Ghosts of Flight 401
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#1 -- "Flight 401" -- 1:09 -- A disaster over the Everglades has a spooky history
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This was literally the best story-telling of this case that I’ve ever heard. The sheer amount of detail and plot twists blew my mind. Literally when I thought the story was over, and you said “But, this was not the end of the story for flight 401” and the moments I’ve heard after that sent chills down my spine. Bravo MrBallen, bravo!
Thank you!!
NOOOO please I hope the bots don take over mrballens comment section like they did crt1t1kals
The best cure for the Sunday scaries
@@MrBallen I saw another creator talking about one of your old stories and I had to just tell them about your channel😅. Keep up the good work ❤ your content.👍👍💯
Yep. Once again he’s money!!!
I am a retired airline pilot and we studied this accident at length. It resulted in training changes that ensured whenever there was a mechanical problem on board that the flying pilot would stay focused on only flying the aircraft and not get involved in troubleshooting the problem. You told this very well and got it exactly right.
Ya that makes a lot of sense.
Thank you for that!!
Walking faster it makes them want to fuck with you more lol
Hey how hard is it to get your pilot license? Always wanted to learn how to fly
How long does it take to get a pilot license
What about the gohsts? Have you heard anything about them?
Imagine having this guy as a grandpa, bro he'd tell the best stories I could sit and listen for hours.
I had a grandpa that told these kind of stories, only they were funny! Over the years we heard the same stories again and again. We always laughed. Miss him.
Hes actually my grandfather
I'd never sleep again
I love Mr B but if my PaPa told me that story at bedtime, I’d scream the house down!
@@Lilo-A oh I'm so sorry for your loss
This is actually a really sweet haunting story. It sounds like the captains were making sure the flights using the parts from the downed plane stayed safe.
MEATY KOK POKING THRU SWIMMING TRUNKS! 12 INCH HOG FLOPS THRU THE SWIMMING TRUNKS AT THR SWIMMING POOL
@@michaeldoran4367 nice
@@michaeldoran4367wow I was literally gonna say the same thing
i feel the same way❤
What I was thinking, but maybe it helped them move on by scrapping the parts
My Aunt was on that flight. I was waiting at Miami International Airport for her that night. Fortunately, she was on the last helicopter load of survivors. We actually met the pilot and co-pilot that morning because they were doing a turn around flight from here to LaGuardia Airport and we were bringing my handicapped Great Aunt to that flight. Both were so kind. My Aunt spent 9 months in the hospital and got the second highest settlement from Eastern Airlines. She went on to live another 4 decades. I will never forget that night that changed our lives forever.
Can we just stop and appreciate the fact that Mr Ballen rented out an entire plane to tell this story in?
Right? So much more expensive than a green backdrop.
Can't hide money
This is a joke though, right? It seems like you really believe it with no sense of any form of sarcasm. So, just making sure that you know it is a green screen.
@@kkittycatkat1990 oh dear...you seem fun
@@kkittycatkat1990 you don't much experience with internet sarcasm, do you?
Imagine how frustrated Bob was at the irony of being asked if he was deadheading. No wonder he didn't say anything.
😂
sorry, I shouldn’t be laughing. 😉
😂
Are you dead... heading? 😂
😂🤣 lol
Well, Kyle Vanover, you made all of us laugh inappropriately. Including MrBallen.
👏🏻 Well played.
Interesting part of the story is that Don and Bob never really seem malicious, even when they're not actively helping. They're either just sitting there or wandering around, they seem pretty chill
They're still trying to figure out that damned landing gear light.
If their spirits were malicious, those spirits may not be them to begin with. Just demonic entities pretending to be those who recently passed over.
Well yeah, they're just trying to complete the flight that they never got to finish..eerily sad when you think about it that way
very benevolent..I like to think I would have embraced encountering their conciousness of concientiousness
Especially Bob, they have no idea what heppened to them, i doubt he even knows hes dead, thats why he keeps tryinhg to get to his destination. its sad
I lived about 5 miles from the crash site. I was young and will never forget how our house shook and the windows rattled! My neighbors owned airboats and were on their way to help.
cap 👎🏿👎🏿👎🏿👎🏿👎🏿👎🏿
@@rohanwhouhate How TF is it cap? Is it really that impossible to live somewhere? 🤡
@@rohanwhouhateshe joined RUclips 10 years ago I believe it
@@VixevityBut wasn't that crash site in the middle of the Everglades?
@@michaeldoran4367yes but there have also been communities there for decades. Lots of locals. It’s a plane crash that’s a huge explosion
My husband worked for Eastern Airlines when this occurred. Having witnessed the firings and harassment of those employees that reported anything, most of the Eastern employees learned very quickly to NOT speak about the incidents. Thank you Mr. Ballen for another great story. I hope you and your family are settling into your new home.
Thank u mr ballen for another??mystery keep up and wish u all the best a fan from hellas 🇬🇷
So wild! Thanks for sharing!!
This was worth 2 weeks wait not gonna lie. Thanks for awesome videos!
They should've left those crashed parts in the dump.
@@sleezyout3659 but I need more content to watch. You got any other story tellers like this? I'm desperate lol
The "OH MY GOD, THATS BOB LOFT!!" gave me chills
Mr.B is SO good at storytelling. The Best of the best.
Errrr did Bob knock the tray table when he evaporated?, just checking........
@@NorthernGreenEyes Imagine asking for a ghost story while camping. This guy would keep the adults awake with guns lmao. He is that good.
saaaaaame
@@martinclark8162 lmao
My Dad was an aerospace engineer and his best friend at Lockheed was one of the engineers that worked on that planes design. Our family's were in New York and getting ready to go to Miami Florida. We were supposed to be on that flight. Earlier that day my brother was in a car accident and we had to change our plans. As kids we were very unhappy about missing the vacation. When we heard the news we were stunned to say the least and afraid to fly. I was only 9. The thought that I could have died haunted me all my life. Since then I have had 4 additional last minute changes that "saved/spared" my life. I'm so grateful for life's pivots that have spared my life.
