Some people just know how to tell stories.. but, JB has a gift unlike anyone I’ve ever heard. He gives all the details and expressions that puts you in the story. I love them!!!!!! Great Job!!!!
One thing I’ve always liked about Mr. Ballen aka John. I started watching him long before he was as popular as he is today with a podcast and everything, but I remember watching the a few episodes and was hooked. When trolls coming on at first saying blah, blah, blah! I would defend him because I was like there is no one on TH-cam like him, there’s no storyteller like him and believe it or not he will blow up! He is going to be the best maybe in the world. I didn’t know how right I was going to be, but I knew that I was sick of listening to stories that just had a bad voice that wasn’t as entertaining as his videos! I actually like watching him tell the story and he’s going to do live shows now. Super cool. Hope to get to see him in Salt Lake City if he ever gets here. I think my son and I would have a great time and definitely get VIPs. He did so many things for my son and I during some hard times, just watching him made it great anyways. I’m glad I defended him at first when people wanted to try and put him down. I just thought how can you put some down? He’s so talented. Thank you. Also thank you for making the world a better place. I love nonprofit organizations where it’s truly a nonprofit. I have donated. I have loved watching everything but in the beginning it was just the stories and I’ve seen you grow and it’s been amazing.
Hes definitely blew up i haven't been here since the beginning but i have been watching since like 100k subs and i still love how he tells the stories and id love to see him live
We should probably quit watching someone who is STEALING from him. It's literally not only just his story but his face. Sorry, but this is getting ridiculous. Look how many people are watching! Since I have been seeing so many and I've been sick so I had some time to waste. So I try to remind people they are watching someone stealing from someone who has worked hard for his success, Mr. B. Allen aka MrBallen.
I agree with everything you wrote in your comment. I'm one of the "original" listeners. The one thing I can't stand is people saying "this isn't his channel". I tried to educate these folks (monetized Tribute Channels) but I quit doing that. I just enjoy MrBallen now & enjoy all his Channels. 😊
Same here. Well I am from a different continent. Here hardly anyone knows him because of language barrier. But boy oh boy I have been hooked for life 😊❤❤
Even though i make sure to hear or watch every video or podcast he releases there is something unique about these hour long compilations. Its like I know I've heard this but for reason im still entertained 🎉
John Allen is a man I would like to meet, charismatic, great story teller, interesting and of course handsome! If you don't like him or what he does then don't choose his videos ... simple! He is unique and I hope he keeps on doing what he's doing!
Craziest thing. I used to work in bettles Alaska and I fueled airplane's and helped load gear onto the floatplanes and I was there and met the two men from the rafting trip after they were saved and got back to bettles. It's crazy that the TH-cam algorithm brought this story to my phone, and I was literally there!
I'm pretty extensively trained in white water rescue and there's no explaining the sheer power of moving water. Nothing will beat you up and tire you out like fighting for your life in white water. I had one point where I got stuck under a rapid getting spin cycled and I had that moment where I let go and just accepted it almost about to take a breath of water and I eventually popped out of it. I was under for around 45 seconds or so. I can hold my breath for 2.5 minutes but not when you're in a freezing cold washing machine that also smashes rocks into your face, back, and legs. It's fucking nuts
Mr ballen is his TH-cam channel he has a tiktok I think and some other channels and pretty sure a pod cast. Either way it's always good to hear him tell stories or anything else.
This video reminded me of something. So this is time for Mr. Ballen to have a true story read to him. 🤭 When we were stationed at Elmendorf ('93-'97), there was quite the excitement at the AK Zoo in Anchorage. Some incredibly foolish woman climbed OVER 2 FENCES to do I don't know what right up next polar bear enclosure. I honestly don't remember what happened to the woman, but I DO remember that Binky, the male bear, carried around his prize proudly....the woman's red shoe. 😂 Then came the t-shirts and coffee mugs, etc. emblazoned with Binky and his red shoe, "Send More Tourists. The last ones were delicious." 😂❤
Hahahaha Ahh the tourists. Bumper stickers popular here in Maine - "If it's called tourist season, why can't we sh00t them?" and one from a local punk band "Save a lobster, boil a tourist."
@@fredzzkid oh I love both those stickers.!! There was one I saw awhile vack but didnt have $. It said " I have a perfect body. It's in the trunk and its starting to smell"! Perfect bumper sticker!
