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I've been addicted to these for years now, it's funny how I always play these before I go to bed and while I fall asleep. Tbh, you're the only true horror story narrator who's voice I find soothing and fitting. Anyways, this specific time I didn't mean to click the video. I've been in tears for hours, so when I looked down and read the title, it almost made me laugh in suprise. Good timing man. Thank you for helping me numb the pain tonight.
@@Chelle8847 wow thank you so much for your good thoughts, you're a sweetheart. I am feeling better at this moment for sure. Sending those good vibes right back to you. From the US
@@Lost-mb1gj Thank you, I am doing okay at the moment. Could be better but could be much worse for sure, so staying positive.😊 Hope you are good as well !! Btw I know right, look at the wholesomeness between fellow horror story addicts 😂🙏❤️ gotta love it
Hearing about Katrina hits hard. I was in 2nd when it happened. I never lived down there as I live way in northern Louisiana. New Orleans is still in shambles. So many people where ripped off by insurance companies and the likes. They really only fixed up the tourist areas
Yeah remember all of that too where I live in Texas we were the only ones that were willing to accept the people that we're still in the super dome able to be saved. No other state around would accept the people. Texas accepted them with open arms and most of them stayed here they didn't go back home. Sadly and please don't think badly of me for this I'm just being honest and you can look up the statistics within a year of doing that the crime rate had gone up over 100% perit's sad because we opened our arms and brought them in and took care of them and help them win no other state or even the government would then they went crazy and just started doing a lot of messed up c*** not all of course I know that But enough to wear the crime rate went up over 100 person and that's you gotta admit a lot it was a really horrible situation all the way around for everyone
My brother was in the Air Force and for some reason in the flood zone when Katrina hit. He and *all* our military personnel were on their own getting out of there. He fought his way to where he could start hitchhiking to Texas where he was able o have money wired to rent a car and get home to his pregnant wife and 3 kids on base in Colorado. Our federal government seriously screwed everyone involved in that catastrophe.
Ok I feel like a total goon...hearing the story about the cleaning lady who paid for the clean up of the grandfather's house who's grandson killed himself legit made me cry.
I had a huge lump in my throat, you're not a goon. But I feel like a total B bc I said something about the supposed RUclips one. Bc I feel like I'd like to hear the maid's side. Bc the RUclipsr seems shallow, self centered, narcissistic and ungrateful.
The story about that girl whose “dream” was to become rich and have maids pissed me off. Not the maid but the girl. How is your spoiled self gonna really treat your mother who gave you everything like a maid. Get off your butt and clean for yourself, lazy. Have some respect
I got a lot of times in my life when I feel horrible and empty, in those moments your podcast is the only thing that make me feel some type of peace, my favorite thing to do when I'm like that. Thank you a lot!
Your videos keep my pain in the background and help me sleep... but that's what you deal with when you have chronic physical pain! But I ALWAYS go back and listen again when I wake up!!
That story with the child trafficking ring in the hotel made me sick. That manager absolutely knew what was happening, otherwise he wouldn't have been so angry that the police were called and a child was taken by CPS. What a horrible person, just as guilty as the perpetrators.
Omfg... Who here cried when the cleaning lady paid for the old mans room to be professionally cleaned. I know i sure did. The generosity by her. The gratitude by him. The hug they shared. I totally lost it. Tears just rolled down my face. I didn't want to control it. I just let them tears fall. I know someone else cried too.
I'm certain I've heard this story elsewhere, however, I'm pretty sure she goes on to invest in the training for either herself or her employees (maybe both) and now has a successful cleaning service that also offers affordable crime scene cleaning.
The one about the RUclipsr was the biggest eye roll. I know of more than one "beautyTubere" with facial scars. Based on how she wrote it seems more likely that she just wasn't smart enough to think of the fact that her story and scar would have more than likely blown her channel up and lead to tons of sympathy follows at the very least.
Eve and her husband. Well Sir if you wanted a “happy” family maybe you shouldn’t have given in to your desires. You are the reason your family isn’t happy. Then you wanna forget about Silvia like yesterday trash. Shame on you. Y’all should have called the police of that ramming of the car even happened. You gonna tell me that NO ONE noticed y’all ramming each other. I highly doubt that.
Same thoughs here. If that story is true, horrible people. And they should have called the cops when she started to harass them! So much for ”doing everything to keep out family safe”. As far as I am concerned that husband and wife belong together, awful people. I may not be religious But I belive in karma.
It's funny how the husband expected to have a happy family after he cheated on his wife and his wife is too stupid to forgive him and after ramming the car of Sylvia. How could he expect a happy family after all of that. Sick. Him and his wife.
