I met Aron at a climbing gym a couple years ago, he's a super cool dude, and despite losing an arm still is able to climb better than most people I've ever seen! The guy doesn't let his injury hold him back!
@@alexisvalere4095 if you're going to tell the story tell it all that she basically abused him first hitting him in the head he had to move her out the way which she called shoving to get out the door and away from the situation the charges against him were completely dismissed while she was eventually convicted of all three charges against her which was domestic violence injury to a minor because her eight week year old baby was present and disturbing the peace we often forget that men can be victims of domestic violence as well and standard operating procedure now is to arrest both parties unless it's clear and visible that only one party was injured in the altercation.
Thanks for the awesome feedback last night and this morning. I am going to incorporate more long form single stories (versus current “Top 3” model I’ve been jamming down your throat 😂) starting next week. Also, missing 411 will be back online after Christmas! 🙏
I felt bad for how I worded my Comment. I should've been less abrasive. I honestly didn't think you would even read it. Anyways, you responded in an incredibly professional and respectful manner. Exactly what we've come to expect from you. Looking forward to seeing what you create in the future.
The dude who chopped his arm off actually said afterwards that after he had that dream where he had one arm, when he woke up, he felt like the arm that was trapping him was no longer a part of his body, like he felt that it was a foreign object at that point. Which means his brain had fully accepted the reality that the only way to survive is to lose the arm, so his brain shut the arm out. It's crazy what our survival instincts can make us do when pushed.
That is really interesting. It's kind of the opposite of "phantom sense". Instead of the body thinking a body part is there when it's not, this body decided that the arm was "already gone"
And just goes on to show that dreams are true reflection of our subconsciousness he didn't realise it but deep down his brain was already convinced that cutting the arm off would be the only way to survive and it just showed that to him in his dream
I’m guessing that his elbow was not accessible or he could’ve severed the ligaments and tendons. He surely would’ve bled to death before he climbed out considering all the exertion required to get out of there. There’s no mention of how he stopped bleeding or how he could run after being so dehydrated with part of his are missing
But have you heard of the man who had his foot amputated took the limb home and made tacos out of for he and his friends? He held a mini funeral for the rest of it, made a cardboard coffin stuffed it with flowers and buried. According to his Reddit ama he tastes like chewier Buffalo 😂
I wonder if anyone has told Aaron the brilliance of his decision to wait a few days before he amputated his arm…it allowed him to get severely dehydrated, making him bleed less and undoubtedly saved his life.
I saw the movie years ago but I thought he made a tourniquet out of his clothing. 🤔 But either way, you're right in the fact of less bleeding due to the viscosity of the blood once dehydrated.
Life lessons I learned from Mr Ballen: 1: If the sign says don't go in/don't do it, don't go in or do it 2: Don't go into chimneys 3: Don't go cave diving 4: Don't go diving 5: Don't go caving 6: Always always tell someone where you're going, especially if you're going anywhere weird. Give a full itinery and always give a timetable. If you're not back, call the cops 7: Always have your cellphone on you, even when going to the bathroom lol 8: If you hear a weird noise or banging, you should call the cops. It's not worth being wrong. 9: Get yourself friends who will believe you 10: Never give up
omggg I'm Australian and we say mobile phone, and so I read your comment as 'always have your cellophane on you' and I was so confused as to why you would need that in the bathroom
@Ziggy Stardust, no shit... genius. You were too busy being excited, thinking you found a comment you could correct me on and totally missed the meaning. Good job... genius.
bro i said something like this the other day too lol it was a another story i heard a bunch of times but i listened anyway cuz the way he tells the story is just top tier 😂
Listening to the story of Larry and the symptoms he exhibited reminded me of a similar diabetic episode I myself had in the past. When my BG level got down to 15ish (normal is 70-99) I was hallucinating and paranoid but luckily my wife at the time found me naked stuck in my closet which was only four foot square but I couldn't get out. The hallucination and sugar aspect made me think of the diabetic episode.
Yeah, when my blood sugar gets incredibly low the symptoms are insane. I've been a diabetic for almost 25 years, most of my life, and it was only 2019 when I first started experiencing intense hypoglycemia. It felt like I was dreaming, nothing felt real, one time I drove around aimlessly trying to get home. Ended up crashing into a security bar for a gated neighborhood, confused why it wasn't letting me through. I'm really lucky nobody got hurt and I didn't get in trouble. The sheer dissociation is hard to explain unless you've experienced it.
@@rwbyab7423in Switzerland you are not allowed to drive without confirming your blood sugar is high enough by law, if you are diabetic - driving hypoglycaemic is actually like driving drunk
@@SaraMKaywow, that’s crazy! Some people don’t even realize that their sugar is dropping until it’s too late. Your country must have a law that prevents anything from happening because they make them bring their medication and meters with them wherever they go? That’s actually pretty smart!
All that education and zero common sense. Until I found this channel I had no idea how many people go out hiking/swimming/caving/etc without telling a soul and without any backup plan. Blows my mind.
Yes that is the universal rule for doing anything adventurous I can not express how important it is that you notify friends/ family that you have gone you should also set a deadline to your family tell them to call 911( or the emergency number wherever you live )
Cudos to Wisconsin dude for being able to recognize Tim after seeing him only once...10yrs earlier & giving his fam the peace of bringing him home & saying goodbye.
Honestly, finding a person literally frozen in a block of ice in the middle of the woods somewhere in Wisconsin would probably become a personal core memory
He did it, because he knew he was given a chance, and his arm was the payment. He did not want any bad medicine in his new life from then on, so he gave back what he owed to land in exchange for his life. This is the old way.
I love morbid stories but I also hate that I love them because they always make me anxious and paranoid for my own health/safety. But they're always so fascinating and I keep coming back for more....rest in peace to everyone on this channel who didn't survive their unforunate circumstances. Your stories are haunting but we will never forget you.
I have never related to something so deeply before. These stories give me phobias that I don't even need, bc I would never put myself in a situation to get there. Like getting trapped while cave diving? Yea, I don't even go to the beach.
i saw 127 hours last year, i literally can’t even walk a mile without feeling like i’m dying and i’m healthy and young. i couldn’t imagine climbing 65 feet after just cutting off my own arm, starving and dehydrated. i would’ve died from sheer anxiety after like 10 minutes
Yeah. No kidding. And what about when he had to go to the bathroom? Would he stop and squat or just 💩 his 👖 while 🚶🏻. Because every time you stop you have to decide whether to keep going or stay and die. And you'd die in your own 💩.
That is some utterly amazing sheer determination by Aaron. Can you imagine the amount of people who could go through the bad conditions that he did, come up with the idea to break their arm and then cut through it with a dull knife, somehow actually execute that plan while maintaining their sanity, and then climbing over sixty feet with one arm. That is just dumbfounding willpower.
For the "frozen" man, leaving $10 in the bank probably meant that his account would stay opened. So, no information would alarm anyone about his account, i.e. it would buy him some time before anyone would realize he was gone.
Its sad. There was no info on why he left like that. And ended up in ice. Like he could fight back if it were a regular person. But was it some kind of force that made him do that ? So many ?s
Aarons story hits home- when I was in high school was just a few years after he had survived the incident. He would go to local high schools and explain safety while climbing and to always always always let someone know where you are going. He’s a super nice guy- and he has a look on life that few people can achieve and completely understand.
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When he said 5 days my heart sank. I cant even begin to imagine being stuck under a boulder for 5 hours, 5 days is unfathomable. When I tried to imagine it I shuddered
If that man saw him, why didn't he report finding remains in thr woods IMMEDIATELY? I'm probably missing something there. Like the guy that found the burnt car from the Yosemite Murders. He found it, took the LP, and kept it for several days. The thing is, I knew the man who towed that car out, and you could clearly see their charred bodies through the trunk it was right by my house. If I found a dead body, I'd report it right away.
The number of times people have noticed a bad smell in a place and some time later a body was found there, you'd think people would investigate thoroughly sooner.
It feels like they didn’t even investigate the freezer or anything to check for bad food. Even if they did, the smell would clearly still be there if they decided to throw food out that they thought it was bad… so you would think that they would be just a bit curious and will try to take off the wall or a bit of the wall at that point… especially if they know someone who work there went missing.
you'd be surprised how long it would take a grocery store to actually have something like that taken care of. While it's not a Dead body, the store I work at, the Plumbers actually broken their camera snake in the pipes and got it stuck down there, so now we have to be careful to not use too much water when cleaning our our entire Produce department will be walking in sewage water in the back. The only way to fix it is to have the floor torn up to get tot he broken equipment in the pipes. Which I doubt will happen cause that would cost money and time they don't want to spend. I could totally see the Store trying to cover up the bad smell 1000 times over before they'd ever think to actually check behind the cooler, I wouldn't have been surprised to hear if they thought it was a dead rodent and just didn't want to take care of it. Lots of stuff that makes zero sense business wise goes on behind the Grocery store front.
Aron Ralston's will to live was incredible I am so impressed and shocked. It seems in survival stories, the will to live ends up being what drives people to find solutions to problems and keep going and end up surviving against the odds.
In the 3rd story about Larry--the guy who died after getting stuck behind the freezers--it sounds like he likely had a schizophrenic break. Often times schizophrenia appears in people around late adolescence or early adulthood which is exactly how old Larry was. Also, the most common signs or symptoms of schizophrenia include visual and auditory hallucinations, delusional thoughts, and especially hearing voices in your head telling you to do irrational things. Either that or it sounds like he could have tried methamphetamine, aka speed, for the first time and did way too much and had a psychotic break because of it, as the symptoms are also similar to the ones Larry reportedly had. However, its far more likely he had a schizophrenic break since there was no history of drug use. Sad story.
I thought it sounded like schizophrenia also and you're right about the age and symptoms but it's usually activated by stress and comes on more gradually than that. That was either a sudden psychotic break brought on by something organic or drug use, as you suggested, or something like Encephalitis. Perhaps he was exposed to some kind of toxin at work but then others at his job would have had symptoms
OR it was the pills that his mom recently got him for anxiety. Could have been a bad reaction. But to find a body rotting behind the freezer 10 years later is disgusting. That body had to be all bones by that time.
@@Irish_Georgia_Girl Yeah, it does sound like it came on rather suddenly, however, who knows how long he'd been keeping his thoughts and feelings to himself before apparently completely losing it. And also, his mother must have noticed changes in his mood and behavior for at least a good while before he had his "mental break" and disappeared, as she's the one who helped him get on the prescription medication(s) he was being given to help deal with whatever issues he was initially experiencing and she apparently noticed. Further, it usually takes a little while for a psychiatrist to prescribe psych meds, sometimes as long 3 or 4 weeks or however long it takes them to feel comfortable not only diagnosing an individual, but then deciding which type of psych med they want to prescribe. So I suppose my point is I'm not too certain how sudden his psychological descent came on, and it seems to me that it could have been far more gradual than anyone thought. But im far from certain, so who knows. And speaking of the prescription meds, I forgot if Mr. Ballen said, but presumably he had been prescribed either a benziodiazipine for anxiety, an anti-depressant, or perhaps even an anti-psychotic depending on his symptoms at the time and whether he had already showed any of the signs or symptoms of severe mental illness that he'd eventually exhibit before he disappeared. And with that in mind, any/all of those drugs can have some pretty nasty side effects, though benzos have the least serious psychological side effects and are the least common, while anti-depressants are far more common and have far more nasty potential side effects including suicidal thoughts that lead to serious suicide attempts, mental fog and confusion, feeling lost and disoriented, etc. And finally, anti-psychotics have far more, far worse, and far more common potential psychological side effects similar to the ones he exhibited. And lastly, if you've read this far, I never thought of the possibility he could have been exposed to some toxin. And I admittedly don't know much about encephalitis, so I'll have to look into that. Whatever the case, it's a mystery and a tragic one at that.
