My uncle was in the Army during WWII. Mom said when he came home, gramma burned all of his Army stuff because he kept having nightmares about the war. My cousin (his daughter) said he had the same nightmare his whole life about what happened to him in Europe during the war. He went out on patrol one night with six other men, but they were all picked off one by one. My uncle was the only one who made it back to base.
My grandpa was a career Air Force vet and was flying at night in Nevada and suddenly saw the entire sky light up green. This was back in the 50's so likely he saw remnants of nuclear testing but still creepy AF to see the sky go from pitch black to green
That Vietnam war one, Grandpa was a hero indeed. We gotta stop associating heroism with recklessness and blind obedience. He took the logical route of prioritizing preserving lives of his men, not "winning" against the enemy. If that corporal wants to die battling the enemy, then he gets his wish dying firmly on that hill, grandpa just had to be the one to do it quicker. Grandpa is a hero, sadly just not in the way the establishment would want (i.e being another mindless meat to the grinder).
This was fairly common in Vietnam too. Too many people worried about stars and would send their men to their death for no other reason. So good for those who stood up to command!
@@Mr.andMrs.Smith_0420same. There are likely countless instances like this one that go unsaid. There’s also a chance certain Army leadership would have understood that and left it alone. That’s one of the saddest things about combat is when you have to stop one of your own from causing harm the only way you know how. Grandpa did what he had to and made the hardest decision to be made in a split second.
I'm British but whenever I hear about the Vietnam War, I always feel really bad for everyone involved. It's not like many even had a choice in going over there, and what were they fighting for anyway? The Establishment never sends their kids to fight in a war, so they never care about everyone who doesn't have a choice. My English grandpa was conscripted in WW2 from his children's home and helped liberate a labour camp. What he saw was apparently so terrible that he never spoke of it right up until his premature death in 1977 aged 52 from a heart attack (my mum was 10). My Chinese grandparents were children during WW2 but were born under Japanese occupation in southern China. War just destroys people yet it gets glorified.
Both my grandparents passed away this fall and this is my first Christmas without them. It’s sad, but it made me smile when I remembered the stories they told. It was always the same exact stories every year (they had long since forgotten they told it) told around the Christmas dinner table as if it was the hottest gossip despite the events happening decades ago.
I LOVED MY GRANDMA LAMBERT. SHE WAS THE MOM I WISH WAS MINE. HER YOUNGEST DAUGHTER SHERRI ( 😅ONLY 6 YRS OLDER AND SHE WAS MY AUNT ). SHERRI AND HER BOYFRIEND HAD A BABY BOY NAMED JOHN AFTER MY GRANDPA 👴 💙. GPA WAS IN THE WW1 AND IT STOLE HIS HEARING. NOT COMPLETELY DEAF BUT ALMOST. I ADORED HIM AND AS THE LITTLE RED HAIRED SHY LITTLE GIRL 👧 I HAD HIM WRAPPED AROUND MY FINGER BECAUSE HE LET ME. LOL 😆 I MISS MY GRANDMA AND GPA. THEY WERE SO MUCH LIKE PARENTS TO ME AND I LOVED THEM MORE THAN LIFE. ❤❤
My Grandma once told me her Uncle fought in the War but was taken to a Concentration Camp, and when he was released and returned, he looked as thin as a Skeleton due to starvation. True Story of hers. War can mess you up a lot.
Before my grandma's dementia took its tole, she use to tell me all kinds of ghost stories she experienced while growing up in Puerto Rico. I miss our talks.
I just can't get enough of this channel. I'm so intrigued by these stories. Though I play it to help me drift off to Joel's soothing voice, I don't want to miss a thing, but invariably, I drift off. I appreciate your channel so much. Thank you ❤
@@bubzilla6137 We did, my 3-year-old son opened his present and he was overcome with joy because I brought him a Triple H wrestling figure. This was a special one because it played Triple H’s WrestleMania 22 entrance theme The King of Kings by Motorhead. He hugged me. I enjoyed my Christmas.
Oh wow, this is probably my new favorite. I could go for a whole series of these! I think many of us probably have stories like this from our grandparents. I know I've got a few.
This is the best Christmas gift ever! Also the best way to end Christmas, another video from the best of the best. I hope you had an awesome Christmas joel! Now it’s time to lay down & drift away to some stories 😌😌
I think the stories from people’s grandparents are my favorites to listen to on the channel. There’s just so much history behind them and I like to listen to them despite the tragedy that comes with a lot of them. It’s just very fascinating to me.
