I remember a story where a man had a roommate that slept walked on a semi regular basis. One night during a sleepwalking episode he supposedly got into his car and drove into a light pole killing himself. For all I know that story is 100% fake but the first story in this video reminded me of it. Is it possible that he was sleep walking and just so happened to lay down on the tracks subconsciously thinking they were his bed?
I remember watching an episode of Unsolved Mysteries that had a similar thing happen. A runner getting ready for a big race felt so anxious about it that she would run in her sleep. If I recall correctly, she got killed as she ran out on the road and got hit by a semi-truck.
I thought the same thing. I guess they figured since there was no known history of sleepwalking it probably wasnt the case. However, stress can trigger random sleepwalking epispdes in some people. I would bet money that is what happened to the kid and that is way scarier then a crazy hypnotist, if you ask me...
Until you’ve really seen a real sleepwalker it just seems fictional. Daft superstition Like clairvoyants or mass hysteria. Took two years of marriage until my mind accepted it as real. Now our son sleepwalks too. We have bells on both doors after an attempted ’sleep driving’ episode.
That first story. Imagine being the thief that was trying to break in and you see a dog freaking out and a 10 year old and you think that they will run away but they just open the door and let the ferral dog out to attack you. I would be scared of kids forever.
Okay, first story - I genuinely think the kid could've been a sleepwalker. People have died sleepwalking. I got a condo on the tenth floor, but the place I lived before that didn't had a balcony RIGHT below mine, so I'd only fall ten feet if I slept walked off my danged balcony. When I got the new condo, my father insisted I implement multiple ways to stop myself. "Lock it, put a chair in front of it, attach a bell to the door, and make sure the screen and the glass door are always closed and locked when you go to sleep." I used to sneak off while sleepwalking when I was young. My grandmother tried the chair method, but I'd just move it. She put a bell on the door, and she was able to catch me before I got too far.
It's not could have been. I guarantee he was sleepwalking and I have no idea why the police didn't even consider it. It's not at all an unheard of for people to hurt or accidently kill themselves sleepwalking off balconies, into lakes, into traffic and so on and so forth. The way the kid was described to be moving is even exactly like he was asleep, the writer even says so, and yet they miss the conclusion somehow...
The way you voiced the wife meat encounter was excellent. Both your Gary and "folks responding to Gary" lines were delivered sooo perfectly. Super subtle with heavy awkward creepiness. I swear I've heard weird bastards talk exactly like that in real life. Friggin nailed it!
I listened on Patreon on my drive home, start to finish. Perfect length! My best friend growing up had a step dad with the LAPD. They got a call to the Rosedale Cemetery about some screaming being heard and alarms going off. When they showed up they could still hear the screaming and the alarm company said the alarms were going off. After searching everywhere they couldn’t find anyone but still heard screaming and alarms. That story scared me but I’d always ask him to tell me again and again
I had a college colleague who was a sleep walker and accidentally died by falling out of his apartment balcony during an episode. If that was the case, maybe the kid from the first story didn't even know he was a sleep walker
Love listening to these stories. Although being a recently retired death investigator after 17+ years and 1000 cases under my belt there usually are logical explanations to most everything in the end. I will have to admit I had a few cases that had twisted and crazy outcomes.
I swear the timing was perfect on this one. I was about to lock my phone for the night and get some sleep when this notification popped up. Have a great night y’all 🙏🏼
June 1977. My friend was walking home along the tracks. He had gone to a concert and then a bar. He was drunk. He was hit. Wether he passed out. Or staggered. Or something more sinister. Saddest day.
@@dopamine_fiend365 I’m pretty sure they put batteries in the socks in the show. Idk how Dan Schneider went from melting butter to batteries, but that’s what happened.
I think the kid in the first story was sleepwalking. I'm a sleepwalker and people describe my movements just as that kid. My brother used to sleepwalk and the way this guy's movements were described were exactly the same way he moved when I witnessed him doing it. My brother also had this habit of sleepwalking into a field near our house and falling asleep there. The fact that this guy just walked off and laid on the tracks reminded me of what my brother used to do. Sleepwalking is also more prevalent in children and teenagers. Sometimes people also sleep walk when they're under a lot of stress, even if it's good stress. This guy just graduated high school and was preparing for a life-altering new chapter. Even if it's welcome it is still overwhelming and stressful. This could have sent him into a sleepwalking cycle. That's the same case with me. I rarely sleepwalk, but when I do it's when I've been under stress for a while. That compounded with a higher prevalence of sleepwalking at that age further indicates that this may be the case. The most I ever sleepwalked actually was during my senior year of high school due to this combination of factors.
Yes his mind was very anxious for starting college and over excited. His brain likely on a natural dopamine high and couldnt rest properly and caused him to sleepwalk. Its definitely very likely.
Hey Joel! Just wanted to say you have been getting me through a ton of stuff these past six months. I don’t think I would be able to get through what’s happening in my life right now without you. Thank you for your amazing stories, out of all the story readers I’ve checked out you top them all. Keep up the amazing work!