You notice how he doesn't use his right arm after the boulder falls in the story? Dudes a real storyteller. This has better content than any Discovery or History channel show.
Oh my goodness. You are right. He never uses his R arm again after Aaron gets pinned. Good catch. And Mr Ballen thank you for being the most authentic storyteller I have ever heard. Bev from Oklahoma
I hate dishes, Mr Ballen. With a passion. They are my most relentless enemy. Whenever I finish dishes, voila, they invited their friends and family and there is more. But now… I love dishes. I turn on your stories and listen while I wash them. I even look forward to it now. The kitchen has never been cleaner. My wife has never been happier. You have saved my marriage. Thank you.
I’d like to know why that guy never reported the body when he found it. He found it ten years earlier and said nothing until he saw it on tv and probably thought reward money or something.
@@John-uh4rv Maybe. I understood it that police was called right away but they could not identify the person so he was buried but the person who found it remembered the face so well that when he saw it in tv he recogniced that it was that same person and called them about it and they did a dna test and therefore this nameless person was identified. But I listened to this story just one time while doing other stuff so maybe I got it wrong So he saw this dead person, called the police who could not figure out who this person was but since he remembered the face of the person who was in the ice, when he saw the same face on tv they were able to put 2 and 2 together
Regarding the story of Larry: Nearly all anti-depressant medications take weeks to start having an effect. If he had previously had panic attacks/ anxiety, he should have been given anti-anxiety medication, which often can produce positive results within 24 hours. Anxiety and depression present distinctly different symptoms and require distinctly different medications. In fact some anti-depressants can exacerbate anxiety. So, if his family was expecting an anti-depressant to start making him better in one day, they were misinformed. As the story says, the doctor "quickly prescribed" an anti-depressent and If a physician confuses depression and anxiety behaviors, that physician may not have had experience in this area, and thus provided medication that produced a psychotic break and a tragic outcome.
Anxiety and depression (most forms) are best treated with the same drug. The most effective treatment for anxiety is an anti-depressant medication like SSRIs. But yes they do take several weeks to work and benzos could have been used temporarily until the antidepressants started working, but I bet neither would have helped this guy. This didn't sound anything like an anxiety problem. Sounds like he had new onset paranoid schizophrenia or some other type of psychosis. He needed antipsychotics.
This is not the case usually. Anxiety and depression are comorbid, meaning they are often coinciding. Anxiety is usually treated with the same medication that is given to treat depression (e.g., Prozac, Lexapro, Zoloft, and other SSRIs/SNRIs.). These meds often take 4-6 weeks before you really start to feel the effects of them. You are right, though, that there are medications used specifically to treat anxiety/panic attacks, which include lorazepam and other benzodiazepines. These usually only take about 20-30 minutes to start working. But overall, depression and anxiety share very similar symptoms and it’s very common for people to have both of them at the same time. It sounds the man had a psychotic break, which would make sense because psychosis can cause extreme anxiety.
@@cody555903 Not disagreeing on this case at all, but some anxiety and depression cases are actually comorbid upon one another or OTHER conditions entirely. Mine was caused by ADHD, so antidepressants, SSRIs etc did nothing over and over. I needed an ADHD treatment that then made my depression and anxiety ease up as they were a byproduct of that initial condition. Lots of mental health is connected, but parts of the issue can be major iron or vit D deficiencies, need of SSRI, need of stimulant, etc etc. There's a reason we need psychiatrists, this shit is so fucking complex 😭 I was 20 years old before a doc bothered to see my iron levels, I was .01% above official anemic levels. There's so many strange reasons and solutions to these problems. And unfortunately yes, a lot of them take a while to truly work.
I can’t imagine a better compliment as an actor for the man you’re portraying to say watching your film was basically like watching a documentary on their own life. Such a crazy story!
I feel the same way.. I think in situations like this, people are just in a completely different mindset, like it’s truly life or death. Like something regular people in day to day life can’t fathom.
Right you hear in his other stories of people who turn into survival mode eating bugs and whatever without thought, but still makes you truly ponder daily life we live in lol
Aron Ralston is such a badass. And I love the happy little coda to his story: His "vision" came true some time after his escape, when he became the father of a little boy named Leo.
@@annoyedshedevil does not change the fact he still went. He did a Dumb and was forced to face his unthinkingness. Great, he lived. It was still stupid
@@icarusbinns3156 weird that you just ignore his actions and his situation with just *great he lived* lol let the guy live happy. He is alive he doesn't need ppl like you talking like this.
That last story is really upsetting to hear about again. I’m from that town he died in and I used to go to that store with my parents all time and when I heard about that horrible accident it was really upsetting to hear about because nothing ever happens here. May he rest is peace
Yes! I love how great he is at telling these stories, I can do other things while listening to the story and still picture everything perfectly by his descriptions!
I can’t even imagine the physical and mental strength required to break your own arm clean off to save your life. That is dedication and a will to live that is unmatched! Absolutely amazing!
He didn't fall behind there, he was trying to hide. When you first hear about him seeing hallucinations and running around, it sounds a bit humorous; however, mental illness is nothing to joke about. If anyone you know, family, friend, or otherwise, please reach out to help them. They will almost certainly tell you everything's fine, and if they are sick, nothing is further from the truth. Don't tell them to call and seek help, because that can be just as terrifying. You need to make the call, or if you aren't particularly close to the individual, tell someone who is. Impress on them that this is an emergency and tomorrow could be too late. Later could be too late. A phone call can save a life.
I had the same thought, he probably squeezed into the tightest possible space to feel safe. Really fucking horrific to imagine. I just pray that he was so far gone mentally that he didn't really comprehend the terror.
This is good advice. People who are depressed or have an anxiety disorder will not want to seek help, their illness is causing them to think irrationally and they may want to hide away from everyone or even commit suicide. They need a friend or loved one to help them, they are not going to help themselves.
Call 911 if you see someone who might be having a psychiatric emergency. It saves lives and allows for a 72 hour psych hold to evaluate the patient in a safe environment. It doesn't matter if you know them or not.
Going through the US court system as a mentally ill person is a huge trauma that has lifelong consequences and involves the loss of civil liberties for years afterward Knowing how mentally ill people are treated by police, how could anyone suggest calling cops on a loved one because they're sick? Have any of you ever dealt with the consequences of this? Google it ffs. Take them to the hospital if you have to
@@no_peace Sadly that's the God honest truth. If you call the police they stick you in the "suicide prevention unit," which is a cold, empty space. They take away your clothes and your dignity. They give you want amounts to a rug with Velcro to wear, a plastic bed and a blanket that might as well be card board. The police don't care about helping these people, they just isolate them and take away anything and everything that one could potentially use for self harm. No books, no paper, no pencils, no underwear, no pants, no shoes, not even any toilet paper or soap, nothing. They lock you up for 23 hours a day and let you out for maybe most of 1 hour to take a shower and brush your teeth, with someone watching you from a few feet away to make sure you don't try anything in the curtain-less shower. They do nothing to actually help. You need to call a hospital or a help line. The only time you should ever call 911 is if they have just attempted or are actively trying to commit suicide. The police don't give a shit as long as you don't die in their custody.
I saw the story about the guy in the canyon on "I shouldn't be alive." They have a bunch of episodes on TH-cam and I highly recommend it. It's amazing how much a human body can endure because of a person's will to survive.
Our family tells a story of a great-aunt who wanted to go to an Old Year's Eve dance, but she had a very painful corn on her right pinkie toe. She put her foot on the chopping block, chopped off the toe with the axe, bound up up the foot and danced the night through. But as far as I've been able to find out nobody remembers her name ...
i love that show. me and my housemate forgot its name for a time so would just say 'do you wanna watch more idiots?' it's really easy to judge more intrepid people from your sofa haha
Although I already knew the ending to the third story it always shatters me when mentally ill people don't get the right treatment and therefore lose their lives. Larry was clearly showing signs of hallucinations and paranoia. These don't generally come with a depression. Antidepressants generally take about 3-4 weeks of daily intake to show first signs of effect. No antidepressant works in one day. If a person is clearly that distressed and unable to live a normal life anymore, also because at that time they potentially are a threat to themselves, they need to be hospitalized asap. Larry's death could have easily been prevented. The doctor misjudged and the family did too. Sadly Larry was the one to lose his life from this.
Seriously, I need to know what the doc said and actually prescribed. Getting a patient whos disoriented and hallucinating and offering them a zoloft is most definitely medical malpractice
Love your username, and I totally agree. He was completely misdiagnosed if he was prescribed an antidepressant, and his parents were not informed of how antipsychotic meds work, if they were just sending him off to bed, having visual and auditory hallucinations, and hoping one pill will have an effect on his condition in 12 hours (overnight). This is negligence at its finest. I also question why he wasn't held for observation for at least 72 hours, especially once his history was revealed, before prescribing something that was erroneous.
I'm pretty sure the guy developed overnight schizophrenia or something among those lines. If he had been immediatly hospitalized and given the right meds his life would have been saved.
Thank you for pointing that out. I was so confused when Mr Ballen mentioned that the antidepressants didn't help within a few hours and then that the mom hoped they'd work until the next day, because that's just not how they work. And I agree that this case was absolutely misjudged and he should've been kept on the psych ward for a while until they made sure he's on the right medication and doing better. What a tragic and unnecessary death
Exactly what I thought! What kind of Dr thinks a person gets depression over night and that the symptoms would be feeling disoriented and not knowing where they are?! That's not hoe depression works at all. That dr was extremely lazy and just wanted to throw pills at the problem and be done with it, instead of actually doing his job and finding the real problem. I bet he didn't even do any blood tests either. He should definitely be charged with medical malpractice.
Shout out to James Franco for cutting off his arm in order to make that movie realistic and making one of today’s top stories possible 🙌🏼 you the real MVP bruh 👊🏼
Thanks to your channel; 1) I won't be cave diving 2) I won't be diving 3) I won't be hitch hiking 4) I won't go hiking 5) I won't go biking 6) I won't go camping 7) I won't go on dates 8) i won't go sailing 9) I won't go on cruises 10) I won't get married 11) I will NOT work in a factory that has an industrial oven.. I'm just going to enjoy quarantine just watching your videos about everything I shouldn't do and enjoy my time at home ! I'm SOOO good at home sweet home!
there are probably multiple guys hiding in your walls and your attic right now, waiting for you to go to bed. also, don't forget the ouija demons under your basement stairs
It's really sad that the Dr didn't explain to Larry's family that any anti depressant medication can and will take up to 6 weeks to work. Larry clearly needed a mild sedative as well while the meds kicked in. That's really sad
That's exactly what I was thinking. The dude was clearly in a state of panic and delusion and he needed a benzo or something not Prozac. Although I will say for me personally, I was prescribed Lexapro for a few months and it actually started working within 30 minutes of taking the first dose. In fact every morning when I took it for the first 10-14 days it felt like I was on MDMA all day long but I still had the ability to think and concentrate but I would also be able to fall asleep at night really easily. Unfortunately after those first two weeks it ceased to have any positive effect on me at all and the negative side effects came through. SSRIs are really strange drugs.
