When I was 5 a man attempted to kidnap me from the front yard of our home. Even as a 5 year old I knew this man was going to try to harm me and I was able to get away. Now, at age 66 I have a very clear memory of this man, his appearance, car, time of day. If he stood in a line up I could pick him out. Always trust your instincts. Trust your fear.
Im 77 and had a similar experience when i was about 8. The man was probably a college student and spoke to me with an accent i couldent understand. You and i were lucky and smart. I think of him often and wonder what he was saying to me. There was no one outside in any direction and it was winter so windows and doors were closed. I ran to nearest house and pounded on the door. When i looked back he was gone. He had been running toward me. I guess if u survive u have a purpose.
I had a few close calls, growing up in Los Angeles, walking to and from school at a very young age...those things are imprinted on my mind even now from fifty years ago. I can only think that I must have had a very benevolent guardian angel, because I've lived a very charmed life😌
As a non-native speaker who watches sometimes English videos, I would like to thank you for the clear pronunciation and pleasant speaking speed. Your videos are the only ones I can watch without subtitles 😄
And then there’s those dumb channels that say it as loud as they can, And as Slow as the can like AAAND THEN *waving hands around* THERE.. IS A |\/| O U N A I N L I O N
Except that in #3 - 15 miles is not 80km and 30ft is definitely not 9.1km etc... his conversions are usually accurate so I'm not sure what happened in this story.
3:00am is the demon hour. According to biblical accounts, Jesus Christ’s body finally gave out and died at 3:00pm in the afternoon. The demonic forces enjoy perverting everything Christ like and anything considered holy by inverting it. So the hour of Christ’s death at 3:00pm is now 3:00am which has now become the demonic hour. That’s why 3:00am is such a deadly time to be awake and why so many paranormal things occur at that time.
Lesson I've learned from Mr. Ballen. Whenever you decide to do something with a friend/friends and everyone cancels leaving you alone... don't do that thing.
Iv watched a lot of Mr balle s stuff an I can honestly say I have now opened my eyes more to the dangers in this big bad world and I have also learned a lot of lessons from his stories Mr John Ballen you truly are a legend!!!
I’ve hiked at the Superstition Mountains before. That area has rattle snakes, tarantulas, scorpions, mountain lions…the fact that some dude was walking around the mountains at night in complete darkness just shows how crazy he was. Luckily Sam made the right choice and didn’t go after his flashlight!
Do you remember the mining camp restaurant at the base? Did you ever eat there? Also that mountain has always freaked me out there is supposed to be lost gold out there somewhere
Dont u think that if something could steal his fleshlight it could kill him while he was asleep? I know its obvious fake but i like that kind of stories.
Me: *hears some creepy noises, then makes even weirder creepy noises to Assert dominance* Monster: “ok dude chill out, I’ll leave your crazy ass alone”
If you don’t want to be a victim, look like someone who is about to commit a crime. Look over your shoulders, look kind of paranoid, but also moving purposefully and confidently. The last thing an actual criminal wants as a target is another edgy paranoid potential criminal
Spooky yes, but I'd prefer to be stalked by a human than a bear or mountain lion. I don't know enough Brazilian jiu-jitsu to fight off a cougar or bear lol
ALWAYS follow your gut instinct! When I was 17 I was at a Fourth of July party & about 2 hours into the party I had this extreme sense of dread. I never left parties early back then. But this horrific feeling kept telling me that I needed to leave. I left the party just before 2 teens were stabbed to death. Never try to argue away that sense of foreboding.
And people try to say those are instincts, I’m no biologist or doctor, but I don’t believe instincts can predict the future especially when everything seems to be going perfectly well, it’s most definitely something more
@@fancifrance4039 I’ve had a sense of dread or where I sensed something would happen. Once when I was taking my mom to the ER due to a fever and she was on chemo we were in a storm and it was late at night. For some reason I told my mother that I could smell a tornado coming and it did come. It was an F4 tornado/waterspout (was over water for a couple of minutes making it a water spout). It was devastating and caused a lot of damage. One other time I had that same sense and a cluster of tornadoes hit. I’ve lived in Florida half of my life and only those 2 times did I sense it and only those two times did they hit. Also had a sense of dread in 2016. Told my family something was going to happen to me by my birthday which is in December. My birthday came and left and my family surprised me with a visit including my sister from California. On December 19, 2016 exactly 7 days later it hit. I was diagnosed with severe sepsis that nearly killed me and I was hospitalized for a month. My health isn’t in good shape so I’m used to frequent hospital stays but this one was within hours of being fatal without help. Spent time in the ICU as well. I tend to listen to my gut and I go to the ER when it’s really nagging and I have symptoms. Has happened several times and I would find out I had severe pneumonia or whatever. It’s definitely a gift and it should be listened to. My alarm bells have been going off the past week or so and I’m having that sense of dread but with COVID I am not in such a rush but I’m afraid it will get me in the end if I don’t listen to it
I normally hate these types of channels because I suffer from crippling panic attacks (I don’t mean just bad anxiety, they manifest in the form of what I imagine a heart attack feels like and i have been hospitalized for them multiple times) but, Mr.Ballen is just such a comforting person to listen to, that I’m able to enjoy these videos.
I'm thinking that I'm likely to never go camping alone again. My new goal in life: Do not do anything that will get me featured in a Mr. Ballen story in the future.
@@OG3XOG After listening to Mr B, I looked up where Bell Canyon was just so I would know in case that happened. Not kidding, I'm in Washington, not far from where that story took place. It's not close to Bell Canyon.
Sam didn't bring a tent because it's a fake story. The guy took a flashlight from next to Sam while he was sleeping, didn't attack, and then tried to "lure" Sam away from his bonfire in order to attack him? Yeah that makes a ton of sense.
A tent offers no physical protection from anything except for rain. Having a tarp strung up over you offers the same amount of physical protection as a tent would have = none. So Sam bringing a tent or not bringing a tent doesn’t make him any more or less likely to be featured in these stories.
MrBallens ability to create visuals when story telling is on a completely different level from everyone else. I catch myself closing my eyes and completely envisioning the scenery/landscape, which makes it 10x more intense. You are the GOAT story teller!!!
I've spent quite a bit of time in the woods. Not once has a rock fallen out of a tree on or near me. Occasionally birdies and other gentle woodland creatures will drop shit on you, but that's a stretch in this situation.
It's light refraction in your eyes. Your brain is intelligent enough to know that the only glassy surfaces you'll see at night are the water reflecting the moon, and some eyeballs. Some people have mastered it, they're usually skilled hunters or trained riflemen though.. youve got to learn what assumptions to make when your brain gives you a clue.
Yup... some ideas are really, really dumb. Especially when you start having second thoughts about it, but still do it anyway. They usually end up making horror movies about those kinds of bad decisions....
lol im convinced that there’s just a bunch of people living out in the middle of nowhere with no tv or video games to entertain them, so they just troll the city folk who come around.
I kinda just told myself only to watch his videos during the daytime only! Lol I’m a wimp, oh well. I can hardly watch his shorts…omg constant jump scares and nightmare fuel! 😳
The biological phenomenon when knowing someone is watching you is known as “gaze detection” or “gaze perception”, neurological studies have found that when you have the feeling you’re being watched, those brain cells telling you that are very very precise, always trust that feeling
Actually there is a electromagnetic grid that envelops all of us that we cannot see naturally.... And since our mind is electrical we can actually tap into this grid.... That's why when you feel someone that has bad intentions towards you that's because we are all connected on that electromagnetic grid... And if you don't believe me that's how lightning tracks you it literally pulls up your bioelectrical energy up towards the sky then it connects with a circuit of your bioenergy and then you get struck.... Everything in our world is made of energy anybody with the most basic understanding of physics should know this.... So when someone sees you and has bad intentions toward you you're going to pick this up.... Some people will call it psychic energy other people will call it esp but all it really is is natural electromagnetic energy that envelops your body and connects you to the surrounding energies.... That's why you get literally like a spidey sense is tingling sensation.... And paranoia is an unreasonable and ridiculous fear so for example paranoia would be thinking that Napoleon is out in the darkness and he's got a cannon and he's pointing it at you.... That is paranoia.... It's an unreasonable unnatural fear....getting the feeling that you're stalked is not unreasonable or unnatural....
As a graveyard shift security officer posted at an open train station, I’ve had one of these unnerving feelings. Funny enough I was listening to MrBallen at the time, but the unsettling feeling would not go away. After my patrol routine, I would just post up in a spot I can see 80% of the site, but my back was faced towards the side street. On the other side were a couple small businesses with gated security and beyond the gates was pitch darkness. I’ve never felt anything like it in the 3 years I worked there, it just happened randomly and was just on edge the rest of the night. Thanks to this video in particular, I will always look over my shoulder when feel uneasy.
I worked the graveyatd shift alone in C-stores for 8 years. I learned the hard way to ALWAYS listen to your instincts. I got lucky as cops showed up before anything happened, but.....
I just went solo camping in Oregon and I couldn't stop imagining this guy narrating everything I was doing like something bad was about to happen. Beyond creepy lmao
I’m always eagerly refreshing Mr Ballen’s page around this time 😅 👁👄👁 Anyone else been here since his first few videos who’s watched religiously? Always the best part of my day, I work night shifts so I stay up a lil after work and wait patiently for a new video 😭
I watch him every video! I have to wait for the new ones cause Ive already watched all of his other videos! On youtube anyway I dont go to any other social media. They are too busy.(hfa)
The things I've learned from all the Ballen stories are don't ever go camping, hiking or into isolated areas alone. If the offer sounds to good to be true, then it is. If you feel like you're being watched trust your indistincts. If you think things are being moved around your house someone is probably behind your walls preparing to kill you. If you take up scuba diving into under water caves you will eventually die. Never investigate strange sounds on your own and if people say that a place is dangerous you should stay far away from it and lastly never walk into our attempt to repair dangerous equipment without turning it off completely and having someone with you incase it goes bad.
Seems pretty stupid to set up a trap for someone who’s asleep and the first step of your master plan is to steal their flashlight that’s right next to them. If they wanted to harm him they could have when he was wrapped up in a sleeping bag asleep.
@@DiamondCake2 No sir, u are wrongly assuming the stalker had a criminal mind... that he would gained something logical with his dead, taking his car for example... but there are no criminals in the middle of nowhere stalking random lonely people... what he encountered was a lunatic, and he didn't want to steal from him, he wanted to toy with him... which he did... He was in real danger...
Sam's story was quite terrifying. My imagination was running wild with what might have been stalking him but when you said someone wrote "sleep well" definitely indicated that it was a person and not some creature but the fact that they are hanging out on a mountain and is not terrified of being out there in pitch black is scary af
I knew it was a person and when he realized the flashlight had been moved I DEFINITELY knew because a mountain lion or bear wouldnt know the significance of a flashlight!
