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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 พ.ย. 2020
- This is a story about an event so horrifying that the one person who survived it could not speak when she finally stumbled, bloody and terrified, out of the forest...
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You are at the end. Nothing more exists beyond this. Promise.
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OK, we lied, there's more....
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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!! ☠︎
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Thumbs up at 4:38
Well done
Bruh how
@@MrBallen yes indeed
Dang... gg man
That was fast
Note to self: avoid caves, deep diving, and Siberia at any point of the year.
Edit: and forests/national parks and most mountain ranges. Can’t believe this comment blew up. (6 month edit)
Siberia never don't have normal people what to do there over winter is ice and over summer swamp whit no chance walking that's about 60% of Siberia other is just rock's and that's why most of them are unexplored plus IT'S HUGE I think nobody can imagine how huge is that you can watch on Google earth but that can't open mind about size my country can 500 times fit there and still left space for few other countries
Add swampy forests to that list
Just stay home at all times (as long as you don't live in an isolated area)
@@owgdj and stay away from windows, closets, doors, cabinets, fire places, basements and such
lol you’d think people would think: Siberia, diving in caves, national parks, not a great idea 💡
After watching most of Mr. Ballen's videos, I have concluded that for the rest of my life, I'm going to do absolutely nothing
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Ahh but doing nothing also kills to.
hahahaha..but there is an answer ! Jesus . Just call out His Name very loud and He will stop the evil dude from getting you ...He defeated ALL evil and is over all creatures on earth and in the heavens...He WILL save you when in trouble IF you call out to Him !
@@A-Grammie-On-the-ROCK Millions died screaming the names of their gods...
😂😂😂😂danger lurks everywhere
One of the theories is they died of nerve agents. Specifically, Novichok agents. These nerve agents were created in the 70s to ‘93 in Russia. The theory goes that the hikers were relatively close to site where these agents were created and/or tested. It goes that the storm that hit them the day and night before saturated the area and caused remnants of these agents to dissolve in the water from the storm. These agents are apparently very soluble in water. The morning of it was actually sunny enough to cause evaporation. Unfortunately, it is believed, according to this theory, that the first victim was standing on or right next to a source of water that had a high concentration of these agents in it and when it evaporated, he inhaled a lot at once causing symptoms instantaneously. These agents are reported to be the deadliest nerve agents ever created, about 5-8 times more deadly than VX agents. The first victim would have died almost instantly. By the time the hike leader got over to him, the vapors with the agents in them could have dissipated enough to cause her to show symptoms a little slower. And each victim after took longer to show symptoms because the cloud of gas/steam was becoming more and more dissipated, causing symptoms to show at longer time intervals. The girl that survived, supposedly reported herself, was the farthest away and by the time she ran up to help the last two that died the gas was dispersed enough to cause no symptoms to her. I read up on these agents and they do cause a lot of the symptoms that this girl reported seeing and the fact it took longer and longer for each victim to show symptoms, could suggest gas/steam cloud moving in that direction. Also, the protein deficiency found in the victims is odd, because they did eat breakfast or early lunch before they moved out. But a lot of nerve agents will show a protein deficiency after death due to how nerve agents actually attack the victim. Finally, and this part is sad to think about if true, the hypothermia cause of death could be accurate because it is possible the victims actually survived the gas. The theory is the gas was enough to incapacitate the victims and cause the horrible symptoms but not enough to kill them but since they were completely incapacitated they couldn’t move to survive and eventually died from hypothermia. There are a lot of theories out there about this incident, ranging from aliens to dark forces, but I think the nerve agent one is the most likely, in my opinion. Sad story either way.
I came on the comment section to find someone who could make a bit of sense from this .. You have.. 👍
@@kkkerry2 Glad to help. It’s a crazy story.
@@jasoncassel5502 really .. Head blown
Sensible
As a doctor specialized in emergency care, I agree with you
Rewatching this, I’m still disturbed by all of this. Though I failed to realize how scary it must’ve been for Dennis as well. He was lucid enough to tell the girl to run for help. He said he’d meet her in the forest even though he was bleeding out like the others. I can’t imagine the emotions she must’ve felt when she came back to see every single one of them dead, even Dennis. It’s horrible.
For some reason choosing to spend a day at home feels like I'm living my life to the fullest.
It feels like that for me till I've done it for a week straight 🤣😭
As long as your happy in life it doesn't matter what your doing 😉😁
@@niplr8ge217 hard parts being happy :)
Right! I called off work last week and spent the whole day watching Mr. Ballen. Totally worth it!!!
Thats why no one will remember your name
Thats the story my grandparents told me of how they got to school everyday
😂😂
😂🤣😂🤣
Lol mine too 👏 great comment!
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Best comment ever!
The missing eyes/eyelids is easily explainable by animal depredation on the bodies (both sets of bodies were found weeks or months after death). The description of the symptoms as the Baikal group were dying however, is eerily similar to chemical weapons effects... it almost sounds like some kind of nerve agent killed them. Why Valentina wasn't killed is anyone's guess, but nothing else even comes close to explaining it.
Not really it doesn’t make sense for an animal to eat the eyes as far as I’m aware of no animals on a mountain like that would do just that and especially considering there was no mention of s Signs from animals doing that
It's very likely the storms from both these storys brought up some nearby gas patches somthing similar to sulfer gas as the storys expcally the first one sound very similar to it
The survivor girl just happened to not breathe it in like the others
But government conspiracy and cover up is more interesting then some possible random gas deposits in the area
@@OlDanTucker cops everywhere are incredibly lazy likely overlooked many clues
And animals would eat the eyes because it's easier to eat off a frozen body. (Possibly some birds) And they said the boots were separated so they probably did try to eat more and pulled the boots off
@@RustyNips sure there are lazy law enforcement everywhere but it would take some serious negligence to overlook animal tracks and bite marks so yeah it could be a gas deposit or something like that
@@OlDanTucker
It was the USSR and there was a bunch of seemingly unexplainable deaths. Investigating fully could lead to a tragic clumsy fall out of a window. In all likelihood the official investigation existed only on paper and was the Party line.