I call bs
What were the changes
@AJoseph0007 My Brother ended up in the Hospital with a broken arm and leg. So we could not make the trip. Our parents told us that we would be changing our vacation to make sure our Brother would be OK. Told us we would pick a new date but we would be staying home for now.
I believe you. There's no telling how many times this happens, and we don't even realize it.
The dead spirit of captian and airline engineer had latched onto the parts that were used on new planes. The fact that the captian appeared and then vanished in thin air infront of passengers is terrifying to hear and I can only imagine how shocked and scared the experience would have been for people who witnessed it. This is Mr Ballen most wildest and craziest paranormal story ever.
Yeah like they weren’t just shadows they looked real!
Why do you keep on spelling CAPTAIN wrong? You literally spelled it wrong twice🙄
Literally none of this happened though, other than the crash of flight 401
I actually find it really cool that the ghost of the engineer warned the pilot of malfunctions which ended up being real. He wanted to help and potentially saved lives by doing that
There was never any evidence that any crash parts were salvaged, and no one reported any ghost sightings until a reporter took a joke from a flight engineer too seriously. The flight engineer jokingly said he thought he saw the ghost of the dead flight engineer when checking the engines, and ghost on a plane made it to newspapers. The reason ghost sightings stopped getting reported is because people just forgot about the crash after a while, they were no longer paranoid. In the reports the ghost didn't tell anyone of a malfunction. The flight engineer heard a knocking sound in the hell hole, opened the door to check it, thought he saw a ghost in the darkness, checked it out and found a problem that could have caused a crash. People act like it's crazy for a malfunctioning engine part to make a knocking sound.
@@DennisTea you’re speaking of 2 separate instances though. The warning wasn’t the knocking in the hell hole, that was a whole different encounter, the warning was before a take off. Not saying I disagree with you, but if you’re going to make an argument you should probably at least fully comprehend what you’re trying to argue against and for. It all went over your head other than 2 key parts of a very large story.
I heard he was in good spirits that day.
No, ghost do not exist. This alleged flight engeener was a demon that has taken a form of a dead person in oder to deceive and torment living people. The reason why he told about the engine problem was to maintain this believe in ghost so that we may trust them and it would be dead easy to deceive us into making vad decisions.
I find it really cool that theres a Ghost that has better intentions than some humans. :0
A very close friend of mine died in the crash of 401. She was my babysitter whom I adored as I was a child. Her luggage was retrieved and sent to her family, but her body was never found. When I would visit her aunt, who actually raised her, we would talk about her and about what a loving person she was. Those talks have helped to keep her alive in my heart, which is a great comfort for me, even after all these years. ♥️.
Thanks, Mr. Ballen, for posting this story.
may her rest in peace
I'm so sorry about her...if only this was all just a dream and the bad things that happen to us is just a bad nightmare, and that we all will wake up and the nightmares stop soon...may she rest in peace
@@gabrieldoc9303 Thank you!! 🙏🏼
rip
dont worry, she is going up
I am a flight attendant. I was hired in 1999. I had training on the L1011 but once I graduated the L1011’s were being phased out. During training I had to go down the elevator but I was lucky enough never to have to work it. The flight attendants told me about the ghost faces down there. I was so glad I never had to. Great storytelling. They must’ve missed some parts. 👀👀👀👀👀
Dude!! I got chills all over when you said “OMG IT’S BOB LOFT!” Total freak out! Imagine being a passenger trapped with ghosts! Awesome story!
when mr ballen posts it’s a good day.
Agreed
Hell yea
Absolutely-I’ve been waiting!!!
Indeed
Sure is
You know what? It has been quite a minute since Ballen told us a ghost story. It is quite refreshing after a lot of murder plots. As always, the stories are definitely a highlight of my day. Thank you.
Make believe bs
@OO🤪00 always one person that just gotta be a miserable dk
I haven't finished the video qnd I'm reading your comment made me even more excited bc I miss his paranormal videos. I totally forgot about him saying his wife is a huge skeptic qnd then went into a plane story I totally forgot about him briefly mentioning paranormal qt the beginning. His Hello Fresh story still has me cracking up.
Yeah agreed! My fav are the O.P. Rock story and the story of some giant being killed in the middle east by some U.S. boys, but then someone swooped in and scooped it up on some big ass transport plane and it was gone. Nothing to see here.
I love a great ghost story specially with lots of witnesses 👏🏻👏🏻
34:56 it went from creepy to sad real quick. Their deaths were so sudden that they actually reenacted their usual routines when they were still alive. 💔
That's generally one of two, maybe three, ways ghosts are believed to be formed...
I've always not believed in ghosts. But had one experience that I can't explain. My friend told me there was a presence in the room. And that she could feel it in the air. When I put out my hands I could feel like a physical difference in pressure . It freaked me out. I've not forgotten this in 25 years.
Phantoms fill the skies
Electromagnetic fields, which people say ghosts produce, have also been used in a controlled clinical setting to induce people seeing ghosts, feeling a “presence” and so on. The ghosts don’t make the fields the fields seem to mess with our brains and makes think we see ghosts
@@gamingwhilebroken2355 We are not alone on this earth, you better believe it. Very foolish to believe otherwise.
Jinn
@@muhammada5276 finn
42 minutes long, kept me interested every second- your storytelling is immaculate.
🙏🙏🙏🙏
Agreed
Had no idea that was 42 minutes long time just flew holy crap. What an incredible story-teller!
And still wish it was longer!