‼️ PERFECT JOEL!!! I just woke up, it’s 4:29 AM. I was praying that I could find a long horror narration and BAM! I found this gem! Now I can go back to sleep! 😁 Love from Texas ♥️🤠🌴
I am really unwell and suffering through it and your videos are the only thing that distract's me enough to take my mind off my constant worries. I was having a really bad time and then i saw the title of this video and i clicked on it straight away. It's exactly what i needed at exactly the right time. Thankyou Joel!
bruh. im all about the title. thank you for keeping me sane over the years. this made my entire night. i'll re-listen to your content over listening to anyone else. keep it up man! hype this man up for making quality content shhhhheeeeshhh 🤪 lol :b
I can't sleep without listening to your story telling, Joel. Thank you, you don't even know how comforting your podcast has been... I've been listening for over 4 years, since I was like 23... Your voice kept me company through an awful breakup 4 years ago, through the many nights I felt alone and scared after a diagnosis of bipolar, the days and nights and evenings I got home, exhausted from my hectic shift work job... while I stayed up for hours and hours writing research papers in pursuit of my psychology degree, while cleaning because I seldom have the time, and while anxiously panicking before a dreaded night shift.... I'm listening now... it's funny when you end up feeling like you know a person, maybe it's the strangely intimate nature of the night's darkness, being in the vulnerable state of sleep, or maybe the sheer length of time I've been a fan.. and I hope this doesn't sound weird lol I just wanted you to know that the perceivably insignificant act of having this channel has really helped connect people who live in a world of stress, loneliness and who knows what.. Thank you for helping me sleep and feel like I can relax, surrender to slumber with a comforting voice I've grown to be accustomed to.. like the voice of an old friend.
The story about the house getting flooded, omg, all those poor people who died! I can’t even imagine the terror. Great stories! Thank you! Sending you a beautiful and peaceful holiday season! ❤🎄🙏🏻😇❤️
As someone who has half their family in Baton Rouge and a town named St. Amant (San Uh-mah) which is 20 min. from New Orleans, I’m going to explain how to pronounce a couple towns in these stories to you ♥️: New Orleans - New Orlins, Atchafalaya - Uh-chaf-uh-lie-uh. You did pronounce Plaquemine correctly which not many people do! Also, during and after Hurricane Katrina, hundreds of thousands of people from Louisiana who were affected by the storm fled into Texas, ESPECIALLY into the Houston, TX area. MANY of them never left and are still here today in July 2023! I love you Joel and have been a subscriber to Let’s Read for over 5 years. I watched as your subscriber count turned to 1 Million in the middle of the night! Congrats again and keep up the exceptional work you smooth voiced wonder!!! 😁 Love from Texas ♥️🤠🌴
Alligator Gar will be one of those lost species because of the idiots in the bow fishing story. I'm an advocate for hunting and fishing, but going out and taking out a species that takes over 100 years to get that big because IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY BRO! is stupid and irresponsible. The dude didn't need to lose his foot over the incident, but come on, have a little respect for nature.
I agree with everything you’ve written except for your mention that the guy didn’t deserve to lose a foot. I think he absolutely deserved it and I hope he’s aware that it could’ve much worse. Leave these threatened fish alone!! If you insist on catching them for sport then do the right thing and put them back in the water like a true sportsman. Even that is questionable due to the fact that the animal has put up a valiant but exhausting fight. The person handling the fishing pole knows how exhausted they are…think of the fish. I’m left wondering if all the fish put back survive after such exertion. These animals need to be left alone so they can, hopefully, make a comeback. Fu@k that dumbass and his foot. He had it coming!! Never take Mother Nature for granted. Always be respectful of her.
@JuJuBee please look up alligator gar, they are very different from the American alligator. The alligator gar are an amazing species of fish that can grow to amazing sizes. But humans have destroyed their habitats and hunted them to almost extinction. Sorry if I'm repeating myself, the loss of our amazing species for stupid reasons makes me angry and sad.
Thank you for making this video, I’m in such a state of anxiety today that just listening to this, doesn’t matter if I’ve heard some of these or not, has brought me out of my own head. I really do appreciate you and other readers for helping me and possibly others with what you do!
These really are scary panicky stories. I'M so relieved to hear that most of the story tellers are alive to share their nightmarish experiences with us.. YOU ARE SO BRAVE IN THE FACE OF THE DANGERS YOU WENT THROUGH AND I SALUTE YOU. 😊😊❤🎉
I know this came out a few days or a week ago, but I'm was saving it for my bedtime on a weekend. I have a sleep-mask with headphones in it, and I sleep so good. I credit you with my good sleep tonight!!! 😘😘
The sirens in The Purge are air raid sirens That sound has been around for decades They are still used in some places to indicate crisis situations They actually used the air raid siren, where I used to live in upstate NY, as the fire station’s alarm I lived down the street Needless to say, I had some anxiety-filled nights when I first moved there
When I was a kid many small towns would use the siren to warn of bad weather. Specifically tornadoes, or hurricanes. The reason the sound is so terrifying is because most people understood that if you were hearing the siren it was already too late to do anything about it.
needed this. i have incredibly severe adhd and a lot of trauma and i am constantly on the brink of ending everything. sorry just particularly overwhelmed and don't know if it's ever gonna end. it is the worst kind of pain.
@@ashleymendezofficial thank you. seriously. i don't even know you, but knowing someone you'll never meet cares helps. i am just fucking exhausted of the constant, never-ending stream of hurricane hellfire in my head, when half the time, it's not even coming from me necessarily, it's my disorders.
@@shamanllama dude, trust me, I've had my inner battles for years . I know it ain't easy brah. Keep the good people in your life close to you. Do things your passionate about. And remember to breathe. And please always remember you're not alone dude. Sending you love and light. Life is crazy man, but we fucking got this! ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽
Thanks so very much for these stories....glad everyone is ok....young ladies you don't have to be polite with any strangers.... don't even acknowledge them...be safe...
