Instances where a person dies while being trapped somewhere, especially in a tight area where they can't even move their arms or legs, always haunt me. In general knowing that someone died while feeling scared and alone is always so sad.
I get anxiety just thinking about how panicked you would be the moment your trapped in a chimney unable to breathe just completely helpless that’s such a horrible way to die
Harley was abused. His parents often locked him out which is why he would sleep in abandoned buildings to stay warm. I've read he was autistic and often mistreated by his family. Such a sad story.
I know, it’s a heartbreaking, terribly depressing story. His parents were horrible, horrible people. Rest In Peace, Harley, I hope you’re happy and safe.
@@smokeybear1925 Really? You feel like that's a necessary comment? Can you not figure out how to scroll past UA-camrs you don't like and just let everybody else enjoy themselves? 😶
@@smokeybear1925 I’m sure the story is reported different and since the parents weren’t arrested or charged with abuse, there’s no proof that he was abused. So why would Mr. BALLEN (not Ballet) report on speculations from undocumented sources? If you don’t like his stories, don’t watch. There’s always someone like YOU to bitch and moan about something. Ffs.
As a merchant seaman, the last story hit pretty close to home. Failures on so many levels... Ultimate responsibility falls on the captain. While there is enormous pressure to keep to a schedule, he never should have sailed without accounting for EVERY member of the crew. And the last place the engineer was working was the most logical place to begin a THOROUGH search.
Right. Right and right! And when searching one would call out not just shine a light. Losing something makes one search insanely how about losing someone?? I would double check at least.. as someone would suggest maybe they hit their head and passed out so let’s get inside.
I don’t even think curt left the engine room that night. I think the Forman locked curt in there. Did anyone see curt after he did the inspection? Sounds more reasonable he was murders than he was simply went to do a solo inspection. And the foreman without be told about the rag was already down there checking idk some fishy shit
@@_MjG_that’s not actually what happened. Unsure why Mr. Ballen changed the facts in this story, but the man who died was actually named Marco Krahl, and he never left and then came back or anything like that. While the crew members interviews had a lot of inconsistencies, it seems that the SFO (foreman) left him without verbal confirmation that he was through with his inspection and sometime after the SFO left he was locked in. They know he did not leave because he never made it to the mess hall for dinner, no one saw him after he was in the engine room, and his personal bedroom was undisturbed. His stomach was also empty, so he never ate dinner that night. I love Mr. Ballen but he got A LOT of facts wrong in this one
I remember hearing about Harley's story a while back, and a little piece of information is, Harley used to leave pennies all over the ground, because he thought if someone picked it up, they would think it was their "lucky day" for finding that penny, and he wanted to do what he could to brighten their day. So to this day, people around the town drop pennies on the ground in memory of him
Yes! Do not go camping, do not go near a boiler, do not enter empty or abandoned houses, don't drop down chimneys, don't swim in the ocean, and on and on. I'll just stay home from now on.
I just start narrating the thing I'm doing in his voice inmy head, as if I were marching towards some horrible fate "ubt little did he know that you can't mix three types of mustard and survive"
Thank you.. like the chances of someone falling back wen there alone and would be trying there hardest to not fuck up and it being able to slam the door shut and hatch down is insane…
Yeah and I giant multinational shipping company that would have been all too happy to fudge details, etc. Shipping / the ocean is like the last wild west. I don't think people realize how unenforced, sometimes even un-regulated a lot of ships on the sea are - shipping, cruises, etc.
@Witty Witty you’re joking… right? How you read that interaction and got anyone laughing at someone dying is beyond me. We are obviously talking about Ballen’s delivery, don’t turn this into something it isn’t. 🥴
In the case of Harley as others here also mentioned there was a lot more going on. He had a you tube channel which often showed that he was in a toxic household. Right after he went missing the father put in a claim for life insurance and was bragging to multiple people about recieving the pay out. Harley was a good kid dealing with an abusive situation, not the troublemaking runaway his parents made him out to be. The parents should have been charged with neglect and definitly investigated further!!
I mean it was pretty obvious without that context, no kid goes and sleeps in random buildings without at the very least having neglectful parents, good parents would be worried the first time he did this
Frrr….me and him were madden mobile buddies….we were in the same groups together and shared a lot of mutual friends….he was a good kid and probably could’ve been big in the MM community had this not happened. Hell during some streams you’d hear his parents yelling and all that fucked shit….I personally think they might’ve done something….but there’s nothing me or anyone else can ever do to change the ruling… He wasn’t unknown though….we honored him the best we could in the football game we all played….miss that kid….rip.
For that last one: I would want to investigate what happened with the foreman. He's the last guy to be with the victim alive, and he checks the place where he was trapped but doesn't see him, and then the victim yells out for help and he doesn't hear him, all after he was made to stay late working on something with the victim, who was his boss? Is there another witness to confirm the victim was seen outside of the scavenger air unit after the shift?
I would think that those dogs screws should be able to be completely unscrewed, then make it policy that if someone goes in they take a necessary physical part of all latching mechanisms. Can't get locked in an air scavenger/other sealable machinery if the latches are on you and there are no spares...
@@logantc.1353 Agreed. Engineer the hazard out. Also, make it procedure to lockout the main engine controls beforehand, so the engine can't be started when someones in there. Only the person going into the air scavenger should be able to remove the lockout (sort of like the tag and lockout procedure electricians use, I guess). Can't get locked in and can't start the main engine.
@@DustyCircuits336 if the proposed story is to be believed, lock out tag out wouldn't work. That system ONLY works when people obey it. Most equipment can be serviced without doing a lockout and energy purge. He would've still went in without notice and without locking out the engine.
@@ericalbers4867 Yeah, that's pretty crazy. No way in the world would anyone on with so called commensense go work inside a giant engine without telling someone else. Respectfully, though, its easy to say this stuff from the comfort of my lounge room. Plus, I think nobody should pay for a dumb mistake in such a horrible way. That's why you need to engineer the hazard out. For those of us who follow the rules, something lower in hierarchy like a tag and lockout procedure is just another layer of protection. The lockout device should be something physical that stops that engine from getting fuel. Still might need to turn it over to inspect the piston rings or some of the other gubbins I suppose. Just freewheeling ideas here. 🤔
The second one actually gave me nausea, mostly because that he was just screaming for help the entire time, but also because the guy who pushed him was his friend.
It seems more likely the Forman killed him than an accident. 1. He called the foreman lazy. 2. The foreman was the last to see him. 3. The foreman told the other guy that he had checked the dogs, but didn’t.
Yea the scenario of him falling and accidentally close the hatch and the dogs at the same time is kinda bonkers. And from the picture it seems that the hatch is opened to the outside. Like how could you fall and manage to drag the hatch to close?
@@markjacks3828 it's not that they're too lazy it's called evidence. It would be a scary America if every prosecutor and detective could file murder charges based off feelings. While I do agree this case where the man died basically bc of the Forman was murder, it would be hard to prove.
There are many cases on merchant vessels which most likely be murder but goes by as accident to cover it up. I have worked on a merchant vessel and have seen an Oiler threaten the mess boy with a knife just because his plate wasn't kept ready for him. Scary af!
Harley Dilly was my nephew's best friend. Me and my husband drove him home a few times. We knew him personally and his death has been questioned by most of the community.
@@AutisticAthena Yep! Another family tragedy. The fact they they had to say to him that "he is not in trouble" so he would return home says a lot. Poor child!
I can't imagine how scary it would be to die that way. Especially with your chest compressing and you going a little further down every time. That has got to be the worst way to die.
They were incredibly abusive to Harley, who was also autistic. Search up a more detailed story about the case and you'll see videos of people explaining in depth of the lawsuits involved with the parents and everything.
Ikr. Those parents were horrible especially by taking away his phone which could possibly have saved his life if he grabbed it before he fell deeper. Irresponsible
People need to wake up. They murdered Harley Dilly and got away with a sloppy cover up. Marcus Dilly killed the boy, his buddy police chief Hickman covered it up and didn't let BCI enter the house to investigate immediately he let them in after 2 hours of him being in the house with his men. There's so much holes in the story and no before you say "How would anyone climb to the roof while carrying a body and push him in the chimney". It's not what happened, the boy was killed before getting inside the chimney. Hickman said that there weren't any signs of a forced entry everything was closed and locked yet the reports state and there's an image of a broken cellar window. The chimney was too tight for him even to move a bit yet they're saying he took of his 2 jackets, a shirt and his pants which IS IMPOSSIBLE THE CHIMNEYS SIZE IS 9X13.its sad how they got away with it and everyone in the local community knows that he was murdered. There's so many holes in the official story and evidence against it. Btw he was put inside the chimney from inside the house then closed the chimney with bricks. They said the house he died in was used aas a summer house yet the walls on the images are freshly painted and there's paint dripping from the walls in the house. The story is quite morbid and it's sad how they're probably gonna get away with it since nobody is really talking about it anymore. If someone is interested I can provide much more evidence to back this claims.
Pfffff hahahaha are you people serious? He got disciplined minority by getting his phone taken away. It’s called parenting. It’s not their fault that their kid is a retard that jumped down a chimney.
The second story in particular was just awful. That poor guy! I just can't imagine the unbelievable agony he went through. 😥 I hope there's a special place in heaven reserved for him.
That foreman didn't care enough to find Kurt since he didn't like him, so he just said, "yeah he's not here we're good." I can't believe no one checked the forward hatch with the rag sticking out of it. Laziness on the crew's part and pride on Kurt's part killed that poor man.
Kurt should followed procedure. They should stayed in dock. Fk that other ship. We don't leave until mechanic is back on deck. And everyone is accounted for.
How was Kurt's death not pinned on the foreman who A. Had a disagreement with Kurt just before he went missing. B. Was the last person to see Kurt alive and is the only witness to any of the events past the altercation. C. Was the one who checked the area that Kurt died and also happened to "not see him". There weren't any cops that were like "hmmmm"?
Maybe he just didn’t know. Accidents happen you get into an argument with somebody you don’t automatically think hey I’ll kill them arguments happen all the time especially at work doesn’t mean you want the person to die and die horrifyingly. For all we know the foreman feels guilty about what happened. Maybe he’s just an average guy who made a mistake and critical error. He has to live with that and most of us will never know the extent of being responsible for somebody else passing especially when we could’ve prevented it.
@@tylerthomas7763 that's a lot of assuming while I listed objective facts. It's suspicious because of the reasons I listed, without bending over backwards to assume innocence.
I was beginning to have a freaking panic attack just listening to the story of that kid in the chimney, I'm a brick Mason, I could almost feel what was being told, that was a horrible way to die.
The Harley case is more heartbreaking than explained here. Harley was a child who would run away from home frequently due to his parents constantly arguing or being abusive to him. (His mother even locked him out of the house a few times) they didn’t care if he would sleep in abandoned buildings over night or run away (this is a child btw, not a teen or an adult) when he went missing, his mother didn’t seem to care. Nick crowley made a more in-depth version of this case and it’s truley tragic.
As a former ship's engineering officer, I have been inside a large slow speed main engine's scavenger air box for maintenance while in port. The thought of being trapped inside when they roll the engine over gives me the screaming willies. NEVER EVER enter a confined space without a proper briefing and an attendant outside as an observer!
