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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 มี.ค. 2020
- TRUE STORY -- Something broke into our cabin in New Hampshire, 3 nights in a row... and it wasn't human.
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Demon: Leans over Mr. Ballen
Mr. Ballen: visibly terrified
Demon : whispers* Are you a fan of the strange dark and mysterious delivered in story format?
😂😂😂👏
Do you know how to get to Bell's Canyon?
😂😂😂😂 this made me laugh so hard
Dying!!!🤣🤣🤣
"I'm the like buttons older brother"
What do you think of this series? Do more?
MrBallen Yesh
Yeah
Came here for information about seals and I’ve started to like the person more than the subject that he’s speaking on. You have quite a special skill in storytelling!
Yes
Hell yeah
MrBallen, please revisit this story, maybe take pics of the cabin. This is one of your best stories.
If I were you I wouldn’t ask him to revisit his scariest experience in life just to take some photos, you can tell he still doesn’t want anything to do with that cabin or nicks family
28:22 Hearing an actual Navy SEAL say he needed his mom is honestly one of the most humanizing things I've ever witnessed. Although I can recognize that your production has advanced by leaps and bounds over the years, this video has connected with me in a way that might surpass any other on your channel
Yeah, I miss his old way of doing videos. They weren't pre-written and read from a script. He was just retelling a scary story.
He tells a story well, But the problem is that He RAMBLES TO MUCH.
My nephew is a retired Navy Seal and he is afraid of mice! His parents had to send dryer sheets(which are supposed to repel mice) to him for his tent overseas.😅😊
@@grammysal Everyone is afraid of something. Doesn't mean you are weak or a coward, just human.
@@martina5296 I didn’t say he was weak or a coward! Especially knowing some of the things he’s done for this country. But we as a family, get a kick out of knowing this guy who’s faced life threatening consequences will scream when he sees a mouse!
Somewhere in a parallel universe there´s a tall guy trying to explain to his family that he see´s two kids in a bunk bed everytime he goes down to his basement to get a beer.
3 kids ...if he is this tall, then he should see all 3 of them...lol
🤣🤣
😂😂😂
Best explanation, ever.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
“Whatever happens, just don’t bend down and look at me. That will ruin my life.” I felt that in my core.
i swear that gave me goosebumps when he said that bc that’s exactly what i think when i get sleep paralysis and see something in my room
Same
Yes!
I felt it too. I get sleep paralysis pretty regularly and I never open my eyes.
Sleep paralysis is the worst. I used to get it bad.
The amount of visible discomfort on his face hurts me through this story. Stay safe mr ballen and thank you for all you do! 🫶🫶🫶
When you think something or somone might hear your eyes move. That should be the definition of terrified.
physically impossible, eyes don't have sound not even fast movement. blinking does tho
@@TheRealGimynus1 exactly thats why you know you're terrified when you think someone can hear it.
YES! Agree!
First person I’ve ever heard tell a ghost story that I actually believed, thanks bud now I’m terrified
Quantel Sefrus thats high praise. Thank you!
LOLL Hilarious comment! But it was definitely a demon, trust me I know. Thanks for sharing.
@@michaelmckee4805 how do you know
Gavin Tracy I like ur reason
@@AString95 this completely false.
"In real life your brain tries to convince you everything ok, it takes a lot of things stacking up to raise red flags"
My brain, for absolutely no reason while walking back from the bathroom: "run"
Same
Or look over your shoulder while pissing
Or, don't look away from the mirror. Alternatively, don't look at all.
Same. Even when someone follows me even for an incident (like some random passerbys co'z we're in a crowdy road) I'd suddenly accuse someone and ran away and stop once I reach enough distance for me to feel safe.
Yup
“I shouldn’t move my eyes too quickly because it might hear that”. I’m sorry this story is brilliantly terrifying but it has it’s moments of comedic relief 😂
i have literally heard my own eyelids before...i hate it when that happens...But blinking does make a sound 🤷♀️
I meannnnn I can hear my own eyes when they move so yeah it's totally valid to me
Have you never been so scared about the sound of something tiny? It's a terrifying moment in time, super memorable.
@@slowerlifeonpurpose I definitely have been there before, I honestly can't even imagine a situation like that ever being "comical"
This is low key brilliant tho considering it wasn't human
I had an experience of hearing noises in my room years ago and I recall one night where i was especially exhausted from a long day of work and during the night I started hearing this distinct tapping on the desk near my bed. Needless to say I was more tired and cranky than scared so I literally just said ,"will you cut that shit out already! I'm trying to sleep here!" And it stopped. Never heard it again.
Good for you 🙏🏼
Anybody else find his channel from recommendations and haven't stopped watching them
🙋🏻♀️
This is the video that got recommend 😂
Found him on tiktok
Nice pfp
Yuuup
“Don’t bend down and look at me, that will ruin my life” that creeped me out just thinking about it
he got a big kiss from slenderman ..
with the ela pfp lmao
I’m at that part and I’m scared
I'd have to agree. That part would freak me out permanently.
I was thinking the same thing tho it would ruin my life if that happened to me even though I know there real
Watching this 2024. It’s unsettling watching you so uncomfortable and distressed.
I can tell you’re reliving something traumatic.
Rewatching this 3 years later and you can see it’s a whole different vibe for him telling this story rather than others
fr
No frrrrrrr
yess
I noticed that too
Yes that’s why I believe he’s telling the truth
The dark figure in this story:
Ima start this man's whole career.
