I failed out of BUD/s due to hypothermia. I wound up becoming CSaR, instead. In turn, I wound up working alongside SEAL Team 8 during OIF and OEF. My experience has shown me that most Frogmen are like John. Laid back, super chill dudes who love what they do. All I can say is, I'm glad they're on our side!😂
@@shanthanramsamy7421 they put you in a very small concrete room, setting on a small concrete slab. then the play that poem along with the sound of babies crying among other things. They deprive you of sleep and such with random trips to be abused. It's really gives you an idea of how bad it could be. But that nothing compared to being a real POW. Above all it gives you a look at who you really are. Good training.
Can we appreciate how caring Mr BAllen is that he doesn't include the truly horrific things but lets us decide if we want to see them on our own? ❤ Thanks Mr. Allen
When he said Jim Jones my heart just immediately sank. I’m not one to cry at movies, but I watched Very Scary People’s documentary on him, and couldn’t help crying when I thought of all those people who died. The idea of the children who must have been staring up at their parents wondering what was going on, why the adults were upset, drinking what they were given because they trusted the adults and their parents. The idea of those children in their parents arms, crying about how it hurt and they were scared, asking for help…… I just sat in my room and sobbed. Listening to this recording felt the same.
Maybe it can help to know that cyanide at such dosage would kill you quickly and you wouldn't really feel much pain. That's exactly why it's used as a suicide pill or in assassinations so often. It's very effective at killing you. You could drink this and pretty much die instantly or in the matter of a few seconds. Clearly, the kool-aid solution wasn't a simple afterthought or improvised idea, it was premeditated, basically "if X happens then I will make everyone kill themselves with this" and it's also very clear to me that this guy wasn't a sadist who wanted to inflict pain on his followers but rather a totally deranged individual who believed he was freeing them from a very bleak future so it was never the point for them to die a painful death. Why he didn't drink this himself but rather shot himself asks questions but my theory is he saw this as his failure to protect his community and as such, he didn't deserve to go wherever they were going so he killed himself and in his mind this was a way to make sure he wouldn't go to heaven or whatever he believed in. It was his punishment.
😅 I love that the torture track was Kipling. Growing up my grandfather (Naval pearl harbor veteran) lived with us and he would endlessly quote Kipling. I could recite the entirety of "the young British soilder" by the time I was 8. 😬😳 lol.
Holy crap that face!! It instantly sent a chill up my spine, gave me a bad feeling in my gut and made my eyes water all at the same time. I was not expecting that physiological response.
Yes!! I wasn't expecting my response either. I had to turn my phone away while the video played until it moved on. Not much bothers me, but sometimes certain photos just get me, and that's one of them.
I have a lot of anxiety which has been escalating recently, and yet I STILL watch mrballen almost every single day, you're just so great at telling stories and they're all so interesting! Just the Boots poem had me literally twitching from anxiety lol I had to look away from the screen because I couldn't listen to it AND look at that face at the same time, I was having a physiological reaction. Definitely the freakiest one of the 3 recordings, although the worst and saddest one was certainly the Jonestown audio
I also had to look away, both from that face and the one playing over the audio recording of the girl clearly speaking hoarsely to herself in her sleep. My anxiety is high, but my cynicism Kung fu is strong lol
Good to know. After hearing "Boots" I nearly closed the window thinking, yeah I'm not a Navy Seal and if they only get more unnerving then fuhgedaboudit...
That Rudyard Kipling “Boots” recording is horrific... listening once was enough. But imagine the things he’d seen in that war to write it and record it that way. 😳
@@tylerc1980 It's not too bad listening to it once but the point is that they play it over and over and over again. Here's a 2 hour loop of it (though I'll bet the Navy guys probably spend much longer listening to it than 2 hrs). Listen to the whole thing and let me know if it still doesn't bother. th-cam.com/video/Glcg95L4JK4/w-d-xo.html
I have to say, being the wife of a Navy Chief, that little chuckle as he is telling the story and remembering is such a trademark of those kinds of stories from Sailors. Especially if they are telling about special training they have been through
MrBallen. You'll get this reference, I'm sure.. I was in HC-9, a helicopter combat squadron out of San Diego 82-86. Mini-Vulcans out the doors, the whole nine yards. Used to give you guys rides out to the bay for your swims and Cat Island to get stabbed by sea urchins. Transferred before SERE school and now as an old dude I'm perfectly happy having missed that particular check in the block lol. Keep up the good work man. People, myself included, dig your story telling style and the content as well. Hope you continue on this path. Seems you truly enjoy it and you express that sentiment clearly. Bet you were a hell of guy to hang with out on watch...
@@hillrebecca3447 What I said was I bet you were a hell of a guy to hang out with on watch. Basically, watch is any type of sentry duty, etc. that's in addition to your normal duties. Never met the man but he sounds like he would have been a shit load of fun. Know my share of SEAL/EOD dudes and from my experience they mind their own counsel. But once you get past the years of training and war face stuff... they're just like anyone else. Ramped up like 10 times lol.
He took a grenade blast close quarters, his team of fellow badasses got him home safe, he's truly one of the toughest men on earth. Same for all American special forces and a few others.
So I was watching this video and was sick with a fever. I had fallen asleep just before the official torture song of the navy seals came on. It was a very unpleasant thing to wake up to.
I can’t listen to him to fall asleep not because it is scary but because EVERY SINGLE VIDEO IS SO INTERESTING! It’s uncanny I have never come across a TH-cam channel like his where every video and every story in the video is interesting. Every.single. One. He is a brilliant story teller.
Lmao 🤣 I watch his videos all day and than fall asleep watching them at night wake up and continue watching it I wake up and am like how many videos did I miss
My Son did the “SERE’s training for the airforce, he is a Chinese Linguistic with very high-security clearance. He to this day will not talk about it, I am sure a big part is that he is not supposed to but also because he doesn't want to even think about it! Thank you for your service and thank you to all soldiers in all branches for your service!
you have no sense of time, and it seems as if goes for days, then weeks, then years, then it is all you hear over and over and over. There is a point you seriously think of shoving something into your ears to silence it forever.
I'm in infantry school for the Marine Corps and it's like midnight and my Sgt is blaring this over his speaker to drive is crazy. People are going nuts but it's hilarious and he is having a blast.
I feel sorry for Mrs Ballen, it doesn't matter how much she nags him it won't get to him cause he's trained not to let stress or torture get to him. 😂❤
Not really Rae, I’m sure she just plays that terrible navy training/torture song over and over while he and the like button hold their ears and contemplate drinking the cool-aid 😝👀
Im surprised this one is all the way at he bottom of the popular tab. Ive binged every video at work for the past few weeks and this one gave me literal chills.
I’m a chronic sleep talker and have recorded myself saying the craziest stuff in unrecognisable voices. My partner can attest to us being the only people in the room but you would swear I was talking to someone else and another person was replying
Oh my goodness me too! I use a sleep app that can record if I set it to. I’ve had full on convos with myself, in my sleep, different voices, and never remember a thing. Hearing it the next day is terrifying sometimes.
I agree 100% that voice was CLEARLY HER! Lol.. never just believe the "internet" experts.. that didn't even sound like a mam to me.. in my opinion, it just sounded like her only without the surprised expression in her voice.. there are MANY people that "sleep talk" or do weird stuff in their sleep and never know.. . it can happen out of no where and only go on for short amounts of time..or for years, especially during times of like extremely stressful times in your life or whatever.. I personally had it happen when I was applying for a job. I am a primatologist, and the job I was writing for or applying for was super competitive and was for a 6 month job in Cambodia for a television show..during that time I was talking in my sleep amd was getting out of bed and just doing random stuff and I never would have known if it wasn't for my ring door bell catching me going outside on night to sit on my porch lol after that I out a motion sensor camera in my bedroom to see what I was doing and i didnt actually get up THAT often, but i WAS talking. And i was having whole 2 soded conversations with myself, and even used a different VOICE when I was responding to myself.. it was SO WEIRD! I sure thought I was going crazy or something, lol. But once the whole work stuff settled down, that all stopped and hadn't done it since.. my opinion is that was her.
