Top 3 stories that sound fake but are 100% real | Part 8
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- Опубликовано: 8 апр 2021
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#3 -- "For 'Science'" -- 0:39 -- What happens to some "donated" bodies after death
#2 -- "The Lamp" -- 2:59 -- One of the most fascinating Reddit submissions ever
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☠︎ Found the secret easter egg in today's video? Be the 1st to comment what it is and where it occurs in the video, and you will get pinned!! ☠︎
7:36 Mr Reds on the police car
Well done! The first one to get it and guess correctly!!
ok gg
Well done I was focused on the Double Rainbow lol
Dang
@@MrBallen I was so close lol. If I was home when I got the notification I coulda got it😂
“He decided that he would not tell Kristen, instead, he would kill his mother”
_well that escalated quickly_
Stg 🤣
Fr
I had to do an audible "wtf"
I was reading this comment as he said that sentence lol
@@Fool4Lyfe I oof oof ooooo
"mitch ADORED his children"
me: so he MURDERED them
"his entire life was a hallucination"
me: oh
Yeah that’s what I thought
Yupp...I'm like HoW dArE YoU kIlL YOUR FaMiLy!?
🤣🤣
LMFAO “oh”
lmaoo
The Lamp should be made into a movie. What an impact. I feel so sorry for him.
Shutter Island kind of did that, but with mental illness. Also, people tend to hate the movie/tv trope of "it was all just a dream".
@@vanquish421 I really liked Shutter Island. Couple plot holes but every time I watch it I find new easter eggs. It's a fun movie.
@@embramorgan6720such a great movie with a lot of rewatch-ability. Check out memento if you haven’t seen it, also a good movie worthy of watching a few times.
@@embramorgan6720inception and tenet as well, obviously lol.
Bro was punched so hard someone else’s life flashed before his eyes
The first story is heartbreaking. I can only imagine the sadness of the son in learning what was done to his mom's body.
Right :(
Honestly, if this happened a loved one or friend of mine I would rather not know....
It's possible it has already happened to one of them but I'm good...don't want to know.
ignorance is bliss. RIP
it was his sister..
Honestly, the fact that they passed up an opportunity to study a mutated version or variation of alzheimers (which could have given insight that could help treatments) just to sell her body to the army speaks to a level of moral bankruptcy that I can't even comprehend.
Dont forget he gots millions of dollars in return
I feel really bad for Mitch. Imagine waking up and being told your last decade didn't happen and your wife and kids don't exist. Heartbreaking.
It feels like you have dementia and Alzheimer’s at the same time for a decade that’s like when you dream you live the best life you always wanted then wake up
@@MrVince-ti4hz imagine waking up on a bench after sleeping a decade then you just get picked up after you wake
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Apparently it’s from a movie.
@@TreebeardXIV "Apparently it’s from a movie."
Where did you hear that? Are you sure it's from a movie?
Damn that football player decked Mitch so hard he knocked him into a parallel universe for 10 years!
Sounds super depressing though I feel for the guy.
Kocked him into a whole nother timeline
Holy shit i just burst out laughing from that LOL
Probably Ray Lewis
Word lol
Like the Roy arcade cabinet
I’ve heard the lamp story before so I knew the twist, but how you told it as if it was real at first was so much more impactful than the way I’ve heard others do it. Usually they give the context first. Honestly a really tragic story. I’ve had lucid dreams where my brain invented characters that I got genuinely emotionally attached to, to the point where waking up and realizing they weren’t real was upsetting to me. I can’t imagine living an entire life only to wake up from it one day and realize your entire family were, essentially, a delusion.
Yeah in my dreams I have these people that I know and that I miss... and waking up and that I'm not back home, not with any of these people really hurts.
The brain never makes up faces. Its always a face you yourself have once seen. Out of millions and millions of people you have seen.
I have woken up in tears (but on the flip side, almost shaking with gratitude) realizing that what I was just invested in so deeply was a fantasy. It could be perfect if you weren’t so helpless to affect anything. Instead it’s very passive with waking up being the ultimate loss of power. Dreams are wild.
Yes I have people in my dreams that I visit often but I can never remember them when I wake. I only know because I was once able to catch the feeling of saying goodbye to a loved one when I woke up but could not remember who I was saying it to. 😢
Honestly helps the viewer get the perspective of the guy making the impact much heavier. MrBallen is an amazing storyteller.
@@Dracorlock agreed. I watch him while drawing, normally I can’t focus too well on two things at once ‘cause I have really bad adhd but for some reason the way he tells stories just keeps me engaged and he’s really entertaining. I’m glad I found his content.
The most strange and mysterious part about the first story with Jim and his mom-- is that the FBI actually investigated a case and solved it.
This must have been before James Comey took over. Been a shit show ever since.
Don't worry, the FBI ended up having one of their snipers assassinate Jim after informing him about his mom to make up for solving his request to find out about his Mom.
The FBI wasn't always as corrupt as it is now.
@@patrickbaker4967 Then the ATF came in and confiscated his weapon's
Yep
My wife: "What are you doing?"
Me: "I'm listening to a retired Navy Seal tell weird stories"
@@Bootes_Void He mentioned he was medically retired.
And medically retired usually means something along the lines of "that job was so fucking hard that my body broke" or "someone tried to kill me, but I didn't die"
@@electrontube Sure. Considering the job, those seem like reasonable grounds for retirement.
