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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!! ☠︎
"That man was Adolf Hitler."
Well, that was one hell of a plot twist.
proof tho! how the soldier know? did he say "yo whats ya name mein amigo?"
german soldier" ich bin hitler..." ye right
it's a good punchline for sure.
@@dazbeal5438 he probably saw him later on and it clicked 😭
I said out loud as soon as I heard that “ahhhh WTF,”
Right😭
"he decided to not shoot the man"
Aww, that's nice
"that man was Adolf Hitler"
👁️👁️
literally my expression!
I've heard the story many times, but still... I kinda keep forgetting the name of the goofball that didn't pull the trigger, and every single time I'm in shock just crazy the story is.
@@svampebob007 I think that calling him a 'goofball' is not exactly nice and just. Henry did a great deed, even tho it ultimately ended in a worst possible disaster he still spared a man's life, which is honorable to say the least
@@_x_m_m_6976 exactly, it doesn't matter who the person was it was just the fact he spared someone so i agree with you
I was like, “Oh…”
To be fair, it's not like everything would have been hunky dory if Hitler wasn't alive. There was a reason why he was able to get into power.
When I was escaping an abusive ex, I had a young married couple pull over on the side of the road and offer me a ride. It was a super rural area outside of Atlanta n I was super hesitant at first, but some instinct told me it would be safe. Turned out it was a pastor and his wife, and the wife told me she had had some intense urge to go out, that she couldn’t explain. That something had been nagging at her for like 15 mins to go on a drive , they weren’t even headed anywhere in particular. To this day, I believe they likely saved my life , either from my ex or something bad happening to me in the 40-50 miles I needed to travel to get to the Atlanta bus stop to catch a bus to my parents. I’ll never forget that.
omg
Hope you are doing okay today, as well as that couple!
Sending you love
Thinking about you and your story today, Liz. I hope you are healthy and happy ❤
That was God. That's an awesome story. ❤
You're extremely lucky. I hope everything turned out okay in your life.
I feel for the plumbers LMAO. That has to be the worst, pulling out already gross soggy “meat” from the pipes with your hands and then finding out it’s a PERSON.
They def made the right call just leaving immediately as selfish as that was lmfao
@@Oceans_awayI think that entire story but especially that moment was the most uncomfortable story I've heard yet.
"I FEEL BAD FOR THEM HAHAHAHAHA WOW"
Yes, you really do. laughing your ass off, such guilt.
@@muldoone6920 Go outside
Odd enough, this almost exact thing happened in my grandmas city in Ontario. A plumber was called by the basement tenant. Turned out the upstairs tenant killed 2 women and put their pieces down the drain.
What upsets me most about Henry's story was not that he spared Hitler, but that Hitler continued on his evil path despite being shown true humanity that gave him another chance to live.
I don’t think this is a verifiable story and even if this did happen the German probably wasn’t hitler
There isn't any proof that it was Hitler. Just a dramatization
Hitler wasn't "evil", stop falling for pro-war propaganda
@@Project_Algiz sorry what drugs are you on sir? I’m asking for a friend..
@@sirbenedict6635 I'm sober as a nun. What makes Hitler evil?
"That man was Adolf Hitler"
Dammit Henry
How do we know that was quite possibly the world's worst "human" ???
He had 1 job 🤦🏽lol
That honestly blew my mind 🤯
How many times had that dude almost died. If only. I wonder how different our history would be if he died that early
@Wave Henry plays 123 oh lmao
The story for Henry is so sad because he displayed his humanity only for that Hitler to take his gift of life and use it to take the lives of so many others. I always wondered if Henry ever found out about this and if so what his reaction was
Oh he did he know and he said "even if I know what he gonna do I'm still going to spare him"
@@basic_avarage_person idk, doing so would change the course of history drastically.
@@Marxistnazi If Henry killed him, then Hitler wouldn't do any of those things so he wouldn't be an evil man. Henry, on the other hand, would be the guy that shot an unarmed wounded soldier which is considered murder in the military. It is like those hypotheticals of _Would you go back in time and kill baby Hitler?_
Supposedly Hitler said something about a British soldier sparing him in WW1. Hitler wanted to meet him personally and shake his hand I believe. Heard he wanted to give him one of his personal art pieces.
@@FakeAssHandsomeMcGee_ back then you can pretty much kill anyone in the military, the US was responsible for some war crimes as well. Also I think without Hitler popularizing the Nazi party, who were strongly against bolshevism, then a communist revolution in the Weimar Republic would probably be more likely. And in most communist states genocides and terror campaigns are often undertook, also civil wars. Germany was just at a shit position during that time, and people thought the Nazi party would help get them out of it.
I had that horrible sense of dread come over me one night after dinner when my husband and I were just sitting around watching tv. I tried to ignore it, move around, get something to drink, but it just wouldn’t go away but got worse until I was in tears. I told my husband I needed to take a minute and pray through this feeling. I prayed God’s protection over all my family, all friends, my coworkers, basically every person I could think of. Then as quick as it came, the feeling left. The next morning I went into work like normal. We all noticed our coworker wasn’t there and no one had heard from her and couldn’t get ahold of her. 4 hours later she finally arrived to work and told us her boyfriend had experienced a psychotic episode the night before. He pulled out all the kitchen knives and had badly cut up his arms and neck before she found him. Thankfully she found him before he hit any major arteries, and thankfully he hadn’t turned to try to harm her or their infant child. He was rushed to the hospital where he was cleaned up, put back together, and where his mental health issues were rightfully addressed. I 100% believe that I prayed protection over them that night! I’ve only had that intuition one other time when my dad was taking flying lessons and almost had an airplane emergency land on top of him but he paused to take a selfie before taking off which kept him out of the way. Listen to those gut feelings!
Omg I would never want to go through that and how did no one notice this.