I’m right there with both of you! ☹️ But I’m happy to see someone coming to the worldwide use of the metric system! 👌 President Carter couldn’t do it, but Mr Ballen may be the one to finally bring Americans to join us in the metric system! 😄
Lol same here. Leave it to the military to let you know 24 hour clock measures and metric distance. We noobs from the states don’t know shit. And it makes so much more sense than the imperial measurements 🙄 Europe: metric Asia: metric Africa: metric South America: metric Antarctica: who the hell cares? Nobody lives there but still metric North North America(Canada): metric Australia: metric The United States: feet and miles!
@@Minimojojoy Carter got such a raw deal... he wasn’t the best president but he knew his shit and doesn’t get enough respect for what he tried to do 😕 I am more right than you could fathom but Carter just had bad luck with shitty global economy and the “Cold” War he just didn’t have any room to show how he was genuinely interested in keeping everyone alive. Sucks to have him as a failed president when he did everything right. Sorry for the tangent but as democrats go he is one of my favorites
It’s so bizarre how you can just feel eyes on you. There’s no way you should be able to know but somehow you feel something that makes you uneasy. Despite there being no real logic to it everybody knows what it is and what feels like. I’ve never really sat down and gave it much thought but it’s a very intriguing concept. Edit: ngl didn’t think this comment would get any attention since it was kinda just a random passing thought it thought I would share but it’s pretty cool it got the ball rolling on a nice discussion. Cool seeing so many peoples views on this topic so thanks for the interesting input.
I don't know this for sure, just my thoughts on it. But, I think it is because our eyes see something that we didn't consciously register. Like you scan a tree line and didn't see anything but then you get the feeling that you are being watched. I think its because you saw something in the tree line watching you but it didn't click in your mind. Like when you are looking for something right in front of you, you physically see the thing but for some reason it just doesn't click in your brain.
You don't feel eyes, you feel the presence of another person or animal. It's a subconscious reflex. Our brain can detect minor changes in the general environment around us that we interpret as someone or something in that area.
I believe it has to do with knowing that you are vulnerable or are in an area where you can be easily seen. Maybe also hearing incredibly faint sounds like rustling leaves or sounds that queue a thought of "something is near."
Ngl I like to test this on people sometimes and stare at them from a distance to see what sort of behaviour they examine and honestly I haven’t had any reactions that can confirm this yet I still believe it … mind you my intent was never sinister so maybe if people are staring at you harmlessly it doesn’t trigger any instincts or feelings
There are many stimuli that we process unconsciously. For example people who went blind because of a damaged visual cortex (the eyes still work but the brain cannot process it) can still recognize aggressive facial expressions and feel fear because of it. That's because before the nerve signal from the eyes is processed by the visual cortex, it is processed by a small structure that is there to detect hostile intentions and that is completely unconscious. And even so they can't see anything, they can feel hostile faces which is amazing.
When the idea crosses your mind to go camping solo at night without a tent, that should be the moment your natural instinct kicks in says "Hell to the no."
Is what you do is you keep the biggest knife that you can use quickly, and you keep it near by. And that also goes for if you are just in the forest even if you don’t feel like someone is there, always have a big agile knife on hand… or gun, gun works too.
I don’t understand why anyone would go camping without any protection like bringing a tent. If I was hiking alone; (which you should never do) I would always bring a tent to sleep inside just for the added protection. Even if the tent is just a deterrent , that’s better than sleeping under the stars in the open air.
@@paintedpony2935 Ah yes another smug Internet troll. That’s exactly what I was talking about. Sleeping in a tent gives you some added protection from the elements and the environment. What’s cute is how you pretentiously troll and assume things. I wonder if you can assume getting your teeth kicked in.
Creative, clever, up beat, and good hearted person. Never complains never makes the channel about himself.. always respects the viewer.JOB Well done Mr. BALLEN
One thing is for dam sure: I am never going into the woods without at least two flashlights that also have guns attached to them and are attached to me.
Or u could just go in with a group of professional woodsman while making sure one of them is a badass ex special forces mf Along with a complete moron that no one likes that can be used as a distraction In other words you want to go with Rambo and me.
ooo this reminds me of another personal story. Years back I was living at my parents' house, which is on a hillside with a bunch of undeveloped land behind it. There was a fire road on top of the hill that I used to hike all the time. I'd try to bring our dog up there on occasion but it always seemed anxious and wouldn't go down the trail unless I really yanked him along. One day I went up to the trail to do some jogging, but then it started to rain so I turned around and start jogging home. My shoe became untied and I bent down to tie it, and there in the fresh mud next to my foot was a mountain lion print. It had only been raining about 10 minutes and I had just passed this same section of trail probably 15 minutes before. Never saw the cat but after that I was on hyper alert every time I was on that fire road. I probably should've packed pepper spray or something but at the time I didn't realize how dangerous mountain lions could be.
Sam thinking it's a trap as his first instinct, and TRUSTING his gut to not fall for it, is probably the smartest decision I have ever heard anyone make on this series.
That's overblown. If he/they meant to do him any harm, he would have when he was right over him while he was asleep. My best guess is that this was some freak living out in the woods off the grid that had lost his mind in the extreme solitude (if not before that), and was just jerking with this guy.
I find the trap thing pretty unbelievable. Think about it. If their intent was to actually do harm, why set up a trap when they already got close enough to get the kids flashlight while he slept. That would've been the perfect opportunity to attack him. Not while hes awake holding a hunting knife ready for something to go down.
@@h91rex100 It probably wasn't to harm him per se, but more just to watch him struggle, thrash, scream, etc, plenty of people get off the suffering of others. Since as you said if they just wanted him dead they could of just done it when they grabbed the flashlight, but is less of a game to be enjoyed then.
When he said Chris felt somebody looking at him in the woods. I suddenly felt someone watching me in my bed while alone in my room. I look back and it’s my cat. 😳😂
As someone with an anxiety disorder, I can only hope that my "someone is watching me" instinct does not feel the same as the general feeling of impending doom that I feel several times a week. My mom says to trust my instincts but how can I do that when my instincts are fried? She went to a gas station when she was an older teen and someone got in line behind her. She had that feeling MrBallen describes. She didn't turn around, but paid for her gas and left. She noticed the other person got into their own car just after she got into hers and he proceeded to follow her down the street. She kept making random turns but he kept following her. I forget where she went, but she made it to a payphone and called the police. Turns out the guy had multiple warrants for sexual assault.
Yeah "trust your gut" isn't really helpful for like 40% of people But also I think it's possibly more important to train yourself to assert your needs... Like the old elevator example, whether or not you feel anxious getting in an elevator with a stranger at night in a parking structure, don't. Don't get in either way lol. But you have to have some skills to be able to just turn around and leave if there's someone in there. It's really awkward and they may pressure you. People often do things they don't even want to do, and they're trusting their gut, but they don't know how to deal with negative feedback from other people so they go along with it and suffer (Also i know sometimes it's dangerous to say no, too, but that's a whole other issue)
I have anxiety and I’ve also been in a life threatening situation. When I was 12 I was almost kidnapped. I had to walk along a long secluded road from my bus stop to my dance class, most of the time this was fine, but one day I heard a car coming up behind me but it was *slowing down* and I was hit with the most intense feeling. Hair on the back of my neck stood up, my stomach dropped, and i instantly felt WIRED. Something was WRONG and I needed to get out so I jumped across the ditch by the side of the road and ran up the hill and hid behind some parked cars in a used car lot. As I ran up the hill I heard the sound of a sliding car door shutting and a car accelerating away. When I looked it was, I shit you not, a white van with all the windows blacked out turning the corner by my dance school. It was one of the most terrifying feelings of my life and completely different from the way my anxiety feels. My anxiety feels sick and queasy and I feel mired and helpless. It’s a sticky fluttery feeling. When that car came up behind me the fear was sharp and cold.
Kay Jay: In 1980,I was living with a girl in south Louisiana. We were driving down the road one evening and got into an argument in the car,so I told her to pull over and let me out.I was going to walk back home. So I got out,walked across the road and started walking in the opposite direction. She then drove off. As I was walking along,a car passed me and then pulled over to the side of the road just ahead of me. Two guys got out of the car and they each had a pipe in their hands and they started toward me. I stopped and knew there was nowhere to go and it was going to be a fight for my life.There was no time to be afraid. But then,unknown to me,my girlfriend had turned around and came back to pick me up. She pulled along side me and opened the passenger door and yelled at me to get in.She turned the car around and sped away from there as fast as she could. She was very upset by what she had seen and of the thought of what could've happened to me had she not turned around and came back for me.
With sever anxiety it actually a remnant of human life before we settled down in to many civilizations. We where hunter gathers. People who where hyper aware were better at protecting themselves and hunt food. The highnt anxiety isn't bad it just means you are overly aware BUT when you truly are in danger your body will physically react more then just the internal feeling of dreed and doom. For example I was in a sever car accident more then once. I felt it getting into the car all the way up till right before we ended up in the ditch. Hair standing straight up my throat was tight and I was nausea my self. But my mom didn't listen to my complaining about turning back and going home something was wrong or missing
I have to give the guy alot of credit- To deduce the flashlight was a trap, while fighting panic that would say "NEED THE LIGHT, NEED THE LIGHT", is a boss move. Ive been in the wilderness and had wierd experiences- as the saying goes "everyone has a plan till they get punched in the face". He performed well even after a punch.
i mean its kinda an obvious trap imo that dont take away the fact the kid did a stellar fucking job tho did that shit damn near perfect except for making a big ass fire although i do wonder why he wasnt scared of the lads knife
The woods are wierd places at night i live smack dab in the middle of a million acher park the Adirondack mountians to be specific whats scary is when your in the forest and it goes silent no birds no squirrels silence is usually the calm before the storm
What trap? If whoever was messing with him wanted to actually hurt him they could have done it when they got the flashlight and he was sleeping. Whoever it was screwing with him appeared to want to mess with his head and not actually harm him. Ofcourse you never know.
@@mojoelite yes, it's totally illogical. If they were by his side to get the flashlight, they could hurt him there and then, not set some stupid-ass trap with the flashlight. So either it was a total lunatic that didn't act rationally or it's wholly made up story
@@mojoelite Typically the goal with planned murders like this isn't to actually kill the person, but to feel powerful or to have fun. The murder itself isn't what's important. How the murder is accomplished is.
