3 people saw something NO ONE else could, right before they VANISHED
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- Опубликовано: 14 май 2024
- 3 college students go missing under strange conditions. The Brandon Swanson, Ronald Tammen & Brian Schaffer story.
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If MrBallen ever goes missing, number 1 suspect should definitely be the Like Button.
Love that
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That button is suspect.
Hahaha amatures while you all look at the like button its truly the subscribe button all along
😂 For sure! That like button better have a good alibi.
I cant imagine being Brandens parents on the phone with him as he makes sounds of distress followed by completely disappearing. I would never be able to get over that as a mom, so disturbing
Ikr. Really that is horrible. It would consume me.
I know right I could never
Ikr. I can barely get over it as a sympathetic stranger! How horrible!
@@Janellabelle Yeah it's horrible!
It might have been a dangerous person just waiting for anyone to walk down that path.. for whatever reason and suddenly attacked? We will probably never know for sure
He probably fell. He walked right off some sort of a cliff or into a ravine. Wasn’t an animal or person attack or you would have heard the animal and him struggling. Heading “oh shit” is the kind of thing you would hear as someone stumbles and falls off something. The fall then either killed him or knocked him unconscious and he died later
Storytelling like this is a lost art - I NEVER thought I could listen to someone tell a story for 15 to 30 minutes and KEEP my attention - yet I have watched LOTS of videos for the last SEVERAL WEEKS and have enjoyed EVERY one of them !?!?! What a pleasant surprise that I am actually enjoying a lost art - excellent work , Mr. Ballen - bravo !!
Why do you think it's a lost art, out of curiosity?
Storytelling is a near-daily part of my job, to be honest, and it's something I've worked to improve and expand over the last twelve years. I only discovered MrBallen's channel a couple weeks ago, but it's made me think I should start a YT channel of my own. I love telling stories; I also love writing them, though I wouldn't presume to put my own work into the sorts of storytelling videos I have considered creating.
Public storytelling--especially of MrBallen's level of quality--is a serious rarity, I'll grant, but that's about changes in socialization styles, the ubiquity of screens and the internet, the decrease in the number of close friends the average person has, the decreased time people spend with their families, and a lack of community bonds (possible a lack of serviceable venues...like neighborhood pubs, eg.) Thankfully, YT is catalyzing a spoken-word revolution the same way Gutenberg catalyzed a written-word revolution.
Even watching the same ones when there are other stories out there I haven't heard. They just can't hold my attention. Especially if I'm down in the dumps. I can only listen to mr ballen to keep my attention
@@MrBrachiatingApe TikTok probably, people's attention span has shorten and can only watch 6 second videos now 😅
@@frogueThief sad but true. Most ppl have the attention span of a potato.
This isn't a lost art because it's not art. He's not creating these stories. He's basically reading Unsolved Mysteries episodes orally. These are all rea newsl stories.
Brandon's case is actually why you don't have to wait to report adults missing nowadays. They had trouble getting police to respond initially and had officers been out there, it's possible he could have been found.
Hello do you believe in Jesus?
That is not true.
In most states you STILL have to wait 24 hrs before they'll initiate an actual investigation. It varies by state.
In Germany, they mostly don't even accept a missing child report if the kid is a teenager. When my eldest son was gone when only 11 years old, the police automatically supposed he had run off because of some quarrel at home. They also asked me whether my son was somehow disabled, because then they would have searched. Only after I threatened them to report their passivity when an 11 year old child goes missing, and that I would inform media right away also, did they slooowly move on to have two cops actively search for my son.
@lisasternenkind6467 Was he OK?
Shocking that the police didn't want to look. Are they lazy or some other reason?
Brandons parents leaving the light on for him literally breaks my heart 😭😭
Right? 😭😭😭
Their love is like motel 6 😥
What about the damn electric bill😭
@@KM-ts6co you sound like my wife.
Yeah I was like that's stupid then at the exact same moment my mind flashed with them being distraught. Then having their child go missing to not even have his body found no closure. Forever wondering where is my baby boy is he alive is he ok is he afraid can he ever come back home. Probably dying still wondering where is my child which just breaks my heart. I think about my son and what I would do to someone or something that ever took my boy. The endless obsession of trying to discover where he is or what happened.
"They leave the porch light on in hopes he'll find it" that's so heartbreaking.
this really made me feel sad for them :(
Hero of the day, “the window burns to light the way back home, a light that warms, no matter where they’ve gone.” Very sad 😞
Very much so, can’t imagine anything worse than your kid going missing
So lame
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A story that mirrors Brandons:
Years ago I had my drink spiked. I was a few hundred miles away from home. I was walking in a field, seeing lights ahead of me and in my mind I was walking towards a place back home. Visually it was that place. I called my parents and they were so convinced I was at this location they were out looking for me. I was pleading at one point - asking why they weren't picking me up. Of course - I was walking in a field and later a village several hundred miles away. I don't know what I was spiked with but it was weird. Had something happened to me, like Brandon, the police would have been looking back home and NOT at the other end of the country. They would have said 'he sounded sobre' on the phone. scary.
Sounds like someone putting g datura in people's fast food around mountains. Sounds similar to trip reports of it.
How in the world has this comment not gained more attention? This sounds almost exactly like Brandon’s and is very disturbing and puzzling. I feel like if someone could figure out what you were spiked with, it might solve Brandon’s case. He probably was spiked with the same thing, didn’t realize it and didn’t feel he was spiked at all, and his story went into mysterious legend. And, most likely, it would seem like the lights might have just been something emitting light from somewhere that seemed much more stronger because of you all be spiked and in your case, you survived, but in Brandon’s, it was probably a car hit him and whoever did, probably just hide it up so well that it looked like he just disappeared for good. I mean, like another comment on here said, saying “oh s**t” is the type of thing that someone would say if they were hit by a car.
I've had my drinks spiked on 3 occasions, I've never remotely appeared anything close to sober. I'm 52 now and don't go out anymore, but I find it hard to believe anyone could sound sober, although I suppose it would depend what your drin ws spiked with, but in all cases I was more out of it, as confirmed by friend, than I ever recall I was with being drunk. Those around you may have a different recollection of your appearance than you did 😉
@@sherilumley5498Different people can have wildly different reactions to substances, including sedatives, and when you factor in dosage, tolerance, any other substances in their body (ie: alcohol), not to mention the 100’s-1000’s of different drugs that could be used to spike someone’s food/drink, the results will vary dramatically. People report blacking out on benzodiazepines and hypnotics, making extremely rash decisions like driving across country or buying 10,000 pounds of chocolate on the internet, only to “wake up” two days later to find that nobody in their life had any idea they were under the influence of anything.
I’m sorry to hear about your experiences with being drugged, but glad your friends were able to recognize the signs due to your reactions. That isn’t an indicator of what someone else’s experience might be though.
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The strangest thing about Brandon's case to me is he gave his parents directions to "where he was", how could he have done that if he was nowhere in the area? The idea that he could have been so disoriented that he had completely gone the wrong direction but at the same time had the certainity and clarity to relay proper directions to where he thought he was is baffling. And then the fact that they never even found his car.
