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Комментарии • 9 тыс.

  • @judycolella5554
    @judycolella5554 3 года назад +10927

    One of these days the Like button is gonna pull a Rambo - tie a bandana over its thumb, strap on a bandolier and a rifle, call MrBallen and say, "I'm coming... for you!"

    • @stangarrison9561
      @stangarrison9561 3 года назад +114

      😂😂🤣🤣

    • @theyhaterage7787
      @theyhaterage7787 3 года назад +113

      I love all the Rambo movies so that just made it better

    • @nofd1977
      @nofd1977 3 года назад +47

      Murdock

    • @karldavis3041
      @karldavis3041 3 года назад +16

      Hahaha that is hilarious 😂😂😂

    • @anthonyjack6111
      @anthonyjack6111 3 года назад +25

      @@stangarrison9561 great merch idea for shirts

  • @kirstenbowman1383
    @kirstenbowman1383 3 года назад +10479

    Mr. Ballen’s wife absolutely forbids him from reading the kids a bedtime story.

  • @Sarah-uf9od
    @Sarah-uf9od 3 года назад +3871

    Damn, anyone else sitting on their bed watching this,suddenly paranoid about a sinkhole under 😳😳

    • @kinga9301
      @kinga9301 3 года назад +141

      Literally.... Just got done sayin "what if one happens rn" out loud... Shit crazy

    • @sauceItsGood
      @sauceItsGood 3 года назад +87

      I think about that every night when I’m laying in bed

    • @sham01
      @sham01 3 года назад +76

      Not until I read this

    • @freshflashZenith
      @freshflashZenith 3 года назад +55

      Yep that sinkhole problem is known in Florida

    • @katiewaite3232
      @katiewaite3232 3 года назад +53

      I feel like I'm not safe from sink holes anywhere

  • @AbsoluteCaramel
    @AbsoluteCaramel Год назад +795

    That sink hole story was terrifying on every level! It’s so tragic, inescapable, unpredictable and horrifying! The victim did nothing risky, dangerous or anything that could have caused it, yet absolutely couldn’t have avoided or escape it either. He was just relaxing at home where he should have been safe. I really can’t find words to describe how frightening and horrendous this must have been for him and how traumatized his poor brother must still be.

    • @ikaikamaleko8370
      @ikaikamaleko8370 Год назад +33

      Yep summed up perfectly, my exact thoughts.

    • @carolleemarshall4700
      @carolleemarshall4700 Год назад +4

      I've read of a few others , about the same, as well

    • @selamhazel4708
      @selamhazel4708 Год назад +14

      I had a strong feeling the first story would be set here in Florida based off of the title but the case took me in a while different direction than I thought. That shit was legitimately terrifying and I thought the same too…he did nothing wrong and no one could’ve known 😞

    • @kendraheard8240
      @kendraheard8240 Год назад +5

      Yes absolutely horrible so sad

    • @JenniferSara1982
      @JenniferSara1982 Год назад +7

      It is like a worst fear thing for me. i think about those things often as I try to sleep. So horrifying. So sad for this guy and his family.

  • @andyblendermann
    @andyblendermann 6 месяцев назад +81

    The 2nd story with Josh Maddock actually had a later development where they found out one of Josh's friends was with the last person to see him alive. As brutal as it sounds, I think it's a possible teenage rape case. Josh's friend came onto him, got rejected, killed his friend in the process then stuffed him in the chimney and tried to cover up the evidence. Psycho killer friend or not this was definitely a murder and one of the most chilling unsolved cases that got me hooked on horror podcasts. He was so young and spirited, rip sweet boy 💗

    • @cheetahtfk7274
      @cheetahtfk7274 5 месяцев назад +29

      A rape case was my immediate thought as well when the clothing he was missing was listed. How absolutely horrible.

    • @kaplingnag7267
      @kaplingnag7267 16 дней назад

      Poor thing

  • @mayaswellbethewifesaccount7625
    @mayaswellbethewifesaccount7625 3 года назад +1173

    These are absolutely horrible. Wanting to save people but not being able to would be so torturous. I would just not be able to cope.

    • @sethmackenzie4419
      @sethmackenzie4419 3 года назад +55

      to be honest I would have just taken the risk of cutting the hole. I would much rather die quickly then slowly and painfully.

    • @powerman9923
      @powerman9923 3 года назад +7

      Im the second comment on this comment

    • @leonela3947
      @leonela3947 3 года назад +7

      @@powerman9923 I’m the third comment in this comment

    • @sethmackenzie4419
      @sethmackenzie4419 3 года назад +9

      still first

    • @ILOVEMARILYNMANSON89
      @ILOVEMARILYNMANSON89 3 года назад +15

      @@sethmackenzie4419 they couldn't do that because of the fire/explosion risk to other people. i don't understand why they didn't intentionally try and burn off those chemicals and clear the area. such a tragic situation to be in and i couldn't imagine the terror those men went through.

  • @chris9272
    @chris9272 3 года назад +4137

    that's such a horrible way to go.. I could not imagine how those guys would have been feeling. Rest easy brothers. Semper Fi

    • @mikevicsdog4876
      @mikevicsdog4876 3 года назад +81

      I watch theses so I don’t do what theses people do

    • @bittyshottoms1007
      @bittyshottoms1007 3 года назад +90

      It seems so unlike US navy not to have tried something to get them out. I understand the forces, pressure and chemicals would hamper the usual attempts. I also understand the limit of my own intelligence on the matter. I would just rather die during some sort of rescue attempt than the way they went. Do the smart commenters on here have any suggestions to how they could have tried to save them? And how did they eventually retrieve them?

    • @mattjack5830
      @mattjack5830 3 года назад +60

      My martial arts instructor told me this story years ago. An older family member of his, an Uncle I believe, was one of the Marines who stood guard and listened to those trapped Saliors make noise down there until they died.

    • @BigBoss-qw2hs
      @BigBoss-qw2hs 3 года назад +9

      Semper Fortis.

    • @bittyshottoms1007
      @bittyshottoms1007 3 года назад +28

      @@rottingthroat yeah, dunno- haven't found much info on what they tried. I love sailing but this is a bit of a fear of mine. MrBallen has another video of the Nigerian guy (trapped underwater in pitch black for 3 days I think) while sharks were seeking a snack. Don't know which is worse.

  • @jeffreyjeannette5279
    @jeffreyjeannette5279 2 года назад +148

    That poor guy who lost his brother really struck a nerve. I lost my oldest brother in 02, in an alcohol involved collision. Ripped me to pieces.

    • @badtaste311
      @badtaste311 2 года назад +7

      I'm really sorry for you loss my brother. I want you to know this, your brother loves you very much and wants you to know that he's very proud of you and how far you've come in life.

    • @josephfriend7442
      @josephfriend7442 Год назад +5

      Very sorry to hear that, bud.

    • @maspapi6003
      @maspapi6003 Год назад +5

      My heart aches for that man’s loss and yours. A sibling bond is a special one and even while amongst the stars, he feels your love. May he rest peacefully.

    • @Gawlakman
      @Gawlakman Год назад +2

      Sorry for your loss

    • @AshCupric
      @AshCupric 5 месяцев назад +1

      So sorry for your loss. While I can’t imagine what you and your family went through I can relate to the pain of losing a loved one. My older brother (my only sibling) passed away in 2020. I was there when it happened. It still haunts me to this day. My deepest condolences to you, wishing you healing and peace.

  • @bobraible
    @bobraible Год назад +66

    For west central Florida, sinkholes are a fact of life. Usually they are an expensive inconvenience, but the Seffner sinkhole incident really shook me to the core. The fact that the poor dude was swallowed up like that and that they were unable to safely recover the body was both terrifying and heartbreaking.

  • @gabriellesmith5661
    @gabriellesmith5661 3 года назад +2059

    If I was stuck in the ship I’d rather die from people trying to save me than a slow inevitable death

    • @SeanPannella
      @SeanPannella 2 года назад +150

      Just me spitballing, but couldnt they pump the water near the ship with fresh enough water to prevent a chemical issues then weld a big steel tube like a saturation diving bell and use hoses to pump pressurized air in, then have a device pierce the hull within the welded tube, so no water would come in but now air could come in via the hoses and this way that crew could survive until they could lift the ship, ideally feed a wire in the hole so they could communicate too, could do the same thing again if they needed a fresh water hose or even some sort of liquid food

    • @curious_gage
      @curious_gage 2 года назад +41

      @@SeanPannella that would 100% work

    • @Haze1434
      @Haze1434 2 года назад +25

      @@SeanPannella They had no way of communication, so had no idea there was food and water available to them.