Omg I must be being watched all the damn time!! I know that feeling, its like when someone watches you theres more of a connection then you think, and I don't think its just when something sees you but when something is putting all its focus on you
@@lostinspace1036 your brain actually senses when someone is watching whether you are awake or sleeping! it’s creepy but there are theories that spirits watch you and give you that feeling. creepy
I was charged by a sick mountain lion and it was the worst thing I’ve encountered. PTSD up the ass, but still couldn’t be as bad as something a human could do to ya. 😳
When you watch some of these videos, did you notice how often people survived just because they had this "bad feeling" and decided in the last minute to rather not go into that cave etc.?! Their friends ignored that feeling and perished...
That’s usually how horror movies go...The main character gets a bad feelings says “hey, maybe this isn’t a good idea,” their friends laugh at them and convinces them to go on anyways and in the end they all die. 🤷🏽♀️
Here is the thing my friend. Ignore the stuff that can't hurt you, if you know how to use a gun, carry it if you feel you may need it, after all you are safer to have a gun and not need it, then to not have a gun and need it. Live a good life, use common sense when out and about in the jungle, forest, or major city, if you can always travel with a friend, better yet travel with a girl friend, they are much nicer to have along if nothing happens, they also give you the drive to protect them, it's part of nature, built into our lives as it is. If you are lucky enough, as I was in 1969 and find a great woman who loves you and is a great cook, then so much the better. God how I miss my darling, now gone for a year and 4 days.
@@0gsamywe go hiking at lot during our big family vacations but there is always like 11 people and people don’t leave others alone. We also hike on very popular trails where there are a bunch of other people. Hiking by yourself in the middle of nowhere and then you camp out there? Hell nah
@@aronious291 every freaking day most the time multiple times a day its now marked as spam likely in my contacts. Sometimes when my adhd son is throwing a fit ill answer hand him the phone and let him screech into the phone. ..... .
When he was telling the last story and said that the stranger was about 10 ft. Away I thought he was gonna say that the stranger said "Do you know how to get to Bells Canyon?"
There is a good chance that the swoosh sound the man heard in the first story was an arrow/bolt flying past his head. It would explain why he couldn't find the object nearby/didn't hear it hit the ground in a quiet forest.
@@digginggopher I can say from experience that an arrow passing closely to ones head does sound like a swoosh or even a bit like a sucking sound. I've had it happen twice. Once when I was young (my brother and I were messing around with my uncles compound bow) and once on a white tail hunt as an adult (we had someone in the group that didn't understand not to draw the string unless they were sure there was no one in the brush ahead of them). I'm not shocked that he didn't find the projectile. Arrows can fly far beyond where they are aimed if they miss. I've lost countless arrows in the woods despite knowing the angle and direction they were traveling.
The mountain lion thinking that it's going to eat a nice deer but getting closer and going into complete confusion to see a wierd looking thing on two legs and shoving water down it's throat like a madman.
Camping tips: always take a large sturdy tent. Never go alone. Collect a large pile of firewood before nightfall. Take at least one firearm and be prepared to use it. Take a dog with you if possible.
Appreciate those tips. Never going alone and at least bringing a fire arm if you do seems like common sense. Unfortunately for Sam it wasn't but at least he survived to tell the story.
I'm, generally speaking, not a gun person but I keep one firearm and that's for camping. Only had to use it once, somewhat similar story to Sam's, except when I hear the crunching of leaves I yelled out "I have a gun and I will fucking shoot you" and then I fired a couple shots into the direction from where I heard the leaves. Before the second shot even popped off I heard the running away from my camp.
I gotta tell you that you're great at telling stories. I am captivated every time. You paint a clear image in my mind without fail. Thanks for creating these videos! You're awesome!
I love how in the camp video with the stolen torch, rather than be scare and run away or be stupid...the kid was smart, recognised a trap, put his boots on and grabbed his knife and ready for a fight!....not many people are that brave or smart
This guy is literally one of the coolest people on UA-cam he was a navy seal which by itself is awesome and now he makes super interesting content on UA-cam and has 700k subs. Mad respect to you bro
I have watched alot of mr.ballen videos including serial killers, cults, massacres, etc. But the last story about Sam is the one that scared me the most. It is a collection of all my greatest fears like the woods at night, being stalked/watched/followed, and thinking your alone when you are really not. It gave me jitters and anxiety just hearing it and Mr.ballen's great storytelling skills are not helping my case lol.
That flashlight trap is the scariest story (to me) that I've heard you tell so far. Because to me that indicates that whoever that was didn't want to just hurt him(they could have done that when he was asleep) but they wanted to scare, torture and possible kill him. Normal people don't even think about doing that to other people so, or lurk in the woods waiting for the opportunity to do it to someone so whoever that was. was really deranged!!
@@Skyril2 Like a friend would do something sick like that to a friend. Maybe give him a little scare and then reveal himself but that was a night of Sam experiencing extreme terror and fear for his life.
It kind of takes the sinister threat off of whoever did it just thinking of them back in the brush, sitting there like a doofus for three, four, five hours. Too sissified or mentally gone to say "screw it" and leave, or attack the guy already! Undoubtedly just some freak living off the grid that got threatened when someone was on "his turf", and just trying to scare him off, like the villains in the masks on Scooby-Doo. I could just see him as it goes into the fourth hour, in his little bush whispering to himself, "get ahtta here, you meddling kid!!"
No joke that last one got me good! I honest to goodness was like "It's okay. He made it. Everything is fine now." 'Sleep well?' "Holy shit!" Never before have I been so rattled by a story!
I work outside so when I'm on break, I like to wander down cool looking paths. I've done this for years and enjoy it very much. Two weeks ago, I wandered down a natural path that led into the backwoods behind some retention ponds. I stopped to check out a super cool crooked tree but got a horrible, panicky feeling that made me stop. I hadn't heard any noises, I wasn't around private property, and there were no people there. There was no explanation for that rotten feeling. It was so overwhelming that I panic-ran back to the truck, locked all of the doors, and sat there panting for a minute, trying to see what the threat was. There was nothing noticeable but whatever was back there meant bad news. I've never, ever had such a powerful feeling like that before. No questions asked, I was outta there. Just thinking about it makes my body flutter.
Years and it hasn't never happened before or since I'm guessing I would say something or someone was definitely had bad intentions towards you glad you got out of there. That's the 6th sense I'm guessing?
Similar thing. Year's ago my now ex boyfriend and I would go out on his motorbike at night,sit and relax somewhere. One evening, we turned up at a place we'd been a few time's before. This time though, I suddenly started to demand we leave immediately. He was really annoyed at me, but hey ho. Well, the news report the next day, reported that a man had been murdered there!!! Definitely follow your instinct's 👍👍
That “gut feeling” “hairs standing on end” “feel like being watched” isn’t something to joke about. It’s called human evolution and that’s a sense we haven’t lost through time. Trust it.
@@rrb396 scientific intuition, even. our brains are capable of something called “thin-slicing” which is essentially your subconscious picking up on patterns and waving a red flag for you.
Gracious…I’ve been binge watching this channel for DAYS straight, now!!! So glad this came into my algorithm!!! Before this, I was watching those TikTok “Unbelievable but True” Paranormal Stories Compilations and, sadly, they were starting to repeat each other😩. Totally love THESE though, because it’s ALL AROUND weirdness and creepiness 👀🍿🍫🥤👀
I'm a country girl and growing up my friends always laughed at me because I have never been camping in the woods, but after listening to MrBallen's stories, I've never been more convinced I made the right decision!!! 😄🤣
I have trekked into the forests in my locality for days at a time all by myself penetrating deep into the forest. Nothing more peaceful than camping at night on your own.
@@bighands69 while I think with experience and a dead imagination it’s doable, I’m not going out there without other people or a gun.. Not to say that you shouldn’t camp, but people who do that pay Mr.Ballens bills…
@@AutoSearPin your much more likely to be hit by a car or stabbed by a mugger than attacked by wolves or some stupid shit. I hiked by myself for three days and nights deep in the woods and nothing interesting happened at all, despite it being creepy at night. He only thing to be scared of is falling and breaking your leg by yourself, or something boring like that. Life isn’t as exciting as you think it is.
Naw you definitely missed out on a great time camping showed me that I like the wilderness more then civilization being able to get away from everything for a while is nice
@@Dbshortz420 I love the outdoors, don't get me wrong and definitely prefer it to city life. We even had a small cabin in the wild woods of Alabama growing up that we stayed at a lot, but I always found the darkness of the woods at night very unsettling. The tent just didn't provide enough security for my taste. 😂
I'm from NJ where we have the Jersey Devil down south. If you grew up there, you know all about it and more likely than not believe it. I DON'T DO WOODS!!! There are God-awful things in the woods!!!
I live in a suburb near Amsterdam, and there'a park there, you would think nothing crazy would happen... but i had the worst day of my life running there
My whole life Ive always had that 6th sense to a scary degree, when I was younger I was told/thought it was a gut feeling. As I've gotten older I think it has more to do with energy & somehow certain people can read/feel the energy shifts in a room and/or environment.
i think you’ve had a hard childhood and had to learn to pick up on small environmental and social cues bc as a small child you never felt externally safe so you developed it as a coping mechanism to your fear and anxiety
@@dannyfresca1175 its true, at least for me. My childhood/teenage were the worst times of my life, now in my 20's im trying to heal but when i say a person is shady, truly it is. Sorry for my english not my 1st language
I absolutely love the first remark of this video. I’ve been thinking lately about how we train that out of people; kids seem to go with their gut when they don’t like a new person but they’re taught to be polite. I think that eventually blunts our awareness.
❤I've watched so many of your video that I can't even keep track of how many I've watched. I love your videos. You do such an amazing job of explaining everything, it's like I'm there in the moment. I can tell that you do your research on these cases, and I just love your overall content. ❤ You've made it so far and you've become so successful. Keep on making your videos and know that you have so many supporters, including me. ❤
Well a bird could easily have brought a rock up there and left it by accident. It's not stupid, it's more rational to think it's your mind playing tricks at night than it is to thing, 'OMG there's a stalker out in the middle of nowhere throwing rocks at me for no reason' lol
From the beginning of the video he talks about how human instincts are something we developed and are buried. My friend once said “Humans have the ability of being able to tell if something that looks human is not human, that means that at some point in time we needed to develop that to survive.”
@@Atlas_Atlantis yea it's only like the last 10000 years we've been the only humanoid species, before that we coexisted for a very long time with other humanoids, some probably very hostile.
In fairness, mountain lions watch us all the time w/o us knowing. They almost NEVER attack. I've spent years in the outdoors conducting field work, and I found evidence of a mountain lion following me/us numerous times. It became clear eventually from the tracks and sounds that they were just curious (and probably bored, lol). They are cats, after all. 😂 That being said, I wouldn't feel great about inviting the curiosity of a mountain lion if I had a set of elk antlers on my shoulders...