I was in awe with these stories. This video seemed to entrance me more than most scary stories I've heard. I've never been so quickly taken out of a trance as I did with that last line 😂
That last story is horrifying. And that's just as a listener. I couldn't imagine being the child who had to witness such a thing. I truly hope the author of that story is and will continue to live a healthy life 💯
I have a story. My great grandma at about age 80 told me about a big bbq she attended once in Saskatchewan when she was about 17. She thought it was just a nice picnic and bbq but it turned out to be an entire KKK event and had speakers talking about white power and keeping the race pure,ect. The more disturbing events happened as the sun went down. She told me about this in such a calm manner. It' motivated me to do some research and i discovered that high up klan members travelled North in the 1800s from the south to settle here and form the provincial governments, courts, and the RCMP in Canada. They are still active to this day. That was one of the more disturbing stories. 😢
My Nona told me horrific stories from the old country, Sicily , so matter of factly, it was srupefying. I will never forget these stories. I won't even repeat them, to the rest of the family, to verify them.
Hope you all have a great Christmas, we’re leaving Katherine today and flying to Sydney tomorrow night. It’s sad to leave my family behind, but great to go and see my mates
Whew that was a rough one to hear but makes me realize just how much is really involved in war and how much trauma people carry around and we dont even know
Also, hardly anyone ever mentions how many canine solders were abandoned in connection with the Vietman war. It still happens to this day during/after other wars. It makes me sick.
😂😂😂😂😂😂 that last part caught me off guard so bad! Spit out all my food, drink, stomach, lungs etc. Lmaoooo but ummm... lets stick to just podcasting and leave the singing to mariah yeah? Lol! you and ur podcasts are awesome! Keeps me going at work! Keep up the great work!
That reminds me of that line from jarhead: 36:47 “swafford! Are you the maggot whose daddy fought in Vietnam?” “Yes sir!” “Did he ever talk about it?” “Sir only once,sir!” “GOOD!! Then he wasn’t lying!”
just last year my Great Uncle Fred passed away due to cancer he got soon after being drafted into Vietnam i believe. never got to talk to him about it but we do know he was shot twice. so i can only imagine the battle he could have been in.
My dad was a Marine in Korea. He was going off patrol one day and found that the CO had visited the tent and knocked over the camp stove! He couldn't even grab his duffle just inside the door, it was that hot. Worse - another tent and the privy caught fire too!
New subscriber, love your content. Your voice is excellent, as well as reading. Is there any way to increase your volume? For those of us not using earplugs or headphones. Thanks so much.
My grandmas go-to scary story is about when she was in her twenties working at Macy’s she had a woman return a pair of “still new” underwear. She looked at the underwear and noticed a huge, brown stain. The woman’s explanation was that it was gravy she spilled. Idk how she managed to spill gravy in the booty of her underwear 🤔 haha.
My gparents rented an apartment for temp, 1 night they heard noises, & saw a man trying to break in through the sliding glass door. Burglar couldn't have known who was inside bc this when my grandpa stand up, the wanna be burglar ran off into the darkness. My grandpa was a star quarterback football player in college & big. The rest of the night was calm & quiet. The next AM the woman in the upstairs apt had been murdered. I found out after they'd died, so I couldn't ask more, but not hearing a murder upstairs had to be scary, & glad when their home was done.