The worst part is he knew he brought it on himself. How many people die because they're too embarrassed to admit they made a mistake and so they fail to take proper precautions in an attempt to fix that mistake. Fate can be very cruel.
I totally believe the Forman left Curt in the piston on purpose. How was it that he was the last one with him and then the last one to check the same spot the last time they were seen together?
Ya he definitely stuck him in there and locked the top forgetting to do the bottom then he hears the sailer talking about going to check it, and made sure he was the first to respond and say nope nothing in there Definitely left him in there to die and later go back all like "oh no he is dead, who could ever have seen this comeing" whilst rubbing his hands together like and super villain
I said the same thing it's completely obvious especially since he called him lazy and they had beef.. in a murder investigation they look for 2 things motive and opportunity the foreman had both nobody really looked into it because it was just shrugged off as an accident but I think not it needs to be looked into more by investigators
Police: “when your son didn’t come home why didn’t you report it sooner?” Parents: “oh, we just figured he was probably sleeping in some abandoned building somewhere.”
Harley's whole case was sketchy. There was a relative that was a retired cop, parents out having drinks and dinner while their son is missing. I followed the case closely. His coat was perfectly laid out on the floor. Then they picked it up and hung it on a door? Who does that when there is a child missing and they have no idea where he is or what happened to him?
After your kid has gone missing 50 times, you’ve spent night after night after night looking for them only to have them come back safe and sound, you probably just sigh and go on with your day when it happens. Not because you don’t care, but because it doesn’t seem to matter whether you look for them or not.
as a marine engineer, we have all heard the story of the guy who was burned alive in the scavenge space.......terrifies us to the core....we always have a guy standing outside the scavenge space during the inspection
#2 is horrific. The reason for it is if anyone like me worked at Mc Donalds specifically in the kitchen, then you'll know getting burned by grease dropping off the grill platen, burned by the grill itself and VATS/hot oil hitting your skin burns are not that bad as the pain lasts seconds and usually goes numb. However, I've had the worse experience and burn I have ever experienced making a Filet. It was during a main rush which you'll know working at one is extremely demanding and it's all about being as quick as possible. My dumb ass put the Filet buns into the steamer and pressed the button, while putting other buns into the toaster my on it in the moment brain decided to pull the metal plate the Filet buns are on out when it still had a couple seconds left on the steaming process. What happened was a big amount of steam rushing out of the steamer and hitting my pinkie all over. I've never experienced pain like it, it was the worst pain I've felt to date. What made it so bad was the fact it was relentless. As Mr Ballen states it does not damage your nerve endings, it simple cooks the outside skin and just out of the reach of the nerves themselves. The pain lasted all day long. I literally had to coat my pinkie in burn cream and then cover it with a bandage due to the air intensifying the pain. Like it was cooking all over again as soon as the air touched it. I'm not talking about wind, cold air or hot air, but air in general even if it was mildly warm. So that guy must have went through beyond hell, I mean that's probably the most horrific death I've heard to date. Blood curdling scream and some. Actually gave me the sensation again in my pinkie just hearing that story. That guy man, that is a death no one ever deserves. Alcohol is such a nasty drug no one can handle it. Always brings out the worse in people and all over a bloody girl. Whoever designed that pipe needs the treatment Mr Ballen says the like button does, that is such a stupid design and something that should have never happened!!! My god I'm actually filled with deep sorrow for that guy just the pain, it's like having lemon and salt rubbed into a wound, like tiny sharp needles getting pierced directly into your nerves all over the effected area. Horrible!!!
I once reached over the top of my instant pot (a pressure cooker) when it was on. It was normally out on the counter and I'd gotten so used to working around it when it was off that I didn’t think when it was on. Anyway, my underarm got steamed for a few seconds in a perfect 1 inch circle and I can confirm it was one of my worst burns. I wouldn't wish what that man went through on my worst enemy, and if it were me I'd have stopped begging for rescue and started begging for one of the cops to put a quick bullet in my head to end it instead of watching me scream. It's horrible that no one was willing to put the man out of his misery once they knew there was no saving him. What’s 10 more minutes of life when it's pure agony?
@@bucketofsunshine6366 100%, there should be a law where if someone is critically injured with zero chance of survival they should be allowed to request euthanasia. It's the most humane thing to do in such a situation, I couldn't even imagine a steam burn all over. I'd rather be on fire as the fire will burn the nerves in seconds so you don't feel it for long. Nasty way to go poor guy.
I've never had a steam burn, but when I was a teenager, I burned my hand on the top boiler in the oven for less than a second. It Really hurt for a few seconds. I had a black crispy char mark on my hand like burned hotdogs, but there was no pain until that came off and the blister came and popped. That was the Most Excruciating pain I'd ever felt!!!
When I just started my duty (and got assigned to the fries station), I burned my forearm with the frying basket because a crew was going to walk past and my place was pretty much crowded because the other crews are rushing to get the orders and give them to customers, hence I tried to avoid burning them and instead, I ended up burning myself in the forearm. It's a deep one too. Took a month to heal.
Harleys death is the type of death I wouldnt wish on my worst enemy rest in peace little man Edit: these 1k likes go out to him in prayers out to harley hopefully lil dude made it to the golden gates 🙏😭
And all 3 stories have such terrible people who caused these deaths. The parents for being so abusive and irresponsible for causing their child to leave without a phone, Michael for being a murdering jealous self conscious prick, and the foreman for being so stupid and lazy to not check obvious shady areas thoroughly.
Gosh, that lobster story is so disturbing, especially about the nerves not shutting down. Truly horrible and all over a stupid fight that could have been solved with words. Fights are never worth it. Either you could get hurt or you hurt someone. Either way your life can change in an instant. A temporary ego boost of acting “tough” is Never worth it unless you have to defend yourself or a family member in a true life or death situation.
tell that to a drunk person that can't think rationally. I've never been that drunk before but I've been buzzed and your brain is the first thing to go. They were clearly drunk as they'd been bar hopping that night
@@Kakachi07 You have to be a violent person to begin with to act like that. Being drunk will not make you violent or confrontational if you are not the rest of the time. Some people like that insecure agressive big guy should just not drink. The other poor guy would be still alive. Alcohol make you lost inhibitions and make you impulsive.
@@AnthonySigouin That's very false. My dad is actually the nicest person you could ever meet and when he used to drink he wasn't the greatest person and dis some regrettable things. Alcohol completely changes a person.
Whoa dude, been there done that. Cleaned the inside of pistons on a ship before. Got to say that is next to impossible to get stuck inside by just your own actions. Something sounds kind of fishy about that...
I've done that duty also. Scavenger box is a hell of a place to get trapped in. Strange kind of hatch design?? Usually if someone has a beef with you they throw you overboard at sea, not lock you in the scavenger box!
I'm doing work experience at a shipyard and as part of this I got my working in confined spaces permit. The number one after checking the air levels is that you must have a sentry and both times he went in there he didn't have one. The foreman doesn't count because he was also preoccupied doing the job of linging up the pistons. The second time he went alone that was the decison that killed him because if he had a someone watching from the outside of the hole they would of known he was in there. I don't know if the laws are different in the US but in Australia all confined space work requires paperwork and a sentry.
Yeah and that one about the kid and chimney is so ehhh I hate that thing where his screaming was is downfall and him putting his hands up also is kinda like a detriment to him Edit: oh yeah to cheat you up here is a joke on what happened Boy: hhhmmm it’s way to small and it wasn’t like this earlier I’m also very far away from the bottom I know let’s make me more stuck Computer chip implanted by his parents to make him smort(I know I spelled it wrong): still far away just stop and get back up there Boy: I know I will put my hands up Chip: stop now you can’t climb back up Boy: uh oh lets scream that will help Chip: no that will make you go down farther because of your lungs Boy: screams in caps Chip uh oh Boy: let’s do it again Chip: no stop Boy: let’s do a slow mow repeat on that scream
@@chriscitrino9051 - sure, but editors and sound crew don't always want to be in front of the camera, hence their job description... we can thank them though, through the comments 😊
I can’t imagine how horrible that poor man’s death is and the guilt that his friend will always have. As a LEO spouse, I also am heartbroken for all the first responders there who will live with this memory forever. God bless them all.
In the last story, I genuinely believe the foreman killed Kurt. He’d been admonished by Kurt and was angry with him then went and checked the piston together. Did anyone see Kurt leave & go to his room after? How do we know that the foreman simply didn’t just lock him in there…and suspicious that the foreman checked the scavenger box & didn’t see him when they were searching for him …. oh and let’s not forget that he quickly checked the scavenger box just as the 1st officer was coming to check & therefore preventing him from doing so! Nope…foreman killed him 😅
also in his story didn't he tell the sailor to bring down the head engineer? Then why would he proceed to check himself before the head engineer got there? doesn't add up.
Even as he's telling the story about what they "think" happened it doesn't make sense. They shined a light in but couldn't hear him screaming? Maybe it wasn't just a 1 man job either.
or follow established procedure. Those are there to keep people alive. That's the risk a person takes when they don't follow those safety procedures and guidelines.
@@dunhill1 100% agree, but unfortunately it does happen where people skip Standard saftey procedures. And it can lead to disaster, in kurts case I’m really surprised the sailor didn’t open the hatch anyway, especially seeing a rag in the seal. If he had disregarded procedure he would have found Kurt. But I guess Kurt was really at fault as he was embarrassed of telling the other sailors after ridiculing the foreman.
More so because they took long enough for the persons involved to realize their lives were ending soon. Time enough to think about it. The nasty ones I've witnessed were over pretty quickly, save for the last one I participated in the recovery of.
As a marine engineer I am certain that its highly unlikely a 2nd engineer will go inside the scavenge space alone no matter how big the problem is. There is some foul play.
My thoughts exactly, I used to work on a gold mine and we had strict tag out procedures, no one was allowed to turn anything on, whilst your tag was on a door or switch or anything. Not only that, we would do a thorough scan of confined spaces before any of the large crushing/milling machines were turned back on. This story sounded so suspicious from the get go, I just could barely make it through to the end of the story.
@@platinumare you do realize that all the scenarios mentioned in OSHA, MSHA, and nuclear safety courses are real stories, right? Every time they add something, it's because somebody found a way to get around the current rules or was just careless. I worked at a mill where somebody did something similar, no LOTO, tripped a sensor on a stuck carriage, which made it operate again, pinning his throat and suffocating him. One guy at one of my customers nearly got crushed because he went into a space he shouldn't have been without LOTO, tripped an optical sensor, resetting the machine, pinning his body and crushing him nearly to death. The same mill I worked at, a guy was trying to push a piece of wood out of an automated blocking saw, and he accidentally activated the foot pedal. Ironically, all he had to do was step off the pedal, but in his panic, he watched the machine clamp his arm, the saw rose out of the table, and proceeded to cut his arm off. He was able to regain most functionality after they reattached it through. It's not completely unbelievable, because some people are either stupid, or won't own up to their mistakes.
@@platinumare Same in the factory I worked in. The individual identified on the LOTO was the only one that had the key. The lock could only be unlocked by the individual who put the lock on.