Anyone else thinking guy in story number 2 was a walking disaster... “I’ll just carry this extra weight, ooops drank all my water-no need to stop til I’m dehydrated, ah yes I’ll go searching for water without my vessels, I’ll hide in my tent to escape a mountain lion no biggie”. 😅
That was my first thought too! So this guy only has 1 mile to his car, but decides to walk a half mile "up the mountain" to find water and then a half back just for water? Sounds like he probably should've just sucked it up and walked the mile to his car
Every now and then, as I'm walking to my car, or getting gas at the gas station I hear in my head ....."Little did she know..." and I can just imagine it being the start of a weird story 😂 You just never know do you!!!
Only Mr.Ballen can literally talk about a stick for 3 minutes and have me on the edge of my seat. You are a gifted storyteller sir.
Sorry for late upload - a nap went long 😬
It’s a nap kinda day! 😂
Thank’s for the video MrBallen, you’re awesome!
Stay safe!
You can be days late and we would all still rush to the video like zombies to brain. Your unique , accept that an the colt will reveal itself haha.
I commented Before Mr Ballen 😄
@@karlkroenen8355 hahaha thanks
All good bro! Keep it gangster!👍😜
When I was 5 a man attempted to kidnap me from the front yard of our home. Even as a 5 year old I knew this man was going to try to harm me and I was able to get away. Now, at age 66 I have a very clear memory of this man, his appearance, car, time of day. If he stood in a line up I could pick him out. Always trust your instincts. Trust your fear.
Im 77 and had a similar experience when i was about 8. The man was probably a college student and spoke to me with an accent i couldent understand. You and i were lucky and smart. I think of him often and wonder what he was saying to me. There was no one outside in any direction and it was winter so windows and doors were closed. I ran to nearest house and pounded on the door. When i looked back he was gone. He had been running toward me. I guess if u survive u have a purpose.
@@gailderryberry9964 Glad you both made it out ok!
I don’t believe you’re 66 but I’m glad you’re safe
@@coresq_4120 why would someone lie about being 66? Lol wtf
I had a few close calls, growing up in Los Angeles, walking to and from school at a very young age...those things are imprinted on my mind even now from fifty years ago. I can only think that I must have had a very benevolent guardian angel, because I've lived a very charmed life😌
As a non-native speaker who watches sometimes English videos, I would like to thank you for the clear pronunciation and pleasant speaking speed. Your videos are the only ones I can watch without subtitles 😄
with extra expressions with hands etc 😆
@@Ritziey hahaha 😆👍
Exactly! Thanks from me too
And then there’s those dumb channels that say it as loud as they can, And as Slow as the can like
AAAND THEN *waving hands around* THERE.. IS A |\/| O U N A I N L I O N
My neighborhood barber was just arrested for selling drugs it’s crazy how I’ve been his customer for 2 years and never knew he was a barber
This should have way more likes
😂😂😂😂😂
Just go to show you, you never really know people. All the time your going to this guy and he's cutting hair at night, Scarry !
You think they found ALL his pot?
Oooh I get it! Lol good one. Now where did I put my lighter?! 🔥
Love how he translated miles into km. I’m sure everyone who’s not an American really appreciates it.
Except that in #3 - 15 miles is not 80km and 30ft is definitely not 9.1km etc... his conversions are usually accurate so I'm not sure what happened in this story.
1mile = 1kilometer?
@mrcleandoesit Its easier to convert if you make it 1to1
hell yea!
i really do appreciate it :)
"Sam's firewood runs out at 3am" - the most ungodly hour!!
Yup, it’s always at 3am…
@Ruzuchi Wow!! That's not good, hope you get well soon and stay safe, after Mr Ballen anything is possible
@Ruzuchi 😳
@Ruzuchi Very cool but very frightening for you!
3:00am is the demon hour. According to biblical accounts, Jesus Christ’s body finally gave out and died at 3:00pm in the afternoon. The demonic forces enjoy perverting everything Christ like and anything considered holy by inverting it. So the hour of Christ’s death at 3:00pm is now 3:00am which has now become the demonic hour. That’s why 3:00am is such a deadly time to be awake and why so many paranormal things occur at that time.
Mr.ballen makes me feel safe and terrified at the same time
Right, I be like a little kid watching these videos at bedtime lol
When u go camp by yourself try to play this video lol
Seriously great comment❤
I agree!
Its weird right
Sam is smart.
Sam doesn’t run into darkness when he hears a noise.
Be like Sam
I have dog
Pff, if Sam had been really smart he'd have taken some fat kid with him, you only need to run faster than the other guy!
Haha!
If Sam was in star trek he'd have any color shirt but red.
@@christopherwinget9791 I make that joke all the time. I always say that the guy with the red shirt never survives the first 6 minutes of the episode.
Lesson I've learned from Mr. Ballen. Whenever you decide to do something with a friend/friends and everyone cancels leaving you alone... don't do that thing.
Especially if it's hiking, camping, or cave diving
Never do or go anywhere you aren't familiar with or where you can't find other people.
😂☠️
Also… stay out of the forest.
Iv watched a lot of Mr balle s stuff an I can honestly say I have now opened my eyes more to the dangers in this big bad world and I have also learned a lot of lessons from his stories Mr John Ballen you truly are a legend!!!
"A rock fell off a tree." Yes, the rare rock tree sheds its rocks when nervous campers are in the area.
Love your comment! Not being a camper, I've never met a rare rock tree!
@@corneliawissing7950 same hopefully I never see one of those tho.
@@emilianodelosreyes2203 Wonder what size and weight that tree grows it rocks to? If they're square one could build a wall around the tree ...
This literally made me laugh out loud 🤣🤣
The closest thing falling out of a tree that would resemble the sound of a rock would be a chestnut. acorn .walnut maybe crabapple and so on.
I’ve hiked at the Superstition Mountains before. That area has rattle snakes, tarantulas, scorpions, mountain lions…the fact that some dude was walking around the mountains at night in complete darkness just shows how crazy he was. Luckily Sam made the right choice and didn’t go after his flashlight!
Yup… but there’s no big dark forest.
@@XenusMama There are riparian forests in the canyons with ponderosas.
Do you remember the mining camp restaurant at the base? Did you ever eat there? Also that mountain has always freaked me out there is supposed to be lost gold out there somewhere
Tarantulas are pretty much completely harmless to people.
Dont u think that if something could steal his fleshlight it could kill him while he was asleep? I know its obvious fake but i like that kind of stories.
When you feel like a crazy person is stalking you, act even crazier
Me: *hears some creepy noises, then makes even weirder creepy noises to Assert dominance*
Monster: “ok dude chill out, I’ll leave your crazy ass alone”
@@michaelalavigne9258 lol
If you don’t want to be a victim, look like someone who is about to commit a crime. Look over your shoulders, look kind of paranoid, but also moving purposefully and confidently. The last thing an actual criminal wants as a target is another edgy paranoid potential criminal
Lol
lool true
The thought of a human stalking a lone camper is 10x more frightening than being stalked by a bear or mountain lion.
I agree
Uh what?
@@worldisfilledb being stalked by a human is scarier than a bear or cougar. His comment was self explanatory
Bullshit😂
Spooky yes, but I'd prefer to be stalked by a human than a bear or mountain lion. I don't know enough Brazilian jiu-jitsu to fight off a cougar or bear lol
ALWAYS follow your gut instinct! When I was 17 I was at a Fourth of July party & about 2 hours into the party I had this extreme sense of dread. I never left parties early back then. But this horrific feeling kept telling me that I needed to leave. I left the party just before 2 teens were stabbed to death. Never try to argue away that sense of foreboding.
You probably sensed that the party had a bad vibe to it without being able to put your finger on it.
And people try to say those are instincts, I’m no biologist or doctor, but I don’t believe instincts can predict the future especially when everything seems to be going perfectly well, it’s most definitely something more
The gut instinct is a gift. Not everyone has it nor will ever understand it. Don't even bother to explain it to most.
@@fancifrance4039 I’ve had a sense of dread or where I sensed something would happen. Once when I was taking my mom to the ER due to a fever and she was on chemo we were in a storm and it was late at night. For some reason I told my mother that I could smell a tornado coming and it did come. It was an F4 tornado/waterspout (was over water for a couple of minutes making it a water spout). It was devastating and caused a lot of damage. One other time I had that same sense and a cluster of tornadoes hit. I’ve lived in Florida half of my life and only those 2 times did I sense it and only those two times did they hit.
Also had a sense of dread in 2016. Told my family something was going to happen to me by my birthday which is in December. My birthday came and left and my family surprised me with a visit including my sister from California. On December 19, 2016 exactly 7 days later it hit. I was diagnosed with severe sepsis that nearly killed me and I was hospitalized for a month. My health isn’t in good shape so I’m used to frequent hospital stays but this one was within hours of being fatal without help. Spent time in the ICU as well. I tend to listen to my gut and I go to the ER when it’s really nagging and I have symptoms. Has happened several times and I would find out I had severe pneumonia or whatever. It’s definitely a gift and it should be listened to. My alarm bells have been going off the past week or so and I’m having that sense of dread but with COVID I am not in such a rush but I’m afraid it will get me in the end if I don’t listen to it
@NAMELESS INTERNET ADDICT unfortunately
I normally hate these types of channels because I suffer from crippling panic attacks (I don’t mean just bad anxiety, they manifest in the form of what I imagine a heart attack feels like and i have been hospitalized for them multiple times) but, Mr.Ballen is just such a comforting person to listen to, that I’m able to enjoy these videos.
Agreed
Please stop watching we dont want death by heart attack caused by listening to Ballen😂.you gonna get my man a pg rating.
I totally understand what you go through! I enjoy MrBallen's relaxed way of narrating
I camp like a civilized person, I set the tent up on the family room floor in front of the tv with the dog. Rugged living.
my man
Same
I do it primitive style no room service and vending machine in lobby
I camp at my cottage AHA close enough? Or naw ahah
My dad would be talking about how. Confused he is about this
I'm thinking that I'm likely to never go camping alone again. My new goal in life: Do not do anything that will get me featured in a Mr. Ballen story in the future.
Yes, 100% yes
That must be the CUTEST comment here in this video ♥️♥️
Wise!!!
I’ve also learned that chimneys are far more dangerous than I ever imagined, and scuba diving is the most risky activity on the planet.
@@OG3XOG After listening to Mr B, I looked up where Bell Canyon was just so I would know in case that happened. Not kidding, I'm in Washington, not far from where that story took place. It's not close to Bell Canyon.
"Sam intentionally hadn't brought a tent"
Me, a MrBallen veteran: "And that my children is how you get featured on a MrBallen's story"
sam didnt bring a tent cuz he was headed to bells cayon. only logical explaination
@@kylergrell3351 do you know how to get there?