Wow, thanks for sharing.
That's not a gut feeling. That's the Holy Spirit. I'm so glad your dad and your friends are okay!
@@MessianicMermaid oh I completely agree! Thank God for the Holy Spirit!
@@AE-km1gz He is amazing. I call Him Ruach (from Ruach haKodesh, His Hebrew title) because it creates a closer relationship when I have a name rather than just "the Spirit." I have a similar story. Long story short, my stepmom was my childhood physical and psychological abuser. She was the no remorse, I'm always right kind of person. She was clever enough to do it when Dad wasn't around. Fast forward to when I'm 18 or so and my dad falls extremely ill with heart disease, diabetes, and clotted arteries. She feels threatened by my mother's presence and refuses to let me see him, so I make a deal with one of the nurses and he lets me in at 6 AM every morning before she gets there. We get up one morning to go and my mom had this sense of dread like, "We need to stop and pray for your dad right now," so we call the 700 Club and pray with them over the phone. When we arrive, we find my stepmom already there because dad had been taken back to surgery and she hadn't even bothered to tell us. They had just brought him back to his room. Obviously, I still hate her, so I go and sit in my dad's room instead of with her. That's when I notice ALL of his tubes are filled with blood. He's got a bleed somewhere and if I hadn't been there AT that time and unwilling to sit anywhere near her specifically because she was so psychopathic, he'd have died. He wasn't saved at the time. He was 5 or 10 minutes from Hell and God used my psycho stepmom to make sure I was there to stop it. He got saved several years later, about two months before he actually passed. God can and will use anyone and anything, with or without their knowledge. ♥
I literally got goosebumps as soon as you said “that German soldier was Adolf hitler”
My literal reaction was :BrUh!!!!
@@perfectlyconfused8404 me too 🤦🏽🤦🏽🤦🏽🤦🏽🤦🏽
Right !
Could’ve avoided an entire world war with 1 shot
From what I read it’s likely Hitler lied about this story and that it never happened . Just to throw that out there. There’s some facts that cast doubt on the legitimacy of this story
“The man Henry had just saved was Adolf Hitler” that delivery sent chills down my spine…
Could’ve pulled the trigger and save millions of people.
Bet when he found out he was like Fuuuck I try and do a good thing and this is what happens. But you have to remember they didn’t really have all the technology back then and a lot of the soldiers probably didn’t even know what Hitler looks like but hey I might be wrong
@@csar07. lol - he served in the military before he became a dictator - Hiltler was no one when this encounter would have happened .
@@leighag6265 true
As Leigha mentions, Hitler was simply another soldier during WW1. One of the masses. Nobody knew what he would do in the future.
"I'll bet people are just flushing their Kentucky Fried Chicken" is an interesting response 😆
The third story was too much for me. So evil and disgusting.
Its so messed up
It hurt my heart
"that man henry just save was adolf hitler"
Damnit henry u had 1 job
😂😂😂 facts
😂 😂😂😂😂😂
why do you hate white people?
@@commiekillareee912 ...
@@commiekillareee912 dude Adolf Hitler was on of the scariest people in the world
He killed so much people
"That man was Adolf Hitler"
That physically made me jump in surprise, I was kind of zoning out while listening to the story and that was a plot twist to say the least.
I was like "Um....what?" Had to rewind to hear what I just heard
Same. Jaw literally dropped.
same
I had to rewind 3X …I wasn’t ready for that at all!!!
my guy my stomach dropped and my eyes widened like I did not see that coming
I lived in South Lake Tahoe for a decade, I know how treacherous those mountain passes can be. That little boy really did have a guardian angel and his mom watching out for him.
Watching for 2 years now and wish we still had 3 or 4 uploads a week. Never get tired of his story telling. Audible needs to hire him for some good suspenseful books.
a) Minus his gestures, his storytelling would lose a lot of impact, and, more importantly,
b) He needs to lose some very bad speech habits that are just too unprofessional for pro audiobook work: e.g., "very unique"--something is either unique (one of a kind) or NOT unique--"very" is not an option. There are a ton more examples, & if Mr. B is interested in what they are (seems like a guy not allergic to self-improvement lol), I'd welcome his interest. ;) But, no: audiobooks have pretty strict standards, just like some very entertaining writers would never be hired at NYT. :)
(For an example from this ep: it's not "a children's shoe"....it''s "a child's shoe." -- none of which detracts [much] from how entertaining he is...& could even be argued it 'humanizes' his spiels, or 'makes them more homey'. :) )
@@markhcolleni completely disagree with the first one, he has a very successful podcast.
Also for the second reason, Id say it wouldn’t be a problem because he would be reading a book so he wouldn’t be susceptible to any mistakes.
It's not Henry's fault that he spared adolfs life, rather adolf later in life, chose to lead a bad life, not Henry's fault. God bless Henry.
The ability to make "The Right" choice is what separates mans mind from animal . That and opposing digit on each hand. Henry, of this story about not shooting Adolph, is most likely the boldest fiction. To encourage the allied soldier to keep shooting even when exhausted from the hours. days & weeks of killing. A seed of thought, to continue since you never know what a mess you might cause by letting one get away?
@@jackrichards1863 I thought the same thing! That it was a folktale of sorts or cautionary tale made up by the allied forces to ensure their fighters put the mission ahead of their individual needs, not show mercy, and to help justify them killing someone bc they don't know what evil that person may commit in the future type of thing. (Sorry for the run-on sentence, need sleep).
How could they have even verified the original story??
All things happen for our good if he had killed him the world war 2 would kind of end which will lead to world war 3 because all countries had an anger and the economy of all country would drop down and the reason it will lead to ww3 is because of anger,hatred and not knowing how much lives matter and death is REALLY SERIOUS subject.
