I did as well!!! His name was Mr. Phelps! The first history class I ever actually cared for and did my homework for! He really made you feel his passion for his chosen teaching field! Thanks, Mr. Ballen, for being such and incredible storyteller!
Yes me too! It’s the only subject I did really well in. It’s all about the delivery... MrBallen is the same, he is so interesting to listen to! I wish I could take an exam !
Us Native Americans were told many stories about going into the forest at night, our grandparents and elders around us always said that there are shadows and creatures that aren't of this world in the forest and to never follow them or hike at night, there is a reason we learned to make teepees in the open fields or an opening in the forest, as kids we never believed them and thought it was just a way to keep us inside but then realizing my uncle took his own life cause he was tired of those "shadows" following him and seeing them myself its all to real. Be careful in the forest if u choose to camp stay in your camp area and dont leave until daylight, biggest thing i learned is to just leave them alone even when they try hard to get your attention. Be safe out there everyone love you all
There’s so many people that don’t believe this kind of stuff when it’s so true too. I have no way of knowing it is but you get a feeling Fr there’s no way we’re the only ones here especially not in the middle of the woods in the dark
Moved to Arkansas a few years ago, and after getting comfortable enough I asked one of the old shopkeepers why the locals had such reverence or fear of the forests. He told me "Long before there were signs on every path and churches on every corner, folk lived prayed and died in these woods, and the woods remember. You look after the forest, the forest will look after you. You abuse the forest, and you'll feed the roots."
Haley's mom was my best friend and college roommate in the late 80's. I remember vividly when Haley was lost ; I was home with my own little baby and couldn't go help search. I wondered when/if you would tell her story. Haley's parents and grandparents are wonderful people who contribute a lot to the community, and Haley herself has grown up to be a bright, talented young lady. Thanks for covering her story.
As an Arkansas native, I can confirm that there's a lot of weird stuff that happens in the Ozarks and national forest. Our power was out one night, so I walked in the dark to check on the neighbors about a half mile down the road in a very rural area. As I walking back I could hear a voice in dense, thick woods repeating "I'm not crazy". Shined my light and no one was around. Later that night my wife woke me up asking why I was touching her feet. I told her I wasn't. We didn't sleep the rest of the night. Seen and heard a lot of odd things back home.
@@DespondentDragon I laughed out loud because me too living in Arkansas, not alone though but definitively rethinking going camping again near the Buffalo River.
I recall hearing a story about a three year old boy who spent days in the woods lost with no warm clothes in below freezing temperatures at night. When he was found, he was physically, unharmed, hydrated, and not even scared. When they took him to the hospital, he told his grandma that a bear took care of him and kept him warm for the three days he was missing, and I completely believe him.
Lol, no he said the bear man, and since sasquatch is not supposed to exist he was told to say bear, there's were news reports about how adamant the kid was that it was a big man hairy like a bear, bear man was his exact words then once the gov. Stepped in it was a bear like always, lol.
One time, I drove my car into a sand pit while trying to get out to a camping site deep in the Anza Borrego desert. I worked on getting it free in every way I could think of. This is a vast desert, and as far as I knew, there was not a person anywhere that I could approach for help. After some time had passed, I basically gave up, sat against the car for shade, and prayed a simple prayer, and somewhat sarcastically: "God, I'm told you have millions of angels that work for you. Could I borrow a few?" I was really just being cynical... But in just a few minutes, two men came toward me from the opposite direction I'd been traveling (from deeper into the desert). They were cheerful and made light of the situation, saying something like, "Got her stuck in the sand huh?" And they just walked straight to the back of the car, pushed it out on to hard road again, wished me a good trip, and they went back in the direction they'd come until I was alone again. So yeah... I believe in angels.
In Brazil, a little indian girl got lost in the Amazon forest for 9 days. She was found in good shape and when people asked how she survived, she said a deer brought fruits for her and protected her. The deer is sacred for Brazilian indians.
@@Lord_ofcinder , OMG! I have an American friend since 15 years ago and I always write indians instead of indigenous in emails!! Thank you for the correction! :0)
I get way too caught up in the story to ever notice the "secret" that's hidden. Gotta love this guy's story telling that keeps you drawn in all the way from start to finish. It's addictive.
I appreciate it the fact that you show real photos of the places in the stories when you can. So many storytelling channels just put in generic photos. It really takes your channel to the next level. Keep it up!
I'm glad I haven't come across any of those channels. I also see a lot of compliments regarding how respectful John is to the victims compared to other channels, though I can't say I've ever seen anyone on UA-cam be anything other than respectful to victims and their loved ones.
@@Ooh_PieceOfCandy John himself is very respectful. Unfortunately a notable chunk of his fans are very bigoted people. They'll say how some of these dead/traumatized victims are stupid and how they "would've never let that slide if they were in their position". I even remember a story where a guy started uncontrollably killing people during a psychotic break, which could've been prevented if at least one of the 5+ people in his life admitted him for psychiatric help. His arm was even ripped to shreds and he couldn't feel it, yet his "fans" said he should receive the death penalty or rot in prison for life.
Ngl the second one actually makes me really happy, I’m not one to automatically just believe things like that but if it really was a ghost, i think it’s so sweet that she helped the other girl so she wouldn’t suffer the same fate
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Does anyone Else get really excited about the stories where the people are found alive ? I keep telling myself one of these days someone is going to tell us exactly whats going on !
Its so much better because you actually get a first hand explanation. Even if its nonsense at first. When they're never found the answer is probably eaten by wild animals..
@@DSperformance96: Yeah, no. When the missing person is not found it's much easier to say they were eaten by wild animals or fell into a crevasse or something because there isn't any evidence to suggest otherwise. While people are sometimes eaten by wild animals, I tend to be skeptical of claims that that is what happened unless there is some evidence to back it up, or reliable independent witnesses.
My grandmother always told me I wasnt allowed to go anywhere with devil in the name not even to the pine barrens in NJ where the Jersey devil legend is 😂 shes a little crazy and superstitious but I'm grateful for her
In 1973 my sister and I were swept out to sea in a riptide. We were so far iut we could barely see the shore. I was 7 and my sister was 10. We were preparing to die. We prayed and prayed to be saved. Suddenly out of nowhere a lady popped up out of the water and smiled. She never spoke,just smiled. She swam us back to shore then DISAPPEARED IN FRONT OF OUR EYES. We never told anyone cause our parents would have whipped us. No idea why they would let us catch a bus to the beach alone. We actually saw our guardian angel ❤
I was once pushed into the deep end of a pool about 4 years old, I couldn't swim and could just feel myself drowning, I saw something that looked like a person made out of light help push me up and they smiled at me, that was when I got pulled out and coughed up the water
The lady you saw was Yemaye (sometimes called Yemaya). She the goddess on the ocean and know as an Orisha. You can look her up, very well know. I greet her every time before I get into the ocean and I an always protected.
With the kid that disappeared in the woods... don't know if it's because i grew up in NYC, but you NEVER allow a child to walk behind you. Folks still do it all the time, but NOPE!... at a certain age, you're holding my hand while we're in the street, or ahead of me so i can always keep an eye on you.
Well, when you are hiking in the woods with group, most experienced go first and last, and if there is only one grown man, he goes first, cause its harder to go first, when u are in woods.
@@rocketmanfossel1174 They did, two not so elderly grandparents. But yeah, they should have had her in the middle between them. Its usually the weak or little that get picked off by apex predators and usually its the last one. Since this is arkansas, there are several... wolves, coyotes, bears and Mountain Lions.
The last story honestly sounds like extreme mental stress and sleep deprivation. I've been seeing these shadowy creatures too, after being awake a couple days. And that was at about 10pm on the sidewalk, not even a forest. Always feeling that someones watching, just hallucinating and paranoid. In a situation that is already scary, where you're super exhausted on top, plus dehydration and whatnot... you're almost guaranteed to see things, especially alone in the forest for days.
Hypothermia can cause confusion etc. I didn’t know this before I looked it up but it really doesn’t even need to be that cold and anyone regardless of age and fitness level can develop hypothermia.
That Linda story is creepy. Just imagine seeing a group of things staring at you. When you get closer and they just hide. Quickly. Idk what but imaging that creeped the hell out of me.
I’m Malaysian and in our country we have a folklore about these creatures in the forest called “Orang Bunian” where their features appears to look exactly like human and some are very beautiful, there are many stories about how they hid people in the woods and some even marrying with them and never to be found again.
@@butlincat1507 some people are blind and can’t read, can you also consider that some people can’t read, and sometimes people likes hearing other people’s voice. Why are you here telling people to do stuff when you’re watching the same thing as them?
Is it just me, or is that photo of Katherine the most creepiest picture of a real person you've ever seen? 8 year old body, 20 year old face, and the way her head is tilted......holy shiiiiii........yeeeeeee. The hair on my neck just stood up.
I grew up in Great Falls MT, a small city of 60,000 people and lived there until I was about 17 when our fam moved up into NW Montanas Flathead valley named for the huge flathead lake(not far from glacier nat. park) which is surrounded by thick woods for hundreds of miles. Ive been camping a bunch of times before we moved here but very few times in such dense and expansive forests. Ive been lost in the woods out here a couple times and i can tell you, panic is ALWAYS at the back of your throat no matter how much you tell yourself to stay calm. Especially once the sun goes down and even more so when youre alone. Your rational thinking just goes straight out the window and is replaced with nothing but blind fear that just builds and builds, i can def see people just cracking up under that much stress. That little voice in the back of your head that keeps repeating, "youre going to die out here"
Her father wasn’t exactly George Clooney neither lmao. I mean don’t hate the lil girl look at what she had to work with. Genetics were not in her favor.
Hey, Devil’s Den! When I was 7, my family and I were on a trail there. I had to poop and couldn’t hold it so I skulked into the woods and pinched a loaf. Having no toilet paper, I scrounged around and found some green leaves to wipe with. Turns out, it was poison ivy. That was a miserable couple of weeks...
as someone who discovered this channel yesterday and began a massive binge of all of his videos, i really appreciate how mr. ballen adds conversions of feet and miles into metres and kilometres because i’m australian and i’m not familiar with feet and miles so it really helps to put things into perspective:)
Linda: "Hey, you guys! I'm lost and need help!" Shadowy Forest People: "Holy shit! What the hell is that thing?! It's coming right for us! Quick, hide!" Linda: "What are you doing? I told you, I need help! I think my brother's hurt!" Shadowy Forest People: "Why is it screaming at us? Oh God, I'm so scared!"
The story of Linda and Eddie that I heard was not nearly as "eloquent" as John's version. The story I heard was a lot more sketchy, ridiculous, and comical, like Harold and Kumar on meth. 😆
@@Ooh_PieceOfCandyyeah, well I think that depends on who tells the story, and the level of respect the people telling them have for these stories. In my opinion
@@Ooh_PieceOfCandy A few of the channels that cover Eddie and Linda's story have played the interview of Eddie. It's pretty clear Eddie was not a reliable witness but it didn't help the interviewer seemed biased that he'd done something to his sister from the start. Idk their reason for being in the woods but the police didn't have concrete evidence to believe Eddie had done anything to his sister.
It sure does seem like that. Its so hard for me to wrap my head around some of these cases. Like a child found a week later, not scared, she looks like someone or something has taken care of her, fed her...like what the hell? And there are so many cases like this. Strange....