Yeah it’s really heartbreaking, I’m assuming the doctor didn’t understand that it can take a few weeks to have any real affect. I have cPTSD & PTSD and I’ve had my meds increased (when we eventually found ones that worked for me) because PTSDs can come with horrendous depression, so it took ages figuring out the right medication because it takes weeks to notice any real effects. Same for when my meds were increased, it took a few weeks to notice that effect.
@@jamie-leighgibson2338 Complex post-traumatic stress disorder Complex post-traumatic stress disorder is a psychological disorder that can develop in response to prolonged, repeated experience of interpersonal trauma in a context in which the individual has little or no chance of escape.
Most GPs won't prescribe benzos any more due to fear of addiction or overdose. They literally won't compromise themselves even by prescribing a very temporary dose. They won't, for example, prescribe benzos for alcohol withdrawal unless the patient is in hospital or has someone to be with them at all times. You can imagine the issue that causes for alcoholics who have no family or cannot afford to go to hospital.
Aaron actually had to break his arm twice because there are two different bones in the forearm, so I can't even imagine what that must've been like, let alone the fact that he also had to cut through the nerve with that crappy knife
This dude finds the way to tell stories and sets an atmosphere of eerie energy that has you thinking the situation for the people in the story is even scarier.great story telling.
It's truly beyond amazing what the human mind and body are capable of when in survival mode. I'm so happy that Aron made it through and is doing as well as he is!
I'm rewatching every single episode on this channel because, let's be perfectly honest here. There's nothing else in the entire entertainment industry, either past or current that's even half as awesome as this channel. Sometimes I get lucky and don't remember the stories so it's like having a new Mr Ballen upload all to myself and I am a fat kid in a candy store.
I have been here almost from the beginning. Was watching Mike from That Chapter and there was a MrBallen video that was recommended so I watched. Been hooked on MrBallen and Mike since I watched them the very first time. They have both grown by leaps and bounds so fast it's shocking. I can never get enough content from them so I binge watch them both on a regular basis until they drop a new episode. One of my favorite MrBallen stories is of course his own but tied with it is the Hinterkaifeck Farm murders. It seems like a somewhat supernatural, type and cold-blooded living killer at the same time. It likely will never be solved after all these years.
Yeah, I saw a comment once that they had "caught up" and now had to wait for new episodes. I haven't reached that point yet, but know that it will come one day. For now I get to watch a few a day and I'm as happy as can be.
@Grimm I reside in Wisconsin. It's been over 90 degrees Fahrenheit and humid for 1/2 of the summer. We are a land of extremes as far as weather is concerned...almost as much as the Dakotas. Best wishes!
@@OOZiTen he did. The cops retrieved the body but has no means of identifying and notifying next of kin. Had he not seen the show, the family would probably have never known. To the cops, he was just the latest in a long list of John Does. Only because, to the man who found him, the discovery of a dead body was a totally new and frightening experience, did he remember the face so vividly.
So glad you covered Larry’s case! I live in Iowa and I remember when they found his body but I couldn’t find a lot of information on how he got to where he was or what lead to all of this.
Working at a grocery store food gets stuck under stuff all the time and it rots, milk gets spilled and doesn't get cleaned up either. Its rare to find someone that will actually investigate thoroughly and take action to clean something foul. Plus grocery stores are always short handed, they give you just enough time to stock out the product. An investigation of a bad smell would be a rare leisure time.
@@ilovelamp521 Ok, i get that. But you're telling me that in 10 YEARS no one did some deep cleaning & investigating? That's just unsanitary in the best conditions. And when there's a prevalent odor that can't be located for that long, you would think a more thorough investigation would take place... And I'm curious, wouldn't a decomposing body have a different odor than rotten/moldy food?
@@Tinypaperplate That place wasn’t easy to access you have to move the multiple of big freezer that didn’t designed to be move(one you saw in supermarket) it completely normal no one interesting to moving that freezer to just look behind it. In some case you literally have to close the store and ask specialist to move it.
Sorry, but taking an anti-depressant takes like a month to work. Why would a doctor prescribe that for an acute episode? That is what vailum and other drugs are for. Anti-depressants are good for long term management of anxiety, but if you are having an episode, it does nothing.
It sounds like a gross mishandling of the situation on the doctor's part. The store's handling of the alarming smell complaints is just as bad or worse though. How do they never investigate the smell?
@@Tinypaperplate Right. If it started to smell like death, I would investigate. I wouldn't think it was person, but maybe a dead rat or something that got behind the fridge. And if the coworkers hung out up there, how did they not realize how intense the smell was right there. Lots of carelessness happening.
i can tell you that aaron is exploring and even mountaineering to which he has specially made prosthetic attachments for and hasnt let his ordeal stop him infact he even went back to the scene a year later with a film crew and told his whole storey and even abseiled himself back down the exact spot he had to after he had cut through his arm
Peenuses dangling down like a rain forest. Hundreds of dangling peenuses. Monkey runs and jumps off a cliff qand grabs a peenus! The monkey swings and jumps from peenus to peenus and goes across the whole forest off flaccid peenuses
@@Yuto_LloydMan named Jonah runs across the street naked in flip flops. Weiner flops side to side. 16 inch flaccid girthy kok flops up and down, side to side. Jonah runs naked across the street
Yea when your son starts hearing voices and hiding from people in your house it's probably time to bring him to the ER or the hospital to be admitted, and anti deppressiant s at least in my experience with them, take weeks to start seeing effects, a benzo prob a better way to go in that situation.
The reaction he had after taking his medication sounds precisely like akathesia, maybe as a direct result of antipsychotic medication like benzodiazepam.
antidepressants are the *EXACT OPPOSITE* of what someone having a psychotic break or psychosis needs, they will make things so so much worse. psychosis is in almost every case caused by overactivity in the brain from too much dopamine and or serotonin, that's why antipsychotics lower dopamine and or serotonin to combat that overactivity, and it's also why an anti depressant that raises levels of those neurotransmitters will make the problem worse and why stimulants like cocaine, methamphetamine, or adderall which massively raise levels of neurotransmitters can cause psychosis in susceptible individuals.
@@atashgallagher5139 That makes sense! I’m glad on not taking ani-depression meds any more. The guy in the story did not go to work, but instead hung out with some trouble makers who gave him drugs and he took too much and lost his mind overnight. This is exactly what happens to my brother as well when he was around 20 years old. He and my Mom are both schizophrenic due to drug use but I’m fine. I never did drugs.
@Myles Gray I'm glad you are doing well without relying on depression medication any longer. You're probably right that your mother's and brother's schizophrenia was triggered by drug use. I am a registered nurse who spent part of my career specializing in mental health. I know drug use can be a trigger for people who are susceptible. How do you know the man in this story used illicit drugs rather than going to work?
@@sallykauth2115 Drugs is the first thing I thought of and no one seems to mention it. It is the most logical explanation when a rational person without history of mental illness starts behaving this way. I'm surprised no one is considering this possiblity.
Dude, I’m just confused on why in the last story his parents didn’t take him right back when he said he heard voices. That’s not anxiety or depression lmaooo
@@nicoled1767 Nope, they take weeks to kick in. It sounds like he was having a psychotic break which can happen without warning. I worked in a psych admission unit for years and we had one university professor that had taught that day and was perfectly fine but was brought in 5 hours after they got home hearing voices and out of control..
I got hooked right away, he's a good story teller, and handsome to look at and I enjoy his tales he reads. He makes me laughs at times and he's just easy to listen to. I check him out every night and listen till I'm really sleepy.
Your videos are the first thing I look for when I open youtube. The way you tell a story just draws people in! It's like hanging out with you and just chatting. I cannot express enough how much I look forward to your videos! Thank you for that!
A friend and I almost went to see 127 Hours, but even the trailer was way too panic inducing for me. Thanks for telling me the story so I didn't have to wonder.
Coming from someone with constantly has “episodes” of psychosis, I can’t imagine how that last guy felt. He probably got himself stuck in there escaping the things he could hear and probably died :(
Psychosis is some really scary and wild shit man. Ive had one episode and Im 33, I hope to never one again. I was under a ton of stress and was on the verge of losing my job, neck deep in debt, 2 mnths behind on rent, my ex was keeping my son from me after taking him to another state, totalled my car, insurance refused to cover it....drowned my sorrows in alcohol and stopped eating and basically prayed for death every day. All this happened within 3 weeks, and all led up to 3 days of insanity that I vividly remember. I could hear people (specifically 4 different ppl watching and talking about my every move and once I started talking back to them, 2 of them started to hate me and threatened to hurt me, while the other 2 were really sweet and we would all goof around when the other 2 were away doing stuff) I went on long expeditions trying to escape them and remember sever real people trying to explain that nobody was there and I need help. I was yelling at what I thought and heard was a girl trying to set me up and frame my arrest for killing someone and this (really sweet and nice and REAL) woman approached and explained that there was nobody there and she offered to walk with me since I was panicking and I just thought she was part of the set up and ran away. lol. It turned really sinister the 3rd day (basically day 2 I had to go to work and completely ignore these voices and pretend that I heard nothing with the hopes that it was ALL in my head and couldnt tell the difference between ppl calling out to me for assistancew or my mental fracture), so the 3rd day I began to believe that several realities were merging and I was an evil psychopath in my alternate realities and was being hunted and could feel people trying to shoot me and hear police and detectives and loved ones explaining how horribble I was and how I could do what I did, like shit Ive never and would never do (murdering people and hiding bodies, beating up kids, throwing salad at my ex...that one really cracked me up in hindsight...and so on) it got so bad that I was in the middle of my apartment complex of about 4 buildings yelling at 3 am that I was innocent and its the other "me's" that are doing those thin gs, and my reality is just collapsing into your reality!!! I ran inside and blacked out after my apartment manager confronted me. I WOKE UP UNDERNEATH THE FUCKING APARTMENT IN PITCH BLACK IN THE FUCKING CRAWL SPACE!!! I lost it, and had no clue at the time where I was and was in the peak of my psychosis and was being full blown hunted at this point and almost burst through the floor of my apartment trying to escape until I was able to breathe and let my eyes adjust and find the crawl space exit. I took my shitty other car that wasnt totalled but was basically a brisk wind from falling to pieces and drove at about 100mph to the hospital and left the keys in it and car running at the ER entrance with a gun in my back pocket with no firing pin for some reason and demanded they lock me in a secured locking room immediately. They put me in scrubs, locked me in a cell, gave me the most sedatives I imagine humanly possible, talked to the walls and small window to people that said I was tearing my limbs off yet time woulkd reset every 20 seconds until I passed out. they woke me up hours later and I drove about 3 milkes to a softball field and fell asleep in my car for 16 hours. called my boss at 3:30 am on accident and left a message that made no sense. got fired, and hid in my apartment from the other residence for about 2 weeks and still walk with my head down and feel so embarrased. That was just like barely a little of what I went through. I was in another dimension and realm of existence for almost 4 days...... fuck.