U KNOW WHAT! IM GLAD I CAME ACROSS MR.BALLEN SUBSCRIPTION,I WATCH AT LEAST 4 OF THE STORIES EVERY EVENING. OF COURSE MOST ARE A HARD WATCH. I AM A BIG FAN. KEEP IT UP WITH THE GREAT WORK PAL 11:1811:1811:1811:1811:1811:1811:1811:18
@@Tyson13797 it’s still an hour and the person who shares his videos CLEARLY states it’s not his channel and gives the info to go to his actual channel. Look at the “ more” option.
I’m starting to think that there should be some kind of distress button connected to sattelite, like sattelite phone, but much simpler: just a button you can press in case you got hopelessly lost in the wilderness with no cellular coverage, and it picks your coordinates, sends mayday signal to the nearby rescue station and then switches into a battery saving mode that only allows to locate you when the rescue group that picked your coordinates gets into a certain range around you and sends a request via their receiver: like a car parking alarm :) so that they could locate you by this passive signal, even if you are hidden from their eyes and for some reason cannot respond. IDK if it’s technically possible, but if it is, and if it can be made cheap enough to allow mass production, tourists and hikers could be given such devices when they enter a site, or buy them at the stores and have them all the way while hiking, so they could stay disconnected all the way, without any disruption to their privacy, up until they need to be rescued and either press the button themselves, or get officially reported as missing persons by their relatives, which warrants remote activation of the signal. could be useful…
On the phone call checking on his parents he wasn't Upset and sounded calm cool and collected if I had found out my parents had been murdered I would have been beyond myself
Could Blake have possibly made any worse decisions than all the ones he made? It seems like he was determined to depart this life and take his dad with him... I'm glad Neil survived this possible attempted murder by his own son...
Haha. That’s what unthought too. Blake was taking advantage of his dad’s willingness to go along with Blake’s plans just do he could spend time with him.
I HAVE to say: the story about the two guys rafting in the middle of Alaska... that had to be the STUPIDEST decision not to have any cell phones or radio and not to get out of a freezing cold river when the ice was piling up. The problem wasn't going rafting, the problem was bad decision making! IMO, of course... But jeez! come on. These men are supposed to be experienced outdoorsmen? And they made decisions like these?
Funny thing about the last story, Ballen says imagine being outside of your airplane in flight....that happened on one airliner after the windshield blew out, sucking the pilot almost completely out of the cockpit before a crew member latched on to his legs and held onto his body. Guy was bent back against the plane midflight until they landed. The pilot that was nearly sucked out lived with barely a scratch. So it has actually happened.
Love that story about Mike, although he was taking a very big risk by not saying anything, at the same time this pretty much guaranteed his best behavior until they did figure things out
Omg those kids... as soon as he said "murky water" I immediately knew there would be an alligator in there. I'm suprised those kids wouldn't realize that before entering the water. They are beyond lucky they didn't get killed.
I did maintenance on submarines in Pearl Harbor, USN in the 80's. I am surprised that the boat was able to open the conning tower hatch at all as it appears to have been under water. The reverse pressure would seem to make that highly unlikely. Down 30 meters? 90 feet? That might put the top of the conning tower at least 3 to 6 feet under water I think. I don't pretend to know submarine dimensions during WW2, but crew sizes in fast attacks (not Posidons) in the 1980s were about 190, not 38. That implies that WW2 subs were much smaller so that would put the conning tower much deeper under water at 30 meters down. No way they could open that hatch. I am dubious. I maintained periscope, radar and ESM systems on top of conning towers so I am very familiar with the construction
12:20 brand new british submarine with already engine problems broke it's steering. A marvel of british engineering ! They obviously ddin't win the war with their fleet of submarines.