Mr Ballen Dave ex US Army here. Dude you do an outstanding job! Your mix of intellect and humor is refreshing. I’m 53, my son 12 and father 84 Watch you regularly. Anyway could you please do an episode on the horrific death of Dime bag Darrel from the band Pantera? I’ve seen the info on this tragedy but I know your investigation and research will shed more light on this. Keep it up bro your awesome and May God bless you and your family. Respectfully Dave
He's gonna be that one grandpa who knows over a million stories
Hopefully the grandkids are into the strange, dark and mysterious stories.......and have a huge dislike for the like button
@@Fossman lmfao
Yeah
So true lol
Wouldn’t it be such a disappointment if his grandkids hated all his stories and they didn’t listen to him. I hope he’s just still on TH-cam so we can all listen instead.
He’s one of the only ppl on TH-cam where I pay full attention to when he talks, and don’t do anything on the side
You're not alone hun..🤣
Yep me too! 😍
Same! For the first time in my life I fell asleep with a knife...I stayed up past 2AM listening to his cereal killer videos and heard a BIG bang on my balcony and after I checked I put a knife beside me, lol, I love getting scared...not THAT scared, lol , I leave my balcony door open enough for my cat to go in and out and I'm on the first floor by a river and woods! No ideas as to what that bang was...IT was like someone jumping off my roof onto my wooden decking.... A Big enough bang to shake wall pictures, I live alone too! I couldn't find anything but we had at least 5 people go missing in the last year where I live, strong , HEALTHY adults with lots of family.... SCARY
@@boycottdisneyoruhatekids OMG!!! Thats terrifying!!! Maybe keep your doors locked from now on....😉
@@sarahbudd1623 yes, VERY scary...it's an ALL glass sliding door and the other door is an old fashioned solid wood door all etched out with artistic design that the landlord won't allow me to put a pet door through, understandable...and I can't cut through glass either, PLUS my cat is VERY vocal about being let out when she wants so I leave it open JUST enough for her to get back in , then I shut it. I actually have 2 locks on my sliding balcony door. The main handle one and ANOTHER I added on the metal frame that has a pin that goes directly into the sliding door so it's very solid. I just wish I could put a pet door somewhere for my cat, I like her to be able to run directly inside incase she's ever chased by a wolf, bear, lynx, mountain lion or coyote...or bigfoot, LOL, I basically live around the rocky mountains in Canada where we have everything that can kill us or our pets. I don't have guns due to a fight I got into protecting my family's honor, it sucks that beating up a mouthy prick gets your guns taken away for ten years or more. Now I just have bear Mace, machete and hunting knives. Im investing in a crossbow soon to have SOMETHING more of a cereal killer deterrent! That and all the killer animals we have, I BELIEVE we even have Wolverines and those new zombie deer with that wasting disease that makes them hurt themselves or even kill themselves or others, ACTUALLY, Mr. Ballen made a video with a zombie deer. LOL. Since I started watching ballens channel I've been on edge like NEVER BEFORE, it's not JUST the videos, it's all the missing people around here in the last year-ish. Then that GREAT BIG bang on my deck....I ran straight out with my machete and flashlight but nothing and I keep my balcony clean of snow because my cat loves sprawling out on it when the sun is out. It's just me and my cat now so she gets spoiled a lot, you know how much extra heat I pay to keep the door open for her? About an extra $100 a month but I work all day so I feel it's the least I can do for her, let her come and go as she pleases. Spoiled witch, LOL, the only thing I'm envious of america for is the ease of getting guns, hell, regular mace AND EVEN collapsible batons are illegal here! I miss my guns, I miss hunting...I'm a LOT more Leary of camping in the woods alone anymore, LOL, I've been a hunter since 5 years old and NEVER thought twice about hunting\camping alone! It's a scary world out there IF your not prepared for it. I hate seeing stories where pedophiles abduct kids RIGHT FROM their beds in the middle of the night by using an unlocked window or EVEN a door....it's a sick twisted world out there and if your not ready to defend yourself and your family...why even bother 😉
Just learned that anthrax can stay dormant until agitated for hundreds of years. There was a case in Siberia in 2016 where a raindeer corpse thawed out and released spores into the air caused 4 to be hospitalised and killed 2 people! Could it have been anthrax that took them out? And the remaining girl was just 'lucky' (as lucky as you can be after seeing all she did and surviving that!) she didn't get infected?
Of course there's a cover up ! Thank you, Mr. Ballen, for giving me justification for being a couch potato. No hiking, no caving, no scuba, never go in the mountains, or talking to strange people. Just stay home and binge Mr. Ballen.
Well, our homes and especially under our beds is dangerous too 😂
@@leahbess4there’s much less home invasion and haunting stories than there are of people dying outside somewhere I would say though.
Sounds like an excellent subject for Mr Ballen. She was so inactive she could no longer retrieve her door dash meals and died in her chair.
Ya but if everyone did this he would have less stories to cover and therfore we would get less videos.
@@heatherpettigrew1615Have you ever heard of this place called FLORIDA? I think he could get stories from there alone and still be able to post every week
Bro, this guy can read the whole dictionary and make it interesting
🤣🤣🤣
Like: and uh this word dude means that someone is really cool and I once heared about a dude who got eaten my a kangaroo and then blah blah blah
Yes
Time for him to read the dictionary
facts
This is why I follow this guy!
No dramatic music, actually shows pictures so I can at least see them. Doesn’t clickbait all of us or make us wait for sooo long. Actually has cool background, his voice isn’t super loud or super low, so it’s super good to hear at any time of the day. Actually brings details and doesn’t make me question everything. The videos are a perfect time even if some can be a hour long.
If you aren’t subscribed to him, please don’t talk to me ever.
Thank you so much!