    • @ammcroft
      @ammcroft 2 года назад +64

      Agreed. They could have tried something!!!

    • @ammcroft
      @ammcroft 2 года назад +29

      @@Haze1434 but they heard the taps

  • @kbbandtees8112
    @kbbandtees8112 3 года назад +1986

    I can’t imagine the pain that brother from the sink hole story must have gone through losing Jeff like that. I’m the older sibling and I would do absolutely anything for my sister, including jumping into a sink hole to find her. He was by his brother’s side until the end. Rest easy. 💓

    • @Azubjourni
      @Azubjourni 3 года назад +38

      My name Jeff.

    • @FuturisticHairline
      @FuturisticHairline 3 года назад +81

      @@Azubjourni Not a time to make a joke

    • @Azubjourni
      @Azubjourni 3 года назад +14

      @@FuturisticHairline 😂

    • @Mikey-vy3og
      @Mikey-vy3og 3 года назад +42

      @@Azubjourni 😐

    • @Azubjourni
      @Azubjourni 3 года назад +11

      @@FuturisticHairline Im sorry

  • @englishrose8013
    @englishrose8013 2 года назад +116

    The last story made me tear up, can you imagine to fear those three Marines felt knowing they were trapped!? :( Tonight I will light a candle for each of them and and there will be three minutes silence in my home in remembrance of them, I grew up in Military family and have nothing but respect for anyone who has or is currently serving their country, absolutely including MrBallen ❤️ Thank you.
    R.I.P Cliff, Buddy and Ron, sleep tight Angels x

    • @trnigyul
      @trnigyul 11 месяцев назад +5

      What a compassionate thoughtful person you are, I love your gratitude.❤

    • @slicingonions4398
      @slicingonions4398 8 месяцев назад +2

      That’s so awesome of you to do. Take care ❤️

  • @thewaywardgrape3838
    @thewaywardgrape3838 2 года назад +25

    That first one is so brutal - absolutely nothing you could do to prevent such a incident. No recklessness, no mystery...good god!

  • @Scandalous319
    @Scandalous319 3 года назад +1623

    RIP Jeffery....what a horrible way to go- God rest his soul💜🙏

  • @chadrobbins6889
    @chadrobbins6889 3 года назад +653

    In the sinkhole story, I'm not sure who suffered more, the brother that fell in the hole or the one trying to save him and couldn't. The guilt,fear and trauma the surviving brother must have felt for years afterward. I had to sit down for a minute after that story. I have never felt empathy so strongly for another person.

    • @cooliodiablo6117
      @cooliodiablo6117 3 года назад +53

      Yea it’s one thing to lose a family member. To actually be there, and witness their demise while you’re literally standing right on top of them with no way to do anything to help, listening to screams... Yea that’s pretty horrendous. Especially it being in your own home too. Mannn..

    • @EllyLugosi
      @EllyLugosi 3 года назад +8

      Well said

    • @jamesallen5591
      @jamesallen5591 3 года назад +21

      Yes. I would kill or die for my brother. Damn, that had to have been brutal for him.

    • @Jacob-es5tv
      @Jacob-es5tv 3 года назад +18

      @@cooliodiablo6117 my friends brother died in his arms. he got shot, ran back home and died in his arms. my friend needed therapy and stilll feels guilty to this day, 5 years now. my friend was 12 at the time too.

    • @oonavuorio6247
      @oonavuorio6247 3 года назад +6

      @@Jacob-es5tv thats very sad to hear. In such a young age and already seeing family member die in their arms is too much to bare to even to adults.

  • @Mr_RavenMC
    @Mr_RavenMC 2 года назад +96

    A great friend of my family who passed away in 2019 or 2020( I forget) was on the West Virginia during Pearl Harbor. He managed to survive and always talked about a guardian angel who told him what to do to escape alive. His name was Cal Calderone if anyones curious he was the last Ohioan Pearl Harbor survivor I believe

    • @bepowerification
      @bepowerification Год назад +3

      Must have been a great friend if you dont know if he passed 3 or 2 years ago ....

    • @Mr_RavenMC
      @Mr_RavenMC Год назад +10

      I dont remember the year exactly and now I know it was in 2020 due to covid so calm down

    • @18SweetTeaRexes
      @18SweetTeaRexes Год назад +2

      No way?! That’s amazing but saddening. This story was really upsetting for me. I’m sorry I don’t understand but why couldn’t they have raised the ship immediately? That’s terrifying and very upsetting to me how the navy had to deal with that particular situation involving their fellow men. I’m really sorry I don’t understand but I would appreciate someone explaining why they couldn’t have raised the ship up immediately? Thank you.

    • @Mr_RavenMC
      @Mr_RavenMC Год назад

      @@18SweetTeaRexes the ship was most likely unstable

    • @Marxistnazi
      @Marxistnazi Год назад

      @@bepowerification I agree lol.

  • @Andy-gq5hb
    @Andy-gq5hb Год назад +20

    Josh Maddux was a friend of my brothers. We lived in Woodland Park about half a mile from that old house on the same road. I can’t imagine how many times I must have walked past his body growing up. Absolutely crazy to think about. Poor guy

    • @Silvia.Araujo
      @Silvia.Araujo Год назад

      His body might have not been there, but put there later on.

  • @LostNdFound434
    @LostNdFound434 3 года назад +4815

    These stories make me take a minute to be grateful for my life

  • @kathysmith4261
    @kathysmith4261 3 года назад +642

    That last story ripped my heart out not only for the sailors trapped but the ones who had to stand guard. What a horrific tragedy 😢

    • @lawliet2263
      @lawliet2263 3 года назад +1

      How the fuck r u still alive

    • @kathysmith4261
      @kathysmith4261 3 года назад +10

      Because I'm stronger than you

    • @lawliet2263
      @lawliet2263 3 года назад +2

      @@kathysmith4261 not in bed tho

    • @kathysmith4261
      @kathysmith4261 3 года назад +5

      Maybe , maybe not.

    • @lawliet2263
      @lawliet2263 3 года назад

      @@kathysmith4261 this story ripped your heart out but id rip your something else

  • @hj_muaheatherjane8795
    @hj_muaheatherjane8795 Год назад +22

    About 4-5 years ago I was a care taker for the elderly. I took care of a sweet old man who told me his story of being at Pearl Harbor as an under water welder and then joining the Navy after those days of saving/losing people out of the ships. Heart wrenching!

  • @SonamyShadow13
    @SonamyShadow13 2 года назад +95

    The first story gives me chills. Sinkholes are terrifying 😨

    • @ville666sora
      @ville666sora 2 года назад +7

      And the fact that it could happen to any of us at any time. Could be in bed sleeping like that poor guy was, or sitting on the sofa watching tv or something, and suddenly you're being swallowed by the earth.

    • @fishydog2173
      @fishydog2173 7 месяцев назад

      @@ville666soraespecially in Florida like Jeff Bush

  • @conservativesavage1076
    @conservativesavage1076 2 года назад +1509

    I don’t understand how the cabin wasn’t looked through immediately. Who cares what the outside looks like? If anything if there’s a missing kid that would seem to be all the more reason to look through.

    • @gingereden546
      @gingereden546 2 года назад +114

      I dont get that either... mrballen even shows a real life photo of it and it looked like a really nice cabin, def not a junk pile

    • @smarty5680
      @smarty5680 2 года назад +162

      @@gingereden546 might be a cover up. Looks like a rape

    • @t.g.7180
      @t.g.7180 2 года назад +58

      @@smarty5680 yeah very suspicious for sure

    • @Cec9e13
      @Cec9e13 2 года назад +63

      Yeah, I mean falling down buildings are magnets for kids. Kids think they'll live forever.

    • @kaitlynjuilfs4336
      @kaitlynjuilfs4336 2 года назад +71

      You would think like the cops normally think kids run away right so you could think to look in a abandon looking building bc they might’ve went there for shelter or something and also what I was thinking is what if he went for a walk with some friends and then like they dared him to go In the chimney and when he got stuck they did everything they could to cover it up and just left him there

  • @Turkeyinthehay
    @Turkeyinthehay 3 года назад +580

    The only thing worse than a sudden death is a slow, painful and sure death with absolutely no respite. Tragic! I've heard the story about the kid in the cabin before and that's just purely bizarre! I'd think there would have had to be someone else involved.