Acouple years ago I got pneumonia that lasted for 4 months, horrible night sweats, and unbearable chest pains after multiple doctors and specialists visits they all came to the conclusion that I had lung cancer according to a mass that took up a huge part of my left lung and in my spine going to my brain. I Went through treatments and biopsies, and they still couldn’t figure out why the pneumonia would not go away. Finally after 6 months of this and the mass now covering 70% of my left lung they finally shipped me to a lung specialist in Burlington Vermont. Come to find out I actually contracted a fungal infection that came from a mushroom that came from the Midwest that ended up growing mushrooms in my lung.. it was called blastomycosis. After surgery and a lot of meds I now have half a lung but no lung cancer. Life is crazy sometimes
Quick sand death..fact. Is quicksand actually as dangerous as advertised? Nope. Quicksand-that is, sand that behaves as a liquid because it is saturated with water-can be a mucky nuisance, but it's basically impossible to die in the way that is depicted in movies. She didn't die because of quicksand..she died because she didn't try to escape it..any movement would have helped
I wouldn't raft alone with one person - in Alaska? No way Jose'. I'm so glad they survived. I wasn't thinking good things when the son was talking his father into doing this. No way would I be talked into that. After a while, I would be thinking the one who was trying so hard to talk me into this had an agenda 🤔
I remember when the guy with the tree in his lungs happened. I was working in respiratory at the time and it was the absolute biggest gossip for like 3 months.
Well, The Davis Submerged Escape Apparatus (also referred to as DSEA), was an early type of oxygen rebreather invented in 1910 by Sir Robert Davis, head of Siebe Gorman and Co. Ltd., inspired by the earlier Fleuss system,and adopted by the Royal Navy after further development by Davis in 1927. While intended primarily as an emergency escape apparatus for submarine crews, it was soon also used for diving, being a handy shallow water diving apparatus with a thirty-minute endurance,[2] and as an industrial breathing set. (wiki, Davis Submerged Escape Apparatus)
The whole tree growing in the lung scenario really makes you think twice about poo-pooing the advice of your parents when they tell you not to swallow a watermelon seed or you will end up growing one in your belly.
I get what you're saying but it would be completely impossible for a seed to grow in your stomach bc your stomach acid would kill the seed almost immediately
I have been to tunnels like these in Akron Ohio,most were old rubber factories that were forgotten,kind reminded me of death camps from Germany,what a history lesson,only me and 2 others are left to tell stories about them.
Love your shows and not meaning to nitpick but every county in the U.K. that reads as ‘something shire’ , is always pronounced as sheer. Collectively they are the shires but Lincolnshire is pronounced Lincolnsheer. Just a hopefully helpful tip. But keep them coming! 😊
Disrespect for the power and danger of the Alaska wilderness and hubris about their knowledge and survival abilities is a deadly combination for adventurers from outside. So many Cheechakos live here for a year or two and think they’re wilderness guides. It’s a wonder more don’t end up dead.
11:00 What a WHOLE GAGGLE of Miracles! That they are even both alive, AND He's got a Working lighter! I bet they run into a Mc Donald's that takes your Word as credit, and it's open, and it's serving Mc Ribs.
I am so happy at the fact that you know how to say Caribbean right I'm from the islands my mom raised me in the keys everybody else's Caribbean which is wrong is Caribbean just the way you said it
Dear whoever runs this channel. Does Mr. BALLEN give permission to these channels that are reposting his old material minus the sponsors and intro and outro.
Had a clog in the bathroom sink. Plumber found a plant in the pipes. Realized 6yo son washed pumpkin seeds in bathroom and one accidentally went down the drain. Plumber never saw this before. Lol
Note to my fellow Americans, when pronouncing British towns with names ending in "shire" Forget the "E" at the end of Lancashire. Its pronounced LANC - ah - shir. I used to make that mistake all the time until my British friends just stopped correcting me.
That parachute story. She survived because of the wind blowing from the ground which she can able to breath an air. that might be an explanation why she survive that high without oxygen.
Lol, as a kid, one of rumors floating around was if you swallowed an orange or lemon seed, a tree would grow in your stomach 😂. BTW, Blake and Niel were complete idiots to go rafting in Alaska pre season. I have done many rafting trips. I don't think I would ever tackle Alaska under any circumstances
That's what the fuck I'm talking about!!!!! I love to have to see it. Big brother holding it down for SIS!!!! STRAIGHT FISTS NO HOLLERING AND GUNS. I LOVE IT. EVERY ONE GOT TO WALK AWAY ❤❤❤❤
Why wouldn't the guy working in the hotel basement report the fact that there were obviously deliberately arranged bones and a huge animal of some sort in the hidden tunnel? I'm going to call BS on that one. It's obviously a typical creepypasta 'Skinwalker' story. That's why he heard his coworker's voice, because in Skinwalker creepypasta stories Skinwalkers mimic the voices of people their victim knows in order to lure them, and they arranged bones on odd ways etc.