The leaders failed their own state ON PURPOSE, when I found out how they deliberately squandered the citizen's money as well as gobs of federal funds (and how the press pretty much ignored that)...it was sickening.
Definitely praying for your health and happiness,I know it is ugly and, very painful thing to get through, but it is not fast leaving, but I had the extended variant and eer
Glad to stumble over this channel. I've been looking for things to play in the background at night while sewing/quilting thats not too distracting..classical music works well, but a lets read of short storys is a new touch that works just as well (at least for me)..guess its the calm voice..enough to not get blended out but calm enough to keep your train of thoughts. Also thumbs up to the story writers..quite a few neat ones.
The story about “Crowley” is totally fabricated. Nowhere in South Louisiana has basements. At all. The whole state is basically at sea level and parts of it (like in New Orleans) are actually below sea level. You couldn’t dig a basement bc it would literally be in water. But fun story anyway.
As someone that lived in Crowley, I can confirm this happened. The idiot cops decided to play a purge siren to enforce the curfew last year. They had to apologize and everything. 🙄
I'm real confused by the person who got cut across the face and was like MY RUclips CAREER IS OVER, WOE IS ME AND MY DISFIGUREMENT, ALAS 😫 NOW MY MOTHER IS MY HOUSEKEEPER! Like?? Literally just keep doing videos and be like, 'Yea I was attacked, hence the scar, anyway..'
was thinking the same, like teach your followers how to hide a scar or blemish or something. also you'd think you'd hear about a successful youtuber being stabbed in the face in LA.
Something you’ll realize growing up is that let them go. If you don’t want you to be in your life now think about how long they felt like that before hand. Focus on yourself not others, at the end of the day in reality you’re the only person you’ll have forever
@@g59_alex87 “Focus on yourself, not others, at the end of the day in reality you’re the only person you’ll have forever.” Good way to encourage selfish behavior buddy. That kind of mindset is part of the reason why so many people are selfish nowadays. You don’t deserve to have anyone in your life, you deserve to be alone for encouraging shitty behavior. Find better things to focus your life on other than encouraging selfishness, and learn to care about others.
I listened to your stories throughout my whole pregnancy as a way to calm my nerves. Now my daughter is here and your stories are a way of calming her down! Lol. My husband thinks we both are crazy 🤪
Because you're an outsider. You don't understand our culture... what city do you live in? If it's a big city instead of a small town, then there's your reason.
Great stories and awesome voice and narration 💙🖤💙 Thank you Joel for all the time and work you put into your vids!!! You are so very much appreciated 💙 ❤️💙 You are definitely one of the greatest!!! Take care, stay safe and God bless you ❤️
1:07:42 Oh my God. They're awful people, start to finish. No wonder that marriage got stronger. Given the history of angry and borderline threatening calls and texts, it would seem the young lady survived, or the police were totally inept in investigating the death - if the story has any truth to it.
I assumed she died, a car in the bottom of a ravine isn’t likely to be seen easily. Awful people but she was also insane and kind of got what she deserved trying to kill them first. They’re awful for not reporting it though
@@su0ue reminded me of my parents, but I have a little sister, and they were straight beating the brakes off each other, and I at eleven years, wrapped him up in the sheet over the sofa and the cast iron went to work and then,,,the police came out and I was begging for them to make my mom alive and she had a concussion and stitches and he went to correctional facility and cried it out cause I know it hurt, and I hated myself for it but everyone else was smiling at me and happy and it was absolutely abhorrent and every day and night and I lost my mind at eleven and live to tell about it, but it's not something that I ever planned to do, but it was made all the better,as we spoke and apologized to each other and I still love him, but I don't put up with noone putting hands on anyone else,it causes a certain rage inside I can't control, he never put anything upside her head again when I was there, for he knew it was going to end bad for him and I was going to be crying at least he was drunk and he probably didn't feel much of both broken elbows and All front teeth gone and cheek broken but he was my daddy and I would have done that for him, even though the first time I smelled gun power was a sawed off double barrel up my nose at eight and he screwed up because I was not afraid or nervous around weapons ever again, but the years of therapy don't take care of that smell, but he also never did that again, because I told him that I was just as ready to go as he was going, and he said that he knew that he had a devil little girl and I am not,I'm just redheaded but with soul will and calm unassuming anger to not be asked questions or be ashamed of not being afraid of weapons in any situation and I don't think it is very good healthy or mentally safe to go through as a child of eight years old up to eleven years old and all the time between them I never went to sleep I don't think, he shouldn't have either but he did and so I did what he needed me to do.very disturbing for anyone ever.
Marriage is what you make it I was sixteen with my husband and we married at twenty four years and we are now forty seven years old and still have the best of what I thought I would ruin, and I only had to lay hands on him once for getting in his mom's face at seventeen and two hundred eighty lbs and I was just a string bean and I don't have a proper fight or flight I don't fly I just calm in a everyone else runs kinda way, hard to explain, but I don't instigate I only react to the problem at hand and I don't know how to stop once it is there, but marriage is the best and going this month on our silver anniversary and proud for the both of us and our kids and I am just Mom and I don't spank them but they always run and get laughed at by their dad and other people who are not believing in the eyes that they view with but I guess I don't either just calm is all my eyes are capable of doing when they have made the momzilla Hot and tangled and six ft and three in to my five feet five in,115lbs, and those brats can run and climb,I just wait until they get back and act oblivious to anything else and chase them out again because I don't hit but I don't nail things down either so I absolutely have no prob hurling whatever I can get in my little mitts they don't know what it is like to get a whooping but they know what a mop broom, rocks and dishes feel like at Mach five 😮
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You have a great voice
In English we say we were going not we was going
Let's get Joel a billion subs he deserves it. The best in the game!!
