I used to binge this channel. Amazing narrator and beautiful art. And one day he took down a bunch of his videos and seemed dejected. But he kept getting better and better. And 1M subs! A truly incredible channel!
I remember watching an older video and Joel explaining how he had to take down a huge amount of videos because he hadn't gotten full approval to use some of the stories he was narrating. He said his subscriber count was increasing by hundreds of thousands a week, if not a day, but after that mishap the algorithm decreased and his channel took a huge hit in subscribers. I've been listening to him narrate for a few years now and this is my favorite channel. I'm happy to see him finally reach over 1 mil. I can't imagine how big this channel would be had he not had to take down those videos early on.
For story 3. I’m glad the woman was able to get compensated and not go to prison. Abuse of any kind is messed up. I hope she is doing well and not have to worry about sleeping ever again.
@@MasterBuilderDragon Sure, but at the same time there were 2 numbers left behind.. one of them was traced to an unknown person or organization.. probably some criminal organization that caused this kid to take his life
Thank you for helping so many to sleep during all these years 😅. In all seriousness, you're a legend and you have played a major part in me going into horror story narrations!
I find this quite weird tbh...when I was a kid,I couldn't even begin to imagine that later on in life, I would be listening to horror stories to get to sleep fast😂
I love all of your stories but this is my first time listening to law enforcement stories and they are absolutely wonderful. I believe I found my new love and your library!! Thank you for helping me day and night!! 🎉❤😊
"You go into policing with this idea that you're going to make a difference but given long enough you realise you're just an extra in a movie that goes on and on and on until there's no one left to watch it anymore" _ Let's Read (2023)
Thank you for always staying consistent and continuously uploading videos! I'm sure it must be hard to keep up with everything and for so many years too. It's incredibly admirable and I'm grateful for your vids. Been listening for like 3+ years now. Love ya fam!
Let’s Read, I’ve listened to a lot of your documentary/ crime stories and they are amazing! My favorite is the true crime from history. More of those please !!!! (Subbed btw)
7 years with joel. I have encouraged several readers to listen and they want more. Much love Lord Joel King of the buttersock cult. Sorry about my recent absence these past couple weeks had a family member pass. Your narrative stories is what gets me bye joel
I was thinking dark web drug trafficking. The shipping company is very suspect to me in that regard cause ik a lot of "defunct" companies are often used to front drug shipments
Thank you Joel your voice always helps me go off to sleep you & mr nightmare have the best voices for making scary stories, I hope you had a wonderful birthday 😊💙♥️
I hate my job and taking truck loads of calls from pyschos and staring at a screen for 9 hours. But I love closing my eyes listening to Let's Read on my break, in my car and in my bed 😴
This is 2024....I'm 80 yrs old and your wonderful voice lulls me to sleep every nite. The Lord gave you something special to help others so always thank Him. And in return I thank you so much for using it to help others such as me and hundreds
I really enjoy the police stories man. It's really hard to find any new police stories I guess because there's so few channels covering them or they are just not as widely popular as the other topics but I hope you do many more of the police stories, it really gets the public more aware to what police officers have to go through when people are constantly fed lies about the police and they already have a stressful and heartbreaking job, on top of that their jobs are misunderstood. I am very passionate about police and the job they have to do and how misunderstood they are as well as the public being so misinformed and misled with information from the media that always paints police in a bad light when the overwhelming vast majority of police are good people who want to do good for their community, anyway I'm rambling. Hope to see more police stories for sure!
If someone shoots themself (or gets shot) in a vehicle, the ins. co. doesn't have someone go through the contents, then to be cleaned. The vehicle is deemed a bio hazard and it is destroyed.
Aw sheet 1 mil? 🎉🎉🎉 I quit watching for a bit, I felt so guilty (and depressed) that my decade long relationship ended and with it my paid channel status (from when it was 1st offered, all income gone btw not just this) and with all the things physical and mental that occurred I never even got to catch up on the membership only content 😢. I'm finally starting to heal and I'm still not bingeing the content here again just yet but I'm dipping my toes back in and I'm so happy for Joel to be getting the recognition he's deserved for a long long time ❤
No, you were listening to a horror story so that’s the only expected outcome. Now imagining talking to a random stranger who’s has a body in his basement, can you really tell that person killed somebody?
The 4D chess cat isn’t thinking about his situation clearly. the effbeeeye isn’t just one step ahead, they’re often times the originators of the organizations they’re trying to now stop.
I am a volunteer firefighter in Jefferson County Alabama The Jefferson county sheriffs are some of the best of the best Honor your law enforcement, God uses them to defend and protect
Story 2 is a HUGE CLIFFHANGER! How do you just ho about your day after hearing that?! I GOTS to know. But i dont wanna pay the price he did! But we need closure!