Dark water in Louisiana?! Maaaaaaaan, I ain’t lived there since I was FOUR and I know better than go poking around water when you can’t see the bottom, and even when you can you stay back! Occasional exceptions include swimming pools and backyard frog ponds too small for an adult gator to hide in.
Some people just know how to tell stories.. but, JB has a gift unlike anyone I’ve ever heard.
He gives all the details and expressions that puts you in the story.
I love them!!!!!!
Great Job!!!!
🎉
K,k😢😢 mm kkl8.bbm😊
"This channel is a hidden gem for ghost story lovers! The narrations are incredibly eerie and engaging. Keep those haunting tales coming!"
JB does have a gift for what he is putting on his TH-cam videos. Not to mention, HE IS EASY on the EYES😍
Very easy on the eyes
Love your show and the way you put over the stories is amazing, very easy to understand with emotion and passion you put on it 😀❤️😄
One thing I’ve always liked about Mr. Ballen aka John. I started watching him long before he was as popular as he is today with a podcast and everything, but I remember watching the a few episodes and was hooked. When trolls coming on at first saying blah, blah, blah! I would defend him because I was like there is no one on TH-cam like him, there’s no storyteller like him and believe it or not he will blow up! He is going to be the best maybe in the world. I didn’t know how right I was going to be, but I knew that I was sick of listening to stories that just had a bad voice that wasn’t as entertaining as his videos! I actually like watching him tell the story and he’s going to do live shows now. Super cool. Hope to get to see him in Salt Lake City if he ever gets here. I think my son and I would have a great time and definitely get VIPs. He did so many things for my son and I during some hard times, just watching him made it great anyways. I’m glad I defended him at first when people wanted to try and put him down. I just thought how can you put some down? He’s so talented. Thank you. Also thank you for making the world a better place. I love nonprofit organizations where it’s truly a nonprofit. I have donated. I have loved watching everything but in the beginning it was just the stories and I’ve seen you grow and it’s been amazing.
Hes definitely blew up i haven't been here since the beginning but i have been watching since like 100k subs and i still love how he tells the stories and id love to see him live
😂❤ I agree 100%!!!
We should probably quit watching someone who is STEALING from him. It's literally not only just his story but his face. Sorry, but this is getting ridiculous. Look how many people are watching! Since I have been seeing so many and I've been sick so I had some time to waste. So I try to remind people they are watching someone stealing from someone who has worked hard for his success, Mr. B. Allen aka MrBallen.
I agree with everything you wrote in your comment. I'm one of the "original" listeners. The one thing I can't stand is people saying "this isn't his channel". I tried to educate these folks (monetized Tribute Channels) but I quit doing that. I just enjoy MrBallen now & enjoy all his Channels. 😊
Same here. Well I am from a different continent. Here hardly anyone knows him because of language barrier. But boy oh boy I have been hooked for life 😊❤❤
Even though i make sure to hear or watch every video or podcast he releases there is something unique about these hour long compilations. Its like I know I've heard this but for reason im still entertained 🎉
Omg this is so me. Allllllll day
Lol. Same
Qq
Love listening to both his podcast at work I hate waiting for new episodes
Good to listen to. Puts me to sleep and gets me threw long drives. My step daughters hate me when I play this instead of this new generation rap crap
Don't they have a CD player?
idk why they care? are they scared?
@@skiman5289 more likely don't understand how to listen to anything other than a 30 second tictok
@@joanodom2104 CD player?: People under 18 don't know what that is
@@fisty539 you are probably more right than you realize (more right, lol?) Today's youth can't follow verbal narration, instruction, or commands
I always love these stories!! I listen to them at school!✨✨🙂
John Allen is a man I would like to meet, charismatic, great story teller, interesting and of course handsome! If you don't like him or what he does then don't choose his videos ... simple! He is unique and I hope he keeps on doing what he's doing!
Oh man! I'm so addicted. I could listen to MrBallen 24/7.
Same
That familiar voice , like a buddy in the house
I do most days lol. Cutting grass, at work, anything outside. Riding my atv lol
Happens to the best of us! It comes and goes for me now, but ya in the beginning you can’t get enough content, lol!!!