Honestly. Mr Ballen is such a talented story teller. It’s the little things that make his videos so special. The hand motions, how he breaks in and out of eye contact like you’re actually having a conversation with him, the way he studies each story. He deserves all the success he’s getting !
@@johnsaunders1446 I agree with your comment so much
Totally agree!
I love being able to watch his videos or just listen whilst I’m doing stuff; Mr. Ballen is just awesome 😎
Hey, MrBallen, I have a suggestion you might be interested in. Could you find 3 miracles that happened no one can explain? I think that'd be an interesting topic to cover.
Nice
YES! as seasoning... to keep us doing at least something
He might not see this sadly lol maybe comment on new ones again
This videos is 2 years old. Try posting this in his most recent one :)
miracles? hahaha fgs bloody sky fairies arent real
Mr. Ballen has a really unique talent. He can take subject and really bring it to life. I love watching and listen him tell stories, as he truly brings them to life. As an extra, he also does extensive research on the subject, before telling it to us, his audience. Keep the quality content coming! Every bit of success coming your way, is truly deserved.
I love how you can always go back to old MrBallen videos and find the top comments are recent. We all know you're on a weeks long binge. I feel you 😂😂
That is correct 😁
He's a great story teller, enthusiasm without over doing it, compassionate but not too emotionally attached, he also had a good voice not too deep
Absolutely true. Making my way through all of them
So true 🤣🤣
For sure. Just when I think I've binged all...i find one I've not seen...like today. And admittedly...i re-watch some I've already seen just because..BALLEN IS THE 💣 BOMB.
How does anybody have time to look for the secret lol. I get lost in the storytelling and his words and descriptions and then the video ends and I'm like damn forgot to look
And it's very tiny.👁👁👀👁👁
They have a no life
I never see them.
Every time
IKR!!! I’ve watched about 50 Ballen vids now, and I’ve literally not seen the secret once.
I’ve often noticed the time stamp pinned at the top and planned to look out for it, then I just get lost in his story telling and completely forget about it.
I so used to him leading the story into a twist, I was half expecting the lone survivor to be the killer.
I have a strange sort of respect for you, Mr Ballen. A lot of these stories give me a bad, sad, and sometimes even maddening feeling of frustration with this world. It’s amazing that you know all these horrible stories and that you are so cheerful and happy hearted.
You keep me going.
I was a mountain guide in the 90s, this really freaked me out. So weird and so many similarities to the Dyatlov Pass incident. You’re a brilliant raconteur, you brought those people to life in my head.
I'm thinking either airborne infection from snow dwelling parasites or some other windblown radiation laced particle.
totally agree man
I was thinking the same thing, (as I'm sure others have.) Both cases happened in Siberia to hikers under similar, bizarre circumstances that were EXTREMELY strange and have an almost paranormal aspect to them. This gave me the creeps the way the Dyatlov Pass incident did. WTF HAPPENED TO ALL OF THESE PEOPLE?! Just crazy!! 😳😱☠
Dennis was a hero !
Knowing he was probs done for he still had the strength to help out his companion
What a legend
What a legend indeed
Absolutely right 💪💜💜💜
@Diablo_LINX My theory is radiation poisoning, but I'm not 100% certain
@@rowannyooom6958 radiation poisoning? :0
Those type of people come around very seldom it seems.
I've concluded,MrBallen is not simply a story telling style, but a lifestyle
THIS IS ONE AMAZING STORY!! Thank you so much Mr. Ballen for your time and effort into all of the videos you share. Fan for life here!!!
Places I’ve learned never to go since watching ballen: Caves, underwater caves, deep waters, and mountains
Forests, beaches, abandoned houses/building
*outside
There's a reason such places are sparsely populated.
@@jordjoshua1167 exactly
@@baphometbunny I'd be that dumb fucker to have something stupid happen to me in my yard though 😬🤣
"They were missing most of their clothes"
Right, okay
"and their eyes"
I'm sorry wha-
birds eat eyes first so thats not a surprise
@dliguori25 yes bud.. Ice Birds ..🤫🤭
@dliguori25 of course
Scanveger birds Above the tree line ... no .. I wouldn't belive that..
Almost sounded as if they were poisoned ... but the missing... ?
@dliguori25 radioactive penguins- definitely.
Off work today, my family is out and about, and I’m home watching my boy Mr Ballen. Life is so great right now!!!
The way Mr Ballen tells a story is the best way and the inly way i prefere to listen to.
Im an infantry Marine. I participated in cold weather mountain warfare training in Bridgeport Ca. I didnt take my boots off one night and my socks were soaked in sweat. I slept in the 3 bag sleeping system we carried. The veins in my feet near the surface froze and exploded. I had a bunch of purple lines all over my feet up to the ankles. This was in the second week of a 5 week op. The corpsman said there wasnt anything that could be done and I had to tough it out for the remaining 3 weeks. The entire time, we were hiking up and down those damn mountains it felt like I was stepping on crushed glass. Every step was miserable. We had to air lift 2 guys just from my platoon(I dont know about the others in the battalion) for altitude sickness or some shit. What Im getting at, is that we have no idea how bad it mightve been for them in that situation.
Blood can't freeze...unless you were dead for hrs and are now a zombie
@@alabastardmasterson he said his upper surface capillaries froze. Never heard of frostbite 🥶???
@@blainwilson7937 he didnt thnk before he spoke
That's insane!!!! Glad your made it out!
Thanks so much for your experience .That seems like the possibility. The winds and cold storm was so extreme
the blood vessels froze and exploded. Just saw video as Katabolic winds. The extreme of these winds in temperature
I dont think these hiking groups have any idea of these storms . Was any research done by groups on this particular
storm systems
The fact they died so soon after leaving camp likely indicates they dug up some kind of nerve agent left from a test while pulling out their ropes and tents from the snow. Given she was one of the youngest in the group my guess is that they packed up without asking for her help and she wasn't contaminated as a result and survived.