@@MrBallen mr. Ballen i hope you won't mind me taking a screenshot of baby mr. Ballen and using it as a meme!!! 😅
As an airline pilot, this is one of my favorite ghost stories ever. Also, this accident is considered legendary, and taught the airline industry some invaluable lessons.
like - dont lie to your customers - yet still today they ALL trott out
- your safety is our first priority -
yeah right - tell that to the 3 plane loads murdered paxs from those 737 Max crashes... $$$ is the ONLY priority
To pay attention when flying?
@@allandill2033 There was much more to it than that, but essentially, yes.
@@eric7591 reminds me of the "complacency kills" signs posted everywhere in Iraq
I wonder what they did with the parts. Is there any info on that? Did they just throw them out or are there somewhere in safekeeping where the ghosts still hang out?
I cant believe you told this story. My father did PR for Eastern and told this story often. Mostly when anyone would get on him about not wearing a seatbelt. He went down to Miami to see the wreckage and there was still a burnt corps he said was stuck in the seat with his hands on the belt. My father was told that many of the seatbelts jammed locking the passengers in and trapping them to burn to death. The rest of his life he wouldn’t put one on b/c of the trauma of that image. He would always get choked up talking about it. Crazy to hear you speak of this! I have chills.
the fact a woman was so traumatized she had to be medically restrained in a straight jacket is WILD
I've seen plenty of people fall into that state over canceled flights
@@randylahey1822 lol unfortunately adults with child-like brains are abundant.
Woman came from the jungle and i knw exactly what she is
omg imagine scanning through darkness of screams and moans and just seeing body parts everywhere. that’s horrendous
Timestamp
@@RegzalTG 12:38 and also 13:34
Remind me not to invite you to my basement...
I remember this terrible crash and how survivors must have been terrified with what was in the swamp also.
Now imagine hearing and then seeing those screams and moans coming from you’re pets, farm animals or livestock.
I actually booked my twin sister onto this flight to meet me and other family members in Florida. When a late meeting kept her at work and she couldn't make the Eastern Flight out of Kennedy, but was able to get to LaGuardia to catch a National Flight that came in at the same time the Eastern Flight should have arrived and didn't. I am now 70 years old. I still do not like to fly anywhere. My twin passed away from cancer 2 years ago.
Wow, i got chills reading this. It’s crazy how little hiccups can change the outcome.
My condolences.
So sorry 🙏 but things happen for a reason. Thank God she was not on that flight.
God rest her soul and visit you and grant you healing of soul and peace. ☦️❤️🤗
Wow!!!!
Oh, I’m so sorry for your loss 💔☹️. May God grant you peace and serenity. I’ve lost both my siblings and it’s not easy. She’s your Guardian Angel now looking over you until you meet again 😇🙏. Again, I’m so sorry for your loss 😓.
I love this channel.... I am former military as well, and I really like the way the fashion of your storytelling, and the wit you use in the process. This is truly your calling in life. Thanks.
I work at the airport and I clean the planes and your story is like a movie cuz I can picture every single moment and seeing everything pan out...
Scarily Great Story telling
People don't realize how few good storytellers we encounter in a lifetime.
Yes but he can't do anything else at all.
I do...
And Mr. Ballen is the best!
@@Sundog0811 Wow your wrong about that my man. You don't even know him qnd I don't even know him but I have been watching him for years now and The fact that he was a Navy Seal says so much about "what he can do". I'm sure he has so many talents that we couldn't even imagine. But he wasn't just a Navy Seal but he is also a husband and a father and a Bad Ass helper of the Community who is always trying to help people. The fact that he can tell Stories well shows how smart he is. You have to be able to see every little detail in a story to be able to tell one like he does. He isn't perfect but he definitely isn't a one skilled pony by any means. I hope you have many talents as well and that one day you are as successful as Mr.Ballen has been.
@@Sundog0811 Who hurt you
The exaggerated hand and arm movements he now employs are a bit distracting. I preferred his original mode of delivery which was far calmer.
I come from a family of pilots in Australia... my dad used to tell us this story when we were kids. He was a complete skeptic, being a pilot, a man of science and logic... this was the only ghost story that ever made him question things because they're were so many witnesses.
I go to view the one reply following your comment and found it disappeared.!
L!AR
@@bamahammer949 And you’re an annoy!ng spammer 😃
@@shiny2423 It said 3 replies when I clicked but it was only 2, you and the skeptic who can't count.
These so called "ghost" might be an alien
I first read this story in a book called Ghost Sightings by Brian Innes. Highly recommend picking up a copy, it’s got some great stories.
Love the way you brought this to life.
Whenever I hear stories of people "vanishing", I can't help but wonder how exactly it appeared in the moment. Did they just pop in and out? Did they fade? Perhaps some kind of mist? 🤔
Hopefully there was a noise of a balloon popping.
Or why do they never answer? That bugs me the most...all these paranormal "investigators " never ask if they can or questions like do you have a choice to remain earth bound? They just ask the same questions..like if you can hear me knock twice..if you wanna be an investigators then learn and study what they say and try to formulate questions to answers we all want to know..are you asked periodically if you want to leave...do you feel pain since half of your head is decapitated from witness statements..everyone just does what they saw on the last episode of "did you hear that?"
@@DannyBoYfutube The lady wasn't a paranormal investigator, though. Just a flight attendant doing her job. So if the questions were the issue there, then maybe we should be blaming the company for not training their employees to question ghosts. :P
When I saw my grandma she merged and faded into my wall
@@aniali6 Hypothesis. The wall ate your grandma.
I'd say the scariest part of this story is the pilot who bent down and looked Captain Loft in the face. If you think about that, he knew Bob in life, talked to him and probably more, and now looked at that dead face looking back at him. That part was freaky to me.
I'd probably die right there from fear
It's more freaky than that even. The ghost was staring straight ahead and never budged. Basically staring into the back of a seat in front of it it sounds like. I could only imagine what was going through the crew members minds looking at this ghost and getting no responses or movement
@@HighZenburg I’m wondering what were the thoughts going through the ghost’s mind at that moment.