Picturing those interactions between the OP who worked at an Alaskan canary & his coworker Gary had me obnoxiously laughing out loud probably more than it should have. Just imagining Gary approaching him way later in the day & asking him if he enjoyed the meat again, to which he responded with a, "yeah, Gary. It was good." & then Gary creepily following up with a, "that's funny." & then just waltzing away. Like what could possibly be funny about that other than it being from the perspective of an unhinged murderer who jokingly fed human meat to some unsuspecting people who found it tasty, that is the only scenario I can think of that would elicit such a response, & that is hilarious cor me to imagine play out in my mind. On a less ironically funny note though, the thought of someone who's in the midst of a shitty day believing a way she might improve her spirits would be for her to wear her brand new clothes that are made out of an animal who likely had to suffer immensely to make that artical of clothing is a terrible thought indeed. Leather is one thing since it's a biproduct of a beef industry, but most furs are made from animals who specifically had to die to make that clothing & 'they are oftentimes killed in inhumane ways, sometimes even being literally skinned alive, but hey anything to improve the mood of a person. Even though her mood wasn't even effected positively by wearing her new fur that day.
Yeah dude the fox fur vest girl story really made me mad, tbh. I get that something creepy happened to her, but In comparison to my life it sounds like she’s privileged as hell to such a degree she couldn’t even comprehend what my life has been like, much less the pain and suffering of the poor fox who died to make her a pretty little feel good vest. Ugh
The Gary story did have some serious Always Sunny vibes. It would be 10x funnier if it turned out he wasn't a serial killer or cannibal but was simply that weird and awkward about giving his co-workers some smoked meat.
Look up your local police station to find their non emergency number. Memorize this so can you fire it off like it is yours and when some creep asks you for your number, you give them this one. LOL Should the creepazoid try calling it while you are still near. Smile and say that's my work one.
Is that what they're calling it now these days? "Late night sewing"? I think I myself have a few seams I need to rethread this evening, so I think I'll be like the cool kids & partake in some good ol' late night sewing. 😉😇
The story about Fenrir is amazing! I am a 10 year+ Dog trainer and Newfoundland”s are known for their carefree and non aggressive tendencies. Just goes to show you how dogs of all kind are willing to put themselves on the line to protect their loved ones.
Story 1: wonder where the story takes place? Both teens had plans on attending Uni in Nashville. Makes me wonder if they lived in the south somewhere. Plus the writer referred to "down here". If it did take place in middle Tennessee there weren't any news stories. Well, not that I remember and I'm almost 40.
Not everything makes it to the news, in fact most things don't make it into the sphere of public knowledge. The news & especially sources of news that are deemed "mainstream" report on a very curated, strategically chosen news cycle for two main reasons. They either choose to cover a particular story because it checks all of the boxes for their advertisers, or it falls into the propaganda category & is chosen to either further or diminish the credibility, & /or their causes of a political party or it can be utilized for the "soft power" agenda of the centralized authority of the state or country. The days of legitimate unbiased mainstream reporting where the journalists finds stories to report without a specific angle & isn't just parroting what the man Upstairs sent down are over. But even if that was still a thing there are just far too many news worthy events happening every minute for them to report everything. I mean when I was 13 I was walking in downtown Seattle with my mom at like 10pm when we saw a car fly into the intersection running a red light, colliding head on with another vehical super fast to where the passenger literally flew through the windshield, one of the cars bumpers flew off, spiraling super fast & crashing into the shins of two old ladies I watched just get mowed down by it, so they're screaming in pain, people rushing over to help them, some running over to the likely dead person that defied gravity through a windshield, while the driver of the car that caused all of this just gets out of the car & starts running away, but a ton of people bum rush him, throwing punches & eventually tackle him to the ground where they pile on top of him until the cops show up, & I'm standing there with my mouth wide open watching this all unfold 10 feet in front of me, one of the craziest thing's I had ever witnessed. Yet even after religiously checking the news for the story to gain some greater insight on the reason behind that all occurring for many weeks after that I saw not one mention about it, & that was 20 year's ago now, so not everything makes it to the 5 o'clock report, trust me.
@@dustinspeicher3390 I definitely agree. You'd think a teenager getting hit by a train under suspicious circumstances would've been talked about if not on news, then either newspaper, grapevine of gossip, etc. Up until a couple years ago newspapers were still a thing. Our Nashville newspaper even sections for each neighborhood. And since he was excepted and planned to attend Vanderbilt, if he lived in the general area it would've been made public. Plus, the news here loves reporting gore. My good friend from high school got hit by a train last June. It was all over the news. Anytime somebody gets hit by a train here it makes the news. Almost weekly. I'm definitely not discredited the story in any way. I thought it was interesting two of the major colleges here was mentioned plus the person kept mentioning down here. "Down here" is rarely mentioned in narations.