See THAT makes sense. The "disturbing the soil" connection is a real detail that was present, why jump to radiation when chemical weapons are equally as destructive to human life, and often kill people more quickly?
@@alexia3552 what’s interesting is this happened at Chernobyl not to long ago when Russian soldiers were digging trenches, because of this decades of buried radioactive dirt was exposed and they all had acute radiation poisoning.
@@marleyking5246 Hell, why bring a government coverup into it at all? The Lake Baikal region has enough known radium deposits that they keep a testing station to check the water for contamination. It could very well be these poor guys found an *unknown* one.
Mrballen stories turning everyone into investigators... you may be onto something! 🤔🧐
she eye gouged each of the hikers, they died from the elements as they had no vision - how did she pull it off? well it's easy if she caught her victims by surprise - which might be a challenge as each victim will scream in terror, but maybe their mouths were covered or the elements were so harsh that they were drowned out, or a combination of that and how far they were spaced from each other
key points to remember, she was covered in blood, only she survived, all hikers died from hypothermia - they froze to death, not from spontaneous bleeding and hypothermia isn't going to kill everyone in the space of 5 minutes, nor make you bleed - her story doesn't match up with the autopsies
there was a case from homicide hunter (joe kenda) where a petite girl murdered her drunk 60 year old ww2 veteran friend who she claimed made an unwanted sexual advance on her, she pulled out his eyeballs, shoved them into his mouth - he eventually died of suffocation - the eye balls cut off his oxygen supply - they were all covered in blood
chemical weapons have a shelf life, they tend to deteriorate quite quick when in controlled environment, they wont survive long outside in the elements
radioactivity takes quite a while to do it's thing, more like weeks rather than days or hours - in the final stages of hypothermia people start feeling extremely hot so they strip, this is what happened in the other case, complete confusion, disorientation and feeling extremely hot
At first I thought when you said "Russian death march" that it would be a story from ww2 (I first listened to this on Spotify so I didn't see the thumbnail or anything) but boy was I in for a twist. Despite the absolute horrors of war i don't think even that idea prepared me for something this bizarre. I'm also glad that you brought up the Dyatlov Pass Incident since it did show some similarities and was almost equal to this in how scary it was. I ended up telling this story to my Russian mom and it of course freaked her out but she believed that unlike the dyatlov pass incident (which she knew about beforehand) this tragedy could have some tangible solution, especially since this time there was a survivor. It's pretty interesting reading all the comments speculating the different theories but the one I've seen was about it being some kind of chemical poisoning or nerve agent, mixed with the hypothermia and other conditions seemed the most interesting to me. Nightmare fuel...
After binge watching Mr Ballen’s videos I am so glad I hate hiking. A stroll through the local park with a dog is heaven for me.
No worse feeling than when you binged watched all Mr. Ballens videos and now have to wait for new ones😟
Years back, this girl 'kelly' binged all of mr. ballen's videos, but someguy was behind her with a frying pan. No, not to kill her silly goose-to make SCRAMBLED EGGS. Bizzare? well yeah. What year is this?
I have to search forever to find videos I haven’t watched yet
Literally 😭
No worse thing then binge watching all his videos and it's 3am and you live near a forest and need to go to bed.
@@Nox_Desiree I'm an insomniac that lives in a wooded area fifteen miles from town. Thanks to his videos I've seen so wonderful sunrises lol.
I like how hes telling somebody else's story, but somehow he makes it seem like it's his story. Like he's telling a story that he experienced himself. It's hard to explain, but that's what makes his story telling so good!
Right? When he talks about what the victim was feeling/thinking he doesn't say "he, she, they" he says "me, I, my"
it makes it feel genuine and real and gets your head into the victims thought process. Plus the hand motions and eye contact is just,,,, PERFECTION!!!!
Yes...it really draws one in to the story. Rapt attention is a result of his abilities with narration.
How are you this awesome, I can't get enough of your videos. I appreciate you beyond words, MrBallen.
Have you ever read Dead Mountain by Donnie Eichar? It was published in 2014, but the author actually retraces the steps of the Dyatlov group as best he can as he tries to understand their deaths. He proposes infrasound as the cause and makes a really compelling case for it. Highly recommend it for fans of unsolved mysteries. Anyway, I've been binge-watching your videos on my days off and then telling all my co-workers about it; you're an awesome storyteller. Thanks for making highly consumable content of strange and scary things!
The unknown factor of what happened is the most unsettling thing, feel terrible for the girl that survived. Sounds like an experience you would never mentally recover from.
These are radioactive reactions in the body. To get this reaction in the body, there is a massive impact of radioactivity in a short time.
clear that the authorities can not go out with the facts here ... continue the good work buddy. Best regards from Norway.
@@odinsk9749 dude. First of all, that is not how radiation poisoning works. At all. Not even remotely close. Secondly, you're referring to the second incident where the commenter is referring to the first with the girl. The two people with traces of radiation from the second incident worked at a nuclear lab. Nothing out of the ordinary. Y'all some clowns
The radiation part of the story is interesting and would definitely back up the bleeding and strange behaviour. Maybe these two places were secret nuclear test grounds at some point and still omit radiation as a result. It's strange how the one girl survived though
How do you explain the missing eyelids?
She slept in a lead lined sleeping bag?? Just a guess.
@@dianakosianka5344 One of the symptoms of hypothermia is disorientation and confused behaviour - for example, some people take their clothes off. Hypoxia can also damage the eyes, making them itchy/uncomfortable. If radiation or other type of poisoning affected them, it would weaken their immune system and combined it could explain those injuries. Also, animals can prey on corpses too.
@@dianakosianka5344 animals, or decomp
@@dianakosianka5344 crows & other carrion birds love going for the eyes/eyelids
This story reminds me of a classmate who to took trip with her teacher whose hobby was spelunking. The teacher took his students to explore a cave, although the teacher had explored the cave previously. Because it began to rain, the cave began to fill water. At one point in the darkness of the cave the water was neck high. Luckily no one was physically harmed.