The ghost was turning a phantom SBD loose inside that plane. If u end up with a nose full of acrid anal ectoplasm while on board a flight…….well…..the captain has turned on the no-smoking sign. Please extinguish your butts. The captain’s butt is full of extinguished SOULS!!!!!!!!!!
Encountering the familiar dead isn’t as shocking as the unfamiliar dead. The initial shock passes quickly.
A senior engineer haunting the crew to look over their shoulders and see that they aren’t making mistakes is very on brand.
Wbat do you meAn?
@@rebahensley5323 if uve worked with snr engineers theyre very meticulous and only trust the work if theyve seen it themselves
@@traceurernest2222 Which is very contraproductive. I worked with one guy who was like that. He litteraly went and checked after everyone if every screw is tight enough to his standards. Few guys get really pissed off about it because it was blatant insult to their workmanship. And its not as if there was any justification from past problems caused by loose screws.
There is thoroughnes and caution, and then there is being dickhead.
Your mom's hairy box haunts me...
Hey hey, it's me Bilbo B the RUclips troll doncha know
@@iglidor yeah that guy sounds like a tool
The moment you said 'omg thats Bob Loft' I got chills down my spine and every hair on my body just went up,i understand why everybody panicked holy s***
this is so wild! my mom actually had something similar happen on a flight from germany to italy in the 90s- the landing gear did not show it had locked in place. they did a tower fly-by for the tower crew to visually confirm the gear was out and were then redirected to venice airport (cause there they could slide into the laguna if the landing gear broke off), ordered to circle a while to burn off as much fuel as possible to reduce fire risk in case of a crash and then went to landing. my mom was scared of flying even before than - she said it was one of the most viscerally terrifying moments of her life and all she could think about was „who‘s going to tell my daughter?“ 😮
My Uncle was a flight mechanic for Eastern at that time. He had recently retired from the Air Force and place in charge of a crew. About a year after he was tasked with pulling a number of perfectly good parts from perfectly good airplanes. He looked into the why and never got a straight answer from the company, but a variety of crew members shared this story.
So crazy!!
@@MrBallen hi mrballen
@@MrBallen no more "3, 4, even 5 times a week!" then eh Ballen?? I feel so tricked and cheated. And here I thought you were the one! 😉😍🥰🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Looked into why what? And which story?
did he find out where they went to at least? like were they sent to a recycling plant or a church or to area 50 or...
As Ginny felt an intense shiver down her spine, she heard a voice coming from a dark corner: “do you know how to get to Bell’s Canyon?”
LOL nice call back!
stop 😂😂😂😂😂
Lol!!
That Hello Fresh commercial was hilarious!! Egyptian fire ants, lol!!
🤣🤣🤣
I got literal chills when the ghost captain vanished, and I hardly ever have physically reactions to things like that. I've heard this story before, but it's just so creepy and hard to deny with so many witnesses.
39:38 I’m crying. These type of hauntings make me feel really depressed. Especially because these spirits still tried to help the living. They tried to save them from the fate that they faced. 💔believer or not, it could be upsetting and depressing if you think of it that way.
I hope the men in the airboat were given awards for their courage and heroism
I agree! Anyone willing to drive an airboat through the swamp in the middle of the night has balls of steel lol.
"Thirty-five years after Eastern Airlines Flight 401 plummeted into the Florida Everglades, airboat pilot Bud Marquis is finally being recognized for his actions that night that saved untold lives." I saw this in an article after I Googled the story.
Imagine the amount of PTSD they must have 😔
And in the Everglades? Alligators are plentiful and hunt at night
@@alleycat616 Many people who survived the impact actually died from being eaten by alligators. It was horrific.
Mr.Ballen is the only guy that can make 45 minute videos feel like a 10 minute video lol
100%.
I totally forgot how long this video was till you mentioned it… (read it while reaching the end of the video)
This was 45 minutes?
So true lol he’s just amazing and gets to the points quick so his stories never get boring
It's never enough!
I just wanted to comment and say the attention to detail you express in the videos truly makes it an immersive experience. Quick example is describing what a glade boat is and then saying the speed they travel at to get to the crash site. Idk, it’s the little things for me.
This was one of my mom's favorite stories (and, consequently, mine). I've read the book, and saw the movie several times. This is, by far, my favorite telling of the story. It still gives me chills.
Don Repo is just a nice engineer. He simple told the captain about the malfunction, he didn't want anyone to get hurt, what a nice ghost preventing another crash.
exactly!!! that actually made me soooo mad when they pulled the parts after that!! it CLEARLY wasnt malicious spirits!!🤬
he was like i was a min too late to save lives before im gonna make up for that!! for spirits to form apparitions takes IMMENSE energy!!! that man was an a amazingly loving man!!!
@@JamieJai immense energy, and immense emotions, and immense attachments!
@@JamieJai Malicious or not, those spirits frightened people on board and that couldn't be good for business. You're pissed because they got to come to salvation?
😸🤦🏻♀️lol
@@JamieJai my mom worked at a opera house that was haunted I can tell you now it wasn't cool can you imagine a plane full of freaked out passengers. I have a heart condition and I don't think I would be that chilled about a ghost in a plane.
Don Repo, probably said to himself, this may have happened to me, but it doesn't have to happen to you. RIP Don, you were an angel who saved lives on that plane
What's crazy is that, if true, the ghost is intelligent, not just an apparition
Maybe they should have kept the parts.
@@Ghost-oq8fwHeard so many accounts so is hard to say what is 100% true but I believe the person is gone at that point but the emotions (guilt) that Don and the other pilots had in death were so strong that those feelings, not so much the person, took on a physical form. Irrelevant but I think that's why a lot of Ghosts are said to just wander aimlessly because that's how they felt when they died whereas these pilots felt like they had a duty. Not to go off on one.