@@jackrichards1863 actually there is more to separete us from animals, like the ability to feel emocions that there are prove they can, like empaty, love ( not disire) ... so i don't agree. I think he was very human and right at the moment. Adolf Hitler was a human anomally. Lyou can't expect humans, not machines, to acount for that error.
That's a fucked up thing to try and pull a lesson from, for sure, Lol. Damn
Me: "...You are a good man Henry"
Me shortly later: "Henry, you really screwed this one up."
how come? because of the bogus hitler story?
@@behabtwa looking at your previous comments...if you dislike these videos so much why do you keep watching them? Seems like you're just a miserable person.
That's what I thought, I just laughed in shock
@@behabtwa the story is not bogus, it is 100% real
eh, could've been worst.
The gasp I made when you said “Adolf Hitler”
Backpacking about 30 yrs ago, my friend and I set up camp and talked to a few people on the trail. We ate and started a fire. Just before dark, we looked at each other, and both knew that something bad would happen if we stayed. We packed back to the car and drove 100 miles home. Never checked to see if anything happened, but we were freaked out for no apparent reason.
Gut instinct is never wrong. Always trust it, even if you never know why x
Imagine how different the world would be if Henry had pulled that trigger
Right, thats infucking sane lol.
Someone else would have done it, been probably a worse kind of Hitler
Or the world we know it could have taken a turn for the worse as far as society is concerned it's shit now but what if
They’re probably would’ve been another Hitler…
I can’t understand how someone could be saved from death by one kind person, and then turn around and murder millions of innocent people.
My history test would probably be easier if Henry pulled that trigger
Someone else would probably have replaced him. Hitler didn't create the nazi party, he was "just" it's face.
Stop💀💀🤣
your history test would've been in russian if he had pulled the trigger
#FunFact most of us would never have been borne if henry pulled the trigger the butterfly effect is a might thing...
LMAO
Debra saw Christine doing what Mom’s do; take care of their baby. I really believe that part of us sticks around after we die if need be… and Christine stuck around and took care of her baby one last time… really a beautiful story.
The dead woman on the road reminded me of something that happened to me back in college. Walking back to the dorms one night, I saw what looked like a severed head beside the road. The closer I got, the more certain I was. I was starting to freak out, I had my phone out to call the police. Then between one step and the next, my brain finally processed what it was seeing. A paper bag in a funny angle of light. Human brains kinda suck
yeah one night I was going about 45 mph down a back road and there was a faint street light in the distance. I thought on the road ahead I saw a large, unfolded cardboard box and as I got closer I thought..."well it's just cardboard, no big deal" so I didn't slow down. I got right up on it, realized the lighting and the shadows from nearby trees were playing tricks on me and it was actually not flat at all, it was a deer (already dead) but I hit the thing anyway and messed the truck up.
Henry’s act of compassion was just that, an act of compassion. That act didn’t work out well but we should acknowledge the compassion that Henry had for another human being.
Right. How could he have known it was the worst monster in all of western civilization? :(
@Phineas Gage @Phineas Gage Oh, I didn't know we were talking about ethereal possibilities; I thought that a murderer's body count was more to the original point.
Your right but how many of us would kill him if we could go back in time?
@@teresahickey3021 Did you ever see that modern Twilight Zone episode where a time traveller goes back in time to kill baby Hitler,
and after the deed is done, the mom can't find her son, and just takes a gypsy's son who they name Adolf, and the whole thing starts all over again?
@@bentonrp I think this quote came from the movie Law Abiding Citizen.
Ya can't change fate.
It speaks volumes that Henry was a good person. No matter how history turned out, that speaks of the cruelty of another, not the kindness of one.
Well he was in a war a bunch of people didn't kill him.
For real. Even though they might be top trained, at the end of the day, theyre still just a human like everyone else. No person should ever have to kill someone.
@@jasonsenator6144 qa
@@khawaaje7509 it's a war. If your fighting an enemy that makes anyone he saw his potential killer. Imo
@@panic-revv85 probably true. He wanted to be an artist and failed. Then leading Germany he failed. How can they even prove who he saw was Hitler? Aren't there a bunch of these stores of people claiming to have seen him?
The first one was so sad. Henry took a huge risk to help an enemy because he was a genuinely good-hearted man. And that kindness was repaid with thousands of innocent lives.
It wasn't only thousands, it was literally millions of innocent lives.
the fact that my jaw literally dropped hard when he said it was Hitler
One thing anyone else would say for the first story: "WW1 started because someone got shot and WW2 started because someone didn't get shot"
@yolo crone what do you mean?
@yolo crone look up how ww1 started ,then you'll understand the comment. Cheers mate.
@yolo crone I think you misunderstood what he was saying.
WW1 Started because an Austrian was shot.
WW2 Started because an Austrian wasn't shot.
Ha! That's a poetic way of puttin it!
Still have to respect the British soldier in the first story. You can’t predict the future and he didn’t want to be a heartless person even though his job was to kill the enemy. War is war, hell is hell and war is worse.
Thank you for explaining that
I've also read somewhere, that Hitler actually respected the British for this reason, and he really didn't want war with the British people. He respected the British and their culture. The Nazis treated British POW's, as good as could be, under the circumstances of war, too.
I've heard this story a couple of times, & some sources claim it is not true as according to German military records, Hitler was actually on leave during this time. I'm not sure which account is actually true, fascinating story, none the less.
@@gutz323 I’ve read that too, the sources are trustworthy as far as I know.
You might like the bizarre & definitely true Hitler link I left top of the page ..I used to buy my milk & newspaper from the shop 36yrs ago & it got called locally the Hitler shop'😂
Man your story telling is next level. I’m just finding this channel but already I’m all the way hooked. Keep it up brotha ‼️‼️
Fun fact: Henry never knew the man he spared was Adolf Hitler. Hitler actually was quoted saying “In that moment I thought I will never see Germany again”
Exactly. There’s a point where everyone who is remembered in history was just a normal person until fate intervened.