My Chinese grandpa was born in 1940 and my grandma was born in 1941; both are originally from southern China. They were both born under Japanese occupation, grew up during WW2 and the Chinese Civil War and came of age under Mao. My grandpa's dad worked in Canada (we think he worked on the rail roads) to send money back to China so his family could buy a small plot of land for farming. He died at some time before 1949. My grandpa was 8 or 9 when Mao supporters tortured his family for owning a small plot of land; he was forced to kneel in broken glass and I think his mum was beaten up. Chinese culture views any psychological distress as a personal failing, so trauma and its impact isn't really acknowledged. I think my grandpa once went on a school trip were they waved at Kim-Il Sung, the leader of North Korea. I don't know much about my grandma's childhood other than she has a misshaped nose due to a dog biting her, meaning she was sent to school because it was assumed no man would marry her and she'd need to support herself. I think her family were fishers in southern China and her dad had two wives because polygamy was a status symbol in China at the time; this means that an already massive Asian family is even bigger and even more difficult to keep track of. Autism and ADHD may also run in my dad's family. My dad came to England with his two sisters and mum when he was 7 in 1974; my grandpa came over in 1969 to set up before he brought his family over from Hong Kong (which was then a British colony). My dad, his sisters and their cousin were frequently left alone all day while my grandparents ran a successful takeaway; the only adult in the house was their 80-year-old grandma who likely had dementia and probably couldn't really care for four young children. My dad was is eldest child and only son of my grandparents, so he was held in higher regard to his sisters. He was apparently a bully to his sisters while his sisters would fight each other; it sounded like a very difficult household. Their cousin was there because it used to be common to send kids over to other countries to live with relatives while their other family members sorted out immigration for themselves. However, I think the cousin's family ended up in America instead of England. My dad has family in America because my grandpa's cousin was allowed to emigrate there but my grandpa wasn't, which is why he came to England. I don't think any of my Chinese family who went to Hong Kong got there through entirely legal means, but border security wasn't so strict in the 1960s during the Great Leap Forwards. My dad is like his parents in that he's emotionally abusive and emotionally neglectful. He had a mental breakdown when me and my twin brother were born and is self employed because he's never been able to hold down a job. My mum is essentially a single parent because of how our dad acts. The cousin who lived with my grandparents became a Scientologist and I don't think anyone has heard from him for over 20 years. Cults prey on the vulnerable and those with difficult backgrounds, so I guess my dad's cousin was an ideal candidate for a cult. My mum is white and all my cousins are also half white and half Chinese. My grandparents originally wanted at least one child to keep the family line pure by marrying another Cantonese person (I think they were especially keen for their only son to do so because they wanted my dad to move back to Hong Kong despite my dad basically growing up in England). However, I think my grandparents love all us grandchildren regardless of us not being fully Chinese. I was told all this stuff by my mum because she's the only one who seems to acknowledge that my dad's family is fucked up by intergenerational trauma. I have no doubt that my grandparents love their children and I have no dount that my dad loves my brother and I, but I know that my dad didn't end the cycle of intergenerational trauma. To this day my grandparents' house is cold as if it's haunted by the ghosts of people that are still alive. BONUS STORY: There's a stereotype that Asians families seem to have an infinite number of cousins and that you won't know of one's existence until they literally turn up at your dinner table. This seems to be true for my dad's family as no one knows exactly how many cousins he has; they're also spread across Hong Kong, the USA, Australia and the UK. All I know of his American cousins is that one voted for Ronald Reagan twice and was confused that my dad, my mum and my dad's sister were stunned because Reagan in the UK was seen as a joke (this was in the 90s). Another American cousin avoided getting caught up in 9/11 because his alarm went off late and he didn't get to his job at the World Trade Center on time. My dad's American cousins were also American before they were Chinese in that they were exactly like stereotypical American tourists in London when they visited in the 90s.
I froze when the story of the persons grandfather being on cleanup. My grandfather was also in that line of duty and i wonder if my papaw served with yours in the navy?! Ive never heard anyone else who had someone in that specific task as well so my ears were glued.
Hey bolivian from first story! You are also American, and in La Quiaca, Argentina, we are too.. because we are in the same continent, America. Learn your geography. America is one huge landmass.
@@ametrineambrosia4929 America is not a country, is a continent. If you want to refer to that country you can say USA. I guess I'm talking with a child here? You must be accustom referring yourself that way, not blaming you. it is like instead of china, it is "united states of asia" and everyone there call themselves "asians" and the rest of Asia are other things like "east asia" or refer by their countries if it is India, the people are indians.. but for people from "US of Asia" they are not Asians, they are only Indians. Get it? They are Asians too. You can scream it all you want. Americans are everyone born and raised in this one big landmass. Bye.
@@cheesecake4648 Yeah no, that isn't true at all. America as a continent doesn't exist. There's North America and South America. The United States of America is a long ass name, which is understandably shortened to just America. When's the last time you heard someone refer to the United Kingdom as The United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Northern Ireland? Do you call Sri Lanka The Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka? What about The Federal Democratic Republic Of Ethiopia? How about the fact that Mexico is actually, literally, called The United Mexican States? The reason people are able to shorten it is because there's nothing else you can confuse them with. And if you were an educated person who knew that that the "continent of America" didn't exist, you'd know that shortening the USA to just America is perfectly fine.
I totally understand the first story's bolivian woman, in the link she has created and kept with this american man. She was part of his destiny and she can't ignore it.