The best story teller
Craziest thing. I used to work in bettles Alaska and I fueled airplane's and helped load gear onto the floatplanes and I was there and met the two men from the rafting trip after they were saved and got back to bettles. It's crazy that the TH-cam algorithm brought this story to my phone, and I was literally there!
Bet they were wide eyed and beside self happy to get outa that. I have almost drown to very similar circumstances. Never been in a canoe since.
I'll take your word for it, but can you confirm or deny that the father's boot was later found in his son's ass?
Cool af
I'm pretty extensively trained in white water rescue and there's no explaining the sheer power of moving water. Nothing will beat you up and tire you out like fighting for your life in white water. I had one point where I got stuck under a rapid getting spin cycled and I had that moment where I let go and just accepted it almost about to take a breath of water and I eventually popped out of it. I was under for around 45 seconds or so. I can hold my breath for 2.5 minutes but not when you're in a freezing cold washing machine that also smashes rocks into your face, back, and legs. It's fucking nuts
@@mmatthews61687tl;dr water is fucking nuts
I really don't care if your videos are five years long I'd rather watch or listen to you than anybody else❤
This comment 😂
Totally agree!
👍 same
@constancejohnson6841 this isn’t his TH-cam channel.
Mr ballen is his TH-cam channel he has a tiktok I think and some other channels and pretty sure a pod cast. Either way it's always good to hear him tell stories or anything else.
Best story telling ever. Goose bumps, holding my breath almost have to stop but can't. Best hour ever. 🙂
cringe L ration
This video reminded me of something. So this is time for Mr. Ballen to have a true story read to him. 🤭 When we were stationed at Elmendorf ('93-'97), there was quite the excitement at the AK Zoo in Anchorage. Some incredibly foolish woman climbed OVER 2 FENCES to do I don't know what right up next polar bear enclosure. I honestly don't remember what happened to the woman, but I DO remember that Binky, the male bear, carried around his prize proudly....the woman's red shoe. 😂 Then came the t-shirts and coffee mugs, etc. emblazoned with Binky and his red shoe, "Send More Tourists. The last ones were delicious." 😂❤
Hahahaha Ahh the tourists. Bumper stickers popular here in Maine - "If it's called tourist season, why can't we sh00t them?" and one from a local punk band "Save a lobster, boil a tourist."
@@fredzzkid 🤣🤣🤣
@@fredzzkid oh I love both those stickers.!! There was one I saw awhile vack but didnt have $. It said " I have a perfect body. It's in the trunk and its starting to smell"! Perfect bumper sticker!
@@soudontlikeme Hahahaha Love it!
ABSOLUTELY LOVE THESE !!!
Yay, I know what I’m gonna be watching for a while, thank you for all your hard work MRBALLEN
U KNOW WHAT! IM GLAD I CAME ACROSS MR.BALLEN SUBSCRIPTION,I WATCH AT LEAST 4 OF THE STORIES EVERY EVENING. OF COURSE MOST ARE A HARD WATCH. I AM A BIG FAN. KEEP IT UP WITH THE GREAT WORK PAL 11:18 11:18 11:18 11:18 11:18 11:18 11:18 11:18
Love listening to Jonathan tell these stories!!!! 💕
It's just John.
Pretty sure he goes by “John”.
An hour is freaking awesome!!
It isnt mr ballen
I LOVE THE HOUR SHOWS.BUT IVE BEEN THROUGH THEM ALL ON THE 3RD TIME NOW...
@@Tyson13797 ok
@@Tyson13797 it’s still an hour and the person who shares his videos CLEARLY states it’s not his channel and gives the info to go to his actual channel. Look at the “ more” option.
@@Tyson13797not the boxer Tyson Fury?😊
The 1st one reminds me so much of the horror anthology "Creepshow." YOU MUST HOLD UR BREATH !! So good!! 😊❤
I’m starting to think that there should be some kind of distress button connected to sattelite, like sattelite phone, but much simpler: just a button you can press in case you got hopelessly lost in the wilderness with no cellular coverage, and it picks your coordinates, sends mayday signal to the nearby rescue station and then switches into a battery saving mode that only allows to locate you when the rescue group that picked your coordinates gets into a certain range around you and sends a request via their receiver: like a car parking alarm :) so that they could locate you by this passive signal, even if you are hidden from their eyes and for some reason cannot respond.