@@The_Last_Norman The body dies but the energy often stays behind. ✨️
600th like ur welcome
I was 20 years old when that plane crashed…read the book and saw the movie “ghost of flight 401” way back then and MrBallen absolutely nailed this story! Keep on with your great work!
It’s just so disappointing to hear that this was totally preventable. This kind of huge accident shouldn’t happen at all, what they learned from it should’ve already been known and learned. Respects to those who lost their lives that day, may they rest well ♥️
I have a personal connection to this disaster. I was very good friends with the daughter of a survivor of this crash, Richard Micale (he is listed on the website). Richard, frequently spoke of his experiences about the crash & his recovery. He said that while he was floating in the Everglades, he distinctly recalled seeing an apparition walking among the debris. He also said that he wasn’t certain if seeing this apparition was due to inhaled fuel fumes or it was really a ghost. Also, due to your military medic history, you may find it interesting that it was this disaster that CRM - Crew Resource Management & how we run codes, is based upon! I’m in the medical field & have worked closely with members of the aviation community that also teach ACLS/BLS.
I am so thankful that Richard Micale, survived this crash. He actually saved my life & is the only reason I am here to comment on your video today! Richard, passed away many years ago. I am so happy that you covered this information. The man Robert, in your story, also pulled Richard Micale, out of the Everglades that night. Thank you again for covering this story.
you are a beautiful woman, can we be friends? :) tell me how to contact you
ok
damn
Yeah sure I’ll trust this story is real
thanks for telling Richard Micales story, it’s a good one and add a lot to this
It seems like it might be handy to have a ghost engineer around who knows about problems with the plane before they've even been noticed by anyone else.
I wonder if there are ghost attorneys who appear to give legal advice before signing a contract
It would be nice, but the Caterers refused to work with him!
lol Literally my overall thoughts HAHAHA
Or a ghost flight attendant who will pour a full glass of coke instead of of a couple teaspoons full.
This won't work because then there will be someone complaining that the ghosts are being treated unfairly because their not getting paid.
Its same thing with antiques, you need to be ready when you brought a antiques into your homes, cause you never know what history or record that you would seen later.
i experienced the same thing Jenny had when i was younger, alot younger. i was at my grandmothers place and in the living room alone which i often was, and completely fine to add! i suddenly got the feeling of fear, i literally curled up in a corner and cried as i watched the entrances to the room as if something was coming to get me. and out of the corner of my eye i could have sworn i saw a ghost, could have been me hallucinating from fear but…who knows? i sat there till my grandmother came downstairs to figure out why i was crying in which i was balling my eyes out at this point. i haven’t been in that house since but honestly i wonder how it would feel if i went back there today.
Can we give huge props to Rob and his friend for trying to save as many people as possible? I would have been way too frozen with shock and horror to have done that much.
@Monica King the plane crashing likely scared any gator in the area away
@@Nihilitty ... Except maybe the ones that were killed by the impact floating up on you in the dark...
Not so horrifying... They were only wading through swamp water at 2:00 a.m. to the sounds of people screaming in deathly agony all around them, body parts and gore hanging off of a destroyed airplane, bugs up in their face, the possibility of gators returning to the area any second for a feast with the smell of blood in the water... Just another night out with the fellas...🐊🐊🐊🐊😬
@@johnboehmer6683 with only a head lamp :(
@@johnboehmer6683 just your everyday ohio flight
I love how hard he struggled to get through the "commercial" without laughing 😂😂 it was too darn funny
How the heck does he get the time to make this “commercials” 😂
He's the only youtuber that can make me not want to skip the commercial breaks
He all of that just for that lol
just as a PSA, all these stories come from the book "The Ghosts of Flight 401", written by a ufo kook haha, not a SINGLE part from 401 was installed on any other plane, thats not a thing that happens
and its not a coincidence all his unverified claims cant be corroborated because the airline mysteriously removed all the logbooks every time hahaha, as if theyd care about these claims. people actually tracked down a lot of the people mentioned, who said none of this ever happened and the book was just sensationalizing and cashing in on the tragic plane crash.
@@KaladinVegapunk Evidence?
It's an excellent book, I read it as a 14 year old, I'm now 58. I was told by a British Airways cabin crew that Eastern had put parts in BA planes, and that they had problems, so they removed them.
I wasn’t intrigued by horror stories until very recently when I discovered your channel and now I can’t stop watching them.
Props to Robert and his friend for doing doing best to save as many people as they could
Amen that. It must have been discouraging with so many people in need.
"Even in death I still serve"
No kidding, what a scene to come across.
not all heroes wear capes. Some wear fishing gear
Kudos to Don Repo. Still saving lives even from the afterlife
If you watched the mayday documentary on flight 401, he seems like a really nice guy to hang out with!
This is one of my favorite Ballen stories. It is so creepy, and I find it really fascinating that these ghosts were seen by so many people. I feel like this is pretty solid proof of ghosts. Why would so many people lie? I don't think all these people who work for the airline are putting their reputation at stake for a lie.
while im inclined to agree, i just want to say that (i've only gotten to the 'not alone' part) that the first story honestly makes a lot of sense. that bottom floor is cramped and already really spooky. and both the flight attendants were directed to go down there when asking where the other was... so naturally they were expecting to find someone down there. i think that was the reason they both had that "strong sense of not being alone." it's the fact that they were quite literally supposed to find someone down there, but didn't.
idk, it just doesn't seem paranormal to me; just a kind of psychological thing since they were expecting to find someone but didn't.
edit: i must admit, the second story is just absolutely intriguing, i don't think anything can explain it
edit 2: from an article
Among the general public, Eastern Air Lines flight 401 is best known not for its safety lessons, but for an alleged haunting which became one of the most widely shared urban legends to emerge from the aviation industry. According to the story, popularized by the 1976 pseudo-nonfiction novel Ghosts of Flight 401, Eastern Air Lines salvaged intact galley equipment from the wrecked airliner and installed it on another L-1011, after which passengers and crew began seeing lifelike apparitions of Bob Loft and Don Repo in the galley area. The story became so popular that Eastern Air Lines had to tell its employees to stop writing up ghost sightings in the flight logs. However, the actual origin of the sightings is much more prosaic. In fact, the story seems to have originated in a 1973 Flight Safety Foundation article about an engine failure on another Eastern Air Lines plane, which jokingly described the pilot “[thinking] he saw the ghost of Don Repo.” Someone took this attempt at humor too seriously, and the story spread from there, often being taken as canon, even though no one saw a ghost until after the story was published, nor was there any evidence that equipment from flight 401 was actually salvaged.