While I was in bootcamp for the Navy, the division got in trouble for something so our RDC played the “Boots” poem over a speaker in the middle of the compartment for about an hour before you taps that night. After 5 minutes of listening to it, it really gets to your head and terrifies you. I remember after he turned it off so we could sleep that night I couldn’t get it out of my head. It just played over and over in my head.
Just asking because I’ve never walked in your shoes however I have been with sick and disgruntled toddlers and infants who have cried, tantrumed and had serious meltdowns for hours. I have had to use prayer, meditation, and thought control to get through these situations. Wouldn’t this be part of the Navy seal training - Taking control of your thoughts and having your mind think of something else? Just asking in kindness and curiosity. Thanks.
I just wanted to thank you for your fantastic podcasts and TH-cam videos. You help me get through a hard time. I know, from reading about you, that you have had your own difficulties, and I'd like to let you know how much I appreciate that too.
I’m Guyanese, and Jonestown is now a place of extreme terror and extremely eerie. Some people escaped of course, but it was a terrifying ordeal. Thank you Mr ballen for telling the story of Jonestown, it’s officially dubbed the doomsday of Guyana. There is also a movie called Jonestown.. it would tell an even more in-depth story of how horrific it all was. And for those who have not yet heard of Guyana, pronounced (guy- anna) is a country on South America’s North Atlantic coast, and is also known as the land of the giants and the bread basket of the Caribbean. It is very small and is made up of an ethnically diverse population. Or famously, where the golden city of Eldorado resides.
It was never a city. Spanish explorers landed in South America and started hearing tales of a gold dusted tribal King dumping vast quantities of gold and precious gems into Lake Guatavida. So the Spanish Commander ordered the lake drained, and finding nothing other than some worthless trinkets had all of the people killed and El Dorado came to represent men's feudal quest for immeasurable wealth.
Ok so I was thinking I’ve listened to it with headphones, in my car, and on controlled speakers and some of them it sounds like a woman who says nothing, I’m dead... and the other one sounds like it could be a teenager saying nothing it’s them... definitely not a male though it definitely sounds like she or her teenage son can make this
I remember when hearing the same story before, that there was a fairly pertinent point that was only very briefly alluded to here. I believe in her original post, she divulged that she slept with a toddler, or very young child, in her bed with her. Knowing that, it becomes more than obvious that the "click" you can hear is actually more of a skin-on-skin "slap" or clapping sound. It would then be perfectly rational to assume that the sound you hear is likely her child playfully "slapping" on her in order to get her attention. The voice(s) you hear are simply her sleep-mumbling whilst in a deeper state, exacerbated by her recent sleep deprivation. Any "expert" that would ever suggest something as categorically definite as to say that the sounds heard were impossible for her or her child to make, is either a terrible expert, or more likely, doesn't exist. Sure, that's not as thrilling as saying it was ghosts or whatever, but honestly, which one is more likely to be reality?
My son is in the Navy and went through SEAR training. I remember the first week was classroom stuff, the next week was outdoor training. Like, how to start a fire or kill an animal to eat etc. The night he got captured I felt it! I knew that was the day. All in all he lost 19 lbs that week because they don’t eat. It was horrible for me and him! As they say, the best training you never want to go through again! But he survived and is better for it! He just completed SWTI training and says that was the even tougher! Y’all our military is badass! Thank you sir for your service! 🇺🇸
Whoever’s singing the torture song sounds progressively more and more agitated as he keeps singing which gives off an unsettling feeling of total insanity.
It’s actually a poem. It is about British troops that were forced to march across Africa with no known destination. Some of the troops went mad watching the boots moving up and down again.
That poem. Unsettling. I mean it starts off normal but as soon as he starts raising his voice I get a tingely feeling on my back, then calm, repeat. I'm not Navy Seal material. Lol
You’re a normal human being then. Lol those truly qualified to be a navy seal are just built different. Literal machines. Major props to ballen and a major salute to him for his service.
I thought it was just a normal but very passionate poetry reading but as it progressed, I felt like I was doing something I wasn’t supposed to or like something was watching me. Maybe it was the photo on screen... but I felt super strange
There was a handful of Jonestown survivors, I highly encourage watching the full documentary it’s absolutely horrifying what these people went through😭
There's also a two part episode of "Very Scary People" aired periodically on Headline News (Cable TV) or maybe you can find their streaming service... I don't know... BUT it's also worth a look. Each episode is an hour, so a fairly solid 2 hours of research, experts, interviews with the survivors, and specifically some in depth Q&A with his son, Stephan... ;o)
One old woman survived by hiding under a bed, and I've heard that several more survived by running. Jim Jones had two sons that he'd sent away that day so that they'd survive while he encouraged the suicide and murder of 900 people. What a horrific thing.
It’s so sad, that people use that comment so flippantly, they should watch a full documentary on what really happened at Jonestown , it wasn’t mass suicide, most of it was murder… that comment should not be taken lightly. All the children that were given poison just makes my heart sick. 💔
Yes, but let's not forget that there were a lot of babies and children in Jonestown, so it was murder, not a choice of the ones involved to drink it or not.
What is absolutely amazing in the second audio clip with the clicking is something that happened to me, the identical sound. I had a narcissistic boyfriend so decided to see what he was doing to me when I slept, so I put a camera in our bedroom. This clicking sound, identical to the one in the second clip, was heard in a lot of these playbacks. How extremely bizarre!!
I have been thinking about this damn story. Maybe the clicks were keys tapping each other or maybe spurs from cowboy boots?? Maybe a cane tip. Idk... perhaps a holster being buttoned and unbuttoned or idk Maybe a f!rearm being cooked and decocked. What do you think it was?
I was watching the Dybbuk box episode when my boyfriend walked in and was like “oh, you’ve found another story teller.” Fast forward to one week later and he can’t fall asleep because all he does is watch Mr. Ballen 😂
I've listened to the death tape before and it is so tragic and heartbreaking. You can hear the children crying for their parents and then people screaming in pain until it eventually goes silent. I advise to not listen to it unless you are emotionally prepared for it and can handle that sort of thing. It's not for everyone and you should definitely listen at your own risk.
Considering that I am a child and have obviously never been a Navy Seal I still got massive anxiety when I closed my eyes while the first audio played to try and understand what it felt like.
@@shookone3494 driving someone crazy may be just for the sake of making it sound more impressive than it is but it definitely is annoying. I don't think listening to that shit many times would be enjoyable. I also can assume you're not very educated in psychology or sound at all so I'll just laugh at your futile statement.
The truth is,it isn’t bad. However, the duration of it is nuts. And you think you’ve figured out the lyrics and then it feels like it changes. It also changes its intensity, so over hours and hours or even days it messes with your mood because it goes from soft to manic to soft. It’s wild.
As heartbreaking as Jonestown was, I’m glad you ended with that to get my adrenaline back down. I listened to the poem, but I’m laying in bed so I skipped the demon audio. Thanks but no thanks to that one. I love all of your videos. I am never bored now 😁
Just wanted to say I just randomly found this channel but it quickly became my favorite channel. Just wanted to thank you for your stories and how good of a story teller u are
My husband was a SERE Specialist. I asked him about “boots” and sure enough it’s a thing! I asked him if he wanted to watch this video with me and he confidently said yes. As soon as the recording started his whole body tightened up and he got teary eyed and turned it off. He thought he’d be fine but nope
I found the 2 hour loop version on TH-cam and began listening to it confidently believing I would be fine (seeing as I had been in great physical shape with no history of mental health issues). Long story shorts I was not. I sat in a closet light off and crunched into a ball and began listening to the boots song. After 30 minutes I physically was shaking and unable to think of anything else apart from the song. I almost want to recommend trying this but at the same time don’t.
@@LEVELUP0223 Have you seen that video where that woman tries CIA torture tactics? They put her in a box that makes everything dark and played a baby crying, she only made it 12 minutes. Good for you doing double that. I felt like she gave up to quick, specially knowing she wasn't being held as a prisoner. It would be totally different if you didn't know or have the control to when it was going to end. I don't think even at 12 min your foot would fall asleep yet.