🤣
Haha if he can love mom, he certainly could have a sense of humor too
Yep, that’s normally how this shit works lmao
I have night terrors and it sounds awefuly familiar. I am usually up and convinced that im seeing dark figures walking around. I wouldn't be surprised if you experienced that
I am number 689
I I have been watching your channel for the past couple of months and binge-watching all of your videos it is June 25th of 2024. You have come such a long way from how you did everything so what you're doing now you are an amazing storyteller. Thank you for everything you're doing. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
It’s sad to think, the whole ordeal ended or abruptly changed the whole dynamics of 3 friends, solely due to the fact that nobody seemed to just be able to communicate or hear him out and have empathy for what he’d been going through or just to even stay awake and so much as _try_ to see what he was seeing or just for moral support. I’m all reality, I don’t blame him for cutting ties bc it sort of showed him where he stood on their “importance scale.”
Right I don’t understand why they didn’t remain friends! @MelissaJarnigan
"Thats what parents are for, doesn't matter why just come get me" this hit home
And you know they would’ve come, no matter how far it was.
If it were one of my children, 1st I would hope they would know to call me and 2nd and most importantly, I would have got in the car immediately and driven across the country for my baby! I'm sorry that happened to you, Mr. Ballen. That is so awful. I hope you told your parents when you got home and that you got in counseling for it. God bless you and you sweet family. 💙
This wasn't my childhood, so if anything it makes me bitter.
Is this the first video Ballen has done??? Because I can’t see past this video it doesn’t let me go look at older vids for some reason, I thought he had more….
@@kimberlyanderson8683 I’m with you on that.😔
"Please God just don't look at me, that will ruin my life." - I felt that on a spiritual level.
That scared me the most because for some reason I could unseated what he meant
*MOOD*
SAME
Bruh if the same thing happens to me I’m dead bruh
So true though, the last thing you want to happen when an effing demon is in your room is for it to effing notice you💀💀hail nahhh
I have never felt so much fear permeating off someone more than you recounting this story. That clearly was so traumatic for you. Big hugs. ❤
I revisit this video at LEAST once a month. Horrific.
This is the first time I’ve seen him actually bothered by the story he is telling
I think it’s because it’s his actual story
Omgeesies guys he totally saw a ghosty wosty how spooky wooky
@@isaacstetson5720 and yet you still watched the video awwwwww
@@ctbchris5756 yea you’re totally right it was his dead dad coming back from the grave to stare at them in their sleep totes.
@@isaacstetson5720 ok tell me what was in his room that was 10ft tall buddy?
“Whatever happens just don’t bend down and look at me cause that will ruin my life, if this thing so much as looks at me that’s it. I’m done.” 🤣 I felt this in my bones.
Lmfaoooooo
Take my friend, absorb him, absorb his mom, have this pot and that coffee table. But don't you dare initiate eye contact
Yeah same 😂
@@TheDramacist Ahhh 🙈😵😖🕶O.M.G I'm ☠🤣😹😸😂
Right?! That part made me laugh. I rewatched that a few times
I had a strange & terrifying experience as a kid that still haunts me to this day, and this story kind of reminded me of it. My mother had a best friend, Trish, who happened to also have a daughter around the same age as me. When my mother & Trish wanted to let loose and hangout, we'd go to Trish's and I'd play with Trish's daughter while our Moms were drinking brewskis and just shooting the shit. One night, after us little girls got tucked into the bunk-bed that Trish had in her daughter's room, my mother & Trish decided to make a gas station run for another six pack to continue their night. The nearest gas station was about a 10 minute walk or a 2 minute car ride, so they hopped in my mom's car to make the quick run. I was on the bottom bunk, and Trish's daughter was on the top bunk. And to put this into a visual perspective, there was a window next to the bunk-bed in which the top half of the window was viewable from the top bunk, and the bottom half from the bottom bunk. I had just started to drift off into sleep when I heard Trish's daughter scream. I don't know why I instinctively knew to look at the window, but I did. And what I saw terrified the ever-loving F out of me. It was a man's head, but not a normal looking kind of head. It almost appeared as if the head were disembodied and floating there. And when I first saw this head, its eyes were clearly looking upwards towards Trish's daughter. And somehow this man, this thing sensed that I was now looking at it, because its eyes immediately darted down to stare at me. And within seconds of this happening, my mother & Trish pulled back up to the house to hear us girls screaming & crying. We were trying to tell them that there was a man at the window, and both of our mothers darted in opposite directions around the entire house trying to find this creep. But there was nobody there, and there was no way a person could have ran and hid so quickly with nothing nearby to hide behind. For years and years and years now, I still have recurring nightmares with disembodied heads floating outside of windows.
Thats wild that you both saw it!!
Are you both still friends
@@tommyharris5817 The only wasteful comment here is yours, friend.
@tommyharris5817 i am scrolling through comments and still can't find where did she ask for your opinion
@@zayn3051Sadly, we're not. It was such a young period of my life that I cannot even recall her name, which makes me feel terrible. Trish's name always stuck in my memory just because of all the times she'd call my mother on the landline, I'd answer, and then have to yell to my mother "Ma! Trish is on the phone!" I haven't seen Trish or her daughter since I was a wee one. (And by "wee", I mean around 5 years old.)
The only man in the world that can tell a story and make you feel you're there with him and seeing it happen. Best story teller in history.
Agreed
Dats tha truth brudda! Awesome story teller. When I listened to the skin walker ranch story he tells it the best . N I locked all my windows a drapes n especially my doors n making sure my dog was in bed with me. Lol
That's a skill of a really good story teller.
Truth be told, I think I stopped breathing for a moment, waiting for this "thing" to come through the ceiling towards MrBallen 😬
@@andredivergentand3274😂
there is nothing scarier than a Navy SEAL being terrified
He was younger tho
Riley Lefcakis FACTS but he was younger as klutzy said
I know right? If a seal gets scared its all bad
@@klumZykevXn That don't really matter I just assume a navy seal is pretty much a bad ass even before they become a navy seal. Its just something they are born with at 16 it was probably showing
No cayyyyyyyyyyyup
"It takes a lot of anomalies to convince your brain somethings wrong"
Me: *Hears something creak in my house*
Also Me: Somethings wrong. I'm gonna die.
