the wildlife sees something you haven't yet.
@@marce4241 If you are a human and you are in the woods to purposely kill something, you might just make the woods go silent when you actively begin "the hunt". At that point, you are the big predator that all the wildlife notices.
7:01 the Joker at the bottom of the screen
Oh shit cool
Good job!!
Dang that was quick! Good eye!
Wow
noo i thought i had it at 1:52. in the car
I bet people never knew they were a fan of the strange dark and mysterious delivered in story format until they found this channel
True!
Lips
I knew. Ever since the wooly swamp by Charlie daniels
That’s exactly what happened to me lmaoo
Literally me..
Boy dies, official story is "no foul play", coroner disagrees, coroner gets fired? Definitely foul play.
Cover up ! 100 percent ! Perhaps the boy seen something he shouldn’t have
Guaranteed. I’ve witnessed, researched, and experienced enough police corruption to know those mf are covering something up
@@harveyquinn3535 u havent seen it irl lmao
@@anomaly3215 lol okay
You're saying the coroner's boss did it?
I'm not a woman or even a parent, but I can only imagine the sheer horror of hearing your son frantically exclaiming ''where are you?! Where are you?!'' only for the phone line to be cut off and for them to have disappeared is something that would haunt me for a lifetime.
He was abducted by aliens, I think.
I'm holding my baby boy in my arms right now, and I could not agree more with you! Then to have his murder hushed up by police.. really adds salt to the wound!
@@chloewright1 bruh
I think he was running away from an attacker and went to the hill because of the trees to hide but got lost and passed out from exhaustion + him being drunk caused his death from hypothermia. Wind can cover up the footprints with snow. animals picked up his pants and shoes possibly using them for nests
@@consciousobserver629 I think Dillan was taken and murdered by somebody in authority, explaining the cover up.
Regarding the last story you told about the (almost) invisible creature, I have been researching many stories regarding this phenomenon. It is collectively known as the Glimmer Man. This thing is real. There was a group of people playing music by a river who all witnessed the same thing. “It looked like the heat coming off the road on a summer day”.
I think what you saw was The Predator starring Arnold Swarzenegger.
I'm not even remotely interested in conspiracy theories. That said, the gov't has essentially said, "Yeah those ufo sightings by military pilots are something .... unidentifiable." It's possible there is a scientific explanation but it's also possible that there is a great deal we don't about in our world.
It's also possible that extraterrestrials is the scientific explanation
@@cdes1776 Ufos could be man made. Like that big balloon from china
@@RnRnR I realize that.
I hike all the time by myself and go pretty deep into the woods of Ohio, Maine, California and several other states. One thing I've learned over the years is that if you are in the woods and everything is deadly silent with no signs of wildlife you need to leave immediately. You are not necessarily in danger but bad things seem to happen when people push on after noticing the unnatural stillness.
What is the difference between pushing on and leaving? You're moving in a direction in both.
@@ReptillianStrike really 🤦♂️ If you are leaving you are heading back in the general direction you came from hence back to “safety”
Adam Schmidt, ive heard about the strange things that happen during the unnatural silence and stillness, out of curiosity have u ever experienced this yourself or personally know ppl who have?
You're really brave
@@glenakatsr it's not as obvious as you think. A large predator could be coming up behind you on the path you took, or coming onto you from your side. Turning around isn't always the safest option.
Soooo....the coroner, who attends at least 6 years of specialized schooling, JUST to determine cause of death, time of death, and manner of death, says its foul play...and people with zero specialized schooling fire him for doing his job and disagree? Nothing to see here folks
Sounds like he got kidnapped at the gas station raped murdered then dumped there somehow maybe from a road above or a small plane. 2nd story sounds like same person did the crime
@@donnacsuti4980 It's also possible that the assailants covered up all the footprints that had been left in the snow so that no one could follow the footprints to Dylan's body or to the culprits.
In a lot of counties like mine, the coroner is elected. The medical examiner performs all the specialized testing
@@justinpowell3174 Yes, I'm aware that is the process in many places, my county included. I was referring to the video stating the "coroner" made the distinction of cause of death, not the medical examiner, with is why I composed my comment the way I did.
It was obviously aliens
Person: *goes missing*
Snow and Rain: allow us to introduce ourselves
are you men of wealth and taste??
@@cynicalminion more like pelts and waste
@@monkmoto1887 YES!!
Veggietales?
Very mature
@@sealofthechomk3433 Reggie snails, I know that guy
Mr. Ballen is the most detailed story teller to the point I can see it actually happening in my mind. He keeps you intrigued. Some stories are sad, but deserve attention. Almost like paying respect.
I especially appreciate the respectful manner in which you do give us the whole story and don’t leave out the pets ❤ 😊
Always, always, always tell people where you are going and when you will be back if you are going into the wilderness. This was the golden rule when I lived in Alaska and we never deviated. So many people live their whole lives in this country with a false sense of safety, never realizing they’re sitting comfortably at the edge of chaos...
👍ok👍
i will remember
Sadly, in most modern education facilities these days topics like self awareness, letting friends or family know where you’re going, carrying some water and maybe something to eat, even items like alternate communication devices, is not taught and even not spoken about.
I only spent 3yrs in the Boy Scouts when I was young, but those lessons have stayed with me.
I have never agreed with something so much
@@realaussiemale567 What the fuck do you mean "sadly?" Name a nation that uses public education too teach common sense/Basic family teachings. Its sad the PARENTS dont understand shit.
Am I the only one who loves these stories, but gets major stress and anxiety from them? Lol
I once did, but with time you get used to it 😁
No 😫😩😣😖
Yes
Definitely not the only one
Me! Like the kid found with his head in a hole REALLY freaked me out on a deep level
I like that Jan's husband immediately believed her and took her story seriously.
I’m sure he didn’t ... may have humored her at first .. Then found some evidence that she did see something . Undefinable
Its also very lucky that he was an "optical physicist" and could examine this strange, strange photo that borked itself by magical means and such. What are the chances.... yep.
@@Trainwheel_Time it does not matter what he was there are millions of stories like this these figures and blue light's are linked together there is a reason why there so hard to see on camera and no one can take a good picture of these things there invisible like she said its almost like a blurry mirage like a heat wave you can only see the distortion. These things are happening all around the world 🌎
Too often the husband doesn't believe his wife and that's not how me and my bf are, we would totally trust that shit.
@Dick White that’s not what she said lmao
That last lady survived an encounter with the Predator, she is very lucky and my hero from this point on. Kudos to her for not screaming and running away, Predator knew courage when he saw it!
Want some candy?
That's what I was thinking, and I've never even seen the movies! My only source of Predator knowledge is the cartoon Archer lol
lol I was gonna say the same!!
Predator, for sure!
Definitely!
whenever your in the woods and it all of a sudden goes quiet just get out of there
A person can cause that
@day dazed what do you mean
If it gets quite then you could here whatever it is move, especially a person!
@day dazed Lol, for hunters it's not abnormal for us to be in complete silence. But there's mostly always some kind of natural sounds happening, a single leaf fluttering around on the tree, a squirrel or chipmunk jumping through leaves or snow, or just the wind itself. You have to admit, sometimes when all of it suddenly ceases, it can be a tad creepy. Lol. Exceptionally calming, but every once and a blue moon, it can be weird. Like you're being watched. Which, I have spotted other hunters and watched them in my binoculars for a short time...hence why I probably feel watched occasionally, you never know when somebody has you in their sights. Or something..lol..the Missing 411 really makes you wonder.