Yeah soon as I heard that it records the sounds and shit while you sleep I knew it was gonna be a bad idea lolol. That's something that I will never mess with, recording myself while sleeping. Just seems like a bad idea haha
@@harlock321 When I was younger I used to sleep talk a lot, every night, and loudly. Some mornings I'd wake up and my sister would ask "What the heck were you dreaming about, because you were saying some crazy stuff." Finally I recorded it so that I could finally see for myself, and it was indeed pretty crazy.
@@coledibiase1777 yeah bro I had a roommate that let out blood curdling screams in his sleep around 4 in the morning. The kind of scream that you let out when being violently attacked. And he told me that in his dreams he does indeed get attacked
lane marks isn’t that bad at first but imagine listening to that throughout a weeks span...24/7. Even if it was tolerable it would eventually be intolerablen
L’âne marks, It’s easier said than done...I doubt you would call it "not that bad" when listening to it for hours (Helpful hint Lane Marks, don’t comment this kind of stuff you look like a moron)
I’ve listened to the entire Jonestown recording and it’s something I will never forget, I can still hear that child say he doesn’t feel good. I’ve been into true crime since I was 9 so I’m very desensitized but that one will forever be in my head 😔
Tim Haverland what video do you mean? I’ve seen documentaries about it and news coverage and I’ve seen pictures but not a video filmed during the massacre
Tim Haverland I don’t think you’re old enough to be senile LOL you’ve got quite a few more years before that. From a quick search I did, there seems to be a lot of footage from that day so maybe you did see what you’ve described. I’m at work so I don’t have enough time to look through the videos but I’ll try when I get home.
I just subscribed to your channel about 6 months ago and did not know until now you were a Navy Seal. I am a Army retiree and have always said that the Seals were epitome of all the forces. I commend you and thank you for your service. I even like you more now. Lol
I love the shirt-nicely executed story as always - Am I addicted to these videos?? Yesss and it’s helping me with my depression too - thanks for sharing all these stories! I never thought I would relate so personally, however. One day, I might share my son’s story. I have learned so much about what to stay away from and get my self esteem back: that’s saying so much for the guilt I have been carrying. So Thank you from the bottom of my heart for sharing these amazing, inspiring, shocking stories that help make living a joy- at least when I can hear them.
For me, the scary thing about the second recording was when the other voice in the room said "it's them", which gives me the impression that there was more than just one person in the room with her
Story is rubbish. Doesn't sound demonic at all and sounds like it could easily be her. One or multiple people in her room? Even though there were no signs, all the doors were locked... why would somebody or multiple somebody's break into a house being careful not to leave any trace, just to say a couple words while she slept and leave again? Load of rubbish.
@@kiiingst0n not only did it sound like it could easily be her. It sounds like it definitely is her. Outside of intonation, the voices are incredibly similar.
The death tapes are something I wished I'd never listened to. It literally haunts me, and I seek out to be scared. It's the childrens voices and screams that is truly awful. "Mommy, I don't feel good" creeped me out!!
I watched the video up until I found out the #1 thing was the Jonestown tapes. I heard it once before and I will never listen to it again for the same reasons you stated.
Jesus, that's horrifying (on top of the obviously already horrifying story and circumstances of that travesty). And I have to thank you for the heads up, was just going to look it up, (as my curiosity for all things horror and true crime clearly outweigh my common sense lol) and now....whew I don't think I'm ready for THAT level of true life horror. Bless you and I'm sorry for your trauma 💕💕🙏🏽, ppl may laugh at me for saying that but I think a lot of folks (myself included) can really underestimate the damage just listening to some of the more effed up stories & parts of history can have....with that said I will of course continue to willingly put myself thru hearing about the worst, craziest and most bizarre parts of humanity, as Mr Ballen and his much-abused like button are always an INCREDIBLE source of great, fascinating storytelling, feeding my nerdy obsession of "why are ppl the way they areeeeee????" and addiction to all things horror and WTF moments in history 😭😅😩🙏🏽
Don't worry, the kids stop crying about 15-20 minutes in the actual full recording. Actually..... fuck I doubt that helps ease you at all..... Well st least I tried!
The Jonestown incident is one of the saddest thing I’ve ever heard. It’s so upsetting emotionally just to imagine those poor innocent children. God bless all of them!!
This simple Marine salutes you and all your brothers for your dedication and service to our great country! I thank you with all my heart. By the way, that face was totally creepy!!!
In the first video with the strange clocks, has anyone else ever documented this phenomenon? Because I have a recording on my sleep app with the exact same clicks, minus the voices, and was very alarmed by that… I think I’ll post the recording on Reddit and see
No matter how hard you try you cannot drowned out boots, a strong second was hearing “lier” over and over for an u specified amount of time. . Love the content!
Wow, that song is disturbing. Reminds me slightly of Gene Wilder in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. The part where they go through the tunnel with the disturbing images..
Every night, I watch one of Mr Ballen’s videos. And every night, as I’m watching a video, I see something move out of the corner of my eye. I’m afraid that one day it’s going to come up right next to my bed and whisper “so you’re a fan of the strange, dark, and mysterious delivered in story format too?”
LMAO!!! Best comment ever! Probably won't sleep tonight after reading your comment! Ballen has the best following. Even reading the comments is addicting.
I didnt think much of it at first but after a few seconds I began to feel very uncomfortable and kinda scared I couldnt imagine what it would feel like to listen to it for hours and hours in the dark not knowing what is going to happen to you. If you wouldnt be scared you are braver then a navy seal and those are a few of the bravest and best fighters of the world. So if you say this is funny you should go ahead and listen to it for like 10 mins and see were you stand then
As a young teen (now 63), I remember the news of the Jonestown Massacre very well. It was an incredibly tragic situation. Many of those people who drank the poisoned kool-aid that fateful day were unaware that it was actually poisoned because Jim Jones had them do many 'practice sessions' before which, of course, they survived. So, with that in mind, many went into it thinking it would be like the other times. There was mass panic once people realized that the first drinkers were falling dead. It was a scene of horror and deep sadness. I remember seeing aerial footage on television of many bodies lying on the ground. Newspapers soon thereafter posted the names of all those that had died and it was quite a list! So very very sad.
I always wanted to be a Navy Seal but as a female I wasn't physically qualified to join. But thank you for your service and sacrifice Mr.Ballen, I love listening to your stories. 😊
You could have pulled a Leah Thomas and just said you were a guy. Then took steroids and got jacked. Add in some testosterone, And you're living the American dream!
@@MMAFightMagazine I imagine. Women are not as strong and fast as men are. They aren't as physical. Sure some women are stronger than some men, but seals are supposed to be the baddest mf on Earth. And honestly, those are all men. It's not sexist, it's not racist, it's not blah blah blah lefty nonsense" it's just t-r-u-t-h. Lol
After hearing boots once, my silly brain changed the cadence and style to sing- song-y, nursery- rhyme- like, upbeat tune totally stuck in my head. Been singing it all day
Merch idea: "Despite an extensive search, The like button was never found..."
Lol. The possibilities are endless with MrBallen merch!
Edit: “MASSIVE search”
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@@joeylayman6622 That's a good one too!
I feel like everyone who stumbles onto mrballens channel just spends the next few days binge watching every video he’s done
That is exactly what is happening to me. :)
I’m addicted
It’s just so interesting
I'm on the job right now!
Yup
I'm actually a big fan of the strange dark and mysterious delivered In a google slide format
Ok
😳 such wow. very class. much sophisticated.
I prefer microfilm
😂
I’ve watched an unreasonable amount of Mrballin the last few weeks...
i have watched every single video
Same
I dont want to talk about it. My unreasonable amount now includes a scarcity in new content and he posts up to 5 times a week......
Same
Lol me too
I love how proud he is talking about him being a navy seal. It's so wholesome
I failed out of BUD/s due to hypothermia. I wound up becoming CSaR, instead. In turn, I wound up working alongside SEAL Team 8 during OIF and OEF. My experience has shown me that most Frogmen are like John. Laid back, super chill dudes who love what they do. All I can say is, I'm glad they're on our side!😂
Sadly most Americans in the cities despise anyone in uniform. Communism has really won.