And he wasn't even a german
It's a good thing Henry didn't catch any flack for that. Unfortunately, without more to the story.... Ryan Gosling will not be playing the part of Henry.
@@sakuramoonlight4925 yeah he was an eskimo
@@sakuramoonlight4925 he's american now. I'm talking reincarnation. Hitler being the 2nd antichrist, Trump being the 3rd antichrist
Know what I love about this guy? When he relates these stories, he knows every name, every detail, and can speak about it in a chronological order, making sense. He doesn't speak reading from a cue card with a monotone voice. He is a friendly, animated man, displaying character, and behaves as though he's speaking to a friend. jmo
You did notice how it's a bunch of clips edited together though right? Its not one cut but many. Still, it's very well done, he makes for a very good host either which way.
@@MrTommyslurs Oh yes, I am aware of the editing process. We all like to put our best foot forward. He could still do this in person and have the same great presentation. imo
If you will watch his eyes closely, it seems like he glances off to his lower right - maybe he has a 'bullet point list' to help him out in case he needs it. Regardless, he is a wonderful storyteller!!
@@mendagy YUP! Ever hold a cue card and glance at it for speech class? They are there to help keep you on track, not read from.
That's not an opinion, just facts. 👍
In regards to that second story, I’ve had NUMEROUS experiences like that- where I had a feeling to “do” or “not do” something and it either saved my life or led to some weird, other incredible discovery (finding money on hikes, etc).
I agree. When I miss the bus or train, it calms my anger to know that I could have just avoided something.Further, I was in Cardiff Wales in my 20s. I had to go over a foot bridge to get to a restaurant I'd chosen. I stopped in my tracks and couldn't go over the bridge. I'll never know why but I turned around and went to Plan B.
Bullion Bend is literally my back yard; I can see it out my window right now. Always so surreal to hear this story.
Lesson: When you’re the scariest thing in the room, a corpse is nothing.
You speak the truth in the statement. ❤️🇨🇦
says the murderer
That mental image of having a dead body standing in my room with his hands above his head is haunting me. Holy shit something is wrong with Dennis.
LOTS of things were wrong with Dennis. Enough things to have him kill 15 people and then hang out with their dead bodies. I don’t know if you can have anything more wrong with you than that.
Ya think??
The first was him hooking up with a teenager, like he couldn't get someone older?
Seriously what in tf lol
@@10RexTheWolf01 probably was a creep and no sane adult wants shack w him lol
The second story is scary, but also sad. The mother wanted to save her son even after death, that's an unbelievable kind of love. This makes me believe in souls and afterworld. Bur only if the fable is true
The story about the crows is so cute. Especially the part where they left Gabby one half of a best friends charm I know they probably don’t actually have the other half but it still makes me smile.
“That man was Adolf Hitler”
When I tell you I gasped😧
My heart dropped lmao I was like well that’s unexpected.
Historians have exposed the Hitler story as an urban myth. Hitler was in Germany on 2 weeks military leave on the date of the supposed incident, 28th September 1918, so it couldn't have been him. Other stated details don't add up either. If you think about it, the story makes no sense. It supposes that both men later confirmed the other's identity, which is highly unlikely.
My brain lost all thought but one - nooooooo!
@Sandra Braithwaite Henry Tandey was undoubtedly a very brave man, as were so many soldiers who tragically never made it home or got any awards.
Had it been possible to corroborate the Hitler story, it would have been proven by now. The 'PR blunder' you describe would not have kept the truth hidden to 2021!
In fact it is now confirmed it could not have been Adolf Hitler, as he was on his second military leave - therefore in Germany - from 10 September 1918 for 18 days. The story is set during that period of Hitler's absence from battle, on 18th September.
The respected British Cadbury Research Centre investigated the story of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's supposed involvement in this story, so often cited as 'proof' it happened. It was claimed Chamberlain discussed Tandey with Hitler during the famously tense and historic negotiations that led to the Munich Agreement.
The story goes that Hitler asked Chamberlain (rather improbably), to phone Tandey and give him his best wishes. This supposed phone call has been fully investigated and the details don't hold up to scrutiny - like the incident itself, it never happened.
History is written by many witnesses, not all of them reliable - that's sadly inevitable. But time usually sorts the facts from the fantasy, the truth from the half truth.
So it's disappointing this TH-camr presents this fully de-bunked story as truth, over 100 years later!
It's not the only such myth about Hitler having close shaves with death. Many other such stories surfaced after WW2 and were also, eventually disproved.
@Sandra Braithwaite Read your first reply to me - you were very sure the 100 year old story WAS true. If I were ill mannered and ignorant, I'd say that makes you look incredibly stupid!
In 1918 there was no mass media, no social media and even photographs were rare. Yet two soldiers supposedly met fleetingly in a high stress situation and each could positively identify the other 20 years later. Put simply, it doesn't pass the sniff test.
The idea British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain would discuss such an incident with Hitler at the Bavarian Berghof during tense negotiations for the 1938 Munich Agreement, agree to call Henry Tandey personally on his return to Downing Street to pass on Adolf's regards, and then did so, is frankly laughable! It isn't too surprising detailed investigations by the Cadbury Research Centre could find no evidence this phone call took place.
This was not the only such urban myth about Hitler's close shaves with death. He generated many of them himself, to further the idea he was an invincible, Christ-like figure born to lead Germany to world supremacy. Many other such stories emerged after the war, including a dedicated midwife who pulled the sickly, newborn Adolf from death's door, an Austrian priest who dived into a lake and saved the young Adolf from drowning, and even Hitler's own mother who supposedly saved his life after a vicious beating by his father.