@@TheHattaru if you're asking about the fae, it's a blanket term for nature spirits of pre christian european folklore. A very wide category encompassing benevolent, malevolent, and neutral entities. Many missing 411 cases have hallmarks similar to the folklore of fae kidnappings
Facts yo, that pic of her and her dad is the creepiest shit I’ve seen on this channel. Kid looks like a returning meth addict that had a brake just to smoke some crack
Based on how many people get found "way outside of the search area", might I suggest expanding whatever the standard size of an initial search area is?
@@mdragarg true......maybe they just arent reallt looking that well....I mean look at the shit with finding Brian L. at the entrance of that park. lol. Is THAT what they mean when they say it was "out of their search area"....Basically they just didnt find them.
the 3rd story is that type of story that gives me chills... people staring and then running away when discovered... hidding when u approach... group up when u are sleep or not moving... that gives me the creeps! silhouette figures looking at you and not moving... bbbrrrrr
The story of Linda and Eddie that I heard was not nearly as "eloquent". The story I heard was a lot more sketchy, ridiculous, and comical, like Harold and Kumar on meth. 😆
Hadn't heard that p[articular story before, but once the "imaginary friend" showed up, I knew exactly where it was going... and yet the revelation of the "Alana" story still made the hair on my arms stand up like a startled porcupine....
As soon as he described the imaginary friend was a little girl I figured out that it must be a girl who'd died in the forest. So sad what happened to Alana but at least she was able to help another little girl get back to her family.
Why do I feel like the first girl got abducted and drugged so she wouldn’t remember what happened because 6 days of lost memory is very strange and she survived by herself it’s very suspicious in literally every way
When I was in about 4th or 5th grade, I came across a beat-up paperback copy of Frank Edward's book "Stranger Than Science". There were several stories in this book about people that vanished in the blink of an eye. Between those stories and the ones about people who spontaneously combusted and people who just suddenly defied gravity and just floated up into the air I was totally freaked out but totally hooked on the "Strange and Mysterious". Thank you Mr. Ballen for helping me to continue my journey through weirdness. 😵💫
Linda and Eddie were dehydrated and stressed, that resulted in hallucinations. I went through something similar several years ago. My wife has a voice mail from me that I don't even remember sending her. She said it doesn't even sound like me. I refused to even listen to it. I have vivid memories of having conversations with specific people that I never spoke to. I saw things that were absolutely nuts!
her description of the figures (shadowy/not having clear faces/repeatedly disappearing or becoming obscured from view) is very typical of hallucinations, they were 100% tripping on something
Sleep deprivation will make you see things. I once took and Army course where they took away your food and gave you missions that ensured you could not possibly complete them without skipping sleep. It was a powerful, life-changing course. But hallucinations became common as we starved and were pushed beyond our endurance in a totally sleep=deprived state. It could have happened to them. Of it could have been meth. Rural AR is full of it and people aren't going to admit they went to the woods to smoke meth if they disappear and then have to give an account for their whereabouts.
My grandma is Katherine VanAlst, my daughter found your video and we just listened to it. Her father was not with her and her brothers when they went swimming. She did almost drown and after the lady pulled her out a man shook her to help get the water out. After that she decided to go back to the cabin and from there she got lost. She remembers seeing animals while she walked and then she stopped in what she calls a bluff until Mr Whitely and his crew found her. They called her name and she said she was on top of a hill when they saw her. They made a stretcher out of their shirts and carried her out and then she was taken to the hospital. Feel free respond back if you have any questions, she is still alive and doing well.
I just have to thank you for telling the 'Missing 411' stories and talking about David Paulide. He works tirelessly and gets so little credit nor does he get the respect he deserves. Thank you for not just stealing his stories as so so many youtubers have actually done. And the more people that know and hear of his research, the better!
There is a mythical creature here in the Philippines that is said to stalk people alone in the woods and confuse their sense of direction so that they will get lost even more. The elderlies said you just have to wear your shirt inside out or in reverse or go shirtless. For some reason this works. This will make the creature so amused that it will smile so wide it will cover its eyes and you can escape the creature's spell or something and you will eventually go to the right direction and stop being lost.
@@markraymondgratil164 from where i come from, our story goes that the reason as to why you should wear your shirt inside out is because as you are undressing, the creature gets aroused and his sight becomes blocked by a massive er*ction and this breaks their spell/curse since they can't see you
When I was 10 years old I was crossing a slimy rock branch of a river in Sedona, AZ. It is not possible to get footing on wet mossy rocks. Didn't know that. I started sliding toward a waterfall. The waterfall was not a graceful flow of water, but a nest of downed trees and branches protruding outward. Even at that young age, feeling immortal and beyond any reach of harm, I knew my life was in danger in that moment. I frequently played by and in the river during that summer. No one was ever around. It was near a retirement community of mostly elderly who stayed inside. I'm on all four at this point, hands sliding, feet sliding, ready to go over the edge sideways. A strong hand reaches in and effortlessly pulls me from the water. I felt such relief and thought, "That was my grandpa who just saved me." He was a fire fighter and this is what he does. I stood on the sandy shore, looked up, nobody was there. I didn't think anything of it at the time. Just an ignorant boy. Years later I realize this world has protective forces that do not require our belief to exist. Mr Ballen's stories remind me that some people have very powerful protective forces while others do not. This does not require our understanding to be real.
What a beautiful memory! You're blessed to have been looked after like that, and blessed to be able to still recall everything that happened so vividly! I love it!
I have a similar story. When I was a young mother, back in 1996, I took my children on a picnic in Pacific Grove, CA where we were living at the time. We climbed down the rocky cliff to the little beach below (about 15-20 feet down). It was an easy climb down and back up. My little boys were ahead of me as I held their baby sister on my hip and carried our tote bag. The boys got back up to the top before me, and just as I was nearing the top myself, my foot slipped out of my flip flop and I fell backwards. It all happened so fast that I don't think anyone noticed. But as I fell backwards, I fell past the point where you can catch yourself and stand up, and I immediately knew my daughter and I were going to die. Suddenly I felt a really heavy pressure or force on my back push me and we landed up on top of the cliff. I didn't walk. I didn't do anything, but there I was, standing on top of the cliff on my feet. My first thought was, I didn't do that. It's really hard to describe the feeling of pressure against my back. I couldn't feel anything touch me. I could only feel an incredible force of pressure pushing me. I have no idea why, and I'll never know. Why were we spared in that moment when so many others die? I've stopped trying to understand why. I'm just thankful to be alive.
@@littlehomeinthevalley Protective Forces. Thank you for sharing. It seems sometimes we dismiss things that have no explanation or otherwise have a tendency to think "Not sure if that really just happened." It is not explainable.
@@fightswithspirits915 Yes, sometimes, but definitely not then. Others have tried giving me scientific explanations, and none work for me. The action was very purposeful. My daughter and I were delivered to the top of the cliff. And while I definitely acknowledge our lives were spared that day, I cannot to this day answer "why". I guess I won't know until I meet God.
From my own experience, I can tell that there are actually a lot of strange noices that can be heard in a forrest, especially when you're alone at night.
I agree. It sounds like the woods come alive at night. And to a degree it does, because lots of species prefer foraging or hunting under the cover of darkness. Also, people hallucinate when they are dehydrated and over tired.
@@PCLHH People's minds can definitely mess with them, especially in the dark if they're struggling to see the brain can do weird things. But yeah most animals use the cover of darkness to do their thing forests definitely come alive at night.
I have never heard a strange noise at night backcountry camping in the northeast USA. I did, however, once see a strange light - it looked like the space station (if you have not seen it, it looks like a planet, like a large white star that does not twinkle, but is moving across the sky quickly as it orbits earth) - the only difference was this changed direction more than once and then sped away.
Olesya means "girl from the forest" in Russian, in this case the name really fits. I hope her spirit is happy, she must have had some fun finally having another little girl around. So glad she kept her safe.
I mean if you keep adding 2 miles over and over you’ll end up covering the whole earth and this means we gotta find everyone missing this plan is full proof boys let’s go
I've found myself holding my breath at times while watching these stories... the build up in suspense is amazing. Reality truly is stranger than fiction.
Yes it is because we know the craziest fiction is still fiction, but with reality when you hear these insane stories it really opens up so many possibilities of what is out in our world or other worlds and dimensions maybe. Its crazy at this point in time but there are still many unexplored or barely explored areas of our earth. And not all of it is good.
The story of Linda and Eddie that I heard was not nearly as "eloquent". The story I heard was a lot more sketchy, ridiculous, and comical, like Harold and Kumar on meth. 😆
@@ralcogaming7674 oh yes bc this 8 year old just had a cup to hold her pee to drink. And the ability to catch BATS and eat them. You figured it out ralco
What’s really scary is in A LOT of these missing 411 cases when lost out in the woods for days or weeks many people have claimed to see these “people” that hide behind trees and peak their head out to look and just stare at you. There’s no way that can just be imagination if SO many missing people have experienced this same exact thing. So unsettling!
There’s a video of some Native American young man throat singing in the forest and you can see those things peaking behind trees looking at him. The young man said he didn’t notice them at the time but when he rewatched his video he saw them, he said he knew what they were but wouldn’t name them. Spooky
That's becuase the Great Old Ones don't want us to understand... yet. Not yet. Oh great father Cthulhu, we wait for your glorious return. Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.
So, my sister's name is Katherine and we spent a lot of time at Devil's Den growing up. When I first started watching this video, I got distracted at the beginning and missed the location, but caught the rest of the story. So when the picture of the dam came up, I was like, "Huh, that's kinda familiar." And then you said Devil's Den again and I got full chills.
that part with people/animals hiding behind trees and poking their head out is like a constant dynamic in these stories, all in a diffrent locations, told by children and adults.
They shoukd have chastized her and made her keep up. This allowing her to be a brat, in the woods, was very foolish and short sighted since she needs to learn now and not in her 30s that people dont care for brats.
I’d say never leave them somewhere unsafe. I agree with Hadrian to a certain extent, but never leave them out of eyesight. Or do what I did. Be a brat? Fine. We’re leaving, we’ll drop you off with somebody, and continue. Or fine, your staying at the house, campsite, whatever, with an adult. Miss out. Then do something super fun or at least act like it. Hailey WAS being a brat. Hiding? She was a very lucky girl. Anytime a kid goes missing for a while and reappears, it makes my hair raise. That actually happened to a friend of mine. Her little girl, maybe 3? 4? Was playing in the front yard with a friend. A perfectly normal, safe neighborhood. Both go missing. Can you imagine? They found them both about a mile away on a busy intersection three hours later. I always wonder what happened. They seemed fine. But…🤷♀️ All I can hope is there truly IS real guardian angels sometimes.
In American folklore, those things that were hiding behind the trees and poking their heads out are called "hide-behinds." I don't think you're supposed to go near them. They can trick you into venturing deeper into the woods so that you're never found 😬
That’s very interesting thanks. After hearing a lot of these stories, especially the ones with kids, a significant number of them describe cows/animals/people/creatures that are peeping behind trees at them. One boy said they looked like cows and he was afraid of them but they didn’t hurt him
As a Native American I would go beat the hell out of the other folklore, if it was me. Like honestly if I’m going to die it’s going to be legend and I’m bring those creepy things with me. Then I’ll come back in spirit form to continue to beat the hell out of them.