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I agree.
Agreed 👍💜
So true!
Yeah
I'm all about avoiding feelings. Thanks for this.
Same!! Avoid them at all costs
@@SoCalRegisteredNurse agreed 👌👌👍
Agreed 👌👌
You have to build up an immunity to them.
@@politicallyuncorrect9322 no, no immunity. Just no feeling.
Definitely needed this today, my kitty passed today and I haven’t been able to get over it but you always hold me over❤️🩹
Awww I’m so sorry 🖤
I’m so sorry to hear this. :( sending my love
So sorry to hear that. I'm sure your kitty is resting in a beautiful place and is so grateful for all the love you gave them. 🖤
I’m so sorry. I have two elderly cats and they both have health problems. I know it hurts so much. Sending a virtual hug and a box of tissues
So sorry 😢😢😢😢💜💜
I've been addicted to these for years now, it's funny how I always play these before I go to bed and while I fall asleep. Tbh, you're the only true horror story narrator who's voice I find soothing and fitting. Anyways, this specific time I didn't mean to click the video. I've been in tears for hours, so when I looked down and read the title, it almost made me laugh in suprise. Good timing man. Thank you for helping me numb the pain tonight.
Im so sorry you're feeling so down :( i hope you feel a little better now! Sending good vibes from England 💗
@@Chelle8847 wow thank you so much for your good thoughts, you're a sweetheart. I am feeling better at this moment for sure. Sending those good vibes right back to you. From the US
This is wholesome ☺️
Hope both of y’all are doing good! ✨
@@Lost-mb1gj Thank you, I am doing okay at the moment. Could be better but could be much worse for sure, so staying positive.😊 Hope you are good as well !! Btw I know right, look at the wholesomeness between fellow horror story addicts 😂🙏❤️ gotta love it
Same !!😂 I fall asleep listening then I have to go back the next day And listen again n pick up where I left off!😂🎉❤😊
over two hours of excellent content.
may this channel be blessed with all future content.
Hearing about Katrina hits hard. I was in 2nd when it happened. I never lived down there as I live way in northern Louisiana. New Orleans is still in shambles. So many people where ripped off by insurance companies and the likes. They really only fixed up the tourist areas
Yeah remember all of that too where I live in Texas we were the only ones that were willing to accept the people that we're still in the super dome able to be saved. No other state around would accept the people. Texas accepted them with open arms and most of them stayed here they didn't go back home. Sadly and please don't think badly of me for this I'm just being honest and you can look up the statistics within a year of doing that the crime rate had gone up over 100% perit's sad because we opened our arms and brought them in and took care of them and help them win no other state or even the government would then they went crazy and just started doing a lot of messed up c*** not all of course I know that But enough to wear the crime rate went up over 100 person and that's you gotta admit a lot it was a really horrible situation all the way around for everyone
So sad. I've seen what hurricanes can do in NC. Such a terrible situation.
The government completely abandoned us. Buncha fils putans!
Terrible, terrible part of history.
My brother was in the Air Force and for some reason in the flood zone when Katrina hit.
He and *all* our military personnel were on their own getting out of there.
He fought his way to where he could start hitchhiking to Texas where he was able o have money wired to rent a car and get home to his pregnant wife and 3 kids on base in Colorado.
Our federal government seriously screwed everyone involved in that catastrophe.
Ok I feel like a total goon...hearing the story about the cleaning lady who paid for the clean up of the grandfather's house who's grandson killed himself legit made me cry.
The first story knocked me out, so… I’ll be a goon with you.
I had a huge lump in my throat, you're not a goon. But I feel like a total B bc I said something about the supposed RUclips one. Bc I feel like I'd like to hear the maid's side. Bc the RUclipsr seems shallow, self centered, narcissistic and ungrateful.
I would have called the police n verified it. That’s me.
@@kellyalves756 same here
Almost cried when I read this title. You get me, Joel.
Keep your head up Casey!
@@GarbagePerson578 well you’re not as much of a garbage person as you say
I definitely dropped the salty drops, and I don't know the last time I let them out!
Joel is crazy. A good kinda crazy though.
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The story about that girl whose “dream” was to become rich and have maids pissed me off. Not the maid but the girl. How is your spoiled self gonna really treat your mother who gave you everything like a maid. Get off your butt and clean for yourself, lazy. Have some respect
My mom is my maid like wtf
@@sargentthiccboi9333 prove you are thicc, PROVE IT.
@@sargentthiccboi9333 well that's weird lol
There’s some stories on here sometimes written by some real douche bags lol
@@dylanmajors9317 Yeah! We’ll believe it when we see it! Seeing is believing after all
My heart hurts. The story about the grandson who killed himself and his poor grandfather... ugh. So devastating.
Yes so very sad.....