The rush of such myths following Germany's defeat in WW2 indicates they met the public's voracious appetite for stories about the vanquished Fuhrer.
I'm a journalist by profession and regard the truth and accreditation of stories as important. While I accept this channel is for entertainment, it's disappointing Mr Ballen would present as 100% true a story which a quick Google search would have told him cannot be confirmed as such. 'True stories' are his channel's stock in trade, so it's a surprising error that diminishes his credibility.
Have a great day!
The people that disliked this simply cannot handle the dark and mysterious delivered in story format.
Or perhaps their rather disturbed, especially by the last story.
This is something some kid in my English class would say if he knew about mr.ballen
@@recycledtrash3060 don’t watch the videos then ?
They aren’t worthy!!!!!!
Agreed.
That has got to be one of the coolest war stories I’ve ever heard and nothing violent happened. Fascinating.
I’ve been binge watching all damn day! 😊 John, you sure know how to tell stories and I’m addicted to your channel!
The second story had a premonition that reminded me of my grandmother's story. She woke my grandfather up in the middle night because of a bad feeling she was having. We need to go check on Terry she said, my mother. My grandfather tried to reassure her everything was fine but she was insistent. So at 2 a.m. he begrudgingly got dressed and started on the 45-minute drive to the next town over to check on my mom. The gas stove was turned on when they arrived with no flame and the house was full of natural gas. My mother was unconscious in bed, but made a full recovery thanks to my grandmother listening to her intuition and being persistent with my grandfather to follow up.
That is amazing ! Mother instinct
Is this realll?
Sorry Ik I sound like an asshole but anyone would be skeptic about it. And it was 2nd story of skubish mother.
Bullshit
Yeah premonitions always remind me of the time Henry didn’t kill hitler 🤣🤣
I was hoping the first story would end with something like ‘later in the war, that same british soldier was injured and the same German soldier remembered the kindness done to him and spared him only to then learn they had saved each other and became friends’
But..no.
No, I don’t believe in ‘calmer’!
Have you MET MrBallen? lol
Who else is in love with Mr Ballen? 😍😍😍
As a kid I remember that those strange tv shows started coming out more. And it was a strange mystery about the woman and child accident and that lady seeing the body on the side of the road. That story stuck in my head since I was like 8 years old. I truly believe that the mom used whatever strength she had in spirit to help her son live.
That poor kid sat with his dead mothers body as it decayed in a closed car and he slowly starved to death. That’s gotta be some of the worst ptsd. I hope he has healed and been placed with a loving family.
I find that story fascinating. That woman's spirit appeared to that lady so they could find her son 😭 no one will convince me otherwise!
So devastating.
That's a great fear of mine. I have children and couldn't freaking imagine. Heartbreak
@@dexterst.jacque4540 me too! I have 6 year old twins and I can't imagine them being in that situation. I'm in tears.
@@dexterst.jacque4540 it still keeps me up at night, to be honest. My daughter is 22.
Even tho we know what happened later, ya gotta respect Henry for finding some empathy in one of the most brutal human conflicts in history.
Hitler: *so anyway i started preparing for war*
Adam does make a point here...Although we already know what happens later.... The key point there is that the man (Henry) found compassion and mercy in a moment of chaos and humanity at its worst 🥱 Too bad that man (Hitler) had to repay the favor by creating one of "Not The worst " but one of the worst wars and atrocities of mankind with ww2
my guess is if "henry" knew what was coming, he'd a shot. but it doesn't work that way.
@@michellebarney9405 what is the worst war in your opinion?
@@mageic7001 that’s what I’m trying to figure out 😂
It just blows my mind that this dude showed so much generosity and and kindness, and towards Adolf you know spared his life you know, and the dude goes on to do horrible things like he would think he would hold that moment close to his heart for the rest of his life
Dennis and Dahmer= brothers from another mother! Jeez
I'm 58 now, I was the young 16 year old lad that worked on the house next door to Dennis nielson, I was bullied by to men at work, they left me on site, nielson wasn't known at that particular time, he invited me into his home to escape the cold freezing winter temperatures, he made me a cup of tea and a sandwich with the promise tgmhat I could use his phone to phone home which was 30 miles away,,so I could arrange to be picked up, he kept putting off the offer of the phone, I started to feel very strange, giddy and uneasy, he had laced my cup of tea with something, I knew then I had to get out, he became very irritable and somewhat angry, so I asked to use the lavatory, I made good my escape through a tiny window, I ended up getting home in one piece, I never thought much about after, then as weeks passed by, I arrived at work to find the street cordoned off by the police, I was allowed into my job only to collect personal belongings, the police by that time were digging up the garden and the drains/sewer system, I explained that my job was building new drains and a manhole, weeks before I removed a blockage from the drains that was quite a lot of what I thought was pork, it was a few hours hard work but I completed to task, then we came to the conclusion that it wasn't pork, it was human remains, I noticed an oil drum in the house which I remembered from the night I was in there, that was actually full of very strong acid and a decomposing body, the head was somewhere else, I believe it was in a wardrobe, I became very ill mental health wise, years later whilst serving in the British army the royal Corps of Signals, I asked for psychiatric help as I was having terrible nightmares about that fated time when I worked next door, I still get the odd ones, more so after watching Dahmer, which was a huge mistake, I've recently contacted Mr ballen about it after seeing this episode, he's replied to me, it felt good to once more get it off my chest, if I hadn't escaped through that lavatory window, I most probably would not be here to tell the story, thank God for instilling in me good common sense.
Henry: "This guy is harmless, I'll let him live."
The guy: It's genocide time
Underrated comment 😂
Check the story on BBC News.
Right?! It's a shame Hitler didn't understand that usually second chances involve doing GOOD things with the rest of your life.
@@OGA103 For him, he probably thought he was doing good 🤷🏾♂️
@@floppa4335 it wasnt a genocide. Allied bombing destroyed German infrastructure causing them to starve to death. Use some optics.