I just be like ok all you gotta do is pretend your sleep
It's sleep paralysis. I've experienced things much like that.
Meee 😭 but also kinda not cus I have heard footsteps when I’m home alone right outside my room two times. (Well once the footsteps were actually in my room and o was hiding under the covers and my dad was in a different room and the dog was in the cage. And I’ve seen shadows move.
@@nickfosterxjorobeshipp4932 my dude you're haunted
the profile pic matches
Clearly Mr. Ballen, Nick's dad was deeply attached to his family and worried about them after his passing. The dimensions of Dad's spirit is distortedly large b/c Spirit is only contained in size by the human body. Nick's mom recognized her husband and his wanting to care/provide for his family and was at peace with his visitations so she was trying to put you at ease with it. You are a sensitive person Mr. Ballen who couldn't sleep b/c there was energy around this family that was keeping you awake and made it possible for you to see Nick's Dad as he was checking on his son. This sensitivity is apparent in the work you currently do. Sadly we are not conditioned in our society to accept such experiences. If the ghost was aggressive trying to drive you out of the cabin that would be different, but that was not part of this experience and can just be accepted as this man's love for his family. Thank you for your TH-cam Series!
Clearly.
I have a bridge to sell you xD
It’s called sleep paralysis. Ghosts aren’t real, my gullible dude
@@capulet5580 Sleep paralysis three nights in a row, with no history of it before or since? Even after a tour in Afghanistan and a grenade exploding behind him?
Not sure about the apparent otherworldly appearance of the entity, however. If MrBallen thought it was a giant human, he wouldn't have been terrified to have it look at him. Or the sense of dread around it when it entered the room. When people encounter genuinely benevolent ghosts, they don't report being terrified like that.
I know you said your friendship with Nick ended, but what if you created an episode where you, Nick, Nick's mom, and Wolf sit down and talk about what happened? It'd be interesting as hell to hear their recollections and perspectives (especially considering how Nick and his mom reacted to you) so long after the experience. I'm also dying to know if they ever experienced or saw anything else in that house after that... Might be worth it especially since they were so fresh in the grieving process then and may have a different reaction after so much time.
I'm in a dark room, listening. I can hear the sound of me, shitting myself.
Thanks man.
😂😂 bruh
lol
🤣🤣
Ur welcome ☺️ 😉
😂
You can literally see the discomfort on his face as he's recalling this story. I feel so badly for his 16 year old kid self!
Pretty sure this is a creepy pasta
@@jimmythompson8919 he says himself, during a q&a that it's his own, and only, paranormal experience.
the 2nd night he heard the footsteps he shoulda woke one of the boys up.. i woulda lol
@@deruje6289 you don't understand the paralyzing power of terror. Especially terror of something unknown. ESPECIALLY especially when your only instinct in that moment is to not draw attention to yourself. Even if you manage to wake your friend up, that few seconds is enough for this thing to see you and even if it doesn't attack you, just it looking at you is the mental equivalent of chewing a mouth full of razor blades. Like he said, you don't even want to move your EYES, you don't even want to BLINK, because it might hear. Until you're faced with blinding terror like that, you can say what you "would have done" all you want but you won't know, probably will never know, and hopefully will never know what you would really do in such a situation.
@@EmilyKinny I felt that before, youre right. Whenever I feel like there's something, I wouldn't make a sound. I would just hide there with terror on my face.
I've only came across MrBallen's videos a couple of weeks ago, and I must admit: I'm glad that I just barely now came across his channel. I've been binge watching his videos all day every weekend since. I literally won't watch anything else. His videos are so addictive. I won't watch any during the week because I know if I do, I won't sleep yet still have to work. (No sleep because I wouldn't want to stop watching -- so I have to control my addiction.)
@MrBallen this is without doubt my favourite of your stories....I watch it so often. I'm sorry for how it still clearly affects you, the way you tell it is just so raw and emotionally chilling... I want to sit next to you on your bunk to offer you moral support!
I love how he described the entire story in perfect detail
Hailey Minger thank you!
First time I understand someone's hand gestures while telling a story
MrBallen awesome story dude!!
These are what makes it imaginable, to create the environment you need to point the details and these details were crucial in this story. I had the whole house all mapped out In my head and the room that they were in
@@thegreengoblin3603 yessss
It’s 3 am and I’m using Mr. Ballen to cure some insomnia, as per usual. But my husband, who tends to twitch in his sleep when he’s stressed, has his hand on my shoulder (and I forgot about it). He twitched. I screamed. All four cats went flying. 😂 -sigh- good times 😂🤣
Lmao!!! The poor cats. 😂 Some people twitch like crazy in their sleep. Once I was trying to sleep with my head in the crook of my partner's arm. He had some kind of nightmare that made him bend his arm around my neck (like I was in a choke hold), and he rolled over so aggressively he practically threw me halfway over him by my neck. It all happened so fast. I was just like, hitting him (not super hard but like HEY, WAKE UP) and he released me. I told him what happened and he mumbled something as he fell back asleep while I stared at him like WTF. He had no recollection of it the next day. He's done other stuff in his sleep, like lifting his arm up and then dropping it right onto my face lol, but that was by far the most aggressive. I don't hold it against him by any means, I've seen how he twitches when he has nightmares and it makes me feel really bad for him. But yeah, he will startle the living shit out of me sometimes.
Hilarious 😂
My boyfriend twitches a lot most especially in the first couple of hours. Scares the crap out of me almost every time when I'm watching MrBallen at night.
My girlfriend says i roll over onto her in my sleep lmao. Haven’t heard anything about twitching though.