The third story, “not for me to say” I knew before that she had clearly killed him but to have done it then say that. Bravo. Also if a man beats a woman repeatedly and she kills him over it, she shouldn’t get a murder charge?
Hey I have a video idea, scary truck driver stories. I feel like there’s not enough if these types of videos and I’m sure truckers run into and see a lot of f’ed up things!
As I progress through story 3, I find myself thinking the following. Some cops are a bit slow, eh? I'm gonna say, bang bang, he dead. He'd finally pushed her too far. edit: And...bingo. Another thing, I take issue with the cops use of "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned". Having the living snot beaten out of you, repeatedly to the point of being lucky to be alive, is not being merely effing scorned. Only a misogynistic prick can define constant physical, and no doubt other, abuse as being scorned.
YES thank u . That rly rubbed me the wrong way. I also immediately knew what had happened as soon as the lady answered she’s “pretty sure he’s not coming back” . Like come on man. How can a COP not see that.?
It doesn’t seem realistic because it’s not a true story lol. Missing persons cases and Homicides are investigated by only the most experienced detectives, generally those at the end of their career who have literally thousand of cases under their belt and would be able to “solve” this in a heartbeat. It makes for a good revenge fiction I guess.
@@WILLGRAYY sorry I’m rly stoned so I’m a lil sure on what u mean. I thought it was just normal cops coming to her door to interview her for domestic violence disturbance . They didn’t know there were a murder . Right ? Idk I’m confused why u think there’s proof it’s not true
@@samanthaedwards3742 You're not confused. If you're that sharp stoned, I'm impressed. I don't get what the previous comment was about either as there was no murder reported at the time. Beat cops responding to a domestic violence call so no idea why they're talking about experienced old super cops "solving" anything at that point. It was up to the first responders to determine if and what crime had been committed before calling in the big guns. The behaviour displayed by the wife was so typical that in my view this story is based in truth. I also think a lot of women recognise the scenario and will have guessed exactly where the story was headed. I realised the minute the cop said she was relaxed on the steps outside holding frozen peas to her bruises. You don't do that while the threat is still current. What sealed it for me though was "it's not for me to say". I took that as her not being willing to say heaven or hell as she was not qualified to state that for certain.
@@samanthaedwards3742 No worries, no need to apologize lol. Any and all domestic violence cases legally require that an arrest be made on the scene. In this case, with the claimed abuser “Missing,” a detective would immediately be called to canvas the scene and track down the missing party and make a subsequent arrest. It’s important to note that these are one of the few types of arrests that do not require hard evidence of wrong doing, suspicion of abuse is enough. The story reads as if the person writing it doesn’t have any knowledge of these laws, which doesn’t make sense if it’s from the perspective of someone claiming to be a police officer. Of course, that doesn’t mean situations like this aren’t real. I’m sure something like this has taken place before, but I have doubts about the veracity of this story.
The 1st story was fucked up. The 2nd story is crazy! That mom better not pursue it herself. Story 3 I try not to be the "eye for an eye" type of person but, she did what she had to do. 4th story People will record anything nowadays. If someone's drowning they'll just record. 5th story was a crazy turn. Didn't expect Rip to be the CI.
I used to binge this channel. Amazing narrator and beautiful art. And one day he took down a bunch of his videos and seemed dejected. But he kept getting better and better. And 1M subs! A truly incredible channel!
I still miss his narration of 1999.
I remember watching an older video and Joel explaining how he had to take down a huge amount of videos because he hadn't gotten full approval to use some of the stories he was narrating. He said his subscriber count was increasing by hundreds of thousands a week, if not a day, but after that mishap the algorithm decreased and his channel took a huge hit in subscribers. I've been listening to him narrate for a few years now and this is my favorite channel. I'm happy to see him finally reach over 1 mil. I can't imagine how big this channel would be had he not had to take down those videos early on.
lol you simped for a heart and didn't get one xD LMFAO!!!
@@sleazykilla360or they are just being a nice human? Stfu.
He's exactly right people are sick and awful for taking pictures of that man's last moments. Very Disgusting 🤢
That's today's generation. I remember teens filming a dude drowning and they was mocking his cries.
@@PraiseThaDon That's Awful!!
@@PraiseThaDonwe’d all rather be in the background than try and help people. Glad to know I’m not like that👌🏽
It's sick and very sad
These stores have just as much depth as Joel's beautiful buttery voice
For story 3. I’m glad the woman was able to get compensated and not go to prison. Abuse of any kind is messed up. I hope she is doing well and not have to worry about sleeping ever again.