@@nivinstanley absolutely, considering that just the diving is dangerous. add in the routine: jumping out of airplanes, obstacle courses, and blinding physical training, injuries happen. it's a demanding and dangerous job even when there's no fighting involved.
😂 right
“The Lamp” would make such depressing movie
And a boring one
@@etriganthedemon666 🤣🤣
@@maddysheabitch what's funny?
@@etriganthedemon666 if the movie focuses mostly on what happened after he woke up it could make a great thriller.
He could have been to other dimension.
The lamp story literally made me cry. I've had a similar experience, and still living with it. Thank you for what you mr. Ballin. You're awesome.
If you feel like sharing it, I would love to hear your experience.
I'd love to hear it, if you feel ok to share.
Have you heard Steve Cantwell's story?
This does happen to people.
@@lindsaybc2192that guy took salvia .
Yeah, it's called b******* guys.That's what the story is
@7:57 I was in a coma for four weeks and I had an entire coma life that I thought was real, it may well have been real. Since my body was unable to do anything, my conscious mind used quantum entanglement to astral project to the nearest quantum variant of my own self, and take up residence as a hitchhiker in that version of me's brain, where I stayed, witnessing this quantum variant version of my own selfs life and times. It was 2010 when an accident rendered me comatose. Once in the coma I relived 1998 - 2010, in a life very similar to my own, but not identical. Then I continued living past 2010, until the year 2046, where I was a 66 year old electrical engineer, with 3 grandchildren. Eventually woke up from the coma, all of a sudden it was 2010 again, and I was 30 years old again, and now I miss the grandchildren I haven't even had yet...
Do you remember their faces ?
Did you buy bitcoin
You good tho?
Give it to God brother
He will help u if it’s His Will
Wife: "He is thinking about other women"
He: "WTF is this blurry abomination of hell, I need to see it again"
That's dark
Lmao
@@SILOPshuvambanerjee No, he said the lamp was on.
@@charliem989 ba dum tiss
@@charliem989 got em
That football player hit him so hard he sent him to an infinite tsukuyomi for 10 years.
lol you dam right, feel bad for him tho
Tsukuy- what?
@@freddy5082 its a thing from the anime naruto
Exactly what I was thinking .
So true lol but at least it wasn't 10 years of torture 😮
I LOOOVE the emphasis on the "very low paying job" in Brett's story... and then the picture of the blue vests, cause we ALLLLL know what business that is!!! 😂
What does it mean? 😊
@@margiebazan7258job at Walmart
@@margiebazan7258 Walmart clerk.
They made a movie about this with Luke perry
The first story turned my stomach and filled me with rage. I've lost several family members and the idea of their bodies being treated with such repulsive disrespect is beyond horrifying. I cannot imagine the mingled grief and rage and horror of the families who had their loved ones' remains treated in such a way.
The second story sounds like a mindfuck of a thriller movie. It sounds so crazy that it can’t even be real! Poor Mitch.... heartbreaking
Right?! I came straight to the comments hoping people would be saying oh x movie is based on that! But I’m glad for his sake that it hasn’t been exploited, I guess..
Actually it is quite an old story. Ever heard a certain Rip Van Wrinkle who lived near an Enchanted Forest in the Catskills........
@@ashleythaxton9667 watching these videos have made me realize so many movies are based on these real life experiences. I’ve even heard of people seeing their near death experiences before they happen just like the movie final destination.
They should make a movie about that. Crazy
There is a similar movie like it called Jacob's Ladder
What I kept thinking when hearing the last story:
"Damn, how many BROTHERS DOES THIS GUY HAVE?!"
Me too! It’s so disturbing how he was so willing to kill them all over a lie he didn’t want exposed! That story really gave me the chills.
It's almost like a comedy skit..every time he attacks 1 family member, another family.member walks in lol...its super sad and not funny at all, but damn wtf
@@tariqe-1240 Yeah! Having so many brothers maybe one of them could've helped out!
@@dominiqueprioleau4684 its crazy the lengths some people go for survival. I'd like to think he was a victim of society and judgement
@@str8kronic Yeah 😂 The story IS disturbing but they just kept coming and I couldnt help but point it out
Wow I can totally relate to story #2. I once had a dream where I had this whole other life for months. And when I woke up and realized none of it was real, it took me a few days to get over it. I can't imagine someone actually dreaming years of another life.
“The Lamp” was so sad, imagine building a life for 10 years, you have a family and you just love your life. Only to wake up one day and have it all vanish.
That last story had me thinking “how many brothers does this dude have” and “why didn’t he think about them before coming up with his plan”
Right, when Ballen kept going, and then another brother came, and then another.
yeah after the mom called the brother his plans should have changed he got himself in the biggest mess ever and for no reason
Yeah, he should've stuck with the college courses he was taking and focused on them. Just because one is smart in one area doesn't mean they're smart in all areas
Fr wtfff it kept goin and goin💀😂😂😂
@Gin T That’s the problem isn’t it; you can’t see what someone is doing if you aren’t around.
I had to pause after #2 to process that. So tragic.
Story is... holy shit!
heart breaking
Ill show you some yoga moves Sarah
Wow thats what I just did now.....That story was freaking crazy.
@SarahBethYoga-do you think yoga can be modified or still beneficial to someone with some severe wounds and injuries? Drop foot, nerve damage, etc.?