Well some of my expierence in the forrest when a predator is near some animals will make more noise alerting other animals that a predator is near.
The person found naked with his head in the ground seems to me to be suffering from hypothermia (paradoxical undressing) and the reason he was found with his head in the dirt is because a feature of final-stage hypothermia is terminal burrowing, or "hide & die syndrome".
I'm wondering if he was on meth though too.
Serious??. I have to look THAT up. Burrowing as a symptom
That would explain many stories on this channel, like why soldier hide to crack in boulder on that winter island etc.. Profound discovery, at least to me. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothermia#Paradoxical_undressing
Yes !! I know that strange crazy story. That WOULD explain that. Would never have occurred to me thanks
He was raped by bigfoot
When you bite the hot pocket but don't get all the way through the ham and when you pull back you pull out the ham and then it falls on your lip and scalds your lips so much that they blister. That is the biggest hot pocket injury possible.
*RIP Lips*
Wait this happens to people
or you somehow get some that had thawed and refroze and end up getting food poison from one and then all you taste for a week is pepperoni while throwing up everything eww lol
That is hot.
Yes
Or, the ham or a line of scalding cheese lands on your chin. You don’t know which burning part of your face to take care of first 😣
That last story is so weird! I remember something similar happened to me once when I was out at night in the middle of the desert. I remember that we were walking down this path, and I suddenly felt the urge to stop and stare at one particular direction, not even knowing why. I was slightly scared, but not enough to tell the others, and I just felt something was out there, so I took out my phone and took a picture... but it came out *really* weird. I was only able to see the cactus directly in front of me, but they were enveloped in this weird rainbow-y light, like there were red, blue and yellow rays coming from somewhere to my right, but everything was in complete darkness.
I took another picture, thinking maybe my finger had gotten in the way, but it came out the same. I even took off my phone case, but to no avail; according to my phone, there was some kind of light comming from somewhere even if I couldn't see it.
I'm thankful I wasn't alone that night, and that I was relatively close to civilization, because otherwise idk what could've happened.
Is it me or you never find the hidden secret because you’re so concentrated on these stories he tells us 🤔😟😂
Sometimes i go back to the time stamp n look where the commentor said it was. And i still miss the clue. I dont even bother trying anymore. Just enjoy the stories. No stress
Is there really a hidden secret?
@Honey beee
Lmao, yeah, I’m only here for the stories that I don’t see the secrets,, but it’s still cool that people find them!
I don't even see it when I tap on time stamp in comment section
@@GoofyClownBozo even when I click them I can barely find them 🥴
Story #1 about Dylan Parker was actually one of my best friends brother. It is incredibly sketchy and was super sad because he was so young. He was an awesome guy and actually just got his life back on track right before this happened. Around the time he went missing/died there were two other girls from around the area that had weird deaths too. Brianna cook was one of them.
I'm sorry for you and your friend's loss. So terrible.
Thanks for the info Tanieka, those were strange deaths indeed, really bothers me that those police people didn't bother looking into them more, looks like someone was covering up something!
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Damn they're is something wrong in that place
May they rest in peace
Dylan Parker's death seems like something much more sinister was going on there, especially after the medical examiner was fired so viciously. They're probably covering up some murderer there.
In my opinion, the only explanation is alien abduction
@@alsimonuk Maybe not something as Ludacris as that, but something clearly was off about how Dylan died, I mean zero tracks whatsoever by the body or even leading to or away from it on that mountain, David was right to question what the police were doing with the case as it seemed like they were sweeping it under the rug as they didn't immediately have any clues to determine the cause of death. But I think that's where the police were also trying to sweep it under the rug as now, they have the equipment to detect harmful substances inside someone's blood, which I believe during 2014 was when that tech was either already fully incorporated into police stations for that very purpose or was just beginning to get around, if that station had that tech they could have taken a sample of his blood to see if there were any harmful substances in his blood.
They know he was drunk or at least tipsy but parties also tend to have at least that ONE PERSON smuggle drugs into the party and spike a few drinks with those drugs and Dylan might have been under the effects of those drugs if they had an extremely strong dose, perhaps enough to where he just started thrashing around which could explain why there were no tracks, which was why his pants and boots could have been removed from his person especially if that was done when he reached where he was found or at least up in a tree somewhere.
Add in brianna cook also went to a party at the same house in osborn roughly 3 months prior then died by hanging herself at her fsthers house after leaving the party angry.
Ashely sullivan also hung herself a few months after dylans death and apprantly knew them both..
It is much more sinister than they are letting off. Not too long after he died another girl he was with "hung" herself, she couldn't tie a knot by herself and everyone that knew her knew that. There is a lot of unanswered questions surrounding this case. I live in the area and know many people who knew Dylan personally.
@@cursedhawkins1305 lmao dude how many parties have you been to??
US Navy veteran here. Thank you for your service John.
Nice to see this. Apparently some veterans and service members have beef with Mr Ballen
@@avalon4693 no idea why. He has awesome content and seems to be a great person. And of course a fellow veteran!
Me:**gets to heaven**
Them:"How'd you die?"
Me:"Hot pocket cheese lava flow. The like button saw me coming"
Them: "yeah me too"
Your comment is underated!
Lol... fair enough, sounds super dangerous.
😄
Or like button gave you a rock solid hot pocket and you died
The final story reminds me of Predator, the movie. I would be Flippin TERRRRRIFIED if I saw that. These stories have me literally on the edge of my seat, and I've been marathon watching you for over a week now. Love what you do!! Thanks for the adrenaline rush, the entertainment, and the reminder to always be aware of my surroundings.
Yes, it is, isn't it? 😨
But luckily, a lot of these entities seem "allergic" to being videoed! They seem to leave the area if you do that, Bigfoots and ETs included. Best self defence against the bastard things? Take a picture!.🙂
I do believe this story to be true, btw.
I was thinking Predator technology also.
I was abt to say that😂
I definitely thought of the movie Predator. One of MrBallen's videos popped up onto my home screen about 2 weeks ago, I watched that video, watched a couple more after that then immediately subscribed to his channel. Watching his videos has become a nightly ritual now 😊. He's such a fantastic storyteller!
Methinks she had a moment, maybe a mental freakout or break of some sort. We don't know her mental health history but could play. The camera can output a picture at pretty much any arbitrary aspect ratio. The resolution thing is kind a red herring, the app is just giving you three options. So she might have had another camera app on her phone or used a different app that also made use of the camera and took the picture using that while she was incapacitated and didn't realize it. Maybe a game camera app was used to take the picture, those will use low resolutions. As for the picture itself, low light, maybe the lens was covered but it was definitely taken with a slow shutter speed judging by the streaks in it. Nothing remarkable about it really.
If the camera settings can be accessed by app programmers they could tell the camera to take a picture at any resolution that the camera sensor supports, which will be waaay more than just 3. Typically.
The light in the forest her nephew saw, almost certainly just a person with a flashlight walking around. It was the evening after all. Reason the instructor got spooked was because of the strange person in the woods with a flash light stalking around near school grounds. Reason it happened the year before, same guy likes the seasonal weather of the time of year and also enjoys going out into the woods.