I seriously don’t understand why Police or parents or whomever don’t contact psychics they could find out what the story was in five minutes.
The car was found the next day. In that other town 25 miles from where he thought he was and that's where his phone pinged.
I think its a simple case of Brandon thinking he knows where he is but he is actually lost without realising it. Gave the correct directions, just to the wrong place. Left his car, either ran into someone or something in the road or simply fell in a ditch whilst walking towards some random lights he sees.
@@joeflint7112still couldn’t find him though
@@sherrykrause3410bro what are you talking about
I'm always taken aback by the amount of "friends" who just leave someone somewhere without having any clue of if they are alright.
True but for the cases that happened in the late 90’s I can personally vouch that it was “a different time”. Looking back, I probably couldn’t gone missing easily at least a dozen times because if friends leaving/not knowing where their friends are as I leave a bar.
We all just assume our friends went off to get laid or something. We are not eachothers babysitters, lol.
One of my buddies drunkenly out of just complete frustration left a bar one night. I walked with him trying to get him to calm down. A police officer was no help when I tried to ask for a lil. He'd rather take us to the station. 8 miles we walked. Hearing all this and all the back roads we were in that night. Makes me wonder if I hadn't....
I frequently leave friends and they frequently leave me when we are hanging out or out drinking. Part of our rules is if no one is going to be DD then no one drives to the club/bar/etc but other than that we are grown men, not eachothers baby sitters
Good on ya! No soldier left behind.
NEVER separate from your friends, if u arrive together u should leave together!! never let your friend leave by themselves! never leave a man behind.
Hey, I saw u in that video with Emily rose. U didnt watch through that video entirely. Just something random lmao
@@van5395 LOL! yup that was me. i was binge watching his videos so i was randomly making comments.
Rah.
Unless ur buddy gets lucky with a lady is the exception
Duh
If only Brandon and his parents had honked their car horns in addition to flashing their headlights, they might have realised they were nowhere near each other and made a different plan. I hope they find their son; I can't imagine the pain.
Unfortunately his mom dies and a few months later a tree fell on his dad which resulted in his death also this story is sad in every way possibly I only hope they were able to reunite in heaven
@@Tito_Tv_Prwow. Such a series of odd disappearances and deaths.
About Brandon. Walking through bushes at night is very dangerous. My immediate thought was he fell into a ravine that was hidden by bushes. In fact there was a river nearby, so he could have fallen in. They have looked in the river several times over the years, but no body has been found. I feel sorry for his family. It must have been terrible for them.
"Cliff" was my thought as well but it would be nonsensical for a road to just suddenly drop off into a ravine
@@CrystalRaye Its Minnesota, there are not cliffs, its completely flat!
I think too it’s a tragic accident. Maybe he tried to reach those lights, started running in the dark in a field and fell into something. He was heard saying “oh shit” that would make sense. My grand father told me how he once almost got “swallowed” by a large unnoticeable patch of mud while walking in a field. He told me if his brother had not been here to help him, he would have disappeared in the ground buried in that mud and no one would never have guessed what happened to him. My dad is a farmer and also have a couple of stories about rescuing cows or sheeps getting half buried in mud. Clear water gives back bodies but heavy mud wouldn’t, after it get dry you can stay in there forever.
@@EQ_EnchantXdefinitely not true. We have very steep ravines and cliffs. Don’t know if he was near one but it’s possible.
@@awilliamsdundee Sure there are some, but western Minnesota is the flattest spot on the planet!
This man has a gift. It is rare for people to tell stories that keep you hooked.
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I think it's because he doesn't try to be spooky about it, he's casual but still keeps the mood and just overall very genuine about it, something about that is very charming
And you can listen to his voice for hours without getting sick of him talking
@@MyceliumTV9932 it shouldn't be answered party pooper
@@ar7612 what, I'm not allowed to show my appreciation for an awesome story teller?
That porch light detail really hits different at the end of the first one😭 so sad
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For real I can't even imagine that I'd be searching the location for the rest of my life for my son
I first heard of parents doing that for the little girl in Springfield, MO
It's common when you have no closure.
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I was in graduate school when Brian disappeared. I remember thinking that he probably ended up getting attacked by somebody who worked at the bar or similar. I don’t think they’ll ever find his body and it’s too bad that his parents have passed away.
I was nodding off when "oh s**t," was yelled and it scared the crap out of me lmfao
Interesting how he edits out absolutely *any* slight pauses in his stories, to keep the flow smooth and engaging. Nicely done.
He has professional relaxation. He valuably is clear and distinct with direct narration, but he doesn’t skip words and have larger words to include them, he doesn’t have complete objective and formal words, he tells the stories like an experience which is very intelligent.
Damn he's such a great narrator i didn't realize he skips till u mentioned it xD
He has an editor guys. Very well story telling but his editor is the unsung hero.
@@bowmanbrent419 the editing is on point
@TiddyBlaster Alright kid, don’t see you having a successful AF platform that’s grown faster than almost any other RUclips channel in history. Let us know when you have more than family following you. With a name like that, I doubt they even do it by choice.
"He ends up getting into a minor accident"(2:33)...then shows a clip of a car flying down a steep wooded hill at 90mph. Classic!
Hahahah
yea, I watch the videos multiple times to catch all the little pieces i miss. The videos are a great source of entertainment.
@@MrBallen Yo mayne, love your stories, I figure you should know these people are stealing your work and ripping you off,
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@Stephen Murphy yea that's why I'm trying to let him know... Unless Mr ballen is working with SoS facts they screwing him
LOL I frequently have these on while cooking or doing dishes so I’m listening but not necessarily watching. Glad I saw this comment so I could go back and watch that part 😂👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
The second story sounds like he had a psychotic break, I’ve read about these things happening - people appear completely normal, live life normally, then one day just ran away and disappear. There’s a story about a girl whom her parents said she was acting completely normal then disappeared one day only to be discovered years later still wearing the same clothes she left in (all tattered and beaten up ofc) and later they found out she had late stage schizophrenia and lived on the street and forests the whole time she was gone. I’m wondering if that happened to him and maybe he was just never found again. The psych book opened up may explain he was trying to look up his own symptoms but as he was reading his schizophrenia really kicked in and he ran away. Marilyn Monroe and her own mother suffered from the same condition and both were late stage too not showing signs until late into adulthood
I don’t know if it was schizophrenia but theres this other girl who was found dead floating in the ocean who went missing and was living on the streets i think? I think she was a teacher and one day just wandered off. Very sad
I was thinking that but who put the fish in his bed? Either he did it to himself and didn’t remember or someone was messing with him. I wonder if someone was cruelly “pranking” him making him doubt his sanity/safety to the point that he ran away and didn’t look back. He was in college and a frat guy after all, I wonder if it was some sort of hazing gone wrong. I also thought it was interesting he lived in “fisher hall” and there was a dead fish. And the hall used to be an insane asylum. I feel like either he was influenced and triggered by those facts or someone was messing with him due to those circumstances.