Imagine that your past 10 years was all a lie, I wish no one would have to ever go through that
The Lamp is the most astounding story... it should be made into a full length film.
The one about the man being unconscious and dreaming of a perfect family hurts me so much
The mind is a crazy thing innit
@@TheRandompaint it's how I feel everyday legitimately
It sucks so much and I feel for him, I really hope he was or is ok
It reminds me of the game roy from Rick and Morty
@@drhypno6317 an apropos comparison
Parallel universes exist confirmed.
The second story reminds me of an experience I had under anesthesia.
I was knocked out for some oral surgery back around 2010. In total I was under for about two hours, but in that time, I had an incredibly vivid "dream." I was a white man named Fred. I lived in Nebraska, in the US. (I'm black, female, from Ghana, and lived in Germany at the time of my surgery.) And while my awareness of the experience started around 'Fred's' late 50s, I had memory of my childhood too.
I had a wife named Annette who I can still picture. I had three daughters, two of whom were married with kids, and the youngest daughter (Julia) lived with my wife and I.
I can very vividly recall my home and property. I could draw a blueprint of it to this day. Every tree in the yard, every room in the house. The wallpaper. How it smelled.
I 'lived' as Fred for around 11 years, I think. I remember having a lot of birthday parties with my grandkids.
Then one night I went to sleep as Fred and woke up... in an oral surgeon's office.
I was very depressed after, and I'm still very bittersweet when I think of it. None of it ever really happened, but I imagine Fred died in his sleep.
in some deep level we are the one- Creator's counsciousness dreaming that it has all us and we in that dream percieve like each of us is a separeted person albeit we can unite on the collective subconsciousness level and can experience life of "others" like our own. only yogi can wake up to a true creator-level self and rest of us just playing that dream further
I can’t think of the correct name right now but it’s like soul jumping or something where a soul “walks in” to another’s
What they said or you could have been having a past life regression.
What they said or you could have just been tripping balls on Ketamine.
Omg... im terrified, what if what im living now is just a long dream....
Holy shit, #2 blew my mind! We definitely need a full episode in Mitch's story!!🤯
I just really hope Lee is doing better after this insane event happened to him and his family.
Imagine living 10 years wealthy and happy to wake up back at square one...
I didnt understand, was he in a coma for 10 years or did he live ten years in his fantasy in only a few minutes while knocked out?
@@Fish-please the "ten years" happened in the few moments that he was unconscious
@@Fish-please it’s like your dream supposedly happens within 3 seconds.
@@Fish-please have you ever took a little nap for like 15 min and in your dream you feel a whole day has gone by that’s what happened to this man
Not just wealthy but happy
brett’s options: go back to school, get a different job, tell his fiancé the truth, get help from a friend or one of his hundred brothers
brett: nah murder tho
I know...GEEZ!!!...going back to robbing banks would have been better than trying to kill his whole family. Geez...just fess up and start your own business, for God's sakes.
lmao "his hundred brothers" by the end of the story they were just coming out of the woodwork
You know if he just told the truth none of this would’ve happened. Don’t tell lies kids
Brett, the bearded burglar murderer who just had TOO MANY DARN brothers.
Brett is a killing machine.... and his mother is a birthing machine.
His alibi was flawed from the start....truly no a very bright person
This channel is so great, Mr. Ballen sure knows how to tell a story. I can't stop watching, I love how he gets us invested in the story, it really feels like we are there with the characters. That being said; the "100% real" is what gets me... for example the amazing Lamp story... is there ANY, any evidence of that story being true? I mean, sure, someone posted that on reddit, I believe that, but I've spent hours trying to find news, articles, or any other source that could confirm that story. Nothing to be found. Great story, probably made up - like 80% of reddit. Congratulations on the channel, it is really fun and interesting!
You really paint pictures in my mind really well because of the way you tell the stories. Great job on your videos!
The second one is so depressing, I'm so sorry for that poor man.
Yeah that really sucks. Thanks for watching!!
I know its insane. I've done some research into that story and it's crazy. There are many types of hallucinations Visual, Olfactory, Auditory, Tactile and Gustatory. All encompassing our different senses like smelling things or touching or tasting things and normally you'll experience hallucinations with maybe one or even two of the senses at once but it's extremely rare to have a "Fully Sensed" hallucination. Doctors belive that when the brain is very close to death it will attempt to stimulate itself to the highest possible level in an attempt to stay alive. That's what that guy experienced. It's happened before but never to that level and never that amount of time. An extraordinary circumstance to say the least.
MrBallen Hi MrBallen Love your videos!!!
Maybe that man was experiencing his own life in another dimension 🤷♀️
I'm sure I've heard about that guy mitch b4 but can't remember where. I'm going to try find story about him. Stories like this fascinate me!
It was "the lamp" story that really got to me .... he was taken ten years of his "life" "away" from him ... just because he was actually knocked out the whole time . I can't imagine believing and seeing my kids grow and THEY NOT EVEN EXIST
If it's true he gained 10 years, he was only knocked out for a short period of time..