Her scientist husband? He is just being a good husband and supporting his wife anyway he can.
Sadly, I think the story might be more of a story mental decline in older age rather than of Predator roaming through the forest of oregon, stalking and toying with potential pray. For everyone involved in that story, I think they'd rather it was Predator.
It'd be interesting to talk to the man who was fired after conducting Dylan's autopsy. There is clearly more to this story.
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Especially since there were two other mysterious deaths in the same town around the same time!
isn't it at least a possibility that the police were in fact correct and the man was incapable of doing his job? what if the police were actually right and the dude was being biased? just saying that it can't be ruled out. maybe he was wrong and his judgment was biased
@@Maintenance_Mark that, to me, is the main reason it would be interesting to talk to him. To try to gage whether he’s credible or not, cause it could very well just be him trying to sound more important than he is.
@@emdove oh I absolutely agree I wish we could get word directly from the horse's mouth on this one. We might be able to see right off the bat that he's a quack or we might see that he's very credible and documented his work well.
Is it just me or do i just put my phone down lay down and listen to his storys because of how good of a storyteller he is
I fall asleep to them some nights when I need sound going on, it's a nice way to doze off
@@Chudchanning right!!!
@@Chudchanning I’d never be able to do that with the stories he tells 😂
@@1nnova659 you have to be a special kind of dysfunctional person to use tragic murder stories as a lullaby
I listen to them while drawing and doing chores.
After binge watching MrBallen for about a week now, I’m not sure I can ever go back in the woods. And I love the woods. 😩
I know what you mean! I have a beautiful property with a great area that's really dense woods. I walk laps around an open field that's right along the woods and I used to walk through the woods all the time too but now I won't go alone. I make my 21 year old son go with me or I don't go. He carries survival gear with him down there.Lol
I have always loved to walk alone in the woods even as young as 5 years old. It was my happy place . We lived on a farm with woods all around for miles.
I’ve never been scared in the woods, alone in the city on the other hand😓
He makes me thankful that I have never, nor will I ever, cave dive.
The Woods will come to you.
me too! I had just listened to a bunch of people going missing in the forest or like weird and creepy things happening and then I had to go camping like then next day it was terrifying 😭
This is the only channel that makes me scared in broad daylight, I get chills and it makes me look over my shoulders
Same, expecially on the Seren Wrap story, when he said that the thing moves closer I got so fucking spooked.
@@cardboardbox9119 The Yautja only take those who can fight back
@@bwestacado9643 the what
@@cardboardbox9119 Fool! How do you not know about the Yautja?!
@@bwestacado9643yeah it's the predator.
Saying your on a mountain in Oregon is like saying your in an apartment in New york
l am with humans on planet Earth.....come find me?!....does that help/.....lol....these stories are so weird sometimes that l forget they are true smh
In New York city they will know what happened to you. A mountain in oregon, gone without a trace
@@melanieking4357 are you a interdimensional being?
@@subzero9024 am quite human l assure you....lol
**you're **
It's amazing to me how many cops in these stories rule out foul play when they've got descriptions of their victims calling their loved ones sounding panicked and saying people are following them...you'd figure that would point to some degree of foul play?
Not if they're protecting an organisation
I show this to my husband to prove you can tell a story without cussing. It is so refreshing to listen to Mr. Ballen
Thats bullshit
It’s pretty fuckin neat eh?
He does cuss very loudly repeatedly all the way through these stories! Its just that he edits those bits out for youtube!
Cussing rules
You should hear the foul things he says to the like button.
The underage boy leaving to meet his Mom, is beyond heartbreaking.
Right you are , how his mother must feel when she was trying to take him home , so sad I do hope she fines peace with this tragedy.
Something about his case (Dillon) doesn't sit well in my stomach...when his mom said there was fear in his voice, she heard fear, a mother knows her child...I don't know who or what happend but I believe with all my heart, Dillon had help getting to where he was found.
Yea he definitely was picked up by some weirdo and then dumped there
@@laurasnear1625 my thoughts exactly, like on atvs.
@@roseredadonna8174 right but no one heard him scream. His mom was right around the corner. He saw something that scared him like a lot of the missing do.
The last story reminded me of an experience I had. I was doing Advanced Individual Training (AIT) in the army back in the summer of 1991 at Redstone Arsenal, AL. My platoon was doing land navigation training exercises in the forest and had separate into squads to work on our objectives. It was a hot, bright, sunny day and the woods were alive with sounds...crickets, cicadas, birds, squirrels, etc. The noise was incredibly loud. My squad was moving along from point to point on the topographical map and recording our progress.
At around midday, we were walking up this short hill and reached the flat top of it, about 50 meters across, when we noticed that all sounds had stopped. We were in an old-growth section of the forest that had gone completely silent. And it wasn't a normal silence. It was almost like the silence in one of those hearing test chambers. We could hear each others' voices, but they seemed to fall completely flat...no echoes whatsoever. We looked around and there were probably a dozen or so depressions in the ground scattered around us that were around 6 feet long, 2-3 feet wide, and maybe 6-8 inches deep. To me, they looked as if they were maybe very old graves that had sunken in. I was never able to find any information about them later, nor do I know if they had anything to do with what followed.
In what seemed like a very sudden event, we were all overcome with this intense sleepiness. It hit us all at once. We could not hold ourselves up any longer, so we just lied down on the ground and immediately fell asleep. I think it was about 30 min later when I was awakened by a cheeky squirrel throwing acorns at my head out of the tree I was under. The sounds had returned. Everyone sort of came to at the same time, and we just got up and continued on our way. I would have to say that's one of the strangest things I have ever experienced, and I have no explanation for any of it.
"Ranger graves" are hasty 1-2 man fighting positions, a dozen or so being a typical squad sized element. Very common in a military training area. Can't speak to the rest of it though other than being sleepy in basic/ait is also not that strange haha!
@@danielpulley3891 Ok, thanks for the info. It makes sense given the hilltop position I guess, even if there didn't appear to be any displaced soil.
But the sleepiness was not a typical AIT thing. It was literally irresistible. I never get that way, and I was very young back then, and 5 or 6 guys all at once? I think we all had our hair standing on end after that experience.
@@DoubleplusUngoodthinkful Just a theory, but if the humidity, temperature, and the aforementioned "Ranger Graves" spacing were just right it would be the cause of the almost noise canceling effect.
The heat and the baffling of noise would also be a cause to have the massive fatigue.
Again, just a theory of what may have caused the phenomenon you experienced.
@@reverendfatheruncleruckus interesting theory, but when we came to, it was noisy again.
Yoooooooooo... aliens
It’s odd how many phone calls are made where people claim they are being chased by a person or persons and then they are never found. A lot of your stories have this detail. Has to be something to these claims.
Watched this last night and heard “Dustin Self” and was totally shocked. It’s been almost a decade since he left. We both went to the same school and he was by far the best skater out of all of us. RIP Audio!
you know, i have no reason to believe that you're not lying but if not WOW what a coincidence, and I'm sorry for your loss
@@dogbunnycat6083 Is it really such a coincidence that out of millions of views, somebody might actually know somebody?