I got a lot of times in my life when I feel horrible and empty, in those moments your podcast is the only thing that make me feel some type of peace, my favorite thing to do when I'm like that. Thank you a lot!
Your videos keep my pain in the background and help me sleep... but that's what you deal with when you have chronic physical pain!
But I ALWAYS go back and listen again when I wake up!!
That story with the child trafficking ring in the hotel made me sick. That manager absolutely knew what was happening, otherwise he wouldn't have been so angry that the police were called and a child was taken by CPS. What a horrible person, just as guilty as the perpetrators.
Exactly!!!
Omfg... Who here cried when the cleaning lady paid for the old mans room to be professionally cleaned. I know i sure did. The generosity by her. The gratitude by him. The hug they shared. I totally lost it. Tears just rolled down my face. I didn't want to control it. I just let them tears fall. I know someone else cried too.
Me lol
That was a very sweet story 🥰
I'm certain I've heard this story elsewhere, however, I'm pretty sure she goes on to invest in the training for either herself or her employees (maybe both) and now has a successful cleaning service that also offers affordable crime scene cleaning.
heard that story for the first time today and it had crying as well.😭
The one about the RUclipsr was the biggest eye roll. I know of more than one "beautyTubere" with facial scars. Based on how she wrote it seems more likely that she just wasn't smart enough to think of the fact that her story and scar would have more than likely blown her channel up and lead to tons of sympathy follows at the very least.
Loved the stories about Louisiana as I'm from New Orleans, La myself. Thanks for all of your hard work. I absolutely love your story telling.
I live in central Louisiana but have family in New Orleans 💖💖
Eve and her husband. Well Sir if you wanted a “happy” family maybe you shouldn’t have given in to your desires. You are the reason your family isn’t happy. Then you wanna forget about Silvia like yesterday trash. Shame on you. Y’all should have called the police of that ramming of the car even happened. You gonna tell me that NO ONE noticed y’all ramming each other. I highly doubt that.
Same thoughs here. If that story is true, horrible people. And they should have called the cops when she started to harass them! So much for ”doing everything to keep out family safe”. As far as I am concerned that husband and wife belong together, awful people. I may not be religious But I belive in karma.
It's funny how the husband expected to have a happy family after he cheated on his wife and his wife is too stupid to forgive him and after ramming the car of Sylvia. How could he expect a happy family after all of that. Sick. Him and his wife.
Fake story
Definitely fake
Thank you. I needed this so I can function well today. Its really hard when you're trying to let go of someone you truly love. Thank you Sir.
‼️ PERFECT JOEL!!! I just woke up, it’s 4:29 AM. I was praying that I could find a long horror narration and BAM! I found this gem! Now I can go back to sleep! 😁
Love from Texas ♥️🤠🌴
the first story brought me to tears. God bless that family.
Your content has helped my depression so much Joel! Thank you for taking us along for the ride 😍😍🥰💖
The one dislike is from someone who enjoys their pain! 🤷🏽♂️😂😳👍🏽
It's Darkness from Konosuba :)
I am really unwell and suffering through it and your videos are the only thing that distract's me enough to take my mind off my constant worries.
I was having a really bad time and then i saw the title of this video and i clicked on it straight away.
It's exactly what i needed at exactly the right time.
Thankyou Joel!
So hearing about other peoples miseries makes you feel better? Lol
I listen to these to fall asleep, but it was much needed. I’ve been having a really hard time academically lately & it’s made me really depressed
Love and blessings to you 🙏
Hang in there & try not to get overwhelmed. Keep moving forward. Your hard work will pay off.
This is absofuckinglutly the highlight of the night for me 🤩 thank you for a badass video as usual
Dont swear
@@psychoticmaniac8465 I swear it’s true lol
bruh. im all about the title. thank you for keeping me sane over the years. this made my entire night.
i'll re-listen to your content over listening to anyone else.
keep it up man!
hype this man up for making quality content shhhhheeeeshhh 🤪
lol :b
I can't sleep without listening to your story telling, Joel. Thank you, you don't even know how comforting your podcast has been... I've been listening for over 4 years, since I was like 23...
Your voice kept me company through an awful breakup 4 years ago, through the many nights I felt alone and scared after a diagnosis of bipolar, the days and nights and evenings I got home, exhausted from my hectic shift work job... while I stayed up for hours and hours writing research papers in pursuit of my psychology degree, while cleaning because I seldom have the time, and while anxiously panicking before a dreaded night shift....
I'm listening now... it's funny when you end up feeling like you know a person, maybe it's the strangely intimate nature of the night's darkness, being in the vulnerable state of sleep, or maybe the sheer length of time I've been a fan.. and I hope this doesn't sound weird lol I just wanted you to know that the perceivably insignificant act of having this channel has really helped connect people who live in a world of stress, loneliness and who knows what..
Thank you for helping me sleep and feel like I can relax, surrender to slumber with a comforting voice I've grown to be accustomed to.. like the voice of an old friend.
You sound like one of the writers lol
@@jdkopels LoL
Perfect timing and hell yes to the title lol, perfect cure for my bad mood today : )
Hope it gets better!
@@carmenkills2931 Thank you love!
I agree ☝️☝️👌👌
I’m from Louisiana and love these stories and appreciate you trying to pronounce our names correctly.