Priceless
Mr. Ballen, I lived what you lived for almost 5 years. As you were explaining your fear, I had tears in my eyes. I know too well what you described. And yes; I don't believe there are any lonelier or more helpless feelings in this life than what you and I lived through. Just glad we are both okay.
Most of the stories you tell creep me out but I usually go to sleep just fine after them... This one really got to me, I don't know if it's the genuine fear in your face as you're telling it, but it's so intense. Two random noises at home made me jump, I am NOT COMFORTABLE going to sleep alone, ugh. Lord help me survive this night, may my 3 cats protect me 🥺
Every now and then I'll come back to the video that started it all. Simply awesome!
i really think we need an updated storytelling version of this story, it’s absolutely iconic and i think if he retold this story in his current format, it would absolutely KILL.
Yup, if he included pictures and walkthroughs like he does in his more recent videos. I like how each of his newer videos have a montage of pictures to emphasize different portions of each story.
I agree but I also don’t want him to tamper with absolute perfection
This is my favorite story he tells. I know he believes he saw what he saw.
I think this would be the best version, it's so personal.
he retold the story a few months ago on a live, unfortunately i haven't heard of anyone saving it, but it was even spookier than this version! even in 2023, years after the events, he was still pretty clearly affected by it. the details stayed the same but his delivery has only improved, i would love to hear him tell it again!
How I know this story is true:
He stutters when he’s speaking and repeats things because he’s also in the middle of remembering it.
He looks down occasionally because the floor is floor and is a good place to look when you’re placing an image somewhere.
There’s rarely any cuts during the story because he’s telling a personal story for forty minutes and rewatching that experience just to edit it is too mentally exhausting.
He goes back and forth between the details, which takes us into his mind as the events occurred, and the same with his hand gestures, describing directions and positions of objects according to his point of view.
May this man’s brain rest easy after every time he thinks about this story.
@@shivpatel5413 You’re named after a knife.
@@shivpatel5413 I agree. You know you might have a few screws loose but I like you Shiv.
But you don't KNOW it is true, you may have faith or even believe it to be true but to KNOW is to have evidence. Evidence which no one in the history of human existence has ever gathered. No data to be examined and not a single measurable instance of such a thing.
@@DiesiraeL I do this too, sometimes. I need to check my arrogance more often. "Makes sense to me because" and "I'm super smart" often just mean "I can rationalize anything if I agree with it or want it to be true".
@@DiesiraeL Your mom’s a evidence.
This was absolutely terrifying and I definitely think there should be more “ghost stories “ I am a firm believer in the paranormal and I genuinely enjoy your storytelling!!
You did the right thing ignoring it. We had a lot of “odd events” at my childhood home. Me, my brother, and my mom all experienced it separately and together. We would talk about it at home and it just got worse and worse. Once we only talked about it away from home, it started to gradually happen less and less.
It got so bad that friends wouldn’t stay overnight, or one guy literally set a tent up in the yard part way through the night.
You can clearly see the difference when he’s talking about his story vs other stories. If you have more we’re here to listen, glad you opened up about it
There's a hole in the story if the door wasn't closed why didn't nicks mum say something about the door being open when she got up. And if it was open for hours all night it would have cooled down that small house so much that everyone would have been wondering why it was so cold. Who closed the door??
@@jamesh9174 It might have been long ago. Maybe he got a few things mixed up
@@jamesh9174 I think the door never opened. Instead the entity was able to mock the sound of the bells, footsteps, and pot falling. If that makes sense. But I agree with you if the door had actually been left open all those hours it would’ve woke everyone up
@@jamesh9174 I believe ghosts live in a parallel timeline to us so the door was opened in the ghost "world" but only the sound of the door opening carried through to the real world as well as the other noises but I don't know about the "I love you" written on the desk
@@jamesh9174 … the mom of course 🤔‼️
Ghost: *Exist*
Me:Helllll Noooo
Also Me: Throws Blanket on my head
Ghost: Damn Were did he go?
Street Scraps 22 on me
Street Scraps 22 real shit 💯
Street Scraps 22 I used to do that when I was younger
I’d close my eyes
LOLLLL
Out of all the stories that I've heard him tell This is still my #1 favorite ! It scares the shit out of me!
At 30:08 when he says “In retrospect, if I had it to do over again, I probably should’ve just called my parents, and had them come get me, that’s what parents are for.”
100%!!!
Teenagers are sometimes so reticent to tell their parents when they need help! Teens are afraid of being a nuisance, or giving their parents any more reason to view them as a child.
My heart! TELL YOUR PARENTS WHEN YOU NEED HELP!
When I was a teen I was in SO much trouble my parents never knew about.
Now that I’m a mother, my heart just absolutely breaks at the thought of vulnerable teens facing evil men, and monsters, and not crying out to their parents for help.
The fact that he is a navy seal, has been through the terrifying, anxiety inducing shit he has and you can see this visibly scaring him after almost 20 years is terrifying
My thoughts exactly, however I just learned he was a Navy Seal!
The paranormal is very real and even the most seasoned of soldiers and men cannot fathom or probably leave such events without some psychological trauma. There's thousands of "ghost" and paranormal stories in the militaries yah know?
Is that the most terrifying thing, that you know what’s happening just can’t happen, but it IS??!! Wow
Sure, coz military can't have scary teen memories ..?
When you consider this guy was a Navy Seal and the things he probably saw during his time in the military. The fact that something that happened when he was 16 still affects him like this is wild
the scariest movies are the ones with no monsters at all, all implied, hardly ever seen. so it is in real life. we are most afraid of what we cannot see or understand - death, ghosts, supernatural.
Anything that you can't fully explain scares you. It just does for a huge majority of the human population. We as a species need to be able to explain things and when it's the middle of the night and unexplainable events happen I can imagine the hairs on the back of your neck would stand up.