..so I guess, "it's better to have loved and lost" etc
But I can’t find anything about it on google except a reddit post/comment but that’s reddit and ya can’t believe anything people say on there
@@vicsrealm Yeah I read that one on Reddit a few years ago. The guy swears it's true, but who knows??
it could be a premonition of his life to come
I remember hearing about it a few years ago as well and I often think about, it really fucks with my head sometimes
Imagine being his fiancé Kristen tho like after having so much empathy to accept a convicted robber and have trust in him, only to find out the life she’s lived with him for the past few years was an entire lie. Every day he left for ‘college’ for ‘work’ the fact that he made contraptions to fabricate an alibi for the premeditated murder of his own MOTHER, the murder of several of his brothers. The trauma must be unimaginable
😕 I feel bad for her. She trusted him, and he blew it completely with lying to her and killing most of his family members. Like yeah, did he really think she'd never find out who killed his mother and most of his brothers? 🤨
MrBallen, you are absolutely the BEST storyteller online!! I’m constantly checking for new uploads…
The lamp story was so sad! The loss of an entire family, even imaginary, has to be devastating. Makes me wonder if he had a glimpse of a parallel dimension where he really lived that life.
I believe he was in another universe, the head trauma is an indicator of that
I tried to look up the story but couldn’t find a legit source
My thought exactly.
Has anyone had a MEMORY that they *know* didn’t happen? Not a dream, not an imagined scenario, a memory.
I was pulled down hard by my ponytail while pumping gas in a small town near my family’s ranch. So hard and fast that my back bent backwards before my hips could buckle. I suddenly was seeing the fluorescent lights in the ceiling of the covered pumps area and thinking what the hell, why am I seeing those? Then I know I was taken & attacked, but there’s no memory of that part.
I’d gone inside for beer to take to a hangout and was uncomfortable with the creeps leering at me parked in front of the store. Terrifying tweaker stares, right through me. That actually happened. In reality, I managed to pump gas and make it to my friends’ and then home, safe & sound.
So why do I legitimately REMEMBER the first part of that “attack”
That’s an actual excellent theory
Imagine waking up, find out that the last ten years of your life was a dream, and realize that all the hours of mr Ballens videos you have seen was just a figment of your sick imagination
I would be perfectly okay with this XD
"Well shit." *Goes to the gym*
Story #2 makes you think. Alll of these stories are, just a figment of our sick imagination (collectively)
well I would write a book or make a you tube chanell telling the storys in his style.
I wonder if that's where Rick and Morty got it from.
I'm just in awe that Mr Ballen travelled all the way to the crime scene and told each story. He really puts the effort in 😉😁
I think Mitch would benefit from a hypnotic past life regression, definitely. Some souls trying to communicate with him
That’s so sad that Mitch had to endure such a event. It’s also telling how much we don’t understand about our minds.
Or what happens to it when you’re “unconscious”
@@ChickenFerLei , yes, we all know that.
Girl for real!! These videos got me thinking “damn am I gonna just lose it one day?!”
It's not our minds- it's us. We are interdimentional beings and travel to parallel realities frequently. Mitch just happened to remember his experience.
our reality is just a product of our minds
Somewhere, on another plane of existence...a wife and mother is desperately searching for her missing husband and father. The son and daughter miss their father very much, and only have a blurry red light to remember him by.
Yo this messed me up..I keep thinking about it..what if this is just another reality and his still at home but can't talk to his family or maybe he is in a coma?
@@craziekandi Right?! This one got me all undone. Too many possibilities to consider, and they all lead to heartbreak it seems. 😫😪
@@michelleadamchak1330 People that trip on DMT say that after they pass through the veil there are entities on the other side that are more familiar than people they know in "this world". This is a common occurrence apparently, to the point that research groups have actually done studies on this. There is a lot of unknown stuff but speculating on different things can be fun... Such as, someone that studied deep water free divers, those people that let themselves fall into blue holes for example, do breathing exercises that when hooked up to an EKG machine, show similar brainwave patterns as someone tripping on DMT. This could end up being the reason that monks and such claim to astroproject or other religious people walk/talk with gods.
Its to a point that... maybe the other world actually exist and our brains are fully capable of flipping into "another world". Continuing the speculation... This could possibly explain #2. DMT is something the brain releases (presumably; TBD) during traumatic events that cause death or severe brain injury. So when he was getting assaulted, he might have released enough DMT to slip into the other side and live out an entire life with his upside down world entities.
@@Kiba69420 Very interesting reading, and I believe everything you're saying. There are stranger things on Heaven and Earth....
OMG that's so sad. That story is so f'd up! I'd loose my mind if that happened to me. Feel so bad for him.
I just started watching these videos and got hooked! Much more interesting than other online story sites.
I've truly enjoyed our conversations and getting to know you better. Your intelligence, kindness, and sense of humor have made a real impact on me, and I hope we can continue this journey together
The second one is actually the saddest shit I've heard in years and it is terrifying
its not shit
@@fraavezskyrim I'm just gonna assume that English is not your first language
It's definitely a crazy story but not nearly as sad as the psychopath in the last story killing his whole family just to keep a lie going.
There was a movie out recently based on the same premise called “The Long Weekend.” It’s sentimental but I loved it.
That's some sad shit right there, there was this time, i dreamt that my family died, and when i woke up, i cried, the feeling was so real, I'm so glas my family is ok.
I cant imagine how sad it is for him
I was really taken back when you said “instead of telling his fiancé, he’d kill his mother” didn’t expect that one
Saw it coming a mile away. Society is great at creating monsters. Usually through financial destitution. A shame really.