@@davidmaschino3359 that sounds terrifying. i am so sorry you went through that :( i don’t think i’ve ever heard of that it’s interesting learning about it.
@@davidmaschino3359 aww david... thank you for sharing. what a nightmare. and to know folks go thru this is heartbreaking. and trying to help them... it would be so hard to know what to do when they think you are part of the darkness. so glad you made it through. hope things are much better for you in life today.
@@davidmaschino3359 I'm no psychiatrist but I'm pretty sure that alcohol can increase the risk of psychosis in susceptible individuals same for stress and anxiety and shitty genetics. so I guess try to avoid high stress and drinking at the same time.
I still dont understand the metric system. On my old old school Obama phone way back when the conversions were on there. Also international money compared w U.S. dollars. International time zones too. Now I have to Smart find it all. Lol.( not so smart or convenient.
127 hours is a phenomenal movie. James Franco does a wonderful job portraying Aaron. That part in the movie where he uses his Swiss army knife to cut through his tendons, is hella intense. The noise they use, gives me chills everytime. I can literally feel it in my arm.
It was a great film. James Franco being an extreme method actor makes me curious what he did to prepare for this role. He once just walked out of house with nothing and didn't anybody anything and proceeded to live on the streets for 2 months to prepare for a role!
Its fucking gnarly for sure. I can hardly watch it, it made me feel sick. They recreated perfectly. I think that scene was done all in one take, as well.
The problem with antidepressants is that they take several weeks to start working. He may not have been fully honest with his doctor because most likely he would have been put on an antipsychotic instead. Something like a haldol injection would have worked a lot faster.
But even if it were something along the lines of schizophrenia, it wouldn't instantly show up over night. I wonder if the Dr did any blood tests, but I doubt it, that dr seemed lazy and just wanted to throw pills at the problem and be done with it. He completely failed that poor kid.
I came to the comments looking for this. I 100% agree. I'm just not sure why they thought the antidepressants would work immediately. Whereas all antidepressants I've been on or heard about you get worse before you get better. So confusing the doctor wouldn't warn them of this, almost negligible
Came to say this. Knew someone on Prosac and the doc said it took like 3 weeks + for them to start working. Surprised they didn’t give him some anxiety meds and possibly a tranq to chill him out.
@@jenniferb.awesomehe did such a half ass job too because he could’ve given him some anxiety meds and a tranq or something to mellow him out. Seems like he had a psychotic break or something.
A addict never wants to complain about the addiction their addicted hence the reason its an addiction. You need help project gaming... serious help. I can help you if your heart so truly desires it. Message me and i can help u out buddy. We can get thru this together. Tomorrow is a new day bitch. Rejoice with me. Rejoice Rejoice Rejoiceeee
@@korlmusic its a joke most people with addiction are in denial about there addiction and say they can give up anytime they want to. but not me im not in denial lol
I met Aron at a climbing gym a couple years ago, he's a super cool dude, and despite losing an arm still is able to climb better than most people I've ever seen! The guy doesn't let his injury hold him back!
Dude sounds like a champ.
And arrested for domestic violence...hmmm
@@alexisvalere4095 really?
@@alexisvalere4095 Pretty sure all those charges were dropped.
@@alexisvalere4095 if you're going to tell the story tell it all that she basically abused him first hitting him in the head he had to move her out the way which she called shoving to get out the door and away from the situation the charges against him were completely dismissed while she was eventually convicted of all three charges against her which was domestic violence injury to a minor because her eight week year old baby was present and disturbing the peace we often forget that men can be victims of domestic violence as well and standard operating procedure now is to arrest both parties unless it's clear and visible that only one party was injured in the altercation.
Who else randomly found this channel one day and can’t stop watching
Best random act I’ve ever done! TTFN ✌🏼🙏🏼🧿🧼🖐🏼
me rn
Me
Yeah, that's me
Me lol
Thanks for the awesome feedback last night and this morning.
I am going to incorporate more long form single stories (versus current “Top 3” model I’ve been jamming down your throat 😂) starting next week.
Also, missing 411 will be back online after Christmas!
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Looking forward to missing 411 coming back!
Mk! :D
Good stuff
I felt bad for how I worded my Comment. I should've been less abrasive. I honestly didn't think you would even read it.
Anyways, you responded in an incredibly professional and respectful manner. Exactly what we've come to expect from you.
Looking forward to seeing what you create in the future.
The dude who chopped his arm off actually said afterwards that after he had that dream where he had one arm, when he woke up, he felt like the arm that was trapping him was no longer a part of his body, like he felt that it was a foreign object at that point.
Which means his brain had fully accepted the reality that the only way to survive is to lose the arm, so his brain shut the arm out.
It's crazy what our survival instincts can make us do when pushed.
That is really interesting. It's kind of the opposite of "phantom sense". Instead of the body thinking a body part is there when it's not, this body decided that the arm was "already gone"
Nahhh... it's because it cut off the circulation
And just goes on to show that dreams are true reflection of our subconsciousness he didn't realise it but deep down his brain was already convinced that cutting the arm off would be the only way to survive and it just showed that to him in his dream
I’m guessing that his elbow was not accessible or he could’ve severed the ligaments and tendons. He surely would’ve bled to death before he climbed out considering all the exertion required to get out of there. There’s no mention of how he stopped bleeding or how he could run after being so dehydrated with part of his are missing
Dude pissed on the bolder with his arms ashes. I feel like that’s badass.
the only man to ever scatter his own ashes and live to tell the tale
I was thinking the same thing. You beat me to it. Lol 😆
@@SooSmokie she’s just saying that it’s a crazy story
@@thatkindaguy8653 I don't need you to explain things to me. I can read
But have you heard of the man who had his foot amputated took the limb home and made tacos out of for he and his friends? He held a mini funeral for the rest of it, made a cardboard coffin stuffed it with flowers and buried. According to his Reddit ama he tastes like chewier Buffalo 😂
Ikr!
I wonder if anyone has told Aaron the brilliance of his decision to wait a few days before he amputated his arm…it allowed him to get severely dehydrated, making him bleed less and undoubtedly saved his life.
Very good point...from a fellow nurse
It might inspire me to carry a tourniquet.
I saw the movie years ago but I thought he made a tourniquet out of his clothing. 🤔 But either way, you're right in the fact of less bleeding due to the viscosity of the blood once dehydrated.
@@lush1hector418 very good point... from a CMM operator.
@@brahtrumpwonbigly7309 you’re so clever
Can we just take a moment to realize how blessed we are that Mr. Ballen shares his gift with us?
That’s really nice of you 🙏🙏🙏
Amen and amen
@@45jayster b. H.b b CL x. I m
He's a talented guy , let's leave it at that .
True
Life lessons I learned from Mr Ballen:
1: If the sign says don't go in/don't do it, don't go in or do it
2: Don't go into chimneys
3: Don't go cave diving
4: Don't go diving
5: Don't go caving
6: Always always tell someone where you're going, especially if you're going anywhere weird. Give a full itinery and always give a timetable. If you're not back, call the cops
7: Always have your cellphone on you, even when going to the bathroom lol
8: If you hear a weird noise or banging, you should call the cops. It's not worth being wrong.
9: Get yourself friends who will believe you
10: Never give up
omggg I'm Australian and we say mobile phone, and so I read your comment as 'always have your cellophane on you' and I was so confused as to why you would need that in the bathroom
I legit thought I'd missed out on some major mr ballen lore 😂
Never leave your home.
😂😂😂😂
“He scattered his ashes” that’s something you hear everyday
Yeah, it's not everyday someone gets to spread their own ashes.
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Hehe I’m 420 like
@Ziggy Stardust, no shit... genius. You were too busy being excited, thinking you found a comment you could correct me on and totally missed the meaning. Good job... genius.
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I've must have heard the 127 hour story a million times, but something about the way Ballen is telling it makes it feel incredibly scary again.
Great movie aswell
bro i said something like this the other day too lol it was a another story i heard a bunch of times but i listened anyway cuz the way he tells the story is just top tier 😂
I really liked the movie, but it made me give up outdoor rock climbing.
That’s Mr. Ballen to you lol (jk don’t come for me)
I remember seeing him on The Montel Williams Show YEARS ago.
A lot of good stuff MrBallen leaves out, for time I get it, but a lot of good stuff.
Saw: I have a game for you.
Aaron: I've already played it.
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*us with the like button*
😹. Lol. Aaron is so strong though 🥺
“Saw off your arm. Or you’ll be trapped forever.”
“Ok” unsheathes nub “done”
🥲🥲🥲😂
Listening to the story of Larry and the symptoms he exhibited reminded me of a similar diabetic episode I myself had in the past. When my BG level got down to 15ish (normal is 70-99) I was hallucinating and paranoid but luckily my wife at the time found me naked stuck in my closet which was only four foot square but I couldn't get out. The hallucination and sugar aspect made me think of the diabetic episode.
I was about to ask if there was any diabetic out there that thought this might've been a possibility. Thanks for answering my question!
Wow. Thank you for sharing my dear
Yeah, when my blood sugar gets incredibly low the symptoms are insane. I've been a diabetic for almost 25 years, most of my life, and it was only 2019 when I first started experiencing intense hypoglycemia. It felt like I was dreaming, nothing felt real, one time I drove around aimlessly trying to get home. Ended up crashing into a security bar for a gated neighborhood, confused why it wasn't letting me through. I'm really lucky nobody got hurt and I didn't get in trouble. The sheer dissociation is hard to explain unless you've experienced it.
@@rwbyab7423in Switzerland you are not allowed to drive without confirming your blood sugar is high enough by law, if you are diabetic - driving hypoglycaemic is actually like driving drunk
@@SaraMKaywow, that’s crazy! Some people don’t even realize that their sugar is dropping until it’s too late. Your country must have a law that prevents anything from happening because they make them bring their medication and meters with them wherever they go? That’s actually pretty smart!
Moral of the story is: if you are going to be gone on a hike or whatever make sure you tell someone before you leave.
All that education and zero common sense. Until I found this channel I had no idea how many people go out hiking/swimming/caving/etc without telling a soul and without any backup plan. Blows my mind.
Yo, I’m heading on a hike, if I don’t comment back in a year can you check up on me?
Yes that is the universal rule for doing anything adventurous I can not express how important it is that you notify friends/ family that you have gone you should also set a deadline to your family tell them to call 911( or the emergency number wherever you live )
@@bryangibson6211 Why hike for a year...
@@KC11ON Dedication.
Cudos to Wisconsin dude for being able to recognize Tim after seeing him only once...10yrs earlier & giving his fam the peace of bringing him home & saying goodbye.
True!
I wanna know why he didn't notify the authorities when he found the human ice cube.