Poor Harley, that’s why I bought a steel grate drilled in with multiple bolts on the top of my chimney so no animal or person could ever have this happen to them
It's a sad world where people have to protect people from their own stupidity. My thought, if a person is dumb enough to crawl into a chimney, they're not long for this world and the rest of us are better off not having to wonder if they're going to hurt themselves.
I’m kinda surprised that being stuck in what is essentially the intake manifold would kill someone. You have all the cold outside air going in. I thought it’d be cooler than that.
@@debbirango6945 He is talking about time stamp 5:14 I am not sure if he is trying to be funny though, considering "lobster steaming/boiling alive" and calling it tasteless sounds like a pun is in there.
Mr B. Telling these stories has yo take a Toll on you. Even as I binge your channel my heart is heavy for Charlie stuck in the vent. Hit my heart heavy for the kid. I have to believe you’re saving lives by telling these stories. Thank You 🙏🏽
If this channel has taught me anything, it’s to not breathe deep when I have anything pressed against my chest and just don’t go anywhere where that’s even possible.
I had a steam burn on my arm once. The pain was intense. But my arm was only steamed for seconds. The pain lasted for hours. I cannot imagine the agony he felt. R.I.P.
@@litigioussociety4249 I'm guessing there still might have been some pain involved, even though it didn't take hours. This comparison doesn't really do justice to the story
Right? Yeah that story has a lot of backstory to it. The kid had a UA-cam and posted a lot of sad videos with his parents being super crappy to him or they're screaming and fighting. The parents didnt care until they could be on the news.
Mr Ballen, look into the disappearance of Kyron Horman from Oregon in 2010 or 2009. Alot of information leading to the step mom. But 12 years later there's still no leads for this kid. Kyron was about 7 years old when he went missing.
Omg the first story caused me so much claustrophobic anxiety. I had to go stand outside in my yard. I thank god I'm very claustrophobic, I'll never stick myself in a situation like that. I cant even get on an elevator with too many people. This poor kid, I cant imagine.
@@spice_cake I felt the walls closing in.. started to freak me out. Nope, can't do tight spaces. I can't even ride in a car with too many people, if there's already 3 people in an elevator I'm like nahh, I'll get the next one. I gotta be able to move around!
Yeah, that is literally nightmare fuel for me. Got locked inside a trunk while playing hide and seek as a brief joke. They flipped the latch and when I started freaking a couple seconds later they opened it. I've been super cautious of tight spaces ever since. Thinking about that kid gives me cold sweats
@Tenyasha idk, I'm kinda glad I'm claustrophobic. I know I'll never die alone in a dark tunnel or tight space and suffocate. At least, not of my own volition.
I feel bad for everyone in #2 - any position there would've been so awful, I wonder how the guy who pushed him is doing the most since he didn't mean to kill and probably feels so guilty 😢
@Vlad Tepes he called him lazy and idk about you but if someone called me lazy i wouldnt kill them i think mr ballens theory was right, he was second guessing himself went to check the pistons and got locked in
Yeah, Kurt never banged on the hatch when the first guy came by and started closing the hatch? He didn't have a flashlight to shine back at the foreman when he opened the aft hatch to look? Also, the foreman just so happened to consider that Kurt was maybe in the scavenger tunnel, but only checked one side? And conveniently was able to "clear" the tunnel as the chief engineer came down?
The extremely implausible series of events required just for the door to have closed AND LOCKED AT LEAST ONE DOG THAT KURT COULD NOT POSSIBLY REACH should be evidence enough. The odds of that may not be completely impossible, but they're astronomically less likely than someone else sealing Kurt in there. What's more, we've already been told that the foreman resented Kurt, and we really only have the foreman's testimony that 1) Kurt rushed/skipped properly checking things at ALL, and 2) that the foreman checked Kurt's tunnel at all. He was conveniently down there *looking* as though he'd just finished checking when someone else came down - and then, on the foreman's assurance that HE had checked, no one else did. I'm sorry, that's too many wild coincidences for me to swallow.
I am actually from the town of Port Clinton where Harley Dilly went missing. It was actually around my birthday and I remember going to my birthday party hearing my parents talk about this case. There were police all over, it was all that was on the news, and there was always helicopters flying over to try and find him from above. It’s really sad and it pretty much teared our small community apart. The high school had lots of assemblys about it and the street signs were covered in pink ribbons which were his favorite color. Genuinely such a sad thing :(
Damn, all three stories were beyond creepy and shakenly horrible ways to die. The last story gave me pause and made me really question if Curt's death wasn't an inside job!!
Actually, my worst fear is getting stuck somewhere unable to move even so much to somehow end my own life quickly. Getting stuck in that chimney I'd probably die of a heart attack due to panicking. On the other hand, I wonder how the hell he managed to take off his jacket in such a narrow space.
Right here. As son as he started describing how Harley slipped further and further down, his chest compressing I could feel it in my own chest and I started to breath heavier.
Imagine you were locked in a room with no way of yelling for help, the door is only partially locked so you stick an object through for help. Sometime later and you hear someone lock the rest of the locks! That must have been the most terrifying sound of his life. RIP
6:24/6:25 A wee Casper! We only recently got into mrballen. We are addicted to his storytelling. Thank you for all you do and all you've done for your service to this nation.
I feel like obviously the Foreman may have locked him down there after getting called out. I dont think it was an accident, especially since he only flashed his light in one area and not all 3.
I was thinking the same, you have an alarm to check for someone and all you do is flash your light once? Knowing that the 'lost' man works there and could very well be in there....
Right? It was such a small hatch, theres just no way no one would have found him by shining a whole ass flashlight in there and mentioning he thought Kurt might be in there
This happened very near to where I live. Don't blame the parents, that kid had some issues that had nothing to do with the parents. As for the phone thing, many of us lived to be adults while depending on a landline. So stuff the idea that his phone was so important. He broke into a house, did it in a stupid way, got stuck and died. All of it is on him. Thank Darwin.
@@hardboiledmahoney3273 I mean if you listen to the full real story you would see that you're wrong. His parents were extremely abusive and he had pretty severe autism. Do research before you make dumbass comments
@@michaelthefoodcritic Oh damn really? Sheesh, its always the autistic people getting abused. :pensive: (Not in a mean way or a joking way. It's just sad they get picked on.)
I've heard the first story before and I was always convinced that someone had killed him and hidden him up the chimney. The fireplace was covered from the inside, which seemed suspicious to me. But hearing how you walked through it here, that sounds horribly plausible. Poor, poor kid. And his poor parents had no idea he was dying just a few hundred feet away.
His "poor" parents abused him. They would lock him out which was the reason he has to sleep in abandoned buildings. His father even took out a life insurance policy after he went missing and cashed in when he was found so no I wouldn't feel sorry for those monsters!
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Seems like Kurt would have known something like that. It seems sooooo fishy to me that just him and the dude that didn’t like him were left alone and then that same dude “accidentally” checks the wrong hatch and then decides to just go ahead and lock the other 2 AND usher out the other dude that was there to search that area. I don’t know, man......
Usually there’s always always a way out smh that underwater stuff is on another level tho 😂 my uncle did welding on underwater tunnels at Chesapeake haha I couldn’t imagine and Welding too haha 😂 nope
Don't ever watch the infamous mexican cartel video known as "Funkytown" then. Every brutal cartel torture technique combined used on this 1 poor bastard. It's hard to be overly disturbed by anything nowadays after seeing the worst humanity has to offer in a real video. Kinda sucks because I love horror content, but it hardly ever scares or disturbs me anymore. 😢 Last thing to greatly disturb me was reading the story about this drug addict mom who put her infant in the microwave and turned it on for 2 minutes, then tucked it into bed like nothing happened.
That last one is so scary. I'm surprised the foreman didn't do a more thorough check and that other guy didn't do another check. They must have knew how long that room was and how you wouldn't be able to hear anyone if they were in there.
Another story that me realized that I’m claustrophobic, is the story about john jones stuck in a cave. Man these stories are scarier than any horror movie I’ve ever seen.
Literally it's crazy as fuck I've cleaned pistons on a ship myself in the navy and it's impossible to get locked in there on your own accord/close the door by yourself. I personally needed literally another person to help me pull the door open because they're so heavy. Doors that heavy are impossible to "swing" around, even if you launched yourself at it it'd probably move an inch or so but barely at that. That last story was murder and there's no way anyone can change my mind. So so sad. RIP
@@jessicapearson7721 I read through the report listed in MrBallen's sources and it does indeed alude to a lot of 'peculiarities' in the entire event. However, through experimentation they did determine that it was indeed possible to lock yourself into the Scavenger Air Receiver by falling against the hatch from the inside. If the hatch was slammed shut (which could also be caused by booting a ventilation system, operated from the bridge) one of the latches could fall in a locked position. They have redesigned the hatch for this reason.
@@gerbenbrandsma5284 Sure, but the chances of falling against the hatch is so dismal -- compared to the chances of the Foreman murdering him (he had a clear motive and data showing he was clearly mentally unstable based on the conversations preceeding the murder). The Foreman controlled the narrative and managed to convince everyone that a near impossible situation actually happened -- that's the mark of a true Psychopath.
I’m glad I got to consider Harley a friend and got to know him a bit before he died….good kid, liked the Browns (which was funny cause I like the Steelers) He didn’t go out alone….his death was known about in the madden mobile community….some of us honored him the best way we could….rip bro.
Jeebus. Can you even imagine how it felt to be steamed to death, knowing that there are people right above your head who can't rescue you? Or how helpless the rescuers felt? That would haunt me for the rest of my days. The guy in the piston chambre... omg. I just can't even.
In the third story, Kurt's foreman probably killed him and suggested the story that Kurt hadn't done a good job. It makes sense especially when you consider he was mad about Kurt calling him out for being lazy. He wanted to kill Kurt, but also make him look lazy or irresponsible. I wonder if the authorities even looked into it...
I think that’s a leap.. sure the foreman didn’t like Kurt, but I doubt that he disliked him enough to let him die in the one of the worst ways possible.
@shc420 you say that when there's tons of records of people killing someone or killing an entire family because they didn't get what they wanted or was upset. People kill people simply for saying no to them. People killed simply for being jealous of another is popularity and so on. A lot of killings sometimes doesn't even have malicious intent, they literally just want to do it. The fact that you even had to say that it doesn't usually happen let's you know that it most likely could have happened. Just look up some of the crazy stuff people had died for because of selfish people with no good reason AT ALL. I'd honestly be surprised if there wasn't one already about someone dying because someone thought they were lazy and stuff.
@shc420 dude, wake up. You're just couldn't convincing yourself and me even more that it would happen. You telling me that it's a low chance doesn't mean anything dude... Another person I literally even just explained why that didn't matter before you replied. Also, when you say 1%.. are you telling me you believe 1% means only one single person in the world? 1% of the human race is still a LOT of freaking people because that explanation makes no sense. I was literally just wanting to explain to you how it could happen like a chill normal conversation lmao. You know how many people have died from something low chance or rare?? Mr bellin literally made videos about them. A low chance will never in a million years ever mean it won't happen. Otherwise things like this would have never happened, especially over emotions like most killings happen.... Did you want to be right that bad or what like I don't understand. Do you really just simply not want it to be a possibility?