    • @donnatarawneh2014
      @donnatarawneh2014 3 года назад +24

      Of course there was. No pants? I think some pervert got him and probably sexually abused him and stuffed him in the chimney or something like that.

    • @LilAnnThrax
      @LilAnnThrax 3 года назад +19

      Yeah we know he died "7 years" before they found him but there is zero way to know down to the month. He could have been alive and being hurt for sometime inside the cabin. I wonder if the owner was ever really looked at or if it could have been a transient or something.

    • @donnatarawneh2014
      @donnatarawneh2014 3 года назад +11

      @@LilAnnThrax It probably wasn't but I cant help wonder if they investigated the owner of the cabin at all

    • @louiscypher4186
      @louiscypher4186 3 года назад +15

      @@LilAnnThrax Unlikely, The owner of the cabin was the one who pushed for an investigation. He's the reason the case was reopened.
      Additionally the owners story is both consistent and tragic, yes he owned the cabin but it was never "his" him and his brother had co-owned since the 60's and his brother had lived their alone until his death a few years prior to the boy's disappearance. The cabin owner only ever visited to drop off things for long term storage. The whole reason the cabin was in disrepair is that ever since his brothers death he didn't like visiting the cabin.
      Add these facts, along with the clothes being neatly folded as in cared for and the likelihood of you being killed by a close family member or friend and well if he was murdered as the cabin owner insists, Then it was probably someone Josh knew.
      its already statistically likely the absence of damage to the body, the delicate handling of his clothes and he was killed near his home simply make it more so.

    • @tillie-tmb4808
      @tillie-tmb4808 3 года назад +2

      @DonnaTarawneh
      That was exactly what I was thinking

  • @lindacleveland3923
    @lindacleveland3923 Год назад +59

    I've heard about Josh's story... I couldn't imagine being trapped in a chimney and dying there!! These stories are scary 😨 😳

    • @DashDarrenger
      @DashDarrenger Год назад

      Police don't think he died in the chimney. They believe he was already dead when his murderer or murderers crammed him into the chimney inorder to hide his body.

  • @crystalclark6579
    @crystalclark6579 2 года назад +23

    it's so important for people to know about these events, as hard as it may be. thank you for sharing!

  • @humid6998
    @humid6998 3 года назад +4885

    who just found this guy randomly and just kept on watching him.. just me?
    edit: didn't expect to rack up so many likes, please get him to see it!!!

  • @JackieTrainwreck
    @JackieTrainwreck 3 года назад +365

    As a Sailor, I cannot imagine hearing a shipmate signaling for help and not being able to do anything....

    • @mizuchi999
      @mizuchi999 3 года назад +4

      Just a reply for the algorythm

    • @Goingus345
      @Goingus345 3 года назад +4

      Ok one question: do you sailor men still sing sea shanties?

    • @JackieTrainwreck
      @JackieTrainwreck 3 года назад +1

      @@Goingus345 no...at least not on aircraft carriers...

    • @Goingus345
      @Goingus345 3 года назад

      @@JackieTrainwreck wait I think I miss understood

    • @Goingus345
      @Goingus345 3 года назад

      @@Anonymous-me7wu yea I realised that😂😂😂

  • @mj6962
    @mj6962 2 года назад +27

    Omg yes number one is truly horrible. I had already heard something about this before. Much of this information isn’t taught in schools and a lot of people grow up thinking that America did all this terrible stuff to Japan, not knowing what they did first. Thank you for sharing this and RIP to all of the souls who perished at Pearl Harbor.

  • @darnold4268
    @darnold4268 Год назад +27

    Florida sinkholes aren't a matter of "if", but a matter of "when". We're in Pasco County. Hernando County is the County directly N of us. The place mentioned, by you, is just south of us. I gasped at the very real feeling of being buried alive. The other 2 stories are just as real. Wow!

  • @pennyfrompapaspizzeria580
    @pennyfrompapaspizzeria580 3 года назад +1469

    The scariest place I’ve been stuck was question 12 on a math test

  • @joshbraun7455
    @joshbraun7455 3 года назад +418

    The last story is so tragic. I cannot even imagine the horror and the terror the people felt hearing the cries for help.

    • @theultimatereductionist7592
      @theultimatereductionist7592 3 года назад +7

      Why not have hoses with oxygen ready to be pumped in so when you cut that first little hole & the water floods into the cabin you shove the tubes/hoses with oxygen there for the trapped crew, while you then frantically attempt to cut a bigger hole?

    • @Arisawa_Heavy_Ind
      @Arisawa_Heavy_Ind 3 года назад +7

      can you imagine the horror and terror of the people that actually MADE the cries for help???

    • @susancoulter4129
      @susancoulter4129 3 года назад +5

      @@theultimatereductionist7592 Or build an air tight pocket to work outside the ship in. They did have plastic back then didn't they? Or why not have divers go inside the ship and bring them tanks so they would swim out with the divers. They could have made it to them in 13 days. WTF!

    • @dwatcher1910
      @dwatcher1910 3 года назад +2

      @@susancoulter4129 watch the video again and this time listen carefully and try to understand the words

    • @19882fast4u
      @19882fast4u 3 года назад +9

      @@susancoulter4129 The only reason they could breath, is because they were trapped with air. Now imagine sinking to the bottom of the ocean in a ship really deep down........ down to the sea floor. Now imagine the only way you're not being crushed by the extreme sea water pressure outside in a sunken damaged ship, is the air inside you're breathing in the ship, thats also keeping all the pressure from crushing you. Now to have air, in a pocket, that they were breathing, underwater, in a sunken ship, shows that they were truly sealed in, "air tight". Now imagine taking the extremely pressurized compartment they were stuck in, thats completely air tight, from their outside surrounding (sea) and poking a tiny little hole in it, even as small as a pencil hole. The effect's of such a small hole in their air pocket would be so extreme, its not even a joke. The pocket would immediately depressurize, and if not, explode under so much outside pressure as hundreds of thousands of gallons of sea water are forced through that tiny hole ever second/minute. All the men would have frozen to death, or died in seconds from drowning, once a single hole, or crack had made its way through their hull/air pocket. In fact, the 2 options still to this day i believe to save other people in this same situation, is still to raise the ship to the surface, or by wielding a pressurized rig to the haul of the ship by a coupling, and then cutting a hole into the ship where the air tight pocket is expected to be located at, so the crew can escape. Both these options are beyond risky, and mostly never possible to even work. Fact is, one out of a million times, if you sink to the bottom of the ocean, you might be rescued. But the reality is, your going to die if this happens to you, and their is nothing anyone can really do to help u.

  • @destinygaines9515
    @destinygaines9515 2 года назад +5

    Can we take a minute to appreciate the real life photos in these videos 👏🏽

    • @RiRi.1076
      @RiRi.1076 3 месяца назад

      Apart from Harry styles in Dunkirk.😂

  • @sandrabaker5298
    @sandrabaker5298 2 года назад +1

    OMGOSH!! The first story was SO heartbreaking and sad. RIP and God bless.

  • @lizablanco2578
    @lizablanco2578 3 года назад +615

    Mr. Ballen should consider reading for audio books. His voice is so soothing and expressive, its as if you're actually there and experiencing the stories he shares with him.

  • @kobensanchez8608
    @kobensanchez8608 3 года назад +746

    I love how he’s making a scare-a-thon since it’s Halloween it’s more like a Christmas present

    • @3nchantress
      @3nchantress 3 года назад +15

      Facts!!

    • @MrBallen
      @MrBallen  3 года назад +131

      Just trying to do my part!

    • @fluntexh238
      @fluntexh238 3 года назад +5

      @@3nchantress ong im so happy this is happining

    • @ladyphoenixgrey3923
      @ladyphoenixgrey3923 3 года назад +7

      His channel is the RUclips equivalent of The Nightmare Before Christmas.

    • @chubswubsbubs6311
      @chubswubsbubs6311 3 года назад +10

      @@MrBallen you should review navy seal movies or military movies and identify if they are realistic or not

  • @ikaikamaleko8370
    @ikaikamaleko8370 Год назад +2

    The sink hole story, just gut wrenching. No words.