What puzzles me is if no one ever seen him again how do we know about any sound in the hall or wherever. 🤔
I worked with the criminally illl. Saw one break..it was bad..he went on to be a MONSTER...walked FREELY until he attacked a woman and stabbed her 37 times
“I read a little about it, therefore I know everything” what a fool
I lost my dad to a myocardial infarction when I was a freshman in medical school. It was unexpected, as he was only 56. It only strengthened my resolve to help families avoid similar fates, so it made me buckle down and study even harder in medical school. I can only imagine that Brian's loss of his mother would have created a similar resolve in him. Truly an inexplicable disappearance.
Loss definitely does not inspire resolve or determination in everyone. In fact i would say it’s the minority. Also, just say heart attack - most people probably don’t know what an MI is.
Brian's Dad, who had lost his wife and then his son....was killed 2 years after his son vanished when a tree fell on him outside his home.
The whole story of this family is so heartbreaking.
Damn R.I.P.
WoW
SAD. Thnx for the update.
Perhaps appropos or fate? Lets not forget Karma.
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I’ve been watching him for 14hours straight and don’t regret it.he is amazing at telling stories who else watches him as they fall asleep
I totally binged on Mr Ballen too! ❤️🙂👍
Nononono... I stop watching before it gets dark😬
@@NoName-xo9sk haha is it just me but I feel if you induce bad dreams and overcome them your mind feels allot more clear and lighter it’s the same as saying you see a scary looking dude with tattoos everywhere and a massive scar on his face and you walk up to him and ask what he does for a living and the meanest looking guy actually studies flowers therefore you should never be afraid of the scary figure in your nightmares unless you personally know why you should be scared of it.
@@gdkpakman7112 I cant even watch Walking Dead at night or I'm being chased by zombies all night long in my dreams...LOL but I still love this stuff
What snacks you got?!? 😊🥳
Brian probably died inside the Ugly Tuna. Has there ever been a thorough search, including of the walls?
Yep
If he died inside the ugly tuna, I'm thinking he was carried out in trash bags... a bar employee carrying trash bags out of the bar and towards the dumpsters past closing time wouldn't raise too many suspicion. Maybe the bartender or one of the other staff was secretly a serial killer or psychopath, and ended up befriending him, invited him to a private or staff-only area without witnesses or cameras asked him to stay and talk past closing time, maybe offered some free drinks, then attacked him once everyone else had left.
It'll keep haunting me and thinking about what the hell on earth, Brandon Swanson saw during his last moments.
What only I can say is that Brandon didn't screamed in horror but only said "Oh, Sh*t !" in distress which means the thing was no alien (at least for him) he knew it and just wasn't expecting it to be there and at the same time knew the encounter is fatal !
Stay in peace Brandon (wherever you are ?) 🥶🙏
But what if it is truly an alien? Or something weird like that?
@purpleclique I'd say something along the lines of"oh my fucking Gid help me" something that caused me intense fear. "Holy shit" isn't it. I agree with what the OP said. Definitely something familiar but he realized "Oh fuck" for whatever reason he's now missing 😢
That first story - the parents keeping the porch light on for their son ... fucking heart-breaking.😞
...Because he wouldn't find them otherwise? What kind of insane logic is that?
@@googleuser9383 there is none, they want their son back and i guess in some way its a beacon to help him find his way back home, a bit irrational but i can understand why they do it
@@googleuser9383 it's logical...it's mostly emotional but it's logical too. If on the off chance he does return home, the light is a way for his family to show him they haven't forgotten about him. That would be a comforting thought for him when he got there. Makes perfect logical sense to me.
It gives me gas! Bloated!
my son used to drive nights, and would call me at 2a and we'd chat. Before that, he started work at 7a, and he'd come over for breakfast every morning before work at 6a weekdays. He was killed in 2016. To this DAY I leave the phone on at night for his call, and wake up at 2a. I also wake up at 6 and unlock the door. I know he's not ever coming back, it just makes me feel he's not forgotten.
I feel terrible for Brian's father. He just lost his wife to cancer, and then his son is now missing under baffling circumstances. That's horrible. I hope that all of these people are found.
Sadly, the father died by a tree fall in a wind storm accident just a couple of years after Brian went missing: www.10tv.com/article/news/father-missing-ohio-state-student-killed-storm/530-a8fa6b37-3cbb-45f5-ae4a-8dc925c91c8e
@@MrAn0nym0us damn it’s like they all had bad luck
@@MrAn0nym0us so sad! Poor souls!
@@devilsreddresss6887 yes! Eerie!
@Alex Rexroat yes the worst does happen to good people. The bastards win out! And. Unfortunately. No good deed goes unpunished ! This world seems to belong to predators!!
I just started watching stories about people disappearing in bizarre manners and I have to say that you are the best narrator on RUclips! Your tone, the flow, everything about it makes for an enjoyable show. I look forward to the moments I can sneak away from life and listen to your stories. Thanks!!
I feel like Mr. Ballen should do a video on the movie Missing 411 instead of the books. I'm sure it'd be a pretty long video for us fans who want much longer stories and videos to listen to.
For some reason he said that he either couldn’t or wouldn’t do anymore videos on the Missing 411 anymore. I believe if I’m not mistaken it was something about people felt that he was trying to make gain off of other people’s misery and misfortune or something like that. Idk if that’s true or not because I saw someone else say that, but he said so himself that he wasn’t going to do any 411 videos anymore sadly. But he said that he is going to do some videos just like those though.
The story about Brian reminded me of all the stories where people got stuck in weird places. I hope they checked all cracks and crevices.
That's were you'll find his bones.
I think something took him
thats one of the many theories... that he fell into the construction area and was basically built over. =/
That's what I thought! Check the duct system
@@SalemFU Holy shades of Jimmy Hoffa, burried on the 50 yard line, underground in Giant stadium, batman! That's why some players trip and fall in that area! Ha!
The last one with Brian reminds me of another case where the victim is seen on video entering a hotel but never seen leaving. She was murdered in one of the rooms, put in a suitcase and wheeled out of the hotel 2 days later. He may have left the bar, but not by walking out the door.
I was wondering that too. Maybe someone killed him and smuggled him out piece by inconspicuous piece.
Youuuuuu have a point
I've thought this too, if there was construction in the 2nd exit, I imagine it possible to have stuck his body in some kind if storage trunk or similar where tools are kept on another day, maybe they didn't tie that to him? So sad.
That's what I was thinking. He was killed in the bar, then brought out under cover in whole (or not whole).
@sonyakunkle It's the only thing that makes reasonable sense. He didn't just turn invisible or dissolve into the air. There have been other cases that are similar where people are seen entering but never exiting. They've always been killed where they entered and taken out under cover.
I only just now discovered this channel - great work! No overuse of cheesy stock footage, clarity about when you're using real images, great storytelling, etc.! I love the channel Fascinating Horror, but I've watched it all, and after trying to find another high-quality channel on darker stuff, the ones that I found were okay but not great or were just inconsistent in quality (Thoughty2 and Plainly Difficult). I think I finally found the new content I was looking for! This episode and the last one on awful deaths were super sad...but I guess I feel like it's important to know about these things because these people shouldn't be forgotten. I really hope we solve at least some of these 3 men's disappearances someday. Anyway, not sure if you'll see this, but you earned a new subscriber!