It's interesting. Because in south-americas, specifically in the Amazon you have similar stories. However, the indigenous people call them forest spirits, forest guardians, or simply the jungle (some tribes see it as one single living thing). Those tend to trick you too to venture deep in the forest. I personally heard the weirdest stories from them. I work with indigenous communities. From children to entire families getting lost because of the enchantments of the forest spirits (some do come back after months) to mermaids in the Amazon river that trick men into drowning, and much much more. It's crazy that is an international thing too
In some of his stories he mentions how the people who get lost don’t remember anything afterwards. I feel like that is happening to me while watching his videos. At one moment I discover his channel, the next moment I’m already 20 videos in. This is some spooky stuff 😶
I’m sure if we tracked down the names we could find their social media and possibly some recounts of events via them and how it has impacted their lives. But it would be cool if he did an episode of a then and now of some of these people.
Never thought that in these vids until I saw the first pick of Catheron. Maybe it's natural how skinny she is, maybe a disease or something. But I dunno, thaat guy looks kinda sus
My body has a violent reaction anytime I listen to these stories and the creatures that peer out from behind trees are mentioned. Gooseflesh and chills and literal tears come to my eyes and my throat tightens up. I don't know why it affects me so badly, because I love these types of stories and that's the only thing that makes me feel that way.
Please🙏 know how much I enjoy your site! I have been in a hospital bed for 20 years. I lost my husband coming up on 2 years in 2 weeks! We were together since I was 14, and I am now64. We both believe in these unexplainable events as we know there is another dimension that is present. I found your channel and fell in love with your voice, your delivery, and your obvious natural storytelling ability. Plus most importantly I wanted to thank you so much for your service to our country! Please🙏 keep on as you give joy and entertainment for so many. Selfishly I am one and really look forward daily! Again thank you!! GOD BLESS YOU AND YOURS!
My belief tells me, and I base this on first hand experience and the Biblical teachings (not man made doctrine) that there is not only another dimension in our earthly experience, but that is the fight humanity has to be concerned with. It tells us our fight is "not with early things but with the principalities that are in this other realm. My belief, if your belief is different I respect you and would go to the wall for you to have it AND HAVE THE RIGHT TO STATE IT!!!
Ok, if you're ever walking in the remote wilderness (not recommended) and a small girl comes walking out of a cave and casually says: "here i am" ...run the f away.
Yeah, thats all my nopes. I grew up in the woods here in the south and... i dont go in the woods anymore by myself. I used to, but then i started seeing weird shit. Big hyena looking dog things, lights, otherworldly noises... just nope. The south has a lot of really weird stuff that nobody talks about. Plenty of people go in the woods for hunting, plenty of people have really fucked up stories to tell... but they dont make big deals out of them... for whatever reason. Mostly because "crazy southern people", most likely anyway. Theres a lot of UFO activity down here, theres a lot of possible cryptid activity down here... paranormal. Had a friend that went on to be a youth group director a few years later talk about taking his fiance to her parents house out in the backwoods. They went down this dirt road, the wrong one... and for whatever reason they stopped the car. She got out and walked down the road a little ways stopped for a few min just standing there and so he went and walked up to her. He said they both stood there for a moment and then he saw the trees and everything covered in blood and that there was an ear piercing noise. He said he grabbed her hand and jerked her running back to the car. They both got in and left in a hurry and that was that. For someone that was super christian, thats a really strange story to tell. Theres surely more to it that i have forgotten, its been nearly 20 years. But yeah, the southern woods are a huge nope. Do not go in them by yourself, or at least unarmed. If you are hunting with a rifle or shotgun, have a sidearm and two forms of communication as well. The woods are deep and the nights are long.
@gabriel gervais well even strangest or/and most All Odds Against happens so many times a day it's not super natural but an oddity that creates the hard to explain. It's not uncommon for anyone with adrenalin pumping to travel incredible distances and with lack of memories trauma tends to coincide with adrenaline.
Without this some of these stories would lose meaning, I have a rough idea how much kilometers a Mile represents but when they use feet or yards I'm completely at a loss, I hear you say "7 foot 3 and runs 75 feet in 3 seconds" and I have no idea what that means. lol
These kids sleeping in caves and wandering at night are 1000 times more brave than I am. I am terrified of the dark and I know the minute I was alone and it started to get dark I’d just cry, I wouldn’t be in survival mode😭
Yeah but there is some sort of disconnect with them, they either don’t remember anything or they remember parts of what happened to them that don’t really make sense. Their minds are wiped sort of.
I wonder if she crawled or fell into some type of small opening and ended up in another area. Because if she only had a bathing suit on and no shoes wouldn’t her feet have blisters. But then I guess Rescue party would have found the hole
Most of the stories seem like the missing are protected by something (Bigfoot) in the woods, but these sound more like alien funny business especially that last one. Super creepy!!
@@DogofSinope Lmao why tf are “faeries” so popular these last few weeks? all of a sudden i started seeing them mentioned in nearly every youtube comment lol
truly horrifying. if that happened to me, and im not joking, my life would be ruined forever. lmfao like there’s a 0% chance my brain could ever bounce back after seeing things like that, even if they weren’t real. I would be damaged until death lollllw
Just a side note: Beaver Lake is also another freaky place in arkansas. I went to family outings there frequently as a kid and the lake always gave my the heebie jeebies and cried when my now step dad dive down where the drop off was because I had a bad feeling (he was fine). That place has such an eerie feeling to it, close to 100 people have drowned there too and not all the bodies have been found
@@lauraarodriguez224 masks have mouths? Obviously, look at the girls left side of her face, you can see the actual colour of her skin, behind the mask, on the girls left side of face its a tiny bit of cheek showing
@@VeNoMziV Yo what are you talking about thats her face. And its black and white so no I don't see a different color. Looks like a shadow from he huge cheek bones to me
Thank you for giving credit to David Paulides and his missing 411 canam project. So many UA-cam channels just act like they did the research. I very much appreciate your integrity.
You know, thats a possibility. Theres a LOT of weird shit that goes on down here in these southern woods. I grew up in them, i wont go back by myself and without protections. Things i cant explain, weird ritual stuff too. Then you look at what the Imperial College of London is studying "long term DMT exposure"... where they are trying to figure out why people that go past the veil see approximately the same thing that involve creatures and say that the other world is more familiar to them than this one. Its fucking weird and their research is just getting started. They started studying this because... well... when lots and lots of people say approx. the same thing with no contact with each other, it makes one believe that it could be real... If you trip DMT and go into some place like "the upside down" from that one show, then its highly possible that all this weird paranormal stuff is just people with a flicker of DMT production for whatever reason shifting them to where they can see the "other world" and getting lost or confused and then ending up somewhere else and having literally no idea how they got there.
That's what i was about to write! Maybe the "shadowy people" are the portal keepers? And going into the portal, it transports you what seems like instantly, but real time, hours and days pass for you to transport there and back. Or an exit to the matrix, if you believe in that. And those shadow people are "designers" or "technicians" of the matrix, reinserting the people who accidentally exited. Or magic mushrooms?🤷😅
@@Kiba69420 exactly how does one in North America accidentally get exposed to DMT? A psychedelic drug from the combination of Banisteriopsis caapi and Psychotria viridis, two plants native to South America. I’m curious.
@@jjlnguess7354 Simple google searches would answer your question, honestly... Big research groups are trying to figure out where it comes from in the human body, but theres thought that it is formed on certain synapses, likely in the pineal gland.. Or something like that. I just woke up and im not entirely sure because science is still trying to understand DMT. But uh, our body produces it and its in most things organic. Trees, plants, animals...
It's likely someone just grabbed them and then left them once they realized the searches weren't stopping and it was too much trouble. The reason people get lost in forests is because most have an awful sense of direction. and the terrain in forests looks very similar all around.
OMG, the last story is SO TERRIFYING!! & I LOVE it so much, i return again &again just to hear the part about the "people" Linda saw...(chills)..Love it!!!
Right. Truly has been something I've made part of every day in 2020 and it has never failed to suck me in and take me away from everything, just for a little while. The stories have given my son and I something to talk about beside what we can't go do because it's closed. 😡
You know how rare it is to have almost as many views as subs, when you have millions of subs, or even when not. It's a testament to just how great Mr. Ballen is as a narrator. I'm relatively new and hooked!
Exactly! I just noticed this when i found him, like his subs do not play! and neither do i. lol hes great a story telling i been listening him for about 5 days straight
As bizarre as it might seem, I'm starting to wonder if there are wormhole like portals in deep, large forests. I mean, if they can happen in outer space, why not on earth too?
@@Hawaiiansky11 nah just very well hidden cave systems they conceal with rocks and other things people wouldn't normally be able to move/even think would be moveable.
After listening to this man for 5 days straight now, I feel like forests and deep water caves are multiple universe portals.....no other explanation for me, this is wild 😳😳😳
Aliens. Most of the 411/people disappear in the woods and wildlife preserves are Alien abductions. Sometimes people unknowingly step onto space ships disguised as caves, cabins, etc. They use them as their "hunting grounds/experiments" ETI made a deal with the us gov many years ago where they agreed to 10 percent of the population in exchange for crap tech. Like done to the Indians of America's, we were suckered.
well,with a little common sense about the paranormal,there are other dimensions in which the unexplained happen and people could somehow stumble into wierd thinks they can't really explain.
I'm from Arkansas, close to Devil's Den. The history around that place is insane! Supposedly, one of the caves there leads to hell, and the devil comes out of that cave, hence the name. Oh, and there's two really weird towns I know of, one's called Uniontown and the other is called Rudy. IF, and it's a big if, you can find anything online, both towns have a crazy history and even crazier myths and legends!
I've gotten pretty attached to a couple UA-cam channels during this past Spring, Summer, Fall, and still now. Mr. Ballen is my favorite. I was already reading the Paulides books and catching his interviews, and now look forward to his Sunday morning uploads. This stuff is scary, but fascinating. Something is going on, and it's scary af.
I found this channel yrs ago. I hadn’t seen videos in such a long time. I’m binge watching everything 😩😩😩 I’m obsessed with these stories. I’ve been watching them all since yesterday
Theres quite a few stories of “abductions” in the woods involving children, and they are then found a few days later perfectly fine. If bigfoot is a humanoid type thing, it would make sense they can tell age based on actions and size. Our pets know that children are children, so why would something that’s seemingly closely related to humans not recognize that either?
@@Quarkbait You can't prove a negative, James Randi was big on that. You can't prove that something doesn't exist. The burden of proof rests on the one making the claims.
Imagine all the cases of people who disappeared in strange circumstances in other countries, that could be linked to the 411 phenomenon, but no one really talk or investigate about them.
@Robert Anderson yea like most of these cases that can’t be explained aren’t just given a “natural cause” document. You sound like a sheep who’s clearly too ignorant to try to be open minded and really think about what more there really could be out there.
@Robert Anderson this could be just that, it can't be proven but it also cannot be disproven till we collect further evidence. That's what the guy doing the 411 case is trying to figure out. It could be alien abductions for all we know that's why a person will go missing in one spot and be found a far away. Also alot of these cases have a thing with missing shoes. Or gear being found but Cleary the gear was placed there.
There’s a very good book written by Terry Lovelace an attorney and former Air Force vet who states he along with his friend another Air Force member were abducted by aliens there and put through Hell by Air Force Security investigators. “Incident at Devil’s Den”
I live in Arkansas and have visited Devil's Den many times. It's a beautiful park with lots of CCC work that was done in the 30's. There is a trail that goes to an old still where a cave has been walled up. I've also hiked to Hawksbill Crag, and you can walk down to that little waterfall without going down that tree. I've done it.
I know that here in the UK anywhere rural that has a big cave or natural pothole, might look a little spooky or or even has some old fantastical legend attached is called the Devil's this or that. I doubt it's that different in the US.