@ Fulfilling Happiness
I’m afraid of the dark.
He wasn’t a good one according to peers my buddy and I spoke to in Virginia Beach. Nobody liked him.
you thnk his telling the truth
It’s so odd that that fear of this entity bending down and looking at you resonates with so many people. How so many people, including myself, have that same innate fear that coming face to face with whatever that thing is would be heart shattering and ruin your life. I guess it’s a combination of going from just witnessing something happening to becoming the target of something happening and knowing that whatever this thing is knows you are there.
Its possible in a situation like this that the terror a person experiences belongs to the original recipient and not themselves
Who else can literally see the room and cabin hes talking about? Gosh that's awesome story telling. 🍿
MEEEEEE!!!!!
Yup I can see the entire bedroom. I pictured a small corner room with bunk beds to the right a window straight ahead looking onto the mountain, a queen bed in the corner, a dresser below the window between the queen bed and bunk beds with a old digital alarm clock. Assorted music posters on the walls and snowboarding jackets and winter gear strewn everywhere.
Am I the only one who believes this because they’ve been a victim of something terrifying?!? I would burn the cabin down!! I can’t deal with these stories. Fuck that!!
OMG. I've never been there but if I was I could go through the whole house blindfolded.
I can’t see it. I need a better description
The “don’t look at me, it will ruin my life” scares me and makes me laugh at the same time.
Same here! It was scary but I kept laughing every time he said it.
LMFAOOO I just heard it and I'm dying laughing lmfaoo
me when my teacher spoke of a trouble maker who they would not name 😂
Haha I died laughing as well
Hate to say it, but after having my own weird experiences, the memories are stuck with me forever. Sometimes I wish I could have that memory wipe stick from men in black. It really alters how you view the world after.
sheesh. I live alone, so I'm very glad I have a friend over tonight. what a nightmare.
I am literally yelling while I’m listening to his storytelling!!
the: ''don't look at me it will literally ruin my life'' really hit home for me .
Damn how it hit home bro
sounds like 096
Me to. Been there,do that.
Been there, too.
Same
Nobody:
Nick’s older 7”1 brother: “ imma scare the shit outta these kids “
More like nicks 10"5 brother lol
Lol
@@sharkdogkp8440 that has noclip
“ means inches. ‘ means feet. So you guys are talking about someone 7 inches tall or 10.5 inches tall. At least I hope you’re talking about his height.
@@daerdevvyl4314 😳
This literally the scariest one 😭😭😭😭😭
It’s 5/5/2024 and here I am back to the beginning enjoying the story as if for the first time 😊
this dude can tell a story about a bowl of dog food and make it sound dark and mysterious and really, really creepy.
ahahahaha LOL. this made me laugh!! LOL
He's a really good story teller like Bailey sarian and Stephanie Harlowe...they really use their talent well
No he can't
I agree. The guy is that good
Hahaha yeah. He's a REALLY good story teller.
"Don't look at me, it will ruin my life" - every introvert and self-conscious person ever
I can confirm this!
Actual lol 😂 so true!
lmao
lol! yuuuuup.
Cry with tears of laughter!
It’s interesting that the demon specifically acknowledged the only two sleeping people within that room, Nick and Wolf
Though its late for me to say this, but we could see two things visibly clear in his eyes TRUE TERROR and TEARS...
“Don’t bend down and look at me...that will ruin my life”....funniest shit I’ve heard all day 😭🤣😂🤣😂
I felt that one lmaoo I would die frfr
Lol it would be no coming back from that, sanity as you knew it would be over...
you are so right beat shit ever
Yup lmao
“That will ruin my life”
Well, if it noticed you were awake, then it would take away your life
This is one of the most wonderfully told and gripping personal ghost stories I have ever heard.
One time when I lived in illinois i was rlly not able to sleep i didnt know what time it was but then a shadow walked past my door and down the hall and i never saw it again so i went to the bathroom and when i got back to my room my chair was spinning rlly fast and as soon as I looked at it it stopped
It's terraffing I'm watching this at night and it's ten times more scary
It's a demon not ghost
I thought so too!!! He’s such a good story teller! I could listen to him all night!!
It sure is so well told l beleavie it.
As so real l have had experienced very similar l just love true experience. Thank you to young man 4 sharing...
Regardless of whether or not homie is telling true stories, no one can deny he's a captivating story teller. An art form.
Believe me, that was not Nicks dad, It was not human.
John tells us these spooky stories, immersing himself fully: calm.
He talks about his near fatality in Afghanistan: calm.
He tells this story: visibly and audibly shaken, 15 years later after it happened.
Yeah, I believe him.
Absolutely true.
Soldiers tend to compartmentalize things. And I’m sure he can fully immerse himself into stories that aren’t his own because they didn’t actually happen to or traumatize him. This could be the reason for his being calm. Just a thought.
PTSD probably. I have it too I understand how Mrballen feels. Maybe you guys too I wouldn't know.
@@courtneyp7260 yeah it’s always easier to tell a story about what happened to someone else, vs what happened to you. It was obviously he’s still affected by what happened that night and it definitely had a big impact on his life, losing lose close friendships and never snowboarding again changed the trajectory of his life and who knows, maybe that’s why it happened? Maybe he needed to sever his friendship with those guys, who knows, but I do believe it must have happened to him the way it did, for a reason.
He makes us want to believe he was there
Dude is a natural story teller. Really makes you feel like you're there
I literally listen to his videos instead of podcasts because he's just so good at storytelling
@@lllucasm why not both? You don't have to choose xD I listen to both and to music too, of course.