He really goes out on a limb in many off his renditions. Like Brett was really just a good guy, ya know salt of the earth but he just couldn’t get out of all the lies he told so ya know, he murdered his whole family. What else could Brett do?? Under the immense pressure of being a psychopath. Ffs. The guy was a monster. That’s the scary part about psychos. They can pretend so well that everyone around them believes they’re something they’re not. But psycho kills his family is not quite as shocking as greatest guy ever kills his family so I get it, gotta create that content regardless of how false it might be. Wtf, ballens channel while horrific also moonlights as a comedy channel as well. Bravo
I saw it coming because Brett is similar to Chandler Halderson. Same web of lies about college, etc.
Same, if I were him, I would have told my fiancé, and the weight of the lies on my soul and moved provinces and try to get work at Tim Hortons or wherever I can.
Brett created his own problems. Every last one of them. He was a selfish coward.
The Mitch story is like one of those sad sequences straight out of a Rick and Morty episode.
You are the best Storyteller hands down! I get so engrossed in your stories that I forget to look for the secret in the episode oh, I don't even think about it until the end when you say did you see it LOL
The lamp story is so surreal. I've relayed the story to several friends and we all agree that his story is a sad one. He had a job, wife, and kids that he bonded to. It's not simply a matter of loss but literally having that stripped away. I think of culture shock and I wonder how much harder that would have affected him. It's so melancholic.
1i love lamp.....
It’s exactly why I hate waking up to ‘good’ dreams and disappointment.. give me a nightmare and relieve any day
That story reminded me of an episode of star trek when the enterprise comes across a probe that had been launched into space by a race that had been wiped out by their sun exploding...the probe put Picard uncontious on the floor and in something like 30 seconds he lived an entire life time learning to play a flute being married having a child and many other things as if he was a member of that race...it was a way for that race to pass on their life experiences to another race so they wouldnt be forgotten...he even knew how to play that flute when he woke up he knew everyones names and basically an entire life time of knowlage. Then to be back on the enterprise with his crew who he had not forgotten through his whole experience with this race.
@@robreesor5011 The Inner Light was the name of the episode. I totally agree, it reminded me of that as well!! A stellar episode of TNG.
It unfortunately wasn’t a real story, just an urban myth that started as a Reddit thread.
I really like how you tell these stories. You don't put on a fake creepy voice. It's more like I sit with a friend by a drink who starts out with "Dude, I have this crazy story you have to hear".
Yeah, or kinda like a campfire story
I do agreee!!
Right!?! And he paints the perfect picture with his descriptions, you can see it all. He is my new best friend lol
The backgrounds are like you are just talking to a neighbor.
That’s exactly why I love these videos!!! I’m hooked!
I feel for Mitch. A few years ago, after sleeping off a seizure episode I had, I dreamed of my daughter. The dream was so real, and everything I felt in it was so real as well. In the dream I was there for about a week after I gave birth, and then I woke up. I was genuinely confused that I was in my bedroom at my parents house, and that my daughter is no where near me. When I realized that it was just a dream I cried for several days. I’ve dreamed about my daughter twice after that, and every time I wake up wishing that it was my reality. Whenever I remember her, and the amount of love I’ve felt towards her it brings me to tears. It was a feeling I have never felt before, to the point it felt like someone took a piece of my heart when I woke up from the dream. I miss a daughter that I never had more than I miss a lot of people in my life.
I’ve gone to therapy and my sadness subsided a lot, but she still has a special part in my heart, that I keep thinking that it might be God showing me a glimpse of my future at my times of hardship to give me strength through them, and that I will get to see her again in the future.
Yeah Mitchs soul definitely got transported to another dimension
This man as a Hollywood director would change the movie industry forever. His intuition for good stories is absolutely amazing.
Thank you!!!
He would be great at doing audio books too..
#BallenForHollywood ❤💙
@@MrBallen .
Yes, he would.
Dude, I think the lamp story is the scariest thing I’ve ever heard….I was lose my mind if I woke up and found out my wife and kids didn’t exist
Me having the 13th dream about my wife and kids in a row and waking up wishing I was born 30 years earlier
Well.. he kinda did… maybe it was his alternate reality.. like the movie Parellel
That's a trip, I'd lose it.
Idk, I think I’d immediately go out and buy a boat, truck and beach house…🤣
This one is gonna give me nightmares. OHMYGOD.
I have seizures & "The Lamp" hit a little too close to home.
Me too and agreed!!
Man !! You are a good narrateur and your stores are not only great but are packs with plenty of lessons. You are a Great Guy man!! Keep it up.
Brooo the lamp one gave me chills. That’s like something out of the twilight zone
No doubt. Could you even imagine that!? Bro, 10 freaking years!!! That's insane.
My husband just said the same thing.
So here I am, waiting for story #2...
@@adilouie good news: your real, so your safe.
@@screm1471 lol... that's sad and crazy. Makes you wonder????
@@adilouie you
The second story was so insane, especially that he felt like it was real
Agreed
So gnarly!
Sometimes I have dreams that I mistake as memories because they feel so real dreams/hallucinations r crazy
Man... I'm really hoping I wasn't attacked by someone and am now just living some alternate reality in my head...
@@Maximer77 ur not I promise I am real
This was GREAT! I was totally mesmerized!! Subscribing!!
The 2nd story is so depressing and tragic... reminds me of this insane dream I had when I was still in high-school. I can't really describe it but I lived in a surreal looking city living with my wife and kid for what seemed like years. When I suddenly woke up, I was disorientated and didn't know what was going on at first but it all came back to me within seconds. The life I've lived in that dream was suddenly all hazy and I couldn't remember much details... just a hazy memory of a time I lived with a different family. It messed me up for a long time and I still think about it every now and then.