Mr. Ballen, Several years back I watched Josh Gates retrace their steps on the Dylatov Pass . I remember two distinct things about it. One was that a somewhat sizable piece of sheet metal was found that didn't belong to anything that they could find that was also radio active. There's some people that think it was part of a nuclear bomb that had been tested the night everything happened. Two is that right before Gate's had to leave a piece of paper had been located that showed the Russian Army that went to recover the bodies had first left out to do so something like a full day or two before anyone was even due to be back? As if to insinuate that the Army needed to go survey the damage from the test bomb and happened across the hikers by chance and started covering up things right away. That's what I seem to remember most from that special Gates had. It was not an avalanche at all. the slope they were on didn't have enough of an angle for that to have happened ever.. A bomb or a Yeti perhaps I honestly couldn't tell ya myself.. I'd never heard of the first part of the story though. Well Done!!!
Moral of the story. If someone suddenly says we have to make camp here, when you're halfway up a mountain, turn around and go down to the forest
Hol up you might be on to something
The cause of death was them staying in an open field where the snow and wind is retarded and hates your guts. So they mightve been a chemical compound in the win or air that made them turn mad and the radiation could've came from the winds that blew from a nuclear plant. Or. Sum
Or zombies
@@tex2636 I’ll take then latter, sounds cooler lol
This man could hold people's attention while he reads a phone book. I absolutely love the stories he tells and how he makes them worth listening to.
That's so funny because I told a friend he could be giving instructions on how to boil an egg and I would be riveted!!
Lol
Great story teller, need him at my little nephews camp fire to scare the shit out them
My son has thick curly hair and cries when getting his knots out. One time I put on a ballen story while brushing his hair and that was the one and only time he did not cry. He was absorbed in the story lol
I totally agree! I love the phone book comment. :) TRUE!!
My favorite part of Mr. Ballen's story telling is that he respects the people he's talking about, it's not just a thing he does to generate high views or revenue. The way he speaks, the way he takes the time to really dig into the "why?" of these tragedies, and the way he speaks on crimes resulting from neglect or just not knowing of mental health diseases and disorders. Thank you so much for what you do AND HOW YOU DO IT!!! ❤
This is honestly one of the creepiest stories I've ever heard. The fact that we really don't know what happened to them, and it was so sudden...they didn't do anything majorly stupid or something to get in that situation, either. They were pretty prepared. I read up on it a bit, and I think the best explanation is some sort of escaped nerve agent (see the Medium article about this incident). But nothing fits neatly and easily as an explanation. And just the idea that half a dozen people could just drop dead like this in an otherwise safe situation is just astoundingly terrifying!
the radiation thing does fit. the only thing that doens't make sense to me is why one of them survived the radiation if it was radiation.
the hiking russian hiking stories always freak the absolute fuck out of me, even though i've heard them both multiple times.
This channel has definitely become an addiction for me. I absolutely love the variety of stories!
On god
Oh yeah. I am watching them almost every day now :D
Me too ,he definitely is the best story teller...😃😃😃
I ditto that! I listen while cooking, crocheting and even when working at my desk. I’m obsessed.
This comment is on literally every single one of his videos, except you didn’t mention “finding him randomly”. People are funny
Even if I were deaf and blind, I would still be in a trance when dealing with Ballen
Bruh if I was kayaking in a remote area and spotted a silent girl, covered in blood, staring at me, I'd chalk it up to a ghost and just get tf out of there.
Dyatlov pass story started my obsession with these kinds of mysteries. This is just as chilling!!
Ya dyatlov is insane
@@MrBallen watch Devil's Pass if you haven't already. Makes for interesting theory of dyatlov
There's a pretty good series on the Astonishing Legends podcast on Dyatlov. Super in depth.
The part where Valentina says she closed her friends eyes was actually a mistake made by an english translator. She said “I closed my eyes and averted them, I couldn’t look” she never closed her friends eyes. She saw the bodies the next morning; was horrified so she gathered what she could and started off into the mountains.
MEEE TOOO🤣🤣
Thank you
Okay that makes much more sense. I was thinking “why the HELL would someone touch a dead body they just saw shoot blood from their eyes, ears & nose? Russian military testing a biological weapon I bet.
It’s not possible anyway, the whole passing the hand gently over the eyes of the dead. Even using more force doesn’t work. It’s basically a weird gesture created for films and TV.
@@mindrolling24 yeah i know, morticians have to use special eye covers with hooks to keep people eyes closed for funerals.
Your channel hasn’t stopped growing since day 1 it’s so crazy to see you go from 20 subs to 8 mil
the dyatlov pass incident is by far the weirdest story i’ve ever heard. if anyone wants to know more about that bella fiori has a really in depth and awesome video on it
Sounds like Chernobyl “everything is fine” kinda statement
Exactly what I was thinking. I bet they all died of radiation poison but the question remains why are they covering it up?
@@melissabrown8878
Mutant Radioactive Food Soldiers.
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You’re delusional. They died of hypothermia. The blood? You always get little cuts while hiking, I’ve seen worse.
@@aliciaanderson873 uhh he literally explains in detail that they were bleeding out their eyes, noses and mouths.
@@aliciaanderson873 I guess hypothermia makes you lose your eyes
It started with one video and turned into listening in the car, in the yard, while eating and while cleaning the house. I’ve binged everyone of his videos and I’m hungry for more. Love it
Hahah yes i cook and clean while watching him. Ill get ready and use the bathroom sometimes while listening to him too👍🏻
Me too. Do everything in the house listening to these 👍👍❤️
waiting for the Netflix adaptation
I legit being my phone with me to the bathroom and the shower. When I'm all caught up on all of the videos, it will be a sad day 😭
I put the video playlists on then put my phone in the kitchen window over the sink and hook up to my bluetooth speaker while I'm cleaning and cooking. I also take it into the shower and set my phone & speaker in the bathroom window so I can binge! This is my 2nd playthrough of all of his videos, next is Cold Case Detective, Southern Girl Crime Stories, Criminally Listed & Criminal Core! Can't get enough of all of them.