  • @katie-n-mr-hobbs1111
    @katie-n-mr-hobbs1111 Год назад +3

    Even a year later, and despite the horrific ends to so many people in Mr Ballan's stories - I'm just so moved by the last one. God Bless those 3 sailor, and may their souls now rest in peace.

  • @Cold_Corndog
    @Cold_Corndog 3 года назад +446

    Set zed sounds so awful. I can't imagine being underwater slowly dying.

    • @berrygang6263
      @berrygang6263 3 года назад +8

      Well it’s actually setting zebra but altogether the same thing. It can be very haunting when hearing that caller over the 1MC

    • @erikapilon8594
      @erikapilon8594 3 года назад +14

      I cried listening to that. I can’t imagine having to take turns with your arms partners to listen to see how long the ones trapped can survive with no help.

    • @aaliyahjimenez6089
      @aaliyahjimenez6089 3 года назад +13

      Exactly it made me so sad they were serving their country and this is how they are repaid they were basically tortured and nobody could help them

    • @Irish_Georgia_Girl
      @Irish_Georgia_Girl 3 года назад +8

      I feel stupid for asking this, but why did they need the guys standing guard to listen and see how long it took them to die? I watched this whole video but I must have missed something...

    • @ShanaLawson
      @ShanaLawson 3 года назад +6

      @@Irish_Georgia_Girl it was probably to make sure no one tried to do anything. Like the guy stated there’s a lot of risks to a lot of things and they probably had guards standing by to make sure no one tried anything that would get more people hurt. I wouldn’t have been able to bare it. I would have been one of the people being restrained.

  • @TheRealGuywithoutaMustache
    @TheRealGuywithoutaMustache 3 года назад +242

    Dying in a chimney of a broken down house sounds so depressing

    • @2sik_UK
      @2sik_UK 3 года назад +7

      I haven't watched yet but I didn't know santa died rip

    • @Eggy88
      @Eggy88 3 года назад +15

      There’s a strikingly similar story of a kid in England called Michael Jarrett Lowe.
      scepticpeg.wordpress.com/2017/06/24/islington-the-mysterious-death-of-michael-jarrett-lowe-1974/
      Found upside down in a chimney with something blocking the entrance.
      This is too weird.

    • @Leo-nine
      @Leo-nine 3 года назад +15

      The neatly folded clothes made me think of missing 411...

    • @kinktwink2318
      @kinktwink2318 3 года назад +7

      The cabin story easily freaked me out

    • @bobbi911
      @bobbi911 3 года назад

      Interesting read!

  • @lindasosa1570
    @lindasosa1570 2 года назад +1

    The fate of those soldiers in the last story just broke my heart. RIP

  • @djthunderxyz
    @djthunderxyz Год назад +1

    That last one actually brought a tear to my eye holy poop.

  • @d.johnson9957
    @d.johnson9957 3 года назад +221

    I'm a Floridian and I remember when this happened. That poor family, I can't imagine having something like that happen and losing someone you love. They're very common here and the idea of a sinkhole opening up at any time scares the hell out of me.

    • @peytonb5591
      @peytonb5591 3 года назад +2

      So am I

    • @kyoakland
      @kyoakland 3 года назад +4

      Get out of that crazy state

    • @maggiewaden8274
      @maggiewaden8274 3 года назад +14

      Reasons to move from Florida. Too much water, many sinkholes, hurricanes are getting stronger, life is expensive, you can not have a basement. Coming from South Florida takes for ever to come out of Florida. Drivers are very aggressive and violent, beautiful houses complex built over fill reclaimed land. Literally Florida is floating on water and waiting for the mega tsunami coming from La Palma, Canarian Islands.🤦🏼‍♀️

    • @d.johnson9957
      @d.johnson9957 3 года назад +4

      @@maggiewaden8274 Shhhhh... Always remember, we must entice our vacationers, future retirees and those looking to move here with our sun, beaches, gated communities and resorts. They don't need to know those other pesky facts. 🤣🤣😂😂

    • @femalearmyveteran7225
      @femalearmyveteran7225 3 года назад +2

      Exactly!!! Im moving back up north soon!! I miss snow and its way too expensive down here!! When you have to work 2 jobs for living.....so you cant enjoy the Florida life....just going from air conditioning to air conditioning lol

  • @scarlettaddiction4061
    @scarlettaddiction4061 3 года назад +431

    What freaks me out about a lot of these cases is the pile of folded clothing nearby. It's just so peculiar.

    • @itz_aryz_playz8217
      @itz_aryz_playz8217 3 года назад +43

      It's a murder case I guess...
      For my opinion it's not an accident if the clothes are inside and a barrier where the body should be seen, it's like a hint that someone was there with him.

    • @CETHEFUTURE
      @CETHEFUTURE 3 года назад +57

      I THINK HE WAS MEETING SOME ONE FOR A BOOTY CALL GOT UNDRESSED AND THEN HE WAS SET UP AND WAS KILLED SOME HOW AND JAMMED INTO THAT FIRE PLACE.... HONESTLY I FELT LIKE THE CABIN OWNER COULD HAVE HAD SOMETHING TO DO WITH IT... HOW HAVE YOU ADMIT TO GOING THERE A FEW TIMES IN SEVEN YEARS AND NEVER NOTICED THE DAMAGES OR THE CLOTHING RANDOMLY PLACED THERE OK AND EVEN IF SOME HOW HE DIDN'T NOTICE THE DAMAGES OR THE CLOTHING... HOW DID HE NOT SMELL DEATH OR THE DEAD BODY, ESPECIALLY BEING IN A CLOSED IN CABIN I'M SURE IT WAS NOT OPENED UP FOR SEVEN YEARS LIKE THE WINDOWS AND DOORS.... WOULDN'T THE SMELL HAVE STUCC AROUND AND WOULDN'T IT HAVE BEEN FLUIDS LEAKING OUT AND FLIESE AND MAGGOTS AROUND THE OPENING OF THE FIREPLACE BECAUSE WOULDN'T SKIN AND STUFF FALL TO THE FLOOR... I'M NOT SAYING THAT HE DID DO ANYTHING JUST HOW I FEEL AND IF HE DIDN'T DO IT HE COULD HAVE BEEN COVERING FOR SOMEONE... SOMEONE GIVE ME YOUR THOUGHTS OR OPINION ON MY ASSUMPTION

    • @SpiritStoneWarrior94-yx3gs
      @SpiritStoneWarrior94-yx3gs 3 года назад +29

      Which also is a common similarity between the missing 411 cases as well

    • @zachw4536
      @zachw4536 3 года назад +4

      I think he got in and then couldn't get out

    • @Wooooahhh6272
      @Wooooahhh6272 3 года назад +9

      But why would the owner of the cabin give the thumbs up on demolishing the home if he did commit the murder. Was he that dumb thinking the remains wouldn’t be found?!

  • @pamelas9192
    @pamelas9192 Год назад +4

    I remember when the sink hole happened. Such a sad story.

  • @miss_mish
    @miss_mish 2 года назад +2

    Story number 1 is just heartbreaking. Not only for the men who died a horrible death but the people who had to listen to them.

  • @wyattlewis2461
    @wyattlewis2461 3 года назад +801

    My Friends: SO what kind of youtube videos do you watch?
    Me: Well its complicated...

    • @Kabeeb
      @Kabeeb 3 года назад +22

      No its not

    • @aylameuchel
      @aylameuchel 3 года назад +6

      PLS THATS ME

    • @wyattlewis2461
      @wyattlewis2461 3 года назад +8

      Ty for the likes this is the most likes I've ever gotten on a comment

    • @jldavis259
      @jldavis259 3 года назад +9

      Well thers this guy that tells stories...did I mentiong he was a Navy Seal?

    • @laurenheinzman5617
      @laurenheinzman5617 3 года назад +18

      You should’ve said “ the strange, dark and mysterious kind, delivered in a story format-duh” 💁🏼‍♀️🙈😆🤓

  • @Geronimo2Fly
    @Geronimo2Fly 2 года назад +1126

    I would think with a missing child, that a cabin that's a "broken down, caving in, pile of wood" would be the first place you'd look. Not only could it attract a child/teenager (heck, even many adults), but it could also attract human predators looking for a place to hide with their victims (or hide their victims). I'm really surprised they never searched it back when he first went missing.