This Brett guy's an enigma. He was too dumb to realize his wife was going to tell police he was at "work", it didn't occur to him to pre-load the crossbow, and he seemingly forgot he had 13 brothers... but he was smart enough to build a machine out of a fan, some pulleys, and a broomstick to operate his cellphone and computer?
This just actually had me dying lmaoo
Some of the most intricate people are infinitely stupid
*3
😂😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂😂. 13 brothers
Holy shit. I cannot imagine being told my mother, who I donated to help others with a tragic disease, got blown up for an experiment. That makes me sick.
Military. Smh
I want to volunteer my body for that. 😄
@@EmeraldViewditto. Blast me to the moon.
Donating your mother was the problem all along. Stupid games win stupid prizes.
Technically, she did further science though...
Subscribed and Bell on! Your stories are way better then others crime watch on RUclips!
This is my first time watching really enjoying so far.
What’s honestly horrifying is that any one of us could be experiencing the “ lamp “ and wouldn’t even know it…
Correct. "Reality" is a fake term.
Exactly. How would we know if we are living a real life or a lie?
Please just don't. 🙏
That's horrifying!
What about maybe we have another parallel life in a different universe or different time frame 🤔
I scared 🥺🥲😒
First story: Such a wasted opportunity of important alzheimers research..
Second story: Wow that's.. so damn heartbreaking.
Third story: Wtf.. What a psychopath!
Second story is like he worked hard on his life but In his dreams
Not gonna lie that last story sounded like a dumb ass horror comedy😭😭😭😭.
@Homer Simpson government doesn’t want to take your gun as long as you are responsible and qualified to use/store it
@Homer Simpson Not just Biden dude, you do yourself 0 favors by trusting one side over the other.
@Homer Simpson That was a good one, make sure you write that down
On these multiple story posts, without fail, I have to restart stories 2 and three because I’m still pondering the prior stories’ ending. I am aware of this, but it doesn’t seem to help.
Gripping stuff, well done!
I love your stories & shorts. Well done, all of them.🤗😎👍
I have to admit, I found it hilarious that Brett kept having more and more brothers coming into the story.
Except that 2/3 of them literally died..:
If it had been a black comedy slapstick movie it would have been brilliant … but this brother killin shit storm actually happened ! 😔 the things you do for lies….
It started to feel like a joke. When he mentioned Lee waking up I said "Wait, wha?" and put the vid back to see if I missed something
Lol same
Yeah my dark sense of humor kicked in and I just started laughing about the plethora of brothers coming out of the woodwork. Hell of a day for a family reunion, wouldn’t you say? 😂
I cannot imagine the horror of manifesting an entire family life situation for a decade within the span of a hallucination. That is some seriously horrific shit that the brain can pull off. It also really makes me wonder about the ability of the brain to make death less shitty. Definitely calls into question all of the life-after-death sorts of proclamations.
@@Lot_2023 lmao honestly i’d be willing to bet the original commenter has an IQ higher than yours
@@Lot_2023 Why don't you stop acting like your age is in the single digits?
@@Lot_2023 Wow - such an original comment -- how old are you, racist one? Schoolyard age stuff, dude.
A study was JUST completed this last month. A single Case study. For the first time ever, we've recorded the brain DURING death. You really should look into this but..... The study shows strong correlation in the brain that the same signals and section of the brain that activates when memories are happening, is the same firings and connections that happen at death. Or similar.
So the idea that our lives flash before our eyes ? Yea, that's absolutely possible. Not 100%, but likely
@@floatinggoose9197 the brain releases a shit load of DMT when u die which is what causes that
You're amazing telling these your stories!🤩🤩
I gave you a sub you better keep the content coming. Lol. I was really entertained! Thank you!
My dad’s body was donated to that facility and we were lucky - the FBI was able to confirm that he was not one of the people mistreated or misused. We attended a court date when the owner of the facility accepted a plea deal. The pain of not knowing at that point was awful but it was nothing compared to what the families who had confirmation that their loved ones last wishes were violated were feeling. That guy and everyone that worked there can rot in hell for all I care.
Sheeeeeeeesh
But did y'all get paid? You can do whatever to my corpse as long as my family is getting paid lmao
@@gigacade yup 58 million?! My family would be set for generations
@@WaldropYTC the organization probably declared bankruptcy and didnt pay out more than a fraction of that.
what was the sentence ! the state shouldnt of done a plea deal, they had plenty of evidence
Everyone talking about poor Mitch, how about Brett's brother who had to see his entire family dead or dying and had to fight off his own brother who killed everyone ? It's the saddest story for me between all of those, just imagine life going great and you get in that situation out of nowhere. No wonder he had severe PTSD.
Facts the 3rd story was the most tragic but everyone seems to be so shocked by the 2nd
I mean the second is unusual stuff it's non death but tragic.
real shit bro that shit sad fr 💔
@@2turntksoo245 i love ur pfp lmao
@@SirSnipington The 2nd was more like a movie plit so everyone likes it despite saying it is sad. The 3rd was way too real life for people to connect to it.