"And that man was Hitler" THAT CAUGHT ME WAY OFF GUARD LMAOOOOOOOOO
Hell of a plot twist
Me too!!! Then the story ended so abruptly haha. But very interesting
Ikr holy crap!! He could have changed history!
I was like WHOA!!
Do you guys really not know about it I swear I’ve heard that story hundreds of times
I drive a truck all night across the country and listen to these to keep me awake :D
OKAY I WAS NOT READY FOR THAT TWIST IN THE FIRST ONE!!!
The humility in Henry changed the world forever. So crazy to think about
The truest definition of no good deed goes unpunished
There a new logo bro change the pic
It’s insane to think that, how could he have known
It's insane to believe that Hitler, a man with absolutely zero compassion and humility, was spared by a man with the utmost compassion and humility.
Yet another massive historical instance of the butterfly effect. If he had taken that shot tens of millions of lives would of been saved.
My dad is pretty sure that he met Dennis, he used to wait for his gf to finish work and this man would ask dad to go for a drink, dad always said no then he used to ask to go back to his apartment for a cuppa my dad still said no, he then offered my dad a key to his apartment to save him waiting in the cold. This was three times a week for about a year. This man would stop and talk to my dad for 20 minutes everytime. It was between his apartment and the pub where he picked the boys up too. At this time my dad was 17 and this haunts him.
my uncle know his mum, i never met him, but he was born in my hometown
He interacted with him 3 times a week for 1 year & isn't entirely sure if it's Dennis?
Thats wild that your dad knew him.but it good that your father was not a victim of him.
wow! What a lucky escape your dad had.
He worked in Kentish Town Job centre. Not that I knew him or anything because just thought I’d say.
Henry must have spent the rest of his life kicking himself in the brain for making that choice.
Being really into true crime and macabre stories, I have already heard most of the stories you talk about. I still like watching your videos anyways because you add so much detail and you’re a great storyteller
Henry is the epitome of “You had one job”
This is so true and horrible but damn this comment was funny too. I'm struggling hard.
Lol
N he couldn't do it, just one job!
Lol
pretty messed up, but yeah . .. LOL
First story is like the true epitome of "No good deed goes unpunished."
@Ying Fipling No. Hitler was a bad person and I'm glad he's dead.
@Ying Fipling say sike right now
@Ying Fipling Exactly. WW2 is the most revised historical event from the last 200 years.
@Ying Fipling ^Thats bait
@Ying Fipling I really want to say you’re joking.
In bootcamp our Drill Instructor would tell us all kind of war stories, and after we graduated he told us the story of Henry and Hitler. At the end, he just said "Remember Marines, only god can judge the soul of our enemies. Its your job to arrange the meeting." Never forgot that lesson.
I have really enjoyed watching you tell the story. You are a natural! Perfect for you! Don’t stop your show, it’s absolutely amazing!
I don’t know what worse, realizing you saved hitler or being the people who denied him into art school
I feel like not killing him
german voters from 1930s: *JA IT'S THE DAMN ART SCHOOLS!* _whistles while walking away_
🤣
He probably would have made some dope ass art.
It’s good tho
Hear me out. Something tells me it is very plausible if Deborah and her husband made the story up after feeling guilt of having accidentally ran Christine Scubbish off the road and not telling anyone for days
My question was why did they only check Bullion Bend AFTER Deborah and her husband called? If Bullion Bend was "The last place Deborah was seen" why wasn't that searched??
They called the police right away, didn't they?
“That man was Adolf Hitler.”
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME-
Lol.
@@alfiona7951 hahaha.
That shocked me!
Not to mention he was saved from drowning when he was a little kid too
hitler never got wounded in a front line warzone... once he got wounded by a shell fragment behind the frontlines surrounded by germans who treated him right away and the other reported war injury was a temporary blinding due to mustard gas from the brits... dont belive everything thats on the internet
Cleaning a pipe with my hands is a horror story
This was the first video of yours I watched, and ever since I’ve loved your channel ❤ Thanks for the awesome content dude 😊
Mr. Ballen is an addiction that I’m proud of having
Right
💕c a n r e l a t e💕
One of the few 😆
Definitely stretches videos out. If your in a hurry it’s fast forwarding or you never get to hear the conclusions. 😂
Same
I can say from the viewpoint of a plumber, that the most horrifying thing about this story is that this guy Mike actually put his arm up a blocked sewer pipe
i never saw a plumber use his hands for this they always use tools for that ATLEAST IN GERMANY
But then you have to keep in mind that in the early 80's, there were still a lot of smaller businesses, rather than conglomerates we've become used to. While there was equipment that could have taken care of it in a much more sanitised way, even a plumbers snake was more expensive at that time. The internet has made buying things far easier, and far more competitive, so most things either got far more advanced, or they got cheaper. Today it's far more easy and affordable to buy the right tools for the job. But some jobs were not only cheaper, but also quicker and easier if you just got your hands dirty. It used to be, men weren't afraid to get a little poop on them to earn a paycheck. Although personally, I think I would have quit or got fired, rather than stick my hand in there - lol.
@@AFloridaSon good observations.. I guess they didn't mind getting their hands dirty cuz that's how it was done and how everyone did it, they didn't know otherwise
Some people just love the randomness of all possible textures.
You just never know what you’re going to get.
I worked as a plumbers mate for a wee while years ago. He did all kinds of horrible things. No gloves, no mask, too little washing.
The first story I instantly knew who the story was about. I’ve heard that story several times. It’s quite shocking.
I literally thought The first story was gonna be like the man Henry spared ended up saving Henry’s life later on, but then MrBallen drops that it was Adolf Hitler and shocked the hell out of me.