11:47 dogs truly are our best friend they're soo amazing and they say animals have no soul after my pastor told me that i never went to church again !!!!!🙏and even though the dog is in constant pain it defended them now thats a creature with a soul i think
☺️St. Joel, man, your timing is so choice - per usual. Makes this MOUND of laundry I've been putting off so much more doable. You are appreciated so much more than you'll ever realize.
there is NOTHING like a pile of laundry that will make life feel so difficult. I don't know why, but it's true... I feel your pain! Stay strong- you've got this!😁💜😂
Yall are trippin' laundry is amazing. It's multicolored, multishaped, tangible fabric meditation. Meditation that can be optimized too depending on the recipe of scents you end up with between your detergent, fabric softener, optional wash additives, spray & wash & /or dryer sheets. There are some combinations that once applied to your laundry meditation session allows you to enter into a true state of nirvana, providing you with the means tk delve into higher dimensions where you may interact with enlightened beings & spirit's. Laundry is knarly if you allow it to guide you through to the other side, there you will see that laundry is LIFE, laundry is LOVE. Peace be with you & fold with intention, with every fold emotion flows freely. Please excuse me, I have a beautiful load of whitey tighties finishing up right now. ✌️⭐♥️🧺🧬🔜🧘♂️🧘♀️
@@dustinspeicher3390 Namaste, my friend. You know what? You are so right! I actually don't mind laundry & quite frankly, laundry is one thing I do & take pride in doing. I kinda dig that I'm "that Mom" or wife who can get any stain out, I don't ball them up, I fold with love and intent for my family. It's been so stinkin hot I just don't even want to move. LOL Thank you, Dustin, for the motivation, thank you for your kind and genuine energy to lift my spirit. You have an amazing altitude ~☆~
"Home is supposed to be safe, right?" Uh, I just spent just shy of 3 weeks sleeping with my dagger under my pillow due to being scared for my safety. In my own home.
The craziest sleepwalking stories I heard were one where a guy flew a helicopter in his sleep, and one where an 11 yo girl somehow scaled a construction crane and woke up at the end of its arm. No one got hurt in both cases.
Can't sleep without Let's Read. 😴 Been listening while working all day every day. I keep forgetting about the chilling app I've been paying for it for like 3 or 4 months but never listen to it I don't know me and RUclips got a thing going on and I just like the algorithm of let's read another programs I watch and listen to. Thank you for the great content 🙏🏼
I’ve listened to so many of these stories, and I’ve heard several too common phrases: I didn’t want to be rude; I didn’t want to be paranoid/In case I was just being paranoid; maybe he was a nice guy but just a little strange; I wanted to give him, her, them the benefit of the doubt; I had my earbuds in playing music; and I left after dark to go to the grocery alone to buy whatever for dinner and husband/boyfriend stayed home. My gosh. And I’ve learned just how crappy some parents are to their kids. And way too many poor kids said their parents didn’t believe them. I love these stories, but now find myself rolling my eyes when I hear these ridiculous statements:)
I love police officer stories! They are cynical by nature (my son), don't get hyped up about events cuz they're taught to not get emotionally tied to circumstances, get facts, stay neutral, so they are believable!
LOL, ikr.....that must have had a pretty incompetent police department to not consider sleepwalking as a theory....instead, they come up with the other nutty theories (hypnosis, demons, etc.)
37:00 Crohn's Disease solidarity. It's a horrible nightmare of a disease. I would rather have cancer because at least with cancer, you either win or lose, whereas with autoimmune disorders, they jus keep coming back to torture you more. (Ugh... I've had moderately high fevers almost every day for the last five weeks and am exhausted. This is typical Crohn's symptoms for me.)
I don't ignore my instincts anymore. I let it win. Even when I don't understand what it's freaking out about. If I feel off about anything,I leave, go home, fly home ect. ITS ALWAYS RIGHT I've ignored it before, AND IT REALLY COST ME!! Your instinct don't speak English/your native language. It only works in emotions. Never ignore it.
"Unsafe in public spaces" 1) spray with Mace/bearspray 2) expandable baton 3) firearm Or 4) require therapy both before and after being victimized.. ..... ..
I don’t think the young man took his own life that died on the railroad tracks. . Possibly sleepwalking is more like it. Being possessed is a bit far-fetched and less likely.
I hate when story authors say things like "this is important for later" or "remember this for later." If your story is good enough, people will remember the details. Too many people sell themselves short when they add something like that because for the most part these stories are so interesting in one way or another that it's just unnecessary
35 mins later and I get a notification 🤷🏼♀️ to Oh well I enjoyed talking with Joel last night and even though it's only almost 7pm, I had to jump on it!
I’ve had a couple buddies that would sleep walk far distances sometimes. We were in an England on a trip one time and one sleep walked outside and we found him like a kilometre away sleeping in someone’s garden. First kid was sleep walking for sure.
I guess the fear factor is a big part of these stories, so they rarely include young girls like me. On a couple of occasions being followed by creepy Men, once while at the Museum with my friend...we kept trying to hide and snuck out a side door. Then saw him following us down a street. I picked up a broken tree branch and ran at him. He left us alone. Similarly followed in a park, by a guy who we saw flash an old Woman. Handy dandy tree branch. Works every time.
My uncle once almost got hit by a train, he said he was walking back to the holiday house from the beach when he just blanked out and walked right onto the tracks, luckily my grandmother was able to yank him off the tracks right before he got hit and then he snapped out of it. He had no memory of stepping in front of the train and didn't even know the train had been there. There seems to be a tendency for family members to have one or two absent seizures in their lifetime and a few family members are epileptic and some sleep walk and sleep talk so it was the general consensus that he had some sort of absence seizure when he blanked out and kind of kept walking on autopilot but mentally he was unconscious. I personally have had a few moments I've blanked out and it has been a lifelong fear, luckily for me I'm 16 months seizure free and as it currently stands my neuro is confident I don't have to worry about that
Fenrir pretended to be too tired to move all that time so they would carry him outside and bring his food to him until the “cat burgler” showed up and Fenrir tried to kill him.