I'd like to say that #3's fiance dodged a bullet, but no, she dodged a crossbow bolt
i really can't workout what kind of vibe you're going for with the intro "do this and that to the like button" but the fact that its so out of place and makes no conceivable sense combined with your deadpan delivery has me gosh darn charmed.
It's a joke on other RUclipsrs saying "smash the like button!"
Brett put more energy into making weapons than fixing his life
Pretty much
Exactly what I thought.
My thought excatly
What kind of weapons did he make? Please enlighten me.
@@OGRH I think what is referred to are not weapons but all the gadgets he made to give him an alibi of being at home during all this.
Wow. He killed the one person who stood by him through everything. What a psychopath. All he cared about was himself
REAL FELON FOR YOU
More like a sociopath :/
Yeah, but he was a victim!... The judge sounds almost as batshit insane as he was. At least the dude was given 3 consecutive life sentences so he's not getting out any time soon.
i still feel kinda bad for him tho...
@@leowang4454 you need to control who you feel bad for, or you're an easy target for narcissists, and people with anti social behaviour disorder. Empathy is good, sympathy is good but be careful.
The Lamp should be made into a psychological horror film, kinda reminds me of the movie sixth sense. Sometimes the mind can be scarier than monsters
I started watching a couple tears ago I'm so glad to see you are are 7.7m followers. You are a fantastic story teller 😊
I couldn't imagine passing out, having a whole life with a husband and child, then waking up realising everything was fake.. that sounds like some matrix shit.
Yep. And that dude got off lightly. By not becoming a family murderer like that last guy from the 3rd story.
Shit that was literally a book I was going to write
I'm starting to wonder what if this is the same what if none of this is real what if I'm in one right now
@@Azriel_13868 just be wary of lamps i guess
@@Azriel_13868 and u wake up in the Stone Age being told that u got smacked in the head, but u don’t understand anything cuz u lived a different life speaking English.
The lamp story felt so sad. I’ve had dreams where it feels so real and have woken up and been very confused about where I am. The most vivid one was about living and owning a small shop with this guy who was my partner. One day we were stocking the shop with ice cream and when I turned around, my partner had been stabbed. There was blood everywhere and I ran to him and was holding him while he died. I woke up because I was crying so hard in my sleep. I felt such a sense of loss for the next week that it made me feel really conflicted about my real life partner because this dream felt so real that I felt like I’d lost a loved one
That reminds me of one of my most vivid dreams where it felt real, I had a dream that my mother had died but I didn’t witness it and I was seeking therapy for the loss. I started crying really hard to the point I woke up nearly choking. After I woke up I genuinely thought she was gone so I sat on my bed hugging myself while crying, and then I heard the door open and she asked me for help with something, and I ran to her hugging her tightly because I genuinely thought she was gone.
I also had something like this. I was a man and has lost my wife and son. I woke up feeling so sad and filled with sooo much pain. I would not be surprised if it was like a past life memory bc it felt soo real and I grieved for the family that I felt was taken from me.
Same!!!! So many dreams like that
One time I had a vivid dream about being pregnant and it was twins and I had them and it felt so real and then I woke up and I was crying😂
Not a significant lover dream but I had once dreamt that I had 6 brothers and in the dream we all lived together with my father and we acted how siblings would, I was happy and was incredibly close with them and remembered watching movies/going shopping just generally hanging out and having a good familial relationship with them but then I remembered hearing my alarm clock go off in the dream at some point and I had turned around to ask one of them where the noise was coming from and didn't get to hear them reply before I woke up in my room looking at my desk clock in shock. I'm an only child in real life so just suddenly feeling and having that connection only for it to be suddenly ripped away hurt a lot.
3 years later and the lamp story still haunts me. What if just all of sudden your entire life was hallucination and you wake up back in school after 10 years. Immense props to the therapist for him
I've already been thinking about things like that years ago even tho i'm only 17, what if our whole life is just a dream. What if we dream in our dream or what if our "dreams" were reallife and reallife are just dreams? What if we are still a 2 year old child and then wake up and we got all that knowledge and people think we are genius
Mitch's story is so wild, especially with the dreams at the end?? With all the weird things people talk about these days, my mind is all over the place with this one.
The second story is one of the most depressing things I’ve ever heard.
How can i check whether my life is not a hallucination😂
@@stuntboy6824 l👀k into the red lamp...
you need to spend more time on the internet then
Its like the movie inception.
Yeah it’s really fucked when you think about it
The story about Mitch scares me. I love my family, and I couldn’t imagine how awful it would be to not only lose them, but find out they were never even there! How completely messed up.
That’s one of my worst fears. Waking up and finding out nothing I know is real.
I think, therefore I am.....the only thing that cannot possibly be a figment of one's imagination
Yeah, it’s not real. There’s only a Reddit comment. Literally nothing else.
@@jakefoster5611 yeah, the second story is bullshit. Your average redditor.
worse part is that he spent a decade supposedly "touching" and "feeling" everything he came on contact with...
this is truly something out of a horror movie
(immediate edit: Well shit. At least it was a good story)
That first one legit had me anxious. What a terrible thing to occur from a private company and the US Military. Can't say I'm shocked that it goes on, but hearing about it is something else.
Its not the armys fault, their just doing research with ieds. Why tf does the center have a mans bodywith a female head sewn to it? Thats some demonic satanic fucked up shit right there
I saw this story on the video you shared from your Austin Show!! You did a great job both times!! 🎉❤🎉
Somewhere in an alternate universe, Mr Ballen is telling the story of a man that started randomly fixating on a lamp and went into an unown coma. Now his son visiting him in the hospital is the only time he responds slightly.