Sam didn't bring a tent because it's a fake story. The guy took a flashlight from next to Sam while he was sleeping, didn't attack, and then tried to "lure" Sam away from his bonfire in order to attack him? Yeah that makes a ton of sense.
@@tylerjeb7888 Well except that it sounds like it was just a few high school/college kids having fun and scaring him. That’s what I think happened.
A tent offers no physical protection from anything except for rain. Having a tarp strung up over you offers the same amount of physical protection as a tent would have = none. So Sam bringing a tent or not bringing a tent doesn’t make him any more or less likely to be featured in these stories.
MrBallens ability to create visuals when story telling is on a completely different level from everyone else. I catch myself closing my eyes and completely envisioning the scenery/landscape, which makes it 10x more intense. You are the GOAT story teller!!!
He is unparalleled in his enunciation and pacing and ability to give you a clear mental image of the area your right!
I was just looking at rick grimes lmaoo
"Maybe a rock fell from a tree."
- The brain trying to rationalize
I've spent quite a bit of time in the woods. Not once has a rock fallen out of a tree on or near me.
Occasionally birdies and other gentle woodland creatures will drop shit on you, but that's a stretch in this situation.
@@mcphizzle66 yeah birds are more likely to drop a shit on you.
*us learning that the brain rationalizes from MrBallen*
A bird?
i have had sticks fall on my head my friends watched it happened at school
*Noise* “huh what was that?” “TiS bUt a RoCk ThAt fElL fRoM tHe tREe”
made me laugh out hard! good one lol!
That relatable moment when a rock falls from a tree
@@lilyo7982 A person in fear could probably rationalize that a dead fish falling from a tree is perfectly normal in those situations.
Metal gear solid logic
Tbh I would’ve just assumed it was an acorn 😂
It's amazing how effective the 'feeling of being watched' is. The natural spidey sense.
@@penny8579 🤯🤯🤯
@@penny8579 Or just instinct taking advantage of senses without the person knowing. Saves brain power that might be needed seconds later.
@Jennifer Taylor 🤯🤯
It's light refraction in your eyes. Your brain is intelligent enough to know that the only glassy surfaces you'll see at night are the water reflecting the moon, and some eyeballs. Some people have mastered it, they're usually skilled hunters or trained riflemen though.. youve got to learn what assumptions to make when your brain gives you a clue.
I know I always wonder if you actually notice subconsciously
Me: Scared of everything and an intense fear of ghosts/paranormal/death
Also me: watches this for fun at 2am alone
...YOuR nOt ALonEE...
Same lol
And here i am watching this at Midnight. lol and I get paranoid as hell xD
Same here! I don’t watch horror movies but I watch his stories and I get so scared 😱
Mr.ballen makes me feel safe and terrified at the same time
Since finding Mr Ballen, I have learned to never scuba dive or camp. Ever.
@Jennifer Taylor camping by yourself with nothing is stupid
Exactly
On the reels!!!
or work minimum wage in factories with heavy machinery
And never take your eyes off your kids 😨
Sam: "I am going camping alone in the Superstitions."
Us Locals: "Bye...I'll let your momma know you loved her."
now that is cold 😂😂😁😁😁😁
Yup... some ideas are really, really dumb. Especially when you start having second thoughts about it, but still do it anyway. They usually end up making horror movies about those kinds of bad decisions....
He was a local lol.... Obviously Bells Canyon is way more spooky
lol im convinced that there’s just a bunch of people living out in the middle of nowhere with no tv or video games to entertain them, so they just troll the city folk who come around.
Bullwyn1971 You gave me a much needed belly laugh with tears in my eyes. Thank you.
This dude can make a story about a leaf blowing scary
Depends who the leaf is blowing
Agreed...but i.love his story telling!
LEAF BLOWING?! WHERE?!?!!?! 😱😱😱😱😱
🤣🤣
He could come to my house and tell me all about paint drying...allll night.
people who are abused or have had a traumatic experience, this gut feeling is super strong.
OMG THE LAST ONE SCARED THE SHIT OUT OF ME AHHH WHY AM I WACHING THIS AT NIGHT!?!?!?
OMG
Not at night! 😬 never! Haha!
I mean, I’m not currently watching at night, but I like to save the demon stories for then. Also yeah I have almost shat myself from some of these.
I kinda just told myself only to watch his videos during the daytime only! Lol I’m a wimp, oh well. I can hardly watch his shorts…omg constant jump scares and nightmare fuel! 😳
Those are Mr. Ballens rules. You have to watch at night.
The biological phenomenon when knowing someone is watching you is known as “gaze detection” or “gaze perception”, neurological studies have found that when you have the feeling you’re being watched, those brain cells telling you that are very very precise, always trust that feeling
@Sub if you are against Antifa and BLM Likely, just crazy how much it happens to actually be someone watching you
Intuition
then why do I feel like I'm being watched every time I watch these videos 😂
@@ellasimmons5946 probably your brain over thinking whats being told in these stories 😂
Actually there is a electromagnetic grid that envelops all of us that we cannot see naturally.... And since our mind is electrical we can actually tap into this grid.... That's why when you feel someone that has bad intentions towards you that's because we are all connected on that electromagnetic grid... And if you don't believe me that's how lightning tracks you it literally pulls up your bioelectrical energy up towards the sky then it connects with a circuit of your bioenergy and then you get struck.... Everything in our world is made of energy anybody with the most basic understanding of physics should know this.... So when someone sees you and has bad intentions toward you you're going to pick this up.... Some people will call it psychic energy other people will call it esp but all it really is is natural electromagnetic energy that envelops your body and connects you to the surrounding energies.... That's why you get literally like a spidey sense is tingling sensation.... And paranoia is an unreasonable and ridiculous fear so for example paranoia would be thinking that Napoleon is out in the darkness and he's got a cannon and he's pointing it at you.... That is paranoia.... It's an unreasonable unnatural fear....getting the feeling that you're stalked is not unreasonable or unnatural....
Like button to therapist: "And he uploads three, four, even FIVE times a week!!!"
underrated.
😂😂😂
@@levih.8786 Heavily.
You win
Lmao
As a graveyard shift security officer posted at an open train station, I’ve had one of these unnerving feelings. Funny enough I was listening to MrBallen at the time, but the unsettling feeling would not go away. After my patrol routine, I would just post up in a spot I can see 80% of the site, but my back was faced towards the side street. On the other side were a couple small businesses with gated security and beyond the gates was pitch darkness. I’ve never felt anything like it in the 3 years I worked there, it just happened randomly and was just on edge the rest of the night. Thanks to this video in particular, I will always look over my shoulder when feel uneasy.
I worked the graveyatd shift alone in C-stores for 8 years. I learned the hard way to ALWAYS listen to your instincts. I got lucky as cops showed up before anything happened, but.....
Please people..have a dog with you
I just went solo camping in Oregon and I couldn't stop imagining this guy narrating everything I was doing like something bad was about to happen. Beyond creepy lmao
Hahahah
That would have been torture!😆😆
Lmao.
OMG! I do the same when walking around the lake!😂🤣😂
Mike it's good that you didn't have any strange or mysterious adventures... glad u r safe.
I’m always eagerly refreshing Mr Ballen’s page around this time 😅 👁👄👁
Anyone else been here since his first few videos who’s watched religiously?
Always the best part of my day, I work night shifts so I stay up a lil after work and wait patiently for a new video 😭
Me
Same! I listen all day at work, I’ve heard each video a few times but it’s all good!
I’m at work during the time he uploads. But I keep an eye out for notification and stop what I’m doing 😂
I watch him every video! I have to wait for the new ones cause Ive already watched all of his other videos! On youtube anyway I dont go to any other social media. They are too busy.(hfa)
I just found out about him a few months ago, really love his video's
The things I've learned from all the Ballen stories are don't ever go camping, hiking or into isolated areas alone. If the offer sounds to good to be true, then it is. If you feel like you're being watched trust your indistincts. If you think things are being moved around your house someone is probably behind your walls preparing to kill you. If you take up scuba diving into under water caves you will eventually die. Never investigate strange sounds on your own and if people say that a place is dangerous you should stay far away from it and lastly never walk into our attempt to repair dangerous equipment without turning it off completely and having someone with you incase it goes bad.
This shit worries me so much, I’m always have a handweapon on/near me unless I’m around people.
Also never let your kids out of your sight, even for a moment, not even in the locked car, just tether them to you permanently.
And dont go scuba diving in dangerous places without appropriate training
With this information
You are now immortal
@@grenadelauncher2376 well you should have also learned that you can’t trust people you know
oh my gosh, i can’t believe how smart sam is! i would never of thought moving the flashlight was a trick! i would’ve died instantly.
Seems pretty stupid to set up a trap for someone who’s asleep and the first step of your master plan is to steal their flashlight that’s right next to them. If they wanted to harm him they could have when he was wrapped up in a sleeping bag asleep.
@@DiamondCake2 No sir, u are wrongly assuming the stalker had a criminal mind... that he would gained something logical with his dead, taking his car for example... but there are no criminals in the middle of nowhere stalking random lonely people... what he encountered was a lunatic, and he didn't want to steal from him, he wanted to toy with him... which he did... He was in real danger...
@@fgnoyola Or he was in no danger at all. Sometimes people just want to terrorise another without ever being seen.
Sam's story was quite terrifying. My imagination was running wild with what might have been stalking him but when you said someone wrote "sleep well" definitely indicated that it was a person and not some creature but the fact that they are hanging out on a mountain and is not terrified of being out there in pitch black is scary af
Yeah it sounds like they target campers out there at night and that might explain the disappearances
I’m skeptical of that story for a few reasons though.
I knew it was a person and when he realized the flashlight had been moved I DEFINITELY knew because a mountain lion or bear wouldnt know the significance of a flashlight!
@@codybassett112 could you list them. I’m not trying to be annoying I’m genuinely curious
@@codybassett112 what reasons, I'm really curious to know
I been binge watching this guy and not only being entertained but also getting a good handle on my metric conversions.
You are going to regret it. He's relatively new and your life will lose meaning when your outta content in about three days.
Yeahhhp. Pretty much already there...the horizon is bleak.
I’m right there with both of you! ☹️
But I’m happy to see someone coming to the worldwide use of the metric system! 👌 President Carter couldn’t do it, but Mr Ballen may be the one to finally bring Americans to join us in the metric system! 😄
Lol same here. Leave it to the military to let you know 24 hour clock measures and metric distance. We noobs from the states don’t know shit. And it makes so much more sense than the imperial measurements 🙄
Europe: metric
Asia: metric
Africa: metric
South America: metric
Antarctica: who the hell cares? Nobody lives there but still metric
North North America(Canada): metric
Australia: metric
The United States: feet and miles!