Is it bad that I resent the (seemingly) rich fox fur vest girl? As a lower income female I’ve had sooo many encounters that start out at least as creepy as her encounter, and ended way, way worse. I couldn’t afford Starbucks, much less a fur vest or a therapist to go crying to about it, and the many awful things that happened to me have been so traumatizing that I still can’t even think about writing them out for a Let’s Read. Maybe I’m just jealous and bitter she has such an easy life relative to mine 😞 but that story honestly made me really mad for some reason.
No I get what you mean. She complains about having to go to a mall to get her coffee when there are people in the world who can’t even afford basic necessities. She also acted like some creep following her for 5 minutes is the worst thing that could happen to a person.
I felt this major jealous of my (now ex) fiancée. He was born into a very rich and successful family. All 5 of the boys had a business just handed to them, and even then, they had other people handling it so they could just go on vacations, to their winter home, to one of their THREE cottages they owned. I think deep down I was resentful, because even though I had a comfortable upbringing, I was working a full time and a part time job, plus going to school part-time. The restaurant I worked at for my part time job, my fiancée would set at the bar enjoying his adult beverages (also I'm sober from alcohol, further adding to the underlying resentment), and it wasn't like he lavished me with gifts, at all. I was trying to not let it get to me, saying he just got lucky being born into that family. I would repeat that to myself, because it wasn't good fault. I also suffer from ptsd,depression, and crippling anxiety, and he had never experienced any of these mental health struggles. Another thing further adding to my resentment. I just had to keep telling myself it wasn't his fault, he was just born really, REALLY lucky 😪 😔
Stories like the last one are hilarious: nothing actually happens but the narrator speculates to the n-th degree about what maybe, might have happened.
Please let's remember nobody knew that Robin Williams was suffering from depression until he took his life and he had everything going for him so who would have thought that he was depressed sometimes things happen and people put on smiles to have their depression so always make sure that your loved ones are really happy I mean not like hysterical but just they're happy and not depressed
In the first story, that kid might have had a stroke or aneurysm or some other neurological incident. Things like that can cause behavior that makes someone come across as drunk or drugged.
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The only thing stealing my credit and identity could possibly do is improve it.
Awesome, ARRRRRGH 🌈🏴☠️😎🦯🏴☠️🌈
I think we can all agree Fenrir is the ultimate good boy. 🐕❤️
RIP Good Boy!
I remember a story where a man had a roommate that slept walked on a semi regular basis. One night during a sleepwalking episode he supposedly got into his car and drove into a light pole killing himself. For all I know that story is 100% fake but the first story in this video reminded me of it. Is it possible that he was sleep walking and just so happened to lay down on the tracks subconsciously thinking they were his bed?
I think Joel read that one too I remember it
Spoiler alert.
That's what I was thinking
Came on here to suggest this exact same thing.
I remember watching an episode of Unsolved Mysteries that had a similar thing happen. A runner getting ready for a big race felt so anxious about it that she would run in her sleep. If I recall correctly, she got killed as she ran out on the road and got hit by a semi-truck.
Did the police not consider that the guy must have been sleepwalking in the first story?? How did they think “hypnotized” before sleepwalking?
I thought the same thing. I guess they figured since there was no known history of sleepwalking it probably wasnt the case. However, stress can trigger random sleepwalking epispdes in some people. I would bet money that is what happened to the kid and that is way scarier then a crazy hypnotist, if you ask me...
Ikr
Until you’ve really seen a real sleepwalker it just seems fictional. Daft superstition Like clairvoyants or mass hysteria. Took two years of marriage until my mind accepted it as real. Now our son sleepwalks too. We have bells on both doors after an attempted ’sleep driving’ episode.
Right!!
That’s scary
Shoutout to Fenrir giving his absolute ALL to protect his family. RIP to this good boy!
That first story. Imagine being the thief that was trying to break in and you see a dog freaking out and a 10 year old and you think that they will run away but they just open the door and let the ferral dog out to attack you. I would be scared of kids forever.
Okay, first story - I genuinely think the kid could've been a sleepwalker. People have died sleepwalking. I got a condo on the tenth floor, but the place I lived before that didn't had a balcony RIGHT below mine, so I'd only fall ten feet if I slept walked off my danged balcony. When I got the new condo, my father insisted I implement multiple ways to stop myself. "Lock it, put a chair in front of it, attach a bell to the door, and make sure the screen and the glass door are always closed and locked when you go to sleep." I used to sneak off while sleepwalking when I was young. My grandmother tried the chair method, but I'd just move it. She put a bell on the door, and she was able to catch me before I got too far.
It's not could have been. I guarantee he was sleepwalking and I have no idea why the police didn't even consider it. It's not at all an unheard of for people to hurt or accidently kill themselves sleepwalking off balconies, into lakes, into traffic and so on and so forth.
The way the kid was described to be moving is even exactly like he was asleep, the writer even says so, and yet they miss the conclusion somehow...
The way you voiced the wife meat encounter was excellent. Both your Gary and "folks responding to Gary" lines were delivered sooo perfectly. Super subtle with heavy awkward creepiness. I swear I've heard weird bastards talk exactly like that in real life. Friggin nailed it!