@@dogbunnycat6083 the way you worded this is terrifying . Go back to school
@@saltyzu8412 as you put a space before the period lmao
@@anomaly3215 “I have no reason to not believe that you’re not lying but if not…” How many negatives can you throw in a sentence? It no longer means what he thinks it does. An accidental space before a period because I’m typing on an iPad is completely different. You are as dumb as it gets.
When people die of hypothermia they feel a really hot sensation which cause them to shed some clothes. Because of that a lot of hypothermia victims are thought to be victims of sexual assault
Omg yes totally forgot that
Yeah whenever i touch a cold item for long time it gets hot, so i guess its like that
There is also an hypothesis that in the very last moments of consciousness, people dig/seek out holes or nooks to hide in. They call it terminal burrowing. This in relation to the Dustin Self story.
I thought that’s what he possibly could have been a victim of
Yeah but still what about the tracks? I believe everything you said but how would her burrow himself in if there’s no tracks to get there
If you continue to mess with the like button, one day you’ll be telling his story on your channel once he snaps.
Eh even if he snaps MrBallen can handle it lol
no cap
The Like Button Liberation Front approves
Lololol watching the episode where Mr ballen describes his disappearance
thats the 1.5 mil special
Jans story - it really does sound like the alien from Predator.
Thank you
That's exactly what I thought. Surprised your comment didn't get more likes🙂
You mean the Predator from Predator
@@XavierMaster568 which is an alien...
Exactly what came to mind for me also. Predator 1, before it developed a taste for Rastas .
This actually kinda makes me want to be aggressively friendly. If I'm going hiking/camping, I'm going to a nearby store first and will make sure they remember me and where I'm going. I am going to detail every moment of my life beforehand and what I'm planning to the poor clerk. That way, if I come up missing, I will have been so annoying and have over shared so much that the nearby store would DEFINITELY remember me. 😅
😆
Not a horrible idea especially if the manager is there and you can catch them to hassle about it
Not smart...the clerk will know where yu are. Easy prey
Not just the clerk now knows every detail that you spit out but so does everyone around that could overhear. Watch some more of his videos, a lot of people with bad intentions take opportunity for easy prey. It is possible to make yourself easy to remember, loud, overly friendly etc. without giving away a bunch of personal details to perfect strangers. Instead tell a trusted loved one where you’ll be.
FUNNY!! FOR SURE FOR SURE!!🤣🤣
There’s an interview with this woman somewhere, Maybe it’s in one of the 411 films, or with David Paulides. She talks about how she could “see” it moving and grasping branches that were farther away than anything with normal appendages could get to. Like this shimmering holographic being would reach out and then the “arm” would stretch out and lengthen to reach the next tree, which would dip down towards this creature. And this happened well before the “Predator” films came out. Really creepy.
Predator was released in 1987, Blackberry’s came out in 1999.
It was 'The Hunted", missing 411 documentary. The lady said she saw it reach over and climb on to another tree that was 12 feet away from the tree it was already on.
Then she took pictures, and the shot she took of it came out in a resolution her camera didn't have an option for. This isn't the first time I've heard of digital equipment malfunctioning when trying to capture something weird.
I think film would be immune to that interference. It's a chemical medium and therefore should be less prone to scrambling. But the chances of someone being out when they notice something odd, and having a film camera on them instead of digital is probably almost non existent.
Its in the MISSING 411 THE HUNTED..documentry
@macatac14 yeas...it eas the 411 Missing 411 The Hunted..documentry
I try to be as open minded as possible, but the fact that the ONE PHOTO she was able capture of this thing JUST HAPPENS to be distorted, 99% lens flare, and a smaller aspect ratio. Why would the aspect ratio change? I think she was just looking for something to talk with her husband about because he was all into this shit.
Listening to the story about Dustin I immediately remembered a fellow I rescued in the Smokey's a number of years ago, he was acutely hypothermic and having lost much of his cognitive ability he stripped nude believing he was overheating and took shelter under what he thought was a large rock outcropping. In reality when I found him he was on the summit of the mountain (Either Thunder Head or Rocky Top, I can't remember atm), nude, and pressed up against a small bolder covering only his head and face with the rest of his body exposed to a constant icy mist.
Did he make it?
@@Zorro9129 Yeah, we carried him down to a nearby AT trail shelter where some backpackers took over caring for him while we went back out to locate and care for another couple victims. That first fellow was later evacuated by horseback along with his brother in law who we also were able to bring to the same shelter (Spence Field if I recall correctly), the third victim though took us longer to locate and had to be evacuated by chopper.
I heard the Dustin story on another video. They said he was hoping to find hallucinations mushrooms out there. And thinks he probably just bought hallucinations before he left. Not sure why Baller didn't mention that
LMFAO this was exactly what I was looking for. The comments section is the ultimate detective.
Now that you mention it I often heared that hypothermic people start removing their clothes
I know this is an older post but I love these stories. I'm a vet myself and it was hard finding my place again. Thank you for your positive attitude
Love how this channel has permission from David Paulides, the original person and founder of the missing 411 and you provide links to his works and promote him and his work.
Agreed, so many channels use sources without permission or even citing them. It’s great he is acknowledging the people that did the larger part of the work finding and compiling all these stories that he uses instead of. Pretending that he deep dive researched everything.
Ex: “Hey I think your son is going nuts on a fkin mountain..”
Dad: “oh ok thanks”
Dude this made me lol
🤣
Rude comment
@@horrorfan5157 youre fun
Story #3, the gas station the teen called his mom from - no-one thought to review the security footage to see if he walked off or was abducted? I feel like something huge is missing here!
Probably didn’t have any.
He died of hypothermia. Hs sleeping bag/tent were probably far awat form him. Someone found them and took them.
@@hollystiener16 this is not the hiking person he was talking about. Its the drunk teen.
Anyway the cops are sus because theres definitely a cover up
there's no way to get there! except for the fricken crashed atvs that he was probably on
I'm referring to the drunk teen you guys, that's what it was listed under was #3, pls pay attention as to not cause others more confusion.
Really interesting story about the woman who saw a blurry, "saran-wrap" image! Thanks for covering this. I really enjoy the way you tell stories--animated, energetic, and great hand gestures! :)
Pradator.
The scary thing about this video, is that the last story has nothing to do with missing people being found in impossible places.
Bro it was a 100% cover up right
When I first heard of missing 411, my friend had shown me a documentary where they cover a couple of the stories and explain the details of what makes a missing 411 case and that story was the last story on the documentary and I thought the same thing! Really strange why this story get lumped in with the rest.... perhaps a nudge towards what they think could be causing some of these stories?
It sounds like Jan was watching too many Predator movies.
They include situations which might be evidence of some unexplained beings. The implication is that those beings might be responsible for missing people.
Yeah they said he was hit by a tree ok like dude said why would all the clothes be neatly spread out eerily near his skull and femur bones if it was a “ tree” also if he got hit by that tree wouldn’t there be more remains than just his a couple bones ? surely they would’ve have found him around that area before… sketchy af an trippy af especially for that hunter that’s some horror movie shit with the crow
I think we can all agree that this man is saving 2020 by just being alive
Speak for yourself. I’ve had to deal with 2020 and his s***
He's helping it. I don't think there's any saving 2020.