@shc420 also you literally just said of course there's TONS of records of people doing what I said which would only apparently be 1%..... As you said...So you saying that literally proves that someone killing someone for calling them lazy (even though you're acting like being called lazy was the ONLY thing that could have happened to cause a mental break to kill someone) would happen for a fact 😭😭😭 do you not even understand what you're writing? You said that's 1% probability for the TONS of records of stuff I mentioned but you're saying it basically won't ever happen or at least you don't want to think it could happen because of the low chance even though you said those things are brought up were low chances even though you also said there's a TON of cases of them................
6:25 looks like Casper going by in the corner haha
First
Nice good eye
Omg I literally just noticed that and was coming to the comments to say. Well done lmao
@Kangarooster agreed
Darn
Instances where a person dies while being trapped somewhere, especially in a tight area where they can't even move their arms or legs, always haunt me. In general knowing that someone died while feeling scared and alone is always so sad.
fr the worst is knowing that they knew they were going to die and had to wait for it and be patient for the last time ever in life
It’s just horrible
Harley died due his chest was kinda crushed efictiation
Watch the story about the caver who cut his own arm off after breaking it so he could get loose from a collapse that had him stuck by the arm.
Same here
I get anxiety just thinking about how panicked you would be the moment your trapped in a chimney unable to breathe just completely helpless that’s such a horrible way to die
Positional asphyxiation, not a nice way to die.
I had to stop the video and take a break
Same like i had to pause the videos cus that was intense
Same dude, it wont leave my mind
He suffocated
Harley was abused. His parents often locked him out which is why he would sleep in abandoned buildings to stay warm. I've read he was autistic and often mistreated by his family. Such a sad story.
I know, it’s a heartbreaking, terribly depressing story. His parents were horrible, horrible people. Rest In Peace, Harley, I hope you’re happy and safe.
Which is why it’s disappointing that time and time again, mr ballet misreports the facts
@@smokeybear1925 Really? You feel like that's a necessary comment? Can you not figure out how to scroll past UA-camrs you don't like and just let everybody else enjoy themselves? 😶
@@smokeybear1925 he’s here to talk about places you shouldn’t go, and people who went anyway. Not about family abuse
@@smokeybear1925 I’m sure the story is reported different and since the parents weren’t arrested or charged with abuse, there’s no proof that he was abused. So why would Mr. BALLEN (not Ballet) report on speculations from undocumented sources? If you don’t like his stories, don’t watch. There’s always someone like YOU to bitch and moan about something. Ffs.
As a merchant seaman, the last story hit pretty close to home. Failures on so many levels... Ultimate responsibility falls on the captain. While there is enormous pressure to keep to a schedule, he never should have sailed without accounting for EVERY member of the crew. And the last place the engineer was working was the most logical place to begin a THOROUGH search.
Right. Right and right! And when searching one would call out not just shine a light. Losing something makes one search insanely how about losing someone?? I would double check at least.. as someone would suggest maybe they hit their head and passed out so let’s get inside.
Complacency and a "not my job" sorta attitude is incredibly dangerous in those situations.
I don’t even think curt left the engine room that night. I think the Forman locked curt in there. Did anyone see curt after he did the inspection? Sounds more reasonable he was murders than he was simply went to do a solo inspection. And the foreman without be told about the rag was already down there checking idk some fishy shit
So the guy who ignored the protocol & went in by himself anyways, had no responsibility???
@@_MjG_that’s not actually what happened. Unsure why Mr. Ballen changed the facts in this story, but the man who died was actually named Marco Krahl, and he never left and then came back or anything like that. While the crew members interviews had a lot of inconsistencies, it seems that the SFO (foreman) left him without verbal confirmation that he was through with his inspection and sometime after the SFO left he was locked in. They know he did not leave because he never made it to the mess hall for dinner, no one saw him after he was in the engine room, and his personal bedroom was undisturbed. His stomach was also empty, so he never ate dinner that night. I love Mr. Ballen but he got A LOT of facts wrong in this one
I remember hearing about Harley's story a while back, and a little piece of information is, Harley used to leave pennies all over the ground, because he thought if someone picked it up, they would think it was their "lucky day" for finding that penny, and he wanted to do what he could to brighten their day. So to this day, people around the town drop pennies on the ground in memory of him
That's a lovely thing.
😭
Beautiful.
Bless him 💔😭
We do I live in his town port Clinton Ohio 😢
I can not wrap my brain around the fact that there are real people who have endured these deaths. MrBallen is giving me so many new phobias.
That's the point of all these gruesome channels. Fear.
Yes! Do not go camping, do not go near a boiler, do not enter empty or abandoned houses, don't drop down chimneys, don't swim in the ocean, and on and on. I'll just stay home from now on.
Lol. Same.
Imm just more paranoid... still gonna do hunting and camping... But I’m still doing it with friends and family.
@@RaraZeCat until one of them thinks you're hitting on their gf.
New life goal: never be the subject of a Mr. Ballen story.
I just start narrating the thing I'm doing in his voice inmy head, as if I were marching towards some horrible fate
"ubt little did he know that you can't mix three types of mustard and survive"
Facts
@@anaryl hahaha
At least then he will notice me
yep, that's for sure!!
That last story sounds more like murder than an accident…
it definitely was.... Foreman didnt like being called out... saw kurt at the other end, and closed the hatch.
Thank you.. like the chances of someone falling back wen there alone and would be trying there hardest to not fuck up and it being able to slam the door shut and hatch down is insane…
Yeah and I giant multinational shipping company that would have been all too happy to fudge details, etc. Shipping / the ocean is like the last wild west. I don't think people realize how unenforced, sometimes even un-regulated a lot of ships on the sea are - shipping, cruises, etc.
There was no intention of killing the man as described from mrballen or he would of been more in-depth describing the fight, more like man slaughter
Sounds like murder but isn’t
“And Kurt would be cooked alive… well, that’s it for today guys!” Those sign-offs always jerk me back into reality
Ikr..LOL
Ballen is probably grateful for all these messed up freak accidents that keep him in business. 😂
SAME. I literally did an immediate head jerk when he said he'd be cooked alive and then another when it was just the end lol.
No first he was compromised
@Witty Witty you’re joking… right? How you read that interaction and got anyone laughing at someone dying is beyond me. We are obviously talking about Ballen’s delivery, don’t turn this into something it isn’t. 🥴
Lessons i have learned from MrBallen:
1- never scuba dive
2- never go somewhere alone
3- never take someones phone away
YES THE PHONE IS A LIFELINE> TO EVERY ONE ESPECIALLY A CHILD.
@@nancyalywahby2784 agree! Phones shouldnt be taken away. Its a huge danger in case of emergency!!!!
Hopefully this isn't a joke making light on these dark situations 😕🤔
@@ticrific My mom got mad at me for bringing my phone to school she doesn't understand streets dangerous
@@Demxnicisthebest does it sound like a joke?
In the case of Harley as others here also mentioned there was a lot more going on. He had a you tube channel which often showed that he was in a toxic household. Right after he went missing the father put in a claim for life insurance and was bragging to multiple people about recieving the pay out. Harley was a good kid dealing with an abusive situation, not the troublemaking runaway his parents made him out to be. The parents should have been charged with neglect and definitly investigated further!!
I mean it was pretty obvious without that context, no kid goes and sleeps in random buildings without at the very least having neglectful parents, good parents would be worried the first time he did this
I was wondering why in the heck would you wait to look for him? I'd be looking all over if my son wasnt home when he should be.
i was suprised when ballen didnt mention this
@@DeezN00tz99 yess man
Frrr….me and him were madden mobile buddies….we were in the same groups together and shared a lot of mutual friends….he was a good kid and probably could’ve been big in the MM community had this not happened.
Hell during some streams you’d hear his parents yelling and all that fucked shit….I personally think they might’ve done something….but there’s nothing me or anyone else can ever do to change the ruling…
He wasn’t unknown though….we honored him the best we could in the football game we all played….miss that kid….rip.
For that last one: I would want to investigate what happened with the foreman. He's the last guy to be with the victim alive, and he checks the place where he was trapped but doesn't see him, and then the victim yells out for help and he doesn't hear him, all after he was made to stay late working on something with the victim, who was his boss? Is there another witness to confirm the victim was seen outside of the scavenger air unit after the shift?
Bro that's what I'm thinking it's crazy susppisouse that after pissing off the foremen the guy goes missing.
My exact thoughts........it sounds like murderous revenge to me.
I'm questioning that myself. Who saw him exit the tube?
My mind went exactly there. The foreman got away with murder. Motive is mad sus.
@@Xenomorphicism Oh, if you knew how many hundreds of thousands of people get away with murder (and much worse things) every year...
honestly, all machinery that can fit a human and can be sealed, should have a release hatch on the inside
That would compromise the integrity of many structures.
I would think that those dogs screws should be able to be completely unscrewed, then make it policy that if someone goes in they take a necessary physical part of all latching mechanisms. Can't get locked in an air scavenger/other sealable machinery if the latches are on you and there are no spares...
@@logantc.1353 Agreed. Engineer the hazard out. Also, make it procedure to lockout the main engine controls beforehand, so the engine can't be started when someones in there. Only the person going into the air scavenger should be able to remove the lockout (sort of like the tag and lockout procedure electricians use, I guess). Can't get locked in and can't start the main engine.
@@DustyCircuits336 if the proposed story is to be believed, lock out tag out wouldn't work. That system ONLY works when people obey it. Most equipment can be serviced without doing a lockout and energy purge. He would've still went in without notice and without locking out the engine.
@@ericalbers4867 Yeah, that's pretty crazy. No way in the world would anyone on with so called commensense go work inside a giant engine without telling someone else. Respectfully, though, its easy to say this stuff from the comfort of my lounge room. Plus, I think nobody should pay for a dumb mistake in such a horrible way. That's why you need to engineer the hazard out. For those of us who follow the rules, something lower in hierarchy like a tag and lockout procedure is just another layer of protection. The lockout device should be something physical that stops that engine from getting fuel. Still might need to turn it over to inspect the piston rings or some of the other gubbins I suppose. Just freewheeling ideas here. 🤔
The second one actually gave me nausea, mostly because that he was just screaming for help the entire time, but also because the guy who pushed him was his friend.
That’s what I was thinking because you can’t just roll and close a steel door and then do one latch
@Kam I think you're talking about the wrong story bud
Same
do any of y’all know the status of shawn? the guy who killed him? Did he go to jail?
@J. Russell He was definitely jealous but I don't think he intentionally was trying to get him to fall down there or was trying to kill him.
It seems more likely the Forman killed him than an accident.
1. He called the foreman lazy.
2. The foreman was the last to see him.
3. The foreman told the other guy that he had checked the dogs, but didn’t.
The theory was even that Kurt had fallen into the hatchet so that could be sign of struggle or injury from a fight
Yea the scenario of him falling and accidentally close the hatch and the dogs at the same time is kinda bonkers. And from the picture it seems that the hatch is opened to the outside. Like how could you fall and manage to drag the hatch to close?
reminds me of the other story where the coworker "accidentally" closed the guy in the oven....the cops are too lazy to investigate, so....."accident".
@@markjacks3828 it's not that they're too lazy it's called evidence. It would be a scary America if every prosecutor and detective could file murder charges based off feelings. While I do agree this case where the man died basically bc of the Forman was murder, it would be hard to prove.