Hello! Welcome! I do so love MrB for those exact reasons, as well but add that he never uses clickbait-y titles.
That Brandon story always leaves me baffled
We need to start a petition for a Netflix show for mrballen
I'm in!
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Here here!
David from missing 411 does the exact same thing and is only ten percent as interesting. Mr. ballen has presence and is funny.
What would be different than this show?
Things like this terrify me. I get paranoid that one day I'm going to see something spooky and fuck off into the middle of the woods never to be seen again.
Wish it were socially acceptable to wear armor wherever you go, for that exact reason.
Stay out of the woods, or if you do go bring protection 💁♂️
I've seen these search and rescue beacons for sale, they like ping your location 24/7 so that other people can find you in case of emergency, there is one you can wear around your neck, others can be attached to equipment or backpack. Get yourself some protection if you ever consider hiking ALONE in the woods.
I have never seen “f off” used in this way before
Lol, it's actually pretty normal/common to see stuff/hallucinate, according to the late renowned neurologist Oliver Sacks.
I saw a spaceship while driving on a fwy lol n an elderly man ghost... I'm sure it was just a glitch. REAL LIFE scares me more than anything.
Brian was supposed to fly to Miami with his gf that Monday after his disappearance. When he didn't show up at the airport his gf and family knew he had to have met with some level of foul play. He had been looking forward to that trip for a long time. The trip was a Christmas gift from his mother who had recently passed.
I am curious if putting a fish in someone's bed was just one of those goofy 1950s - 1960s pranks college kids played on each other, or if it is some sort of rare and ominous action.
the mafia was also known to leave dead fish on people doorsteps or home to indicate death was coming. “sleeping with the fishes”
No total prpank
Even here in UK drunk so typos a plenty
This isn't the first time I've heard the story about Brandon. But this time listening through it, it strikes me that he likely got hit by an asshole drunk driver or someone who really didn't want to get caught for manslaughter for accidentally hitting a person, they probably panicked, and made him disappear. That's the best I can surmise... he said 'oh shit,' which is exactly the kind of thing that you say when you're about to get hit by a car.
His parents would have heard the car over the phone. Did some research and his car was found near Yellow Medicine River and people theorize he either fell in there or some other hole. Without knowing his exact position when he disappeared it's hard to find out
I bet someone kidnapped him
@@c_hasting0341 03 interesting. Fair point... Falling into a river definitely lines up with saying 'oh shit.'
Now, did they ever find his phone? Or even like to try to pinpoint a last known location for him based off of cell phone tower data... I guess it might not be so helpful if there weren't very many towers back then, which there probably weren't.
@@gabelincoln3608 I'm not sure exactly what sort of motivation they would have to kidnap a 19-year-old college kid, though. Like, he didn't exactly look wealthy or anything. They found his car. I'm not sure why they would kidnap a grown man. Which is partly why I think that maybe somebody hid his body after accidentally causing his death. I just feel like they would have found him, otherwise. If you think about it though, this possibility isn't all that different from being kidnapped. Just somehow still more fucked up lol
I actually think it's much more likely that the other commenter above is probably onto something with saying that he fell into a river, near where his car was found. Although I still think it's strange that his body was never spewed out.
He got taken by men in black and his body got dissected by aliens, the father would of heard a car wreck on the phone
Why do his tiktoks have scarier pictures than his videos but the way he describes on RUclips gives me more chills
Because you’re using your own imagination to tell you what the story looks like. That’s why I love a good horror book. I’ve got a vivid imagination and picture the story in my mind
Well you guys are more aware than I am. I say avoid the bars late at night or early morning and taking back roads unless you are prepared for such environments and are awake and sober. Young folks are not indestructable and no matter how high your intelligence there is always the element of surprise and possible ill intentions.
The more undramatic the narration is, the more chilling it is, try Curious World for the ultimate in cool, well researched presentation ; very, very creepy.
OPEN YOUR MIND B4 UR MOUTH hot garbage
Could be because of youtube guidelines.
In the 1950s amphetamines were rampant. In regards to the second story, my gut tells me Ronald had been using amphetamines and not sleeping, which in as little as 3 days (2 sleepless nights) can cause psychosis. This means he'd hear people talking ABOUT him (not to him) and he'd be extremely paranoid already, but once the voices from psychosis start paranoia turns to extreme panic, hence him running 12 miles and talking to a woman, while he was incredibly scared.
Maybe. But then where is he??
You remind me my grandmother telling me real life event and scary stories she heard when she was a child.🤭 Thank you for sharing yours and now I really love to hear your stories and by the way that picture behind you is just beautiful.
After all the stories of people getting stuck in chimneys, walls, and even a pillar, I feel like they're going to find Brian in the wall of the Ugly Tuna at some point.
Exactly what I was thinking 🤔
Me too .
Only other thing I can think of besides that is he made it out, just not alive.
Was thinking the SAME THING.
Every time I hear this story that's where my mind goes. maybe he accessed an area he wasn't supposed and somewhere people didn't think to look. Or like @T. Skin maybe someone got him out in a very obscure way after they killed him.
I'm in lockdown and I found your channel. I havent really done much since...
I found not on lockdown but wake up time for coffee and Mr.Ballen😱 ❤
@Jake Stockton I think some places still have mandatory lock down curfew. Or maybe quarantine. Js or months this channel is addicting 🤪😁
@@mouse9665 Irelands been in a 2nd lockdown for around 4-5 months so has England i think
You're doing fine!! Keep going. You'll never regret this binge!
Same here
Another awesome video by Mr Ballen❤. It's so awesome you started uploading videos again more often, thank you!❤
Thank you for sharing Brian's story. I live in Columbus, Ohio. There is still a billboard with his picture a couple of miles from my house. He is two years younger than I am. I was spending a lot of time on Campus around the same time he went missing. Some people believe his body is somewhere in the area of the construction at the time. Some say he just took off and is living another life. Either way it is really sad. I hope his friends and family are able to figure out what happened. It seems like many people have gone missing on OSU's campus but he is the only that hasn't been found.
I'm from Scotland, we love telling and hearing a good story........ MrBallen is the best I've ever heard. I've lost over a week just listening to all of his!!
Are you sure you lost a week THAT way.....or did you disappear and then come back? 😱😂
@@violetmartha916 😂😂
Me too!!! No regrats lol
Wey hey
Chris didn't disappear, week got lost 😳🤣
What I took away from Brandon Swanson's story is stay with the car. Not very exciting, but just get comfortable until the sun comes up. Even though the time of year was mild, it's a good idea to always have at least a jug of water and a blanket (along with a first aid kit) in your car. Since I have bouts of hypoglycemia from time to time, albeit rarely, I'll keep little nonperishable snacks.
Things happen in broad daylight too, but being bored in your car overnight sounds preferable to being disappeared.
but being in that car in the middle of nowhere is daunting, any bear or crazy person around is gonna be drawn to it. Theres something in our dna that tells up to keep moving towards where you think the right way is so i can see why he did it.