@@soleclaw6521 ture
@@mr.ballenslikebutton1373 I’m so sorry like button
@@mr.ballenslikebutton1373 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
*A distorted figure that scares away all wild life*
Girl: "Say cheese!"
😅
If she had a gun, she'd have been a trophy
@@bwestacado9643 if she had a drink, she would wake up at Cosby ...oh wait, nevermind, thats another type of predator
IT WAS A PERSON WEARING A CIA INVISIBILITY CLOAK :3
Badass*: "Say cheese!"
The stories are fascinating, but what is just as impressive is Mr. Ballens superb ability as a storyteller. Just enough detail to paint an incredible picture but not too much to slow or impede the tension and growing wonder. Cheers.
This channel is my favorite thing of 2020
True. 2920 had a lot of bad. But we had this !!
also my favorite thing of 2020
Oppression and tyranny presented as a virus along with wearing a mask that has been proven useless and non scientific causing more harm than good isn't your favorite? Hmmm guess I'm alone on that. ua-cam.com/video/GuhAKXQTc04/v-deo.html
Same
Yo why did this guy make a channel and then comment here in the same hour
I’ve learned if you’re ever hiking or walking in the woods don’t be last in line. Thanks for all the great stories.
Yes somewhere in the middle is best
Or if there only 2 then the front 😂
@@preddowr9597 I don’t know if that would be better though? If there’s only two people I think I would want to be taken first....lolz. If you’re second you’d have to think about what’s coming after you.
@@richardf24 well shit now idk what is best
Prolly just to stay out of the wood in general
@@preddowr9597 lolz
Go with people that are also slower than you
that last story really creeped me out. I don't get creeped out easily, but something about it just really unsettled me
In the last story, Jan did get a photo of what she was looking at, but the problem is the microchip in the Blackberry wasn't powerful enough to figure out what it was seeing. The distortion was of some *thing* or some *one* bending light around themselves, so what the camera picked up was the light refracting and fracturing around the moving object/subject. Had she held a regular camera, she would've gotten a motion blur similar to what you might see in the Predator movies. Even a video would've been better due partially to the fact that the camera would have time to figure out the proper resolution.
This is like a 6yr old explaining the solar system :D Oh boy, so much cringe.
something a pre-teen would say ^@@macdaniel6029
I believe her.
My dad and I were on our way to meet my mother for lunch one day back in 1997, we both saw an “invisible” entity- it looked like heat vapors, completely invisible but, also completely outlined, noticeable and detailed. We will never forget it and still talk about it to this day!
@Witty Witty I doubt you make up wild stories to seek attention, especially if its hard to explain other than how it was just now. People like you tend to not believe things that eventually come true like the idiots who thought Earth was flat just to be proven wrong lol
i believe you, but i found the best way to start the "unbelievable" convo is "fat air". Everyone at some point has set something down turned away and it Vanished, Gone, "it didn't disappear into thin air" but we all know this one and it makes you feel crazy. then you can tell the crazier stories with more confidence, and get more stories in return. but again i do believe you
@@bluenightfury4365 Do you actually believe that people dont make up wild stories for attention? lol. Come on now. Nobody is that naive. You must be joking right?
Its called FOG!
@@G-Star-Raw fog isn't clear, though, nor does it cause distortion....
Dude found dead in the woods, no pants and his head stuck in the ground. He's an ostrich. Can't rule out fowl play.
Palm🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
He said someone was after him, truck parked poorly, no clothes or supplies. Probably saw something he shouldn’t have
@@AD-bb9np Definitely agree with that theory, most mountain folk are normally friendly... Unless you intrude on or see something you shouldn't
Well played, sir.
I see what you did there
In terms of the immediate circumstances of Dustin's death, it's a perfect example of the common, but paradoxical, behaviour of someone experiencing hypothermia. As one's blood begins to move to the core regions of their body to keep the vitals warm while feeling is simultaneously being lost in the extremities, they can mistake the sensations associated with these processes with overheating, convincing their hypothermic mind that it's a good idea to strip. Combined with this is an extremely primitive mammalian response to hypothermia called "terminal burrowing" or "hide-and-die syndrome." In our ancestors it likely served a purpose, but now it leads to people who have lost heating in their homes being found naked under their beds or in closets, or in Dustin's unfortunate case, in a hole in the ground in a highly disturbing, primordial attempt to escape the cold. The circumstances that led him to that point, however, I have no explanation for.
Amazing thoughts! Thank you!
I was thinking the same thing, seems very plausible to me actually.
As opposed to staying in the warmth of his nearby truck? Or using the supplies he packed? Or lighting a fire with the abundant woodland nearby? Making wacky theories is fine but you gotta respect the details given not just inject cavemanology bias into it. His own family couldn’t understand why he would do that, the search & rescue were confused as to why there was no camp or why he didn’t stay in his car and his ex reported him fearful of a stalker. All that kinda suggests the typical 411 anomalous third party not the ancient ancestral jam your head in a hole to warm up remedy.
@@therealdonaldtruth Terminal burrowing is a real and fairly well-documented phenomenon. Most likely he only stuck his head in because he could only fit his head in. As for why he left his truck, he said that he believed someone was following him. It's possible he had become paranoid, either because someone actually was following him or simply because he believed they were, and didn't want to set up camp or light a fire in case they managed to locate him due to the fire. If someone was following him they likely lost him at some point and eventually gave up but Dustin didn't know that and thus kept wandering until his death. There could be another explanation but that seems like a very likely one to me.
But he said to his girlfriend on the phone that some person was trying to attack him. Also some of his belongings were not found. So, it's possible that someone was behind his death.
Thank you Mr Ballen. You are the best storyteller. This batch of 3 stories are mindboggling, comme habitude. What on earth drove Justin to abandon his truck where it was parked. How on earth did he wind up dead, naked, or near naked, with his head in a hole. It's frustrating for me, but what must it be like for the poor families, I can't begin to imagine.
That last story makes me think of the Predator with its invisible camouflage
Her husband en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Maccabee
Thank you that's what I was thinking 🤔
It was predator
So the image of the predator with invisible camouflage in this video had nothing to do with you coming to that conclusion?
@@duntaejones6107 nope
*Unknown mysteries to missing people*
Their clothes: I’m not even here. I’m just a hallucination
Beginning to wonder if removing clothing is a true symptom of hypothermia...what if it is made up just to give some kind of explanation? Those that have died of hypothermia can’t tell you.
It is a symptom. Medicine doesn’t rest and rely on the reports of survivors.
@@organicinohio5398 this is true. i notice myself freezing in my room but also i’m sweating and taking my clothes and blankets off. really wild lmao
These boots are made for walkng but to where my body is.
@Fern Koenig maybe radiation
this is the perfect channel no cringe intro only creepy and weird stories ITS PERFECT!!!!! thank you for this
Ye
I agree 110%
No bullshit, also. All these stories are real and he says the way everyone knows them.
More like its Perfect for not getting any sleep hahahah, I agree though it’s a very nice format and honestly less freaky than the vids w the jump scare images
And dont forget abuse to the like button
I read something once about the McCandless story, and you're actually right on both counts. He did eat poisonous berries, they made him weak and unable to move & also exacerbated the starvation process leading to death.
You're a clown, stop acting like you know what you are talking about when you clearly don't. You weren't there, neither was anybody else. Nobody knows exactly what happened; only GUESSES.