There are many cases on merchant vessels which most likely be murder but goes by as accident to cover it up. I have worked on a merchant vessel and have seen an Oiler threaten the mess boy with a knife just because his plate wasn't kept ready for him. Scary af!
Harley Dilly was my nephew's best friend. Me and my husband drove him home a few times. We knew him personally and his death has been questioned by most of the community.
Lies
It's my understanding that he had an unhappy home. Poor kid.
@@AutisticAthena Yep! Another family tragedy. The fact they they had to say to him that "he is not in trouble" so he would return home says a lot. Poor child!
How do you know @@dumbestPersonOnEarth
@@gemmahandley9394 she is tryna get views
Today I learned I can’t stop watching this channel and I need to because i am terrified
I just had the exact same thought
I just had the exact same thought
I just had the exact same thought
I just had the exact same thought.
Today I learned you can't stop watching this channel.
First story was one of the worst things I've ever heard.
The thought of being stuck, unable to catch a breath is terrifying.
Poor guy.
Yea...that kinda messed me up...im not the same person after that first story
I can't imagine how scary it would be to die that way. Especially with your chest compressing and you going a little further down every time. That has got to be the worst way to die.
Harley lived 15 minutes away from me. I remember when they found him
@@tylercortez8511 i know a worse one...!
Plus, I think the kid even had a youtube channel. He made videos about his life. The mother also used to lock him out of the house.
how do parents just accept, that their kid runs away sometimes and even sleep in abandoned houses? wtf...
They were incredibly abusive to Harley, who was also autistic. Search up a more detailed story about the case and you'll see videos of people explaining in depth of the lawsuits involved with the parents and everything.
@@KatSpicert that's just so sad 😔 some people just should not be allowed to have children..
Total parental failure. Autism can be the trigger for many runaway kids.
as shitty as it is to say this, i’d say that having kids is a privilege
white people
Last story: the foreman killed Kurt deliberately. And the chief engineer should also be responsible as he did not double check the unit.
One of the most consistent things about covid has been the strange dark and mysterious told in Story format, thanks again Ballen
Probably the only good thing of 2020, me discovering the strange dark and mysterious
Best comment ever,because of the reality of it
Facts💯
Best like 8 months of content since finding him.
😂😂facts
Anyone else completely avoiding their responsibilities and just laying in bed past noon binge watching this channel?
God, why am I so lazy
Read the comment at 11:58am on a Sunday.
If I'm here watching I'm safe from not becoming a story in this video......
Haha yep big time this guy is a legend
:(
Yes. I have so many jobs to do but I'm addicted to these videos so I'm on the couch under a blanket bingeing 😂 avoiding real life responsibilities 😅
“Sometimes he would even sleep in abandoned buildings” if he does THAT MUCH to get away from home, it makes you wonder why.
It's not a secret he was frequently abused by his parents.
Ballen likely excluded it as it's not relevant to the subject matter.
He felt safer
Ikr. Those parents were horrible especially by taking away his phone which could possibly have saved his life if he grabbed it before he fell deeper. Irresponsible
People need to wake up. They murdered Harley Dilly and got away with a sloppy cover up. Marcus Dilly killed the boy, his buddy police chief Hickman covered it up and didn't let BCI enter the house to investigate immediately he let them in after 2 hours of him being in the house with his men. There's so much holes in the story and no before you say "How would anyone climb to the roof while carrying a body and push him in the chimney". It's not what happened, the boy was killed before getting inside the chimney. Hickman said that there weren't any signs of a forced entry everything was closed and locked yet the reports state and there's an image of a broken cellar window. The chimney was too tight for him even to move a bit yet they're saying he took of his 2 jackets, a shirt and his pants which IS IMPOSSIBLE THE CHIMNEYS SIZE IS 9X13.its sad how they got away with it and everyone in the local community knows that he was murdered. There's so many holes in the official story and evidence against it. Btw he was put inside the chimney from inside the house then closed the chimney with bricks. They said the house he died in was used aas a summer house yet the walls on the images are freshly painted and there's paint dripping from the walls in the house. The story is quite morbid and it's sad how they're probably gonna get away with it since nobody is really talking about it anymore. If someone is interested I can provide much more evidence to back this claims.
Pfffff hahahaha are you people serious? He got disciplined minority by getting his phone taken away. It’s called parenting. It’s not their fault that their kid is a retard that jumped down a chimney.
The second story in particular was just awful. That poor guy! I just can't imagine the unbelievable agony he went through. 😥 I hope there's a special place in heaven reserved for him.
Nah! There isn't even "heaven" to begin with.
@@godnyx117 I'm sorry you feel that way.
@@GirlYouDontKnow-rx3lm Thank you, that was very sweet! Don't be sorry tho, I'm pretty fine the way it is. Have a great day!
Mee too ❤ I pray to God he is being taken care of in heaven and that his beloved may find peace in this life and after. Rest in peace dear man ❤
@@godnyx117 I don't know why people like you feel the need to say such things. Why do you care so much what someone else believes?
I feel so bad for the guy in the second story, the fact that it didn't destroy his nerves and he felt everything is the most painful thing ever
@@plazmaximus Do you suppose he ended up "banging" his girlfriend ???
@@charleslacombe359 Who the little guy that died or the big guy who was the boyfriend? I hope she left him
His friend killed him didn’t he? He was just a little guy. They were all drunk and friends.
@Giselle Aguilar yeah in the feels
That shit herts I have a 3 digree been on and I coldint emagin
That poor child in the first story, I can't imagine how terrified he must have been
All three are tales of horror
Yeah if only he had some sort of device to call for help with. 😐
@@everevelyn1094 not try to breaking in other people’s properties is a good way to be safe.
go search the vieo that channel nexpo made on harly dilly there is more info than this video go see it please to know the whole story
@@raphaelcalado4335 He was an abused small boy looking for somewhere to hide for heavens sake !
@@jaytay8637 it didn’t say he was abused they just took his phone
That foreman didn't care enough to find Kurt since he didn't like him, so he just said, "yeah he's not here we're good." I can't believe no one checked the forward hatch with the rag sticking out of it. Laziness on the crew's part and pride on Kurt's part killed that poor man.
Kurt should followed procedure. They should stayed in dock. Fk that other ship. We don't leave until mechanic is back on deck. And everyone is accounted for.
I think the foreman did it.
you would think you would put maybe a crowbar or anything solid to prevent the door from bein able to close
@@dominicklittle9828 that's not very metal, sir.
Also, lock out tag out ftw.
How was Kurt's death not pinned on the foreman who A. Had a disagreement with Kurt just before he went missing. B. Was the last person to see Kurt alive and is the only witness to any of the events past the altercation. C. Was the one who checked the area that Kurt died and also happened to "not see him". There weren't any cops that were like "hmmmm"?
🤷🏻♀️
A lot of us here are working in the wrong fields. We’d do better cops, detectives, supervisors, lawyers…etc…
I thought the same thing, especially since he knew it would be deemed an accident😪
Well analyzed!
Maybe he just didn’t know. Accidents happen you get into an argument with somebody you don’t automatically think hey I’ll kill them arguments happen all the time especially at work doesn’t mean you want the person to die and die horrifyingly. For all we know the foreman feels guilty about what happened. Maybe he’s just an average guy who made a mistake and critical error. He has to live with that and most of us will never know the extent of being responsible for somebody else passing especially when we could’ve prevented it.
@@tylerthomas7763 that's a lot of assuming while I listed objective facts. It's suspicious because of the reasons I listed, without bending over backwards to assume innocence.
I was beginning to have a freaking panic attack just listening to the story of that kid in the chimney, I'm a brick Mason, I could almost feel what was being told, that was a horrible way to die.
For real dude
I could feel it too😢
All of these are tragic
Yeah, same
i'm 14 too and I just pictured my self in that position and I would freak out because I have closterfobia (fear of tight spaces)
The Harley case is more heartbreaking than explained here. Harley was a child who would run away from home frequently due to his parents constantly arguing or being abusive to him. (His mother even locked him out of the house a few times) they didn’t care if he would sleep in abandoned buildings over night or run away (this is a child btw, not a teen or an adult) when he went missing, his mother didn’t seem to care. Nick crowley made a more in-depth version of this case and it’s truley tragic.
The moment I heard the name Harley I thought of Nick's video
Yes, very tragic it is with the details explained here. Should never have happened.
Underrated mary pfp
But this is exactly my point!
Terribly saddening
As a former ship's engineering officer, I have been inside a large slow speed main engine's scavenger air box for maintenance while in port. The thought of being trapped inside when they roll the engine over gives me the screaming willies. NEVER EVER enter a confined space without a proper briefing and an attendant outside as an observer!
The worst part is he knew he brought it on himself. How many people die because they're too embarrassed to admit they made a mistake and so they fail to take proper precautions in an attempt to fix that mistake. Fate can be very cruel.
His mind when the engine started to turnover
I totally believe the Forman left Curt in the piston on purpose. How was it that he was the last one with him and then the last one to check the same spot the last time they were seen together?
Ya he definitely stuck him in there and locked the top forgetting to do the bottom then he hears the sailer talking about going to check it, and made sure he was the first to respond and say nope nothing in there
Definitely left him in there to die and later go back all like "oh no he is dead, who could ever have seen this comeing" whilst rubbing his hands together like and super villain
Wow I find that to make sense, I wonder if they did investigation on his desk,
@@RustyNips that is what I thought that he was murdered
I said the same thing it's completely obvious especially since he called him lazy and they had beef.. in a murder investigation they look for 2 things motive and opportunity the foreman had both nobody really looked into it because it was just shrugged off as an accident but I think not it needs to be looked into more by investigators
@@bobbuilder480 agree people will do incredibly dumb things just because someone insulted them
Police: “when your son didn’t come home why didn’t you report it sooner?”
Parents: “oh, we just figured he was probably sleeping in some abandoned building somewhere.”
Harley's whole case was sketchy. There was a relative that was a retired cop, parents out having drinks and dinner while their son is missing. I followed the case closely. His coat was perfectly laid out on the floor. Then they picked it up and hung it on a door? Who does that when there is a child missing and they have no idea where he is or what happened to him?
After your kid has gone missing 50 times, you’ve spent night after night after night looking for them only to have them come back safe and sound, you probably just sigh and go on with your day when it happens. Not because you don’t care, but because it doesn’t seem to matter whether you look for them or not.
Yeah his mom locked him out sometimes....horrible
@@daerdevvyl4314 his mo was kinda mean to him
My guess is the apple didn't fall far from the tree. Harley seems to be a fucking idiot. Wonder where he inherited that from.
Can we get a moment of silence for 5 times a week.
😄 those were the days
RIP Harambe
Lmao 😂
F
Rip to the champ 😂
as a marine engineer, we have all heard the story of the guy who was burned alive in the scavenge space.......terrifies us to the core....we always have a guy standing outside the scavenge space during the inspection
#2 is horrific.
The reason for it is if anyone like me worked at Mc Donalds specifically in the kitchen, then you'll know getting burned by grease dropping off the grill platen, burned by the grill itself and VATS/hot oil hitting your skin burns are not that bad as the pain lasts seconds and usually goes numb.
However, I've had the worse experience and burn I have ever experienced making a Filet.