I like the guy, but being part of a war-machine isn't very wholesome.
@@KarlSnarks bro someone has to do it, and im glad that a lot of the time it's guys like him who are fighting for us
@@KarlSnarks Yeah hearing about how much we waste on murder machines that could go to healthcare and other things is just.. makes me sick.
My dad was a navy seal and he remembered all of this training, you’ve become one of my favorite content creators on the platform, Keep it up man!
It's been over 30 years since I heard that poem, still gives me chills.
Wow so you were a navy seal too
How long do they play it?
How does it torture you though, does it make the person feel scared or what does it do?
@@shanthanramsamy7421 No I was combat aircrew. SEAR was a requirement for us as well.
@@davidbasulto8740 oh ok I see, how does the audio recording work though?
@@shanthanramsamy7421 they put you in a very small concrete room, setting on a small concrete slab. then the play that poem along with the sound of babies crying among other things. They deprive you of sleep and such with random trips to be abused. It's really gives you an idea of how bad it could be. But that nothing compared to being a real POW. Above all it gives you a look at who you really are. Good training.
Can we appreciate how caring Mr BAllen is that he doesn't include the truly horrific things but lets us decide if we want to see them on our own? ❤ Thanks Mr. Allen
When he said Jim Jones my heart just immediately sank. I’m not one to cry at movies, but I watched Very Scary People’s documentary on him, and couldn’t help crying when I thought of all those people who died. The idea of the children who must have been staring up at their parents wondering what was going on, why the adults were upset, drinking what they were given because they trusted the adults and their parents. The idea of those children in their parents arms, crying about how it hurt and they were scared, asking for help…… I just sat in my room and sobbed. Listening to this recording felt the same.
Aw I’m sorry it’s gonna be ok, at least we can think about how much happier they are in heaven ♥️ 😞 👼
Yeah I'm sure it must've felt amazing for the adults.
You should see the aerial views.
Maybe it can help to know that cyanide at such dosage would kill you quickly and you wouldn't really feel much pain. That's exactly why it's used as a suicide pill or in assassinations so often. It's very effective at killing you. You could drink this and pretty much die instantly or in the matter of a few seconds. Clearly, the kool-aid solution wasn't a simple afterthought or improvised idea, it was premeditated, basically "if X happens then I will make everyone kill themselves with this" and it's also very clear to me that this guy wasn't a sadist who wanted to inflict pain on his followers but rather a totally deranged individual who believed he was freeing them from a very bleak future so it was never the point for them to die a painful death. Why he didn't drink this himself but rather shot himself asks questions but my theory is he saw this as his failure to protect his community and as such, he didn't deserve to go wherever they were going so he killed himself and in his mind this was a way to make sure he wouldn't go to heaven or whatever he believed in. It was his punishment.
@@agarrigue002 they never committed suicide,it was murder!
😅 I love that the torture track was Kipling. Growing up my grandfather (Naval pearl harbor veteran) lived with us and he would endlessly quote Kipling. I could recite the entirety of "the young British soilder" by the time I was 8. 😬😳 lol.
Fax we got kipling in our English literature syllabus in sri lanka lmao
@@lorenzoeliante6126 If you can keep your head, when Kipling's "Boots" repeats a thousand times...you'll be a man and a SEAL,my son.
Holy crap that face!! It instantly sent a chill up my spine, gave me a bad feeling in my gut and made my eyes water all at the same time. I was not expecting that physiological response.
Yes!! I wasn't expecting my response either. I had to turn my phone away while the video played until it moved on. Not much bothers me, but sometimes certain photos just get me, and that's one of them.
I started tearing 😫
I’m a wimp when it comes to horror type stuff…so I just skipped past it when I saw the visual. No.
Same I jumped and woke my wife up lol
Next time you watch videos like these, I’d get my pet 4 safety and hide under a blanket so the demons don’t get me 😎
“The US Navy spends 1 million to produce one Navy Seal”... dude, you’re a million dollar man
We know what his minimum net worth is
FACTS
Woah
They spend a Hell of a lot more than a million on a Seal...
That's about what they spend on an Airmen in the USAF
He maybe but I bet he hasn't seen that million dollars from the government 😅🤣😂.
I have a lot of anxiety which has been escalating recently, and yet I STILL watch mrballen almost every single day, you're just so great at telling stories and they're all so interesting! Just the Boots poem had me literally twitching from anxiety lol I had to look away from the screen because I couldn't listen to it AND look at that face at the same time, I was having a physiological reaction. Definitely the freakiest one of the 3 recordings, although the worst and saddest one was certainly the Jonestown audio
I also had to look away, both from that face and the one playing over the audio recording of the girl clearly speaking hoarsely to herself in her sleep. My anxiety is high, but my cynicism Kung fu is strong lol
Good to know. After hearing "Boots" I nearly closed the window thinking, yeah I'm not a Navy Seal and if they only get more unnerving then fuhgedaboudit...
@@CoffeeNCardio the voice expert said it was not her voice, did you not hear that part?
That Rudyard Kipling “Boots” recording is horrific... listening once was enough. But imagine the things he’d seen in that war to write it and record it that way. 😳
Am I a psychopath or something? It doesn't really bother me that much. I mean he's distressed, but its not like nails on a chalkboard or anything
@@tylerc1980 It's not too bad listening to it once but the point is that they play it over and over and over again. Here's a 2 hour loop of it (though I'll bet the Navy guys probably spend much longer listening to it than 2 hrs). Listen to the whole thing and let me know if it still doesn't bother.
th-cam.com/video/Glcg95L4JK4/w-d-xo.html
@@tylerc1980 I kept hearing it as "boobs" so I uh wasn't all that disturbed
@@emublumu you lucky pervert
@@emublumu Excuse me. Please use the properer anatomical name for them. They are called Tit-tays. From the Latin Funus Bagus.
I have to say, being the wife of a Navy Chief, that little chuckle as he is telling the story and remembering is such a trademark of those kinds of stories from Sailors. Especially if they are telling about special training they have been through
MrBallen. You'll get this reference, I'm sure.. I was in HC-9, a helicopter combat squadron out of San Diego 82-86. Mini-Vulcans out the doors, the whole nine yards. Used to give you guys rides out to the bay for your swims and Cat Island to get stabbed by sea urchins. Transferred before SERE school and now as an old dude I'm perfectly happy having missed that particular check in the block lol. Keep up the good work man. People, myself included, dig your story telling style and the content as well. Hope you continue on this path. Seems you truly enjoy it and you express that sentiment clearly. Bet you were a hell of guy to hang with out on watch...
Could you imagine this dude back in the day. Would have been cool to see first hand.
What do you mean he was a hell of guy to hang out with
@@hillrebecca3447 What I said was I bet you were a hell of a guy to hang out with on watch. Basically, watch is any type of sentry duty, etc. that's in addition to your normal duties. Never met the man but he sounds like he would have been a shit load of fun. Know my share of SEAL/EOD dudes and from my experience they mind their own counsel. But once you get past the years of training and war face stuff... they're just like anyone else. Ramped up like 10 times lol.
Im rewatching every single mrballen video for a 3rd time. Cannot get enough
Mr Ballen: "I was a navy seal."
Us: "He's a straight up badass."
👌
I wonder why it was such a short stint? Not decrying the achievement, just interested.
@@Raf-zu5le He was medically discharged, that's why it seems off.
He took a grenade blast close quarters, his team of fellow badasses got him home safe, he's truly one of the toughest men on earth. Same for all American special forces and a few others.
It's good to feel . Is there anything you are proud to mention about yourself ? I'd love to be able to say ...iv'e done this 😃 *whatever it may be
@Jensen passing buds ???
I'm actually terrified of running out of Mr Ballen videos to binge on 😥
But more stories means more people out there didn't have a very nice day..
There's no shortage of unfortunate circumstances in this world
That's unfortunate, sure, but if that's what it takes...