Not entirely buying whole "battered wife" excuse
@@kenrose2523excuse? The officer said she was fortunate to have survived the relationship. Were we not listening to the same thing?
@@kenrose2523men ☕️
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Why do ya think she was holding a bag of frozen peas to her eye? Because she liked how they smell as they thaw?
@@kenrose2523🤡
Let's Read is the best narrator to ever live and he's the GOAT.
Nah he's the GNAT 🤣
What does a goat mean?
Joel the smoothest voice🩵🩵
@@lindamaurier5713
Greatest
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@@lindamaurier5713 greatest of all time.
Man..the 2nd story is heartbreaking. The poor kid was probably either trafficked or coerced into doing things he was ashamed of online.
I’m personally thinking he was looking at kids or something, but you could be right too.
@@MasterBuilderDragon Sure, but at the same time there were 2 numbers left behind.. one of them was traced to an unknown person or organization.. probably some criminal organization that caused this kid to take his life
Your art of narrating gets better and better. Thank you!
What a callous police officer to use a stun gun on a guy while his body is going through shock of bleeding out. Evil.
Fine!,h
@@lnaphLol, as opposed to what exactly?
Thank you for helping so many to sleep during all these years 😅. In all seriousness, you're a legend and you have played a major part in me going into horror story narrations!
There's gonna be more scary story narrators than there are scary stories
I find this quite weird tbh...when I was a kid,I couldn't even begin to imagine that later on in life, I would be listening to horror stories to get to sleep fast😂
The first story I was like…”what could the ending possibly be” and then as soon as they saw the kitchen and it was silent I was like …”OMG he didn’t…”
I love all of your stories but this is my first time listening to law enforcement stories and they are absolutely wonderful. I believe I found my new love and your library!! Thank you for helping me day and night!! 🎉❤😊
You'll probably like Private Investigator stories as well.
Ya gotta love how the homie Joel delivers the last few words of each story just a lil bit slower...
The “all in all” segment we pay close attention to
Thx for your work Joel, i always listen to your stories while cooking and washing the dishes. It gives the rather calm activity some spice 😊
"You go into policing with this idea that you're going to make a difference but given long enough you realise you're just an extra in a movie that goes on and on and on until there's no one left to watch it anymore" _ Let's Read (2023)
Thank you for always staying consistent and continuously uploading videos! I'm sure it must be hard to keep up with everything and for so many years too. It's incredibly admirable and I'm grateful for your vids. Been listening for like 3+ years now. Love ya fam!
Anytime the story isn’t 1st pov you know it’s gonna be rough
What a terrifying set of stories! Thank you, Joel!!!
Let’s Read, I’ve listened to a lot of your documentary/ crime stories and they are amazing! My favorite is the true crime from history. More of those please !!!! (Subbed btw)
Really good and interesting stories. Especially the one about the biker.
7 years with joel. I have encouraged several readers to listen and they want more. Much love Lord Joel King of the buttersock cult. Sorry about my recent absence these past couple weeks had a family member pass. Your narrative stories is what gets me bye joel
These are the BEST stories, besides Skinwalker and Trucker stories. Law enforcement have the most disturbing stories 😳
Yup they're the ones who deal with all the crazies
why do i get the horrific feeling that story 2 is either child p**n or human trafficking
I'm so pissed! I need to know what happened?! Joel, how DARE you leave that kind of a cliffhanger😂
most likely extortion, debt, or gambling, that would explain the accent and the computer burning
The first one you mentioned probably followed by blackmail/extortion. Poor kid fucked around on the darkweb and found out. :(
I was thinking dark web drug trafficking. The shipping company is very suspect to me in that regard cause ik a lot of "defunct" companies are often used to front drug shipments
Nah they would delete it you'd think, like that guy above said, extortion. It's a lot more common in the UK and Europe than USA.
Thanks for the scary stories, Joel!
Joel, thank you for your stories! I have been sick all night and day, and binge listening to you is very relaxing.
Thank you Joel your voice always helps me go off to sleep you & mr nightmare have the best voices for making scary stories, I hope you had a wonderful birthday 😊💙♥️
The best voice out of all of them. Wish he could take all the others stories and read them too ❤
48:51 why unfortunately? Shouldn't it be fortunately the sheriff found them before Jared did? Or did I miss something?🤔
Joel thank you Absolutely made my Day 😎😎😎
My favorite type and my favorite story narrator.
Your work rate is EPIC THANK YOU !!!