IDK if it’s technically possible, but if it is, and if it can be made cheap enough to allow mass production, tourists and hikers could be given such devices when they enter a site, or buy them at the stores and have them all the way while hiking, so they could stay disconnected all the way, without any disruption to their privacy, up until they need to be rescued and either press the button themselves, or get officially reported as missing persons by their relatives, which warrants remote activation of the signal.
could be useful…
It's is. A personal locator beacon.
A Beacon for hikers.
They help lost wilderness hikers that are lost.
💯! I can't believe they don't have something already like that!
@@billyingram3492yes sir the PLB or EPIRB
@@Tom-jq8kfthey do, people are too confident about their experience that they won’t get lost, or don’t want to spend money on one.
That last story is unbelievable!
Thank God Ava
I can't even imagine how terrified I would be. Unreal!
That's insane!
Glad ya made it through!
I said 1 hour of Mr. Ballen? Here we go! Mr. Ballen got some of the most unique stories 😎
So much better without long intros and paid sponsor ads.
On the phone call checking on his parents he wasn't Upset and sounded calm cool and collected if I had found out my parents had been murdered I would have been beyond myself
Great stories for trucking , good job man!!
Could Blake have possibly made any worse decisions than all the ones he made? It seems like he was determined to depart this life and take his dad with him... I'm glad Neil survived this possible attempted murder by his own son...
Haha. That’s what unthought too. Blake was taking advantage of his dad’s willingness to go along with Blake’s plans just do he could spend time with him.
Blake is a doctor.
Are you a doctor?
Of course not.
Being a doctor doesnt mean he knows anything about rafting ir how alaska works. @@blake7587
I HAVE to say: the story about the two guys rafting in the middle of Alaska... that had to be the STUPIDEST decision not to have any cell phones or radio and not to get out of a freezing cold river when the ice was piling up. The problem wasn't going rafting, the problem was bad decision making! IMO, of course... But jeez! come on. These men are supposed to be experienced outdoorsmen? And they made decisions like these?
Great story teller, I turn to you when I need company, thanks your great
Funny thing about the last story, Ballen says imagine being outside of your airplane in flight....that happened on one airliner after the windshield blew out, sucking the pilot almost completely out of the cockpit before a crew member latched on to his legs and held onto his body. Guy was bent back against the plane midflight until they landed. The pilot that was nearly sucked out lived with barely a scratch. So it has actually happened.
That one was a top 5,the guy lived too🥶
Yes! I remember Mentour Pilot making an episode on this one! I think the guy was completely uninjured spare some frostbite, which is insane!
Love that story about Mike, although he was taking a very big risk by not saying anything, at the same time this pretty much guaranteed his best behavior until they did figure things out
Omg those kids... as soon as he said "murky water" I immediately knew there would be an alligator in there. I'm suprised those kids wouldn't realize that before entering the water. They are beyond lucky they didn't get killed.
I wonder if the advertisers really think anyone watches them?🤔
First? Great video it's amazing listening to an hour of this🥺
I did maintenance on submarines in Pearl Harbor, USN in the 80's. I am surprised that the boat was able to open the conning tower hatch at all as it appears to have been under water. The reverse pressure would seem to make that highly unlikely. Down 30 meters? 90 feet? That might put the top of the conning tower at least 3 to 6 feet under water I think. I don't pretend to know submarine dimensions during WW2, but crew sizes in fast attacks (not Posidons) in the 1980s were about 190, not 38. That implies that WW2 subs were much smaller so that would put the conning tower much deeper under water at 30 meters down. No way they could open that hatch. I am dubious. I maintained periscope, radar and ESM systems on top of conning towers so I am very familiar with the construction
No intro?!? How the hell am I supposed to know what to do to the like button
Ha ha ha!!
Use your imagination
lol ikr 😂😂😂
It's wearing a cloak of invisibility he borrowed from Harry Potter 😂
Yes!!….. very strange, dark and mysterious!!🤣🤣
“ i wanna join the weird world “ you are in it love
12:20 brand new british submarine with already engine problems broke it's steering. A marvel of british engineering ! They obviously ddin't win the war with their fleet of submarines.
“By Alaskan standards it’s considered leisurely.”
“By Australian standards the Atticus spider is considered to worry about.”