I lost my hero grandpa 15 years ago. He was one that was always went to the reunion and could tell you the men's names that died until the end of his life. He was in his 80s. He was in WWII in demolition, he was pretty much deaf laying explosives. I think I was the only one that listened to his stories, and I think other either didn’t want to hear them or didn’t think he wanted to tell them. He told me censored stuff by that I mean no description of men blown up but he would pull up his pants and show me terrible burn and battle scars. He said when it happened all they had to do for it was to pour sulfur all over it. He said it made it worse and that he could still smell it even then. He was at the Battle of Leyte with the Dead eyes. They received a Presidential Citation. So many stories. That don’t make men like that anymore, we are the poorer for it
Bit of a random question, but can anyone point me in the direction of the psychonaut story on this channel. I heard it a while ago, but I am trying to listen to it again. I can't recall which video it is a part of.
My uncle was in the Army during WWII. Mom said when he came home, gramma burned all of his Army stuff because he kept having nightmares about the war. My cousin (his daughter) said he had the same nightmare his whole life about what happened to him in Europe during the war.
He went out on patrol one night with six other men, but they were all picked off one by one. My uncle was the only one who made it back to base.
The instant "oh god..." feeling I got when the last story started with a line about the grandpa being a vegetarian
My grandpa was a career Air Force vet and was flying at night in Nevada and suddenly saw the entire sky light up green. This was back in the 50's so likely he saw remnants of nuclear testing but still creepy AF to see the sky go from pitch black to green
That Vietnam war one, Grandpa was a hero indeed. We gotta stop associating heroism with recklessness and blind obedience. He took the logical route of prioritizing preserving lives of his men, not "winning" against the enemy. If that corporal wants to die battling the enemy, then he gets his wish dying firmly on that hill, grandpa just had to be the one to do it quicker. Grandpa is a hero, sadly just not in the way the establishment would want (i.e being another mindless meat to the grinder).
Came here to say the same 😎
Agreed.
This was fairly common in Vietnam too. Too many people worried about stars and would send their men to their death for no other reason. So good for those who stood up to command!
@@Mr.andMrs.Smith_0420same. There are likely countless instances like this one that go unsaid. There’s also a chance certain Army leadership would have understood that and left it alone. That’s one of the saddest things about combat is when you have to stop one of your own from causing harm the only way you know how. Grandpa did what he had to and made the hardest decision to be made in a split second.
I'm British but whenever I hear about the Vietnam War, I always feel really bad for everyone involved. It's not like many even had a choice in going over there, and what were they fighting for anyway? The Establishment never sends their kids to fight in a war, so they never care about everyone who doesn't have a choice.
My English grandpa was conscripted in WW2 from his children's home and helped liberate a labour camp. What he saw was apparently so terrible that he never spoke of it right up until his premature death in 1977 aged 52 from a heart attack (my mum was 10).
My Chinese grandparents were children during WW2 but were born under Japanese occupation in southern China. War just destroys people yet it gets glorified.
Both my grandparents passed away this fall and this is my first Christmas without them. It’s sad, but it made me smile when I remembered the stories they told. It was always the same exact stories every year (they had long since forgotten they told it) told around the Christmas dinner table as if it was the hottest gossip despite the events happening decades ago.
Sorry for your Loss.
I'm sorry for your loss. Cherish your memories together.
It leaves such a hole. Mine passed years ago, and as I aged, I wish I'd thought to ask them about their stories.
I LOVED MY GRANDMA LAMBERT. SHE WAS THE MOM I WISH WAS MINE.
HER YOUNGEST DAUGHTER SHERRI ( 😅ONLY 6 YRS OLDER AND SHE WAS MY AUNT ). SHERRI AND HER BOYFRIEND HAD A BABY BOY NAMED JOHN AFTER MY GRANDPA 👴 💙. GPA WAS IN THE WW1 AND IT STOLE HIS HEARING. NOT COMPLETELY DEAF BUT ALMOST. I ADORED HIM AND AS THE LITTLE RED HAIRED SHY LITTLE GIRL 👧 I HAD HIM WRAPPED AROUND MY FINGER BECAUSE HE LET ME. LOL 😆 I MISS MY GRANDMA AND GPA. THEY WERE SO MUCH LIKE PARENTS TO ME AND I LOVED THEM MORE THAN LIFE. ❤❤
Grandparents stories are one of my favourites, so heartbreaking yet interesting
Exactly
I miss my dad and grandparents so much, I always wish I heard their stories when I could appreciate them more. This was nice, thank you
Merry Christmas 🎄 Hope you get to see Die hard awesome Christmas 🎄 movie 🍿
Yep, one and two lol. Merry Christmas ⛄
I think 💬 you should do more podcasts on vets and their war stories.