    • @RobVespa
      @RobVespa 2 года назад +13

      ...because that's not what the cabin looked like and it was one of many.

    • @julierobinson3633
      @julierobinson3633 2 года назад +15

      He was an adult - 18.

    • @smrtars8018
      @smrtars8018 2 года назад +30

      yep, I agree and that story has too many holes in it haha

    • @angelbear_og
      @angelbear_og 2 года назад +66

      @@julierobinson3633 Still a kid though. The human brain isn't finished developing until the age of 25.

    • @eveningstar6700
      @eveningstar6700 2 года назад +34

      right? "Hey look! a place!! lets pass it."

  • @gr8gmr
    @gr8gmr 2 года назад +5

    I remember the sinkhole story when it was on the news. I was really hoping they were able to save Jeff and was kinda sad when they weren't.

  • @pluggekatwijk
    @pluggekatwijk День назад

    This has made such an impression. It's absolutely terrifying, it felt like I was there. It takes a very brave person to do these things. Very well told! R.I.P. to the fallen....

  • @jacobwengler2937
    @jacobwengler2937 3 года назад +440

    When your so early that MrBallen doesnt even say, "Are you a fan of the strange, dark, and mysterious delivered in story format"

  • @passivesocialbuzzmarketing8739
    @passivesocialbuzzmarketing8739 3 года назад +161

    So unbelievably heartbreaking having to leave our men to die like that. They deserve so much better...I cant imagine their fellow servicemen having to listen to them dieing and being literally helpless to save them. That truly is horrific...God bless those brave souls and all our men and women protecting us around the world.

    • @princesprincess1413
      @princesprincess1413 3 года назад +7

      @Roselinah Anderson bro it was 1941 technology wasn't as advanced

    • @Brevasive
      @Brevasive 3 года назад

      @@princesprincess1413 lol

    • @Smolnsalty
      @Smolnsalty 3 года назад

      @Roselinah Anderson right?? They said they did that 6 months later! Like what took so long

    • @xfl0na
      @xfl0na 3 года назад

      They're tech wasnt that advanced back then- plus he said if they tried to dig him up the hole will get bigger and wider and the whole street could be gone

    • @xfl0na
      @xfl0na 3 года назад

      Bruh he literally said they had the boat strapped BUT IT WOULD TAKE MONTHS BC THEY ARE SO DEEP DOWN. :)

  • @kiki.nico.
    @kiki.nico. 2 года назад +5

    I can’t even imagine… my deepest sympathy goes out to all involved in these stories.

  • @virtualdevotions5809
    @virtualdevotions5809 Год назад +3

    The third story had me in tears... To those 3, thank you for your service!

  • @hazeyharmonies8844
    @hazeyharmonies8844 2 года назад +362

    That last story made me feel so sick. I know they had no choice but to wait to pull the ship up, but the thought of hearing your friends pretty much begging for help and knowing there is nothing you can do...I don't think I would ever get over that. I have so much sympathy for the people in these stories and only hope that they will one day be able to move on from these tragedies.

    • @cursedhawkins1305
      @cursedhawkins1305 Год назад +11

      The Pearl Harbor movie actually did try a scene where people were trying to cut into the ship BECAUSE of there being people trapped inside and you literally see their efforts be in vain because all they did was speed up their deaths because the room, they were in was filling up with water to where just before the trapped sailors die a few literally stick their hands through the opening in the hull they made and then those hands cease to move and lose their grip on the soldiers trying to free them, it's traumatic knowing you CAN'T help them, it's worse when you do try to help and the very last thing the person or people you try to help are clinging onto you for dear life.

    • @kendrawaters4050
      @kendrawaters4050 Год назад +17

      The worst part is they had no way to communicate, meaning the sailors would have no way of knowing that the crew knew they were down there, so they'd be still be holding onto the faint hope that they could somehow be rescued 😢

    • @sportcoatjoditv7148
      @sportcoatjoditv7148 10 месяцев назад +5

      AND, I had no idea that they raised ships. AND if they could raise the ship. Why'd they have to wait ?

    • @Rob-ky1ob
      @Rob-ky1ob 9 месяцев назад

      @@sportcoatjoditv7148 maybe because they were in the middle of war? Focus goes onto fighting and surviving yourself before saving others. Especially if saving the others requires intense effort.

    • @napkinx4341
      @napkinx4341 5 месяцев назад +2

      they should’ve tried atleast

  • @slimjim4361
    @slimjim4361 3 года назад +625

    It's scary thinking that a random sinkhole could just engulf you anywhere at anytime in your house

    • @luigicadorna8644
      @luigicadorna8644 3 года назад +27

      Just one more thing for me to think about while I lie in bed trying to sleep.

    • @Rallego
      @Rallego 3 года назад +16

      Well not anywhere

    • @forestrot666
      @forestrot666 3 года назад +1

      As a geo gal,I think of this more than I should.

    • @carstrucksntrattors3070
      @carstrucksntrattors3070 3 года назад +10

      Just in Florida

    • @Denataa
      @Denataa 3 года назад

      White sus

  • @stephanies7937
    @stephanies7937 2 года назад +4

    Those poor sailors! I cannot imagine taking 16 days to suffocate at the bottom of the ocean. It's incomprehensible. I wonder if the person who locked them in ever realized, later on, what he had done? Can you imagine the guilt you would feel? That's assuming, of course, that he even managed to survive the attack himself. Chances are he too was a casualty of this cowardly attack

  • @deborahhatch1856
    @deborahhatch1856 8 месяцев назад

    That one of the top two saddest stories I have ever heard you tell. Hard to even listen to without crying.

  • @shielasmall7872
    @shielasmall7872 3 года назад +180

    Listening to the USS West Virginia Story literally raises the hair on my skin, & my heart sank. How desperate those poor sailors were, they probably died thinking no one knew they were in there, or they would be saved at any minute. This is one of the worst fates I can think of

    • @jamesallen5591
      @jamesallen5591 3 года назад +10

      Not that there are good ways to die, but this is a horrible way to die.

    • @evanabbott2737
      @evanabbott2737 3 года назад +4

      R.I.P.🙏❤️

    • @ufohunters4612
      @ufohunters4612 3 года назад +11

      They could have got them guys out of there.... thats some bullshit way to die ,,,, Your own men let you die ...

    • @CallUNexTuesday
      @CallUNexTuesday 3 года назад +4

      @@ufohunters4612 That's what I asked above: Why did they let them die down there?

    • @shielasmall7872
      @shielasmall7872 3 года назад +12

      James Allen well dying in bed at 90 in your sleep is much better than suffocating slowly at 18-20 yrs old at the bottom of a dark ocean, knowing every gasp of air could be the last...mental anguish, thinking about this makes me nauseous, like I can literally feel the despair....I like how MrBallen incorporated a war story in here, I’m a sucker for history but hearing stories like this are horrible. Read about the fate of soldiers in stalingrad! The 6th army saw a huge smoke filled cloud in august that resembled a cross, & I was reading a memoir from a Wehrmacht soldier & he later stated little did they know that their fate was sealed! Slowly starving, & cannabalising one another, not being able to sleep for fear of freezing or being picked off by wolves and snipers.

  • @sarahhanesworth-castellano1378
    @sarahhanesworth-castellano1378 2 года назад +1223

    I’m confused on the second story. The owner of the cabin said that he had been in the cabin within the 7 years and hadn’t noticed anything out of the ordinary. But, later in the episode there are two unordinary details that were shared. The wet bar was removed from the wall and placed in front of the fireplace, and a stack of clothing was neatly folded inside the cabin. I believe I would notice these things as being abnormal?

    • @morfigasoulslayer
      @morfigasoulslayer 2 года назад +266

      The place was used a lot by teenagers to hang out since it was (semi abandoned), so clothes or things out of place wasnt strange. Josh at the time started hunging out with a new friend that was described as a creep, years later that kid turned out to be a sexual predator and a killer

    • @frolic6366
      @frolic6366 2 года назад +138

      Also wasn't there a smell?

    • @morfigasoulslayer
      @morfigasoulslayer 2 года назад +107

      @@frolic6366 the owner barely went there, maybe after some years it would have passed , or could easily be dismissed by a dead animal

    • @aaiyannajohnson1017
      @aaiyannajohnson1017 2 года назад +110

      @@morfigasoulslayer This is interesting seeing as he was found without his undergarments 🤔

    • @dawnt7664
      @dawnt7664 2 года назад +41

      Man.... he is sus.....