I needed this for the cold weather!!!! 🙏🏻 thank you
So needed now, I'm going through a break up from a over one year long relationship and need every distraction I can get... thank you
The story about the house getting flooded, omg, all those poor people who died! I can’t even imagine the terror. Great stories! Thank you! Sending you a beautiful and peaceful holiday season! ❤🎄🙏🏻😇❤️
YEEEEEEEEEEET, time to listen on the bus!!!
As someone who has half their family in Baton Rouge and a town named St. Amant (San Uh-mah) which is 20 min. from New Orleans, I’m going to explain how to pronounce a couple towns in these stories to you ♥️:
New Orleans - New Orlins,
Atchafalaya - Uh-chaf-uh-lie-uh. You did pronounce Plaquemine correctly which not many people do! Also, during and after Hurricane Katrina, hundreds of thousands of people from Louisiana who were affected by the storm fled into Texas, ESPECIALLY into the Houston, TX area. MANY of them never left and are still here today in July 2023! I love you Joel and have been a subscriber to
Let’s Read for over 5 years. I watched as your subscriber count turned to 1 Million in the middle of the night! Congrats again and keep up the exceptional work you smooth voiced wonder!!! 😁
Love from Texas ♥️🤠🌴
Just what the doctor ordered. Need this on a Monday night 🤙🏻
Representing Lafayette La here! Thank you for this!!!!
Over 800k Subscribers, Congratulations Man !!!
Absolutely fabulous!!! Thank you so much Let's Read❤️🥰
Alligator Gar will be one of those lost species because of the idiots in the bow fishing story. I'm an advocate for hunting and fishing, but going out and taking out a species that takes over 100 years to get that big because IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY BRO! is stupid and irresponsible. The dude didn't need to lose his foot over the incident, but come on, have a little respect for nature.
I used to catch them with a rod and reel when I was a kid in Florida. They're very finicky about bait. I always released them.
I agree with everything you’ve written except for your mention that the guy didn’t deserve to lose a foot. I think he absolutely deserved it and I hope he’s aware that it could’ve much worse.
Leave these threatened fish alone!! If you insist on catching them for sport then do the right thing and put them back in the water like a true sportsman. Even that is questionable due to the fact that the animal has put up a valiant but exhausting fight. The person handling the fishing pole knows how exhausted they are…think of the fish. I’m left wondering if all the fish put back survive after such exertion. These animals need to be left alone so they can, hopefully, make a comeback.
Fu@k that dumbass and his foot. He had it coming!! Never take Mother Nature for granted. Always be respectful of her.
agreed! 🐊
@JuJuBee please look up alligator gar, they are very different from the American alligator. The alligator gar are an amazing species of fish that can grow to amazing sizes. But humans have destroyed their habitats and hunted them to almost extinction. Sorry if I'm repeating myself, the loss of our amazing species for stupid reasons makes me angry and sad.
Did he lose the foot? I thought he just lost the boot- cuz he hadnt tied the laces properly- it came off and he and his foot were saved. Either way🐟🎣🙄
Thank you for making this video, I’m in such a state of anxiety today that just listening to this, doesn’t matter if I’ve heard some of these or not, has brought me out of my own head. I really do appreciate you and other readers for helping me and possibly others with what you do!
It's very tiring and hard to stay positive with the world and the beings upon the planet are going to the chickens
I was thrilled to get this notification. Thank you for the awesome content!
These really are scary panicky stories.
I'M so relieved to hear that most of the story tellers are alive to share their nightmarish experiences with us.. YOU ARE SO BRAVE IN THE FACE OF THE DANGERS YOU WENT THROUGH AND I SALUTE YOU. 😊😊❤🎉
I know this came out a few days or a week ago, but I'm was saving it for my bedtime on a weekend. I have a sleep-mask with headphones in it, and I sleep so good.
I credit you with my good sleep tonight!!! 😘😘
What pain? There’s no more pain ❤️
The sirens in The Purge are air raid sirens
That sound has been around for decades
They are still used in some places to indicate crisis situations
They actually used the air raid siren, where I used to live in upstate NY, as the fire station’s alarm
I lived down the street
Needless to say, I had some anxiety-filled nights when I first moved there
When I was a kid many small towns would use the siren to warn of bad weather. Specifically tornadoes, or hurricanes. The reason the sound is so terrifying is because most people understood that if you were hearing the siren it was already too late to do anything about it.
Crying all night so I got to bed and put this on and the title has me crying all over again thank you so much
The housekeeper who rescued the 12 year old boy is a hero.such a sad story tho
Yes indeed..I hate pedophiles...those poor young kids ..
I'm always so glad to hear another of your readings. Thank you!
i love your timing and your voice is v comforting
Wow I needed this today thank you so much as always you help me get through my day 💖
needed this. i have incredibly severe adhd and a lot of trauma and i am constantly on the brink of ending everything. sorry just particularly overwhelmed and don't know if it's ever gonna end. it is the worst kind of pain.
Sending you love and positive vibes. You're gonna be ok. And you're not alone. Much love to you. 🧡🧡🧡🧡🙏🏽
@@ashleymendezofficial thank you. seriously. i don't even know you, but knowing someone you'll never meet cares helps. i am just fucking exhausted of the constant, never-ending stream of hurricane hellfire in my head, when half the time, it's not even coming from me necessarily, it's my disorders.