My Grandma once told me her Uncle fought in the War but was taken to a Concentration Camp, and when he was released and returned, he looked as thin as a Skeleton due to starvation. True Story of hers. War can mess you up a lot.
@user-vd3rk1et9uGo away you ignorant troll. If you don't know that Prisoner's of War are a real thing - you didn't even finish Junior High School.
Before my grandma's dementia took its tole, she use to tell me all kinds of ghost stories she experienced while growing up in Puerto Rico. I miss our talks.
Omg can you recall some of these stories?? This is history in the making!
I hit the like button for the “All I want for Christmas is yooooouuuu.” Haha wasn’t expecting that, but I loved it ❤😂
Aaah, the family all just left, wonderful Christmas, but time to relax and listen. Thank you Lets Read. ❤ Patty
Completely agree. Perfect Christmas gift from Joel!
I just can't get enough of this channel. I'm so intrigued by these stories. Though I play it to help me drift off to Joel's soothing voice, I don't want to miss a thing, but invariably, I drift off. I appreciate your channel so much. Thank you ❤
That first one was very well written and the last comment the grandma makes is beautiful and true.
Merry Christmas Joel, I hope you had an awesome Christmas.
Merry Christmas to you too, Jacob! I hope you and your family enjoyed every minute of it. 🙂💙🎄🎅🤶❄️
Merry Christmas to you and your family!
@@bubzilla6137 We did, my 3-year-old son opened his present and he was overcome with joy because I brought him a Triple H wrestling figure. This was a special one because it played Triple H’s WrestleMania 22 entrance theme The King of Kings by Motorhead. He hugged me. I enjoyed my Christmas.
Oh wow, this is probably my new favorite. I could go for a whole series of these! I think many of us probably have stories like this from our grandparents. I know I've got a few.
Thank you so much. Ever since I found this my sleep has become deep and I don't wake up every hour at night. This really helps ☺☺☺☺☺
Merry Christmas let's listeners. Keep It frightful
Merry Christmas to you and your family
It's xmas and you still posted!? You're amazing
This is the best Christmas gift ever! Also the best way to end Christmas, another video from the best of the best. I hope you had an awesome Christmas joel! Now it’s time to lay down & drift away to some stories 😌😌
I think the stories from people’s grandparents are my favorites to listen to on the channel. There’s just so much history behind them and I like to listen to them despite the tragedy that comes with a lot of them.
It’s just very fascinating to me.
The ending got me soo bad 😂😂😂😂😂 Merry Christmas to you too😂❤
I was in awe with these stories. This video seemed to entrance me more than most scary stories I've heard. I've never been so quickly taken out of a trance as I did with that last line 😂
That last story is horrifying. And that's just as a listener. I couldn't imagine being the child who had to witness such a thing. I truly hope the author of that story is and will continue to live a healthy life 💯
Just became a grandma (mawmaw) this summer. I cant wait to take babygirl hiking and exploring with me.
Congratulations! You dont look much like old enough to be a grandmom.
Loving the snapshot! The oldie next to Skeletor!.... Ok I'm twisted....
I have a story. My great grandma at about age 80 told me about a big bbq she attended once in Saskatchewan when she was about 17. She thought it was just a nice picnic and bbq but it turned out to be an entire KKK event and had speakers talking
about white power and keeping the race pure,ect. The more disturbing events happened as the sun went down. She told me about this in such a calm manner. It' motivated me to do some research and i discovered that high up klan members travelled North in the 1800s from the south to settle here and form the provincial governments, courts, and the RCMP in Canada. They are still active to this day. That was one of the more disturbing stories. 😢
Omg l can't even imagine how she must've felt when she realized what it really was!! 😲
I think we even had the KKK in Britain at one point, or at least people who supported it. It was actually more in the mid 20th century.
Well, did she join?
Jesus, what a bunch a cretins?
@heavymetalredneck7973 I would think not, or i probably would've never been born. Rest in peace Great Grandma. ❤️ 😍 💖
My Nona told me horrific stories from the old country, Sicily , so matter of factly, it was srupefying. I will never forget these stories. I won't even repeat them, to the rest of the family, to verify them.
My grandparents (RIP) have also told us about the scary things they've been through too.
So tell us..
@@kayleighporter173Fr right what was the point of that
Rip but can u tell us?