Story 3 she seemed so peaceful cause the person causing her hell on earth was painted all over the bathroom wall. I’m sure she was at peace ☮️
I hate my job and taking truck loads of calls from pyschos and staring at a screen for 9 hours. But I love closing my eyes listening to Let's Read on my break, in my car and in my bed 😴
You’re definitely one of my fave notifications and I always look forward to your uploads!
Never fail to disappoint that’s for sure. Thanks Joel !
No bs lets reads voice is number one in the narration community.
Love your stories keep up the good work
Thnx Joel... Really Enjoyed the Stories.... Love your Narrative.... Keep it Up...
Fan far far away... Fiji 🇫🇯 South Pacific
Super heavy stories read by the best narrator out there!🤘🏻
Haven't heard Law Enforcement stories for a loooong time!
Pretty much every day of being a cop is a horror story lol
@@pricklycatsssyep cause they’re usually the ones inflicting the Horror on incident people
I have to say....I'm addicted...a nice break from music in my earbuds at work....
This is 2024....I'm 80 yrs old and your wonderful voice lulls me to sleep every nite. The Lord gave you something special to help others so always thank Him. And in return I thank you so much for using it to help others such as me and hundreds
These are some of my favorite types of stories on your channel
Really, really enjoyed that!!!! I do love Let's Read❤
My wife and I have been here since like 10k... Congratulations brochacho hope you soar beyond 2mil
Thanks Joel you’re been my favourite streamer for over 10 years now and counting ❤🇦🇺
Saw a documentary about Gerard John Schaefer. That is some sick stuff! Probably the most evil serial killer ever.
Beautiful portraiture illustrations. So life like & the souls are captured. I do portraits & these are stunning.
LETS GOOOOO IVE BEEN ASKING FOR THESE THANK YOU JOEL🙏🏻
Just in time to start door dashing. Thank you Joel
I really enjoy the police stories man. It's really hard to find any new police stories I guess because there's so few channels covering them or they are just not as widely popular as the other topics but I hope you do many more of the police stories, it really gets the public more aware to what police officers have to go through when people are constantly fed lies about the police and they already have a stressful and heartbreaking job, on top of that their jobs are misunderstood. I am very passionate about police and the job they have to do and how misunderstood they are as well as the public being so misinformed and misled with information from the media that always paints police in a bad light when the overwhelming vast majority of police are good people who want to do good for their community, anyway I'm rambling. Hope to see more police stories for sure!
If someone shoots themself (or gets shot) in a vehicle, the ins. co. doesn't have someone go through the contents, then to be cleaned. The vehicle is deemed a bio hazard and it is destroyed.
51:19
“It wasn’t just a car, it was a butchers wagon.” 🥶
Aw sheet 1 mil? 🎉🎉🎉 I quit watching for a bit, I felt so guilty (and depressed) that my decade long relationship ended and with it my paid channel status (from when it was 1st offered, all income gone btw not just this) and with all the things physical and mental that occurred I never even got to catch up on the membership only content 😢. I'm finally starting to heal and I'm still not bingeing the content here again just yet but I'm dipping my toes back in and I'm so happy for Joel to be getting the recognition he's deserved for a long long time ❤
This was particularly good. Thank you for the video
On story 3 I predicted from a few minutes in that she killed him lol couldn't have been more obvious
No, you were listening to a horror story so that’s the only expected outcome. Now imagining talking to a random stranger who’s has a body in his basement, can you really tell that person killed somebody?
Congrats on hitting 1 m subscribers❤❤ well deserved mate🎉
Thanks Joel keep ‘em comin honey!
Better, and better, and better!
The 4D chess cat isn’t thinking about his situation clearly. the effbeeeye isn’t just one step ahead, they’re often times the originators of the organizations they’re trying to now stop.
That last one was a trip.
Let's read,
The best in stories. It's what got me into good real life stories
I am a volunteer firefighter in Jefferson County Alabama
The Jefferson county sheriffs are some of the best of the best
Honor your law enforcement, God uses them to defend and protect
Great episode on these tragic stories! The last one I😊 never heard of. Thats crazy an excop
Thank you! Needed this
Thanks for the vid Joel, have a good night.
Story 2 is a HUGE CLIFFHANGER! How do you just ho about your day after hearing that?! I GOTS to know. But i dont wanna pay the price he did! But we need closure!
I love you! I really can not sleep without you❤
This channel's like the internet's campfire
midnight society 🔥
The third story, “not for me to say” I knew before that she had clearly killed him but to have done it then say that. Bravo. Also if a man beats a woman repeatedly and she kills him over it, she shouldn’t get a murder charge?
*Time to revisit this favourite channel!*
First one here, horror lovers!!! 💀🔪😈
I really thought I was going to be first 😅
Your thumbnails are always on point.