Even after his body was found, nobody knew whether or not he died of starvation or poisonous berries.
I think poor Dylan was murdered...it's sounds like he was really afraid in his last call to his mom. I think someone was pursuing him and he knew it.
U nailed it brother I lived about 5 houses away he was partying and got into a argument and then was missing
@@dragongamerxl7913 or sister….. this user is named Ruth.
Or something could have been chasing him seeing as his tracks stopped and he was seen with not scrapes on his feet but he had no boots on, a giant bird could have been chasing him I don’t mean like, a vulture or something I mean something bigger that we as humans haven’t discovered yet. So the bird could have picked him up and dropped him off at the top of the hill
@@theTrend7 Dylan and Brianna both died right after leaving the same party house - and the habitants of that house and the house itself weren't investigated!? This just SCREAMS small town coverup. And Brianna saying "I won't keep quiet anymore" along with how the murderers put Dylans head in a hole so he couldnt see/hear anything seems like a pretty obvious indicator that there's a plethora of foul play and that something MASSIVELY fishy - and illegal - is going on in that town. FBI needs to get in there and do some real investigating ASAP.
@@WyspyMyst I do belive we have yet to discover all life on this planet and even belive it's possible we have interdimensinal creatures and or beings visiting us on our plane but giant bird being responsible for his death is highly unlikely seeing as how his body was discovered man. Also birds wouldn't leave prey behind uneaten specially if it's large empty to snatch a full grown man and fly off with him. But again I do belive there is much more to this world/universe than meets the eye so your hypothesis as crazy as it sounds to me could be the exact right one. So I won't rule it out completely just because we don't know and maybe never will but I think he was simply murdered by some assholes who as it sounds have done it multiple times and it's a small town cover up dilly.
Don't go into the mountains of northern Cali or Oregon. There are a lot of missing people. Cartels and pot growers don't take kindly to random people
Yep, i live in Northern California in the mountains. Lots of cartels and illegal pot growers. Hell, I've been shot at while driving dirt bikes with friends on federal land. I think a lot of the missing folks could be attributed to the local cartels.
@@ateosedm5690 you are fucking insane for staying there. Lived here all 20 years haven't had 1 bad thing happen and after watching this video, and many other death videos I'm paranoid af
LOOK UP DAVID PAULIDES "CLUSTER MAP " OF THE USA......it shows where the clusters of people go missing.....
@@ateosedm5690 I'm sure some are related to grow operations but I don't think they would take their clothes off, etc..
@@beamills9205 what if some sick person made him strip down, took his stuff, and made him burry his own head at gun point? And I guess walked 9 miles into some trees to do it
so dustin hears the story of how a guy died from living in the wild and says "oh boy, sounds great, i wanna do that too!"?
It was more than how you put it plainly.. it’s about discovering nature on a level you can’t comprehend.. the feeling of complete freedom being out in the wild is a feeling you can’t find anywhere but that place.
@@hawns5362 Drives his truck, and has it literally in 2-hours reach.. "Living in the wild", a-ha
@@equim7363 don't forget the wild energy drinks
@@hawns5362 it was still pretty stupid
probably as a city person, he would think country and even wild would be better than current situation he was in, cutting off those annoying human connection and be one with the wild
its just common _greener grass_ case
but in actuallity, living in a wild with NO IDEA what you are doing, like what kind of community you would had, is just homeless and got stranded with extra step
I've been listening to stories from different channels and Mr Ballen is by far the best storyteller in UA-cam.
Dustin is clearly scared, says people are after him, his phone cuts out, and they wait until the next day to call the police? wtf
Sound like government cover up
*goes missing*
Snow: “Prepare for trouble.”
Rain: “And make it a double”
So snow and rain are team rocket now?
Unrated comment lmao
Bruh yes.
Lmao
Team precipitation
Am I gonna be able to sleep tonight?
No.
Did I continue to watch the whole playlist?
Yes.
Omg same, I’ve been watching these for 2 hours now and it’s midnight and earlier my sister opened her door and I jumped 😂
Yep Mr. Ballen's stories will mess you up! I've been sleeping with my light on at night for days. The first 2 nights after bingeing it took me forever to fall asleep. I finally had to limit myself on how late I would watch his stories so that I would have time to watch other stuff like asmr to get my mind off of it! But overall it has been soo worth it!!!
@@JesseCase omg I know, I’ve now learned my lesson but if I do watch them late I watch a ton of videos after to try to distract myself
please these are nothing, I watch these to calm myself from his other vids
When I was a child I found a toad stuck in a street drain croaking and in distress. I flagged two little boys I didn't know and asked them to lower me into the drain. They held my feet and lowered me into the narrow drain, my whole body length in I grabbed Mr toad and they pulled me back. Today I still think of the horrific end if those two boys had lost their grip, it was straight down and full of water.
this story is so intense
I love this. the world needs more people like you 💚
I use to go caving back when i was a teen in the mountains of Ohio. Some of those entrances were as big as football stadiums and other ways to get to another was just big enough to lay on your stomach and wiggle. God if i got stuck,i still go what was i thinking. Those caves were 60 degrees while the outside was snowing at -10 degrees.
I'm glad neither of you have made the 411 book. Flipping heck. I got anxiety reading your experiences 😂
@@Dark_Lady_ aw cheers, and more wee boys with strong grips and helpfull natures! They came with me to release it into the pond nearby.
Listening to your stories has just confirmed that my children will always wear GPS trackers on them and child leashes.
Dating and marriage will be fun for them.
And just generally your children might really hate you but safety first ig…
@@Moist_Bamboo In this world yes, and also only when they are young.
Totally. Anytime I think “meh, the kids are fine outside” I go check.
@@Moist_Bamboo I think CM was exaggerating
To sum up the last story:
Predator out here messing with people’s cameras so people will take less selfies
Damn it. I was going to say Predator and you beat me to it lol.
Maybe the Predator movie is a CIA predictive programming of what people
see across the Globe in wilderness areas!.
Yep, who knew Predator was based on a true story?
Optical Camouflage tech exists and has for many years. The Navy and SAIC were working on it in early 2000s, as well as other independent inventors.
Robert Guffy wrote a book about them testing it on a childhood pal of his because he was a ne’er-d-well with a drug problem, thus plausible deniability called Project Chameleo.
I want to be sitting by a campfire and listening to you telling these stories in person. You are awesome 💛
I'd rather be inviting him to my tent....
Soooo you’re telling me that the Predator is real....yup, we’re f*cked
Probably something like it like Bigfoot 🤷♂️
Mother nature🌬
I believe it, where do you think the movie came from, it could be some sort of special ops camo develop after finding the tech or inventing it
Expanded perspectives podcast has a great episode about such sightings the episode is called. The glimmer man
@@chipsthedog1 Thanks for mentioning this channel, ill check it out. There is no specific "glimmer man" episode though...