Also heard a theory: it was a suicide/faked death because witnesses say he wasnt drunk, he knew he was 25 miles away from the town he sent his parents to to look for him (pretended to be lost there), he cut the phone off himself suddenly after saying "oh shit", you would have heard a car, animal attack wouldnt have cut the phone off like that, a sneak attack he wouldnt seen it to say 'oh shit', if he fell into a river theyd find him, no cliffs or hills or bears in that part of minnesota someone who lives there told me. Unless he fell into a big hole that nobody else looked down and you cant hear his voice from inside it I think hes set that scenario up
@@ljs185 Unlikely. If he set it up, wouldn't he _want_ his body to be found since he'd be going through all that trouble for the attention? They'd probably of found him by now if it was self inflicted
@@JustAdude291 not if it was a faked death and hes now living somewhere else
Yeah a few years ago a snowstorm trapped a bunch of people on the highway- they removed people who needed meds or stuff like. That first and the rest had to wait overnight. Strangers open3d their homes to people stuck. That’s advice I’ll always take after seeing that. Anything that can will right? safe travels :)
@@ljs185 you wouldn't necessarily have heard a car, I don't know why everyone keeps saying that. There's a lot of reasons you wouldn't have heard a car if he got hit by one. Phone quality, connection quality, ambient noise, etc. You people gotta think more instead of defaulting to the more dramatic or mysterious answer. Life is boring most of the time.
I enjoy your stories a lot, I currently listen to you to be able to focus when I draw. Keep up the good work 🎉
Thank You Mr.Ballen for all you Share
I can picture mr ballen and his wife just sitting at the dinner table together every night coming up with new ways to torture the like button and writing them down to use in future videos lol
The cans of tuna and the feral cats is my fav cause he laughs twice trying to say it!
I think the fans contribute
Is it weird that I feel bad for the like button?? 💀
You can check out his sub reddit and suggest things to do the like button as well, I like that engagement he has with his viewers
😯
In fact, this thought has crossed my mind as well!
You seem like such a chill and relaxed dude especially for being in the special forces. Such a bad ass!!
I've studied the Brandon Swanson story a fair amount. His dad, who was" on the phone with him, said that it sounded like he fell when he said "oh shit", but the phone didn't disconnect, Brandon just wasn't on the line anymore. Also, he always took the main roads to travel, but this time he took the backroads, and likely just got himself lost, which is why he didn't know where he was. He's probably in a hole somewhere, some random old well or something.
And it sounds like Ronald Tammen had a psychotic break. He'll reappear somewhere in a mental hospital when he regains his memory.
When Brandon Swanson Said "Oh Shit" He Probably Saw A UFO And Got Abducted
These type of stories, unsolved mysteries and crimes, are so much more creepy and scary to me than other cases.
I agree on them being way more creepy! These types of stories are the ones that make me start hearing shit if I'm watching them alone at night.
You and everyone else. Because they're mysterious.
Its nice to see a youtuber do really well and remain genuine. I have seen youtubers gain popularity and a lot of subscribers and it just seemed like they forgot who they were and let the fame go to their heads. Good job Ballen! Keep being yourself, we all love you the way you are and we dont want you to change.
totaly agree good story deseves every penny
Facts
He really ought to put the hat on correctly tho
@@TheRhNegative lol honestly, it’s 2021 not 1941 hahaha
And he's a cutie too!
I feel like Thomas thought he was losing his mind about whatever he was seeing/hallucinating and tried to figure something out in the psychology text book
Yeah, sounds like paranoia. Could be why he wanted to get tested, and didn't want it from anyone on campus.
My suggestion may sound heartless but…. drugs involved maybe?
Good point. And I'm thinking the third guy, Brian, was murdered. Whoever did it might have been an employee of the bar and could have disposed of his body without being caught on camera - delivery truck etc
@@donotcomply665 Yep...maybe put him in the freezer wrapped up and a few days later moved him out. They only looked at footage for that night...should looked at the next day
@@dmitricarabetchi4269 Back in the 50's? Sure drugs were around but I DON'T THINK anything was available that would make him hallucinate. Morphine could cause hallucinations but he would be nodding out not running around in a panic (according to eye witness). Your suggestion wasn't heartless tho ☺️
Great detail and descriptive as always...👏👏
First missing person case sounds like a Silent Hill vibe, where they're in the same place, but different universes -at first (bcs Brandon was in a different town than he thought)
I thought that too!
@@whitneybarringer6719 me to!
Especially the last story of Brian. He disappeared after going into the bar. This was my thought about him, what N A said here. How awful for him.
...Lights. Lights. LIGHTS. It's aliens, duh! Which is was more likely than a silent hill scenario.
...also the coal smoke towns of silent hill really does(did exist.
Okay I haven’t watched that but this was my thought!
Brandon Swanson always makes me sad. He was so young. And his dad has to live with his last phone call. Just tragic. 🥺
Same.
www.10tv.com/article/news/father-missing-ohio-state-student-killed-storm/530-a8fa6b37-3cbb-45f5-ae4a-8dc925c91c8e
The dad died too :(
@@ImranMughal-ju1wk wrong person.
His dad died a couple years later. 😰😭
@@ImranMughal-ju1wkYou mixed em up, they’re referring to the first kid, Brandon Swanson from Minnesota, who vanished while talking on the phone to his dad, and you’re talking about the last story, Brian Shaffer from Ohio, the med student at the bar. But yeah, so, so very sad regardless, that poor mother losing her son to a mysteriously tragedy and hubby to a tree during a storm a couple years later.. 😔🥺
just subscribed! love the content keep it comin' brutha!
Can you please do more 411 cases.. I would love more on bigfoot, glimmering man/predator, skinwalkers, camping forest stories please. If you could do a 5 story compilation of them would be so awesome been awhile on your channel
You are the only RUclipsr that makes the whole “like and subscribe” part of the video enjoyable lol
I agree. Its great
i dont get it lol
@@haileennevsmom09 basically hes not like every youtuber who says like the like sub bell and all that other bullshit. He does it his own way
@@tieftruam3944 ya sometimes its kinda funny .. lol but sometimes i just dont get it lol
He's the only channel I actually listen & obey when the channel whoring starts. Every other channel my brain automatically just mutes it out!!😂
Ooof that last sentence about the porch light.
I remember back when Brandon went missing. Our community was really diligent in their searching, and you could see his missing person poster everywhere. We still dont know where he is or where he ended up. Even to this day there are tips sent to the sheriff's office about what people could recall about that night. Saddest part is from where his car was, if he was headed on roads to Taunton it shouldn't have taken him more than 20 minuets to walk into town.
*Brandon
@maryanne7161 Oh lord. This is what I get for trying to type out names on a dang phone! I can't believe it messed up that badly. Thank you pointing that out!
Love these weird stories. Well done my friend.
Good God, I pray that these families find some measure of peace after these horrific tragedies.
I cannot even begin to imagine how it would feel for your child to just disappear one day and never, ever return...
The agony must be absolutely suffocating, and endless...