@@shamanik12 I was kinda comparing him and true crime/paranormal/mystery podcasts, the way he tells the stories is the best imo. for example on true crime stories he doesn't do the famous "this is what happened, now let's waste 20 minutes talking about this killer's entire life"
Absolutely LOVE a great story teller!!!
@@shamanik12 and it all simultaneously??
I have watched this video so many times. I know it's weird, but the way you tell this story is so comforting.
I love this story! I had an experience with an entity and I never talk about it and always try to make it not real or something. Makes me definitely believe in the after life! I just found you in the last few months and have been bingeing! Stay true ❤
What makes it scary is how shaken he is while telling this story, usually we hear him perfectly composed when telling similar horrifying stories
Heck ya, I noticed that too
that because expreince something and read about it is two different things.
Or.. he's a damn talented actor, and knows what makes money. Just saying. Great story and story telling either way.
@@kalon415 most likely this
I'm loving this channel. I told my son about it and he said: oh yeah me too. Cool my son and i both enjoy these stories, great channel. 2 fans in Pa.
Anybody notice that Mr. Ballen starts looking a bit pale as he recounts his story? This looked to be very emotional for him. Thank you Mr. Ballen.
I would be dabbing my forehead with holy water and drying my tears on the bible. Legit scary
I agree
No
Huh?
As a kid, in the middle of the day, my parents were at work and I was on summer vacation so I was laying in the house whole day and watching TV. Almost every day I heard footsteps coming from outside. I had a concrete in front of the house and that's concrete path was connecting my house with my other smaller house. I heard very loud footsteps walking from the small house to the house I was in and those footsteps were being louder and louder and they just came to the door of the house and I was expecting someone to come in but it just stops. I open the front door to see if someone is in front of the door but there is no one. Then I heard footsteps that got quiter and quiter as someone is outside and walking from the big house to the small house and then I heard front door of the small house loudly shut down. Once I got home from school and I grab the door handle to come into the house but my parents weren't at home and they locked the door. Then I turn around and look at the small house and here very loud footsteps in there. It was like 300kg person is jumping in there. The windows were shaking. Fortunately, it stop to happen but things like these are very bad to experience. You just see and hear something but you know it's impossible to hear or see it. It's terrible experience and it leave a trail on your soul for the rest of your life.
This is the first video I have seen of yours, and it reminded me of something that happened to my family seven years ago. We are a Canadian military family, that were posted to a province across the country from the rest of our family and friends. It was our first move. From the time we moved into the house, in the evenings my husband and I would hear footsteps walking down the hallway upstairs above our heads. There was one time I was in the spare room in the basement on the computer, with my husband and kids outside, and I heard footsteps above my head which would have been our bedroom. There was lots of other activity in the house, but it never felt malicious. My husband went for pilot training in the neighboring province, but would periodically drive home on weekends. This lasted a year. At one point my mom was staying with me to help, and she too heard the footsteps above our heads one evening while we were watching t.v. in the basement. I laughed and told her "That's just our ghosts" but I didn't really believe that. She said one morning, when she woke up she felt something get out of the bed next to her. I knew what she was talking about because years before that while I was pregnant with our first child and my husband was away on training, I would feel something get out of my bed next to me when I woke up. Things eventually took a dark turn. There were events that would lead up to this, but I was in the process of deepening my faith, wanting to learn more so I could raise my children in the faith. I was regularly taking my girls to church, and things amped up when I began reading my girls their children's bible at bedtime at night. It didn't like that. Before this, the first time I was scared was when my husband was visiting for a weekend. I was laying in bed struggling to sleep. We had an linen closet in our bedroom without a door. We did not have mice in our home, but suddenly I heard a rustling sound in the closet. Like the rustling sound of plastic bags. The sound was getting louder as something was trying to emerge from the back of the closet. I lay there for a moment in disbelief from what I was hearing. I turned on my bedside lamp, and sat upright in bed. The noise had stopped and nothing was there. I woke up my husband to tell him what happened. The night something happened when I was reading my girls the bible was that we heard the footsteps come down the hallway. They stopped outside the bedroom door. My daughters roller blind immediately flew up. That had never happened before. My youngest daughter started crying from fear, and her older sister ran out to the kitchen to make sure our outside door was locked. She couldn't process what was happening. This happened twice. My girls were only 4 and 7 years old at the time. After that, the girls started taking turns sleeping with me. There were other things that happened to me, and even to just my husband when he would come home that I won't get into. Things that were happening to my kids. I won't get into all of that, but I did ask my neighbor across the street who owned side by side houses, and lived there his entire life, if anyone had ever died in that house. He told me no, but didn't ask me why I asked him that. One night as I lie in bed unable to sleep, I heard footsteps coming down the hallway. This time they were very heavy. There was heavy loud creaks with each step. I had heard it stop at the door before and jiggle the doorknob, but it never came in. This time it was as if it just walked through the door. It was so large and heavy that its side was pushing against my closet door as it walked in my room. It almost sounded as if the floorboards were cracking as it walked up my side of the bed, and stopped beside my head. At this point I was completely frozen in fear with my eyes sealed tightly shut. My heart racing. All of a sudden I heard a sound on the floorboards next to the side where my daughter was sleeping, like it had flown over the side of the bed. My daughter began stirring and crying out in her sleep. I immediately began comforting her, and wrapping my arms around her to protect her, and I heard nothing after that. When we listed the house for sale was when the activity stopped. We were posted to a different province. That was seven years ago. Nothing happened until last year when I decided to finally go to confession. I had unconfessed sins built up in me for many years, going all the back to my childhood. I had stopped going to church since we moved here, but I wanted to start going again. I wanted to go to confession to try to make things right with GOD. The night before I had planned to go, I was laying in bed thinking intensely about all of my sins, all that I was going to say when all of a sudden the roller blind flew up and I let out a scream. It startled my husband. He said "What's the blg deal? The blind was obviously caught between two clicks." I told him it was that same thing trying to scare me. The only times the blind ever flew up in the last house was when I read my girls the children's bible. The only time the blind flew up in this house was that night. It was trying to scare me into not going to confession. It didn't want my soul to be free. I told my husband I was going to be sure to get to church early the next morning, to go to confession. I did. I stopped reading my girls the bible, but my oldest read the entire bible on her own, and both my girls are proud to call themselves Christian. We can't let evil win.