Maybe when you're truly alone in the wild somethings clicks and you just become something different...look at all the cases where people are just found naked with no explanation alive or dead.
As a former meth user, I've heard lots of stories about, and had one personal experience, involving "tree people" and "shadow people". So it could be a combination of dehydration and sleep deprivation that played into what the woman in the last story experienced. It might also very well be that some aspect of the spiritual realm is being witnessed, hence the commonality of experience. The intuitional takeaway of my personal experience was that the "tree people" were angels in the Heavenly realm and the "shadow people" were demons on earth or somewhere else. An interesting common detail between multiple people's experiences is that "shadow people" wear hats and dart away when you try to look at them. Strange. Side note: By the Grace and Intervention of God, I've been totally sober for over eight years now.
The secret is at 15:19 and the like button covering your shirt label
Well done Brian! Only person I've seen get it so far!
I was about to type it maaan
Dang it
That one looked hard
Fuccccck! You have good eyes. I was searching forever !
I had a history teacher who told stories the way MrBallen does, and I aced that class. Great storytelling.
love it!
@@MrBallen hello!! Happy new year!
I did as well!!! His name was Mr. Phelps! The first history class I ever actually cared for and did my homework for!
He really made you feel his passion for his chosen teaching field!
Thanks, Mr. Ballen, for being such and incredible storyteller!
Yes me too! It’s the only subject I did really well in. It’s all about the delivery... MrBallen is the same, he is so interesting to listen to! I wish I could take an exam !
Me too!
Us Native Americans were told many stories about going into the forest at night, our grandparents and elders around us always said that there are shadows and creatures that aren't of this world in the forest and to never follow them or hike at night, there is a reason we learned to make teepees in the open fields or an opening in the forest, as kids we never believed them and thought it was just a way to keep us inside but then realizing my uncle took his own life cause he was tired of those "shadows" following him and seeing them myself its all to real. Be careful in the forest if u choose to camp stay in your camp area and dont leave until daylight, biggest thing i learned is to just leave them alone even when they try hard to get your attention. Be safe out there everyone love you all
So it wasn't just my thoughts 🤡
I can verify this! I’m Native American and have heard stories all my life. All our stories have truth to them
There’s so many people that don’t believe this kind of stuff when it’s so true too. I have no way of knowing it is but you get a feeling Fr there’s no way we’re the only ones here especially not in the middle of the woods in the dark
All I can say is, the real scary stuff on the forest are wild animals and bad people lurking around looking for victims.
Kinda sounds like an r/ story about schizophrenia or hallucinations.
Moved to Arkansas a few years ago, and after getting comfortable enough I asked one of the old shopkeepers why the locals had such reverence or fear of the forests. He told me "Long before there were signs on every path and churches on every corner, folk lived prayed and died in these woods, and the woods remember. You look after the forest, the forest will look after you. You abuse the forest, and you'll feed the roots."
Wow. That’s wild & in a weird way eloquently put.
yea thats about how it go's
Sounds like the beginning of a good short story
Yaaaa a lot histaryyyyyy in that there forrestttt.........
That legit gave me shivers
Haley's mom was my best friend and college roommate in the late 80's. I remember vividly when Haley was lost ; I was home with my own little baby and couldn't go help search. I wondered when/if you would tell her story. Haley's parents and grandparents are wonderful people who contribute a lot to the community, and Haley herself has grown up to be a bright, talented young lady. Thanks for covering her story.
Quiet child voice in the middle of the woods: "Here I am"
Me as a searcher: nope nope nope. Not today, Satan. I've seen that horror movie before
lol
If you ignore that you would not find anything at all
Why did this make me bust out laughing?! 🤣 Not Today Satan! Lmao! I would do the exact same thing
Worst part was how she looked like a 70 year old lady in a toddlers body
I agree I would say nope bye
As an Arkansas native, I can confirm that there's a lot of weird stuff that happens in the Ozarks and national forest. Our power was out one night, so I walked in the dark to check on the neighbors about a half mile down the road in a very rural area. As I walking back I could hear a voice in dense, thick woods repeating "I'm not crazy". Shined my light and no one was around. Later that night my wife woke me up asking why I was touching her feet. I told her I wasn't. We didn't sleep the rest of the night. Seen and heard a lot of odd things back home.
That's concerning, maybe there's someone living in your closet that likes feet.
Creepy story, Samuel- thanks!
Me, living in arkansas and currently home alone: 👁👄👁
I know this sounds unhealthy...but this story makes me want to move to rural Arkansas!
@@DespondentDragon I laughed out loud because me too living in Arkansas, not alone though but definitively rethinking going camping again near the Buffalo River.
"Here I am" creepy things kids say after being lost in the woods for almost a week
And she was so calm about it too.......
That "real" (it just seems so weird wetjer it is real, which I guess it is, or not) photo at 5:05 did not help.
@Steve Colour I agree!! That photo is one of the creepiest things I've seen!!
That no wonder the 8 year old didn’t die! She was a demon!!! Lol jkjk
are kids really scary……
I recall hearing a story about a three year old boy who spent days in the woods lost with no warm clothes in below freezing temperatures at night. When he was found, he was physically, unharmed, hydrated, and not even scared. When they took him to the hospital, he told his grandma that a bear took care of him and kept him warm for the three days he was missing, and I completely believe him.
I do too
Lol, no he said the bear man, and since sasquatch is not supposed to exist he was told to say bear, there's were news reports about how adamant the kid was that it was a big man hairy like a bear, bear man was his exact words then once the gov. Stepped in it was a bear like always, lol.
@@bullterriermolly5874 proof he was told to say bear
I think he’s a naughty little liar
Yeah man you literally heard that on this channel
One time, I drove my car into a sand pit while trying to get out to a camping site deep in the Anza Borrego desert. I worked on getting it free in every way I could think of. This is a vast desert, and as far as I knew, there was not a person anywhere that I could approach for help. After some time had passed, I basically gave up, sat against the car for shade, and prayed a simple prayer, and somewhat sarcastically: "God, I'm told you have millions of angels that work for you. Could I borrow a few?" I was really just being cynical... But in just a few minutes, two men came toward me from the opposite direction I'd been traveling (from deeper into the desert). They were cheerful and made light of the situation, saying something like, "Got her stuck in the sand huh?" And they just walked straight to the back of the car, pushed it out on to hard road again, wished me a good trip, and they went back in the direction they'd come until I was alone again. So yeah... I believe in angels.
That is wild and amazing! So cool!!
Wow!
😇
That's awesome!
nice story but im sorry how can you rule that out as not a coincidence?
In Brazil, a little indian girl got lost in the Amazon forest for 9 days. She was found in good shape and when people asked how she survived, she said a deer brought fruits for her and protected her.
The deer is sacred for Brazilian indians.
Who knows, maybe a deer was being motherly because she had just lost her babies and found a missing little girl and started feeding her.
There are indians in brazil ? wait what sort of indians ? Naan bread folks or the feather wearing ones ?
@@Lord_ofcinder , yes, there are about 700,000 indians in Brazil, most of them living near the forests.
@@focamoura Ohh u mean indigenous folks. I thought those asian indians
@@Lord_ofcinder , OMG! I have an American friend since 15 years ago and I always write indians instead of indigenous in emails!! Thank you for the correction! :0)
I get way too caught up in the story to ever notice the "secret" that's hidden. Gotta love this guy's story telling that keeps you drawn in all the way from start to finish. It's addictive.
What Kind Of Name Is Nunyah?
@@PsychoAmazing-or7ke Nunyah Business!! 🤣😂
@@mirikaye5606 Cmon', I Wanted OP To Do It First!!!
You Ruined The Joke!
@@PsychoAmazing-or7ke My bad! It was irresistible!!🤣😂
I appreciate it the fact that you show real photos of the places in the stories when you can. So many storytelling channels just put in generic photos. It really takes your channel to the next level. Keep it up!
I agree.
I'm glad I haven't come across any of those channels. I also see a lot of compliments regarding how respectful John is to the victims compared to other channels, though I can't say I've ever seen anyone on UA-cam be anything other than respectful to victims and their loved ones.
@@Ooh_PieceOfCandy John himself is very respectful. Unfortunately a notable chunk of his fans are very bigoted people. They'll say how some of these dead/traumatized victims are stupid and how they "would've never let that slide if they were in their position". I even remember a story where a guy started uncontrollably killing people during a psychotic break, which could've been prevented if at least one of the 5+ people in his life admitted him for psychiatric help. His arm was even ripped to shreds and he couldn't feel it, yet his "fans" said he should receive the death penalty or rot in prison for life.
@@frankieloinandgroin the law in Florida literally prevented them from doing so, and after that it was changed
@@candy___cane wrong person. I’m talking public opinion not law.
Ngl the second one actually makes me really happy, I’m not one to automatically just believe things like that but if it really was a ghost, i think it’s so sweet that she helped the other girl so she wouldn’t suffer the same fate
that is true. I thought of a ghost right away as he was telling the story
Nice pfp
Thanks for supporting my music career 🎶 I'm so greatful and I hope you never stop being a fans,I would like to honour you by giving you my other private email address if that's ok by you🥰
@@justinmoore7458 sure daddy😻😉💋 NUSNUSJUSHSHUSHDUSJDSD
Missing 411 = *portals*
Does anyone Else get really excited about the stories where the people are found alive ? I keep telling myself one of these days someone is going to tell us exactly whats going on !
Its so much better because you actually get a first hand explanation. Even if its nonsense at first. When they're never found the answer is probably eaten by wild animals..
Exactly!
@@DSperformance96: Yeah, no. When the missing person is not found it's much easier to say they were eaten by wild animals or fell into a crevasse or something because there isn't any evidence to suggest otherwise.
While people are sometimes eaten by wild animals, I tend to be skeptical of claims that that is what happened unless there is some evidence to back it up, or reliable independent witnesses.
Maybe there not supposed too....@LaShawn Newman
yeah i get so hyped when something new is out! i get less excited when other youtubers take his stories/cases and uses them almost word for word.
General word of advice. Never go to ANY park named “Devils Den.”
Its actually a gorgeous area I live 20 minutes away from the swimming area
Do people know why it's called that? Seems an odd name for a beautiful area; there must be a reason. Any local legends?
Been there many times, live in Batesville Arkansas so is further away, but is worth the drive
My grandmother always told me I wasnt allowed to go anywhere with devil in the name not even to the pine barrens in NJ where the Jersey devil legend is 😂 shes a little crazy and superstitious but I'm grateful for her
But that's where my family reunions are......
In 1973 my sister and I were swept out to sea in a riptide. We were so far iut we could barely see the shore. I was 7 and my sister was 10. We were preparing to die. We prayed and prayed to be saved. Suddenly out of nowhere a lady popped up out of the water and smiled. She never spoke,just smiled. She swam us back to shore then DISAPPEARED IN FRONT OF OUR EYES. We never told anyone cause our parents would have whipped us. No idea why they would let us catch a bus to the beach alone. We actually saw our guardian angel ❤
That story is just shocking, truly shows miracles can happen ❤
I was once pushed into the deep end of a pool about 4 years old, I couldn't swim and could just feel myself drowning, I saw something that looked like a person made out of light help push me up and they smiled at me, that was when I got pulled out and coughed up the water
The lady you saw was Yemaye (sometimes called Yemaya). She the goddess on the ocean and know as an Orisha. You can look her up, very well know. I greet her every time before I get into the ocean and I an always protected.