Cool story I don't believe you.
Too American these stories so instantly not believable.
Wow! Illinois is crazy!!😂 We have some crazy stuff here in Texas as well.
OMG - I thought it was just us! I wonder if there's a competition somewhere?
Merry Christmas to everyone out there, from Canada!
Ontario here!
Vancouver here, happy belated Xmas friends
@@elizabethj8917 your a singer Elizabeth?
@@franksanderson494 you could say that. A side thing.
Your voice sounds very good and you look good too.
Hope you all have a great Christmas, we’re leaving Katherine today and flying to Sydney tomorrow night.
It’s sad to leave my family behind, but great to go and see my mates
🎄🌟🎁🎄Hope you had a great holiday Joel !!🎄🎁🌟🎄
Merry Christmas Joel and Everyone!!! 🎅🌲☃️🙏
Epic timing 🎉
Whew that was a rough one to hear but makes me realize just how much is really involved in war and how much trauma people carry around and we dont even know
Happy Holidays! Thank you!😊
This was an amazing set of stories. Please do more of these.
BRO NEVER STOPSSSS
Merry Christmas!
Hey Joel! I hope you are having an amazing Christmas 🌟🎄✨
God bless you, keep you healthy and safe 🙏❤️🙏
Much love ❤️
Another great one.
Merry Christmas joel I appreciate you Thank you for releasing one on Christmas.!
We love you! Don't ever leave us
great video
It's only been up for 11 min and you responded 9 min ago.... I'm sure it's a great video but there's no way you can 100% know that yet lol
@@JoseGarcia-jl2zq there are ways the most likely is they are a patron member
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@@JoseGarcia-jl2zq You thought u ate I was just saying the video was going to be great
❤❤Thanks Joel, hope your having a great Christmas, keep up all the amazing work❤❤
Merry Christmas Joel. I truly hope yours was wonderful.
Also, hardly anyone ever mentions how many canine solders were abandoned in connection with the Vietman war. It still happens to this day during/after other wars. It makes me sick.
Thank you Joel.
These have got to be the best stories, I have ever heard. Wow, Great job. NO GHOSTS, NO PARANORMAL ACTIVITY, ETC. Thank you.
😂😂😂😂😂😂 that last part caught me off guard so bad! Spit out all my food, drink, stomach, lungs etc. Lmaoooo but ummm... lets stick to just podcasting and leave the singing to mariah yeah? Lol! you and ur podcasts are awesome! Keeps me going at work! Keep up the great work!
The first story is so heartbreaking
Christmas DAY upload?! Dedicated 👏👌
The last story. God, gives me chills.
Has anyone ever listened to this? Totally awake and able to? That's ridiculous what they say I love it
Merry Christmas Joel and my LR family 💓
I really hope one of these is similar to "When i was your age we had to walk uphill both ways to school"
This was an excellent topic! 👏👏👏
That reminds me of that line from jarhead: 36:47 “swafford! Are you the maggot whose daddy fought in Vietnam?” “Yes sir!” “Did he ever talk about it?” “Sir only once,sir!” “GOOD!! Then he wasn’t lying!”
Lmao the ending 😂😂😂 I almost spit out my tea
Let’s read on Christmas night?? Best gift of the day right here! We love you Joel thank you and happy new year!
just last year my Great Uncle Fred passed away due to cancer he got soon after being drafted into Vietnam i believe. never got to talk to him about it but we do know he was shot twice. so i can only imagine the battle he could have been in.
My dad was a Marine in Korea. He was going off patrol one day and found that the CO had visited the tent and knocked over the camp stove! He couldn't even grab his duffle just inside the door, it was that hot. Worse - another tent and the privy caught fire too!
Merry Christmas Joel !! ❄️☃️🎄🧑🏻🎄🎅🏻🛷❤️
Tough call to make, taking one of your own. But ultimately it was the right call. Even in hindsight.
The grandparents stories are brutal but necessary👍
"In my day we still went to school even if we had a single snowflake"
Truly a spine-tingling story if if I ever heard one...
It's crap nowadays because online learning now means that we don't get proper snow days, or at least it did in 2021.
That Vietnam story made me cry
Nutt ❤
Merry Christmas 🎄
New subscriber, love your content. Your voice is excellent, as well as reading. Is there any way to increase your volume? For those of us not using earplugs or headphones. Thanks so much.
Another great collection of stories!!