Damn that's brutal, lol.
I love it
Tanya, that's exactly what I thought lol. If this story isn't internet creepypasta kind of fake then it's like his mind traveled to another universe where time flows slower and lived for years inside the body of another man who looks like him but had a family. The question is what happens to the person in another universe, would he be ok or his mind would be damaged forever and cause coma? I honestly love all the stories on this channel but this one sounds like fake.
Somewhere in an alternate universe, a man name Mitch was tackled so hard by a football player he was isekai'd out of college and into a happy marriage with a wife + 2 kids, and a well paying job...but he got to stay in that world.
Hello Tanya I really like the way Mr B.started off telling this story like it was really happening he had me believing all this was going on until the end.Mr B.is the best.
#2 needs to be made into a movie. I can't process how that must have felt to him. How strange!
There is this 1 justice league episode where super man goes through the same stuff
As a screenplay writer, I came up with a story idea years ago very similar to this! I guess I should start writing it!
I was thinking the same thing myself.
A show called Awake came out in 2012, pretty close story line.
Is technically just a dream, we all have crazy dreams, my craziest dream was when I was going to sleep, I looked at my phone it was 2:03 am, I couldn’t sleep so I tried different poses looked at the roof then looked at my phone again it was 2:10 am, what I didn’t realize is that I was already sleeping... then my closet opens, hands were coming out of the closet holding the door, it looked like humans hands, then I freaked out, fell out of my bed and under my bed wind was coming out of it with a bunch other stuff hands were coming out of there too trying to reach my feet’s, so I tried to scream but I couldn’t, I really just couldn’t and I’ve always wonder why ppl can’t scream when they they are scared... so I step up and ran to the other room and saw a black figur holding my little brother, then it run to me, I was so scared then I woke up sweating Like in the same pose I was in my dream, I was so shocked.
I looked at my phone it was 2:09 am...
I just realized that this is either the fourth or fifth story that I’ve heard about a guy who lies to his family about going to college and getting a job, and ultimately ends up becoming a full-on “Family Annihilator”, instead of coming clean to his loved ones about his insane “Web of Lies”. And I heard at least three of them from MrBallen in particular. I cannot believe how common of an occurrence this scenario appears to be. But, if I ever have kids, and eventually, they end up going to college, I am going to seriously stay on top of them about demanding that they show me concrete evidence proving that they are still enrolled in school, because I don’t want to go through ALL of that trouble of raising children until they are young adults, only for them to murder me in cold blood, simply because they’re too embarrassed to admit that they actually dropped out. In fact, I won’t even be mad at them for their failure, as long as it means that they won’t eventually feel obligated to stab me with an arrow in my OWN garage.
I love your content I've been watching you since I was a kid keep it up❤❤❤
I was half expecting to hear "and after killing his mother and four brothers, he heard six more cars drive up, all of which belonged to his other six brothers, but he was too strong and eliminated all of them, only to look on in shock as a private helicopter lands behind his house carrying a cargo pod with seventeen more of his brothers".
Don’t make a joke out of someones traumatic experience
@@bellabunnyyy Comedy is what people use to distance themselves from trauma, so I don't see a problem with it.
What's next, are we no longer allowed to joke about something that happened in WWII to people that are long dead?
Sorry, but I don't really see a problem in making jokes about situations where the people most affected are no longer alive. And honestly, it helps these stories to be less disturbing in the end, so I think it's all good.
Yeah, I was starting to think he was never going to run out of brothers 😂
@Sean Macguire Why is it so hard to break up with a Japanese girlfriend?
You have to drop the bomb twice before she gets it.
@Sean Macguire LMAO the "next wave" comment had me nearly choked to death lol
I went from feeling empathy to horror really fast for that last story. Wow. How horrifically sad.
Same here. But what's even more frightening is realizing that this person had really serious issues under the surface, not just anyone can murder their own family, regardless of the situation... he was surrounded by all these people who loved him and thought highly of him and not one of them ever got concerned or noticed anything wrong with him.
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Good thing his fiancee don't show up. He would have killed her too.
A missing person who is never found has to be the most difficult even with cameras everywhere it's truly baffles the mind how criminals feel they can get away with anything
These are some wild stories I love hearing these because it just shows how crazy people can really be and most of the time truth is stranger than fiction
#2 plot twist- Mitch had a stroke or something while he was staring at the lamp, and now he's actually in a coma while his son is talking to him in the hospital trying to draw him back to real life
Triple plot twist, he awakens from his coma only to realize that he’s missed his children’s lives. They are now adults and have lives in other states. His wife? She moved on not thinking that Mitch would ever regain their lives together. Now she is torn, between her boyfriend and their own young children, and Mitch.
@@CowboyBike06 ouch. Poor Mitch.
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Good one
@@dieeddiedie3409 loool
Brett could have told his fiance and mother the job offer was rescinded due to his criminal record.
I don't think his fiance knew about his criminal record.
@@jasonhaynes2952 She did, it was mentioned in the story. He told her about it and she accepted it
Brett just stupid, Lying can't get u nowhere
the issue is that he also lied about finishing school which he didn't. That will be a major red flag for his fiance
That would be to hard for him
Hey Mr Ballen love your channel any way you can tell us some of your own war stories?