@blackjoy9079 if that's the case why don't you go extremes and swim oceans, dive deeply and interact with sharks and shit.... come on.
LOL
With the kid that disappeared in the woods... don't know if it's because i grew up in NYC, but you NEVER allow a child to walk behind you. Folks still do it all the time, but NOPE!... at a certain age, you're holding my hand while we're in the street, or ahead of me so i can always keep an eye on you.
Well, when you are hiking in the woods with group, most experienced go first and last, and if there is only one grown man, he goes first, cause its harder to go first, when u are in woods.
@@andreykotovsky well , they should go with minimum 2 grown ups then
@@rocketmanfossel1174 They did, two not so elderly grandparents. But yeah, they should have had her in the middle between them. Its usually the weak or little that get picked off by apex predators and usually its the last one. Since this is arkansas, there are several... wolves, coyotes, bears and Mountain Lions.
Thank you !!!!! Idk wtf is wrong with people I e heard to many stories and all it takes is a minute if even that
My parents used to let me go to the park the store and my cousins house when I was 6 and 7 😂
The last story honestly sounds like extreme mental stress and sleep deprivation. I've been seeing these shadowy creatures too, after being awake a couple days. And that was at about 10pm on the sidewalk, not even a forest. Always feeling that someones watching, just hallucinating and paranoid. In a situation that is already scary, where you're super exhausted on top, plus dehydration and whatnot... you're almost guaranteed to see things, especially alone in the forest for days.
That's methed up
The drug induced shadow people.
Hypothermia can cause confusion etc. I didn’t know this before I looked it up but it really doesn’t even need to be that cold and anyone regardless of age and fitness level can develop hypothermia.
@@StrangeFacinations Amphetamines my friend. 3 days on edge, and you just see your ancestors being all shadowy and shit
Nah, Eddie and Linda just to having good time with drugs.
That Linda story is creepy.
Just imagine seeing a group of things staring at you. When you get closer and they just hide. Quickly. Idk what but imaging that creeped the hell out of me.
Straight up aliens. Im not crazy but literally nothing else would make sense.
@@mybackithurts7792 aliens were like "oh shit quick.HIDE"
Its the samsquanchez
Ya sure it’s no the blu da de ba aliens?
guys im from st.joe and know those two,they are drug attics and were defiantly on drugs at the time and linda is a know liar
I’m Malaysian and in our country we have a folklore about these creatures in the forest called “Orang Bunian” where their features appears to look exactly like human and some are very beautiful, there are many stories about how they hid people in the woods and some even marrying with them and never to be found again.
Yeah yeah.....l think my ex-wife was one of those orang buians ppl l must of married by accident
Lol😂
I love how a man trained to be one of America's greatest warriors is also one of America's most dynamic storytellers. Mr. Ballen was born to be epic
@@butlincat1507 Mr B is already taken😁
That, he certainly is/was, hes just absolutely awesome... ☺👍☮
@@butlincat1507 wow, ok. who peed in your weetbix this morning???
@@butlincat1507 some people are blind and can’t read, can you also consider that some people can’t read, and sometimes people likes hearing other people’s voice. Why are you here telling people to do stuff when you’re watching the same thing as them?
@@cherryfaith4877 Agreed!
Planning an adventure:
✅ Pack food and water
✅ Stay the hell away from Arkansas
Planning an adventure: Watch an adventure film on tv
Me who lives in Arkansas: :0
I live there ...fuck
Why avoid Arkansas?
@@michaelmakinney20 2 stories were from there
Is it just me, or is that photo of Katherine the most creepiest picture of a real person you've ever seen? 8 year old body, 20 year old face, and the way her head is tilted......holy shiiiiii........yeeeeeee. The hair on my neck just stood up.
Thats what I thought, I couldn't place whats wrong with her, but she just doesn't look human.
@@marywade3730 changeling, perhaps?
Demon
I said the same thing up above before I scrolled down. That girl looks deAd. Or like she has no soul. Creepy as fuck
That could have been after the search. 6 days loads of walking no food and should have died? Makes sense
I grew up in Great Falls MT, a small city of 60,000 people and lived there until I was about 17 when our fam moved up into NW Montanas Flathead valley named for the huge flathead lake(not far from glacier nat. park) which is surrounded by thick woods for hundreds of miles. Ive been camping a bunch of times before we moved here but very few times in such dense and expansive forests. Ive been lost in the woods out here a couple times and i can tell you, panic is ALWAYS at the back of your throat no matter how much you tell yourself to stay calm. Especially once the sun goes down and even more so when youre alone. Your rational thinking just goes straight out the window and is replaced with nothing but blind fear that just builds and builds, i can def see people just cracking up under that much stress. That little voice in the back of your head that keeps repeating, "youre going to die out here"
Y'all... I don't know about anyone else, but Catherine might be the creepiest looking kid I've ever seen in my entire life.
For someone who's apparently fine she looks pretty much dead.
Yup👍🙉
Yes, she almost looks like an alien..
Her father wasn’t exactly George Clooney neither lmao. I mean don’t hate the lil girl look at what she had to work with. Genetics were not in her favor.
Joanna Flowers You are absolutely right, damn!
Hey, Devil’s Den! When I was 7, my family and I were on a trail there. I had to poop and couldn’t hold it so I skulked into the woods and pinched a loaf. Having no toilet paper, I scrounged around and found some green leaves to wipe with. Turns out, it was poison ivy. That was a miserable couple of weeks...
I can't believe no one has commented about what a funny story this is. You made me spit out my coffee. Well done.
Leaves of 3, let them be 😬 sorry I was soo late
LOL
You could have asked Alisia .
omg 😂😂😂
glad you recovered.
as someone who discovered this channel yesterday and began a massive binge of all of his videos, i really appreciate how mr. ballen adds conversions of feet and miles into metres and kilometres because i’m australian and i’m not familiar with feet and miles so it really helps to put things into perspective:)
U can find every single story he tells on the internet told by others before... A million times. Especially Mr David Pallidus
@@aubreyshelton3217 But Mr. Ballen's videos are the best.
Me rn also as an American watching videos made by everyone else I’ll still have to sometimes stop and look up the measurements ToT
@@aubreyshelton3217 You can also prefer every single story being told by Mr. Ballen.
it takes about 25 mins to walk a mile
Linda: "Hey, you guys! I'm lost and need help!"
Shadowy Forest People: "Holy shit! What the hell is that thing?! It's coming right for us! Quick, hide!"
Linda: "What are you doing? I told you, I need help! I think my brother's hurt!"
Shadowy Forest People: "Why is it screaming at us? Oh God, I'm so scared!"
oh how the turn tables...
The story of Linda and Eddie that I heard was not nearly as "eloquent" as John's version. The story I heard was a lot more sketchy, ridiculous, and comical, like Harold and Kumar on meth. 😆
@@Ooh_PieceOfCandyyeah, well I think that depends on who tells the story, and the level of respect the people telling them have for these stories. In my opinion
😂😂 Nailed it!
@@Ooh_PieceOfCandy A few of the channels that cover Eddie and Linda's story have played the interview of Eddie. It's pretty clear Eddie was not a reliable witness but it didn't help the interviewer seemed biased that he'd done something to his sister from the start. Idk their reason for being in the woods but the police didn't have concrete evidence to believe Eddie had done anything to his sister.
It's so weird, it's almost like there are two different groups involved with these missing persons cases. One that protects and one that kills.
There are...
It sure does seem like that. Its so hard for me to wrap my head around some of these cases. Like a child found a week later, not scared, she looks like someone or something has taken care of her, fed her...like what the hell? And there are so many cases like this. Strange....
I agree. Seems like those two main groups are Squatch and the Fae.
@@lucasreeserlarkin8996 what is that, can you explain please.
@@TheHattaru if you're asking about the fae, it's a blanket term for nature spirits of pre christian european folklore. A very wide category encompassing benevolent, malevolent, and neutral entities.
Many missing 411 cases have hallmarks similar to the folklore of fae kidnappings
imagine searching for a sweet, little girl in the woods and then you find Katherine coming out of a cave who looks like she smokes 4 packs a day
🤣 I said a grown woman’s meth head on a child’s body
Smoke 4 packs? What an insult shes at a carton a day shhhyyyt :)
🤣
Omg!!! 🤣
I thought that . Rather “ Hard “ looking
Facts yo, that pic of her and her dad is the creepiest shit I’ve seen on this channel. Kid looks like a returning meth addict that had a brake just to smoke some crack
Based on how many people get found "way outside of the search area", might I suggest expanding whatever the standard size of an initial search area is?
agreed
I know.That would make sense.
Aliens obviously won’t care about your search cordons...
But then they'd be found farther out of the new search area. Because that seems to be the pattern
@@mdragarg true......maybe they just arent reallt looking that well....I mean look at the shit with finding Brian L. at the entrance of that park. lol. Is THAT what they mean when they say it was "out of their search area"....Basically they just didnt find them.
the 3rd story is that type of story that gives me chills...
people staring and then running away when discovered... hidding when u approach... group up when u are sleep or not moving... that gives me the creeps!
silhouette figures looking at you and not moving... bbbrrrrr
The story of Linda and Eddie that I heard was not nearly as "eloquent". The story I heard was a lot more sketchy, ridiculous, and comical, like Harold and Kumar on meth. 😆
Maybe they were just deer and she was trippin
@@ominous27It were skinwalkers, I have seen too many things that do not make sense. Those things were skinwalkers
I genuinely want to believe the sprit of Alana was helping to guide Haley to safety
Hadn't heard that p[articular story before, but once the "imaginary friend" showed up, I knew exactly where it was going... and yet the revelation of the "Alana" story still made the hair on my arms stand up like a startled porcupine....
rather, the guardian angel
No,Not disagreeing just wanted to say no in someone’s comment
If true, its sad that her spirit is wandering the forest 23 years later after missing.
As soon as he described the imaginary friend was a little girl I figured out that it must be a girl who'd died in the forest. So sad what happened to Alana but at least she was able to help another little girl get back to her family.
Why do I feel like the first girl got abducted and drugged so she wouldn’t remember what happened because 6 days of lost memory is very strange and she survived by herself it’s very suspicious in literally every way
Not too sure about the drugged part. Abducted is a maybe.
@@carc_779 I’m curious, why do you not think the drugged thing?
@@skipperf4057 8 years old correct?
Agreed, drugged or not still very sus
@@carc_779 I cannot remember off the top of my head, if you are referring to her then yes, probably around that age
Him: The little girl said her imaginary friend was named Alicia
Me: *sweating* “Oh no.”
Good on ya for helping the girl.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Lolol
What were you on
@@hollowtrappedinaelevator320 idk some astral projection shit
When I was in about 4th or 5th grade, I came across a beat-up paperback copy of Frank Edward's book "Stranger Than Science". There were several stories in this book about people that vanished in the blink of an eye. Between those stories and the ones about people who spontaneously combusted and people who just suddenly defied gravity and just floated up into the air I was totally freaked out but totally hooked on the "Strange and Mysterious". Thank you Mr. Ballen for helping me to continue my journey through weirdness. 😵💫
I remember that book
I also read that. 7th grade life science teacher had it. Didn’t it have a section called “Through the Wall of Time” or something?
@@velvetundergrad2843 Not sure. It's been a long time since I read it
"as the crow flies" i love that expression to describe the distance traveled if unimpeded
Same here. I immediately decided to hang on to that one when I heard it
yes, very interesting because it’s true.( i love the “old sayings”) this was the first time i had been told of the saying. very interesting
Its more so on flat,even ground than "unimpeded." Meh, to each thier own. ;)
You people have all been living under rocks to have never heard that saying before. It's extremely common.