There is thousands of years of unfortunate events to cover. We will never, ever run out of horror. Simply the people willing to cover it.
It's such an awful feeling 😢😪
So I was watching this video and was sick with a fever. I had fallen asleep just before the official torture song of the navy seals came on. It was a very unpleasant thing to wake up to.
*Why would you listen to a Mrballen video of all things to fall asleep too? Are you tryna get nightmares?* 😳😳😳😳😳😳😳
Whooopsy!
I can’t listen to him to fall asleep not because it is scary but because EVERY SINGLE VIDEO IS SO INTERESTING! It’s uncanny I have never come across a TH-cam channel like his where every video and every story in the video is interesting. Every.single. One. He is a brilliant story teller.
@@VergilLover69 I watch him every night
Lmao 🤣 I watch his videos all day and than fall asleep watching them at night wake up and continue watching it I wake up and am like how many videos did I miss
My Son did the “SERE’s training for the airforce, he is a Chinese Linguistic with very high-security clearance. He to this day will not talk about it, I am sure a big part is that he is not supposed to but also because he doesn't want to even think about it!
Thank you for your service and thank you to all soldiers in all branches for your service!
I can’t even imagine listening to that first song for an extensive amount of time it annoyed me listening to it once
Right. . hearing something sends a totally different chill through your body.
you have no sense of time, and it seems as if goes for days, then weeks, then years, then it is all you hear over and over and over. There is a point you seriously think of shoving something into your ears to silence it forever.
i likes the song
I dont know why but it gave me anxiety
I wasn't scared, but it really annoyed me. But I can see you have to have your head in the right space to get through it
I'm in infantry school for the Marine Corps and it's like midnight and my Sgt is blaring this over his speaker to drive is crazy. People are going nuts but it's hilarious and he is having a blast.
There's no discharge in a war..🤣🤣🤣
So I guess walking up to a group of Navy seals and singing the song Boots could probably be a really bad idea
Would not recommend
Lmao
im going to try it
@@FTW523. cya in your next life if I successfully become a god
Hahahahaha
I feel sorry for Mrs Ballen, it doesn't matter how much she nags him it won't get to him cause he's trained not to let stress or torture get to him. 😂❤
Not really Rae, I’m sure she just plays that terrible navy training/torture song over and over while he and the like button hold their ears and contemplate drinking the cool-aid 😝👀
@Jensen we are master torturers, but Mrs Ballen definitely has a harder job than most of us!
@@chrisryan5071 I expect all navy seal wife's have the song ready just incase they need it. 😁
Jocko did this on his Podcast!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@raedavis1697 is this my cousin fr lol same name?? Do u work at a distribution center
Im surprised this one is all the way at he bottom of the popular tab. Ive binged every video at work for the past few weeks and this one gave me literal chills.
top scariest sounds to give you nightmares:
moaning sounds downstairs when they are supposed to be in ur headphones
oh god no
Opeeeee
That made me laugh out loud
Got 1 better, moaning sounds coming from your parent's bedroom.
Hahahahahaha
I haven’t heard “boots” since 1994.
After just a few seconds... still can’t.
-as always... great video, brother.
I’m a chronic sleep talker and have recorded myself saying the craziest stuff in unrecognisable voices. My partner can attest to us being the only people in the room but you would swear I was talking to someone else and another person was replying
that's scary! I would never record myself sleeping then
Oh my goodness me too! I use a sleep app that can record if I set it to. I’ve had full on convos with myself, in my sleep, different voices, and never remember a thing. Hearing it the next day is terrifying sometimes.
Yeah that voice is obviously her. Internet "expert" saying it was impossible. Lmao.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who said those voices sounded like the same exact person. One just seems slightly deeper and more monotone
I agree 100% that voice was CLEARLY HER! Lol.. never just believe the "internet" experts.. that didn't even sound like a mam to me.. in my opinion, it just sounded like her only without the surprised expression in her voice.. there are MANY people that "sleep talk" or do weird stuff in their sleep and never know.. . it can happen out of no where and only go on for short amounts of time..or for years, especially during times of like extremely stressful times in your life or whatever.. I personally had it happen when I was applying for a job. I am a primatologist, and the job I was writing for or applying for was super competitive and was for a 6 month job in Cambodia for a television show..during that time I was talking in my sleep amd was getting out of bed and just doing random stuff and I never would have known if it wasn't for my ring door bell catching me going outside on night to sit on my porch lol after that I out a motion sensor camera in my bedroom to see what I was doing and i didnt actually get up THAT often, but i WAS talking. And i was having whole 2 soded conversations with myself, and even used a different VOICE when I was responding to myself.. it was SO WEIRD! I sure thought I was going crazy or something, lol. But once the whole work stuff settled down, that all stopped and hadn't done it since.. my opinion is that was her.
While I was in bootcamp for the Navy, the division got in trouble for something so our RDC played the “Boots” poem over a speaker in the middle of the compartment for about an hour before you taps that night. After 5 minutes of listening to it, it really gets to your head and terrifies you. I remember after he turned it off so we could sleep that night I couldn’t get it out of my head. It just played over and over in my head.
Just asking because I’ve never walked in your shoes however I have been with sick and disgruntled toddlers and infants who have cried, tantrumed and had serious meltdowns for hours. I have had to use prayer, meditation, and thought control to get through these situations. Wouldn’t this be part of the Navy seal training - Taking control of your thoughts and having your mind think of something else?
Just asking in kindness and curiosity. Thanks.
Even just listening to the first part terrifies me, the sounds, the lyrics, the voice, all so horrifying.
Hahaha damn..... my div just got beat a lot. What did y'all do to earn that?
Tbh I really like Boots, I think it’s interesting & different. I never spent any time in the military despite the fact that I desperately wanted to.
@@chloecosgrove7456 lmao it’s not horrifying at all, just annoying
I found this channel 6 days ago. I’ve been watching it for 6 days straight. I no longer need my tv subscriptions
I could have seriously opted out of my streaming subscriptions the first month I was gifted this channel by a friend.
That happened to me too.
I just wanted to thank you for your fantastic podcasts and TH-cam videos. You help me get through a hard time. I know, from reading about you, that you have had your own difficulties, and I'd like to let you know how much I appreciate that too.
I’m Guyanese, and Jonestown is now a place of extreme terror and extremely eerie. Some people escaped of course, but it was a terrifying ordeal. Thank you Mr ballen for telling the story of Jonestown, it’s officially dubbed the doomsday of Guyana. There is also a movie called Jonestown.. it would tell an even more in-depth story of how horrific it all was. And for those who have not yet heard of Guyana, pronounced (guy- anna) is a country on South America’s North Atlantic coast, and is also known as the land of the giants and the bread basket of the Caribbean. It is very small and is made up of an ethnically diverse population. Or famously, where the golden city of Eldorado resides.
They could of kept that mess in North American where it started. And thank you for that informative I learned a couple of things so thanks.
@@marleyex2695 you’re most welcome
some of my family emigrated from there in the forties and fifties. I want to go one day.
@@cassiecassie8325 you should, I still live here. It’s free from that nightmare.
It was never a city. Spanish explorers landed in South America and started hearing tales of a gold dusted tribal King dumping vast quantities of gold and precious gems into Lake Guatavida. So the Spanish Commander ordered the lake drained, and finding nothing other than some worthless trinkets had all of the people killed and El Dorado came to represent men's feudal quest for immeasurable wealth.
I don’t wanna record myself sleeping for this exact reason.
Exaaccctttlllyyyyy!!!! Screw that, that’s exactly why I have no cameras or ANYTHING in my bedroom. Lol
Okay so did anyone else here a girl or male? Because he says it’s a male voice but i hear the other voice as a female not a male??
Ok so I was thinking I’ve listened to it with headphones, in my car, and on controlled speakers and some of them it sounds like a woman who says nothing, I’m dead... and the other one sounds like it could be a teenager saying nothing it’s them... definitely not a male though it definitely sounds like she or her teenage son can make this
@@BillyTheKidOfficialYT that was to you lol
i can relate heavily
I love how you laughed half the time while talking about the navy seal torture sound
If you don't laugh you'll cry
Idk...