Thanks Joel! 👏🎉
My grandmas go-to scary story is about when she was in her twenties working at Macy’s she had a woman return a pair of “still new” underwear. She looked at the underwear and noticed a huge, brown stain. The woman’s explanation was that it was gravy she spilled. Idk how she managed to spill gravy in the booty of her underwear 🤔 haha.
😂😂😂😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂😂 nasty ass lady gravy 😮
That is a wholly different sort of horror, but I am aghast xD
Wow...that was the moment she had to really look at that woman and decide to herself ....what is life all about?
The ending 🤣🤍
Nice job, good narration and excellent stories.
Oh my gosh the first story said the name of the town like 7 times within the first minute.
The end I love you😂😂😂😂
Love the speakers narration and never change that sound after each story ends😂
Great story choice!
Soooo much love for ya man!❤
Wow! That last story 😬
Merry Christmas Joel 🎄☃️
My gparents rented an apartment for temp, 1 night they heard noises, & saw a man trying to break in through the sliding glass door. Burglar couldn't have known who was inside bc this when my grandpa stand up, the wanna be burglar ran off into the darkness. My grandpa was a star quarterback football player in college & big. The rest of the night was calm & quiet. The next AM the woman in the upstairs apt had been murdered. I found out after they'd died, so I couldn't ask more, but not hearing a murder upstairs had to be scary, & glad when their home was done.
My Chinese grandpa was born in 1940 and my grandma was born in 1941; both are originally from southern China. They were both born under Japanese occupation, grew up during WW2 and the Chinese Civil War and came of age under Mao.
My grandpa's dad worked in Canada (we think he worked on the rail roads) to send money back to China so his family could buy a small plot of land for farming. He died at some time before 1949.
My grandpa was 8 or 9 when Mao supporters tortured his family for owning a small plot of land; he was forced to kneel in broken glass and I think his mum was beaten up. Chinese culture views any psychological distress as a personal failing, so trauma and its impact isn't really acknowledged.
I think my grandpa once went on a school trip were they waved at Kim-Il Sung, the leader of North Korea.
I don't know much about my grandma's childhood other than she has a misshaped nose due to a dog biting her, meaning she was sent to school because it was assumed no man would marry her and she'd need to support herself. I think her family were fishers in southern China and her dad had two wives because polygamy was a status symbol in China at the time; this means that an already massive Asian family is even bigger and even more difficult to keep track of.
Autism and ADHD may also run in my dad's family. My dad came to England with his two sisters and mum when he was 7 in 1974; my grandpa came over in 1969 to set up before he brought his family over from Hong Kong (which was then a British colony). My dad, his sisters and their cousin were frequently left alone all day while my grandparents ran a successful takeaway; the only adult in the house was their 80-year-old grandma who likely had dementia and probably couldn't really care for four young children.
My dad was is eldest child and only son of my grandparents, so he was held in higher regard to his sisters. He was apparently a bully to his sisters while his sisters would fight each other; it sounded like a very difficult household. Their cousin was there because it used to be common to send kids over to other countries to live with relatives while their other family members sorted out immigration for themselves. However, I think the cousin's family ended up in America instead of England.
My dad has family in America because my grandpa's cousin was allowed to emigrate there but my grandpa wasn't, which is why he came to England. I don't think any of my Chinese family who went to Hong Kong got there through entirely legal means, but border security wasn't so strict in the 1960s during the Great Leap Forwards.
My dad is like his parents in that he's emotionally abusive and emotionally neglectful. He had a mental breakdown when me and my twin brother were born and is self employed because he's never been able to hold down a job. My mum is essentially a single parent because of how our dad acts.
The cousin who lived with my grandparents became a Scientologist and I don't think anyone has heard from him for over 20 years. Cults prey on the vulnerable and those with difficult backgrounds, so I guess my dad's cousin was an ideal candidate for a cult.
My mum is white and all my cousins are also half white and half Chinese. My grandparents originally wanted at least one child to keep the family line pure by marrying another Cantonese person (I think they were especially keen for their only son to do so because they wanted my dad to move back to Hong Kong despite my dad basically growing up in England). However, I think my grandparents love all us grandchildren regardless of us not being fully Chinese.
I was told all this stuff by my mum because she's the only one who seems to acknowledge that my dad's family is fucked up by intergenerational trauma. I have no doubt that my grandparents love their children and I have no dount that my dad loves my brother and I, but I know that my dad didn't end the cycle of intergenerational trauma.
To this day my grandparents' house is cold as if it's haunted by the ghosts of people that are still alive.