It would be so awesome to have the super long form compilations of MrBallens stories… instead of doing 1hr, doing a complete 5+
Acouple years ago I got pneumonia that lasted for 4 months, horrible night sweats, and unbearable chest pains after multiple doctors and specialists visits they all came to the conclusion that I had lung cancer according to a mass that took up a huge part of my left lung and in my spine going to my brain. I Went through treatments and biopsies, and they still couldn’t figure out why the pneumonia would not go away.
Finally after 6 months of this and the mass now covering 70% of my left lung they finally shipped me to a lung specialist in Burlington Vermont.
Come to find out I actually contracted a fungal infection that came from a mushroom that came from the Midwest that ended up growing mushrooms in my lung.. it was called blastomycosis.
After surgery and a lot of meds I now have half a lung but no lung cancer.
Life is crazy sometimes
How weird. I hope you are OK now.
12:49, isn't the captain supposed to NOT leave their ship when his crew is still there and in problems ?
I really don't understand Mr. Ballen's creative animosity towards the like button, but it is very entertaining 😂
Geez underwater quicksand I forgot about that one. That’s tough.
I’ve moved from the JRE to Mrballen stories 🦅
The guy in the Lair should have told the police what he found.
I know it's probably a stupid idea, but he also should have grabbed one of the tapes. Who knows what was on it.
Quick sand death..fact.
Is quicksand actually as dangerous as advertised? Nope. Quicksand-that is, sand that behaves as a liquid because it is saturated with water-can be a mucky nuisance, but it's basically impossible to die in the way that is depicted in movies.
She didn't die because of quicksand..she died because she didn't try to escape it..any movement would have helped
You're so awesome, can't get enough of your stories. But...Wangaratta? The first A is 'a' as in apple. Stupid Like button is a bad influence!
MrBallen tells a thrilling story to keep you coming back for more
I will never ever ever ever explore an old basement that’s playing music
Right? Like, thats my cue to exit stage left.. 😂
I wouldn't raft alone with one person - in Alaska? No way Jose'.
I'm so glad they survived. I wasn't thinking good things when the son was talking his father into doing this. No way would I be talked into that. After a while, I would be thinking the one who was trying so hard to talk me into this had an agenda 🤔
All of the people who got lost or died in Mr Ballen's podcasts were outsdoormen / women. I am an outsdoor person too! Now im scared
I remember when the guy with the tree in his lungs happened. I was working in respiratory at the time and it was the absolute biggest gossip for like 3 months.
What a nightmare for Nicola, so freakish, I feel bad, so sad.
Very odd too. I have been on many beaches in different countries and never heard of quicksand in the ocean
I've been binge watching your channel for age's now, your story about sub, I live in the medway towns, not far from the dockside...
Good stuff.
I’m currently addicted to binging all of these
Well, The Davis Submerged Escape Apparatus (also referred to as DSEA), was an early type of oxygen rebreather invented in 1910 by Sir Robert Davis, head of Siebe Gorman and Co. Ltd., inspired by the earlier Fleuss system,and adopted by the Royal Navy after further development by Davis in 1927. While intended primarily as an emergency escape apparatus for submarine crews, it was soon also used for diving, being a handy shallow water diving apparatus with a thirty-minute endurance,[2] and as an industrial breathing set. (wiki, Davis Submerged Escape Apparatus)
5:51 at this point, I'd be wondering about someone's motives.
That dude in Cleveland didn't call the police? That would have been my first stop!
That’s what I said I even said the the whole f word military base would come
Addictive 😊😊😊
Lol google of the day "tree in lung" 😊
I hope he told the police about those tapes!!
The whole tree growing in the lung scenario really makes you think twice about poo-pooing the advice of your parents when they tell you not to swallow a watermelon seed or you will end up growing one in your belly.
Haha totally
I get what you're saying but it would be completely impossible for a seed to grow in your stomach bc your stomach acid would kill the seed almost immediately
So Nobody Ever went back in the subasement to explore or see what those bones were all about? Why???
👋ok the hospital with the alligator got to me. Need a break..I'm going back for more😵
I have been to tunnels like these in Akron Ohio,most were old rubber factories that were forgotten,kind reminded me of death camps from Germany,what a history lesson,only me and 2 others are left to tell stories about them.
I like that his voice is easy listening. I've listened to others that I turn them off, like fingernails on a chalkboard.
Love your shows and not meaning to nitpick but every county in the U.K. that reads as ‘something shire’ , is always pronounced as sheer.