I was thinking the exact same thing.
me too! i had to rewind to make sure i heard properly
Literally Hitler
Sorry I do Not believe it, sounds like a fairytale.
There are so many mysteries around Adolf H.- the photos do not make sense, there are at least 2 different persons who play A.H. - the one who was a ‚Meldegänger‘ / simple soldier in WW1 was not the same who did do his murderous speeches in the 1930ies.
i thought it was a pretty famous story
This channel is the horror movie that hits you with a "Based on a true story."
Totally lol
But where movie makers usually take
"poetic liscense" with "Based On A True Story" ? He sticks to facts! Which is scary enough!
Based on a true story is soo loosely used though lol these are actual true stories...
Thats what makes it so interesting.
@@adorothyinkansas4392 ehh....
Huge fan of your content Mr. Ballen, I seriously love your stuff, keep making videos!
Everyone has at least one guardian angel. What the woman was feeling when she sensed in her spirit that she had to leave was Holy Spirit. He is called the Counselor for a reason & He is amazing.
"The man he saved was Adolf Hitler"
They had us in the first half, ngl.
I know right?
@Casey Schaeffer that flag on the right half is trash throw that away
@@jayboogie5776 no southern pride WP \o atetea8
there’s probably an alternative universe that he shot him
and there was no WW2
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Out of suspicion i did some research on this Dennis Nilsen guy. After looking through some parts of wikipedia I noticed this guy looked kind of like Jeffrey Dahmer and even had the same type of glasses as him. But what weirded me out even more is that they both started there murder in 1978 which was a little odd, so i started to look for more similarities. I found out later that both of there first victims names were Stephen and both were teenagers. hope you found it as odd and interesting as i did.
PS: its 3am and i have nothing else to do so dont judge
Thank you for saving me a Google trip... I was thinking the same thing.
Do a research on why america has the most serial killers. Thats whats been amazing to me. America wants to be number one on all categories.
@@kevinjay8440 maybe its not that we have the most serial killers, but were just the best at finding them. America #1 baby
I bet that's Jeffrey's blood relative they just somehow felt the need to start their sick games the same time
No judgment from me, I saw the thumbnail and thought it was Jeffrey Dahmer. I have never even heard of Dennis Nilsen until I watched this vid. The similarities in their crimes and looks is so eerie. I am surprised this guy isn't as infamous also.
Mr Ballen is great at building suspense in every story, even the stories I’ve heard before from other channels, he’s so great at storytelling that I still sit and listen to those stories over again
Henry's story captures the words 'actions have consequences' to a whole new level.
Imagine saving a German soldier because you felt bad only to realize you just saved one of the most evil men in history
I can’t give you a creative joke but I can give you a worthless uncreative joke:
Your life
Don’t take it seriously, Issa joke
Thats objective
@@Misslastate2001 You know this is probably going to offend someone in the future that is trying to be a hero against cyber bullying (Let's be real here they're from Twitter if such person finds this comment)
@@memelord705 sure bud
hitler was saved by compassion twice as a kid and as an adult wow some people are lineally POS pshycho
Henry is the definition of "no good deed goes unpunished "
I thought that exact same thing, like damn what are the odds..
It almost certainly wasn't Tandey. Hitler thought it was Tandey after seeing him in a newspaper article, but modern research makes it unlikely they were close enough.
@@Jessicamarlana1999 no kidding. What are the damn odds that dude you don’t shoot is HITLER … man.
Uh he's an innocent man what the hell is wrong with you people?
@@IsraelCountryCube I hope you mean Henry... in which case, the entire comment thread here is about how unfair that is for Henry, as he is doing the right thing
I've watched so many Mr Ballen videos that I get excited when I find one I haven't liked already like this one!
Beautiful story ,#2..... Literally brought tears to my eyes.....as one who has had a brush with the other side also.....
I was a police cadet and helped with the search for the victims of Dennis Neilson back in February 1983.
It was fucking grim.
Omg how awful
im happy i live far away form south london
Spill ze beans
My dad worked on the house after the arrest. I found out at my dad's funeral, my dad's friend told us, I had to explain Nelson to my son as he never heard of him
@Weirdkid_rorih U mean... Stop the 🧢
Dude the first story, Henry's humanity just changed the whole history,
Its fake, minimal google searches can find that out. Not sure why he put that video on here
@@kingcrustytut7544 I googled it and it says it's real. Where are you getting your information?
Hitler was also saved by a Monk from drowning, a Doctor from chocking, hell a woodchuck saved him from being raped by a turtle. Millions of different Hitler should have died but was saved stories out an about.
@@kingcrustytut7544 Have you just gone to every comment talking about Henry saving Hitler's life and saying the same thing?
Adolf Hitler actually dodged death a few times. Like a tme traveller just keeps fucking up.
You are awesome sir. Truly amazing. I love all your stuff seriously
I can't get over Henry's story 😥😥 his kindness cost millions of lives 😢😢 wow! My heart aches just thinking about it. What a conundrum? Not killing is a virtue. Henry practiced kindness on the one person whose death would have served the greater good.
Nothing will ever sound fake when Mr Ballen tells it in story format!
No cap
Innit though
He could read the dictionary and make it sound riveting.
And with distracting hand motions
HAhaha
the most scary thing in the last story is that if he hadn’t put the victims in the pipes, he wouldn’t ever be caught or at least would take some years more to it
Yeah, imagine if he just incinerated all of the bodies, like his first victim. He might have never been caught
The doc on that guy is gross but facinating
Is that pico?
It’s truly horrific, how can people be so weird or twisted.😳
@@notmyname9625 yeah thats pico
That first one had me like "NAHUH" lolol
I get goosebumps every time I watch one of your videos .
The second story is definitely intriguing, but my mind can't get past the thought that, that poor child had to sit in a vehicle for 5 days next to his dead mom. How heartbreaking! Put that in the box of things you can't think about.