Joel Mentor! You're the best, bro!
Thanks for the stories, i love them ♥♥
Thanks for the stories
I'm so glad you use your own voice and not the AI bulls#$t so many others use. Stay safe out there and thanks!
Thanks for the super great stories!!!! 😊
You see a grown ass man hanging out with your 15 year old daughter and you just let it happen?! Absolutely not that’s just plain stupid
Love your vids dude
Hey I have a video idea, scary truck driver stories. I feel like there’s not enough if these types of videos and I’m sure truckers run into and see a lot of f’ed up things!
Best voice ever.
Due to budgetary concerns I had to cancel my Chilling subscription. I’m so grateful you’re still posting here.
I really like these stories. 😁👍
Bro your consistency is unmatched. You the GOAT ❤❤
Story 6 is kinda crazy because I am from Martin county and never knew about this that’s for sharing
Thank you for reading to us love it❤
be safe!
As I progress through story 3, I find myself thinking the following. Some cops are a bit slow, eh?
I'm gonna say, bang bang, he dead. He'd finally pushed her too far.
edit:
And...bingo.
Another thing, I take issue with the cops use of "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned".
Having the living snot beaten out of you, repeatedly to the point of being lucky to be alive, is not being merely effing scorned. Only a misogynistic prick can define constant physical, and no doubt other, abuse as being scorned.
YES thank u . That rly rubbed me the wrong way. I also immediately knew what had happened as soon as the lady answered she’s “pretty sure he’s not coming back” . Like come on man. How can a COP not see that.?
It doesn’t seem realistic because it’s not a true story lol. Missing persons cases and Homicides are investigated by only the most experienced detectives, generally those at the end of their career who have literally thousand of cases under their belt and would be able to “solve” this in a heartbeat. It makes for a good revenge fiction I guess.
@@WILLGRAYY sorry I’m rly stoned so I’m a lil sure on what u mean. I thought it was just normal cops coming to her door to interview her for domestic violence disturbance . They didn’t know there were a murder . Right ? Idk I’m confused why u think there’s proof it’s not true
@@samanthaedwards3742 You're not confused. If you're that sharp stoned, I'm impressed. I don't get what the previous comment was about either as there was no murder reported at the time. Beat cops responding to a domestic violence call so no idea why they're talking about experienced old super cops "solving" anything at that point. It was up to the first responders to determine if and what crime had been committed before calling in the big guns. The behaviour displayed by the wife was so typical that in my view this story is based in truth. I also think a lot of women recognise the scenario and will have guessed exactly where the story was headed. I realised the minute the cop said she was relaxed on the steps outside holding frozen peas to her bruises. You don't do that while the threat is still current. What sealed it for me though was "it's not for me to say". I took that as her not being willing to say heaven or hell as she was not qualified to state that for certain.
@@samanthaedwards3742 No worries, no need to apologize lol. Any and all domestic violence cases legally require that an arrest be made on the scene. In this case, with the claimed abuser “Missing,” a detective would immediately be called to canvas the scene and track down the missing party and make a subsequent arrest. It’s important to note that these are one of the few types of arrests that do not require hard evidence of wrong doing, suspicion of abuse is enough. The story reads as if the person writing it doesn’t have any knowledge of these laws, which doesn’t make sense if it’s from the perspective of someone claiming to be a police officer.
Of course, that doesn’t mean situations like this aren’t real. I’m sure something like this has taken place before, but I have doubts about the veracity of this story.
The 1st story was fucked up.
The 2nd story is crazy! That mom better not pursue it herself.
Story 3 I try not to be the "eye for an eye" type of person but, she did what she had to do.
4th story People will record anything nowadays. If someone's drowning they'll just record.
5th story was a crazy turn. Didn't expect Rip to be the CI.
i love it when inmates carry out unresolved justice
I agree the very best voices out there, my fav..
20:00 HE HAD IT COMING HE HAD IT COMING
I love how he sounds, his voice is so soothing but also scary 😂
This was a brilliant video
Of course on a domestic violence incident they automatically blame the man
17:47 That wokan sounda like she's been putting up with that type or garbage for WAY too long to be so lucid after being beat by her husband.
Love the photo!
Would love to learn more about the first story. Definitely morbid but how did they not trace where he got the bike?
He sounds like Arthur Dark that does Hollywood Graveyard…anyway thanks for the stories I listen while driving a semi 🚛
I’m from Rhode Island and I’ve never heard of that first case, I wonder if it was even covered at all
Just in time for bed ❤
@35:50 lol thats the plot of the Departed
The tree where they found those two girls in Port St. Lucie is locally dubbed “the devil tree” so weird hearing my home town in a video