@@mattymayhem1232 he did, they just couldn't identify him
Honestly, finding a person literally frozen in a block of ice in the middle of the woods somewhere in Wisconsin would probably become a personal core memory
@@morgansours4471 🤣🤣ikr
Imagine being the recovery crew and finding out that after all the work you did to retrieve this guy's arm he goes back and throws it back in
LMAO 🤣.
Literally, insult to injury. 😂
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He did it, because he knew he was given a chance, and his arm was the payment. He did not want any bad medicine in his new life from then on, so he gave back what he owed to land in exchange for his life.
This is the old way.
@@alpeter3787 pretty sure the person that made the comment was just saying it to be funny & kind of fucking around
I love morbid stories but I also hate that I love them because they always make me anxious and paranoid for my own health/safety. But they're always so fascinating and I keep coming back for more....rest in peace to everyone on this channel who didn't survive their unforunate circumstances. Your stories are haunting but we will never forget you.
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Well said
They make me appreciate my life and my family. 😊
I have never related to something so deeply before. These stories give me phobias that I don't even need, bc I would never put myself in a situation to get there. Like getting trapped while cave diving? Yea, I don't even go to the beach.
@@CarolineJoyAmicowell you should since u only have them till the tube sock killer finds you.
Dude was built different, couldn’t fit dying into his schedule so he cut off his arm and scattered his own ashes to save time
@Swish 23 yeah
@You are not Original how is he a douche? Or are you just saying dumb shit, huh?
@@buttbootynaked4455 dont worry. let americans be americans.
@@buttbootynaked4455 I believe he is self promoting but I can’t tell because reading that gave me a seizure
@Swish 23 thats helpful
i saw 127 hours last year, i literally can’t even walk a mile without feeling like i’m dying and i’m healthy and young. i couldn’t imagine climbing 65 feet after just cutting off my own arm, starving and dehydrated. i would’ve died from sheer anxiety after like 10 minutes
10 minutes? That long? You're better than I am...
Then runs 6 miles till he finds help. Wow.
Yeah. No kidding. And what about when he had to go to the bathroom? Would he stop and squat or just 💩 his 👖 while 🚶🏻. Because every time you stop you have to decide whether to keep going or stay and die. And you'd die in your own 💩.
When the human body and soul is on the verge of death, the impossible becomes possible
I would have panic attack and die of panic attack
And I freak out when a ring gets stuck on my finger 😂😂😂
Same
Lmaoooo 😂
@@raviolisgale6337 For real! Like my mind automatically goes to “oh my god I’m going to have to cut my finger off...”
@@atownmazzy3011 lol.. ikr
Yeah me too, 😂😂.
That is some utterly amazing sheer determination by Aaron. Can you imagine the amount of people who could go through the bad conditions that he did, come up with the idea to break their arm and then cut through it with a dull knife, somehow actually execute that plan while maintaining their sanity, and then climbing over sixty feet with one arm. That is just dumbfounding willpower.
For the "frozen" man, leaving $10 in the bank probably meant that his account would stay opened. So, no information would alarm anyone about his account, i.e. it would buy him some time before anyone would realize he was gone.
Nice hypothesis
Its sad. There was no info on why he left like that. And ended up in ice. Like he could fight back if it were a regular person. But was it some kind of force that made him do that ? So many ?s
@John Peter Iirc back in the day you could take $10 out. I think that changed some time in the '90s.
That or he was using an ATM that only allowed increments of 20
2:41 "He was able to sit fairly comfortably, besides his arm being crushed." I'm always relieved when that happens.
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Besides his arm being crushed lol curve ball 😂
“he was able to sit fairly comfortably-besides his arm being crushed” lmao
Get help man, laughing your arm off is how you end up on this channel.
@@atashgallagher5139 😂
@@atashgallagher5139 bahhahahahahah you’re absolutely hilarious
I was thinking this exact same thing.😁
😂😂
Aarons story hits home- when I was in high school was just a few years after he had survived the incident. He would go to local high schools and explain safety while climbing and to always always always let someone know where you are going.
He’s a super nice guy- and he has a look on life that few people can achieve and completely understand.
I believe it! And the movie they made was really good! Very realistic in its bleakness, but also inspiring.
Peenuses dangling down like a rain forest. Hundreds of dangling peenuses. Monkey runs and jumps off a cliff qand grabs a peenus! The monkey swings and jumps from peenus to peenus and goes across the whole forest off flaccid peenuses
When he said 5 days my heart sank. I cant even begin to imagine being stuck under a boulder for 5 hours, 5 days is unfathomable. When I tried to imagine it I shuddered
what about the guy stuck behind the freezers until he died? probably from starvation or dehydration.. people all around him but no one can hear him.
@@Ruebz_f30 slow terrible death
5 seconds here. Shit. As soon as I see the Boulder make contact
Better change your tampon
@@peepbo3964 dang you must be speaking from personal experience huh. Sorry buddy
I feel so bad for the family of the young man who died in the grocery store. That poor kid, what a sad story.
My thing is if that was a spot that employees used to hide from managers how was he not found for 10 years?
He fell and was pinned behind something. They probably smelled him but didn't see him and just figured it was a dead animal or something. So sad.
If that man saw him, why didn't he report finding remains in thr woods IMMEDIATELY? I'm probably missing something there. Like the guy that found the burnt car from the Yosemite Murders. He found it, took the LP, and kept it for several days. The thing is, I knew the man who towed that car out, and you could clearly see their charred bodies through the trunk it was right by my house. If I found a dead body, I'd report it right away.
He did report the body, but because his body was decomposed and he didn’t have any ID on him the police weren’t able to identify him.
@@softpearreactsnorma5430 oh I see. I misunderstood. I thought he didn't report it at first. My bad.
The number of times people have noticed a bad smell in a place and some time later a body was found there, you'd think people would investigate thoroughly sooner.
It feels like they didn’t even investigate the freezer or anything to check for bad food. Even if they did, the smell would clearly still be there if they decided to throw food out that they thought it was bad… so you would think that they would be just a bit curious and will try to take off the wall or a bit of the wall at that point… especially if they know someone who work there went missing.
you'd be surprised how long it would take a grocery store to actually have something like that taken care of. While it's not a Dead body, the store I work at, the Plumbers actually broken their camera snake in the pipes and got it stuck down there, so now we have to be careful to not use too much water when cleaning our our entire Produce department will be walking in sewage water in the back. The only way to fix it is to have the floor torn up to get tot he broken equipment in the pipes. Which I doubt will happen cause that would cost money and time they don't want to spend. I could totally see the Store trying to cover up the bad smell 1000 times over before they'd ever think to actually check behind the cooler, I wouldn't have been surprised to hear if they thought it was a dead rodent and just didn't want to take care of it. Lots of stuff that makes zero sense business wise goes on behind the Grocery store front.
Aron Ralston's will to live was incredible I am so impressed and shocked. It seems in survival stories, the will to live ends up being what drives people to find solutions to problems and keep going and end up surviving against the odds.
True! I pray to never be in a situation like that, but damn. By the way, I love your screen name! 😺😺
Jigsaw was right all along.
@@spookyblush-speedruns I went looking for this reply lmao
In the 3rd story about Larry--the guy who died after getting stuck behind the freezers--it sounds like he likely had a schizophrenic break. Often times schizophrenia appears in people around late adolescence or early adulthood which is exactly how old Larry was. Also, the most common signs or symptoms of schizophrenia include visual and auditory hallucinations, delusional thoughts, and especially hearing voices in your head telling you to do irrational things. Either that or it sounds like he could have tried methamphetamine, aka speed, for the first time and did way too much and had a psychotic break because of it, as the symptoms are also similar to the ones Larry reportedly had. However, its far more likely he had a schizophrenic break since there was no history of drug use.
Sad story.
I am very sure it was. I live in the town this happened. The doctors here really don't listen to you. All they do is give you pills.
I thought it sounded like schizophrenia also and you're right about the age and symptoms but it's usually activated by stress and comes on more gradually than that. That was either a sudden psychotic break brought on by something organic or drug use, as you suggested, or something like Encephalitis. Perhaps he was exposed to some kind of toxin at work but then others at his job would have had symptoms
OR it was the pills that his mom recently got him for anxiety. Could have been a bad reaction. But to find a body rotting behind the freezer 10 years later is disgusting. That body had to be all bones by that time.
@@Irish_Georgia_Girl Yeah, it does sound like it came on rather suddenly, however, who knows how long he'd been keeping his thoughts and feelings to himself before apparently completely losing it. And also, his mother must have noticed changes in his mood and behavior for at least a good while before he had his "mental break" and disappeared, as she's the one who helped him get on the prescription medication(s) he was being given to help deal with whatever issues he was initially experiencing and she apparently noticed. Further, it usually takes a little while for a psychiatrist to prescribe psych meds, sometimes as long 3 or 4 weeks or however long it takes them to feel comfortable not only diagnosing an individual, but then deciding which type of psych med they want to prescribe. So I suppose my point is I'm not too certain how sudden his psychological descent came on, and it seems to me that it could have been far more gradual than anyone thought. But im far from certain, so who knows.
And speaking of the prescription meds, I forgot if Mr. Ballen said, but presumably he had been prescribed either a benziodiazipine for anxiety, an anti-depressant, or perhaps even an anti-psychotic depending on his symptoms at the time and whether he had already showed any of the signs or symptoms of severe mental illness that he'd eventually exhibit before he disappeared. And with that in mind, any/all of those drugs can have some pretty nasty side effects, though benzos have the least serious psychological side effects and are the least common, while anti-depressants are far more common and have far more nasty potential side effects including suicidal thoughts that lead to serious suicide attempts, mental fog and confusion, feeling lost and disoriented, etc. And finally, anti-psychotics have far more, far worse, and far more common potential psychological side effects similar to the ones he exhibited.
And lastly, if you've read this far, I never thought of the possibility he could have been exposed to some toxin. And I admittedly don't know much about encephalitis, so I'll have to look into that. Whatever the case, it's a mystery and a tragic one at that.
@Deck Diva or maybe something happen during is shift who know
You notice how he doesn't use his right arm after the boulder falls in the story? Dudes a real storyteller.
This has better content than any Discovery or History channel show.
Oh my goodness. You are right. He never uses his R arm again after Aaron gets pinned. Good catch. And Mr Ballen thank you for being the most authentic storyteller I have ever heard. Bev from Oklahoma
I hopes he makes a full recovery
The first story is the first that I’ve heard from this series where the person gets out alive FINALLY 😭
It's not the only one, fortunately. Watch "Insane survival stories", if you're looking for a positive.
Good to be alive!
Guess you haven't heard of the movie either
@@TheDualDv8 "first (...) from this series" where hero lives.
Yesssss me too 👏🏾👏🏾.. I was wondering if he would cover any stories where there were suvivors and I'm glad he did, it just puts a smile on my face 😊😊
I hate dishes, Mr Ballen. With a passion. They are my most relentless enemy. Whenever I finish dishes, voila, they invited their friends and family and there is more. But now… I love dishes. I turn on your stories and listen while I wash them. I even look forward to it now. The kitchen has never been cleaner. My wife has never been happier. You have saved my marriage. Thank you.
There's something called a dishwasher.