There is a really interesting theories out about this.
One is a Chemical Nerve agent that is known to linger for a while. Novichok and VX were tested in the area they were thought to be in that very area. Novichok gases are a class of nerve agents created by Soviet Russia up to 1993 which is the year of this incident. I did a lot of research on nerve agents for this video and I found a few interesting things: Nerve agents are soluble in water, they can take four months to evaporate, they are made of heavy particles that often float close to the ground, and the stronger ones can be hazardous in a location where they were used long after they were first released. This may seem completely random, but bear with me. This is my theory:
The rainstorm plays a very key part in this. The rain could have washed a strong nerve agent (likely a Novickok or VX) that had been tested at most four or five months prior in a more discrete site up the mountains, down to the hill. As the morning sun evaporated water from the rainstorm, some of the still hazardous agent went with it, but it did not travel far, staying in sort of epicenters close to the ground. Sacha got unlucky and walked over a highly contaminated spot, causing almost instant symptoms. He may have absorbed the toxin through either his skin or by breathing it in. When Lyudmila ran to him she was exposed to the same toxic location. Tatyana, Viktoriya, and Timur were the first to reach Lyudmila, but quickly ran away. This delayed their deaths slightly. Since Valya did not get close to Lyudmila, only Viktoriya who had removed herself from the epicenter of contamination, Valya was not exposed to high levels of the toxin. However, if Viktoriya had not bit her and Valya had bent down to the ground, she may have. Denis was also not impacted by high levels initially, but his decision to hide and crouch down was his downfall.
This is not my theory but an article I found: medium.com/the-mystery-box/the-most-credible-theories-regarding-the-khamar-daban-incident-ae84d8a60be2
Not sure if this could be related, but let me tell you about my daughter climbing Mt Fuji.
You are told when you start the hike, not sure by whom, but to wrap a scarf around your neck a couple of times. Apparently there is a sickness, perhaps from sun radiation, that has claimed some climbers at Fuji. The trick is to keep your neck covered as that is what is usually exposed.
My daughter made it to the summit and last station for a stamp showing that level of the climb.
Have you ever heard of this? Maybe radiation sickness that would occur on an uncovered neck?
For those of you who are interested this is called the "Khamar Daban incident"
Cool. Ta.😊
Thank you!
Thank you
The moment you said that they were bleeding from their eyes and ears and nose and mouth, I immediately thought it was radiation poisoning
or some nerve agent
That mountain is probably the dumping ground where radiation is mixed with the ground ice/snow.
@Parham Zee birds eat dead animals eyes as far as I know, so maybe that happened after they died
Radiation doesn’t make you do that
Radiation sickness doesnt make you bleed from your orifices. In radiation sickness, skin starts falling off and your body slowly dies (depending on how many roentgens you received) and you puke when you get radiation sickness. They were not puking. I rule radiation out. Radiation doesnt kill you instantly bleeding from your orifices. I heard on the hike they were eating plants and thought they were this nutritious plant called rhodiosa something. They might have picked the wrong plant which poisoned them.
This was the first video of his I watched a couple years ago. I just happened to find it today and decided to watch it again. Totally worth it.
radiation sickness was the first thing i thought of when you started to describe them bleeding out their heads. Then you said the second group had radiation detected on them. Don't know how it wouldn't happen to the survivor though
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@@Bruun1971 you read my mind
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People exists
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It’s the bird box
Peoples organs in siberia:”ah nahhh i gotta fucking muh fucking” *explodes
Mr.Ballen definitely needs his own show on Netflix.
the scariest alive is a good name
Disturbing backstories: The Series
He would be the BEST THINGS TO WATCH!!
Why when u could just watch it on TH-cam ?
@@jaxonadrain7171 terrible name
Another Masterpiece,thanks again Mr.Ballen
Poor girl... I'm also 17 and I couldn't imagine myself going through something horrible like that :(
My biggest fear is that I will blow through all your content too fast and have to wait for more 😱
I did that already
@@agetinakaseta7888 I’m there now lol
My biggest fear is having content made about me
@@liamclark309 oof touché man. That’s mine now as well! Lol.
LMAO
In Mother Russia, mountain hikes you
Lul
Hahaha
In middle east
Mountain watches you
In America you hike mountain comrade
😂🤣😂🤣
Sick with a summer flu (😕) in bed and binging all the Mrballen's & That Chapter's that I've missed somehow over the years & my take on this is that there absolutely ARE as yet unexplainable (or explainable but seemingly unfathomable to our puny, closed human minds and accepted perceptions) that don't take kindly to us infringing on their territory, most of those in the northern most and southern most areas of the planet where few humans venture. Also unfathomable geologic happenings that millennia of humans have been blind to bc of the terrible inclement weather, the very real danges of rugged, unchartered or poorly mapped terrain, etc. We tend to think of ourselves as humans as the Be All End All experts on absolutely EVERYTHING but simultaneously discredit hundreds of thousands of documented cases of "alien"/UFO/UAP/USO sightings, paranormal experiences, time warps, "dimension jumps," & any number of other things that we may be skeptical of or not want to believe bc we can't explain them, but that doesn't make them any less real. If humans would dare to admit that just the mere possibility exists that our souls & spirits DO go on after Earthly death, that there is at least a minute chance that there are numerous other versions of life forms - miniscule and microscopic, or larger than any life form known to have existed on our own planet - in just a handful of the hundreds & hundreds of KNOWN galaxies in the universe AND that they could be far more advanced than us as well as wildly biologically different, and then take those considerations and possibilities seriously, we'd be better off as a species. Humans differ from other known species of Earth in that they fear and shun the unknowns. We won't tolerate not having a logical explanation for everything and if we don't have that solid, irrefutable explanation, we pretend it doesn't exist, other it & make those who have experiences with these things seem untrustworthy or "crazy," thereby othering them and flat out ignore centuries upon centuries of exact duplicate witnesses and situations simply bc we can't accept that we might not be who or what we think we are in the grander scheme of the universe. It's ridiculous to not at least conceed the mere POSSIBILITY that all of these things are very real and that we may never be capable of giving them an explanation. The possibility is real. The probability is more than likely. We humans are no different than any other complex life form from this planet in that we can't know everything. The difference is that all of the other complex life forms are fine with that and go about their lives accepting that fact. We've been proven wrong as a species on innumerable "proven facts" and theories, so we must conceed the possibilities. Period.