I wonder what she was going through to fall asleep at such a tricky, bendy place, with her kid in the car no less.
When I worked as a housekeeper they hired this new woman she had only worked there for about two weeks I had given her a ride home a few times a couple days later she didn’t show up my boss sent me to her house to check on her come to find out her and her roommate had overdosed on a fake pill supposed to be an opana her one year old son was in the room with them when they died the night it happened there was a bad storm going on that little boy was probably so scared of the storm with his dead mom I’ll never forget it
@@00loudog 😔
@@destituteanddecadent9106 when you’re driving you can get in a trance almost like hypnosis. My mom calls it’s driving hypnosis. She says if you’re the only one in the car with someone on a road trip never sleep while they are driving, keep them awake and talking. It’s a lot easier than you can imagine to get hypnotized by the road.
I saw this story on Unsolved Mysteries decades ago. What they said is when the leo, Rich Strasser, approached the little boy Nick, he caressed Nick's cheek to see if he was still alive. Nick opened his eyes, smiled and the leo, Rich Strasser, picked him up and carried him up the steep ravine. When asked how he stayed alive, Nick said his mom Christine was there with him protecting him from wild animals, the dark and kept him warm. Almost like she was his guardian angel. So heartbreaking. I've searched for this story on and off through the years and here it is on Mr Ballen's channel!
One more thing, when Deborah first saw the mom Christine, she was indeed naked on the side of the road but her arms and legs were in awkward positions. Her limbs were bent in wrong directions. Christine knew her little boy Nick was near death.
Makes me think, that the mom's love for her precious little boy was so strong, that she would do everything in her power, even in death, to make sure someone would save him. The only thing she could do in her ghostly state was to manifest herself onto the side of the road in the most shocking manner to get Deborah's attention. Dear mom did what ever she could possibly do for her son even from beyond the grave. Dollars to donuts, Christine is Nick's guardian angel.
Whenever he said that his arms were stretched like a Y over his head i got a real vivid picture of what he is describing. That hit hard and it made me think how crazy life is one day your living life grabbing a drink , and the next day your stone stiff getting hacked up and stuffed in someones floor boards. Anyone that might read my comment i truly hope you and your family long life, good health , and all in all just a peaceful journey.
I hope the same for you and your family
Thank you
When he said Y I was picturing Y M C A
It's crazy to think you have a one night stand to then wake up getting strangled.......what?
@@darla2080 lol
I often wonder who Mr Ballen is thinking of when he personifies the Like Button. It makes me laugh to think His Like Button has a life of its own.
Again really gripping stories. Imagine waking up to a corpse standing above your bed staring a blank stare with it's arms raised. I generally do not like having mirrors in my bedroom at all, not sure what my wife will do, although having someone else comfortably in my room whom I love, would probably help with that. But yes, ever since watching that Supernatural episode Bloody Mary I have never wanted a mirror in my room and if we ever go anywhere to a holiday home I either cover the mirror if there is one or turn it around. Old habits and fears die hard.
Thank you Mr Ballen for all your stories. It is really fascinating. I love your consistency and you have a gift with stories. Also your background music helps with setting the feel.
I've seen a lot of these videos. I rarely leave comments on any video I watch, for that matter. After hearing Henry's story, the fact that during a time of war, the first world War no less, that anyone could show any ounce of mercy for another human being in such a difficult time, that the very man who's life was spared, and shown such humility, would go on and be the cause of so much murder and destruction.
Needless to say, I had to pause the video and let that one sink in. Just....whoa.
I found this link on the History Channel...dated 28 September
HomeThis Day in HistorySeptember 28British soldier allegedly spares the life of an injured Adolf Hitler
It may help clarify things. But I shall def do more research myself too.
Imagine realising you could've saved millions of people's lives if you didn't decide to be merciful. The guilt would eat you alive.
You'd think Hitler would have reflected on that moment of Mercy when he was doing when he was doing but he probably forgot about it
@@magicpyroninja he kind of did actually. I mean not much but kinda. He tried to reach out to the solder that spared him if im not mistaken and because of that incident he would actually hold England in very high regard. Hitler had actually wanted to be at peace with England up untill the bombing of Berlin.
@sam emo really that’s kinda sad
But you also have to take in account the trauma some people would feel from killing an unarmed injured soldier not showing to be hostile. Both situations would not be a fun one to go through but I personally believe showing that compassion would be better in the long run. Also if you think of the odds that you do something like that and they become a person like Hitler is probably less then one percent. I believe the guy made the right call, it's not worth trauma or damage to your moral compass either.
@@samemo4862 You're kidding right?
Literally no one is talking that this man had a dead human body on his wall facing him like this 👻
Lmao 😂
😂😂😂
Or the fact he that after FOLDING the corpse up to stash it,
he pulled it out again to give it another bath, then bathed himself in that same water later. 🤢
@@jamesromaine9878 Fr my germaphobia is sky high. I am gaging rn I would rather touch dirt the hear that story again. ✋🤢
Then he turns the guy into a pretzel so he fit underneath the floorboards. Takes him out a week later to... play with him, gives him a bath, then he himself takes in a bath in the same water as the corpse. What the fucking fuck???
Mr ballen is amazing! I love all his videos ♥️ He is the best storyteller. I love them because they are all true stories.
I new immediately what the first story was about, because less than a year ago for a project my story teacher told in class this story. He projected a foto of Henry and proceeded to say this at the end of the story: “the German guy was avtualy Austrian, an Austrian descending from a wealthy Jewish family. At that time, being Jewish in Europe wasn’t convicted yet, and it would have never been if it wasn’t for Henry, because you might now the guy he saved that day” and he projected a photo of hitler. Even people who didn’t give a damn bout history in the class were having visible goosebumps.