It was during a main rush which you'll know working at one is extremely demanding and it's all about being as quick as possible. My dumb ass put the Filet buns into the steamer and pressed the button, while putting other buns into the toaster my on it in the moment brain decided to pull the metal plate the Filet buns are on out when it still had a couple seconds left on the steaming process.
What happened was a big amount of steam rushing out of the steamer and hitting my pinkie all over.
I've never experienced pain like it, it was the worst pain I've felt to date. What made it so bad was the fact it was relentless.
As Mr Ballen states it does not damage your nerve endings, it simple cooks the outside skin and just out of the reach of the nerves themselves.
The pain lasted all day long. I literally had to coat my pinkie in burn cream and then cover it with a bandage due to the air intensifying the pain. Like it was cooking all over again as soon as the air touched it.
I'm not talking about wind, cold air or hot air, but air in general even if it was mildly warm.
So that guy must have went through beyond hell, I mean that's probably the most horrific death I've heard to date. Blood curdling scream and some.
Actually gave me the sensation again in my pinkie just hearing that story.
That guy man, that is a death no one ever deserves. Alcohol is such a nasty drug no one can handle it. Always brings out the worse in people and all over a bloody girl.
Whoever designed that pipe needs the treatment Mr Ballen says the like button does, that is such a stupid design and something that should have never happened!!!
My god I'm actually filled with deep sorrow for that guy just the pain, it's like having lemon and salt rubbed into a wound, like tiny sharp needles getting pierced directly into your nerves all over the effected area. Horrible!!!
Oh 😔😔😔
I once reached over the top of my instant pot (a pressure cooker) when it was on. It was normally out on the counter and I'd gotten so used to working around it when it was off that I didn’t think when it was on. Anyway, my underarm got steamed for a few seconds in a perfect 1 inch circle and I can confirm it was one of my worst burns. I wouldn't wish what that man went through on my worst enemy, and if it were me I'd have stopped begging for rescue and started begging for one of the cops to put a quick bullet in my head to end it instead of watching me scream. It's horrible that no one was willing to put the man out of his misery once they knew there was no saving him. What’s 10 more minutes of life when it's pure agony?
@@bucketofsunshine6366 100%, there should be a law where if someone is critically injured with zero chance of survival they should be allowed to request euthanasia.
It's the most humane thing to do in such a situation, I couldn't even imagine a steam burn all over.
I'd rather be on fire as the fire will burn the nerves in seconds so you don't feel it for long. Nasty way to go poor guy.
I've never had a steam burn, but when I was a teenager, I burned my hand on the top boiler in the oven for less than a second. It Really hurt for a few seconds. I had a black crispy char mark on my hand like burned hotdogs, but there was no pain until that came off and the blister came and popped. That was the Most Excruciating pain I'd ever felt!!!
When I just started my duty (and got assigned to the fries station), I burned my forearm with the frying basket because a crew was going to walk past and my place was pretty much crowded because the other crews are rushing to get the orders and give them to customers, hence I tried to avoid burning them and instead, I ended up burning myself in the forearm. It's a deep one too. Took a month to heal.
Harleys death is the type of death I wouldnt wish on my worst enemy rest in peace little man
Edit: these 1k likes go out to him in prayers out to harley hopefully lil dude made it to the golden gates 🙏😭
Getting stuck in tight enclosed spaces is a bad way to die, same thing happened to John Jones
Same the space isn’t small enough it also doesn’t have spikes either
ya that explanation was so intense... my heart is shivering
@@Slenderslayer351 what about the guy who was steamed. even worse but getting stuck i =s also very bad
@@apposgaming8873 That's pretty bad too, having to feel every bit of pain
That settles it. Not leaving my house anymore, everything wants to kill me.
You have an anime profile picture, you probably don’t even leave your house
@@ninacore444 Ah yes, because only shut-ins watch anime right?
@@realnametba2 yes
@@ninacore444 That's so close-minded
@@ninacore444 don't be a bully🥱
Holy shit. Todays stories are freaking brutal.
My thoughts exactly. Except I used a stronger word than "shit." 😱 Now I have to go watch some Karen videos or something so I can go to sleep!!
Ya cute kitten videos
I'm not easily impressed, but this ones will haunt me.
And all 3 stories have such terrible people who caused these deaths. The parents for being so abusive and irresponsible for causing their child to leave without a phone, Michael for being a murdering jealous self conscious prick, and the foreman for being so stupid and lazy to not check obvious shady areas thoroughly.
@@enterusername6953 not "terrible" people other then the murderer
Gosh, that lobster story is so disturbing, especially about the nerves not shutting down. Truly horrible and all over a stupid fight that could have been solved with words. Fights are never worth it. Either you could get hurt or you hurt someone. Either way your life can change in an instant. A temporary ego boost of acting “tough” is Never worth it unless you have to defend yourself or a family member in a true life or death situation.
Honestly I hope Michael is rotting in jail for making his friend die a death that nobody should have
tell that to a drunk person that can't think rationally. I've never been that drunk before but I've been buzzed and your brain is the first thing to go. They were clearly drunk as they'd been bar hopping that night
@@Kakachi07 You have to be a violent person to begin with to act like that. Being drunk will not make you violent or confrontational if you are not the rest of the time. Some people like that insecure agressive big guy should just not drink. The other poor guy would be still alive. Alcohol make you lost inhibitions and make you impulsive.
@@AnthonySigouin That's very false. My dad is actually the nicest person you could ever meet and when he used to drink he wasn't the greatest person and dis some regrettable things. Alcohol completely changes a person.
@@AnthonySigouinthat's a lie
Whoa dude, been there done that. Cleaned the inside of pistons on a ship before. Got to say that is next to impossible to get stuck inside by just your own actions. Something sounds kind of fishy about that...
I've done that duty also. Scavenger box is a hell of a place to get trapped in. Strange kind of hatch design?? Usually if someone has a beef with you they throw you overboard at sea, not lock you in the scavenger box!
That's what I said , That guy was dead before they started looking for him
@@MrBillagordon yup not did we do the things you mentioned but many other things too
I definitely suspected the foreman!!!
I'm doing work experience at a shipyard and as part of this I got my working in confined spaces permit. The number one after checking the air levels is that you must have a sentry and both times he went in there he didn't have one. The foreman doesn't count because he was also preoccupied doing the job of linging up the pistons. The second time he went alone that was the decison that killed him because if he had a someone watching from the outside of the hole they would of known he was in there. I don't know if the laws are different in the US but in Australia all confined space work requires paperwork and a sentry.
Just listening to these stories caused me physical pain
That is a good thing in a way. It shows you have empathy and aren’t a psychopath.
It literally hurts my chest
Yeah and that one about the kid and chimney is so ehhh I hate that thing where his screaming was is downfall and him putting his hands up also is kinda like a detriment to him
Edit: oh yeah to cheat you up here is a joke on what happened
Boy: hhhmmm it’s way to small and it wasn’t like this earlier I’m also very far away from the bottom I know let’s make me more stuck
Computer chip implanted by his parents to make him smort(I know I spelled it wrong): still far away just stop and get back up there
Boy: I know I will put my hands up
Chip: stop now you can’t climb back up
Boy: uh oh lets scream that will help
Chip: no that will make you go down farther because of your lungs
Boy: screams in caps
Chip uh oh
Boy: let’s do it again
Chip: no stop
Boy: let’s do a slow mow repeat on that scream
@@FrogOnADogsSittingOnALog i started breathing alot like that then i started laughing-
Same
Let’s appreciate the amount of times mr ballen posts weekly...that’s gotta be a shit ton of work and effort
Thank you! There are more people working on this then just me. Wes has been editing since the beginning and Tori does our sound. Thanks!
@@MrBallen be cool to see them in a video so we can give them some credit. Great job on all the videos btw!
@@MrBallenhello john
@@chriscitrino9051 - sure, but editors and sound crew don't always want to be in front of the camera, hence their job description... we can thank them though, through the comments 😊
We're just greedy bastards, we want MORE!! :)
I can’t imagine how horrible that poor man’s death is and the guilt that his friend will always have. As a LEO spouse, I also am heartbroken for all the first responders there who will live with this memory forever. God bless them all.
Yes, God bless them 💗
In the last story, I genuinely believe the foreman killed Kurt. He’d been admonished by Kurt and was angry with him then went and checked the piston together. Did anyone see Kurt leave & go to his room after? How do we know that the foreman simply didn’t just lock him in there…and suspicious that the foreman checked the scavenger box & didn’t see him when they were searching for him …. oh and let’s not forget that he quickly checked the scavenger box just as the 1st officer was coming to check & therefore preventing him from doing so! Nope…foreman killed him 😅
Thank you. I got the same thoughts!
also in his story didn't he tell the sailor to bring down the head engineer? Then why would he proceed to check himself before the head engineer got there? doesn't add up.
Even as he's telling the story about what they "think" happened it doesn't make sense. They shined a light in but couldn't hear him screaming? Maybe it wasn't just a 1 man job either.
And the rag?
@@Darebearlovesbug him trying to be saved obviously. I think they intentionally left him in there knowing he was stuck.
Note to self: Avoid everything that can trap you and cook you alive
or follow established procedure. Those are there to keep people alive. That's the risk a person takes when they don't follow those safety procedures and guidelines.
@@dunhill1 100% agree, but unfortunately it does happen where people skip Standard saftey procedures. And it can lead to disaster, in kurts case I’m really surprised the sailor didn’t open the hatch anyway, especially seeing a rag in the seal. If he had disregarded procedure he would have found Kurt. But I guess Kurt was really at fault as he was embarrassed of telling the other sailors after ridiculing the foreman.
Fuck yeah
Damn more like “top 3 worst accidents” sheesh those were brutal...
Ya these really were
True
Horrible ways to die, so damn disturbing.
More so because they took long enough for the persons involved to realize their lives were ending soon.
Time enough to think about it.
The nasty ones I've witnessed were over pretty quickly, save for the last one I participated in the recovery of.
Dude the first one.... smh
I am studying English with his shows… he’s really a talented storyteller
As a marine engineer I am certain that its highly unlikely a 2nd engineer will go inside the scavenge space alone no matter how big the problem is. There is some foul play.
@@Emilia-nz8is so he said
My thoughts exactly, I used to work on a gold mine and we had strict tag out procedures, no one was allowed to turn anything on, whilst your tag was on a door or switch or anything. Not only that, we would do a thorough scan of confined spaces before any of the large crushing/milling machines were turned back on. This story sounded so suspicious from the get go, I just could barely make it through to the end of the story.
Indeed. This was no accident...
@@platinumare you do realize that all the scenarios mentioned in OSHA, MSHA, and nuclear safety courses are real stories, right? Every time they add something, it's because somebody found a way to get around the current rules or was just careless. I worked at a mill where somebody did something similar, no LOTO, tripped a sensor on a stuck carriage, which made it operate again, pinning his throat and suffocating him. One guy at one of my customers nearly got crushed because he went into a space he shouldn't have been without LOTO, tripped an optical sensor, resetting the machine, pinning his body and crushing him nearly to death.
The same mill I worked at, a guy was trying to push a piece of wood out of an automated blocking saw, and he accidentally activated the foot pedal. Ironically, all he had to do was step off the pedal, but in his panic, he watched the machine clamp his arm, the saw rose out of the table, and proceeded to cut his arm off. He was able to regain most functionality after they reattached it through. It's not completely unbelievable, because some people are either stupid, or won't own up to their mistakes.