Hello. Yeah I agree that was a creepy weird voice! Talented man!
I listened on Patreon on my drive home, start to finish. Perfect length!
My best friend growing up had a step dad with the LAPD. They got a call to the Rosedale Cemetery about some screaming being heard and alarms going off. When they showed up they could still hear the screaming and the alarm company said the alarms were going off. After searching everywhere they couldn’t find anyone but still heard screaming and alarms. That story scared me but I’d always ask him to tell me again and again
I had a college colleague who was a sleep walker and accidentally died by falling out of his apartment balcony during an episode. If that was the case, maybe the kid from the first story didn't even know he was a sleep walker
Love listening to these stories. Although being a recently retired death investigator after 17+ years and 1000 cases under my belt there usually are logical explanations to most everything in the end. I will have to admit I had a few cases that had twisted and crazy outcomes.
Damn work like that must have been intense
That sounds very exciting and intense love to hear some of your stories
Lisa thank you for your service. Such a difficult intense job, I pray your retirement is fulling♥️
@@beckyp7400 Thank you!
I swear the timing was perfect on this one. I was about to lock my phone for the night and get some sleep when this notification popped up. Have a great night y’all 🙏🏼
Same to you sweetie
Gn
Ok
June 1977. My friend was walking home along the tracks. He had gone to a concert and then a bar. He was drunk. He was hit. Wether he passed out. Or staggered. Or something more sinister. Saddest day.
Sweet dreams everyone , and as always, thank you Joel
I was like buttersock wtf?
@@dopamine_fiend365 I’m pretty sure they put batteries in the socks in the show.
Idk how Dan Schneider went from melting butter to batteries, but that’s what happened.
I think the kid in the first story was sleepwalking. I'm a sleepwalker and people describe my movements just as that kid. My brother used to sleepwalk and the way this guy's movements were described were exactly the same way he moved when I witnessed him doing it. My brother also had this habit of sleepwalking into a field near our house and falling asleep there. The fact that this guy just walked off and laid on the tracks reminded me of what my brother used to do. Sleepwalking is also more prevalent in children and teenagers.
Sometimes people also sleep walk when they're under a lot of stress, even if it's good stress. This guy just graduated high school and was preparing for a life-altering new chapter. Even if it's welcome it is still overwhelming and stressful. This could have sent him into a sleepwalking cycle. That's the same case with me. I rarely sleepwalk, but when I do it's when I've been under stress for a while. That compounded with a higher prevalence of sleepwalking at that age further indicates that this may be the case. The most I ever sleepwalked actually was during my senior year of high school due to this combination of factors.
Yes his mind was very anxious for starting college and over excited. His brain likely on a natural dopamine high and couldnt rest properly and caused him to sleepwalk. Its definitely very likely.
@@Insidious_Rage Very interesting. That makes sense.
STOP ignoring bad vibes. That's your subconscious picking up on all the things your conscious mind is choosing to ignore!
First story starts at 2:19
Fenrir is such a good name for a big doog. What a good boi.💕
Hey Joel! Just wanted to say you have been getting me through a ton of stuff these past six months. I don’t think I would be able to get through what’s happening in my life right now without you. Thank you for your amazing stories, out of all the story readers I’ve checked out you top them all. Keep up the amazing work!
Sorry you're going through a hard time. Just keep fighting ❤
Picturing those interactions between the OP who worked at an Alaskan canary & his coworker Gary had me obnoxiously laughing out loud probably more than it should have. Just imagining Gary approaching him way later in the day & asking him if he enjoyed the meat again, to which he responded with a, "yeah, Gary. It was good." & then Gary creepily following up with a, "that's funny." & then just waltzing away. Like what could possibly be funny about that other than it being from the perspective of an unhinged murderer who jokingly fed human meat to some unsuspecting people who found it tasty, that is the only scenario I can think of that would elicit such a response, & that is hilarious cor me to imagine play out in my mind.
On a less ironically funny note though, the thought of someone who's in the midst of a shitty day believing a way she might improve her spirits would be for her to wear her brand new clothes that are made out of an animal who likely had to suffer immensely to make that artical of clothing is a terrible thought indeed. Leather is one thing since it's a biproduct of a beef industry, but most furs are made from animals who specifically had to die to make that clothing & 'they are oftentimes killed in inhumane ways, sometimes even being literally skinned alive, but hey anything to improve the mood of a person. Even though her mood wasn't even effected positively by wearing her new fur that day.
Yeah dude the fox fur vest girl story really made me mad, tbh. I get that something creepy happened to her, but In comparison to my life it sounds like she’s privileged as hell to such a degree she couldn’t even comprehend what my life has been like, much less the pain and suffering of the poor fox who died to make her a pretty little feel good vest. Ugh
The Gary story did have some serious Always Sunny vibes. It would be 10x funnier if it turned out he wasn't a serial killer or cannibal but was simply that weird and awkward about giving his co-workers some smoked meat.
Had a really intense few days at work and haven't been able to de-stress...until NOW! Big love, Joel x
This popped up just in time. It's been a very agitating day, hopefully I can just relax and listen to these in peace. Thank you joel
@Althea Ramnarain yeah it's been a rough one so far
@Althea Ramnarain that sounds like a good idea
Look up your local police station to find their non emergency number. Memorize this so can you fire it off like it is yours and when some creep asks you for your number, you give them this one. LOL Should the creepazoid try calling it while you are still near. Smile and say that's my work one.