Between you me and the fence post I love that expression too!
MrBallen is the hero we didn’t deserve but we got.
Thats smart haha
Cant agree more
Yes
Don't get me wrong, I like mrballen. However Jesus Chist is the hero we don't deserve
I am.....Batman.
5:00 Doctors: "Yep she's alright." - Photo: Her looking like straight out of a horror movie.
The father too
Loooool
hahahah maybe in those times that was what alright looked like
I thought I was the only one who thought that lmao!!
This has me rolling 😂
Linda and Eddie were dehydrated and stressed, that resulted in hallucinations. I went through something similar several years ago. My wife has a voice mail from me that I don't even remember sending her. She said it doesn't even sound like me. I refused to even listen to it. I have vivid memories of having conversations with specific people that I never spoke to. I saw things that were absolutely nuts!
her description of the figures (shadowy/not having clear faces/repeatedly disappearing or becoming obscured from view) is very typical of hallucinations, they were 100% tripping on something
Sleep deprivation will make you see things. I once took and Army course where they took away your food and gave you missions that ensured you could not possibly complete them without skipping sleep. It was a powerful, life-changing course. But hallucinations became common as we starved and were pushed beyond our endurance in a totally sleep=deprived state. It could have happened to them. Of it could have been meth. Rural AR is full of it and people aren't going to admit they went to the woods to smoke meth if they disappear and then have to give an account for their whereabouts.
"Lets's go to Devil's Den in rural Arkansas"
"Er, no?"
2 stories later, let's not ever go anywhere in rural Arkansas.
I’ve been to Devil’s Den a lot. Just stay on the trail. ;)
And don’t pay attention to those things trying to get your attention.
@@fadeintoview321 Especially don''t go looking for the source of the banjo music 😆
All 3 stories were in Arkansas…
@@muchduck3754 yes. That’s what they implied.
Hey now I grew up and still live here lol. But seriously parts of the Buffalo River gives extreme creep vibes.
Spooky but it is always happy when you find a missing person of any age alive
Yes it's nice to have a happy yet confusing ending.
I’ve never seen the secret I’m too focused on the stories and feeling like I’m a part of the story. He’s the best story teller!
Omg girl if u like scary stories check out RezTKF his stories are legit scary af n his voice is perfect for horror narration 🔥🔥💯
Same here haha
I never have either!
I haven't either, and don't mind it. He's that good.
Heck yeah, I gave up a long time ago
My grandma is Katherine VanAlst, my daughter found your video and we just listened to it. Her father was not with her and her brothers when they went swimming. She did almost drown and after the lady pulled her out a man shook her to help get the water out. After that she decided to go back to the cabin and from there she got lost. She remembers seeing animals while she walked and then she stopped in what she calls a bluff until Mr Whitely and his crew found her. They called her name and she said she was on top of a hill when they saw her. They made a stretcher out of their shirts and carried her out and then she was taken to the hospital. Feel free respond back if you have any questions, she is still alive and doing well.
She doesn't remember anyone with her? That's so strange. I'm glad she's doing well
You like attention huh
She was gone for 6 days though. What happened those 6 days? What does she say?
Never came back to respond.🫤
@MrBallen did you see this update??
I just have to thank you for telling the 'Missing 411' stories and talking about David Paulide. He works tirelessly and gets so little credit nor does he get the respect he deserves. Thank you for not just stealing his stories as so so many youtubers have actually done.
And the more people that know and hear of his research, the better!
One does not simply venture into the woods alone after watching mr ballen
hahah
Headed there now!........see ya later...
I hope..........
Or reading David Paulides stories!
@@jonjacobjingleheimerschmid3798 don’t worry you’ll be featured in the next 411 case😂 jk hope you have a good trip man stay safe
@@dedet6900 Or watching his youtube channel.
“She only lost a couple of pounds”
Cathrine: looks like alien from area-51
4:57- 5:34
bro, that photo was scary af lol
True, she looks like she just got out of an interment camp
Catherine is not the alien.... You are. 🎃
@@chrischase3815 sorry Chris you have an anime profile picture making your opinion trash and makes your entire point invalid
she has an adult head on childs body
There is a mythical creature here in the Philippines that is said to stalk people alone in the woods and confuse their sense of direction so that they will get lost even more. The elderlies said you just have to wear your shirt inside out or in reverse or go shirtless. For some reason this works. This will make the creature so amused that it will smile so wide it will cover its eyes and you can escape the creature's spell or something and you will eventually go to the right direction and stop being lost.
That doesn't sound right
@@layasnainso3384 story varies on different provinces
Wearing your shirt inside out, seems like I heard that thing somewhere before.
@@markraymondgratil164 from where i come from, our story goes that the reason as to why you should wear your shirt inside out is because as you are undressing, the creature gets aroused and his sight becomes blocked by a massive er*ction and this breaks their spell/curse since they can't see you
@@layasnainso3384what? 😮 Where did that originate from?
My dog started barking just when you got to the part about the dark silhouette people staring at Linda. I almost crapped myself!😂
those people were the slender brothers, slenderman, splenderman, offenderman, trenderman and, tenderman
Omg girl if u like scary stories check out RezTKF his stories are unique an scary af n his voice is perfect for horror narration! 🙀💕🔥🔥
The other night one of my dogs ran down to the living room and did some barking, like at 3:30 in the morning. Scared the shit out of me.
@@glimmergamming542 There three more Blenderman Slanderman Sillyman
It seems they need to increase their search area about 2 miles. Everyone seems to get 2 miles farther than expected.
When I was 10 years old I was crossing a slimy rock branch of a river in Sedona, AZ. It is not possible to get footing on wet mossy rocks. Didn't know that. I started sliding toward a waterfall. The waterfall was not a graceful flow of water, but a nest of downed trees and branches protruding outward. Even at that young age, feeling immortal and beyond any reach of harm, I knew my life was in danger in that moment. I frequently played by and in the river during that summer. No one was ever around. It was near a retirement community of mostly elderly who stayed inside. I'm on all four at this point, hands sliding, feet sliding, ready to go over the edge sideways. A strong hand reaches in and effortlessly pulls me from the water. I felt such relief and thought, "That was my grandpa who just saved me." He was a fire fighter and this is what he does. I stood on the sandy shore, looked up, nobody was there. I didn't think anything of it at the time. Just an ignorant boy. Years later I realize this world has protective forces that do not require our belief to exist. Mr Ballen's stories remind me that some people have very powerful protective forces while others do not. This does not require our understanding to be real.
What a beautiful memory! You're blessed to have been looked after like that, and blessed to be able to still recall everything that happened so vividly! I love it!
I have a similar story. When I was a young mother, back in 1996, I took my children on a picnic in Pacific Grove, CA where we were living at the time. We climbed down the rocky cliff to the little beach below (about 15-20 feet down). It was an easy climb down and back up. My little boys were ahead of me as I held their baby sister on my hip and carried our tote bag. The boys got back up to the top before me, and just as I was nearing the top myself, my foot slipped out of my flip flop and I fell backwards. It all happened so fast that I don't think anyone noticed. But as I fell backwards, I fell past the point where you can catch yourself and stand up, and I immediately knew my daughter and I were going to die. Suddenly I felt a really heavy pressure or force on my back push me and we landed up on top of the cliff. I didn't walk. I didn't do anything, but there I was, standing on top of the cliff on my feet. My first thought was, I didn't do that. It's really hard to describe the feeling of pressure against my back. I couldn't feel anything touch me. I could only feel an incredible force of pressure pushing me. I have no idea why, and I'll never know. Why were we spared in that moment when so many others die? I've stopped trying to understand why. I'm just thankful to be alive.
@@littlehomeinthevalley Protective Forces. Thank you for sharing. It seems sometimes we dismiss things that have no explanation or otherwise have a tendency to think "Not sure if that really just happened." It is not explainable.
@@fightswithspirits915 Yes, sometimes, but definitely not then. Others have tried giving me scientific explanations, and none work for me. The action was very purposeful. My daughter and I were delivered to the top of the cliff. And while I definitely acknowledge our lives were spared that day, I cannot to this day answer "why". I guess I won't know until I meet God.
BAHAHAHA! Dear God what an imagination! Ummm Bull$hit!
From my own experience, I can tell that there are actually a lot of strange noices that can be heard in a forrest, especially when you're alone at night.
I agree. It sounds like the woods come alive at night. And to a degree it does, because lots of species prefer foraging or hunting under the cover of darkness. Also, people hallucinate when they are dehydrated and over tired.
sound carries farther in colder weather, which is why people hear things at night. that's also why "ghost" hunts are only done at night.
@@PCLHH People's minds can definitely mess with them, especially in the dark if they're struggling to see the brain can do weird things. But yeah most animals use the cover of darkness to do their thing forests definitely come alive at night.
Noises are strange when you're a stranger)
I have never heard a strange noise at night backcountry camping in the northeast USA. I did, however, once see a strange light - it looked like the space station (if you have not seen it, it looks like a planet, like a large white star that does not twinkle, but is moving across the sky quickly as it orbits earth) - the only difference was this changed direction more than once and then sped away.
Olesya means "girl from the forest" in Russian, in this case the name really fits. I hope her spirit is happy, she must have had some fun finally having another little girl around. So glad she kept her safe.
well that just adds another layer to the cake, but explains the name change.
i thought the name was Alicia, different version of the name Alice, but anyway isn't Olesya some diminutive derivative from Ola and Alexandra?
@@mucia55 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olesya_(given_name)#:~:text=Olesya%20is%20a%20slavonic%20name,the%20meaning%20of%20%22protector%22.
@@mucia55 See the wikipedia. OP was correct.
I’m glad she decided to help her
The moral of these stories look 2 miles outside the search zone
It's always be like that with everything I watch when they finally find a body or something.
I mean if you keep adding 2 miles over and over you’ll end up covering the whole earth and this means we gotta find everyone missing this plan is full proof boys let’s go
When the person/body is in the search zone but everyone is 2 miles out because of mr ballen
Yes, START there.
Moral of the story is dont go hiking with lil kids lmao
I've found myself holding my breath at times while watching these stories... the build up in suspense is amazing.
Reality truly is stranger than fiction.
Yes it is because we know the craziest fiction is still fiction, but with reality when you hear these insane stories it really opens up so many possibilities of what is out in our world or other worlds and dimensions maybe. Its crazy at this point in time but there are still many unexplored or barely explored areas of our earth. And not all of it is good.
Stories like that last one really make me wonder if we aren't just SIMS in a game and other beings are just playing with us.
If that's the case my player sucks 😂
No just many kinds of players
The story of Linda and Eddie that I heard was not nearly as "eloquent". The story I heard was a lot more sketchy, ridiculous, and comical, like Harold and Kumar on meth. 😆
Ah man now I feel even more freaked out
Bear Grills really went quiet after Catherine survived in the woods for 6 days with only a bathing suit on.
She probably survived by drinking pee and eating bat.
@@ralcogaming7674 oh yes bc this 8 year old just had a cup to hold her pee to drink. And the ability to catch BATS and eat them. You figured it out ralco
@@xandrias6411 sir learn the meme before you act like a twat
Bear Grylls is fake…. Survivor man is where it’s at.
@@TheNEPTY the program is of course but I think he did all of those things irl when he was younger
Who else was freaked out by the little girls photo. Looked creepy.
Dame here not to be rude she looked like she came out of a horror movie
Weird looking girl and guy!