@@platinumare Same in the factory I worked in. The individual identified on the LOTO was the only one that had the key. The lock could only be unlocked by the individual who put the lock on.
Poor Harley, that’s why I bought a steel grate drilled in with multiple bolts on the top of my chimney so no animal or person could ever have this happen to them
Damn you! Making the world safer for the idiots! 😂
Mind you, fishing corpses out of the chimney could be annoying.
It's a sad world where people have to protect people from their own stupidity.
My thought, if a person is dumb enough to crawl into a chimney, they're not long for this world and the rest of us are better off not having to wonder if they're going to hurt themselves.
What about Santa? 🎅
My chimney is a small box that looks like a birdhouse that is on the side of the house. We put a grate on it so no birds could get inside.
@@jediknightjairinaiki560 Yes that story did seem to have at the very least a touch of Darwinism involved.
Places not to go: underground, underwater, chimneys, outside.
But you can’t hide in your bed because someone is probably underneath it!
Or underground underwater chimneys those are dangerous
@@lucid_god Nightmare fuel. 😬
So basically we are not safe anywhere 😲
@@amyvicente8241 Yep. A warranty on a toaster has more guarantees than life.
I’ve watched so many of these videos but I haven’t gotten chills until I listen to the chimney story
As a Marine Engineer myself I’ve heard so many horror stories about people getting stuck in engines, it happens way more than you’d like to think…
Glad you said this because I was for sure the other man killed him lol.
dude i could never be a marine engineer after hearing that
😃
That’s really scary!
I’m never getting a job out in the seas
I’m kinda surprised that being stuck in what is essentially the intake manifold would kill someone. You have all the cold outside air going in. I thought it’d be cooler than that.
Kurt pissed off the wrong guy. He didn't accidentally lock himself in there....
Dont f-ing call it 'Lobster', thats damn Tasteless.
@Michael Beecher My thoughts exactly. Perfect crime!
Exactly what I thought
@@slevinchannel7589 wtf are you talking about
@@debbirango6945 He is talking about time stamp 5:14
I am not sure if he is trying to be funny though, considering "lobster steaming/boiling alive" and calling it tasteless sounds like a pun is in there.
The pictures he paints while telling these stories are both terrifying and amazing.
Agreed. He's the best storyteller on the internet.
The painting he makes with his hands is amazing
He’s the bob ross of the strange, dark and mysterious delivered in story form
I find myself totally frozen with my jaw dropped and my brain trying to imagine how these particular deaths would be..😱beyond hell each one..
Agreed terrifying and amazing
Mr B. Telling these stories has yo take a Toll on you. Even as I binge your channel my heart is heavy for Charlie stuck in the vent. Hit my heart heavy for the kid. I have to believe you’re saving lives by telling these stories. Thank You 🙏🏽
First story: *exists*
The phobia of enclosed spaces:hello there.
Lol
How do you think I feel when I crawl in to chimneys and air con/grease ducts everyday for work and watch these when I get home 🤣🤣
Claustrophobia intensifies
If this channel has taught me anything, it’s to not breathe deep when I have anything pressed against my chest and just don’t go anywhere where that’s even possible.
Wait, Yuri what are you doing here
I had a steam burn on my arm once. The pain was intense. But my arm was only steamed for seconds. The pain lasted for hours. I cannot imagine the agony he felt. R.I.P.
*jesus.*
@@litigioussociety4249 I'm guessing there still might have been some pain involved, even though it didn't take hours. This comparison doesn't really do justice to the story
@@justoneguy2160 so what's it to be? Eh?
@@justoneguy2160 please do this for me. Not cool though! Definitely help me. Please! Please m please! Just help me please. Please
@@justoneguy2160 Ooooooh what's this?
"My child didn't came home tonight, but its ok, he likes sleeping in abandoned building"...
Right? Yeah that story has a lot of backstory to it. The kid had a UA-cam and posted a lot of sad videos with his parents being super crappy to him or they're screaming and fighting. The parents didnt care until they could be on the news.
@@aznp33nRocket So sad, I saw a program about him and remember thinking his life was so miserable that he would rather be anywhere but home.
@@aznp33nRocket ohh that's why it's so familiar! I have heard this before. :( arg
@@aznp33nRocket poor Harley, he would have to be pretty desperate and unhappy to crawl down a chimney to get away from his "home"😢
Poor Harley
Mr Ballen, look into the disappearance of Kyron Horman from Oregon in 2010 or 2009. Alot of information leading to the step mom. But 12 years later there's still no leads for this kid. Kyron was about 7 years old when he went missing.
I still can't believe she hasn't been arrested. And I wish the search at Suavie's island never ended.
👍🏻
The last one seems a little fishy to me. Got a feeling he was murdered...
Same
Definitely was and the dude who followed protocol by latching it back up couldve stopped it
There was just no reason for why the foreman went back causing the chief enginer guy to think it had been checked already...way too suspect!
same to me . guess the head engineer . he doesn't want to double check the hatch and also the one who open the other hatch but said no one there .
I have a feeling the guy who killed Kurt was named Courtney
Omg the first story caused me so much claustrophobic anxiety. I had to go stand outside in my yard. I thank god I'm very claustrophobic, I'll never stick myself in a situation like that. I cant even get on an elevator with too many people. This poor kid, I cant imagine.
Poor Harley
Dude same, I had to skip through the last of that story because jesus christ man. If I wasn’t claustrophobic enough before, I definitely am now
@@spice_cake I felt the walls closing in.. started to freak me out. Nope, can't do tight spaces. I can't even ride in a car with too many people, if there's already 3 people in an elevator I'm like nahh, I'll get the next one. I gotta be able to move around!
Yeah, that is literally nightmare fuel for me. Got locked inside a trunk while playing hide and seek as a brief joke. They flipped the latch and when I started freaking a couple seconds later they opened it. I've been super cautious of tight spaces ever since. Thinking about that kid gives me cold sweats
@Tenyasha idk, I'm kinda glad I'm claustrophobic. I know I'll never die alone in a dark tunnel or tight space and suffocate. At least, not of my own volition.
The best story teller to ever walk this earth
Thanks a ton!!!
@@MrBallen much appreciated 🙏🏽🙏🏽
I've confirmed this to be true.
@@MrBallen I found it
Preach that🙏🙏☺️
I feel bad for everyone in #2 - any position there would've been so awful, I wonder how the guy who pushed him is doing the most since he didn't mean to kill and probably feels so guilty 😢
Unbelievable. I felt like I couldn’t breathe watching this video.
That first one made me stop breathing for a minute
Right?
He has this unparalleled way of making you feel what the subject of these stories feel, in detail.
True
Strait up
I can literally feel the sufferings harley went through. Rest in peace
I was thinking the same thing it had to be a slow death Harley RIP
Yea like oh shit
Figuratively
Same here I legit felt bad for lil dude🥺😰😢😓😥 dying like that has to suck but for a kid it has to be a million times worse
I already hate it
The last one could be a murder mystery I bet the foreman did it
That’s exactly what I was thinking. If he pissed off enough people, there’d be a few people in on it as well.
exactly what we thought as well! they could all be in on it!
Mr ballen is the shittt
Totally!!
@Vlad Tepes he called him lazy and idk about you but if someone called me lazy i wouldnt kill them i think mr ballens theory was right, he was second guessing himself went to check the pistons and got locked in
I’ve watched this video before and I found it terrifying so it’s probably not the best thing to watch right before bed
That second one made me cry 😢
Just the thought of that agonising pain & him pleading for help, to no avail. Absolutely awful 😢
The worst!
especially the fact that his “friend” caused it. god, it makes me sick
I just hope his "friend" went to jail. I don't care if it was an accident, you shouldn't be fighting people for stupid ass reasons lmao.
for like a 10 whole ass minute omg I cant even plank for 1 minute
Not much can compare to the feeling of having to know someone is going to die, and being able to do nothing about it. I would never want to feel that.
There’s no way the foreman didn’t have something to do with kurts death
Yep. Especially after getting called out in front of his friends.
Yeah, Kurt never banged on the hatch when the first guy came by and started closing the hatch? He didn't have a flashlight to shine back at the foreman when he opened the aft hatch to look? Also, the foreman just so happened to consider that Kurt was maybe in the scavenger tunnel, but only checked one side? And conveniently was able to "clear" the tunnel as the chief engineer came down?
Yeah I was thinking the same thing
Theres also the bit about him apparently not telling anyone where he was going; how do we know the person he told wasnt the foreman?
The extremely implausible series of events required just for the door to have closed AND LOCKED AT LEAST ONE DOG THAT KURT COULD NOT POSSIBLY REACH should be evidence enough. The odds of that may not be completely impossible, but they're astronomically less likely than someone else sealing Kurt in there. What's more, we've already been told that the foreman resented Kurt, and we really only have the foreman's testimony that 1) Kurt rushed/skipped properly checking things at ALL, and 2) that the foreman checked Kurt's tunnel at all. He was conveniently down there *looking* as though he'd just finished checking when someone else came down - and then, on the foreman's assurance that HE had checked, no one else did.
I'm sorry, that's too many wild coincidences for me to swallow.
The last one is extremely suspicious
Dont f-ing call it 'Lobster', thats damn Tasteless.
Sus 😔
Straight murder lmao
@@slevinchannel7589 you commented this everywhere
Right?! My thoughts exactly! The fact that the foreman didn't check the other one and told the crew chief he did, after he was called lazy by Kurt...
I am actually from the town of Port Clinton where Harley Dilly went missing. It was actually around my birthday and I remember going to my birthday party hearing my parents talk about this case. There were police all over, it was all that was on the news, and there was always helicopters flying over to try and find him from above. It’s really sad and it pretty much teared our small community apart. The high school had lots of assemblys about it and the street signs were covered in pink ribbons which were his favorite color. Genuinely such a sad thing :(
Damn, all three stories were beyond creepy and shakenly horrible ways to die. The last story gave me pause and made me really question if Curt's death wasn't an inside job!!
It made my anxiety go thru the roof!
Idk about that I think it was an accident because if it was a murder they would've thrown the body overboard and not called the shore
Actually, my worst fear is getting stuck somewhere unable to move even so much to somehow end my own life quickly. Getting stuck in that chimney I'd probably die of a heart attack due to panicking. On the other hand, I wonder how the hell he managed to take off his jacket in such a narrow space.
Inside job
@@no-prophet some kids are so flexible, it’s wild
Who else was taking deep breathes as he explains how poor little Harley was trying to catch his..😞😔
Right here. As son as he started describing how Harley slipped further and further down, his chest compressing I could feel it in my own chest and I started to breath heavier.
Honestly I felt so uncomfortable and sad but for some reason I keep watching these stories anyways 🤭🥲
@@annpeters72 right😭
💔
Hes just an idiot thats why he died
Imagine you were locked in a room with no way of yelling for help, the door is only partially locked so you stick an object through for help. Sometime later and you hear someone lock the rest of the locks! That must have been the most terrifying sound of his life. RIP
I bet the engine starting would've been more terrifying
I wonder how long he could've actually survived in the scavenging air receiver
I wonder how they didn’t hear him. Yet another important reason to learn that loud finger assisted whistle
6:24/6:25 A wee Casper! We only recently got into mrballen. We are addicted to his storytelling. Thank you for all you do and all you've done for your service to this nation.