It's amazing how much adrenaline fuels you into action to protect something/survive. (Even an old dog.)
HE WAS SUCH A GOOD BOY ❤️ RIP
Ahh, time to listen to Joel while doing my late-night sewing. Just what this night owl needs! 🦉🌙👍
Is that what they're calling it now these days? "Late night sewing"? I think I myself have a few seams I need to rethread this evening, so I think I'll be like the cool kids & partake in some good ol' late night sewing. 😉😇
Hello from Ireland 🇮🇪 you legend's listen every night
Newfie's are the sweetest dogs and are protectors/rescuers. If you see one starting to act violent something around you is wrong.
I get annoyed with the people that want the creeper caught. Yet they always yell out “I’m calling the cops!”
The story about Fenrir is amazing!
I am a 10 year+ Dog trainer and Newfoundland”s are known for their carefree and non aggressive tendencies.
Just goes to show you how dogs of all kind are willing to put themselves on the line to protect their loved ones.
Joel today is Stephanie 's birthday and I gave her the best birthday celebration ever. Joel my brother you have made her awesome day even better.
Story 1: wonder where the story takes place? Both teens had plans on attending Uni in Nashville. Makes me wonder if they lived in the south somewhere. Plus the writer referred to "down here". If it did take place in middle Tennessee there weren't any news stories. Well, not that I remember and I'm almost 40.
Not everything makes it to the news, in fact most things don't make it into the sphere of public knowledge. The news & especially sources of news that are deemed "mainstream" report on a very curated, strategically chosen news cycle for two main reasons. They either choose to cover a particular story because it checks all of the boxes for their advertisers, or it falls into the propaganda category & is chosen to either further or diminish the credibility, & /or their causes of a political party or it can be utilized for the "soft power" agenda of the centralized authority of the state or country. The days of legitimate unbiased mainstream reporting where the journalists finds stories to report without a specific angle & isn't just parroting what the man Upstairs sent down are over. But even if that was still a thing there are just far too many news worthy events happening every minute for them to report everything.
I mean when I was 13 I was walking in downtown Seattle with my mom at like 10pm when we saw a car fly into the intersection running a red light, colliding head on with another vehical super fast to where the passenger literally flew through the windshield, one of the cars bumpers flew off, spiraling super fast & crashing into the shins of two old ladies I watched just get mowed down by it, so they're screaming in pain, people rushing over to help them, some running over to the likely dead person that defied gravity through a windshield, while the driver of the car that caused all of this just gets out of the car & starts running away, but a ton of people bum rush him, throwing punches & eventually tackle him to the ground where they pile on top of him until the cops show up, & I'm standing there with my mouth wide open watching this all unfold 10 feet in front of me, one of the craziest thing's I had ever witnessed. Yet even after religiously checking the news for the story to gain some greater insight on the reason behind that all occurring for many weeks after that I saw not one mention about it, & that was 20 year's ago now, so not everything makes it to the 5 o'clock report, trust me.
@@dustinspeicher3390 I definitely agree. You'd think a teenager getting hit by a train under suspicious circumstances would've been talked about if not on news, then either newspaper, grapevine of gossip, etc. Up until a couple years ago newspapers were still a thing. Our Nashville newspaper even sections for each neighborhood. And since he was excepted and planned to attend Vanderbilt, if he lived in the general area it would've been made public. Plus, the news here loves reporting gore. My good friend from high school got hit by a train last June. It was all over the news. Anytime somebody gets hit by a train here it makes the news. Almost weekly. I'm definitely not discredited the story in any way. I thought it was interesting two of the major colleges here was mentioned plus the person kept mentioning down here. "Down here" is rarely mentioned in narations.
Just another hot day in the deep south until joel cool me off with his videos
damn i miss hot days a lot here in south america, specially summer nights
@@inaki.arambarri ikr! its exciting!
11:47 dogs truly are our best friend they're soo amazing and they say animals have no soul after my pastor told me that i never went to church again !!!!!🙏and even though the dog is in constant pain it defended them now thats a creature with a soul i think
22:02 so how did you come to that conclusion that you ate a slice of Gary's wife? I know it's random meat but where's the follow up?
"Hmm, this guy is weird and suspi--Oooh, free meat! Nom! Nom!"
Yeah fake story for sure
ALMOST AT 1 MIL GANG!!! 🙌🏽
much luv Joel. ♥️
☺️St. Joel, man, your timing is so choice - per usual. Makes this MOUND of laundry I've been putting off so much more doable. You are appreciated so much more than you'll ever realize.
there is NOTHING like a pile of laundry that will make life feel so difficult. I don't know why, but it's true... I feel your pain! Stay strong- you've got this!😁💜😂
I Dislike laundry as well
Yall are trippin' laundry is amazing. It's multicolored, multishaped, tangible fabric meditation. Meditation that can be optimized too depending on the recipe of scents you end up with between your detergent, fabric softener, optional wash additives, spray & wash & /or dryer sheets. There are some combinations that once applied to your laundry meditation session allows you to enter into a true state of nirvana, providing you with the means tk delve into higher dimensions where you may interact with enlightened beings & spirit's. Laundry is knarly if you allow it to guide you through to the other side, there you will see that laundry is LIFE, laundry is LOVE. Peace be with you & fold with intention, with every fold emotion flows freely. Please excuse me, I have a beautiful load of whitey tighties finishing up right now. ✌️⭐♥️🧺🧬🔜🧘♂️🧘♀️
@@dustinspeicher3390 all that from doing laundry?!?! Kiddo you gotta teach me to laundry like that!!! Inquiring minds wanna know!!!!