I feel like I could imagine that you'd go into panic mode being in a tight ass space like that listenin to a mad man
I think part of torture is because Kipling sounds like he’s going mad.
Walking dead Daryl
@@wretchwalker2991 I could deal with the music for days but being in a cramped space I would lose it
"I hope I finally get some sleep tonight."
(Proceeds to watch "SCARY sounds to give you NIGHTMARES").
lulz
Im doing that now
🤣
......why do i feel attacked by this message?
It’s 1am currently should I stop?
I don't see why in the second story, she didn't put a security camera up, or pretend to be asleep but really pull an all nighter.
Always wonder about Reddit stories. The voice also sounds like a young teenage boy. Probably her son
I remember when hearing the same story before, that there was a fairly pertinent point that was only very briefly alluded to here. I believe in her original post, she divulged that she slept with a toddler, or very young child, in her bed with her. Knowing that, it becomes more than obvious that the "click" you can hear is actually more of a skin-on-skin "slap" or clapping sound.
It would then be perfectly rational to assume that the sound you hear is likely her child playfully "slapping" on her in order to get her attention. The voice(s) you hear are simply her sleep-mumbling whilst in a deeper state, exacerbated by her recent sleep deprivation. Any "expert" that would ever suggest something as categorically definite as to say that the sounds heard were impossible for her or her child to make, is either a terrible expert, or more likely, doesn't exist.
Sure, that's not as thrilling as saying it was ghosts or whatever, but honestly, which one is more likely to be reality?
I dont see how anyone thought that was strange..it is absolutely the woman speaking the whole time.
@@corrinehoward1999 What woman?
@@randomentertainingvideos3545 The woman with the sleep app...it was totally her the whole time but Im no speech expert,,i got ears though
My son is in the Navy and went through SEAR training. I remember the first week was classroom stuff, the next week was outdoor training. Like, how to start a fire or kill an animal to eat etc. The night he got captured I felt it! I knew that was the day. All in all he lost 19 lbs that week because they don’t eat. It was horrible for me and him! As they say, the best training you never want to go through again! But he survived and is better for it! He just completed SWTI training and says that was the even tougher! Y’all our military is badass! Thank you sir for your service! 🇺🇸
Twist : the like button mom made him get a library card and he’s happy you stole it
Got that right.... Spot on.
Mission fail, we'll get em next time.
Like button: 1
Us: 0
Literally
@@galatians-2.20 I wouldn't say 0 we got the like button a lot of other times
Anybody else stumble across this channel and instantly have a new favorite? I doubt I am the only one. Prior Army from Pa.
Thank you for your content
Yea I just started watching like 2 days ago I cant stop lmao
Ive seen him al least a week ago and well ever sence then.
Bought a new flannel yesterday. We representing out here until the merch arrives, John Allen! #Ballen
Love it!
I have flannel/tartan bedding on my bed.. its like sleeping wrapped in a mr ballen hug haha
Whoever’s singing the torture song sounds progressively more and more agitated as he keeps singing which gives off an unsettling feeling of total insanity.
Reminds me of the boat scene in the OG Willy Wonka. "There is no earthly way of knowing...."
@carlos sandoval It isn't the sound, it's putting yourself into their shoes and thinking about listening to it on repeat for a very, very long time.
Sounds to me like something from Young Frankenstein with Gene Wilder.
It’s actually a poem. It is about British troops that were forced to march across Africa with no known destination. Some of the troops went mad watching the boots moving up and down again.
@carlos sandoval okay big mr navy seal you do that lmao
That poem. Unsettling. I mean it starts off normal but as soon as he starts raising his voice I get a tingely feeling on my back, then calm, repeat. I'm not Navy Seal material. Lol
It's funny as hell 😂😂
You’re a normal human being then. Lol those truly qualified to be a navy seal are just built different. Literal machines. Major props to ballen and a major salute to him for his service.
Same. I'd never make it.
that part of the poem in this video is at it's climax/end part. the other part has more feeling of sadness or numbness in the reading.
I thought it was just a normal but very passionate poetry reading but as it progressed, I felt like I was doing something I wasn’t supposed to or like something was watching me. Maybe it was the photo on screen... but I felt super strange
There was a handful of Jonestown survivors, I highly encourage watching the full documentary it’s absolutely horrifying what these people went through😭
There's also a two part episode of "Very Scary People" aired periodically on Headline News (Cable TV) or maybe you can find their streaming service... I don't know... BUT it's also worth a look. Each episode is an hour, so a fairly solid 2 hours of research, experts, interviews with the survivors, and specifically some in depth Q&A with his son, Stephan... ;o)
One old woman survived by hiding under a bed, and I've heard that several more survived by running. Jim Jones had two sons that he'd sent away that day so that they'd survive while he encouraged the suicide and murder of 900 people. What a horrific thing.
Yeah my aunt on my dads side got caught in that mess.
What these people went trough? They did it themselves you fool.
@@likmeanus1996 & if it’s true? Still horrible that these people where forced to commit mass suicide under the will of a cult leader.
"Don't drink the Kool-Aid."
Such a chilling story behind that well-known phrase.
"Ohhh Yeeeah!"
It was flavor aid. Not Kool aid.
It’s so sad, that people use that comment so flippantly, they should watch a full documentary on what really happened at Jonestown , it wasn’t mass suicide, most of it was murder… that comment should not be taken lightly. All the children that were given poison just makes my heart sick. 💔
Yes, but let's not forget that there were a lot of babies and children in Jonestown, so it was murder, not a choice of the ones involved to drink it or not.
@@KL31NGR055 worse yet it was forcefully injected in many cases
I swear to god you need your own Netflix Show
right, pure fucking talent.
Only if he could keep 100% creative control. I'd be afraid to seem him fall to corporate overlords
I KNOW RIGHT!!!!!!
Shush you idiot! He is free to watch right now don't ruin a good thing!
@@cologist your not wrong-
Mr. Ballen: I can't talk in detail because it is very sensitive information.
FBI:😅whew
Lol
What is absolutely amazing in the second audio clip with the clicking is something that happened to me, the identical sound. I had a narcissistic boyfriend so decided to see what he was doing to me when I slept, so I put a camera in our bedroom. This clicking sound, identical to the one in the second clip, was heard in a lot of these playbacks. How extremely bizarre!!
I'm sorry that happened to you. What was the clicking sound?
Yeah what was it?
What were the clicks?????
I have been thinking about this damn story. Maybe the clicks were keys tapping each other or maybe spurs from cowboy boots?? Maybe a cane tip. Idk... perhaps a holster being buttoned and unbuttoned or idk Maybe a f!rearm being cooked and decocked.
What do you think it was?
Maybe it's a QR issue with the brand?
I was watching the Dybbuk box episode when my boyfriend walked in and was like “oh, you’ve found another story teller.” Fast forward to one week later and he can’t fall asleep because all he does is watch Mr. Ballen 😂
I think John said Dybuk a thousand times I fell asleep and had a nightmare....hes good...hats off to you Mr. Allen.
@@KimberlyBishh right? Haha I have had dreams based on his stories too! 😬
@@PathologicallyIncurious 😆👍
Can you recommend some other story tellers please? I find these very relaxing but I do wish they were a bit nicer! lol
Who else would you recommend? I've binged all of MrBallen :(!
I've listened to the death tape before and it is so tragic and heartbreaking. You can hear the children crying for their parents and then people screaming in pain until it eventually goes silent. I advise to not listen to it unless you are emotionally prepared for it and can handle that sort of thing. It's not for everyone and you should definitely listen at your own risk.
Finally. Finished all your vids in three days lol needed something new
Are you OK? Should I call the 9 and two ones?
Wow!! Awesome!!
hey_there hahah nah I’m good. Just ridiculously into this content ✌🏻
MrBallen keep up the great work. Love your vids🤘🏻
I'd suggest a life.
Considering that I am a child and have obviously never been a Navy Seal I still got massive anxiety when I closed my eyes while the first audio played to try and understand what it felt like.
I couldn't understand how a poem could drive you mad, even after hearing it 1000 times...then I listened to Boots once!