  • @ktat01
    @ktat01 2 года назад +1

    When I was 7 I was playing hide n go seek with my neighbor whom was 6 and I thought it was a good idea to hide in our old fridge in the basement.... as soon as I got in the door shut and I hear a click... This fridge was from the 60’s-70’s and locked when shut. Anyways as soon as that happened I started freaking out.... He couldn’t find me and thought I was being mean and almost went home. I was in there like 15 min and I could’ve swore it was hours. He only found me as he walked by the basement door to leave out the backdoor and heard me freaking out. I could’ve easily been one of these stories. I’ve grown fond of these stories because although often tragic, they also allow me not to take life for granted. Also just by being more mindful of circumstances that can arise, this channel has probably saved lives as well. Cheers my mr ballen family!

  • @chatita9527
    @chatita9527 2 года назад

    These poor poor Marines, the story makes me cry. RIP 😞

  • @sancho8521
    @sancho8521 3 года назад +509

    Joshua was put in that chimney. He would not have gone in head first.

    • @DoctorMangler
      @DoctorMangler 3 года назад +4

      Lots of cavers go in head first ;).

    • @sancho8521
      @sancho8521 3 года назад +70

      @@DoctorMangler chimney, not a cave... : )

    • @DoctorMangler
      @DoctorMangler 3 года назад +28

      @@sancho8521 The clothes off and folded is really strange too. After 7 years any evidence would have blown away. I saw a pic of the cabin and it wasn't hard to break into. Maybe he thought he was climbing to hell. :P

    • @Alistarwormwood
      @Alistarwormwood 3 года назад +20

      also, I can't imagine stuffing a body feet first up a chimney. that would be incredibly difficult

    • @tedbundy6230
      @tedbundy6230 3 года назад +20

      @@Alistarwormwood not only that but even getting josh in the chimney, in the fetal position, while he was alive

  • @catrinaxoxo9153
    @catrinaxoxo9153 3 года назад +570

    Poor sailors 💔 Poor everyone in these stories really..and I think that the kid in the chimney might have been sexually assaulted and murdered. I wish these horrible things didn't happen to ppl.

    • @fopal-gang7108
      @fopal-gang7108 3 года назад +5

      Yeah his cheeks were def smashed 🪦

    • @ashleyj6261
      @ashleyj6261 3 года назад +29

      Patrick Malloy 😐

    • @thegodssin3631
      @thegodssin3631 3 года назад +56

      @@fopal-gang7108 bruh wtf

    • @fopal-gang7108
      @fopal-gang7108 3 года назад +4

      @Alijah Abbassi for real shit isn’t right

    • @mauricebeverley5029
      @mauricebeverley5029 3 года назад +38

      @Alijah Abbassi his comment wasnt even funny honestly

  • @onepiece487
    @onepiece487 Год назад +1

    Imagine lying on your bed and then next thing you get swallowed!!! That is terrifying!

  • @saywhatyousay6123
    @saywhatyousay6123 Год назад +1

    Love this kind of content because it honors real people who deserve our sorrow felt hearts for how they suffered. i reach to them in spirit.

  • @lisaann915
    @lisaann915 3 года назад +190

    I remember when this first story was happening and it effected me so emotionally. I couldn't wrap my head around knowing your loved one is suffocating just below you, within arm's reach, and you're completely helpless. But, I have to admit, the second and third stories sound equally, if not more, horrifying. My theory in regard to the second story is the young man was abducted, raped, and stuffed down the chimney either dead or to die a slow death. The rapist/murderer pushed the table in front of the chimney as an extra measure to hide and confine what he did.

    • @morriyanamaragh4918
      @morriyanamaragh4918 3 года назад +2

      exactly

    • @user-cj3rn1rt2p
      @user-cj3rn1rt2p 3 года назад +13

      Yeah I agree especially the fact he wasn't wearing pants or underwear he was most likely raped 😔

    • @melissajusten337
      @melissajusten337 3 года назад +7

      How the hell did police not figure that out i mean it is there job.

    • @Ruakp117
      @Ruakp117 3 года назад +8

      And the fact that only the cabin owner had access......

    • @elegurl400xo6
      @elegurl400xo6 3 года назад +4

      Then destroyed the evidence

  • @armynation31B5V5P
    @armynation31B5V5P 3 года назад +146

    Peace to those fallen Sailors...They showed strength till the very end.
    Never Forget the Fallen

  • @gitano71
    @gitano71 5 месяцев назад

    Man...
    I got started on your channel a week or so n been enjoying it.
    Keep watching n watching. Love the way you tell the story .

  • @roserose1526
    @roserose1526 2 года назад

    Thank you lord for each day you allow me to start and finish in peace. I’m so grateful

  • @alannahbalibrera5835
    @alannahbalibrera5835 2 года назад +506

    The last story surprised me on this one as it's a story that I was told as a little girl by my great uncle. He was one of the men ordered to stand guard after the sinking of the ship that he was supposed to be on. It was very distressing on all of the soldiers involved and my uncle went on to never have a family of his own and never went into full detail about what happened at pearl harbor and would be visibly shaken if it was ever brought up. 😢

    • @SusanRish
      @SusanRish 2 года назад +7

      😢

    • @arosefortes6507
      @arosefortes6507 2 года назад +24

      Thank you for his service, if you will. I can't imagine! The amount of remorse he must have felt, all of them for that matter. The hours must have felt like eternity to those men trapped and on watch. This one got my heart

    • @rachelburr4397
      @rachelburr4397 2 года назад +39

      My grandpa was there as well. The most he said about it was how after they had to try to free the men trapped in the ships that weren't fully submerged yet. He'd always trail off and get very quiet after saying he still remembered the sound of men trapped banging on the sides. He was awarded a huge wrench that was engraved for it. Now I have it right next to his flag along with his and my uncle's (his son's) tags. Can't imagine how horrible it was for everyone that was there that day

    • @Dr.Morticia
      @Dr.Morticia Год назад +13

      Ms. Balibrera,
      I cannot imagine what your Great Uncle and his fellows had to endure whilst guarding the wreckage. So much of military philosophy lends itself to the notion of never leaving fellow soldiers behind, dead or alive. To be ordered to turn away from those tenets after the trauma and destruction of the attack while simultaneously knowing you cannot save those alive in the water beneath you, . . . well, like I said, I cannot imagine. I don't think anyone who wasn't there could quite imagine it.
      Ye gods, what pain and anguish it must have been to hear those desperate sounds every day.
      Beyond everything, I honor him for his service and send thanks to his spirit for enduring what no one should ever have to endure.
      I honor him for doing a job and in the process suffering through what had to have been a uniquely-excruciating sorrow, an emotionally-flaying gauntlet of sorrow that should never be asked of anyone.
      Years later, in 2022, as I read your comment, my heart breaks for what he and others must have felt in those days after the attack. It is my hope that somehow, his mind and spirit, his soul and being, found a way to peace, after such a wretched ordeal.

    • @jayandrusiak
      @jayandrusiak Год назад +5

      @BadBlood&TheCommonGround Good for him, he was also a liar because their were no slaves at Pearl Harbor. We don’t pity liars, they are an embarrassment to the American name.

  • @arcader54tdbank55
    @arcader54tdbank55 3 года назад +826

    ah yes josh took off his clothes folded it and jumped into a chimney, i def think it was a murder case RIP Josh

    • @mycatsbiggestfan3880
      @mycatsbiggestfan3880 3 года назад +95

      what i think is the guy that owned the cabin killed him because he went there after he went missing and he said there was a cover at the top

    • @giyobhaijaan5827
      @giyobhaijaan5827 3 года назад +26

      Yeah I think the police was also with the guy that owned the cabin

    • @WyattRyeSway
      @WyattRyeSway 3 года назад +7

      Agree

    • @Lovinlife1234
      @Lovinlife1234 3 года назад +93

      @DDaviDD sounds like a rape and murder case...

    • @Lovinlife1234
      @Lovinlife1234 3 года назад +3

      @DDaviDD sarcastic?.if so I'm ignoring that on Easter...