@@Minimojojoy Carter got such a raw deal... he wasn’t the best president but he knew his shit and doesn’t get enough respect for what he tried to do 😕 I am more right than you could fathom but Carter just had bad luck with shitty global economy and the “Cold” War he just didn’t have any room to show how he was genuinely interested in keeping everyone alive. Sucks to have him as a failed president when he did everything right. Sorry for the tangent but as democrats go he is one of my favorites
It’s so bizarre how you can just feel eyes on you. There’s no way you should be able to know but somehow you feel something that makes you uneasy. Despite there being no real logic to it everybody knows what it is and what feels like. I’ve never really sat down and gave it much thought but it’s a very intriguing concept.
Edit: ngl didn’t think this comment would get any attention since it was kinda just a random passing thought it thought I would share but it’s pretty cool it got the ball rolling on a nice discussion. Cool seeing so many peoples views on this topic so thanks for the interesting input.
I don't know this for sure, just my thoughts on it. But, I think it is because our eyes see something that we didn't consciously register.
Like you scan a tree line and didn't see anything but then you get the feeling that you are being watched. I think its because you saw something in the tree line watching you but it didn't click in your mind. Like when you are looking for something right in front of you, you physically see the thing but for some reason it just doesn't click in your brain.
You don't feel eyes, you feel the presence of another person or animal. It's a subconscious reflex. Our brain can detect minor changes in the general environment around us that we interpret as someone or something in that area.
I believe it has to do with knowing that you are vulnerable or are in an area where you can be easily seen. Maybe also hearing incredibly faint sounds like rustling leaves or sounds that queue a thought of "something is near."
Ngl I like to test this on people sometimes and stare at them from a distance to see what sort of behaviour they examine and honestly I haven’t had any reactions that can confirm this yet I still believe it … mind you my intent was never sinister so maybe if people are staring at you harmlessly it doesn’t trigger any instincts or feelings
There are many stimuli that we process unconsciously. For example people who went blind because of a damaged visual cortex (the eyes still work but the brain cannot process it) can still recognize aggressive facial expressions and feel fear because of it. That's because before the nerve signal from the eyes is processed by the visual cortex, it is processed by a small structure that is there to detect hostile intentions and that is completely unconscious. And even so they can't see anything, they can feel hostile faces which is amazing.
Why one would go backpacking without a firearm is beyond me. I even take mine hiking. I don't want to be lunch or the victim of a psycho. 😂
What would you do if you didn’t have access to a gun?
What would you do if you lived in the UK and aren’t allowed guns?
Agreed.
@@DiamondCake2not live in the UK.
UK - takes a 9" inch knife or a on axe or make a spear. Or paintball gun filled with marbles...
When the idea crosses your mind to go camping solo at night without a tent, that should be the moment your natural instinct kicks in says "Hell to the no."
Makes you perfect prey for something like a mountain lion.
Is what you do is you keep the biggest knife that you can use quickly, and you keep it near by. And that also goes for if you are just in the forest even if you don’t feel like someone is there, always have a big agile knife on hand… or gun, gun works too.
I don’t understand why anyone would go camping without any protection like bringing a tent. If I was hiking alone; (which you should never do) I would always bring a tent to sleep inside just for the added protection. Even if the tent is just a deterrent , that’s better than sleeping under the stars in the open air.
😅🤣😂Bible. It's so cute and nieve that you think a tent will protect you from anything but bugs and snakes.
@@paintedpony2935 Ah yes another smug Internet troll. That’s exactly what I was talking about. Sleeping in a tent gives you some added protection from the elements and the environment. What’s cute is how you pretentiously troll and assume things. I wonder if you can assume getting your teeth kicked in.
Creative, clever, up beat, and good hearted person. Never complains never makes the channel about himself.. always respects the viewer.JOB Well done Mr. BALLEN
One thing is for dam sure: I am never going into the woods without at least two flashlights that also have guns attached to them and are attached to me.
And in a tank
@@cmacctron7787 and the tank has a flamethrower
@@Benjamin-uz2dx and the flamethrower has an automatic target lock mechanism
@@cmacctron7787 Power armor, a good high power railgun, a flamethrower, a good old-fashioned tazer sword, meathook attached to a super shotgun.
Or u could just go in with a group of professional woodsman while making sure one of them is a badass ex special forces mf
Along with a complete moron that no one likes that can be used as a distraction
In other words you want to go with Rambo and me.
ooo this reminds me of another personal story. Years back I was living at my parents' house, which is on a hillside with a bunch of undeveloped land behind it. There was a fire road on top of the hill that I used to hike all the time. I'd try to bring our dog up there on occasion but it always seemed anxious and wouldn't go down the trail unless I really yanked him along. One day I went up to the trail to do some jogging, but then it started to rain so I turned around and start jogging home. My shoe became untied and I bent down to tie it, and there in the fresh mud next to my foot was a mountain lion print. It had only been raining about 10 minutes and I had just passed this same section of trail probably 15 minutes before. Never saw the cat but after that I was on hyper alert every time I was on that fire road. I probably should've packed pepper spray or something but at the time I didn't realize how dangerous mountain lions could be.
Yikes that's scary, dude. Mountain lions are no joke. The last time i thought a mountain lion was approaching me, I was so scared
Sam thinking it's a trap as his first instinct, and TRUSTING his gut to not fall for it, is probably the smartest decision I have ever heard anyone make on this series.
That's overblown. If he/they meant to do him any harm, he would have when he was right over him while he was asleep. My best guess is that this was some freak living out in the woods off the grid that had lost his mind in the extreme solitude (if not before that), and was just jerking with this guy.
I find the trap thing pretty unbelievable. Think about it. If their intent was to actually do harm, why set up a trap when they already got close enough to get the kids flashlight while he slept. That would've been the perfect opportunity to attack him. Not while hes awake holding a hunting knife ready for something to go down.
@@h91rex100 It probably wasn't to harm him per se, but more just to watch him struggle, thrash, scream, etc, plenty of people get off the suffering of others. Since as you said if they just wanted him dead they could of just done it when they grabbed the flashlight, but is less of a game to be enjoyed then.
@@srxjosephyeah it was a game for them
When he said Chris felt somebody looking at him in the woods. I suddenly felt someone watching me in my bed while alone in my room. I look back and it’s my cat. 😳😂
Lol
Cat wasn't watching you, it was looking at what was behind you.
@@almddmla5577 I-
🤣😂
damn
Footsteps: ** makes noise **
Any character in a horror movie: “Hello?”
Sam: Nope. No ma’am! I’m gonna stay away, thank you very much
This is why I always bring night vision goggles and frag grenades when I’m camping
Yeah and dont forget the ak, the bazooka and the m1 abrams tank
All I need is my bolt action rifle with a thermal scope
You listen to Team America 24/7
Bad decision bring heat vision googles way better
Thank you ancestors for giving us “Survival instincts” 🙏🏻
Army ? Are you an army
@@rubykohler2531 oooooooxOf
🙏 is a high five I think
@@aceventura3021 yea it is lol
As someone with an anxiety disorder, I can only hope that my "someone is watching me" instinct does not feel the same as the general feeling of impending doom that I feel several times a week. My mom says to trust my instincts but how can I do that when my instincts are fried?
She went to a gas station when she was an older teen and someone got in line behind her. She had that feeling MrBallen describes. She didn't turn around, but paid for her gas and left. She noticed the other person got into their own car just after she got into hers and he proceeded to follow her down the street. She kept making random turns but he kept following her. I forget where she went, but she made it to a payphone and called the police. Turns out the guy had multiple warrants for sexual assault.
Yeah "trust your gut" isn't really helpful for like 40% of people
But also I think it's possibly more important to train yourself to assert your needs... Like the old elevator example, whether or not you feel anxious getting in an elevator with a stranger at night in a parking structure, don't. Don't get in either way lol. But you have to have some skills to be able to just turn around and leave if there's someone in there. It's really awkward and they may pressure you. People often do things they don't even want to do, and they're trusting their gut, but they don't know how to deal with negative feedback from other people so they go along with it and suffer
(Also i know sometimes it's dangerous to say no, too, but that's a whole other issue)
I have anxiety and I’ve also been in a life threatening situation. When I was 12 I was almost kidnapped. I had to walk along a long secluded road from my bus stop to my dance class, most of the time this was fine, but one day I heard a car coming up behind me but it was *slowing down* and I was hit with the most intense feeling. Hair on the back of my neck stood up, my stomach dropped, and i instantly felt WIRED. Something was WRONG and I needed to get out so I jumped across the ditch by the side of the road and ran up the hill and hid behind some parked cars in a used car lot. As I ran up the hill I heard the sound of a sliding car door shutting and a car accelerating away. When I looked it was, I shit you not, a white van with all the windows blacked out turning the corner by my dance school. It was one of the most terrifying feelings of my life and completely different from the way my anxiety feels. My anxiety feels sick and queasy and I feel mired and helpless. It’s a sticky fluttery feeling. When that car came up behind me the fear was sharp and cold.
ALWAYS BE AWARE OF YOUR SURROUNDINGS AS WELL AS YOUR GUT INSTINCTS. CARRY SOME TYPE OF PROTECTION ON YOUR PERSON.
Kay Jay: In 1980,I was living with a girl in south Louisiana.
We were driving down the road one evening and got into an argument in the car,so I told her to pull over and let me out.I was going to walk back home.
So I got out,walked across the road and started walking in the opposite direction.
She then drove off.
As I was walking along,a car passed me and then pulled over to the side of the road just ahead of me.
Two guys got out of the car and they each had a pipe in their hands and they started toward me.
I stopped and knew there was nowhere to go and it was going to be a fight for my life.There was no time to be afraid.
But then,unknown to me,my girlfriend had turned around and came back to pick me up.
She pulled along side me and opened the passenger door and yelled at me to get in.She turned the car around and sped away from there as fast as she could.
She was very upset by what she had seen and of the thought of what could've happened to me had she not turned around and came back for me.
With sever anxiety it actually a remnant of human life before we settled down in to many civilizations. We where hunter gathers. People who where hyper aware were better at protecting themselves and hunt food. The highnt anxiety isn't bad it just means you are overly aware BUT when you truly are in danger your body will physically react more then just the internal feeling of dreed and doom.