Edit- I just want to add that I couldn't edit my comment before I posted it. My computer went wacko. It had capitalized God and highlighted his name, and kept highlighting lines. I don't know much about computers as to what was going on. I struggled to get the comment posted. After I did, my keys went all weird. I just rebooted it, and it is fine now, but I had to check, and see that God is still capitalized.
Wowww!!! Just amazing!! So refreshing to read a faith based story about what the “ghosts” truly are. Praise God that your faith is strong and you instilled that in your kids too!! I needed to read this today, and I admire your bravery. Jesus is the only way, the truth, and the life!! God bless you and your family!
I came here after watching the story about the teen in the cabin and this is my first time hearing one of your person stories . That very great detail like all your stories but with so much emotion behind it .
Every time you say “sleigh bells ring”, this turns into a spooky Christmas story for me.
I know, right? Like it's at half speed- the music all distorted like it's coming from a distance😄.
🤔Makes me think of those movies where they use WWII era Big Band music during the beginning credits, creepy!
🎄🎄🎄🎄
"Sleigh bells ring, are you listening......to the strange, dark and mysterious delivered in story format?"
@@hgfhfyhy5ytfhghfhff 3 nights and everything
I know! I start thinking of the Christmas carol!
Mr. Ballen, sleigh bells ring
Me, are you l listening 🎶🎄
Ive never watched a 40 minute storytime without skipping, holy
same
Dang y’all have no patience then lmao😂😂
Von Gero fr Thoe
Facts💯
Von Gero to be fair he good with details to keep you entertained and interested
Seriously...this is the 4th time I've listened to this story.
I’ve had sleeping issues all my life so I’m quite familiar with sleep paralysis and it’s awful. I will hear and see things. I’m pretty good at recognizing it when it happens now but it’s still scary. I always hear things like footsteps, doors closing, talking, music, whispers. And what I see always looks like demons, and one time one looked like a gross witch. The physical paralysis is usually caused with your body thinking you are in a dream state even though you are awake. WITH THAT SAID, my entire family experienced a shadow-man phenomenon. These are solid black figures that appear during times of extreme sadness or despair. I had the lucky experience of seeing it in the middle of the day along with my brother. We both saw it in front of us. So I never had to question if it was real. It mainly visited my mom at night, this was during her lowest moment in life after my dad left us. I think it’s attracted to despair, feeds off it or something. My best friend saw it and never came to my house again. 20 years later my baby sister has the same experience again during a horrible time in her life when she was suicidal. Shadow people are very much real. It would be good to know the difference between them and sleep paralysis. I do not believe in ghosts. If that woman truly heard and saw the same things as you, she is likely the target of them and just just happened to witness it because you couldn’t sleep. She probably had been seeing it since before the cabin trip. She convinced herself that was her dead husband because grieving people process it different. I’d be willing to believe she’s the one who carved the message, maybe even without realizing it. I would be shocked if her sons didn’t see it too though at some point.
Learn more about the different dimensions, and what a 4th dimensional being would look like to us if it passed through our 3rd dimension! It's really fascinating! I'm starting to think that "ghosts" and "shadow people" are beings from either a higher or lower dimension, and some of them really enjoy f*cking with us.
I've also dealt with a lot of sleep paralysis over the decades, ever since I've been a little guy and I'm in my 40's now.
Scary witch lady is something I still experience on the odd occasion, a couple of times her face right next to mine when I finally manage to turn my head through the paralysis. I've also seen demon-dogs, grey aliens reaching over from my partner's side of the bed, horrible spider-like human-monster hybrids crawling on the walls, writing on the walls (even been able to get up OUT of the sleep paralysis and still see it before it eventually fades), cold hands pressed on my chest, hearing my voice called when no-one is there, creepy gnarled-up face small guy wearing a suit and tie (lol) coming out of my daughter's bedroom (seen the door open and said hi to her, then remembered she was at her grandmas for the night - cue goosebumps and hair on end, door opens and there this weird thing is) and the list goes on...
Unlike you however, I DO believe in things like ghosts, spirits, other-dimensional entities, etc. *but* I also believe that all of those things are just manifestations of my own mind, as is the world around me.
Not solipsism, but more like non-dual reality, only in a bit more of an intense sense than some people may see it?
Anyhow, thanks for sharing your stories!!
@@Atreyuwu did the funny suit&tie guy say hi back to you though?
@JustMe-ty2rp mate, those are all entities, not imagination 😮 please sage smudge your house immediately, your poor kids must be terrified shiteless
I would feel myself levitate off my bed like a stiff board unable to move... id hear voices and feel ppl in my room when I was a kid growing up... turns out my family has "dons" means they can see and talk too spirit's and others... from my mom's side my Aztec side apparently my tribe folks follow and protect me. Would explain me seeing soo much in the shadows
Imagine how different this would of been if he was in the top bunk or bed
Holy shit i would be scared as hell a 10ft tall thing
I think I woulda cried😂
UnibrowPG welp i think i would scream for the first time in 12 years
Fax
UnibrowPG fax
Did anyone else feel like they were in the room as he described, and everything else *chills* he's an amazing storyteller/teller of his own story
No
@@d1user 🤣
Yes.
Not even one stutter, he's ridiculously good!