BONUS STORY:
There's a stereotype that Asians families seem to have an infinite number of cousins and that you won't know of one's existence until they literally turn up at your dinner table. This seems to be true for my dad's family as no one knows exactly how many cousins he has; they're also spread across Hong Kong, the USA, Australia and the UK. All I know of his American cousins is that one voted for Ronald Reagan twice and was confused that my dad, my mum and my dad's sister were stunned because Reagan in the UK was seen as a joke (this was in the 90s). Another American cousin avoided getting caught up in 9/11 because his alarm went off late and he didn't get to his job at the World Trade Center on time.
My dad's American cousins were also American before they were Chinese in that they were exactly like stereotypical American tourists in London when they visited in the 90s.
Christ wtf is that playlist
Thank you for your family history.
I froze when the story of the persons grandfather being on cleanup. My grandfather was also in that line of duty and i wonder if my papaw served with yours in the navy?! Ive never heard anyone else who had someone in that specific task as well so my ears were glued.
Marry Christmas Joel
The cover with the old ppl....the picture of the skeletal lady and creepy old dude is seriously giving me the willies. Like a poop knife
thank you joel!!
Merry Christmas 🌲🎅⛄
All I want for Christmas... IS YEwWW 💅
Wow this was a really good one!
MERRY CHRISTMAS! who else is watching this while eating christmas dinner?
I suggest you skip the last story, come back and read it tomorrow (and when you are not eating!). Just trust me on this. Merry Christmas!
@@leslie6938 yeah ok cool
Hey bolivian from first story! You are also American, and in La Quiaca, Argentina, we are too.. because we are in the same continent, America. Learn your geography. America is one huge landmass.
Duh. It meant America as in the COUNTRY. United States of AMERICA. Ever heard of it?!!
@@ametrineambrosia4929 America is not a country, is a continent. If you want to refer to that country you can say USA.
I guess I'm talking with a child here? You must be accustom referring yourself that way, not blaming you.
it is like instead of china, it is "united states of asia" and everyone there call themselves "asians" and the rest of Asia are other things like "east asia" or refer by their countries if it is India, the people are indians.. but for people from "US of Asia" they are not Asians, they are only Indians. Get it? They are Asians too.
You can scream it all you want.
Americans are everyone born and raised in this one big landmass.
Bye.
@@cheesecake4648 I'll refer to my birth country is it fking is!! Sorry you failed Social Studies. Next you'll say the moon is a planet.
@@cheesecake4648 Yeah no, that isn't true at all. America as a continent doesn't exist. There's North America and South America.
The United States of America is a long ass name, which is understandably shortened to just America. When's the last time you heard someone refer to the United Kingdom as The United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Northern Ireland? Do you call Sri Lanka The Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka? What about The Federal Democratic Republic Of Ethiopia? How about the fact that Mexico is actually, literally, called The United Mexican States?
The reason people are able to shorten it is because there's nothing else you can confuse them with. And if you were an educated person who knew that that the "continent of America" didn't exist, you'd know that shortening the USA to just America is perfectly fine.
I totally understand the first story's bolivian woman, in the link she has created and kept with this american man. She was part of his destiny and she can't ignore it.
That damn picture is freaking me out! 😂🙈
I hope none of these involve dentures 😬 😂
This got a laugh out of me 😂
Joel's working holiday hours. He gets double pay today! Merry Christmas, all! 🎅🎄
First story: “I’m a business man visiting here….”. Scarier words have never been spoken. 😂
I lost my hero grandpa 15 years ago. He was one that was always went to the reunion and could tell you the men's names that died until the end of his life. He was in his 80s. He was in WWII in demolition, he was pretty much deaf laying explosives. I think I was the only one that listened to his stories, and I think other either didn’t want to hear them or didn’t think he wanted to tell them. He told me censored stuff by that I mean no description of men blown up but he would pull up his pants and show me terrible burn and battle scars. He said when it happened all they had to do for it was to pour sulfur all over it. He said it made it worse and that he could still smell it even then. He was at the Battle of Leyte with the Dead eyes. They received a Presidential Citation. So many stories. That don’t make men like that anymore, we are the poorer for it
I want my cake Videla!
Bit of a random question, but can anyone point me in the direction of the psychonaut story on this channel. I heard it a while ago, but I am trying to listen to it again.
I can't recall which video it is a part of.
I wanna say it’s true scary drug stories? Or maybe I’m tripping lol