@@shamanllama dude, trust me, I've had my inner battles for years . I know it ain't easy brah. Keep the good people in your life close to you. Do things your passionate about. And remember to breathe. And please always remember you're not alone dude. Sending you love and light. Life is crazy man, but we fucking got this! ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽
@@ashleymendezofficial thanks again, friend. i hope you keep pushing on.
Thanks so very much for these stories....glad everyone is ok....young ladies you don't have to be polite with any strangers.... don't even acknowledge them...be safe...
The leaders failed their own state ON PURPOSE, when I found out how they deliberately squandered the citizen's money as well as gobs of federal funds (and how the press pretty much ignored that)...it was sickening.
Thank you for this quality content sir. Everyone reading this have a great day and stay safe out there on this crazy marble we call Earth
I would totally watch a RUclips with a scar across their face, it adds character.
Ya but she sounded entitled saying her mom will have to be her maid
Right on time 😆 I finally left school now I can listen to Let's Read
I keep flicking from one podcast to another trying to find a voice I can relax to. You have a lovely reading voice😍
ah yes nothing like a lengthy let’s read to help w my social anxiety at work 💛 Thanks Joel !
Always the best. Listened to my way into work. Perfect for a chilly dark fall morning, thank you.
Oh man. I have been trying to numb the pain forever
I love this RUclips channel so much helps through work and chores ❤️✨😢😊
Currently in bed with bad case of Covid. This definitely numbs the pain :)
I hope you came out okay...
Definitely praying for your health and happiness,I know it is ugly and, very painful thing to get through, but it is not fast leaving, but I had the extended variant and eer
Glad to stumble over this channel. I've been looking for things to play in the background at night while sewing/quilting thats not too distracting..classical music works well, but a lets read of short storys is a new touch that works just as well (at least for me)..guess its the calm voice..enough to not get blended out but calm enough to keep your train of thoughts. Also thumbs up to the story writers..quite a few neat ones.
Dude right on time, I’m super sick rn and I was just about to hop into a hot shower.
Can't help it this voice is so perfect for any of these "stories" thank you!
My fellow gamers out there, who be listening to this while gaming, in-game driving, hell even driving in general🤔?
I play this over voice chat whenever I have server admin privileges in PVP games.
i love listening to his podcasts while im playing any survival game
@@narumi5326 Bro do you ever be so focused on how smooth his voice is that you lose track and have to rewind😂?
I listen and do everything, shower, potty, homework, laundry, cooking, driving hell even at work when possible 👌
@@salem666c Hell yeah that’s the spirit💯👍🏽
I will be listening to this before I go to bed tonight ✨😁
I was just about to start cleaning and then you uploaded perfect timing
I needed something to help with my anxiety. First day at a new job tomorrow
The story about “Crowley” is totally fabricated. Nowhere in South Louisiana has basements. At all. The whole state is basically at sea level and parts of it (like in New Orleans) are actually below sea level. You couldn’t dig a basement bc it would literally be in water. But fun story anyway.
I knew that and I'm from Oregon
Man it sucks that they added a political message about something they seem to have not actually gone through
Lmao at that part I was like "... and this story just lost ALL credibility."
There actually is some house's in New Orleans with basements
As someone that lived in Crowley, I can confirm this happened. The idiot cops decided to play a purge siren to enforce the curfew last year. They had to apologize and everything. 🙄
@@courtneyn.4952 oh hell no lmfao but do y’all have basements tho? 🤣🤣
You never disappoint. Thank you for your time.
I like your Louisiana accent attempt. Made the story much more entertaining
Pain numbed. Success!
I get so much work done listening to these haha
Yes, this title is my life. And this is the most healthy way for me to avoid emotions. Thank you 💕
The first story is so tragic, it's absolutely fucked up that they got abandoned by the government
When the system shows you what it is the first time, believe it, and act accordingly.
@@avamasquerade wise and haunting words
Thanks to this channel, I’m never going to view & take my safety for granted again!
I'm real confused by the person who got cut across the face and was like MY RUclips CAREER IS OVER, WOE IS ME AND MY DISFIGUREMENT, ALAS 😫 NOW MY MOTHER IS MY HOUSEKEEPER!
Like?? Literally just keep doing videos and be like, 'Yea I was attacked, hence the scar, anyway..'
was thinking the same, like teach your followers how to hide a scar or blemish or something. also you'd think you'd hear about a successful youtuber being stabbed in the face in LA.
Thank you that RUclipsr story was so out of touch with reality
@@Cupcakeprincess85 yeah, super fake lol
Not sure how I missed this one but thankful I've got new material this lonely Thanksgiving 😊
My friend told me today she didn’t want to be friends with me anymore with no reason given.
Thank you, i just want to chill and forget for a while.
Something you’ll realize growing up is that let them go. If you don’t want you to be in your life now think about how long they felt like that before hand. Focus on yourself not others, at the end of the day in reality you’re the only person you’ll have forever
@@g59_alex87 “Focus on yourself, not others, at the end of the day in reality you’re the only person you’ll have forever.”
Good way to encourage selfish behavior buddy. That kind of mindset is part of the reason why so many people are selfish nowadays. You don’t deserve to have anyone in your life, you deserve to be alone for encouraging shitty behavior.
Find better things to focus your life on other than encouraging selfishness, and learn to care about others.