God bless them all.
I totally agree. Please don't hate me when i say this. I had a cat go missing over 20 years ago that I adored & I have never got over it. So I can't imagine what these poor families go through with a child. It must be torture. My heart breaks for them.
@@donnaroberts4565 I totally understand. I am a wreck if one of my cats gets out. I'm also a mom, and I would be on the hunt if my daughter came up missing.✌🏻🐱
@@donnaroberts4565 honestly, a cat is like a family member and I know that it affected you a lot. I’m sorry that happened to you buddy, I hope your cat is in a happy place and I hope that you’re ok
Yeah, you'd think it's even worse than if their child was murdered and his body found, at lease they'd get some kind of closure
If you’ve ever lost track of your small child in a mall or store…that panic sets in…and quickly, the abject fear and despair becomes overwhelming…you’re sweating, your heart is pounding, you have a pit in your stomach and you feel like you’re going to be sick … The relief when your child is found is profound…and you are so grateful….But , if their not, must be crushing…and soul breaking..
I went to high school with Brandon, I wonder if we will ever find out what happened to him. We all just assumed he would show up again, and he just never did.
And did y'all bother looking for him.
@@miterbenisdurty3862 over 3000 people turned out to look for him. For over a month. Do some research on his story. I always, Always do my own background research on every single story he puts up. Regardless of the topic. Because he always leaves a lot out.
And that is understandably so because to really get into the story, in a in-depth manner, he could easily wind up talking for 2 to 3 hours just on each story. So it would really behoove you to do your own research, on every story you listen to. All you have to do is drop the person’s name in either Google or Chrome. Or whatever browser you use.
@@garlandremingtoniii1338 Thanks gary for your input. I'm so happy to know you do your own research
@@miterbenisdurty3862 well dont start in a comment train with a stupid obvious comment to someone who knows those involved in any of these stories. I mean really, you had to ask that?!
@@miterbenisdurty3862 Bruh 3000 people were looking for Brandon a person that went to high school with him there are reasons... 1 Didn’t know that Brandon went missing. 2 After high school couldn’t get in touch. 3 Couldn’t search because the police said so.. 4 Just forgot about Brandon and didn’t know like the 1 reason why would he know bro most OF THE police SEARCHES ARE PRIVATE!! What if your were his friend would you remember reply to this comment.
Brandon's, Brian's, and Maura Murray's disappearances are some of the most intriguing and baffling stories out there IMO.
Loving the new format!! 👍
As a military man myself, I know that John is no stranger to swearing. However, hearing him say shit out loud on his channel took me by surprise lol
First time I heard him cuss
@@SunfishKing same
@@keither85 thank you for your service
@@SunfishKing oh dude please I didn't do anything whatsoever. I was just a guardsman. Didn't really do much.
@@keither85 One year I thanked my brother for his service. He was in the guard.
"You're welcome. I kept the commies from attacking New Jersey when I was there for Basic Training. And mind you - they never attacked our hometown when it was my weekend to serve!"
You (and my brother) were still putting yourselves on the line. I wonder how many Iraq/ Afghanistan Guard are now injured or dead
I think what makes his videos so effective is how casual yet engaging he is. It makes me feel like one of my friends is sharing a scary story with me!
Is he really engaged or married...I didn't know.
That's exactly how it makes me feel as well! The way he is with his hands, I'm the same way! If someone tied my hands up I couldn't talk at all 😂
@@EJCee-ut4ci I believe he is indeed married
@@EJCee-ut4ci Lol he is awesome but he is married and has children
Mr. Ballen Is Thee Best At What He Does❗Been Watching For A Year Or So.
Man I wish I knew about this guy a few months ago! this would have made work a treat
I've been in Minnesota and I've been stuck on roads like that. And they really are just trees and mud. Especially when it's raining it's just mud trees muddy water basically. And it is dark really dark. It's like a scene out of some horror movie really is.
Lj: do you still live in MN?
Visiting my Dad in Becker, I was at my friends house. (Equivalent to a short Mpls block.) It was dark & I could easily see my Dads house. Problem was I could NOT see the road. I had to keep trying to feel the road. Took at least 20 min to make the 90 second walk. Mpls is lit 24/7.
@@mgbsecteacher never lived in Minnesota by live in Mason City Iowa it's liketwo hours and fifteen to 2 hours and 35 minutes away from Minnesota that's to the twin cities roughly from my town of Mason City. I used to go up there all the time and just travel around and I had a lot of friends that were up there that lived in Minnesota. Used to go even further about 5 hours up for some reason I can't think of the name but it's a short name and it starts with a c. It's like 31 sea level right there on the left side of the great lakes. When I had a license and could drive I was a little reckless so that's why I don't have one now. But I went everywhere.
I live 20 miles from Canby (across the border into South Dakota). What a lot of commenters on here don't know is that in rural Minnesota in this area, there is literally towns every 10-20 miles. Check google maps for this area. Is it darker than it would be if you are near a major city? Sure. But we still have enough light pollution that you can't see many stars in the sky at night. The area this kid went missing in is far from remote, though it is mostly farmland.
What really hurt the chances of finding him right away is that he was confused as to where he was at. He told his parents he was near Lynd. If you look at the map, this really doesn't make sense as to why he thought this was where he was at, unless he had really been driving way out of his way back to Marshall. The last ping on the cell towers showed him near Porter, which is just 10 miles south east of Canby, this is where they found his car. Lynd on the other hand, is 50 miles from Canby and slightly south west of Marshall.
There were many searches, including using dogs and they did indicate they caught his sent near the Yellow Medicine river. It is very possible he fell into the river and drowned, though its a bit odd they never recovered his body despite extensive searching of the river. His parents did note that he said he wasn't walking on the road and had gone under fences, this area is all rural farmland and its possible he fell into an old well. Some areas closer to where I live also have some what marshy land and sinkholes. While not here in abundance like other areas, its not uncommon to have mountain lion sightings in the area as well. Other than that, the biggest predators we have in abundance are coyotes, would would certainly scavenge a body if they found it.