Sounds like some testing site to me. The kind where governments just set something loss, radioation, gases,etc. Then just watch what happens.
Thank you Mr.Ballen!!
Hate when you develop hypothermia through an avalanche and you lose your eyes and start bleeding out your ears :/
Yeah it’s real annoying
it’s pretty annoying (°▽°)
Ik it sucks
One of the ladies in the Dyatlov pass incident, was also missing her tongue😬
Jones must have been the cold
Missing eyes/and or tongues isn’t nearly as uncommon as you would think........they are the easiest things for birds and scavengers to get to
I highly doubt any birds or animals period were up there with them
@@laurenmarshall8877 Animals exist everywhere. Eyes and tongue are always first to go, and vultures aim for the anus and genitals whenever they can reach it because of how soft it is. A lot of what we consider horror is just nature at work.
@@laurenmarshall8877 There definitely are animals in those environments.
@@hitmonchan9607 very true didn’t think about that!
@Ray Thomas I have a hunch that she knows more than she’s told. I almost suspect her, and I’ve been a true crime addict my entire life. I’m basically a detective at this point. I even create true crime documentaries on my channel.
I bet you what caused these strange behavior of death was a forzen parasite or new disease that eventually thawed out and was in the water of which probably went into the hears of the hikers when they slept in there soaking wet sleeping bag. Considering the time frame of when it occurred and when they started having the reactions it's 100% possible of it being one of those 2. Explains why they lungs were bursed, why they couldn't breathe, why they were holding onto there necks, explains why they were bleeding out of there hears and mouth. It just has to be one of those 2.
I like how you add all the dramatization and speculation to the stories. Makes them feel more real.
that dudes so chill, and articulate. Let’s get him to 1 mill.
Let's do that 💪🏻🙏🏻♥️
He’s the best. 1 mill is almost in sight ✌️
Almost
Now he's at 3 million.
4.59 mill now xD
We’re going to be fine
Morgan Freeman: they most certainly were not going to be fine
Underrated comment right here😂🙏🏽
🤣🤣 love this
I read this in his voice. 😂👌🏽
Hahahahahhahhahhahhahhahahhhahahhahhahhahhahahhahgagaghhahhahhajjjjj
😂😂😂 I totally read that in his voice
The background sound was really impressive. I literally took my headphones off 3 times and looked out the window to see if the wind was going crazy outside.
Mr John Ballen is the only youtuber who has earned a right ✅️ hes so good at what he does. I like every video i come across before even watching it 😂
I am from a baltic state. And when I went to school, I had a really good history teacher who told us stories like this and this one too. But through the years I have forgotten those stories, so thank you, Mr. Ballen.
I could honestly sit here for hours listening to you. You should start a discord 👀
Yesssssss
Yessssss
I’d join
Me too!
How would he monetize it? Why would he put time into a platform that has almost zero gain for him. I bet he has one and uses it just like we do lol
All of your stories are just amazing. The Dyatlov Pass incedent , for ME , is THE most unexplainable & shocking mystery I've ever heard about. If ya listen to the Ancient Alien version of this event , makes all kinda $hit come into your mind. However, I dont think it was aliens or a Sasquatch , BUT...I have never heard an explanation of this event that explains all of the details of what happened....Radioactivity, bones... crushed like egg-shells , as if in a car or[plane crash , yet with no danamge to the dermis , Eye's & tongues & other things cut out......yeah , fug'n crazy , man! I can tell by the way YOU talk about it too , that it kinda freeks you out as well. I've spent many hours over the years , contimplating it & I'm still atta loss......
Missing eyes is not a mystery here. Only two people from whole group, Dubinina and Zolotarev, had eyes lost. They both belong to group of 4 hikers found far later than 5 others, they were very decomposed, and of course their eyes will be missing. If you look at photos of their corpses, you will see they have not only missing eyes, majority of their faces are turned to skulls. Other two from this group, Tibo-Briniol and Kolevatov, have MOST OF, but not whole eyes missing. Eye loss is definetly a result of decomposition of those 4 poor people in creek
Why didn't the leader's daughter report her mom missing? I find that very strange. And what happened to their eyeballs and clothes? Animals wouldn't take their clothes. They might eat their eyes, but they'd eat more of their bodies as well. Also, it sounded like the leader had done this hike before, so I'm confused as to why she seemed lost, and a good leader would take people to safety as soon as the weather turned bad. I also find it interesting that their deaths just seemed to happen suddenly and basically at the same time. Finally, why was the survivor covered in blood? She didn't bleed. No one bled on her. Very strange.
ive heard of the dyatlov pass incident countless times, but I've never heard of this incident before and their striking similarities
They did solve the dyatlov pass incident! :D it was an avalanche, and the radiation on their clothes was from their lanterns.
@@purplemister5974 nah there's a lot of theories, ive seen theories that disprove the theory you mentioned, a lot of details that don't match up or answer all the oddities, I don't believe we'll found out for a good while
@@purplemister5974 There isnt a logical explanation for the Dyatlov pass.
@@zaxelmurat8578 ehhhh I agree there's lots unexplained but one of the biggest ones was how their lips and stuff were all ripped off and turns out it was just some predators taking a nibble
@@zaxelmurat8578 There is one theory; I'll leave the link to the video explanation here: th-cam.com/video/29TKoDwKRcA/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=AskaMortician
After watching Mr ballen the past few months I think it's brave to go the local store.