@@dustinspeicher3390 Namaste, my friend. You know what? You are so right! I actually don't mind laundry & quite frankly, laundry is one thing I do & take pride in doing. I kinda dig that I'm "that Mom" or wife who can get any stain out, I don't ball them up, I fold with love and intent for my family. It's been so stinkin hot I just don't even want to move. LOL Thank you, Dustin, for the motivation, thank you for your kind and genuine energy to lift my spirit. You have an amazing altitude ~☆~
"Home is supposed to be safe, right?" Uh, I just spent just shy of 3 weeks sleeping with my dagger under my pillow due to being scared for my safety. In my own home.
The craziest sleepwalking stories I heard were one where a guy flew a helicopter in his sleep, and one where an 11 yo girl somehow scaled a construction crane and woke up at the end of its arm. No one got hurt in both cases.
sixty four minutes of excellent content from this blessed channel.
Can't sleep without Let's Read. 😴 Been listening while working all day every day. I keep forgetting about the chilling app I've been paying for it for like 3 or 4 months but never listen to it I don't know me and RUclips got a thing going on and I just like the algorithm of let's read another programs I watch and listen to. Thank you for the great content 🙏🏼
Same here. I can't sleep without it
Aw come on, nothing quite like a good hellfire and damnation preacher! Especially when they beat you stupid with the Good Book! LOL
Did anyone else have to skip story 9? The amount of unnecessary details in it are ten times scarier than the actual story.
I’ve listened to so many of these stories, and I’ve heard several too common phrases: I didn’t want to be rude; I didn’t want to be paranoid/In case I was just being paranoid; maybe he was a nice guy but just a little strange; I wanted to give him, her, them the benefit of the doubt; I had my earbuds in playing music; and I left after dark to go to the grocery alone to buy whatever for dinner and husband/boyfriend stayed home. My gosh. And I’ve learned just how crappy some parents are to their kids. And way too many poor kids said their parents didn’t believe them. I love these stories, but now find myself rolling my eyes when I hear these ridiculous statements:)
I love police officer stories! They are cynical by nature (my son), don't get hyped up about events cuz they're taught to not get emotionally tied to circumstances, get facts, stay neutral, so they are believable!
Super excited about this upload after this stressful week, thanks Joel 😊
“A grinning mermaid who’s playing twister. Ring a bell?”
Man how I miss my favorite horror narrators. I’m always on chilling now because of the “no ads” lol
Time stamps would be dope 👌🏻
"Yeah...thanks Gary..."🤣🤣
Fenrir was an amazing boy.
Thanks Joel !! Just what I needed to relax for the night 😌😊
The kid & train...he was sleep walking someone can really cause suggestion to work in sleepwalking
Sounds like Fenrir "broke his Metaphorical' chain" in this story as well..
Where can I find that cop?
The first story totally must've been hypnosis. That is totally more plausible than sleepwalking. /s
LOL, ikr.....that must have had a pretty incompetent police department to not consider sleepwalking as a theory....instead, they come up with the other nutty theories (hypnosis, demons, etc.)
37:00 Crohn's Disease solidarity. It's a horrible nightmare of a disease. I would rather have cancer because at least with cancer, you either win or lose, whereas with autoimmune disorders, they jus keep coming back to torture you more. (Ugh... I've had moderately high fevers almost every day for the last five weeks and am exhausted. This is typical Crohn's symptoms for me.)
I hope Fenrir is getting many head pats and treats in Valhalla
I don't ignore my instincts anymore.
I let it win. Even when I don't understand what it's freaking out about.
If I feel off about anything,I leave, go home, fly home ect. ITS ALWAYS RIGHT
I've ignored it before, AND IT REALLY COST ME!!
Your instinct don't speak English/your native language.
It only works in emotions. Never ignore it.
"I think I just ate a slice of Gary's wife" Wow.....I mean, WOW!
"Unsafe in public spaces"
1) spray with Mace/bearspray
2) expandable baton
3) firearm
Or 4) require therapy both before and after being victimized.. .....
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Finally a half day off! Now I can catch up on my stories 🥰
I don’t think the young man took his own life that died on the railroad tracks.
. Possibly sleepwalking is more like it. Being possessed is a bit far-fetched and less likely.
Love your videos!! Glad I'm back to watching them again!!
I hate when story authors say things like "this is important for later" or "remember this for later." If your story is good enough, people will remember the details. Too many people sell themselves short when they add something like that because for the most part these stories are so interesting in one way or another that it's just unnecessary
Thank you Joel for all the hard work you do love your video s u are the man
35 mins later and I get a notification 🤷🏼♀️ to Oh well I enjoyed talking with Joel last night and even though it's only almost 7pm, I had to jump on it!