She looked like an alien with a wig on. Very creepy.
Rightttt I was like okay they look very disturbed especially the little girl😳
Just imagine her coming out of a cave and calmly saying "here I am" Gives me chills
What’s really scary is in A LOT of these missing 411 cases when lost out in the woods for days or weeks many people have claimed to see these “people” that hide behind trees and peak their head out to look and just stare at you. There’s no way that can just be imagination if SO many missing people have experienced this same exact thing. So unsettling!
Sure there’s a way - Palides makes up stories. I have read his books and found them to be mostly untrue after researching the cases.
There’s a video of some Native American young man throat singing in the forest and you can see those things peaking behind trees looking at him. The young man said he didn’t notice them at the time but when he rewatched his video he saw them, he said he knew what they were but wouldn’t name them. Spooky
@@thomassaldate8767 do you have a link to the video
@@thomassaldate8767 link please!!!!
@@thomassaldate8767 Saying the name draws them to you. That's why he won't tell you what they are.
Since watching Mr. Ballen, even the three pine trees in my backyard terrify me.
I can’t help but think there’s still so many things on our planet we can’t understand yet.
There are more things in heaven and earth then can fit into your philosophy " William Shakespeare.
Energy doesn't just disappear. That's a scientific fact
@@samanthap4600 right. E=mc2 it simply changes forms, nothing ever really dies, the universe wastes nothing everything just gets transformed.
That's becuase the Great Old Ones don't want us to understand... yet. Not yet. Oh great father Cthulhu, we wait for your glorious return. Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.
For sure!
So, my sister's name is Katherine and we spent a lot of time at Devil's Den growing up. When I first started watching this video, I got distracted at the beginning and missed the location, but caught the rest of the story. So when the picture of the dam came up, I was like, "Huh, that's kinda familiar." And then you said Devil's Den again and I got full chills.
😂 aw no
"They're all around her. THEY'RE ALL AROUND HER." creeped me out so bad
That scared the soul out of me
that part with people/animals hiding behind trees and poking their head out is like a constant dynamic in these stories, all in a diffrent locations, told by children and adults.
@@patrykkubiak9322 Really? wooow- that's so scary
@@jayg.1734 Dude chill. Someone else getting scared when you weren't shouldn't hurt you.
The second story is a great illustration for parents/grandparents to never threaten children to leave without them
They shoukd have chastized her and made her keep up. This allowing her to be a brat, in the woods, was very foolish and short sighted since she needs to learn now and not in her 30s that people dont care for brats.
Wow, 42 likes
Thank you 😊 💓 ☺️
Yeah. THAT was the cause of the girl going missing. 🙄
I’d say never leave them somewhere unsafe. I agree with Hadrian to a certain extent, but never leave them out of eyesight. Or do what I did. Be a brat? Fine. We’re leaving, we’ll drop you off with somebody, and continue. Or fine, your staying at the house, campsite, whatever, with an adult. Miss out. Then do something super fun or at least act like it. Hailey WAS being a brat. Hiding? She was a very lucky girl. Anytime a kid goes missing for a while and reappears, it makes my hair raise. That actually happened to a friend of mine. Her little girl, maybe 3? 4? Was playing in the front yard with a friend. A perfectly normal, safe neighborhood. Both go missing. Can you imagine? They found them both about a mile away on a busy intersection three hours later. I always wonder what happened. They seemed fine. But…🤷♀️ All I can hope is there truly IS real guardian angels sometimes.
Not in the wilderness. If it’s at the supermarket and they’re being a brat then it’s a whole different story.
In American folklore, those things that were hiding behind the trees and poking their heads out are called "hide-behinds." I don't think you're supposed to go near them. They can trick you into venturing deeper into the woods so that you're never found 😬
Dead ass
That’s very interesting thanks. After hearing a lot of these stories, especially the ones with kids, a significant number of them describe cows/animals/people/creatures that are peeping behind trees at them. One boy said they looked like cows and he was afraid of them but they didn’t hurt him
As a Native American I would go beat the hell out of the other folklore, if it was me.
Like honestly if I’m going to die it’s going to be legend and I’m bring those creepy things with me. Then I’ll come back in spirit form to continue to beat the hell out of them.
Yup!
It's interesting. Because in south-americas, specifically in the Amazon you have similar stories. However, the indigenous people call them forest spirits, forest guardians, or simply the jungle (some tribes see it as one single living thing). Those tend to trick you too to venture deep in the forest. I personally heard the weirdest stories from them. I work with indigenous communities. From children to entire families getting lost because of the enchantments of the forest spirits (some do come back after months) to mermaids in the Amazon river that trick men into drowning, and much much more. It's crazy that is an international thing too
In some of his stories he mentions how the people who get lost don’t remember anything afterwards. I feel like that is happening to me while watching his videos. At one moment I discover his channel, the next moment I’m already 20 videos in. This is some spooky stuff 😶
I literally lost 4 hours yesterday doing this!
Happened to me too. The whole sunny day swimming in this channel.
6 days in a row
You guys just getting lost ive been lost lol
I'm still lost in his videos
I’d be really curious to know what the lives of these kids have been since these occurrences...
I’m sure if we tracked down the names we could find their social media and possibly some recounts of events via them and how it has impacted their lives. But it would be cool if he did an episode of a then and now of some of these people.
Yes!
They definitely got magic powers
Never thought that in these vids until I saw the first pick of Catheron. Maybe it's natural how skinny she is, maybe
a disease or something. But I dunno, thaat guy looks kinda
sus
Like he mentioned in the video Haley Zega has a video where she talks about her disappearance here: ua-cam.com/video/2AJIu_AQWBk/v-deo.html
My body has a violent reaction anytime I listen to these stories and the creatures that peer out from behind trees are mentioned. Gooseflesh and chills and literal tears come to my eyes and my throat tightens up. I don't know why it affects me so badly, because I love these types of stories and that's the only thing that makes me feel that way.
I have the same reaction to scary stories. I've never told anyone, and this is the first time I've heard of someone else having it.
@@fisherri1961 I wonder what in the world causes it?
@@KPJindrich I wish I knew...
It's your survival instincts kicking in. Your brain gets info on a visceral human threat and starts getting ready to fight/flight
Like a genetically ingrained memory of what happens when we don't gtfo of there
Please🙏 know how much I enjoy your site! I have been in a hospital bed for 20 years. I lost my husband coming up on 2 years in 2 weeks! We were together since I was 14, and I am now64. We both believe in these unexplainable events as we know there is another dimension that is present. I found your channel and fell in love with your voice, your delivery, and your obvious natural storytelling ability.
Plus most importantly I wanted to thank you so much for your service to our country! Please🙏 keep on as you give joy and entertainment for so many. Selfishly I am one and really look forward daily! Again thank you!! GOD BLESS YOU AND YOURS!
Hope you get well soon
What else do you have to say about the dimensions?
I am sorry for your loss. I wish you health, and happy life.
Thank you so much! May GOD bless you and yours!!!
My belief tells me, and I base this on first hand experience and the Biblical teachings (not man made doctrine) that there is not only another dimension in our earthly experience, but that is the fight humanity has to be concerned with.
It tells us our fight is "not with early things but with the principalities that are in this other realm.
My belief, if your belief is different I respect you and would go to the wall for you to have it AND HAVE THE RIGHT TO STATE IT!!!
Ok, if you're ever walking in the remote wilderness (not recommended) and a small girl comes walking out of a cave and casually says:
"here i am"
...run the f away.
Yeah, thats all my nopes. I grew up in the woods here in the south and... i dont go in the woods anymore by myself. I used to, but then i started seeing weird shit. Big hyena looking dog things, lights, otherworldly noises... just nope. The south has a lot of really weird stuff that nobody talks about. Plenty of people go in the woods for hunting, plenty of people have really fucked up stories to tell... but they dont make big deals out of them... for whatever reason. Mostly because "crazy southern people", most likely anyway.
Theres a lot of UFO activity down here, theres a lot of possible cryptid activity down here... paranormal. Had a friend that went on to be a youth group director a few years later talk about taking his fiance to her parents house out in the backwoods. They went down this dirt road, the wrong one... and for whatever reason they stopped the car. She got out and walked down the road a little ways stopped for a few min just standing there and so he went and walked up to her. He said they both stood there for a moment and then he saw the trees and everything covered in blood and that there was an ear piercing noise. He said he grabbed her hand and jerked her running back to the car. They both got in and left in a hurry and that was that. For someone that was super christian, thats a really strange story to tell. Theres surely more to it that i have forgotten, its been nearly 20 years.
But yeah, the southern woods are a huge nope. Do not go in them by yourself, or at least unarmed. If you are hunting with a rifle or shotgun, have a sidearm and two forms of communication as well. The woods are deep and the nights are long.
Forreal but they were searching for her otherwise tho I was out of there
@@Kiba69420 bruh, u sound like some old man in a northern inn from game of thrones or witcher 3
@Poppa Perc Thats exactly why we dont talk about this kind of stuff lol.
@@ykshay lol thats pretty funny i guess.
I feel like if something was chasing a child, no matter how traumatic the experience was, they would remember that they were scared at some point.
@@ladycountess2972 RezTKF's alt right here
The only logical explanation is that someone at the camp took her and probably drug her. Possibly did nefarious things, then left her.
The point of traumatic experiences where they forget is to forget, so no they would just remember before then after nothing that caused it.
@gabriel gervais well even strangest or/and most All Odds Against happens so many times a day it's not super natural but an oddity that creates the hard to explain. It's not uncommon for anyone with adrenalin pumping to travel incredible distances and with lack of memories trauma tends to coincide with adrenaline.
@gabriel gervais agreed
I’ve lived in Arkansas for 20 years and I’ve never heard of this stuff. That’s wild. It’s crazy to hear about these 411s from my state
Did you live near Devil's Den?
I have known about it since 1977.
I love the stories where everyone is unharmed. You are a great story teller
It's so nice of him that he added how many km is 7 miles :3
i think so too! as a european it’s very confusing:D
I agree. It's nice to know that some Americans can understand that other countries exist too
@@hearthrobofficial Talk about back handed compliments
@@DarthLesbian lmao you noticed that eh
Without this some of these stories would lose meaning, I have a rough idea how much kilometers a Mile represents but when they use feet or yards I'm completely at a loss, I hear you say "7 foot 3 and runs 75 feet in 3 seconds" and I have no idea what that means. lol
These kids sleeping in caves and wandering at night are 1000 times more brave than I am. I am terrified of the dark and I know the minute I was alone and it started to get dark I’d just cry, I wouldn’t be in survival mode😭
🤣
Right like the Best I could do is lay down on the ground curl into myself and cry 😭😭
Yeah but there is some sort of disconnect with them, they either don’t remember anything or they remember parts of what happened to them that don’t really make sense. Their minds are wiped sort of.
You don’t know how you’d react until you’re in the situation. Don’t underestimate the will to survive.
I wonder if she crawled or fell into some type of small opening and ended up in another area. Because if she only had a bathing suit on and no shoes wouldn’t her feet have blisters. But then I guess Rescue party would have found the hole
14:12 that story is absolutely beautiful omg… that’s so heart warming
Last story of those people hiding from Linda scared the fuck out of me
That sounds like a faerie encounter...
Most of the stories seem like the missing are protected by something (Bigfoot) in the woods, but these sound more like alien funny business especially that last one. Super creepy!!