Hahaha I do the same thing!
@@najeehaamid5194 yea not everyone has one of those, genius.
I do this too! Even dropped my phone in the water whilst watching 👀
🤣
That kid 1200 miles away 10 years later in the block of ice blows my mind, I would love to know what happened to him and how he ended up there
if he was murdered dude mustve been hit man at that point
I’d like to know why that guy never reported the body when he found it. He found it ten years earlier and said nothing until he saw it on tv and probably thought reward money or something.
@@John-uh4rv He did tho? Police was called? But the body had no personal items to indicate who he was
@@EllaMato unless I heard it wrong it sounded like he didn’t report it until ten years later when he saw it on tv. Then they dug it out of the ice.
@@John-uh4rv Maybe. I understood it that police was called right away but they could not identify the person so he was buried but the person who found it remembered the face so well that when he saw it in tv he recogniced that it was that same person and called them about it and they did a dna test and therefore this nameless person was identified. But I listened to this story just one time while doing other stuff so maybe I got it wrong
So he saw this dead person, called the police who could not figure out who this person was but since he remembered the face of the person who was in the ice, when he saw the same face on tv they were able to put 2 and 2 together
Regarding the story of Larry: Nearly all anti-depressant medications take weeks to start having an effect. If he had previously had panic attacks/ anxiety, he should have been given anti-anxiety medication, which often can produce positive results within 24 hours. Anxiety and depression present distinctly different symptoms and require distinctly different medications. In fact some anti-depressants can exacerbate anxiety. So, if his family was expecting an anti-depressant to start making him better in one day, they were misinformed. As the story says, the doctor "quickly prescribed" an anti-depressent and If a physician confuses depression and anxiety behaviors, that physician may not have had experience in this area, and thus provided medication that produced a psychotic break and a tragic outcome.
Anxiety and depression (most forms) are best treated with the same drug. The most effective treatment for anxiety is an anti-depressant medication like SSRIs. But yes they do take several weeks to work and benzos could have been used temporarily until the antidepressants started working, but I bet neither would have helped this guy. This didn't sound anything like an anxiety problem. Sounds like he had new onset paranoid schizophrenia or some other type of psychosis. He needed antipsychotics.
This is not the case usually. Anxiety and depression are comorbid, meaning they are often coinciding. Anxiety is usually treated with the same medication that is given to treat depression (e.g., Prozac, Lexapro, Zoloft, and other SSRIs/SNRIs.). These meds often take 4-6 weeks before you really start to feel the effects of them. You are right, though, that there are medications used specifically to treat anxiety/panic attacks, which include lorazepam and other benzodiazepines. These usually only take about 20-30 minutes to start working. But overall, depression and anxiety share very similar symptoms and it’s very common for people to have both of them at the same time.
It sounds the man had a psychotic break, which would make sense because psychosis can cause extreme anxiety.
@@erinmarieee23 Lol, thought this reply was to me for a second but we said pretty much the same thing.
@@cody555903 Haha, that’s true!!😂
@@cody555903 Not disagreeing on this case at all, but some anxiety and depression cases are actually comorbid upon one another or OTHER conditions entirely.
Mine was caused by ADHD, so antidepressants, SSRIs etc did nothing over and over. I needed an ADHD treatment that then made my depression and anxiety ease up as they were a byproduct of that initial condition. Lots of mental health is connected, but parts of the issue can be major iron or vit D deficiencies, need of SSRI, need of stimulant, etc etc.
There's a reason we need psychiatrists, this shit is so fucking complex 😭
I was 20 years old before a doc bothered to see my iron levels, I was .01% above official anemic levels. There's so many strange reasons and solutions to these problems. And unfortunately yes, a lot of them take a while to truly work.
"He scattered his ashes" is a surreal sentence.
"He lowered his own casket into the grave."
@@kingayy9267 MrBeast be like:
I can’t imagine a better compliment as an actor for the man you’re portraying to say watching your film was basically like watching a documentary on their own life. Such a crazy story!
The movie "Jungle" starring Daniel Radcliffe is much the same. He does an absolutely amazing job!
James Franco sucks though.
We need merch that says "I'm a fan of the strange, dark, and mysterious delivered in story form."
👏 YES
Fan...
Omg yes 🤣
I would buy that
Format
I feel like I wouldn’t be able to break my arm in any circumstance. I was cringing just hearing about what he had to do.
I feel the same way.. I think in situations like this, people are just in a completely different mindset, like it’s truly life or death. Like something regular people in day to day life can’t fathom.
its called survival people will do anything to survive
It doesn't hurt nearly as much as you think but mentally it's a difficult task no doubt..
Right you hear in his other stories of people who turn into survival mode eating bugs and whatever without thought, but still makes you truly ponder daily life we live in lol
Keep in mind that his arm was already dead. He probably felt nothing because his nerves were (quite literally) fried.
Aron Ralston is such a badass. And I love the happy little coda to his story: His "vision" came true some time after his escape, when he became the father of a little boy named Leo.
He still pisses me off for being so BRAINLESS! You never go into a canyon, alone, and don’t tell anyone where you’re going. It is beyond stupid.
@@icarusbinns3156 He learned from that mistake though. So NOT brainless, he had been cocky and got taken down a peg.
@@annoyedshedevil does not change the fact he still went. He did a Dumb and was forced to face his unthinkingness. Great, he lived. It was still stupid
@@icarusbinns3156 genuin sound like you hate, this is a story about survival not stupidity that isn't the priority.
@@icarusbinns3156 weird that you just ignore his actions and his situation with just *great he lived* lol let the guy live happy. He is alive he doesn't need ppl like you talking like this.
That last story is really upsetting to hear about again. I’m from that town he died in and I used to go to that store with my parents all time and when I heard about that horrible accident it was really upsetting to hear about because nothing ever happens here. May he rest is peace
Who else is binge watching MrBallen? Can’t get enough of the content. Chose the day before the storm hits to watch as much as possible.
Me... I'm like.... 12 episodes into today.... he's getting me through folding laundry. 😅🤷♀️
Lots of people. Just like the hundreds that make the same comment you did
Me
Which storm? By chance the freeze that happened here in TX?
Can’t stop watching
I love that this guy is so detailed with the story. I don’t even have to watch the video, I just do housework and listen.
True
Wow, you do housework?? Are you single? Lol 😆
@@williamtanguay2781 lolol
Yes! I love how great he is at telling these stories, I can do other things while listening to the story and still picture everything perfectly by his descriptions!
@@williamtanguay2781 u have a dirty ass house 🤮😂
I can’t even imagine the physical and mental strength required to break your own arm clean off to save your life. That is dedication and a will to live that is unmatched! Absolutely amazing!
I have never been addicted to anything until now. Mr. Ballen is the best storyteller I have ever encountered.
I mean technically you've always been addicted to food, water, and air... (I know, asshole response lol)
Got stuck in the elevator with the CEO of my small local hospital for an hour yesterday. Not as intense as these but still not fun
That’s brutal!!
Did you cut your arm off?
I would of started play MrBallen without saying anything 😆
Dude that sucks 🤣
And you were the only one comming out alive or?
I think at this point everybody randomly found this channel and can’t stop watching.
Facts!🤣🤣💯
yup
found2 days ago and watched like 50 ep.
That's me lol
That's how you find every channel on yt
He didn't fall behind there, he was trying to hide. When you first hear about him seeing hallucinations and running around, it sounds a bit humorous; however, mental illness is nothing to joke about. If anyone you know, family, friend, or otherwise, please reach out to help them. They will almost certainly tell you everything's fine, and if they are sick, nothing is further from the truth. Don't tell them to call and seek help, because that can be just as terrifying. You need to make the call, or if you aren't particularly close to the individual, tell someone who is. Impress on them that this is an emergency and tomorrow could be too late. Later could be too late. A phone call can save a life.
I had the same thought, he probably squeezed into the tightest possible space to feel safe. Really fucking horrific to imagine. I just pray that he was so far gone mentally that he didn't really comprehend the terror.
This is good advice. People who are depressed or have an anxiety disorder will not want to seek help, their illness is causing them to think irrationally and they may want to hide away from everyone or even commit suicide. They need a friend or loved one to help them, they are not going to help themselves.
Call 911 if you see someone who might be having a psychiatric emergency. It saves lives and allows for a 72 hour psych hold to evaluate the patient in a safe environment. It doesn't matter if you know them or not.
Going through the US court system as a mentally ill person is a huge trauma that has lifelong consequences and involves the loss of civil liberties for years afterward
Knowing how mentally ill people are treated by police, how could anyone suggest calling cops on a loved one because they're sick?
Have any of you ever dealt with the consequences of this? Google it ffs. Take them to the hospital if you have to
@@no_peace Sadly that's the God honest truth. If you call the police they stick you in the "suicide prevention unit," which is a cold, empty space. They take away your clothes and your dignity. They give you want amounts to a rug with Velcro to wear, a plastic bed and a blanket that might as well be card board. The police don't care about helping these people, they just isolate them and take away anything and everything that one could potentially use for self harm. No books, no paper, no pencils, no underwear, no pants, no shoes, not even any toilet paper or soap, nothing. They lock you up for 23 hours a day and let you out for maybe most of 1 hour to take a shower and brush your teeth, with someone watching you from a few feet away to make sure you don't try anything in the curtain-less shower. They do nothing to actually help. You need to call a hospital or a help line. The only time you should ever call 911 is if they have just attempted or are actively trying to commit suicide. The police don't give a shit as long as you don't die in their custody.
That man is a beast. What he did to save his own life is incredible. Aaron, you are amazing. 🌹
“And then he BROKE his arm.” Gag.
I saw the story about the guy in the canyon on "I shouldn't be alive." They have a bunch of episodes on TH-cam and I highly recommend it. It's amazing how much a human body can endure because of a person's will to survive.
Our family tells a story of a great-aunt who wanted to go to an Old Year's Eve dance, but she had a very painful corn on her right pinkie toe. She put her foot on the chopping block, chopped off the toe with the axe, bound up up the foot and danced the night through. But as far as I've been able to find out nobody remembers her name ...
Yeah it all comes down to the will for action
i love that show. me and my housemate forgot its name for a time so would just say 'do you wanna watch more idiots?' it's really easy to judge more intrepid people from your sofa haha
I felt that arm breaking 😰 hands down to MrBallen for making me feel that intense emotion just by listening to his story.
Although I already knew the ending to the third story it always shatters me when mentally ill people don't get the right treatment and therefore lose their lives.
Larry was clearly showing signs of hallucinations and paranoia. These don't generally come with a depression.
Antidepressants generally take about 3-4 weeks of daily intake to show first signs of effect. No antidepressant works in one day.
If a person is clearly that distressed and unable to live a normal life anymore, also because at that time they potentially are a threat to themselves, they need to be hospitalized asap.
Larry's death could have easily been prevented.
The doctor misjudged and the family did too. Sadly Larry was the one to lose his life from this.
Seriously, I need to know what the doc said and actually prescribed.