@@Alikona20051 where you mentioned the coyotes has scavenged that may scavenge his body that says read more again and when you push on it it won't let you read more so we don't know the rest of what you're saying. I do know areas like that some of them in areas up north of through Minnesota to Sturgis to South Dakota I've been all over the place I live in Mason City from Minnesota the twin cities it's only like a two and a half hour drive to the border between states I think it's two and a half hours I think it's like an hour and 45 minutes and 2 hours go right by Albert Lea and our towns around here so you might find a couple together like there's Mason City then there's curly lake and then a little further along there's four City and that you go down south a little bit more say you're driving towards Des Moines on I-35 a lot of its farmland like that but without the abundance of trees but Mason City itself was a marshland the abundance of water we get for our drinking water runs underneath our city big River underneath ground I've fallen into a sinkhole or two with water and mud actually one in Kerr lake they got pulled off now a long time ago a kid fell in and then another kid fell in then I do believe the one that wasn't me lost his life even though I told him they wouldn't believe me they said there's no singles that exist around here well they got it all blocked off now on the southern side of Creole lake southern west side of Kerr lake I don't know East side excuse me Green Meadows trailer Court yeah I've been lost in those places I've been running through an over fences and got chased by bull once or twice being where I shouldn't be trying to find help cuz we were stranded on the road stuff like that out in the middle of nowhere we got back gravel roads that literally lead everywhere in nowhere all at once they'll lead somewhere but extremely easy to get lost if you not if you do not know those backway country roads. Acrylic 10 mi away West we got another head and East towards Charles City there's algae they're all like 10 mi 10 mi 15 20 mi away in every direction and then after that sometimes even more and got the green belt way over there you got got to can't remember the stupid name spring like a starts with an s I'm just having a brain fart moment I can't remember the name I haven't been there for so long and then south of us is Sheffield and after that there's a whole lot of empty space there are woods and stuff but not like not like up in Minnesota you got thicker woods like in certain areas and when it's dark I got lost up there with a friend trying to find some house and it wasn't muddy road and it was all raining wet but it wasn't raining anymore and we drove the Camaro berlinetta up there cuz we were stupid young not even thinking about getting stuck and oh way down that road all the sudden the car just wouldn't go anymore we were stuck in the mud there were no street lights there were no cars going by all it was was the road we stood on that was mud our car and trees everywhere on both sides and it like I think it was maybe 1:00 in the morning maybe 2:00 it was dark enough to wear I'd say you could see okay maybe 60 ft in front of you before it just turns into the dark abyss where everything just disappears and it's just black. we blocked we left the car and walked back the way we came and we ran into this I'm going to say little town it had a bar we went into the bar and asked if we could use the phone and some guy there was nice enough to give us a ride back to our the car with his truck and get us unstuck and needless to say we didn't keep going on with our trip we just went back to my friend's mother's house that'sright off the great lakes there then one on the east side I think it might be like area I can't remember extremely tired having to deal with stuff today so but I'd really like to hear the rest of what you're saying it just won't let me get the rest so I can have my machine read it to me
I often wonder how many people’s last words are “OH SH*T!”
(no disrespect to Brandon)
KiM.moxie .......oh Shit
No, I absolutely agree with you!!! "Oh, shit!", "What the fuck?!", or something of that ilk...🤔
Idk, but my first words as a baby were "Oh Sh*t!"... Obviously, i didn't vanish, just embarrassed my mother
Supposedly, that was the last words of one of the astronauts aboard the Challenger space shuttle before it exploded.
i was in a car accident where i definitely should have died, and that's what i screamed a split second before the accident. i think it's probably a pretty common saying in those moments lol
Love his story telling..... cheers from Malaysia!
brandon’s case will always be on my mind, they never found him, they found his car and neverrrr found brandon
Parents should tell their kids when they go out, "Don't end up a Mr. Ballen story!" 💛💚
Put a purple heart in there too and add "don't go out without your rubbers on". Hey, that's what they exactly told me as a kid.
Something that is so annoyingly common with stories like these is the missing person's friends assuming nothing is wrong and that their friend has gone home and then going home themselves and doing nothing. If your out with a friend who mysteriously vanishes you should follow it up. Otherwise this could happen to someone you know.
Man, did you never go partying with friends? Shit like that happens every single night. There is always one dissapearing, probably because he scored a garage for his dick or maybe because found another group of friends and got into a drunk stupid plan or journey.
I do love your stories John you keep us guessing
Best channel ever no joke!🔥🔥🔥
Brain might indeed be still inside the bar, since there's the other story of the guy that fell in between the wall and fridges, only to be found a decade later when the market was closing down.
Yup! And/or maybe he fell into the construction behind the bar and died there?
I remember that story. chilling
I thought the same thing.
@@franl155 I see what you did there. Very cool 😎
@@Soph149 - I had to read my comment again to realise what you meant. It was entirely accidental!
Omg I don’t think I can ever get enough of the strange, dark, and mysterious delivered in story formats
Lol I just sent the same message to my wife hahah
@@shujima4429 Lmfaooo
What did she say?
I saw one video of his by accident and I’m hooked
Brandon's case has always baffled me and broke my heart.
Background is beautiful on this one! Im binge watching all your videos.
I can say that the story about the guy who disappeared from Fisher Hall is 100% true, the only detail that was left out was that he left his lit cigarette smoldering in the ash tray when he dissapeared. There were always loud crashing noises in the halls and all over the building.
My mom went to Miami in the early 70s. As a result of this guy going missing, and all the rumors and other stories of hauntings, the university turned Fisher hall into a class room building because they determined that it wasn't safe to use it as a dorm. But there was so much noise in the building, just weird, generally loud noises, crashes and banging, that classes couldn't be conducted. So then they turned it into the theater building. My mom spent time there when it was the theater. On opening night, if the play was good, the lights on the 4th floor all turned on...the 4th floor no longer had electricity. And my mom actually saw Colonel Fisher one night walk into the costuming room and not walk back out. Colonel Fisher showed up in the wardrobe rooms a lot. Quite a few people saw him.
There were also rumors that Fisher Hall had been part of the Underground Railroad and was connected by underground tunnel to The Pines Hall. The Pines was also extremely haunted. It was a women's dorm and my mom lived there. One night she was in the basement doing her laundry and found what was believed to have been that tunnel, she opened a door and it was all completely caved in with dirt and earth. Another time, she and her friend who lived across the hall went to the RA and complained about the people living on the top floor. They were always walking around all night, heavy footsteps, banging, thunking, what sounded like moving furniture all night. They were told by the RA that no one lived upstairs. My mom and her friend didnt believe her because the noise was keeping them up at nigh. So the RA unlocked a door and showed them up to the top floor. It was one giant open room that ran the entire length if the building. There was nothing up there. No walls, no furniture, nothing but a heavy layer of undisturbed dust on the floor. No foot prints, no one living there. That's when the RA explained that The Pines was also haunted, really haunted.
My mom's boyfriend at the time, who was local, confirmed all of these rumors for her. Including a few other things that happened in Fisher Hall and The Pines.
YES!!!! I REMEMBER NOW!!! IVE HEARD ABT FISHERS HALL!!! I WANT TO INVESTIGATE!!! LOL UR MOM IS SO LUCKY TO HAVE WITNESSED THAT!! ITD B AWESOME TO VISIT,LET ALONE LIVE THERE!!! LOL DID UR MOMMA EVER COME IN CONTACT W ANY GHOSTS???!!!
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@@ileahbarnsfather395 Her dorm room was very active. She would be studying and set a pen down only to reach for it again and have it sitting on her other side. Same with her drink. She'd reach for it and realize it had been moved. (Pretty standard stuff, I've lived in many haunted places or worked in haunted offices where this would happen.) One incident she had was pretty crazy though. The ghost got mad about something and lobbed a full sized glass vase at my mom's head. It stopped right in front of her face, fell to the floor and spun in a circle without breaking. My mom yelled at the ghost to stop, then she went out into the hall and proceeded to freak out a bit. That was in The Pines.
I'm not sure if any of these buildings still stand.