For example I was in a sever car accident more then once. I felt it getting into the car all the way up till right before we ended up in the ditch. Hair standing straight up my throat was tight and I was nausea my self. But my mom didn't listen to my complaining about turning back and going home something was wrong or missing
I have to give the guy alot of credit- To deduce the flashlight was a trap, while fighting panic that would say "NEED THE LIGHT, NEED THE LIGHT", is a boss move. Ive been in the wilderness and had wierd experiences- as the saying goes "everyone has a plan till they get punched in the face". He performed well even after a punch.
i mean its kinda an obvious trap imo that dont take away the fact the kid did a stellar fucking job tho did that shit damn near perfect except for making a big ass fire
although i do wonder why he wasnt scared of the lads knife
The woods are wierd places at night i live smack dab in the middle of a million acher park the Adirondack mountians to be specific whats scary is when your in the forest and it goes silent no birds no squirrels silence is usually the calm before the storm
What trap? If whoever was messing with him wanted to actually hurt him they could have done it when they got the flashlight and he was sleeping. Whoever it was screwing with him appeared to want to mess with his head and not actually harm him. Ofcourse you never know.
@@mojoelite yes, it's totally illogical. If they were by his side to get the flashlight, they could hurt him there and then, not set some stupid-ass trap with the flashlight. So either it was a total lunatic that didn't act rationally or it's wholly made up story
@@mojoelite Typically the goal with planned murders like this isn't to actually kill the person, but to feel powerful or to have fun. The murder itself isn't what's important. How the murder is accomplished is.
Imagine being so brave that u can watch these type of videos in the middle of the night in the middle of a Forrest in a cabin all alone
✨no✨
No thanks
“so when you have a bad feeling about something you should listen to that”
**laughs in anxiety**
Omg I must be being watched all the damn time!! I know that feeling, its like when someone watches you theres more of a connection then you think, and I don't think its just when something sees you but when something is putting all its focus on you
@@lostinspace1036 your brain actually senses when someone is watching whether you are awake or sleeping! it’s creepy but there are theories that spirits watch you and give you that feeling. creepy
A day in the life 😬😕
That's why I just don't leave the house anymore.
@@ren-cn8gs you mean giggles with angst
The realization of "that's a trap" is probably one of my favorite lines out of all the videos. Lol
Mr Ballen: "He's getting ready for his 7-Day, solo, backpacking trip."
Me, an intellectual: "Idiot."
If nothing else that's how you end up in a situation that ends with you cutting off your own limb.
I'm been debating in my mind whether I'm a coward or those solo backpackers are incredibly naive.
An idiot, for sure! It's a really weird thing to do, especially alone. 2miles back and forth is perfectly fine 😂
A stick??? So he's hiking alone WITHOUT a kn!f3 OR a pew pew??? Idiot.
Plenty of people go out hiking in pairs and still end up dead together
I was charged by a sick mountain lion and it was the worst thing I’ve encountered. PTSD up the ass, but still couldn’t be as bad as something a human could do to ya. 😳
I believe you. That would be utterly terrifying.
Bears are much worse, at least big cats will kill you first, bears don’t, they will just eat you alive.
I've had to deal with being stalked by bigfoot hunters out here in my woods.
They always want casts of my footprints and stuff, it's creepy
Yeah i feel you
I bet uts even creepier when they stop and pick up your poop.
Sorry bro
Aye man if u want I can scare them away for u?
Stop being so shy. I just wanna be friends my guy.
When you watch some of these videos, did you notice how often people survived just because they had this "bad feeling" and decided in the last minute to rather not go into that cave etc.?! Their friends ignored that feeling and perished...
That’s usually how horror movies go...The main character gets a bad feelings says “hey, maybe this isn’t a good idea,” their friends laugh at them and convinces them to go on anyways and in the end they all die. 🤷🏽♀️
The premise of all the final destination movies
natural selection at its finest
I've learned by this channel to never go hiking, scuba diving, go inside caves, be home alone, or leave the house at all.
basically, just don’t exist.
lol not even your house is safe you either get stalkers or worse sinkholes out of nowhere
LOL
Here is the thing my friend. Ignore the stuff that can't hurt you, if you know how to use a gun, carry it if you feel you may need it, after all you are safer to have a gun and not need it, then to not have a gun and need it. Live a good life, use common sense when out and about in the jungle, forest, or major city, if you can always travel with a friend, better yet travel with a girl friend, they are much nicer to have along if nothing happens, they also give you the drive to protect them, it's part of nature, built into our lives as it is. If you are lucky enough, as I was in 1969 and find a great woman who loves you and is a great cook, then so much the better. God how I miss my darling, now gone for a year and 4 days.
You haven’t seen the stories of people hiding in the walls in peoples homes.
Pro tip :
A - NEVER go hiking alone
B - dont go hiking at all , ever
exactly 😂😂 what’s even the point of hiking
@@0gsamywe go hiking at lot during our big family vacations but there is always like 11 people and people don’t leave others alone. We also hike on very popular trails where there are a bunch of other people. Hiking by yourself in the middle of nowhere and then you camp out there? Hell nah
wow um that's sad to the people who care about it ok
“He puts his boots on and grabs his knife” bro laced up ready to slash shit🤣
On his new york shit
He said knife not box cutter or razor blades😉
@@jimmys2338 What?
So this figure gets within 10 feet of Sams' campsite and says, "We've been trying to reach you, regarding your vehicles' extended warranty." xD
😂😂😂😂
You get those calls too?
It’s their new aggressive marketing tactics…
😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆
@@aronious291 every freaking day most the time multiple times a day its now marked as spam likely in my contacts. Sometimes when my adhd son is throwing a fit ill answer hand him the phone and let him screech into the phone. ..... .
When he was telling the last story and said that the stranger was about 10 ft. Away I thought he was gonna say that the stranger said "Do you know how to get to Bells Canyon?"
Same tho
🤣🤣🤣
I was just thinking that lol 😂 😂
that story is so freaky
Lmao 😂
There is a good chance that the swoosh sound the man heard in the first story was an arrow/bolt flying past his head. It would explain why he couldn't find the object nearby/didn't hear it hit the ground in a quiet forest.
That would make sense, I wondered why he didn't mention if he found whatever it was when it got light out
@@digginggopher I can say from experience that an arrow passing closely to ones head does sound like a swoosh or even a bit like a sucking sound. I've had it happen twice. Once when I was young (my brother and I were messing around with my uncles compound bow) and once on a white tail hunt as an adult (we had someone in the group that didn't understand not to draw the string unless they were sure there was no one in the brush ahead of them). I'm not shocked that he didn't find the projectile. Arrows can fly far beyond where they are aimed if they miss. I've lost countless arrows in the woods despite knowing the angle and direction they were traveling.
oh shit you're right
@@deezbackissues2703 I wish that I wasn't. Those carbon fiber broad heads that I lost to learn this lesson aren't cheap.
I thought he was in a room with the door opened.
Mr Ballen: He can't shake this feeling he's being watched
Me quietly to myself: I can't fight this feeling anymore
"I've forgotten what I started fighting for..."
Journey ROCKS
Lol best comment ever
REO
LOL XD
The mountain lion thinking that it's going to eat a nice deer but getting closer and going into complete confusion to see a wierd looking thing on two legs and shoving water down it's throat like a madman.
I think mountain lions know what humans look like by now lol.
@J. Ngonono lol yes. Btw guys guess what ive backpacked there too!
like a madcat*
Just imagine seeing an elk walking on two legs xD
*wheeze*
Camping tips: always take a large sturdy tent. Never go alone. Collect a large pile of firewood before nightfall. Take at least one firearm and be prepared to use it. Take a dog with you if possible.
Appreciate those tips. Never going alone and at least bringing a fire arm if you do seems like common sense. Unfortunately for Sam it wasn't but at least he survived to tell the story.
I'm, generally speaking, not a gun person but I keep one firearm and that's for camping. Only had to use it once, somewhat similar story to Sam's, except when I hear the crunching of leaves I yelled out "I have a gun and I will fucking shoot you" and then I fired a couple shots into the direction from where I heard the leaves. Before the second shot even popped off I heard the running away from my camp.
@@DominicNJ73 I do the same thing, only from my home. The second anyone approaches my yard I'm blazing those guns like fire crackers on new years eve!
In the case of the last story, a firearm being stolen would be even scarier than a flashlight.
@@CatholicK5357 yeah true, Firearms are comforting to have but can backfire real quick
I gotta tell you that you're great at telling stories.
I am captivated every time.
You paint a clear image in my mind without fail.
Thanks for creating these videos! You're awesome!
I love how in the camp video with the stolen torch, rather than be scare and run away or be stupid...the kid was smart, recognised a trap, put his boots on and grabbed his knife and ready for a fight!....not many people are that brave or smart
You’re not scared about being alone In the dark you’re afraid of not being alone in the dark
I FeLt THaT HaRd
"You're" not "your." "Your" is possessive (ex. "your comment"). "You're" means "you are." Like "I'm" comes from "I am." You're (you are) welcome.
Fixed it
@@elementalcatplays6463 the second "your" should also be "you´re". You´re welcome.
Fix fixed that
@@elementalcatplays6463 Bro you forgot to add a comma after the first 'dark.' =)
This guy is literally one of the coolest people on UA-cam he was a navy seal which by itself is awesome and now he makes super interesting content on UA-cam and has 700k subs. Mad respect to you bro
Noob
@@robertburrell5214
What is that suppose to mean?
I have watched alot of mr.ballen videos including serial killers, cults, massacres, etc. But the last story about Sam is the one that scared me the most. It is a collection of all my greatest fears like the woods at night, being stalked/watched/followed, and thinking your alone when you are really not. It gave me jitters and anxiety just hearing it and Mr.ballen's great storytelling skills are not helping my case lol.
This one and Bells Canyon. Nope and nope.
That flashlight trap is the scariest story (to me) that I've heard you tell so far. Because to me that indicates that whoever that was didn't want to just hurt him(they could have done that when he was asleep) but they wanted to scare, torture and possible kill him. Normal people don't even think about doing that to other people so, or lurk in the woods waiting for the opportunity to do it to someone so whoever that was. was really deranged!!
Or just scare him :D
I was hoping it was a friend pulling a prank, but they'd have to be seriously committed. Probably it was a serial killer.
@@Skyril2 Like a friend would do something sick like that to a friend. Maybe give him a little scare and then reveal himself but that was a night of Sam experiencing extreme terror and fear for his life.
It kind of takes the sinister threat off of whoever did it just thinking of them back in the brush, sitting there like a doofus for three, four, five hours. Too sissified or mentally gone to say "screw it" and leave, or attack the guy already! Undoubtedly just some freak living off the grid that got threatened when someone was on "his turf", and just trying to scare him off, like the villains in the masks on Scooby-Doo. I could just see him as it goes into the fourth hour, in his little bush whispering to himself, "get ahtta here, you meddling kid!!"
Probably just messing around. If they truly wanted to hurt him they would have done so.
This guy has probably got the friendliest comments
I love it!
@@MrBallen hi love your vid keep up the good work
Unlike the Like button, who only has dislikes and battle scars.