  • @user-pj3gp5qi8j
    @user-pj3gp5qi8j 5 месяцев назад +1

    I've unlocked a new fear of literally existing and then getting sucked into the ground to die.😱

  • @hiedisollman5914
    @hiedisollman5914 5 месяцев назад

    These stories are absolutely nuts! Love them!❤

  • @ShinobiDrip999
    @ShinobiDrip999 2 года назад +498

    That cabin owner should have been an immediate suspect.

    • @Nnnbb927
      @Nnnbb927 2 года назад +5

      Yeah he was probably being rapey with josh and he tried to escape so he blocked him off when he got stuck

    • @SadbutTrue84
      @SadbutTrue84 2 года назад +11

      Exactly💯👍🏾!

    • @FerstErndFuriers
      @FerstErndFuriers 2 года назад +35

      Someone else other than the owner killed the poor kid, it was another kid slightly older that was a suspect every other kid pointed towards to. The slightly older kid was described as a "creep", he liked getting high and murdering according to texts messages. It's been months since I watched the video about this particular case from a different channel. I hope this helps one way or another 😊

    • @gildenemoreira6989
      @gildenemoreira6989 2 года назад +3

      @@FerstErndFuriers If your sourcers is text message, man you don't have sourcers.

    • @stephancaputa1464
      @stephancaputa1464 2 года назад +1

      He had an alabi. He was with me.

  • @RanierMedic
    @RanierMedic 3 года назад +58

    The last story was absolutely heart breaking. I can only imagine how the guards felt, knowing that their brothers in arms were only a few feet beneath them, but still out of reach.

    • @nvmffs
      @nvmffs 3 года назад +1

      A few feet? Are you sure?

    • @RanierMedic
      @RanierMedic 3 года назад +1

      @@nvmffs Pearl Harbor is less than 50 ft deep, which is why the Navy built their base there. And if the guards could hear them banging on the ship, it wasn't that far down.

    • @nvmffs
      @nvmffs 3 года назад +1

      @@RanierMedic So why were they talking about pressure? The pressure is nothing at that depth. It would also not be that dark. They could've at least tried to save them.

    • @RanierMedic
      @RanierMedic 3 года назад

      @@nvmffs I'm sure our resident frogman could explain it better, but I will give it a shot.

    • @RanierMedic
      @RanierMedic 3 года назад +1

      @@nvmffs @MRBallen, please correct me if I make any mistakes here, I was a medic, not a diver.
      If you dive into a pool and swim down to the bottom at 3 foot, you can feel the pressure the water puts on your ears. Repeat the same thing at the 6 and 9 foot depths, and the pressure is greater. I don't know what the actual pressure is, but it can get pretty uncomfortable if you stay down there for a bit.
      Now, the room they were in was at least partially pressurized, because it was able to maintain enough of an air pocket for the three of them to survive for 17 days. So in order to get to them within that time frame, they had two choices: either cut in from the outside, or try to navigate their way in through the inside. In either event, once the seal on that room was breached, water would have rushed in to fill the space, moving anything that wasn't bolted to the floor when it did, including the three men. So a rescue effort that came in through the interior would lose the men in the darkness, and the men would drown before they could be rescued, and potentially given an air source (SCUBA hadn't been invented yet). Cutting in from the outside would require getting through 200 to 300 millimeters of armor plating on the hull of the ship, which would take a long time.
      As soon as a hole was cut into the hull, water would begin shooting into the cabin, releasing the trapped air, and filling the space. It would probably take hours to cut a big enough hole for the three men, even one at a time, to escape from the room, and by that time, they would have drowned.
      Unfortunately, the limits of the available technology at that point just could not enable a rescue of that kind.

  • @DogBeast221
    @DogBeast221 Год назад

    “Set Zed”: tragic sadness beyond description. Helluva horrible way to die.

  • @dirt0133
    @dirt0133 2 года назад +1

    Those poor boys trapped in that Battleship was heart wrenching. God's Mercy on their Souls.

  • @justinsnider9772
    @justinsnider9772 3 года назад +115

    Every night I go to bed and pray to god that I never end up on a MrBallen RUclips video.

    • @terrilong854
      @terrilong854 3 года назад +6

      I definitely don't wanna be the like button...yikes...head for the hillsss....runnn 🤣😅😁😂

    • @robloxreaction2436
      @robloxreaction2436 2 года назад +1

      Yep I seriously need a therapist now...😳

    • @marychestinelao8093
      @marychestinelao8093 2 года назад +1

      LMAO! you’re not the only one🙏

  • @Leo-Nee
    @Leo-Nee 3 года назад +144

    Those poor soldiers. How horrifying & sad. Imagine those soldiers that had to listen to that tapping knowing they couldn’t do a thing to help their brothers. The anguish. 😭

    • @silverbloodborne9495
      @silverbloodborne9495 3 года назад +4

      this is one of the few resons why most ships like that have some form of air tank

  • @Pochitaman30
    @Pochitaman30 4 месяца назад

    Sink holes are terrifying. Ive heard of this story a few years back but its still very tragic. Another sink hole swallowed an entire building, thankfully no one was hurt

  • @julieking7610
    @julieking7610 2 года назад +1

    The sinkholes are terrifying!

  • @nickschorgl60
    @nickschorgl60 3 года назад +522

    Mom: Why don’t you read more?
    Me: but I like spooky and mysterious content delivered in story format

    • @rayaguirre2084
      @rayaguirre2084 3 года назад +10

      To have my brother a few feet away from me screaming my name they would not have been able to pull me out of that hole. As for set Zed how many of those soldiers had serious therapy or even committed suicide afterwards. As for the boy in the chimney somebody got away with murder. Thanks for the stories some of these are just heart-wrenching.

    • @unosbruhmomentos799
      @unosbruhmomentos799 3 года назад +4

      @@rayaguirre2084 what?

    • @unosbruhmomentos799
      @unosbruhmomentos799 3 года назад +5

      @@rayaguirre2084 wrong place

    • @cideliawray1473
      @cideliawray1473 3 года назад +1

      @Nick Schorgi 😂😂🤣😂

    • @scar4860
      @scar4860 3 года назад +8

      This dude really said “To have my brother a few feet away from me screaming my name they would not have been able to pull me out of that hole. As for set Zed how many of those soldiers do you think had serious therapy or even committed suicide afterwards. As for the boy in the chimney somebody got away with murder. Thanks for the stories some of these are just heart-wrenching.” Smh😔

  • @DN-rc9gv
    @DN-rc9gv 2 года назад +1010

    Sink holes were one of my fears the three years I lived in Florida. Small one did open in nearby road after a storm once. Sinkholes, gators, and Florida man were always on my radar.

    • @kh_qft762
      @kh_qft762 2 года назад +61

      hahaha Florida man xD

    • @spiderboo464
      @spiderboo464 2 года назад +28

      Florida man - Ha! That's funny.

    • @Simon11354
      @Simon11354 2 года назад +24

      "Florida man" "That is very funny!" "xD"

    • @TheBacknblack92
      @TheBacknblack92 2 года назад +75

      Only two of those are actually dangerous. The other will leave you alone as long as you dont mess with him and as long as you dont go stomping around in his house. I'm talking about the gators of course

    • @Mouser21
      @Mouser21 2 года назад +17

      I couldn’t live down south..too many scary creepy things down there and also too hot!

  • @rachelhartney5522
    @rachelhartney5522 Год назад

    I'm addicted to your videos. For the last week I've listened to your videos non stop for 8½ hours a day. (I'm at work doing this) thanks for these videos! They're great

  • @malcolmandrews4942
    @malcolmandrews4942 2 года назад

    That last one was as heartbreaking as could be!

  • @Zazoo1995
    @Zazoo1995 3 года назад +47

    I visited Pearl Harbor on Memorial Day Weekend in 2019... it was so unbelievably sad. What also got to me was the stories of the surviving soldiers who would pay their respects year after year, and some have had their remains buried in the ships to be reunited with their fallen brothers.
    That Truth definitely opened up the waterworks for me. I cannot begin to fathom the survivors guilt, the grief, the horror, the trauma.... May their Souls find Peace in the Beautiful views of O’ahu surrounding them.

    • @Hitman2b
      @Hitman2b 3 года назад

      millitary soldier know the risk of war but the worst thing was to ended the war the US had to use 2 nuclear bomb against the japanese , US would have known the destructive power of those after doing testing

    • @DRUGSTOREMAKEUPDIVA
      @DRUGSTOREMAKEUPDIVA 3 года назад

      Imagine the PTSD.... OMG!!!