I mean it’s a little strange but not really that bad
It made me laugh. I'm curious how long it would take to drive me crazy.
@@LadyLenaki can’t drive no one crazy just some sounds
@@shookone3494 driving someone crazy may be just for the sake of making it sound more impressive than it is but it definitely is annoying. I don't think listening to that shit many times would be enjoyable. I also can assume you're not very educated in psychology or sound at all so I'll just laugh at your futile statement.
The truth is,it isn’t bad. However, the duration of it is nuts. And you think you’ve figured out the lyrics and then it feels like it changes. It also changes its intensity, so over hours and hours or even days it messes with your mood because it goes from soft to manic to soft. It’s wild.
The torture song made my frontal lobe hurt, anyone who can sit through that for hours deserves a medal and more!
It start off funny to me but damn
That’s pretty catchy. “Boots, boots, boots, moving up and down again”.
Dude. That's all I got. It's funny to me because it sort of sounds like a Hitler rally speech.
I just heard "boobs" and not boots
I laughed the whole time that audio played 😂
I didn't know Dora made a song about her friend
Right I was kinda jamming 😂 clouds clouds. Flying over Africa !
As heartbreaking as Jonestown was, I’m glad you ended with that to get my adrenaline back down. I listened to the poem, but I’m laying in bed so I skipped the demon audio. Thanks but no thanks to that one. I love all of your videos. I am never bored now 😁
Never thought I’d spend my days watching mr. ballen re-runs
Seriously. I keep going back to them
@@youryella it’s just so good hands down some of the best content on TH-cam
Just wanted to say I just randomly found this channel but it quickly became my favorite channel. Just wanted to thank you for your stories and how good of a story teller u are
My husband was a SERE Specialist. I asked him about “boots” and sure enough it’s a thing! I asked him if he wanted to watch this video with me and he confidently said yes. As soon as the recording started his whole body tightened up and he got teary eyed and turned it off. He thought he’d be fine but nope
I found the 2 hour loop version on TH-cam and began listening to it confidently believing I would be fine (seeing as I had been in great physical shape with no history of mental health issues). Long story shorts I was not. I sat in a closet light off and crunched into a ball and began listening to the boots song. After 30 minutes I physically was shaking and unable to think of anything else apart from the song. I almost want to recommend trying this but at the same time don’t.
@@LEVELUP0223 Have you seen that video where that woman tries CIA torture tactics? They put her in a box that makes everything dark and played a baby crying, she only made it 12 minutes. Good for you doing double that. I felt like she gave up to quick, specially knowing she wasn't being held as a prisoner. It would be totally different if you didn't know or have the control to when it was going to end. I don't think even at 12 min your foot would fall asleep yet.
@@TheLiana1102 I just watched it!
It’s crazy right. I don’t think she was prepared at all or at least she didn’t know what to expect.
Wow, that’s really awful 😔Thankyou for his service.
@@jamesmabe6224 no one died buddy
The Like button has been in SERE school for years now....
That Sleep app is creepy as hell. The thought that you may hear recordings of strange sounds and voices while you are sleeping is nightmare fuel.
Especially when you fabricate it and pass it off as horror.
I’d want to know. If something wonky is going down while I sleep, I want to know. Then I can plan how to end it.
Yeah soon as I heard that it records the sounds and shit while you sleep I knew it was gonna be a bad idea lolol. That's something that I will never mess with, recording myself while sleeping. Just seems like a bad idea haha
@@harlock321
When I was younger I used to sleep talk a lot, every night, and loudly.
Some mornings I'd wake up and my sister would ask "What the heck were you dreaming about, because you were saying some crazy stuff."
Finally I recorded it so that I could finally see for myself, and it was indeed pretty crazy.
@@coledibiase1777 yeah bro I had a roommate that let out blood curdling screams in his sleep around 4 in the morning. The kind of scream that you let out when being violently attacked. And he told me that in his dreams he does indeed get attacked
The first one isn't that bad in wearing headphones it's just the part where it gets loud and it says CRYING CRYING CRYING over and over again
Right? i jumped when that happened
lane marks isn’t that bad at first but imagine listening to that throughout a weeks span...24/7. Even if it was tolerable it would eventually be intolerablen
listen to it for two or three days in the dark tied up with intermittent ass whoopings and then see how much u like it.
L’âne marks, It’s easier said than done...I doubt you would call it "not that bad" when listening to it for hours
(Helpful hint Lane Marks, don’t comment this kind of stuff you look like a moron)
@@jesuisunpoisson4804 Helpful hint for you, don't comment stuff that makes you look like an asshole
I’ve listened to the entire Jonestown recording and it’s something I will never forget, I can still hear that child say he doesn’t feel good. I’ve been into true crime since I was 9 so I’m very desensitized but that one will forever be in my head 😔
Tim Haverland what video do you mean? I’ve seen documentaries about it and news coverage and I’ve seen pictures but not a video filmed during the massacre
Tim Haverland I don’t think you’re old enough to be senile LOL you’ve got quite a few more years before that. From a quick search I did, there seems to be a lot of footage from that day so maybe you did see what you’ve described. I’m at work so I don’t have enough time to look through the videos but I’ll try when I get home.
Dang the feeling of sadness when ur not the first to see a mr ballen video
I just subscribed to your channel about 6 months ago and did not know until now you were a Navy Seal. I am a Army retiree and have always said that the Seals were epitome of all the forces. I commend you and thank you for your service. I even like you more now. Lol
I've listened to the entire death-tape. It is truly harrowing.
When it was over I remember just sitting there in silence for a long time.
The way he is hiding his pride while telling he was a navy seal💪🏻
Yeah, you can tell that his entire perspective changed during that part.
I think that's what that little smile was all about, bc I was thinking the same thing. How proud he must be, because MrBallen should be damn proud!
Like hunter...
@@mylittlepuppy9116 except without the drugs and prostitutes!
I love the shirt-nicely executed story as always - Am I addicted to these videos?? Yesss and it’s helping me with my depression too - thanks for sharing all these stories! I never thought I would relate so personally, however. One day, I might share my son’s story. I have learned so much about what to stay away from and get my self esteem back: that’s saying so much for the guilt I have been carrying. So Thank you from the bottom of my heart for sharing these amazing, inspiring, shocking stories that help make living a joy- at least when I can hear them.
For me, the scary thing about the second recording was when the other voice in the room said "it's them", which gives me the impression that there was more than just one person in the room with her
Story is rubbish. Doesn't sound demonic at all and sounds like it could easily be her. One or multiple people in her room? Even though there were no signs, all the doors were locked... why would somebody or multiple somebody's break into a house being careful not to leave any trace, just to say a couple words while she slept and leave again? Load of rubbish.
@@kiiingst0n right? Lol it’s so ridiculous. I feel like the “speech expert” who told her it couldn’t be her voice was just a troll.
I shoot film photography and the "clicking" noise sounds just like a person loading a new roll and shutting the back of the camera.
@@kiiingst0n not only did it sound like it could easily be her. It sounds like it definitely is her. Outside of intonation, the voices are incredibly similar.
@@stevenrodriguez5982 its a piece of leather striking the floor
Honestly i cant stop listening to that poem. It makes my heart race in a good way. I'm obsessed with it
The death tapes are something I wished I'd never listened to. It literally haunts me, and I seek out to be scared. It's the childrens voices and screams that is truly awful. "Mommy, I don't feel good" creeped me out!!
I watched the video up until I found out the #1 thing was the Jonestown tapes. I heard it once before and I will never listen to it again for the same reasons you stated.
This!
Those poor kid's.. wasn't their fault they're parents were dumber than doorknobs.