🖤🖤🖤🖤🙏🙏🙏🙏
@@Doom-rp2py this comment right here is great.
Just added your podcast to my downloads 💪😎🥳🎧
I listened to your stories throughout my whole pregnancy as a way to calm my nerves. Now my daughter is here and your stories are a way of calming her down! Lol. My husband thinks we both are crazy 🤪
For the past month I've waken up in the middle of the night to these videos blaring....not disappointed 😏
I just moved to Louisiana and it’s honestly a very scary state. By far, the worst and most dangerous place that I have lived in.
As someone that has lived here all her life, run when you can.
Jesus is it THAT bad??!! Tell me more!!!!!
Because you're an outsider. You don't understand our culture... what city do you live in? If it's a big city instead of a small town, then there's your reason.
@@chelseapthib36 I lived in Alexandria
Thank you for helping me out with my pain and to sleep 😴
Crime scene cleanup is a specialty. You can’t just call Merry Maids to deal with biohazard waste.
Eew nope, takes different chemicals and usually deconstructed place, and decon can begin... the bubbles from the peroxide 😮
Great stories and awesome voice and narration 💙🖤💙 Thank you Joel for all the time and work you put into your vids!!! You are so very much appreciated 💙 ❤️💙
You are definitely one of the greatest!!!
Take care, stay safe and God bless you ❤️
that guy who handed them the inflatable pool needs a round of applause
Saw the title… too darn real 😭😭. Keep it up I love the stories, they always help me sleep when I couldn’t otherwise.
True fans know repeats! (gator story) still narrated so well I can’t help but listen again
EDIT: a couple were repeats lol
I had to stop listening cos all the first stories were repeats... I was disappointed lol, are they all repeats??
Thanks for the 2 hours of numbness! And for your hard work!
That bayou story was a madness. Felt the guys panic haha
Let’s Read, I want you to know you’re awesome at what you do and it’s amazing to see how far you’ve come.
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Oh my God. They're awful people, start to finish. No wonder that marriage got stronger. Given the history of angry and borderline threatening calls and texts, it would seem the young lady survived, or the police were totally inept in investigating the death - if the story has any truth to it.
I assumed she died, a car in the bottom of a ravine isn’t likely to be seen easily. Awful people but she was also insane and kind of got what she deserved trying to kill them first. They’re awful for not reporting it though
Right!? Im glad that guy suffers from nightmares they both are terrible ppl
It made me really upset and lose hope in marriage
@@su0ue reminded me of my parents, but I have a little sister, and they were straight beating the brakes off each other, and I at eleven years, wrapped him up in the sheet over the sofa and the cast iron went to work and then,,,the police came out and I was begging for them to make my mom alive and she had a concussion and stitches and he went to correctional facility and cried it out cause I know it hurt, and I hated myself for it but everyone else was smiling at me and happy and it was absolutely abhorrent and every day and night and I lost my mind at eleven and live to tell about it, but it's not something that I ever planned to do, but it was made all the better,as we spoke and apologized to each other and I still love him, but I don't put up with noone putting hands on anyone else,it causes a certain rage inside I can't control, he never put anything upside her head again when I was there, for he knew it was going to end bad for him and I was going to be crying at least he was drunk and he probably didn't feel much of both broken elbows and All front teeth gone and cheek broken but he was my daddy and I would have done that for him, even though the first time I smelled gun power was a sawed off double barrel up my nose at eight and he screwed up because I was not afraid or nervous around weapons ever again, but the years of therapy don't take care of that smell, but he also never did that again, because I told him that I was just as ready to go as he was going, and he said that he knew that he had a devil little girl and I am not,I'm just redheaded but with soul will and calm unassuming anger to not be asked questions or be ashamed of not being afraid of weapons in any situation and I don't think it is very good healthy or mentally safe to go through as a child of eight years old up to eleven years old and all the time between them I never went to sleep I don't think, he shouldn't have either but he did and so I did what he needed me to do.very disturbing for anyone ever.
Marriage is what you make it I was sixteen with my husband and we married at twenty four years and we are now forty seven years old and still have the best of what I thought I would ruin, and I only had to lay hands on him once for getting in his mom's face at seventeen and two hundred eighty lbs and I was just a string bean and I don't have a proper fight or flight I don't fly I just calm in a everyone else runs kinda way, hard to explain, but I don't instigate I only react to the problem at hand and I don't know how to stop once it is there, but marriage is the best and going this month on our silver anniversary and proud for the both of us and our kids and I am just Mom and I don't spank them but they always run and get laughed at by their dad and other people who are not believing in the eyes that they view with but I guess I don't either just calm is all my eyes are capable of doing when they have made the momzilla Hot and tangled and six ft and three in to my five feet five in,115lbs, and those brats can run and climb,I just wait until they get back and act oblivious to anything else and chase them out again because I don't hit but I don't nail things down either so I absolutely have no prob hurling whatever I can get in my little mitts they don't know what it is like to get a whooping but they know what a mop broom, rocks and dishes feel like at Mach five 😮
Thank you for your amazing story telling Joel, you are the best ❤
Have your feelings, don't let them have you.
Joel the title…very real that is the reason i do watch you you help numb me up lol
Going through a break up & this helps so much especially the nights which are the hardest
my pain will finally be numbed!!!