Did anyone notice, the case of Dustin, that he never mentioned the people chasing after Dustin again. And that the people only talked about theories of how he died but never, who were those people.
personally i think he was quite literally bullied to death and made to walk home in embarrassment and he instead died of hyperthermia since he was drunk underage and probably didnt know how to handle himself too well from the inexperience. however i also believe the case was quickly rushed close because the child's death wasnt intentional by his attackers and the attackers belong to a high standing family in the town.
instead of hating the possible attackers i feel lots of anger toward the mother. she knew her son, underage, was drunk at night walking down the side of the road to a gas station of all places. knowing this, when her son called for a 2nd time in distress, she decides to just say "i'll be there in a minute" and he hangs up the phone. yea, she should've told her son to STAY on the phone. personally i wouldve told my son to do that the first time he called simply because he is a minor who is drunk and going to be walking down a used road at fucking night time. like come the fuck on.
There are many cases like this, I read some of Paulides' books. While talking on a cell they never describe what these people look like prior to going missing as they are being chased. Interesting. Thanks to Mr. Ballen for his stories.
Is this the one with the head in the dirt? If so i wanna the state of the body like if it was partially eaten some of scavengers dont hibernate
Its fucking crazy
@@myth4020 that’s not the same case, the comment is referring the guy who went out into the wilderness.
Has anyone think its weird that just about evey story of a missing person they have no boots on .
You should watch Missing 411. Free on YT
@@shirleyduncan3653 thank you I will 😀😀
Aliens.
@@shirleyduncan3653 yt chanel, how to hunt and also yowiehunters australia...
@@charlottewest7280 No such thing. try demons
Omg I just love your stories I know I’m late but better late than never I’m one of your biggest fans keep doing what you’re doing you’re one of our best messengers of this generation
I’ve heard a story about that “invisible creature” before. I live in Ohio. Weird things happen in the woods
The husband en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Maccabee
@How Not To do you have a link to that video?
@How Not To I would like to see it too!
Yo, I live in ohio too. Where have you heard about this happening?
I'm in ohio too, not that far of Lake Erie, either... but also, not heard this one.. still, rather interesting story.. so, glad to heard it, now!! I was thinking the scariest places are either, many remote areas, like in West Virginia or them overly crowded one's..🤔. But guess, ohio is getting crowded, anyways. Well, that Ohio, might be one place of not so many, alien abuductions, or much crazy happenings, about!! Lol... maybe, UFO's passing by, just not abductions, though... maybe, a hairy giant but, doubt it even, stuck around! Lol 🤔..
The fact that they fire the medical examiner just tells you that it must’ve happened multiple times and it’s going to happen a lot more times
They were at least trying to cover something up 🧐 You don't just fire someone for stating their theories when that's their job.
@@paigeelaine9766 I think the people at the gas station were involved. If he was at the gas station when he called then they said he wasn't, and the kid had lived there his whole life, something doesn't add up, I'd be checking the relations between employees at the gas station and the police station. Small towns have big secrets.
@@TheTurkaderr Yeah, he was there, and a minute later he wasn't. Should be cameras there right?
Or that he rang his mum panicking about something but didnt say what was scaring him, surely if someone was there he would of ran towards his mums car not run into forest?? Seems suspicious
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I would kill for a shirt that said fan of the strange dark and mysterious with mrballen famous hat and mustache on it!! Please make!!
It has to be a plaid shirt
If you killed, maybe you would end up in a video to. Lol
Ps please don’t though
Only flannel shirts 👍🏻
"I am a fan of the strange dark and mysterious delivered in story format" gotta be the whole thing
@@riotgrrrl5924 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣😉 YEP 🇦🇺
I've been watching your videos every single day for the last couple of weeks. I love the fact all the stories are true.
Keep doing you Mr ballen you are a great story teller and very authentic 🙌
The families of those in the stories don’t “love the fact” that all the stories are true.
This channel has taught me to stay away from spelunking, scuba diving and hunting/chilling in the forest.
Lady, you are 🔥
The chances of this happening to u are slim to none. Plus you can't sit behind a computer the rest of your life. Mother nature provides us with this beautiful planet to take in an explore. Enjoy yourself while your on this planet for such a short tine. I'll take my chances scuba diving,spelunking, hunting and camp in the forest, getting away from people and technology, leaving that crap behind ....now thats something to me
relish. I been doing these things for half century, no problems here. Your more likely to get electrocuted by your computer then come even remotely close to going out doing one of these outdoor activities . Don't be scared . . ..
So many people in his comments section say this. You are more likely to get into a car accident, so you better not drive!! Live your life and enjoy it. Much better option.
So many people in his comments section say this. You are more likely to get into a car accident, so you better not drive!! Live your life and enjoy it. Much better option.
1. No caves
2. No diving in caves
3. No hiking alone
4. Always lock the doors
5. Never go ignore a warning sign or go someplace you shouldn’t be
6. Never cram yourself into a tight space.
Am i the only one that feels that the 411 stories when the victim calls a loved one in a panic just before disappearing are the weirdest ones
Yea but whats weirder is that they're usually found without clothes on or very little and any remaining clothes are neatly set next to them....like wtf....aliens
The lesson here should be if you find yourself in a strange situation where you call a loved one in a panic, immediately tell them exactly where you are in great detail and tell them what strange crap is going on.
It must make it worse for the person they call, so near but still destined for termination. I have the books, its the weirdest stuff I have ever read, truth is stranger than fiction, but why are the authorities trying to keep it quiet?
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@@dubstepilluminati1823 ???? Z83-b?
It’s crazy how much he uploads, some crazy dedication in these times.
Thank you John always love your content 💕 David Politis 411 missing is incredible. The more he investigates, the more strange cases he finds. He's strictly authentic, an ex policeman. He states the facts of the cases backed up by overwhelming evidence. It's great that John is spreading some of these disappearances. People should pay attention. Jen is a good example of what others have experienced.
My brother was dropped off drunk right in front of our house once and got lost walking. It can happen if you are really drunk even if you know the area. He walked right passed us and was picked up 6 miles away
I agree. But then I think that there were no footprints.
My husband went to the neighbors once while drunk...scared her to death. Next day we all laughed it off.But this can be a terrifying experience.I also had it happen to me.🙈🙈
@@terriprince5026 time to give up the booze. That’s not normal
Yea it definetly can happen. I tried going in the wrong apartment building and trying to unluck someone elses door, bc i was drunk :S and another time i got told was when my Nephew and his friend dropped me off 3 mins walk from my House, But they took me inside the car again when they realized i was walking the wrong way
*This man is a beast standing outside in the snow in frigid temperatures telling stories while wearing no jacket*
Why the bold tho
@@thatguy6214 *I don't know my cellphone always does that I used to wonder that but then just gave up trying to fix it*
@matty kelly *lol*
You're pretty.
Simp⬆️
The third story sounds like the wife came across the Predator while trying to take a picture of him when he was on camouflage mode!! She's lucky that the Predator didn't consider her an opponent worth battling!!
Maybe it's a fashion monster
That's because she wasn't a threat. If she had shot an arrow at it then they would have found her skinned and hanging from a tree. She was lucky. 😅
Demon.
I was thinking the same thing. Has to be a predator
The story is part of the Amazon Prime documentary Missing 411: The Hunted (good watch if you have Prime) and they described it as being like the movie Predator.
I KNOW THIS IS OLD BUT YOOOOO
the Jan Mcabee story is WILD to me because They’re my grandmas neighbors, who I used to live with. I know those woods like the back of my hand and I’ve literally sat in Jan’s Hunting stand many times. My homie and I used to go explore back there all the time and I’ve always said there’s some weird shit going on back there . Like whole landmarks I’ve mentally made note of just straight vanishing one day and then they’re back the next. it threw me off hearing a story about my own neighbors !