Collectively they are the shires but Lincolnshire is pronounced Lincolnsheer. Just a hopefully helpful tip. But keep them coming! 😊
Yup .my sister was born in Lancashire ( sheer)
Sher not sheer is the correct northern pronunciation.
ie lanca sher.
Yaay, someone said it ... and also ... Nic- col -la
Disrespect for the power and danger of the Alaska wilderness and hubris about their knowledge and survival abilities is a deadly combination for adventurers from outside. So many Cheechakos live here for a year or two and think they’re wilderness guides. It’s a wonder more don’t end up dead.
Killian!
Now _that_ is bravery above and beyond.
11:00 What a WHOLE GAGGLE of Miracles! That they are even both alive, AND He's got a Working lighter! I bet they run into a Mc Donald's that takes your Word as credit, and it's open, and it's serving Mc Ribs.
I love your program ❤
I didn’t even realize how tense I was,while listening to the hospital story, until I dropped my shoulders at the end. 😅
I am so happy at the fact that you know how to say Caribbean right I'm from the islands my mom raised me in the keys everybody else's Caribbean which is wrong is Caribbean just the way you said it
Dear whoever runs this channel. Does Mr. BALLEN give permission to these channels that are reposting his old material minus the sponsors and intro and outro.
Had a clog in the bathroom sink. Plumber found a plant in the pipes. Realized 6yo son washed pumpkin seeds in bathroom and one accidentally went down the drain. Plumber never saw this before. Lol
the story about a tree in the lung is incredibly cute :) lol
Absolutely was an alligator. 🐊 I’m from south Louisiana and hurricane katrina changed my life.
MrsBallen must be a terrific woman knowing millions of people go to bed with MrBallen.
Note to my fellow Americans, when pronouncing British towns with names ending in "shire" Forget the "E" at the end of Lancashire. Its pronounced LANC - ah - shir. I used to make that mistake all the time until my British friends just stopped correcting me.
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That parachute story. She survived because of the wind blowing from the ground which she can able to breath an air. that might be an explanation why she survive that high without oxygen.
Already watched these on your other channel.
Well, at least that man died thinking it was a normal morning and he had no idea his son had just hacked him and his wife up
It's Nicola, not Ni Cola. Doesn't anyone have Nicola as a name in the US? Great stories though, much appreciated 👍
Lol, as a kid, one of rumors floating around was if you swallowed an orange or lemon seed, a tree would grow in your stomach 😂. BTW, Blake and Niel were complete idiots to go rafting in Alaska pre season. I have done many rafting trips. I don't think I would ever tackle Alaska under any circumstances
That's what the fuck I'm talking about!!!!! I love to have to see it. Big brother holding it down for SIS!!!! STRAIGHT FISTS NO HOLLERING AND GUNS. I LOVE IT. EVERY ONE GOT TO WALK AWAY ❤❤❤❤
The dude in the warehouse with the serial killer ... There has to be more to this story. Like, the guy didn't even bother to call the cops?!?
Charity Hospital is Very Haunted. There are a bunch of people that live there still . ❤ My City ❤
I wonder how they started a fire, with it being frozen outside and no materials? I’m glad they survived and made it happen but still makes me wonder
He literally said that he had a lighter
Why wouldn't the guy working in the hotel basement report the fact that there were obviously deliberately arranged bones and a huge animal of some sort in the hidden tunnel?
I'm going to call BS on that one. It's obviously a typical creepypasta 'Skinwalker' story. That's why he heard his coworker's voice, because in Skinwalker creepypasta stories Skinwalkers mimic the voices of people their victim knows in order to lure them, and they arranged bones on odd ways etc.
Dark water in Louisiana?! Maaaaaaaan, I ain’t lived there since I was FOUR and I know better than go poking around water when you can’t see the bottom, and even when you can you stay back! Occasional exceptions include swimming pools and backyard frog ponds too small for an adult gator to hide in.
This episode of wonder woman, "higher than Mt. Everest", is wild.
I live in Cleveland Ohio it’s creepy knowing about that building 😮
Blake sounds like an absolute donut lol glad they’re ok though.
If you are in your house you hit the floor..the ground is outside. 😩
Dude, I saw that sign behind you, and I thought it said “your GF (girlfriend) is wrong”.
😂🤣😂