Getting a patient whos disoriented and hallucinating and offering them a zoloft is most definitely medical malpractice
Love your username, and I totally agree. He was completely misdiagnosed if he was prescribed an antidepressant, and his parents were not informed of how antipsychotic meds work, if they were just sending him off to bed, having visual and auditory hallucinations, and hoping one pill will have an effect on his condition in 12 hours (overnight). This is negligence at its finest. I also question why he wasn't held for observation for at least 72 hours, especially once his history was revealed, before prescribing something that was erroneous.
I'm pretty sure the guy developed overnight schizophrenia or something among those lines. If he had been immediatly hospitalized and given the right meds his life would have been saved.
Thank you for pointing that out. I was so confused when Mr Ballen mentioned that the antidepressants didn't help within a few hours and then that the mom hoped they'd work until the next day, because that's just not how they work. And I agree that this case was absolutely misjudged and he should've been kept on the psych ward for a while until they made sure he's on the right medication and doing better. What a tragic and unnecessary death
Exactly what I thought! What kind of Dr thinks a person gets depression over night and that the symptoms would be feeling disoriented and not knowing where they are?! That's not hoe depression works at all. That dr was extremely lazy and just wanted to throw pills at the problem and be done with it, instead of actually doing his job and finding the real problem. I bet he didn't even do any blood tests either. He should definitely be charged with medical malpractice.
Shout out to James Franco for cutting off his arm in order to make that movie realistic and making one of today’s top stories possible 🙌🏼 you the real MVP bruh 👊🏼
And dats on period🌷✌😝
Ummmm.... but he didn’t tho???
@@Shakariwilliams.0830 its a joke and now you ruined it :/
@Stink Fingers McGee i did but I quit because everyone kept laughing at me
@@Shakariwilliams.0830 r/wooosh
I like that he can tell stories and talk on here without using a stupid voice and antics that we all know nobody does in real life.
Thanks to your channel;
1) I won't be cave diving
2) I won't be diving
3) I won't be hitch hiking
4) I won't go hiking
5) I won't go biking
6) I won't go camping
7) I won't go on dates
8) i won't go sailing
9) I won't go on cruises
10) I won't get married
11) I will NOT work in a factory that has an industrial oven..
I'm just going to enjoy quarantine just watching your videos about everything I shouldn't do and enjoy my time at home ! I'm SOOO good at home sweet home!
Lmao you're not even safe in your house at this point 😂
Me too lol
After binging this channel I know there are 3 things I will never try in my life
1.Spelunking
2.Cave diving
3.Ignore a warning sign/safety barrier.
🤣
there are probably multiple guys hiding in your walls and your attic right now, waiting for you to go to bed. also, don't forget the ouija demons under your basement stairs
Larry's Story is spooky. I knew who you were talking about right away.
It's really sad that the Dr didn't explain to Larry's family that any anti depressant medication can and will take up to 6 weeks to work. Larry clearly needed a mild sedative as well while the meds kicked in. That's really sad
That's exactly what I was thinking. The dude was clearly in a state of panic and delusion and he needed a benzo or something not Prozac. Although I will say for me personally, I was prescribed Lexapro for a few months and it actually started working within 30 minutes of taking the first dose. In fact every morning when I took it for the first 10-14 days it felt like I was on MDMA all day long but I still had the ability to think and concentrate but I would also be able to fall asleep at night really easily. Unfortunately after those first two weeks it ceased to have any positive effect on me at all and the negative side effects came through. SSRIs are really strange drugs.
Yeah it’s really heartbreaking, I’m assuming the doctor didn’t understand that it can take a few weeks to have any real affect. I have cPTSD & PTSD and I’ve had my meds increased (when we eventually found ones that worked for me) because PTSDs can come with horrendous depression, so it took ages figuring out the right medication because it takes weeks to notice any real effects. Same for when my meds were increased, it took a few weeks to notice that effect.
What's cptsd
@@jamie-leighgibson2338 Complex post-traumatic stress disorder
Complex post-traumatic stress disorder is a psychological disorder that can develop in response to prolonged, repeated experience of interpersonal trauma in a context in which the individual has little or no chance of escape.
Most GPs won't prescribe benzos any more due to fear of addiction or overdose. They literally won't compromise themselves even by prescribing a very temporary dose. They won't, for example, prescribe benzos for alcohol withdrawal unless the patient is in hospital or has someone to be with them at all times. You can imagine the issue that causes for alcoholics who have no family or cannot afford to go to hospital.
That dude is such a badass. After all that, he still climbed out, thats amazing.
The antidepressants would not work in a day or two. It usually takes a few weeks for them to become effective. It sounds like he was schizophrenia.
He was schizophrenia.
Apparently schizophrenia has no warning signs and doesnt have to be inherited, so its very likely
Aaron actually had to break his arm twice because there are two different bones in the forearm, so I can't even imagine what that must've been like, let alone the fact that he also had to cut through the nerve with that crappy knife
the stories just remind me of all the reasons I should be a lazy couch potato
This makes me proud that I'm lazy😭
Don’t get stuck in the couch one day 😭
friendly reminder mr. bigballen just decided to become a seal one day because he wasn't doing good in school
Someone died from a sink hole in their own house-
Mushrooms have already grown on me.
“i’m sure that felt pretty good to feel like you cut your arm off and that was the right decision”
that’s not a sentence i ever thought i’d hear
This dude finds the way to tell stories and sets an atmosphere of eerie energy that has you thinking the situation for the people in the story is even scarier.great story telling.
It's truly beyond amazing what the human mind and body are capable of when in survival mode. I'm so happy that Aron made it through and is doing as well as he is!
Dude. Please, for the love of god, start a Patreon and get some merch, so that we can all throw money at you.
This comment. Omg he is a master story teller. Just fucking amazing. Makes you feel it......... 😮😮😮😮
I want merchh
Operators association, not a scary stories Patreon but it’s partly his Patreon lol.
@J. Donnelly Fuckin Hilarious!
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Pleaseee though I want merch 🥺 he needs to do this!
I'm rewatching every single episode on this channel because, let's be perfectly honest here. There's nothing else in the entire entertainment industry, either past or current that's even half as awesome as this channel. Sometimes I get lucky and don't remember the stories so it's like having a new Mr Ballen upload all to myself and I am a fat kid in a candy store.
I have been here almost from the beginning. Was watching Mike from That Chapter and there was a MrBallen video that was recommended so I watched. Been hooked on MrBallen and Mike since I watched them the very first time. They have both grown by leaps and bounds so fast it's shocking. I can never get enough content from them so I binge watch them both on a regular basis until they drop a new episode. One of my favorite MrBallen stories is of course his own but tied with it is the Hinterkaifeck Farm murders. It seems like a somewhat supernatural, type and cold-blooded living killer at the same time. It likely will never be solved after all these years.
Snap me too !
Me too!!
Same! Lol
Yeah, I saw a comment once that they had "caught up" and now had to wait for new episodes. I haven't reached that point yet, but know that it will come one day. For now I get to watch a few a day and I'm as happy as can be.
“inside of this huge block of ice is the dead body of a young man”
wisconsin summed up in one sentence
@Grimm
I reside in Wisconsin. It's been over 90 degrees Fahrenheit and humid for 1/2 of the summer. We are a land of extremes as far as weather is concerned...almost as much as the Dakotas. Best wishes!
He saw a body and didnt tell anyone until he watched a TV show? why wouldnt he have called it in.
Put it on the State welcoming sign in spray paint.
@@OOZiTen he did. The cops retrieved the body but has no means of identifying and notifying next of kin. Had he not seen the show, the family would probably have never known. To the cops, he was just the latest in a long list of John Does. Only because, to the man who found him, the discovery of a dead body was a totally new and frightening experience, did he remember the face so vividly.
Sooo not funny - but extremely funny😰😂😂
So glad you covered Larry’s case! I live in Iowa and I remember when they found his body but I couldn’t find a lot of information on how he got to where he was or what lead to all of this.
Why didn’t anyone in the shop investigate the awful smell ?
they probably sent employees to do it but employees were to lazy to search and just hung out for awhile back there and said they couldnt find anything
they probaly did, they would've thought it was rotten food or milk but like he said where he was wasnt visible to costumers/employes
Working at a grocery store food gets stuck under stuff all the time and it rots, milk gets spilled and doesn't get cleaned up either. Its rare to find someone that will actually investigate thoroughly and take action to clean something foul. Plus grocery stores are always short handed, they give you just enough time to stock out the product. An investigation of a bad smell would be a rare leisure time.
@@ilovelamp521 Ok, i get that. But you're telling me that in 10 YEARS no one did some deep cleaning & investigating? That's just unsanitary in the best conditions. And when there's a prevalent odor that can't be located for that long, you would think a more thorough investigation would take place... And I'm curious, wouldn't a decomposing body have a different odor than rotten/moldy food?
@@Tinypaperplate That place wasn’t easy to access you have to move the multiple of big freezer that didn’t designed to be move(one you saw in supermarket) it completely normal no one interesting to moving that freezer to just look behind it. In some case you literally have to close the store and ask specialist to move it.
When I die, I want to haunt the crap out of my house just so MrBallen can tell my story.
Smart XD
Sorry, but taking an anti-depressant takes like a month to work. Why would a doctor prescribe that for an acute episode? That is what vailum and other drugs are for. Anti-depressants are good for long term management of anxiety, but if you are having an episode, it does nothing.
I was thinking the same thing.
It sounds like a gross mishandling of the situation on the doctor's part. The store's handling of the alarming smell complaints is just as bad or worse though. How do they never investigate the smell?
@@Tinypaperplate Right. If it started to smell like death, I would investigate. I wouldn't think it was person, but maybe a dead rat or something that got behind the fridge. And if the coworkers hung out up there, how did they not realize how intense the smell was right there. Lots of carelessness happening.
I was thinking the same thing, unless he gave him xanax or an equivalent, you wouldn't see a difference for a long time.
Right? It takes a month not just to work but for THE SIDE EFFECTS to stop
When I first took mine they made me feel TERRIBLE before they worked
Aaron is so brave! I don't think I could ever do that! God bless him! He deserves to live!
MAY THE UNIVERSE BLESS THE GUY WHOM SAW THROUGH HIS ARM!!! That is ABSOLUTELY insane Aaron guy...what a story
i can tell you that aaron is exploring and even mountaineering to which he has specially made prosthetic attachments for and hasnt let his ordeal stop him infact he even went back to the scene a year later with a film crew and told his whole storey and even abseiled himself back down the exact spot he had to after he had cut through his arm
WATCHING THIS IS BETTER THAN CABLE TELEVISION.
Anything’s better than cable I mean I’m gonna pay you to watch tv and still have commercials that doesn’t make sense
This is TH-cam everything here is better then cable
I don't have the willpower to get out of bed somedays. Can't even fathom breaking my own arm and then CUTTING IT OFF
Mr.Ballen’s telling of 127 hours is better than the movie with James Franco 😂
You won't understand how good I feel when the victims/victim survive in a mrballen story.