Dr Bruce Maccabee is one of this world's most intelligent people and anything he says or investigates is done with complete honesty and integrity. Im a huge follower of his studies.
@Peter Paul What does that have to do with anything?
Agree 100%
@Peter Paul I thought you said "you're a moron."😂
@Peter Paul Maccabee is a Hebrew name meaning hammer. It came from the Hashmoniaim. The Maccabees fought the Greeks in the story of Hanukkah.
This video inspired me to wrap myself in Saran Wrap and crawl through the treetops.
omg best comment
Make sure not to cover your mouth and nose.
Don't do it I might get you.
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@@earthobserver1007 brah we’ll all know it’s you now!!!!
From a news story: "Dylan [drunk teen walking to gas station] was hanging out with friends at the same house Brianna Cook left back in October, two hours before she was found dead [under suspicious circumstances, not in this video].
Serial killer. Someone IN THAT HOUSE.
I'm surprised he didn't mention that in the story cause that makes it waayy more suspicious. He left some really strange things out of that Dustin guy's story too.
@@TF80s what did he leave out of the dylan story?
@@priscillamontalvo7051 The fact that he had his head burried i guess. Why would he ever do that ? Was there a hole ? Was he told to be in this position and then killed ? That's really strange
Whoa really ?
I love how supportive Bruce was in the last story. If I had told a story like this to anyone I’d be carted off to the laughing academy
The story with the hunter came across something that was blurry and looked like heat rising off of the pavement was interesting. I was watching a show called Mountain Monsters a couple of years ago. One of the guys in the group was talking to a cameraman. His nickname is Huckleberry and they are all from West Virginia and they were out in the forest. He told the cameraman that something has been following them for a while now. He described it as being blurry and looked like heat rising off of pavement. I was so shocked when I heard you read off the exact same thing. I just thought you might want to know about it. I love your channel, keep up the great job you're already doing. :)
Don’t take that show seriously it’s obviously completely fake lol.
Your fake
The description reminds me of the video where you see a soldier wearing cloaking “camouflage”. The basically seem to have disappeared, but you can see the outline of the soldier if you knew where he had been standing.Otherwise they are invisible.
I've seen it as well the figure in the forest I hit it with a rock it passed right through it then it vanished at that point
Dude. I’m from West Virginia, and I’ve seen one of the see through distorted people many times. My husband calls it his demon that he picked up at his childhood home in the forest of WV. It follows us every time we move. It’ll be quiet for a few months. Then we’ll start seeing it outside around the house. Then eventually it comes into the new house and weird stuff will happen, usually electrical issues or stuff going missing. We’ve been together almost 13 years and this thing has followed us everywhere we’ve lived in WV and VA. My sister in law blessed our new house though and we haven’t seen it here yet. Knock on wood lol
Im from Indiana and that "saran wrap" thing in the trees ive seen before. I lived in the woods in the country side and used to have to get wood for the fireplace. I went out one night and it was dead quite and i got goosebumps and felt like something was looking at me. I looked around and then up and in the trees it looked like something was fading across the trees and i took off. I still think about it to this day and that was 10 years ago.
Where in Indiana are you from? I’m from brownsburg Indiana
@@audreyjustine fort wayne
It's friendly if you don't approach it. I don't know many specifics, but to my understanding it's just an observational being. Approaching or attempts to communicate with it are often undocumented because they don't survive to tell what happened.
There is, however, a man in Fort Wayne named Matt Turner and he managed to yell at it and it made some kind of clicking noise back as it receded away. I don't know much after that except he passed away sometime last year around the same time he seen it the previous year. Late September if I'm not mistaken.
I'm glad you got away to tell the tale. Ask around town about it, lot of us are partial to seeing it in the woods.
@@CubeGodd Im from Fort Wayne. Thats where this happened.
@@reapening1959 I know it's dumb because everyone is from somewhere lol but it's cool to hear about something like this so close to me. I'm from northwest ohio, and travel to Ft Wayne often.
EDIT: ok I commented this before I finished the video, I'm from Lima, Ohio and hadn't heard this story. I wonder where specifically it was.
Legend has it if you get here so early you can see a bunch of idiots saying “first”
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Haha!! Hopefully TikTok hasn’t spilled over to this channel.
“Yeah, but does he respond?”
“Early!”
First
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Love the way you tell these stories Mr. Ballen! Really enjoy these.
so this lady seen Predator and didnt instantly cover herself in mud.. noob
This happened to her before the movie even came out.
@Jackson Sellers My mistake, I was going off of what someone else commented and I should have gone back and listened to the date again on the video. You are correct.
Maybe she never saw the movie.
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I had something similar happen to me. I was working on a trail in the woods of a state park, and all of a sudden everything went silent, no birds, no sounds of distant traffic. I could not even hear the gator that was idling about 500 feet away. I could see that it was still there, but I could not hear it. My first thought was that the gator must have stalled, and then I was mad at myself because, my next thought was that it ran out of gas, and I could not remember if I had checked it before I left maintenance. Then the feeling of being watched by something very dangerous hit me in a big way. I have never had this feeling before or since. It felt like a bored cat watching a mouse, not really so interested as to ponce, but just watching. I wanted to run toward the gator and just take off, but at the same time, there was a voice in my head telling me to stay calm, that any sudden movements could trigger whatever was watching me. I looked all around trying to see whatever was by now freaking me out, but I could not see anything out of the ordinary. The strong feeling that I was in a lot of danger intensified. I struggled to maintain my composure, focusing on my breathing and I slowly walked toward the gator, carefully measuring my steps. I got about 50 feet from the gator when all the sounds returned at once, and I could hear the gator idling again. I had been on that trail many times before and since and nothing like that had ever happened before, or since.
Check out the book " Hunt for the Skinwalker" By Colm A. Kelleher if you're interested in a scientific report done on this same type of experience along with several other related phenomena that seem to be connected. Evidence points to some sort of "doorway" that the invisible being mentioned in the 3rd story (and a couple others) pass through at will. It mentions the birds going quiet around the time this happens, and the bright light, which one research scientist described as a window because he could see that the sky was different in the middle of the light upon further examination. This study was done in Utah on some land populated by native American tribes. I'd be interested in understanding what that connection might have to do with these types of events. It's a subject that has fascinated me for years.
@@CatladyKiefFingers_deLarios a portal! just like in the skinwalker ranch story.
When you mentioned 'gator,' I thought you were talking about the animal.🤣
“ woman goes hunting”
Predator: What’s goood
One hunter to another how's it going
When the woods go silent, it's not a good sign. Whenever out in the woods, be very observant of your surroundings and if it gets quiet, seek shelter/prep your weapon/prepare to run because the wildlife sees something you haven't yet.
@@NotSoCrazyNinja "i make the woods go silent" that would be a good villain quote.
@@marce4241 If you are a human and you are in the woods to purposely kill something, you might just make the woods go silent when you actively begin "the hunt". At that point, you are the big predator that all the wildlife notices.
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Found you from Tiktok and love your videos on UA-cam!!! ❤ You are an incredible storyteller