😂
Deaths like this are consistent with eating deadly mushrooms. My question is, did they consume a meal with freshly picked mushrooms? Likely they misidentified them. With certain mushrooms it can take days even weeks but you are dead the moment you ingest them.
My neighbors knocked on my door because one of the cats was hurt. (This cat was so sweet after feeding him, he actually came inside to befriend my cats, successfully.) Only a few days before, he had come by to eat, and I noticed the tip of his tail was bent and bleeding, it looked like a bloody paintbrush, but he would not let me near him. A few days before that, I saw him wheezing and noticed his burnt mouth, gums, melted whiskers, and his broken paw. I had taken him to the vet for care and his paw was amputated. The poor 18 year old cat loving owner was left with several cats when his mom went to jail. So that's the brief history, but the current situation was a huge puddle of blood on the sidewalk, and my neighbors scrambling to get blankets and a box for him. They knew I would get him to the vet, and I arrived just as they were opening. He had been bleeding from his eyes. The vet showed me it was rat poison. If my understanding is correct, it causes the cells in the blood to burst. It was very difficult for the vet to get a vein, but somehow he managed to do it and end his suffering. The stories you just read sounds like the same thing happened to those hikers.
The balls of this dude to climb to the mountains for this vid
I know right
Lmaooo!!!! Good one!
Thank you friends lol
yeah and he's not even wearing a heavy coat or scarf... so brave
it’s disappointing u aren’t at the very top of this cmt section - *really* ):
This is called the “Hamar-Daban pass incident.” Russia has some weird shit happen in their wilderness. Imagine if David Paulides was able to investigate there-he’d have 10 more books to write, I’m sure! Lol
Dave just posted an incredibly sad video... let's hope he finally gets to make the Russian series, would be his best yet!
I dunno Russia might get mad.
@@williamspendlove is this something recent do you have a link?
No its not . That happened in the 50 they were older no one survived.
No its not that happened in 1959 there was 9 of them everyone died.
The format of this channel is excellent. I see why you are about to hit six million subs.
It’s just odd that the moment they got up from the tent and started having instantaneous symptoms suggest that one of the hikers brought the “gas” along and released it perhaps by accident in that exact moment. Otherwise half the crew would have survived had they known and decided to spread out from the ground zero of that gas into more diluted area. It’s just that one specific area for a brief moment that seems very odd
Their camp location, eerie that it very very closely resembles the Dyatlov Pass incident. An odd choice of campsite, no?
True same was on my mind and I don't think military have anything whit that something strange have there
The rapid weather change could have been a deterrent or warning that they were to turn back...
That’s actually completely terrifying. Just hiking out in the woods and everyone starts bleeding out randomly and bashing their own skulls in.
Reminds me of bird box
this has happened to deer actually and its kinda scary.
Some sort of Hemorragic fever/Virus?
Interesting note, in both cases, they were out in the open, completely exposed, like a pebble in the middle of a sheet of paper.
I wonder if that's factor? Also, there was terrible cold weather as well...
@@acardenasjr1340 I wonder if it's specific conditions that have to be almost perfect for such things to occur such as altitude or maybe some sort of pressure change due to these servere storms
I know I can't believe she went back after she left the first time, it's commendable but I'd be scared shitless.
Watching yet another story here... Hope you had a good Veterans Day with your family
I remember hearing this story on another channel and one theory was the group had gathered an herb, berries or something that had been used in their tea and the one survivor didn't drink the tea or not much of it. This ingredient was something used in the past on this leaders hikes and of course never caused any issues.
It's a freaky story.
im sitting here with my beer listing to all these stories you're telling. way better than watching TV. i subscribed
Me too. best thing is you doesn't have to look
No TV in about a decade.
Mr Ballen is the only channel my notifications are turned on!
☮️💜
@@sweetmissypetuniawilson9206 it's the old story time experience but in a more mature way
Agreed! I only use my tv to either watch netflix or viaplay (it's a nordic thing, kind of like netflix, with movies, series and documentaries) and when I play with my ps4.
I hope MrBallen never dies because his stories help me see the dark side of life
I hope so too haha
Yeah but if someone never died, they wouldn't know what happens after death, and I guess I can only speak for myself, but I know that I'm far too curious to pass that up -- could just be me but idk man idk...
@@aerielblair8333 nah, you ain't the only one...
Well he looks quite young so I don’t think he’s gonna die any time soon
@@guywithnoshoes5673 you never know
I think the Hamar Deban incident is attributed to Russian nerve gas from old tests that was disturbed by the rains. The Dyatlov Pass incident is likely from the groups wood stove leaking smoke into the tent during a blizzard and the group frantically trying to create heat but failing
this was a great one. Hurry and make more. Almost seen em all, then off to the ppodcaasts
This is truly terrifying. I hope that girl got plenty of therapy.
Therapy cannot help what that girl went through
What if she was the one that killed/poisoned the others?
This is Russia we are talking about..... you ever just talked to someone who grew up in Russia? They are some of the toughest, most unimpressed people on earth. My friend Anna once told me. You just get over it and go on. You Americans are so soft. If you ate alive this is good. End of story. ... in her thick Russian monotone accent. Her family was so interesting to me.... they always just looked and sounded either pissed or indifferent... even when happy.... interesting people.
@@tonyabresee7944 russians tough you say huh... they rank 3th on the suicide rate worldwide.
they are tough to a certain degree, but we all know that if you keep all the stuff inside you it gonna eat you up.
it's the same with how ppl are like, owh damn you a marine, you can handle everything, ain't scared of anything... and yes they can handle much more then the untrained human, but in the end the ptss, nightmares and so on will get to them.
OK
You have me checking behind my back in the daytime with family right beside me.
Same
I had to rewatch this one immediately afterwards and ill probably revisit it again in the future. Such a horrific account of events i couldn't even imagine the fear of watching it happen. And its crazy how there's no official COD so we're left with speculation.