Yea
I have listened to this video for a second time now just randomly because listening to these kinds of stories helps me to fall asleep at night. I love to hear someone tell creepy forest stories especially because there is something so wild and primal and mysterious about the forests, just like the oceans, that we, as humans, have been only able to explore just a fraction of. This is one of his best stories because it is personal and it creeps me out and makes me cry at the same time because I know that this is real. I really believe that our loved ones, in the initial stages of their passing, traverse from our plane of existence that we know to the next one, a transitional place where the veil between the living and the recently deceased can be more readily accessed. The signs we long to see are coupled with the signs that their love still lingers ever strong and ever present, and ever enduring…That is a beautiful experience.
I can’t count how many times I’ve watched this video, it continues to get better w time too
I can feel the anxiety in his voice as he's recalling the story....sad to hear that 3 good childhood friends are no longer close friends after this.
Not very good if they fell asleep when clearly he was in distress and wanted someone to witness it with him
Yes...sorry the loss of the friendship. My son is 42 now & still has his school buddies. I think the guys tried to stay awake for him but...men can fall asleep so easily. Anywhere.
What, did his two friends pass away in their sleep in this story?
@@OniNoodle4808 i think they just drifted apart. he said the mom saying it was her husband that he saw made him feel worse so he distanced himself
@@bethmulligan2588 what?
I can appreciate that 17-year-old version of the host had the judgment to take care approaching a grieving widow. That was one of the things that stood out to me hearing this story. The details he includes in his descriptions really brings the stories alive. He understands exposition.
he was 16, but yes that stood out to me too. shows he's a genuinely good soul.
Where are you from where that's not a common trait amongst teenagers?
@@seaofflowers. I did not say it was uncommon. Just that I appreciated the maturity with which he approached the subject. No doubt there are many at that age who have those skills. Many others do not. Where do you live that teens have that level of understanding and skilled communication in such numbers so that it is unusual to praise them for it? What a strange question.
@@glovere2I think it's more of a personal expectation, cause he assumes everyone is similar to him. At 16years of age this would be expected in my opinion too, most kids I've met likely wouldn't hold up to that though, maybe cause the times Mr ballen grew up it would be natural and Seaofflowers was born also around then. Besides i feel like he had alot of time to think, since he was laying there for hours, so that could've contributed to him being considerate and calmer. Idrk though, im just assuming aswell 😅
Here I am re-watching years later, and still as spooked as the first time I heard it. Glad to see in comments that I'm not the only one addicted to this specific type of scare lol. There are even times I'll be in bed trying to sleep, but this story comes to mind and scares the crap out of me all over again. Genuinely a great scare.
You can see how unsettling the experience was by John's behavior telling the story.
“If this thing looks at me...it will ruin my life.”
I don’t know why this makes me laugh so hard, maybe because it’s so relatable.
Exactly
Dan Bates idk because I felt that same thing when the tiktok girl from school looked at me
Same 😂
Omg yes 😳
Me too.
Me: "Phew, that was terrifying, but it's over now"
Him: "And that was just night One"
After that it’s like wait there is still 20mins left in this😀
Right!!!!!
Lmao so funny
Lamo
Its his dad tho so no harm
This is the first time I’ve seen this video. What a profound story, had me in tears.
Of all I have listened to of your awesome stories, your truth here is the most powerful and honest I have ever heard. Thank you for this.
I love the fact that there are no special effects, no pictures, no other stuff going on during the entire story telling. The way you tell the story is just so captivating I was really scared! Sorry that this happened to you btw.
And we love the fact that you're absolutely gorgeousss.
@@edgarramirez9113 I love the fact that ur thirsty asl 😂
i think she likes creepy stories. not…
aanyway, part of his charm is just plain average joe telling a story. no flashlight shining up on the face.
@@edgarramirez9113 shut up
Hands down, best stories teller. Got into them like 3 years ago.
Ballen has a gift of story telling I'm like in the house with him . . I can picture the story perfectly in my head. . .
How do you know you’re picturing it perfectly ?
@@Adizzy12 Isn't the art of good story telling putting the reader/listening recipient in the setting?
@@Adizzy12 in other words, he is good at immersing us into a story and suspending the disbelief or disconnect of it.
Yep. That's why I love this channel every story he tells he weaves it in such a way you can picture even tiny details in your mind and make a picture.
He's quite talented indeed.
I'll bet his Navy buddies loved sitting around listening to him share some creepy shit!
Same with me. When I hear the way he tells the story. Can picture it. And gives me a Goosebumps.
I'm almost half-way through the video and I'm already terrified!
This made me laugh when he said the ghost looks at him will ruin his life and nicks mom is a lunatic and this thing is gonna sink into me through the bed 😂😂
That's not your dead relative, that's not your dead cat, that's not her dead husband.. That's something taking advantage of grief
Demons
Amen. Cry out to Jesus anytime you feel terrified for your life. He will come immediately, rescue you and give you His peace.
@@jessicalightwarrior7276 nothing will help you on earth
Tyrone shoe laces hahaha I like that LOL
@@biggestganger3584 If that's what you want.
i have not ever watched a 38 minute video without skipping
Same
This is so interesting and amazing content
Now I feel like I have to skip the vid like 20 seconds now 😂
You and me both Brother
Same never did it
I saw your ramstein hoodie and instantly thought of the awesome PX they had when we lived in Baumholder!!!! This story is craaaaaaaaaaazy!!!! I pray you've found peace since this frightening event!
I found out about your videos from TikTok but not your channel, just other peole posting your stories. But in threee parts and it would always be hard to find more of the story.
So I came to find your channel here on TH-cam and have spent the past few months binge watching your stories every night and sometimes in the daytime, going from newest to oldest.
I'm now at your oldest video so I'm waiting for a new one each Monday and seeing what else you do that I can watch.