@@Dark1Wonder i currently live at Miami and Fisher Hall is now Marcum Hotel ! :)
@@hilly345 Fisher Hall was demolished in the 1970s. The Marcum was built on its cite, but it's not the same building. Some places release the spirits when demolished and others the spirits continue to occupy the new building. I wonder which one is true for Fisher Hall. Anyone at Miami know? I'd love to hear about it.
"tape over the like button's mouse sensor and laugh when the mouse doesn't work." That's the most diabolical thing I've ever heard, LOL!!!
Or just cut the wire of the mouse, keyboard, phone chargers, house appliances etc.
Imagine coming home only to find almost all your electrical equipment having their wires cut never to be reusable ever again.
@@scodiofficer0012 - Reminds me of when my kids were little. When they got in trouble I took the power cord to their game systems. The console and all stayed .. for them to look at .. heh, heh, heh.
I was even known to rent the game that the kid in question wanted to play and say, "Ohhhh, man, I forgot; you're in trouble. Well, get out of your room, our siblings and I are gonna play it."
Now with kids of their own they think I'm a genius.
@@CeltKnight Gotta pass down the knowledge 🧠
@@CeltKnight naaah, what you do is take the fuses out of the plugs, then put them back together and put a blob of superglue over the plug screws, so they can't be opened and a fuse put back in by enterprising kids... 😉
As for the mouse thing, you swap the left button and right button function in the mouse settings, then flip the screen 90deg, take a screenshot and set the screen shot as the background.. 😉 😂 😂 😂
Mrballen has to have the biggest channel, for the short amount of time he's been on RUclips, that I've ever seen to date. It's actually mind blowing. Respect man.
This is not true. I had a channel that achieved 10 million subscribers in less than a month, but RUclips deleted it at the request of the International Freemasonry Office located in Copenhagen.
@@drmurde55 right.
9/10 times I like your video it's not because I like the video but just because your start is so engaging I feel I must come wrestle with the like button. Thanks sir.
The story about the guy missing in the bar reminded me of stories of men getting drunk, dumped down a hidden hatch in the floor and sold into slavery.
That is terrifying, but I’m damn careful what little stores/shops I go in after Pulp Fiction…
Have you toured the Shanghai tunnels in Portland? They might be in other west coast cities, too. I'm thinking possibly San Francisco. I checked them out once in Portland, pretty interesting.
Back in the early 2000's I watched a RUclips channel called fluffeetalks. He did sort of the same thing as you, less spooky/mysterious stuff but mostly current events and wild things. I have yet to find the same sort of energy in storytelling on this platform until I discovered you and your channel. Thank you for sharing your love and passion for storytelling with us. You are a savant of story telling . Also, I thank you for your service to our country. I am a prior service HM and I wish I have had the opportunity to meet you while serving active duty. Anyhow, you still make my day. every day. I wish you good health, happiness, and prosperity Mr. Ballen.
I remember Fluffeeralks I wonder what happened to him.
RUclips didn't exist in the early 2000s👀
@@GenericUsername1388 well what I was remembering was 2006 or 2007 and the first time I remember getting on RUclips was 2005 and the sight had been around for a year or longer at that point. It depends on what you mean by early 2000’s.
@@Dwarfmanvash It was released mid-December of 2005.
@@Dwarfmanvash He's still making videos
Brian Shaffer is probably in a freezer or basement or even wall in the building.
Reminiscent of Kenneka Jenkins’s situation.
Always good you're a very good storyteller thank you
I’ve heard all of these stories before in this video, but Mr. Ballen’s story telling skills makes it as if this is my first time hearing them.
I know of a case only a few years ago where a little girl went missing just vanishes. What happened is there had been rain and she stepped inyo a puddle that was actually an overflowing manhole. She was sucked under and died instantly. They found her a week later. Thats what the first story reminds me of
Mr. Ballen: "There was a door under construction that nobody used."
Also Mr. Ballen: "Nobody knows how he could have escaped."
Hi Mr Ballen I really like your videos some are a little bit scary but I can’t pull myself away I just enjoy watching the videos
It sounds like they all ‘disappeared’ into an alternate universe/dimension. The first story, when the guy says he’s walking toward lights, perhaps the lights of a spaceship or a town in another time and realizes this and says ‘oh shit’. My heart breaks for his parents. I’ve read a lot of books about inter dimensional universes. It is quite possible that is what happened.
I've actually thought the something similar... that they're all victims of a quantum leap, or walked into some sort of invisible doorway into a parallel universe, or, a completely far-fetched idea, that something happened in the world that altered reality & now all three missing people have become part of the Mandela Effect.
I tend to agree that the " dimension slip" theory is a distinct possibility. I also believe that it happens more often than the general population knows. Some people have told of encounters where they slip into another realm and are fortunate enough to return. I think that this could be a potentially terrifying occurrence and I hope to never have this sort of experience, especially when alone.
@@ravenesence8141 The short of readjustment of the timeline that you mention would be awful to experience. To be no longer relevant in your timeline, with only your, now non existant , memories as a record of something that no longer is and to all others never was is a fate that's so full of dispare that it is difficult for me to even think about.
@@kylewalker5770 Yes , if a locations' place name contains words like "devil" , "dead", "danger" , etc I take it seriously and avoid said locations. In addition to those marked location , I think that there are less defined "dimension slips" as well. By whatever yet undefined powers I think that there are some occurrences, seemingly random, that take place. As I've I indicated, this subject is quite terrifying to me. I hope to never be involved in such occurrences. If I unfortunately do find myself in a situation like this, being with others would probably ease the terror a bit. Have a Wonderful and Blessed day, Kyle Thanks for adding your thoughts and feel free to continue, if you like. I always enjoy the sharing of knowledge and viewpoints. 🙏
@@kylewalker5770 I remember hearing that story on coast to coast too. Idk why but it's always stuck with me.
Watching you has made me realize that my life is worth something, mr ballen made me realize that I'm so lucky to have this not happen to me. Mr ballen has basically saved my life
Omg been watching ur videos love ur video contents 😊
I love watching your videos you're very good at what you're doing I'm not very computer sabby so this is the best I can do is leave this message thank you for all the great videos.
Being from Ohio it terrifies me how many Ohio stories you have shared. I'm a grown ass woman and a mother, now I have to run up the stairs at night with the lights on and jump into bed even if my husband's in it or sleep downstairs with all the lights on and curtains drawn.
My husband has to tell me to take a break from watching so I don't have nightmares 😆😆😆😆
lol im in ohio too, its always had a little bit of everything ,right down to urban legends like suzi's bridge , that we use to go see when in high school lol. once it gets in your head your mind starts to play lol.
I do the same thing😆 and I'm not even ftom ohio. I'm trya protect myself hiding under sheets🤣abd i even run past any window and door in my house so nobody get the chance to shoot me😤
@@shrutiupadhyay613 hahah yessss im not alone 😅 😂
@@krystinaxxlea definitely not😂😂😂
I'm NOT from Ohio, but I've been having weird dreams lately since I started listening to MrBallen about a month ago. I try to make sure I listen while it's still daylight out, which seems to help.