@@DogofSinope Lmao why tf are “faeries” so popular these last few weeks? all of a sudden i started seeing them mentioned in nearly every youtube comment lol
truly horrifying. if that happened to me, and im not joking, my life would be ruined forever. lmfao like there’s a 0% chance my brain could ever bounce back after seeing things like that, even if they weren’t real. I would be damaged until death lollllw
They were probably as confused and freaked out over seeing her as she was over seeing them. Maybe they were just curious?
Just a side note: Beaver Lake is also another freaky place in arkansas. I went to family outings there frequently as a kid and the lake always gave my the heebie jeebies and cried when my now step dad dive down where the drop off was because I had a bad feeling (he was fine). That place has such an eerie feeling to it, close to 100 people have drowned there too and not all the bodies have been found
Ummm. Going by the picture of Katherine, there’s nothing that screams “well hydrated and relatively fine”.
I think he meant “well hydrated” for someone who has been missing for days upon days.
Thats a mask at 5:01 lol you can see her cheek is a different colour behind the mask
@@VeNoMziV wdym that's a mask? you can see her mouth
@@lauraarodriguez224 masks have mouths? Obviously, look at the girls left side of her face, you can see the actual colour of her skin, behind the mask, on the girls left side of face its a tiny bit of cheek showing
@@VeNoMziV Yo what are you talking about thats her face. And its black and white so no I don't see a different color. Looks like a shadow from he huge cheek bones to me
Thank you for giving credit to David Paulides and his missing 411 canam project. So many UA-cam channels just act like they did the research. I very much appreciate your integrity.
Ballen’s uploads honestly improve my day exponentially.
same
Forget the entire uploads, I just need one flash card of his Mustache and I literally become Manlier!
It’s like these parks are attached to portals to different dimensions.
You know, thats a possibility. Theres a LOT of weird shit that goes on down here in these southern woods. I grew up in them, i wont go back by myself and without protections. Things i cant explain, weird ritual stuff too. Then you look at what the Imperial College of London is studying "long term DMT exposure"... where they are trying to figure out why people that go past the veil see approximately the same thing that involve creatures and say that the other world is more familiar to them than this one. Its fucking weird and their research is just getting started. They started studying this because... well... when lots and lots of people say approx. the same thing with no contact with each other, it makes one believe that it could be real... If you trip DMT and go into some place like "the upside down" from that one show, then its highly possible that all this weird paranormal stuff is just people with a flicker of DMT production for whatever reason shifting them to where they can see the "other world" and getting lost or confused and then ending up somewhere else and having literally no idea how they got there.
That's what i was about to write! Maybe the "shadowy people" are the portal keepers? And going into the portal, it transports you what seems like instantly, but real time, hours and days pass for you to transport there and back.
Or an exit to the matrix, if you believe in that. And those shadow people are "designers" or "technicians" of the matrix, reinserting the people who accidentally exited.
Or magic mushrooms?🤷😅
@@Kiba69420 exactly how does one in North America accidentally get exposed to DMT? A psychedelic drug from the combination of Banisteriopsis caapi and Psychotria viridis, two plants native to South America. I’m curious.
@@jjlnguess7354 Simple google searches would answer your question, honestly... Big research groups are trying to figure out where it comes from in the human body, but theres thought that it is formed on certain synapses, likely in the pineal gland.. Or something like that.
I just woke up and im not entirely sure because science is still trying to understand DMT. But uh, our body produces it and its in most things organic. Trees, plants, animals...
It's likely someone just grabbed them and then left them once they realized the searches weren't stopping and it was too much trouble.
The reason people get lost in forests is because most have an awful sense of direction. and the terrain in forests looks very similar all around.
I'm so happy that you do these stories on people who were found alive.
Me too!! 🙂👍
Me three!
OMG, the last story is SO TERRIFYING!! & I LOVE it so much, i return again &again just to hear the part about the "people" Linda saw...(chills)..Love it!!!
Happy New Year to the man that saved 2020 MrBallen!❤️
THIS should be pinned!
The best thing to come out of 2020; MrBallen.
Absolutely the best part of 2020! Thank you, Mr. Ballen!
Right. Truly has been something I've made part of every day in 2020 and it has never failed to suck me in and take me away from everything, just for a little while. The stories have given my son and I something to talk about beside what we can't go do because it's closed. 😡
😂 thanks!!
You know how rare it is to have almost as many views as subs, when you have millions of subs, or even when not. It's a testament to just how great Mr. Ballen is as a narrator. I'm relatively new and hooked!
He has a 80% ratio and that is pretty incredible
Wow didnt even realize it til now.. 6.6 million views and he currently has 6.6 million subs
Exactly! I just noticed this when i found him, like his subs do not play! and neither do i. lol hes great a story telling i been listening him for about 5 days straight
By ripping everyone's work off. PERIOD
It's 7.8m views and 7.85m subs now.
6 yr old threatens to throw tantrum in middle of evil forest.
Evil Forrest: Do It!!
Hmm. My parents would have handled the threat of a tantrum quite differently. Especially my dad. :-) Greetings from Arizona.
As bizarre as it might seem, I'm starting to wonder if there are wormhole like portals in deep, large forests. I mean, if they can happen in outer space, why not on earth too?
@@mikeburch2998 Man my parents wouldn’t even give me the time a day to make a threat like that
@@Hawaiiansky11 nah just very well hidden cave systems they conceal with rocks and other things people wouldn't normally be able to move/even think would be moveable.
What?
Hubby wanted to go hiking. When I said 'no' he asked why? I answered : Mr Ballen
Wise choice
After listening to this man for 5 days straight now, I feel like forests and deep water caves are multiple universe portals.....no other explanation for me, this is wild 😳😳😳
I can’t sleep at night with this stuff lol
Aliens. Most of the 411/people disappear in the woods and wildlife preserves are Alien abductions. Sometimes people unknowingly step onto space ships disguised as caves, cabins, etc. They use them as their "hunting grounds/experiments"
ETI made a deal with the us gov many years ago where they agreed to 10 percent of the population in exchange for crap tech. Like done to the Indians of America's, we were suckered.
Agreed!
well,with a little common sense about the paranormal,there are other dimensions in which the unexplained happen and people could somehow stumble into wierd thinks they can't really explain.
@@mob_slaya1866 wow, so coooooool 🙃
I'm from Arkansas, close to Devil's Den. The history around that place is insane! Supposedly, one of the caves there leads to hell, and the devil comes out of that cave, hence the name. Oh, and there's two really weird towns I know of, one's called Uniontown and the other is called Rudy. IF, and it's a big if, you can find anything online, both towns have a crazy history and even crazier myths and legends!
I’m intrigued🤔🧐. He needs to do some research and stories on this asap.
Do tell
Are those towns in Arkansas
You gotta tell the myths/stories big dawg. Do they have to do with cryptids?
I finished high school near there. My grandpa worked at Devil's Den.
It probably sounds stupid but Mr Ballen really did help me through so much this year and for that I am grateful. Happy New Year everyone 🥳❤️🙏
im so glad I could help in some small way!
Not stupid at all. We all needed an outlet during this really rough year. He was yours and that’s great. Not stupid at all. Stay safe.
@@bethm5791 👍👌
I've gotten pretty attached to a couple UA-cam channels during this past Spring, Summer, Fall, and still now. Mr. Ballen is my favorite.
I was already reading the Paulides books and catching his interviews, and now look forward to his Sunday morning uploads. This stuff is scary, but fascinating. Something is going on, and it's scary af.
Same!
I found this channel yrs ago. I hadn’t seen videos in such a long time. I’m binge watching everything 😩😩😩 I’m obsessed with these stories. I’ve been watching them all since yesterday
Why do I feel like the first girl got grabbed by someone? There is no way she just survived for 6 days alone like that.
Theres quite a few stories of “abductions” in the woods involving children, and they are then found a few days later perfectly fine. If bigfoot is a humanoid type thing, it would make sense they can tell age based on actions and size. Our pets know that children are children, so why would something that’s seemingly closely related to humans not recognize that either?
And possibly drugged her or something, losing 6 days of memory is extremely strange.
@@Quarkbait Bigfoot doesn't exist.
@@FurryWulfz you got proof of nonexistence, bigdawg?
@@Quarkbait You can't prove a negative, James Randi was big on that. You can't prove that something doesn't exist. The burden of proof rests on the one making the claims.
Imagine all the cases of people who disappeared in strange circumstances in other countries, that could be linked to the 411 phenomenon, but no one really talk or investigate about them.
All these cases make perfect sense to you?
@Robert Anderson have you looked in to any of the cases none of them make sense
@Robert Anderson yea like most of these cases that can’t be explained aren’t just given a “natural cause” document. You sound like a sheep who’s clearly too ignorant to try to be open minded and really think about what more there really could be out there.
@Robert Anderson this could be just that, it can't be proven but it also cannot be disproven till we collect further evidence. That's what the guy doing the 411 case is trying to figure out. It could be alien abductions for all we know that's why a person will go missing in one spot and be found a far away. Also alot of these cases have a thing with missing shoes. Or gear being found but Cleary the gear was placed there.
@Robert Anderson also any case from the 411 phenomenon cannot be explained to answer your question
Soooo people VOLUNTARILY visit a place called Devil's Den...
crazy people out there
It's romantic.
There’s a very good book written by Terry Lovelace an attorney and former Air Force vet who states he along with his friend another Air Force member were abducted by aliens there and put through Hell by Air Force Security investigators. “Incident at Devil’s Den”
I live in Arkansas and have visited Devil's Den many times. It's a beautiful park with lots of CCC work that was done in the 30's. There is a trail that goes to an old still where a cave has been walled up. I've also hiked to Hawksbill Crag, and you can walk down to that little waterfall without going down that tree. I've done it.
I know that here in the UK anywhere rural that has a big cave or natural pothole, might look a little spooky or or even has some old fantastical legend attached is called the Devil's this or that. I doubt it's that different in the US.
Thank you Mr. Ballen to a shoutout to David Paulides!! His work is crucial when investigating missing cases!
I’m pretty sure the woods just makes you go insane because the feeling that you’ll be stuck there forever
Maybe when you're truly alone in the wild somethings clicks and you just become something different...look at all the cases where people are just found naked with no explanation alive or dead.
@Yoren Boer ahhh
Hdhdjejsnnsns so scary
*Yoran
@@KingCrab6572 if you truly get lost, you’ll walk in circles if you continue walking
@@yoranpro1 Sounded like a mountain lion. Their screams are described as human, as if a woman or child screams.
As a former meth user, I've heard lots of stories about, and had one personal experience, involving "tree people" and "shadow people". So it could be a combination of dehydration and sleep deprivation that played into what the woman in the last story experienced. It might also very well be that some aspect of the spiritual realm is being witnessed, hence the commonality of experience. The intuitional takeaway of my personal experience was that the "tree people" were angels in the Heavenly realm and the "shadow people" were demons on earth or somewhere else. An interesting common detail between multiple people's experiences is that "shadow people" wear hats and dart away when you try to look at them. Strange. Side note: By the Grace and Intervention of God, I've been totally sober for over eight years now.
Congrats to you on your sobriety @A E! 🎊🎈🎁🎉
@@Erika-be9hq Thank you!
♥️♥️♥️ I love you buddy ! Keep going strong 💪🏼
Plz stay strong 🙏🏻
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Story number 4 is about a group of people terrorized by a woman who started sprinting at them.
@@insanecrack3r that is the whole point😂
This killed me lol 😂😂
I misread this comment and didnt watch that part I thought a group got terrorized by a lone woman lol
Story 3 you mean
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