  • @theaprescod5515
    @theaprescod5515 3 года назад +37

    Suffocating to death when you have food and water and know there’s someone out there that can hear you and possibly save you, sounds like a slow and most horrible death. So sad 😢

  • @lindazehnbauer5406
    @lindazehnbauer5406 2 года назад

    Always captivating! Thank you for the scary journey! 😉

  • @dorataylor1081
    @dorataylor1081 Год назад

    I think this is the most emotional story! Tears.

  • @kittykatgirl179
    @kittykatgirl179 3 года назад +444

    Oh my god. This last story about the 3 men stuck in the west virginia, heartbreaking. I think it would have been more merciful for them to have attempted to cut them out, because at least they would have died instantly instead of living in horror for those 16 days

    • @AVONEUS
      @AVONEUS 3 года назад +17

      Would of killed the divers too.

    • @kittykatgirl179
      @kittykatgirl179 3 года назад +65

      @@AVONEUS I don't know. Just doing nothing though ...that doesn't seem right at all. I feel like they could have tried to do something.what exactly I don't know

    • @AVONEUS
      @AVONEUS 3 года назад +19

      @@kittykatgirl179 the chances of the 3 of them surviving the sinkage the way they did is a trillion in one. No one could have been prepared for or capable of that sort of rescue, especially back then. Just terrible.

    • @LizzyArmogida
      @LizzyArmogida 3 года назад +67

      @@kittykatgirl179 I agree with you. The Navy let those men down. They should have tried something they had 16 damn days. Let the men know they were trying to save them. I was a Navy wife for 7 years and I am pissed off that those 3 men were abandoned for 16 grueling days. If nothing else, they could have killed them swiftly. What a disappointment the commanders were. Just bull sh!t and terrible decision making. Boo. So sad.

    • @lorettascott5477
      @lorettascott5477 3 года назад +4

      Even a few small drillholes couldn't have been that dangerous. Enough days passed probably a week in. So 😢😭😭😭😭😭

  • @brianincanada148
    @brianincanada148 3 года назад +355

    Story #1 just shows you’re not safe anywhere, when your times up it’s up. I can’t imagine relaxing in bed and the friggin ground opens up and swallows you 😳 WTF!!!

    • @norah945
      @norah945 2 года назад +9

      Yeah. So scary!

    • @bemusedbandersnatch2069
      @bemusedbandersnatch2069 2 года назад +31

      Just don't live in Florida. It does that there occasionally, particularly when unscrupulous developers don't do a proper geological survey of the ground before they build housing developments.

    • @jinglebeels.
      @jinglebeels. 2 года назад +2

      @@l0-r3z43 story #3 is not going to happen to everyone though

    • @ShortyMcvay517
      @ShortyMcvay517 2 года назад +1

      It'd be a shitty way to wake up...

    • @sallykauth2115
      @sallykauth2115 2 года назад +2

      Sink holes are not uncommon in Florida due to the type of soil and how it reacts to ground water

  • @armmagedonepox
    @armmagedonepox Год назад +3

    The first story is (one of many) my nightmare, the second leaves me with so many questions (mainly WHY?), and the third is absolutely horrifying 😨

  • @marytheresayoung7366
    @marytheresayoung7366 2 года назад

    Glad to take a deep breath and be grateful I’m alive ugh the anxiety of how some people pass away 😱

  • @stunt509
    @stunt509 3 года назад +104

    RIP Jeff. Such a sad and very frustrating way to loose a brother like that.

    • @Aulcis
      @Aulcis 3 года назад +3

      It's lose not loose

    • @stunt509
      @stunt509 3 года назад +8

      @@Aulcis ehh was an error. I'll leave it like that just for you😙

    • @Aulcis
      @Aulcis 3 года назад +1

      @@stunt509 thank you uwu such a lovely present I love it

    • @Aulcis
      @Aulcis 3 года назад +3

      @@stunt509 ruclips.net/video/P8dfZ3N_c2E/видео.html
      Happy early halloween 🎃 here is a spooky song

    • @stunt509
      @stunt509 3 года назад

      @@Aulcis lol noice

  • @shumoniqueavery8197
    @shumoniqueavery8197 3 года назад +73

    The best. He's the only person that makes scary soothing.

    • @MrCholander
      @MrCholander 3 года назад +4

      Tell that to the like button

    • @Jeiku07Playz
      @Jeiku07Playz 3 года назад +1

      Correct

    • @MrBallen
      @MrBallen  3 года назад +9

      😂 that’s awesome!

    • @midpathblu
      @midpathblu 3 года назад +1

      The Like button has been through so many tortuous situations that I doubt it’d care. It’s pretty resilient.

  • @ashleyaustin8532
    @ashleyaustin8532 Год назад

    ooof, that last one, story #1 really got me! Those poor guys! May they rest peacefully now

  • @marthlink5015
    @marthlink5015 2 года назад +3

    Man after hearing about the cabin, it really burns me to think how truly helpless law enforcement can be sometimes. Sometimes they really rather not be doing it, not totally in the grove etc and it can affect the entire teams morale in the search effort, that's just the realism of life. But i wonder if Mr. Ballen as a Ex Military guy or other Military guys just look and feel how helpless our police forces seem to be with serious situations~ but then often overdoing it like 8 cops showing up to a single arrest.
    I don't see how they didn't have any hounds on his scent, since he's a kid he has an established home to get his stuff and catch a scent. His clothes were inside the cabin so likely they would've taken it. This should've been solved in DAYS instead 7 whole years had went by.... and on top of that no one had checked an obvious in the woods cabin for a missing teen?

  • @MrPvtrandall
    @MrPvtrandall 3 года назад +80

    RIP: Cliff, Buddy and Ron. Thank you for your sacrifice. May you RIP.
    1ST time ever hearing this one.

    • @cleojudd7464
      @cleojudd7464 3 года назад +3

      It wasn’t a sacrifice they literally didn’t choose to stay down there and die, the marine just didn’t care and the us really don’t care about the people who served and still serve for their country and it makes me more angry then sad
      S.n... I’m not being rude just saying cause that made me mad that they just left them

    • @masterreaper115
      @masterreaper115 2 года назад +1

      @@cleojudd7464 While i do agree with alot of what you said i still agree that with what they had at the time they could not save those men. It was ANOTHER navy sailor that trapped them in without bothering to check the room, which btw is protocol for a set zed. That sailor made the decision that ended their lives.

    • @sliverjack0283
      @sliverjack0283 2 года назад

      @@cleojudd7464 they didn’t care did all the tears shed mean they didn’t care the requests to save them? They were in the belly of the ship rescue was impossible with the fact the equipment water quality or conmen sense of rescue was possible they would have done it but the lack of equipment and there being a war going on maybe instead of spitting on the navy for having to leave those men you should honor those who have fallen during the attack

    • @cleojudd7464
      @cleojudd7464 2 года назад

      @@sliverjack0283 Till this day the still don’t care bout the people who served abs still serve for this country…

  • @fluffleupigans9551
    @fluffleupigans9551 3 года назад +325

    I love how everyone always talks about how they just stumble upon his videos and never turn back. That's how you know he makes incredible content.

    • @encyclopediabrown1334
      @encyclopediabrown1334 3 года назад +1

      Riyeeeeeet

    • @encyclopediabrown1334
      @encyclopediabrown1334 3 года назад +3

      He 100% reminds me, looks, humor, the whole 9, completely of my old buddy I grew up with and sadly moved away from, Derek Bernard... so much so Derek was also miltary...

    • @drewedmundson7585
      @drewedmundson7585 2 года назад +3

      It's the first time I've ever actually subbed and turned on notifications 😅

    • @persom017
      @persom017 2 года назад +3

      i accidentally found him and got hooked on the “top 3 places people weren’t supposed to go but did anyways” and binged every episode of it in a day haha

    • @teenamoses6062
      @teenamoses6062 2 года назад +2

      Yup, that's my story..

  • @saintjohntattoo5150
    @saintjohntattoo5150 Год назад +1

    Been binging mrballen content, so far I’ve learned don’t go diving and don’t go caving or trying to squeeze into places are very important life advice. Lmao 🤣 thanks for all the entertainment mrballen! 💜