Jesus, that's horrifying (on top of the obviously already horrifying story and circumstances of that travesty). And I have to thank you for the heads up, was just going to look it up, (as my curiosity for all things horror and true crime clearly outweigh my common sense lol) and now....whew I don't think I'm ready for THAT level of true life horror. Bless you and I'm sorry for your trauma 💕💕🙏🏽, ppl may laugh at me for saying that but I think a lot of folks (myself included) can really underestimate the damage just listening to some of the more effed up stories & parts of history can have....with that said I will of course continue to willingly put myself thru hearing about the worst, craziest and most bizarre parts of humanity, as Mr Ballen and his much-abused like button are always an INCREDIBLE source of great, fascinating storytelling, feeding my nerdy obsession of "why are ppl the way they areeeeee????" and addiction to all things horror and WTF moments in history 😭😅😩🙏🏽
Don't worry, the kids stop crying about 15-20 minutes in the actual full recording.
Actually..... fuck I doubt that helps ease you at all.....
Well st least I tried!
That poem was torturous just once through - enduring that for hours would be hell.
The Jonestown incident is one of the saddest thing I’ve ever heard. It’s so upsetting emotionally just to imagine those poor innocent children. God bless all of them!!
Similar scenarios have happened often around the world.
Yep religion we don't need it..
This simple Marine salutes you and all your brothers for your dedication and service to our great country! I thank you with all my heart.
By the way, that face was totally creepy!!!
Thank you Jon!!
I wasn’t prepared one bit for the picture of the face. I threw my phone across the room and had to wait until Mrballen told the next story.
@@minimorgue3068 😂😂😂 I'm just glad it was in the middle of the day! If the like button had a face, THAT would be it!
thanks for your service John 💪🏻🙏🏻✝️🇺🇲♥️
And to u Sir..👍
My family remembers waking up to seeing the bodies broadcasted on TV. Changed them forever
Oh boy more strange dark and mysterious content in story format!
In the first video with the strange clocks, has anyone else ever documented this phenomenon? Because I have a recording on my sleep app with the exact same clicks, minus the voices, and was very alarmed by that… I think I’ll post the recording on Reddit and see
Military asking man to sing
Man : Finally i will get recognized
Military using it for torture
Man : *surprised pikachu face
The biggest insult is having your singing used as a form of torture
@@theEnclaveisinusall or a pleasure
@@AdelizaNera how could that be an insult? Music is made for pleasure
@@amber_Forever16 you never heard brazilian music, It is horrible, search in youtube: Brasil funky
💀💀💀 then I must be invaluable to the military
Sleeping person: "What are you doing?"
Demon: uhh... "nothing" 😇 lol
Literally my sleep paralysis demon 😈 ✨✨💁♀️
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Sounds like some dude was watching her, having a go with himself, and she woke up and caught him, but was still half asleep.
@@RByrne ohh oof that would be so scary....and suck assss!
Who was it? The landlord maybe?
No matter how hard you try you cannot drowned out boots, a strong second was hearing “lier” over and over for an u specified amount of time. . Love the content!
I thought the torture sound was going to be Rick Astley "Never gonna give you up" 😂😂😂
Rick Rolling everyone right there would’ve been an absolute power move!
Hey I use to like that song..lol..but it was annoying
That would not be torture for me
Rick rolled. 🤣🤣🤣
I believe the torture song would be “Do you Really Want to Hurt me?”
The first time you listen to “Boots” it might not be terrifying but listen to it again and just think your trapped in a prisoner camp
Picture doesn't help either 🤣
Or be in prison and hear boots rushing.
2 hour loop and i felt nothing guess im just an emotionless bastard
Im good
Ha, I've had to watch stupid repeditive TH-cam ads for so long, I'd be immune to that torture.
Wow, that song is disturbing. Reminds me slightly of Gene Wilder in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. The part where they go through the tunnel with the disturbing images..
ha ha some else said they same thing.
YES I found the Wonka scene more disturbing lol
I hate that scene in the movie. Scared the shit out of me as a kid. I still don’t like it.
Glad I wasnt the only one who thought that
@@susanivy3619 I just seen that lol. I read through the comments, more than one other said it lol..
I will never forget that poem…the dogs barking was relaxing!
Can we get some “a huge search is launched” merch
Hahahahah
@@MrBallen id buy it not gonna lie
This Massive search was launched
I want to see the like button just beat to shit, all bruised and bloody but still alive. Shirts with the like button in all sorts of situations.
lol Yes
Every night, I watch one of Mr Ballen’s videos. And every night, as I’m watching a video, I see something move out of the corner of my eye. I’m afraid that one day it’s going to come up right next to my bed and whisper “so you’re a fan of the strange, dark, and mysterious delivered in story format too?”
LMAO!!! Best comment ever! Probably won't sleep tonight after reading your comment! Ballen has the best following. Even reading the comments is addicting.
Just hearing the Navy SEAL torture song One Time made me want to torture myself LMAO
Facts lol
I had to skip 10 seconds in
I love how non chalant you are about being a navy seal thats like a huge deal dude!
It definitely is!! ❤️
He's proud, but not arrogant about it
John Ballen seems like a genuinely great person. A rare breed out here.
Yup!
Most guys in special operations are humble
Even my DOG did not like Boots! She was playing joyfully until that came on. Then she lay down and look at me anxiously. It was hideous.
That boots recording... torture... sounds like an open mic night in Portland
The 2nd story was her grinding her teeth and speaking. It's a very chilling cracking sound and never sounds like something your own mouth could make.
Why didn't the woman set up cameras in her room after hearing the clicking sounds?
And boobytrap the hell of her house !
Whatever that was it gave me chills
That is one of the creepiest things I have heard.
She wasn't concerned yet.
Sounded like a case that holds something was being put away. Then he said I'm done...
ordered my hat from your store. counting down til november.
you're the Man
Listening to that poem and staring into that face…my god I will never be able to sleep again
did that first audio clip make anyone else's ears ring or is that just me?
My ears ring constantly so cldnt tell lol
“THE OFFICIAL TORTURE SONG OF THE US NAVY SEALS.” Lmao... that one had me laughing
But imagine listening to this song hours and hours, day in and day out and not having anyway to escape it.
@@wizardbrick2541 I’d feel trapped
It was kinda funny, but imagine listing to it for hours or even days at a time and you can't go anywhere to escape it. It would be maddening.
I didnt think much of it at first but after a few seconds I began to feel very uncomfortable and kinda scared
I couldnt imagine what it would feel like to listen to it for hours and hours in the dark not knowing what is going to happen to you. If you wouldnt be scared you are braver then a navy seal and those are a few of the bravest and best fighters of the world. So if you say this is funny you should go ahead and listen to it for like 10 mins and see were you stand then
It was only scary for me cuz of the photo bruh it’s 3am I can’t be watching shit like this at this time
As a young teen (now 63), I remember the news of the Jonestown Massacre very well. It was an incredibly tragic situation. Many of those people who drank the poisoned kool-aid that fateful day were unaware that it was actually poisoned because Jim Jones had them do many 'practice sessions' before which, of course, they survived. So, with that in mind, many went into it thinking it would be like the other times. There was mass panic once people realized that the first drinkers were falling dead. It was a scene of horror and deep sadness. I remember seeing aerial footage on television of many bodies lying on the ground. Newspapers soon thereafter posted the names of all those that had died and it was quite a list! So very very sad.
Omg i been wanting to use a sleep app like that, but always totally worried about picking up wierd stuff! Awesome!
I always wanted to be a Navy Seal but as a female I wasn't physically qualified to join. But thank you for your service and sacrifice Mr.Ballen, I love listening to your stories. 😊
Being a female physically disqualifies one from becoming a Navy Seal?
@@MMAFightMagazine No she just wasn’t physically qualified, and a female.
You could have pulled a Leah Thomas and just said you were a guy. Then took steroids and got jacked. Add in some testosterone, And you're living the American dream!
@@MMAFightMagazine it’s probably not cuz she was a female it’s just that she wasn’t tough enough to pass training
@@MMAFightMagazine I imagine. Women are not as strong and fast as men are. They aren't as physical. Sure some women are stronger than some men, but seals are supposed to be the baddest mf on Earth. And honestly, those are all men. It's not sexist, it's not racist, it's not blah blah blah lefty nonsense" it's just t-r-u-t-h. Lol
After hearing boots once, my silly brain changed the cadence and style to sing- song-y, nursery- rhyme- like, upbeat tune totally stuck in my head. Been singing it all day