TLDR: the logs were originated from an urban legend in a novel and it's believed that employees started to log these sightings as jokes as a reference to the novel; also the fact that there is no evidence that equipment from flight 401 was ever salvaged... kinda disappointed mrballen didn't mention this, but rather stated it as fact that material was salvaged
@fruitygranulizer540 You say "from a novel" in the tldr. To me, that makes it sound like it was taken from a work of fiction. I mean, at least it was from a non-fiction novel. Trust me, I know that doesn't really prove any of this really happened, but I'd like to think there's something to this. While I am interested in your findings, I kind of wish I wouldn't have read your reply. Only because it's fun to think it could have really happened the way Mr Ballen explained it. It's strange because when I think about the possibility of the paranormal, I am torn. On one hand, the idea of an afterlife in general seems preposterous. It doesn't really make sense to me. But I think it's a little, for lack of a better word, presumptuous to think that way. Mankind has, and will always, think they have everything all figured out. You can look back through history and see how many times we were completely wrong when we were so damn sure we were right. The Earth is flat. Everything, including the sun, orbits us. Galileo (following Copernicus' heliocentric theory)
debunked that and was sentenced to life in prison (house arrest) for heresy. Scientists called galaxies nebulae before Edwin Hubbel used the standard candle of a type one-a supernovae to confirm that Andromeda is its own galexy. The list goes on, but my point is that just because we don't understand something and lack the technology and know how to prove it, that doesn't mean we should reject it as an impossibility.
Sorry for the "novel." Brevity has never been my strongsuit. I just feel like a lot of us, myself included, are too close-minded for our own good. Speaking of novels, I kinda want to read that one you were talking about. The one that supposedly started this whole gem of a story.
great story. tremendous story telling. It messes with my shortened attention span. i flew on an L1011, Tornto to Calgary, c 1983. It was enormous
Nobody will ever beat Mr. Ballen’s little sponsorship skits, he puts so much energy and life into them and makes them funny 😭
He and Nerd Explains seem to be the only two creators I will gladly listen to their sponsor ads for because of how they do it.
@@ArtistChibi Theo Von too
Thank you!
I watch all his ads!😂
I love that he can't even get through them without giggling his head off
I am an airline pilot and was fortunate enough to work with one of the flight attendants who was on that flight. She was very cool and told me a little about the crash. She was rescued while hanging upside down in her jump seat. She also showed me a picture taken of the cabin flight crew who worked that flight. Most of them were friends.. very sad. She continued to fly up until a few years ago before she passed. God bless her kind soul R.I.P.
Bro you’re literally 8
@@Midlik2006 It’s probably a Parent’s account the child posts on. My kid posted a few on my account years ago.
@@Midlik2006 do you know what their user name actually means? No way a kid of 8 knows enough about the subject to call themselves IOMTT Fan.
@@jenamb592
LOL. Always so much fun to discover what your kids have done online in your name.
Did that woman vanish after she told you the story?
The size of that plane is crazy. I live in a very small town and that plane would fit EVERYONE in my town!
The story of Jenny and Denise had my head spinning, because I'm still confused as to what had actually happened, other than the 2 of them feeling spooked out, and then going as far as to report the "incident", as if it were in fact an "incident". Wtf ?
I've heard that certain air pressures make our instincts feel like its "sensing a presence", likely left over from when our ancestors were wary of what lies inside of caves, and why it usually makes us hysterical and run away in the end. the sensation is VERY strong and particular, so I don't blame the women for reporting it.
Ya. Two women in a kitchen freaked out independently. 😂
He said there are many members who experienced the same thing but he was gonna share just two of them.
Timestamp 14:55 the young man in white hospital uniform carrying a child in was my boyfriend at the time. His name was Perry Damone, Vic Damones son. Vic was a singer from the Frank Sinatra, Perry Como era. Perry was never the same after working that tragedy.
Your gift for storytelling is amazing. Thank you for telling these stories.
Was the baby ok? That’s heartbreaking
Thanks for sharing.
“EX boyfriend” 💀
@@mediumsurmoon6283 boyfriend at the time...
@@mediumsurmoon6283 it could also means "currently husband" ..y'know, just to point it out
Not gonna lie I listen to a lot of people that either tell stories or different things and you are certainly one of the best I've heard it's very entertaining listening to listen to and it's so good in fact it's has me rewinding multiple times just to make sure I don't miss anything
Ngl this channel single handedly sparked the flame of my paranormal belief
We not gonna talk about how he laughs at his own jokes and can’t get through them without laughing? It’s the greatest thing and always makes me laugh as well. Always appreciate a good laugh. Thank you mr.Ballen for always posting such good content 👌🏻
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How is that the turn you took 🤣🤣🤣 hello fresh lol?
Wtf?
TBH it’s getting a little formulaic/scripted, encouraged by lots of these comments. The difficulty keeping a straight face felt rare and more natural in his old videos. Especially b/c you assumed he always edited the laughing out unless he really really couldn’t keep it in for a solid take.