I feel like obviously the Foreman may have locked him down there after getting called out. I dont think it was an accident, especially since he only flashed his light in one area and not all 3.
Daniel E. H. I agree 100%
The Engineer that was called out is the monkey that did him in and steered the other employee away.
I was thinking the same, you have an alarm to check for someone and all you do is flash your light once? Knowing that the 'lost' man works there and could very well be in there....
I agree i thought it was sketchy AF it happened after he called someone out 🙃
If that's true then that foreman is a psychopath,to put someone through that just because he got made to look bad..
@@paulanthony5274 some people just can't stand being called out or being in the wrong, mixed with being batshit crazy and boom a terrifying combo.
The first story creeps the shit outta me I can barely imagine a worse way to die. Poor boy, rest in peace..
And then you heard the second story (the steam death in the manhole)
That last guy sounded like he was killed. Too sketchy
Oh he was killed alright. Killed by his own stupidity and the laziness of others.
Right? It was such a small hatch, theres just no way no one would have found him by shining a whole ass flashlight in there and mentioning he thought Kurt might be in there
@@derrickbonsell u mean killed by his foreman who seen a easy way to say oh well "accidents happen"
Pretty crazy they didn’t all rush to check the piece of cloth coming out 😅
They knew.. they wanted him to burn alive
One thing I’ve learned from binge watching all your videos is to NEVER, under ANY circumstances jump down a chimney
"He didn't have his phone, so they couldn't even contact him"
Oh, the cruel irony
Such a terrible idea to take a kids phone away
So the parents should have been charged with murder
This happened very near to where I live. Don't blame the parents, that kid had some issues that had nothing to do with the parents.
As for the phone thing, many of us lived to be adults while depending on a landline. So stuff the idea that his phone was so important. He broke into a house, did it in a stupid way, got stuck and died. All of it is on him. Thank Darwin.
@@hardboiledmahoney3273 I mean if you listen to the full real story you would see that you're wrong. His parents were extremely abusive and he had pretty severe autism. Do research before you make dumbass comments
@@michaelthefoodcritic Oh damn really? Sheesh, its always the autistic people getting abused. :pensive: (Not in a mean way or a joking way. It's just sad they get picked on.)
Could you imagine being on ballen's seal team and you're bored, then he starts telling a story? It's the highlight of your life.
This should've been titled worst ways to die. Those sounded PAINFUL.
I felt bad for the guy who got stuck inside of a engine.
The first one inside the chimney gave me an anxiety attack listening to him describe what he did and how he died.
I've heard the first story before and I was always convinced that someone had killed him and hidden him up the chimney. The fireplace was covered from the inside, which seemed suspicious to me. But hearing how you walked through it here, that sounds horribly plausible. Poor, poor kid. And his poor parents had no idea he was dying just a few hundred feet away.
The light from the vent might have convinced him it was open
His "poor" parents abused him. They would lock him out which was the reason he has to sleep in abandoned buildings. His father even took out a life insurance policy after he went missing and cashed in when he was found so no I wouldn't feel sorry for those monsters!
@@annalucy89 most likely murder
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Love your videos MrBallen, I always enjoy your content and recommend to friends and family all the time
Fun fact I don’t give a shit😐
@@jesseswrld82 no one asked you ♥️
10k views in 10min. Lol
Mhm
fun fact i cant like cause at 69 so i dislike
Lesson of this video: stay away from tight places and TELL SOMEONE WHERE YOU'RE GOING
Guys when you enter any enclosed spaces on board bring a hammer with you, the banging can be heard anywhere on the ship.
Seems like Kurt would have known something like that. It seems sooooo fishy to me that just him and the dude that didn’t like him were left alone and then that same dude “accidentally” checks the wrong hatch and then decides to just go ahead and lock the other 2 AND usher out the other dude that was there to search that area. I don’t know, man......
Usually there’s always always a way out smh that underwater stuff is on another level tho 😂 my uncle did welding on underwater tunnels at Chesapeake haha I couldn’t imagine and Welding too haha 😂 nope
@@delladylan8301 you know what , i think the whole crew play a role in this . well at least 50% of em .
@@eyes2c..519 Dangerous shit but it pays extremely well. On average underwater welders won't work for less than a minimum of $1000 a day.
@@delladylan8301 yeah I was thinking that
The first story of this video has the most horrifying death I've ever seen in one of these videos. Absolutely horrible.
Don't ever watch the infamous mexican cartel video known as "Funkytown" then.
Every brutal cartel torture technique combined used on this 1 poor bastard.
It's hard to be overly disturbed by anything nowadays after seeing the worst humanity has to offer in a real video.
Kinda sucks because I love horror content, but it hardly ever scares or disturbs me anymore. 😢
Last thing to greatly disturb me was reading the story about this drug addict mom who put her infant in the microwave and turned it on for 2 minutes, then tucked it into bed like nothing happened.
That some other shyit 😩
Harleys death breaks my heart, he just wanted an escape ;(.
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oof that must havd suckd but i like stuff that burns
That last one is so scary. I'm surprised the foreman didn't do a more thorough check and that other guy didn't do another check. They must have knew how long that room was and how you wouldn't be able to hear anyone if they were in there.
Well, that is if they wanted to "find" him, that is, if they didnt already know he was down there
@DDaviDD exactly. But I guess other people would just back him up
@DDaviDD true
@@wrongturnVfor yep the foreman murdered him.
Holy shit that was intense! All three were about the worst ways to die.
I feel like I constantly say this every time I watch a ballen video. But it always seems to get worse every video lol
You mean die?
Amazing Supergirl 😂 thanks Amazing supergirl, I had disc dye on the left side of brain 😝
Y'all should check out the channel *Horror Stories* thank me later.
No matter how many times I hear stories about people getting trapped in chimneys, it's always upsetting.
Who else had seen every single episode and impatiently waits each day to see if he post new ones?
This story made me realize that I'm claustrophobic
Another story that me realized that I’m claustrophobic, is the story about john jones stuck in a cave. Man these stories are scarier than any horror movie I’ve ever seen.
@@spirit7500 check out the diehold foundation if you really want to know the TRUTH,but hey don't say I didn't warn you,the knowledge is power
@@DudesIn101 Okay I will
@@spirit7500 tell everyone
I think most people would prefer not to die in a tiny whole, idk if I'd consider that being claustrophobic
The foreman locked Kurt in there and persuaded the engineer from finding him, it was murder!
Wow. You might be right!
Literally it's crazy as fuck I've cleaned pistons on a ship myself in the navy and it's impossible to get locked in there on your own accord/close the door by yourself. I personally needed literally another person to help me pull the door open because they're so heavy. Doors that heavy are impossible to "swing" around, even if you launched yourself at it it'd probably move an inch or so but barely at that. That last story was murder and there's no way anyone can change my mind. So so sad. RIP
@@jessicapearson7721 I read through the report listed in MrBallen's sources and it does indeed alude to a lot of 'peculiarities' in the entire event. However, through experimentation they did determine that it was indeed possible to lock yourself into the Scavenger Air Receiver by falling against the hatch from the inside. If the hatch was slammed shut (which could also be caused by booting a ventilation system, operated from the bridge) one of the latches could fall in a locked position. They have redesigned the hatch for this reason.
@@gerbenbrandsma5284 yea yea...... this was bloody murder
@@gerbenbrandsma5284 Sure, but the chances of falling against the hatch is so dismal -- compared to the chances of the Foreman murdering him (he had a clear motive and data showing he was clearly mentally unstable based on the conversations preceeding the murder). The Foreman controlled the narrative and managed to convince everyone that a near impossible situation actually happened -- that's the mark of a true Psychopath.
I’m glad I got to consider Harley a friend and got to know him a bit before he died….good kid, liked the Browns (which was funny cause I like the Steelers)
He didn’t go out alone….his death was known about in the madden mobile community….some of us honored him the best way we could….rip bro.
Jeebus. Can you even imagine how it felt to be steamed to death, knowing that there are people right above your head who can't rescue you? Or how helpless the rescuers felt? That would haunt me for the rest of my days.
The guy in the piston chambre... omg. I just can't even.
Mmm, steamed hams!
Please don't disrespect by blaspheming
@@drinking_master Oh please.
@@lindamorris7572 jealous lol
@@drinking_masterlol
In the third story, Kurt's foreman probably killed him and suggested the story that Kurt hadn't done a good job. It makes sense especially when you consider he was mad about Kurt calling him out for being lazy. He wanted to kill Kurt, but also make him look lazy or irresponsible. I wonder if the authorities even looked into it...
I think that’s a leap.. sure the foreman didn’t like Kurt, but I doubt that he disliked him enough to let him die in the one of the worst ways possible.
@shc420 you say that when there's tons of records of people killing someone or killing an entire family because they didn't get what they wanted or was upset. People kill people simply for saying no to them. People killed simply for being jealous of another is popularity and so on. A lot of killings sometimes doesn't even have malicious intent, they literally just want to do it. The fact that you even had to say that it doesn't usually happen let's you know that it most likely could have happened. Just look up some of the crazy stuff people had died for because of selfish people with no good reason AT ALL. I'd honestly be surprised if there wasn't one already about someone dying because someone thought they were lazy and stuff.
@shc420 dude, wake up. You're just couldn't convincing yourself and me even more that it would happen. You telling me that it's a low chance doesn't mean anything dude... Another person I literally even just explained why that didn't matter before you replied. Also, when you say 1%.. are you telling me you believe 1% means only one single person in the world? 1% of the human race is still a LOT of freaking people because that explanation makes no sense. I was literally just wanting to explain to you how it could happen like a chill normal conversation lmao. You know how many people have died from something low chance or rare?? Mr bellin literally made videos about them. A low chance will never in a million years ever mean it won't happen. Otherwise things like this would have never happened, especially over emotions like most killings happen.... Did you want to be right that bad or what like I don't understand. Do you really just simply not want it to be a possibility?
@shc420 also you literally just said of course there's TONS of records of people doing what I said which would only apparently be 1%..... As you said...So you saying that literally proves that someone killing someone for calling them lazy (even though you're acting like being called lazy was the ONLY thing that could have happened to cause a mental break to kill someone) would happen for a fact 😭😭😭 do you not even understand what you're writing? You said that's 1% probability for the TONS of records of stuff I mentioned but you're saying it basically won't ever happen or at least you don't want to think it could happen because of the low chance even though you said those things are brought up were low chances even though you also said there's a TON of cases of them................
Who knows, maybe Kurt never went back to his room and he had already locked him into the pipe during the inspection.
Me as an European appreciate it a lot, that you also give the metric numbers too!!! Thanks a lot
An European?
@@huguesdepayens807 yeah, suppose to use an when it makes a vowel sound, not a vowel itself. Like an hour. OP is probably a foreigner
@@duckmeat4674 Maybe they pronounce the e in Europe an e only.Like when it makes an "eh" sound?
Someone wrote on another of his video to check cos he plays us like the like button and gives wrong conversions! 😁
@@reneeren293 nope, not correct, it's just a mistake