@@eyden1562 Like button has had a tough life on this channel 😂
@@ARS-fe5wc fr that’s the only thing that’s gets abused sometimes
I couldn’t tie the like buttons shoe laces together, he was wearing velcro, he never learned to tie his shoes
I tried to give him a wedgie, he was wearing underwear.
@@aaaaaaaaaaa7773 that's what a wedgie Is tho...
what a loser for wearing Velcro
🤣
Is velcro a bad thing? It gets on faster too
No joke that last one got me good! I honest to goodness was like "It's okay. He made it. Everything is fine now." 'Sleep well?' "Holy shit!" Never before have I been so rattled by a story!
7 year old me: "Mom, I'm scared of the bogie man"
Me now: "Mom I scared I just watched MrBallen for 3 hours straight"
I was scared of the boogie man not sure who the bogie man is.
oh yeah then watch mrcreepypasta
@Exterminence nerfect?
@@travisgartside409 you’re just gonna ask about the “nerfect”?? 😂 pobody pass under your radar
@me- pushing 30 years old.
I work outside so when I'm on break, I like to wander down cool looking paths. I've done this for years and enjoy it very much. Two weeks ago, I wandered down a natural path that led into the backwoods behind some retention ponds. I stopped to check out a super cool crooked tree but got a horrible, panicky feeling that made me stop. I hadn't heard any noises, I wasn't around private property, and there were no people there. There was no explanation for that rotten feeling. It was so overwhelming that I panic-ran back to the truck, locked all of the doors, and sat there panting for a minute, trying to see what the threat was. There was nothing noticeable but whatever was back there meant bad news. I've never, ever had such a powerful feeling like that before. No questions asked, I was outta there. Just thinking about it makes my body flutter.
always trust yourself! you did damn good!
it's scary that you don't know what it was but thank fuck whatever it was didn't get you
Years and it hasn't never happened before or since I'm guessing I would say something or someone was definitely had bad intentions towards you glad you got out of there. That's the 6th sense I'm guessing?
Similar thing. Year's ago my now ex boyfriend and I would go out on his motorbike at night,sit and relax somewhere. One evening, we turned up at a place we'd been a few time's before. This time though, I suddenly started to demand we leave immediately. He was really annoyed at me, but hey ho. Well, the news report the next day, reported that a man had been murdered there!!! Definitely follow your instinct's 👍👍
@carol Angel
...was he the one who killed him? 😳
@@Em-os1yz no lol 😆
That “gut feeling” “hairs standing on end” “feel like being watched” isn’t something to joke about. It’s called human evolution and that’s a sense we haven’t lost through time. Trust it.
Intuition is what I think you meant.
Pay attention to your Kelpian ganglia
@@rrb396 scientific intuition, even. our brains are capable of something called “thin-slicing” which is essentially your subconscious picking up on patterns and waving a red flag for you.
@@Moonkitvelvet totally agree. Always listen to yourself and trust it
Evolution.
Gracious…I’ve been binge watching this channel for DAYS straight, now!!! So glad this came into my algorithm!!! Before this, I was watching those TikTok “Unbelievable but True” Paranormal Stories Compilations and, sadly, they were starting to repeat each other😩. Totally love THESE though, because it’s ALL AROUND weirdness and creepiness 👀🍿🍫🥤👀
I'm a country girl and growing up my friends always laughed at me because I have never been camping in the woods, but after listening to MrBallen's stories, I've never been more convinced I made the right decision!!! 😄🤣
I have trekked into the forests in my locality for days at a time all by myself penetrating deep into the forest. Nothing more peaceful than camping at night on your own.
@@bighands69 while I think with experience and a dead imagination it’s doable, I’m not going out there without other people or a gun..
Not to say that you shouldn’t camp, but people who do that pay Mr.Ballens bills…
@@AutoSearPin your much more likely to be hit by a car or stabbed by a mugger than attacked by wolves or some stupid shit. I hiked by myself for three days and nights deep in the woods and nothing interesting happened at all, despite it being creepy at night. He only thing to be scared of is falling and breaking your leg by yourself, or something boring like that. Life isn’t as exciting as you think it is.
Naw you definitely missed out on a great time camping showed me that I like the wilderness more then civilization being able to get away from everything for a while is nice
@@Dbshortz420 I love the outdoors, don't get me wrong and definitely prefer it to city life. We even had a small cabin in the wild woods of Alabama growing up that we stayed at a lot, but I always found the darkness of the woods at night very unsettling. The tent just didn't provide enough security for my taste. 😂
The scariest things in the woods aren't the dangerous animals. I would be more worried about the wild humans.
I'm from NJ where we have the Jersey Devil down south. If you grew up there, you know all about it and more likely than not believe it. I DON'T DO WOODS!!! There are God-awful things in the woods!!!
Like the movie”wrong turn “
@@goldiemckernan1189 its tru for i am in the woods most of the time
@@thchris Well you're way braver than me lol!!!
I live in a suburb near Amsterdam, and there'a park there, you would think nothing crazy would happen... but i had the worst day of my life running there
MrBallen: "Before you skip this video......"
Me: "MrBallen, NOBODY skips your videos"
When does he say, "before you skip this video"? I must have skipped over that part...
@@karlsteffen7804 it was at the beginning of the video I commented on
True
ummm, no it wasn't. Never once, in any of his videos, that I can recall, did he ever say before you skip this video.
Especially in this video
My whole life Ive always had that 6th sense to a scary degree, when I was younger I was told/thought it was a gut feeling. As I've gotten older I think it has more to do with energy & somehow certain people can read/feel the energy shifts in a room and/or environment.
I can, and it can be in a crowd or home alone.
I think these videos are making my 6th sense overactive 😅
I think some people "send" and some "receive" and it has something to do with a shift in mental focus.
i think you’ve had a hard childhood and had to learn to pick up on small environmental and social cues bc as a small child you never felt externally safe so you developed it as a coping mechanism to your fear and anxiety
@@dannyfresca1175 its true, at least for me. My childhood/teenage were the worst times of my life, now in my 20's im trying to heal but when i say a person is shady, truly it is.
Sorry for my english not my 1st language
as a French girl who’s first language isn’t English I thank you for putting the miles in km! It’s very helpful when I’m focusing on words haha
yesss so true ! (ps : on est dacc que même si j'adore squeeze, cet homme raconte incroyablement bien les histoires ?)
wait till he gets into ufo,s & aliens,,then it will be AU, distance..suckyurbrow.thats allthe french i know,&,,i cant spell..
Its so true, when they talk about pound, mile and like 3foot tall, have no idea how much is that. Lol
USA measurements am I right
It is helpful for us non Americans
I absolutely love the first remark of this video. I’ve been thinking lately about how we train that out of people; kids seem to go with their gut when they don’t like a new person but they’re taught to be polite. I think that eventually blunts our awareness.
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" a rock fell off a tree" ...damn he was trying so hard to convince himself alright
That was such a dumb 0iq line he said lmao
Well a bird could easily have brought a rock up there and left it by accident. It's not stupid, it's more rational to think it's your mind playing tricks at night than it is to thing, 'OMG there's a stalker out in the middle of nowhere throwing rocks at me for no reason' lol
a rock I- 😂✋🏼
a rock omaybe its a chessnut it would do the same sound?
I just can't persuade myself that a rock can fall off/or out of a tree ...
Is it just me or is this stuff way better when they show there face while telling the story makes it better
Their *
Yes, that really adds to the story.
True and proper story telling.
Its because humans communicate a lot in non speaking ways. Hand movements facial expressions,etc. It pulls you in more imo
The first story had pictures from the walking dead TV show.
*PLOT TWIST* all the stalkers are the Like Button, trying to get vengeance for all the stuff we have done to him.
ahaha
His friend "suddenly couldn't go" hmmmm
Truth
Like Jason from Friday the 13th movie's
AND WE HAVE TO PRESS THE LIKE BUTTON TO KILL IT!!
"Maybe a rock fell off a tree." Greatest thought to ever enter a human mind. 15:49
From the beginning of the video he talks about how human instincts are something we developed and are buried. My friend once said “Humans have the ability of being able to tell if something that looks human is not human, that means that at some point in time we needed to develop that to survive.”
Or to mate, lol,
There's been dozens of different hominid species, gotta choose the right one though😆
@@silviomcintosh6075 true
Your friend may have been referring to what is now called the "uncanny valley effect."
@@Atlas_Atlantis yea it's only like the last 10000 years we've been the only humanoid species, before that we coexisted for a very long time with other humanoids, some probably very hostile.
@@silviomcintosh6075 Fuck. I think my ancestors mated with the wrong one.
In fairness, mountain lions watch us all the time w/o us knowing. They almost NEVER attack. I've spent years in the outdoors conducting field work, and I found evidence of a mountain lion following me/us numerous times. It became clear eventually from the tracks and sounds that they were just curious (and probably bored, lol). They are cats, after all. 😂
That being said, I wouldn't feel great about inviting the curiosity of a mountain lion if I had a set of elk antlers on my shoulders...
People do not realise how silently those lions can move
@@jaimeedowell1383 yes, exactly
Bored house cats be like: first imma scare it, then injure it, then torture it, then imma kill it and I'm not even hungry... Lolz.
Anyone else thinking guy in story number 2 was a walking disaster... “I’ll just carry this extra weight, ooops drank all my water-no need to stop til I’m dehydrated, ah yes I’ll go searching for water without my vessels, I’ll hide in my tent to escape a mountain lion no biggie”. 😅
Totally agree with you
Yep, didn't think this through.
Not a wilderness guru
That was my first thought too! So this guy only has 1 mile to his car, but decides to walk a half mile "up the mountain" to find water and then a half back just for water? Sounds like he probably should've just sucked it up and walked the mile to his car
Well hiding in a tent isnt really a bad idea. Like.. what lion will attack a tent?
Rick Grimes "Who threw the stick Carl"?!
MrBallen, this man is a legend, this man is god tier, his comment section is god tier. Hes probably a god himself.
😂 thank you!!
@@MrBallen i bow to you, great Ballen
I'm sure the like button would not disagree....
Christus Mea Lux stfu
Someone wants to blow MrBallen bad 🤔🙄😁
Every now and then, as I'm walking to my car, or getting gas at the gas station I hear in my head ....."Little did she know..." and I can just imagine it being the start of a weird story 😂 You just never know do you!!!
lol
😂😂😂
Ah well. It could go either way so hopefully it's positive stuff 😅
lol you read to much
I do this all the time too 😭
i love the stories that are like "he hears a strange noise in a dark place and procedes to be like 'screw that i'm out' and doesn't die"
Because that's what humans really do, not walk directly into potential danger, that's why horror movies seem absurd so often.
I often watch your videos, and am convinced that you are the world's best story teller. Great work!
he his the best im awake till early morning watching and only turn it off when my eyes wont stay open ha ha