Still love it all though ❤
Laughing at your own jokes is great. One of the biggest TV stars did this. If he thought of something funnier to say than was scripted he just had to say it. His show was The Red Skeleton Show
Could you imagine Mr.Ballen being your dad? Every bed time story would be like a movie. 😅
Errrr, not sure I want these stories straight before bed thanks! Hah 🤣
@@btown8210 yea I would have nightmares lol
@@btown8210 I listen to them in bed when I’m trying to get to sleep lol
And last an hour lol
Yall make everything weird..
This is OG Mr. Ballen. I’ve listened to you from the very start and appreciate you bringing back more paranormal stories!
You're a really great storyteller. Found the channel recently and ove been thoroughly enjoying it.
I feel so sorry for pilot Bob, hope he was able to come to terms with what happened and shed himself of the guilt that kept him earth bound.
U mean skybound. *lame chuckle*
Since that one ghost was so helpful with pointing out a faulty engine I wondered if it was a good idea to remove the parts.
BTW this story probably inspired at least 2 TV shows. The Others (not the Nicole Kidman movie) and Mysterious Ways which starred Adrian Pasdar. And probably more that I have forgotten. I love this trope.
But yes I hope those ghosts found peace.
Oh yeah Supernatural had also this trope. 🥰
Oh brother. (rolls eyes) Funny how when the airlines claimed they tossed the parts (they probably didn't) he never appeared again. (rolls eyes again) This story is not AT ALL believeable by any stretch of the imagination and, yes, I do believe in ghosts. I just don't believe this - though it's always fun to see Mr. B tell a good story.
@@mary-janereallynotsarah684 Good one!
My uncle used to work for Eastern Airlines in the late 80s. He was a very accomplished pilot, was in the marine Airforce and had a lot of flight time. He's a perfectionist and would always inspect the plane that he was going to fly and would write up a report if he found any issues. Eastern threatened him several times about the write ups until they finally fired him and blacklisted him from the industry in which he couldn't get a job for over a decade. He would later get work doing private flights until he was approached by and currently works for the FAA as an aircraft safety inspector/investigator out of JFK. There were a lot of issues with that airline and it's no wonder they went out of business.
Ur uncles name?
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My sister flew for Eastern and I heard nothing good about them.
Bros unc was a ghost buster.
When he describes the fire ant medication, he sounds like my 3 year old grandson describing his day 😂😂. Love this guy! ❤
I've recently begun delving into intriguing stories to help me sleep. You're the best so far! I do not know how you talk so much and don't annoy the crap out of me but I give you props! You have a great voice and awesome energy--really appreciate your channel Thanks!
Shout-out to Don Repo, who even in death, was looking out for them 🙏🏽
You don't believe these entertainment stories, do you?
@@AsteroSSBif you think reality is the way the government programmed us to believe then I feel sorry for you bro 💯
@@AsteroSSBThis event is absolutely true, the people are real, and the hauntings are well documented, albeit self-reported.
Nah he was just cashing in his free air fair, even in death he was getting his moneys worth
@@WorldOfTess2024 | :
Even if there were no ghosts in this story, those tiny elevators and basement area to the plane are alone terrifying and as creepy as hell
🤣🤣 thought I’d be the only one to think this in the world. Glad I’m not alone
There were literally ghost sightings in the entire story ....
@@syckmusyck6593 🤣🤣 💯
@@syckmusyck6593 30 minutes in an not one ghost sighting as of yet, what you talking about.
Like 5 or 6 sightings at the end of this story
that 401 ghost story was a hell of a yarn!
I've come back to this ad read far more times than I'd like to admit. It's fantastic, and I love how much fun John is having with it while he's reading it!! xD
Airline pilot here. One of the hardest things for me to do was explain things about how the plane works in pilot terminology to regular civilians. And I don’t think you’re a pilot but you literally explained things in layman‘s terms for anyone who is not a pilot perfectly. Well done.
Additionally, I remember learning about this flight in our Airline Pilot training. There were some rules and regulations made due to this crash. It’s a sad truth that a lot of our rules and regulations were written in blood.
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Thank you!!!
You're a so called pilot yet can't spell"terminology" correctly. LOL ok
"regular civilians"? Just because you claim to be a pilot doesn't make you not a civilian.
I’m studying commercial aviation right now but I’ve done so much research my whole life, so while I’m not yet a commercial pilot, I pretty much know just about everything in terms of terminology, and you are definitely correct when you say that Ballen explain things well.
And I know the annoyance of having to take the time to explain things to people who know nothing about planes 😂
The fact Don Repo said you have an engine problem is amazing to me. Seems like they just didn't want anymore ppl dying on planes its strange yes but it makes me so happy to think even in death ppl are trying to help others this is such an interesting story!
They probably just perfected interacting with humans to help the staff on the flight and the company takes them away.
Yeah, and they removed the old plane parts which means he can never save anyone elses life! They should have kept the old parts in, that's so interesting.
Super Cool Right
Same
I flew on an Eastern Airlines flight that had the recycled galley from Flight 401. Two of the stewardesses told us that there had been paranormal experiences on the plane!
It makes me wonder what the outcome would have been if those two men were not out looking for frogs that night. I think it's possible that there might not have been any survivors at all. Thank God for those two men, that they went to check on what only one of them had seen. It was a tragedy but it could have so much worse without their intervention. They certainly deserve some sort of recognition & reward .
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There would have been but far less the coast guard still would have been there
remeber he waved coast gaurd to him
@@acerpurifiedvoiceconsoleno he didn’t 😭coast guard isn’t just chilling in the Everglades like that. They got called when the flight went down and the polenta didn’t answer and comms went off.
Love that you went back to the strange, dark and mysterious, as opposed to just plain murder cases. Thank you and more power!
Agreed, I far prefer this over the true crime stuff. I think part of it though is there is no shortage of material on murders. Meanwhile there are only so many believable mysterious/paranormal events documented.
YES! I like the other content too, but my husband and I were just saying the other day how we wished he did more paranormal stories like he used to.