I’ve had a couple buddies that would sleep walk far distances sometimes. We were in an England on a trip one time and one sleep walked outside and we found him like a kilometre away sleeping in someone’s garden. First kid was sleep walking for sure.
joel, last night i was super stressed and anxious but your livestream helped me sleep. i woke up early morning with my headphones still on !!
I guess the fear factor is a big part of these stories, so they rarely include young girls like me. On a couple of occasions being followed by creepy Men, once while at the Museum with my friend...we kept trying to hide and snuck out a side door. Then saw him following us down a street. I picked up a broken tree branch and ran at him. He left us alone. Similarly followed in a park, by a guy who we saw flash an old Woman. Handy dandy tree branch. Works every time.
My uncle once almost got hit by a train, he said he was walking back to the holiday house from the beach when he just blanked out and walked right onto the tracks, luckily my grandmother was able to yank him off the tracks right before he got hit and then he snapped out of it. He had no memory of stepping in front of the train and didn't even know the train had been there. There seems to be a tendency for family members to have one or two absent seizures in their lifetime and a few family members are epileptic and some sleep walk and sleep talk so it was the general consensus that he had some sort of absence seizure when he blanked out and kind of kept walking on autopilot but mentally he was unconscious. I personally have had a few moments I've blanked out and it has been a lifelong fear, luckily for me I'm 16 months seizure free and as it currently stands my neuro is confident I don't have to worry about that
I’m starting to think Gary’s real name is Sweeney Todd.
Eating popcorn while listening to this
Dude probably just slept-walked to the tracks thinking he was in bed.
Whoop there it is!!! Thank You 😊
No its awesome that u just popped In my head as I thought relax time and come look and a new one I love it thankyou. I appreciate what you do 😘❤
Fenrir pretended to be too tired to move all that time so they would carry him outside and bring his food to him until the “cat burgler” showed up and Fenrir tried to kill him.
Or her.
Thank you Joel for always helping me sleep soundly amazing stories and brilliant narration as always 🖤❤️🖤
Is it bad that I resent the (seemingly) rich fox fur vest girl? As a lower income female I’ve had sooo many encounters that start out at least as creepy as her encounter, and ended way, way worse. I couldn’t afford Starbucks, much less a fur vest or a therapist to go crying to about it, and the many awful things that happened to me have been so traumatizing that I still can’t even think about writing them out for a Let’s Read. Maybe I’m just jealous and bitter she has such an easy life relative to mine 😞 but that story honestly made me really mad for some reason.
No I get what you mean. She complains about having to go to a mall to get her coffee when there are people in the world who can’t even afford basic necessities. She also acted like some creep following her for 5 minutes is the worst thing that could happen to a person.
I felt this major jealous of my (now ex) fiancée. He was born into a very rich and successful family. All 5 of the boys had a business just handed to them, and even then, they had other people handling it so they could just go on vacations, to their winter home, to one of their THREE cottages they owned. I think deep down I was resentful, because even though I had a comfortable upbringing, I was working a full time and a part time job, plus going to school part-time. The restaurant I worked at for my part time job, my fiancée would set at the bar enjoying his adult beverages (also I'm sober from alcohol, further adding to the underlying resentment), and it wasn't like he lavished me with gifts, at all. I was trying to not let it get to me, saying he just got lucky being born into that family. I would repeat that to myself, because it wasn't good fault. I also suffer from ptsd,depression, and crippling anxiety, and he had never experienced any of these mental health struggles. Another thing further adding to my resentment. I just had to keep telling myself it wasn't his fault, he was just born really, REALLY lucky 😪 😔
The one with the kid on the train tracks sounds like he was sleepwalking to me
always right on time😭😭thxx
Sleepwalking? The first story I hope it’s fake! Love your voice
Stories like the last one are hilarious: nothing actually happens but the narrator speculates to the n-th degree about what maybe, might have happened.
Yay! I love the long videos you help a hour feel like minutes 💕 the best way to help time fly by
Good boy Fenrir... Good boy
I literally thought the intro sponsor ad was a first story, was listening to it focussed
I think this is my favorite podcast ever his voice his the best for theses stories !
The Starbucks logo is a siren, not a mermaid.
Anyone else half expect the "baker street" sax to bust in during the interlude music between stories?
Wow, really well done on the advertisement. Personal and compelling. On to the stories!
Please let's remember nobody knew that Robin Williams was suffering from depression until he took his life and he had everything going for him so who would have thought that he was depressed sometimes things happen and people put on smiles to have their depression so always make sure that your loved ones are really happy I mean not like hysterical but just they're happy and not depressed
It was actually Lewy body dementia. Wasn’t discovered till post mortem
In the first story, that kid might have had a stroke or aneurysm or some other neurological incident. Things like that can cause behavior that makes someone come across as drunk or drugged.
let's gooooo time to watch this at work
Nooooice! 💯💯💯🤌💀🍻
Nord VPN? The company that got hacked not to long ago? That Nord VPN?
Just in time.. im very grateful
How can you have any pudding if you don’t eat your meat?!!! Ahhh, gotta love the classics
Thanks for the vid Lets Read! :)
So love ❤ every Lets Read upload! 🥳🥳🥳🥳Look forward to listening Every. Single. Time🥰
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