Same
Peenuses dangling down like a rain forest. Hundreds of dangling peenuses. Monkey runs and jumps off a cliff qand grabs a peenus! The monkey swings and jumps from peenus to peenus and goes across the whole forest off flaccid peenuses
@@Yuto_LloydMan named Jonah runs across the street naked in flip flops. Weiner flops side to side. 16 inch flaccid girthy kok flops up and down, side to side. Jonah runs naked across the street
Yea when your son starts hearing voices and hiding from people in your house it's probably time to bring him to the ER or the hospital to be admitted, and anti deppressiant s at least in my experience with them, take weeks to start seeing effects, a benzo prob a better way to go in that situation.
The reaction he had after taking his medication sounds precisely like akathesia, maybe as a direct result of antipsychotic medication like benzodiazepam.
antidepressants are the *EXACT OPPOSITE* of what someone having a psychotic break or psychosis needs, they will make things so so much worse. psychosis is in almost every case caused by overactivity in the brain from too much dopamine and or serotonin, that's why antipsychotics lower dopamine and or serotonin to combat that overactivity, and it's also why an anti depressant that raises levels of those neurotransmitters will make the problem worse and why stimulants like cocaine, methamphetamine, or adderall which massively raise levels of neurotransmitters can cause psychosis in susceptible individuals.
@@atashgallagher5139 That makes sense! I’m glad on not taking ani-depression meds any more. The guy in the story did not go to work, but instead hung out with some trouble makers who gave him drugs and he took too much and lost his mind overnight. This is exactly what happens to my brother as well when he was around 20 years old. He and my Mom are both schizophrenic due to drug use but I’m fine. I never did drugs.
@Myles Gray
I'm glad you are doing well without relying on depression medication any longer. You're probably right that your mother's and brother's schizophrenia was triggered by drug use. I am a registered nurse who spent part of my career specializing in mental health. I know drug use can be a trigger for people who are susceptible.
How do you know the man in this story used illicit drugs rather than going to work?
@@sallykauth2115 Drugs is the first thing I thought of and no one seems to mention it. It is the most logical explanation when a rational person without history of mental illness starts behaving this way. I'm surprised no one is considering this possiblity.
Dude, I’m just confused on why in the last story his parents didn’t take him right back when he said he heard voices. That’s not anxiety or depression lmaooo
Also, antidepressants do not work after one dose....
I live in the town where this happened.
@@nicoled1767 Nope, they take weeks to kick in. It sounds like he was having a psychotic break which can happen without warning. I worked in a psych admission unit for years and we had one university professor that had taught that day and was perfectly fine but was brought in 5 hours after they got home hearing voices and out of control..
Actually severe depression can cause hallucinations but not really like the ones he decribed
@Mitchell Bisesi ~OMG THANK YOU! I was beginning to wonder if I was the only one wondering that!;!
I got hooked right away, he's a good story teller, and handsome to look at and I enjoy his tales he reads. He makes me laughs at times and he's just easy to listen to. I check him out every night and listen till I'm really sleepy.
woah thats gay
The first guy was full had determination, commitment, and sheer f***ing will
I once saw him kill three men in a bar with a pencil
@@deanwinchester5425 lmaooo
Your videos are the first thing I look for when I open youtube. The way you tell a story just draws people in! It's like hanging out with you and just chatting. I cannot express enough how much I look forward to your videos! Thank you for that!
A friend and I almost went to see 127 Hours, but even the trailer was way too panic inducing for me. Thanks for telling me the story so I didn't have to wonder.
@Miss Maddie I agree, he does an incredible job!
Found him yesterday and I can't stop watching. Such a great storyteller
Coming from someone with constantly has “episodes” of psychosis, I can’t imagine how that last guy felt. He probably got himself stuck in there escaping the things he could hear and probably died :(
Psychosis is some really scary and wild shit man. Ive had one episode and Im 33, I hope to never one again. I was under a ton of stress and was on the verge of losing my job, neck deep in debt, 2 mnths behind on rent, my ex was keeping my son from me after taking him to another state, totalled my car, insurance refused to cover it....drowned my sorrows in alcohol and stopped eating and basically prayed for death every day. All this happened within 3 weeks, and all led up to 3 days of insanity that I vividly remember. I could hear people (specifically 4 different ppl watching and talking about my every move and once I started talking back to them, 2 of them started to hate me and threatened to hurt me, while the other 2 were really sweet and we would all goof around when the other 2 were away doing stuff) I went on long expeditions trying to escape them and remember sever real people trying to explain that nobody was there and I need help. I was yelling at what I thought and heard was a girl trying to set me up and frame my arrest for killing someone and this (really sweet and nice and REAL) woman approached and explained that there was nobody there and she offered to walk with me since I was panicking and I just thought she was part of the set up and ran away. lol. It turned really sinister the 3rd day (basically day 2 I had to go to work and completely ignore these voices and pretend that I heard nothing with the hopes that it was ALL in my head and couldnt tell the difference between ppl calling out to me for assistancew or my mental fracture), so the 3rd day I began to believe that several realities were merging and I was an evil psychopath in my alternate realities and was being hunted and could feel people trying to shoot me and hear police and detectives and loved ones explaining how horribble I was and how I could do what I did, like shit Ive never and would never do (murdering people and hiding bodies, beating up kids, throwing salad at my ex...that one really cracked me up in hindsight...and so on) it got so bad that I was in the middle of my apartment complex of about 4 buildings yelling at 3 am that I was innocent and its the other "me's" that are doing those thin gs, and my reality is just collapsing into your reality!!! I ran inside and blacked out after my apartment manager confronted me. I WOKE UP UNDERNEATH THE FUCKING APARTMENT IN PITCH BLACK IN THE FUCKING CRAWL SPACE!!! I lost it, and had no clue at the time where I was and was in the peak of my psychosis and was being full blown hunted at this point and almost burst through the floor of my apartment trying to escape until I was able to breathe and let my eyes adjust and find the crawl space exit. I took my shitty other car that wasnt totalled but was basically a brisk wind from falling to pieces and drove at about 100mph to the hospital and left the keys in it and car running at the ER entrance with a gun in my back pocket with no firing pin for some reason and demanded they lock me in a secured locking room immediately. They put me in scrubs, locked me in a cell, gave me the most sedatives I imagine humanly possible, talked to the walls and small window to people that said I was tearing my limbs off yet time woulkd reset every 20 seconds until I passed out. they woke me up hours later and I drove about 3 milkes to a softball field and fell asleep in my car for 16 hours. called my boss at 3:30 am on accident and left a message that made no sense. got fired, and hid in my apartment from the other residence for about 2 weeks and still walk with my head down and feel so embarrased. That was just like barely a little of what I went through. I was in another dimension and realm of existence for almost 4 days...... fuck.
@@davidmaschino3359 that sounds terrifying. i am so sorry you went through that :( i don’t think i’ve ever heard of that it’s interesting learning about it.
@@davidmaschino3359 thanks for sharing
@@davidmaschino3359 aww david... thank you for sharing. what a nightmare. and to know folks go thru this is heartbreaking. and trying to help them... it would be so hard to know what to do when they think you are part of the darkness. so glad you made it through. hope things are much better for you in life today.
@@davidmaschino3359 I'm no psychiatrist but I'm pretty sure that alcohol can increase the risk of psychosis in susceptible individuals same for stress and anxiety and shitty genetics. so I guess try to avoid high stress and drinking at the same time.
You have the best stories. You make these 12 hour overnight shifts doable. I have my headphones in all night and get my work done. Thank you
Boom that's how you git'it done....
I really appreciate the fact he always writes the conersion from feet to km because I would not understand it otherwise
I still dont understand the metric system. On my old old school Obama phone way back when the conversions were on there. Also international money compared w U.S. dollars. International time zones too. Now I have to Smart find it all. Lol.( not so smart or convenient.
It's all about the imperial system.
'Murica!
They terk mah jerb!
Funny how many comments like this I've seen on his videos here. I guess a lot of people appreciate it
@@sharons.3732 old school Obama phone? wtf?
conersion?
My navy seal friends always watch this guy. He’s such a good story teller
Mr.Ballen was also a Navy Seal.
Imagine if he kept hearing and seeing hallucinations while being stuck behind the freezer..
That must've been terrifying for him
Jeezus that is horrifying to think about. I can only hope that he died quickly as horrible as that sounds. He didn’t deserve to deal with that
127 hours is a phenomenal movie. James Franco does a wonderful job portraying Aaron. That part in the movie where he uses his Swiss army knife to cut through his tendons, is hella intense. The noise they use, gives me chills everytime. I can literally feel it in my arm.
It was a great film. James Franco being an extreme method actor makes me curious what he did to prepare for this role. He once just walked out of house with nothing and didn't anybody anything and proceeded to live on the streets for 2 months to prepare for a role!
@@warrenwilson720 what role did he do that for?
Its fucking gnarly for sure. I can hardly watch it, it made me feel sick. They recreated perfectly. I think that scene was done all in one take, as well.
@@warrenwilson720 yea, what role was that? Please enlighten us.
The movie is called "City By The Sea"
Also I cried when he told Aaron's story, because that's absolutely terrifying
It was so good to hear of a story that had a happy ending. Aron...what a brave dude.
I'd guess a store that didn't investigate such a smell would close.
I mean unless it's the only store in town I'm not buying my food at a place that smells like death
The problem with antidepressants is that they take several weeks to start working. He may not have been fully honest with his doctor because most likely he would have been put on an antipsychotic instead. Something like a haldol injection would have worked a lot faster.
But even if it were something along the lines of schizophrenia, it wouldn't instantly show up over night. I wonder if the Dr did any blood tests, but I doubt it, that dr seemed lazy and just wanted to throw pills at the problem and be done with it. He completely failed that poor kid.
I came to the comments looking for this. I 100% agree. I'm just not sure why they thought the antidepressants would work immediately. Whereas all antidepressants I've been on or heard about you get worse before you get better. So confusing the doctor wouldn't warn them of this, almost negligible
Came to say this. Knew someone on Prosac and the doc said it took like 3 weeks + for them to start working. Surprised they didn’t give him some anxiety meds and possibly a tranq to chill him out.
@@jenniferb.awesomehe did such a half ass job too because he could’ve given him some anxiety meds and a tranq or something to mellow him out.
Seems like he had a psychotic break or something.
Imagine scattering your own ashes
Ik
I was thinking the same thing
Great movie
I can't ever think to look for the secret because you are so into the story, I can't think to look for anything else. Great job!
These videos are a addiction for me, and I'm not complaining
A addict never wants to complain about the addiction their addicted hence the reason its an addiction. You need help project gaming... serious help. I can help you if your heart so truly desires it. Message me and i can help u out buddy. We can get thru this together. Tomorrow is a new day bitch. Rejoice with me. Rejoice Rejoice Rejoiceeee
Antonio Harold that was cringey 😬
We’re not addicted, we can give up mr ballen anytime,
@@hownottoadult1014 speak for yourself 👀
@@korlmusic its a joke most people with addiction are in denial about there addiction and say they can give up anytime they want to. but not me im not in denial lol
Does anyone else hit the like button before the video starts? It's nice to know I will be entertained by the video before it even starts.
I used to but not anymore
Do it every time. I know its gonna be good so i dont wait...
Every time!
Every. Single. Time. 🙋♀️😁
Absolutely
Aaron's story is the most amazing story I've ever heard. I know I wouldn't be able to do what he did. He's just on a another level.