I like those better too! Wish he had more. I usually get sucked into the story alot deeper when it's paranormal related. Whether it's true or not, ya know? Demons, Ouija boards, ghosts, etc. Love that! lol ;-P
Mr.ballen turned into a murdercast
I found him because of the true crime content but this kinda story is dope. I’m all about it
Absolutely love mrballen!been listening since the beginning.all the memories on the trails just binge watching during my recovery are forever gems ❤
I read the book about 20 years ago. The book goes into great detail and talks about a ranting Frank Borman trying to shut the story down at Eastern.
Both of my parents worked for Eastern for over twenty years, and were with the company when this unfortunate event occurred. Their home base (at that time) was MIA, the Miami International Airport. My mother, who was a flight attendant then, never did have an encounter but she told me one of her friends and fellow flight attendants saw flight engineer Repo on one of her flights after the crash. My father, who was a mechanic for Eastern, had no supernatural encounters though he no doubt worked on the planes with parts cannibalized from 401, as he specialized on the L1011. I have personally worked on an L1011 in a museum setting and it's a magnificent bird. It's a shame this tragedy ever occurred.
I have a theory that the ghosts of those who failed to prevent the accident served as guardians for the fleet in the afterlife, as it is the responsibility of the crew to assure the safety of all souls onboard their aircraft. It seems to me as though they took this duty very seriously.
Yea those poor souls were still at work... However I don't think they should have removed the parts tho... Maybe find a way to have them move on... Its just really sad
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I didn’t realize how much I missed Mr Ballen ghost stories until I saw this! Feels like when I first discovered the channel!
Same.
Yes! Same here ^_^
Me too.
Likewise. The "natural" disaster and misadventure stories are all well and good, but the paranormal stories are what originally got me watching this channel.
Definitely Need more paranormal & 411! Those he does the best!
this is one of my favorite videos on all of youtube, this story was told perfectly, it still gives me the chills. Awesome!!
No matter how many times I read and hear stories of flight 401, I'm still astonished.
I lived near the ‘glades when the plane went down. My dad went out to try to help. While out there, they witnessed others in airboats stripping watches and valuables off people who were still in the water. It was so disgusting. He said others who were out there trying to help, as dad and his friends were ran them off, beyond disgusted at humanity. The thought of that haunted me for a long time.
Omg. Taking watches off deceased people ? Wtf? We’re they raised in a barn? That’s horrible.
It was a Rolex though
@@PiglipsMaximus Rolex thought? What if some deceased person got attached to it and haunts the stealer? Like even plane parts in this crash got used and there's sight of spirit, let alone some watches stripped from deceased person...
It is inhuman behaviour. People that do things like that should be culled and their bodies used to fertilise crops. The food from the crops can be used to feed starving people.
@@sofascialistadankulamegado1781 It's inhuman (inhumane) by its definition, but unfortunately, greatly so, it is a very human behavior.
If it wasn't, we wouldn't hear about the countless people since time immemorial who have acted in such a vile, greedy, base way. Speaking of which, your idea of justice for such individuals imo is more inhumane then the very act you are punishing them for...
....as despicable as it is, at least all they took were some inanimate object, and perhaps they were one of those starving people, the ones you'd you feed with the food grown w/ the help of the remains of such people. I guess he'd be feeding his family one way or another.
I read this book, "The Ghost of Flight 401" many years ago. It's my favorite account of a haunting Ive ever read. These ghosts were protecting the flights they appeared on. On one occasion Don Repo appeared to flight staff and told them that there would never be another crash of an L1011. I highly recommend reading the book!
Read this book to! The author (who met his wife, a stewardess working for this airline) then did another book about the R101 airship crash & subsequent ghosts, another good read!
IN REAL INTERVIEWS WITH actual victims, they say “No Mr Ballen got it wrong” or “That conversation never happened.” He makes-up a lot of details. His stories are 90% fiction and only 10% facts
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I got serious goosebumps reading this!
I read it when I was a kid, like 40 years ago and as he spoke, the book start coming back to me...wow!! It's just as fascinating 2 hear it read by another.
“Excuse me sir, are you deadheading?” “Yes I am dead, and don’t call me heading”
lol
My childhood best friend's mother was a stewardess from FL... back in 2000 she would tell us ghost stories about Repo and actually worked with his daughter at one point.. I hadn't thought about it till I watched this video... this really blew my mind...
Whether it's the podcast or the videos, nothing makes me smile more than Ballen cracking himself up during ad-reads
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Same 😂 Baby Ballen cracked me up! I just love how animated he is 💜
Hello does anyone here believe in Jesus?
Yes this was hilarious!!!
His are literally the only "influencer" ads I don't fast forward through! They're hilarious and I giggle when he giggles!
This is exactly what I want from this channel. I started in November of 2020, and since then I’ve been hooked. Nothing wrong with the “new” Ballen, but this felt like “old” Ballen. Please keep doing these true/paranormal stories, they’re my favorites! Thank you for the dedication, and I can’t wait to see what’s next.
I agree. My sister and I have been watching him since his first video. I really enjoy these videos versus his true crime videos, because there are so many true crime youtubers. Although I'd still watch his true crime vids. Because he is really respectful, and doesn't just care about making money off the topics, and really cares about the people in the story.
I will take any Ballen I can get! What? You went to the grocery store?! Tell me about it!!!!!
@@pippa3150 😭 he would make that story sound like a Lord of the Rings movie
Absolutely! There is enough true crime already, these stories are so much more interesting!
@@cheoh exactly. I love these videos no matter what, but my preference is definitely the more paranormal-type stories
casually pushing your fingers towards no is CRAZYYY
“I’m telling you right now, that mfer back there is NOT real” 😂
A 40 minute video has never kept me hooked like this one, listened to every single second, on the edge of my seat feeling like I was right there in the airplane, always a fan
No way that was 40 min!!! He should be a professor, or teacher, he could keep my attention on any subject
Check out the Skin walker ranch one.