“He went on to run eight more desert races.” Bats: Oh fuck.

@kendelllewis6364

3 жыл бұрын

Lmao nice one

@stabbytoaster2417

3 жыл бұрын

Nice

@timbaker8928

3 жыл бұрын

😂😅😂😅😂😝

@jacobalexander4340

3 жыл бұрын

Imagine being the bats when the Italian comes through for a second time.

@nightynightshade

3 жыл бұрын

IM DEAD RN😂😂😂😭

"After drinking the blood of 20 bats..." he returned to Gotham as the spirit of vengeance.

@annangela3998

3 жыл бұрын

Lmao

@ihatethebeatles4587

3 жыл бұрын

with a secret weapon he had. he had named it covid 19

@jasonchatham4170

3 жыл бұрын

Best reply 🤣

@evanabbott2737

3 жыл бұрын

@Aiden O'Neil some bat drinker screwed us all....!!🤔😁

@stejanhulett6265

3 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣😩

I'm so damn impressed that despite not finding him, they managed to find his shoelace in the middle of a desert

@ericaelmore4124

Жыл бұрын

😂

@ShortsWarsUpdater

11 ай бұрын

Ik though, idk I thought it was easier to find a human but nah the shoelace is so much more obvious.

@Bugbite8

11 ай бұрын

Bro, you leave a single TOE NAIL in the dessert when you go missing, and they find that instead of you.

@deniedprosperity4144

11 ай бұрын

@@DenaRose-di9of .

@Claire-hy8jl

9 ай бұрын

😂 your right lol he in bits going around plains flying over and they find shoe lace in all sand but not him

You can't imagine how terrifying it is to be a near-sighted person without glasses in an unfamiliar environment! It's like walking through a fog.

@MayTheSchwartzBeWithYou

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, even going to the bathroom without my glasses makes me feel uncomfortable and unsafe. Maybe I should finally get laser eye surgery...

@kitkat80088

Жыл бұрын

@@MayTheSchwartzBeWithYou my mother got eye surgery before going to Italy because she was too scared of being in a big crowd, glasses being knocked off, and being left basically blinded. Not as scary thought of having to be in a jungle with predators who are waiting for you to die but still. Surgery isn’t as much as you’d think either. Well, not as much as it use to be and your insurance will cover it if you tell them “it’s affecting my daily life”.

@kayingthao5072

Жыл бұрын

@@MayTheSchwartzBeWithYounot everyone qualify to get lasik eye surgery unfortunately (you have to have a certain type of eye condition).

@KLee1028

Жыл бұрын

I thought the same. Whenever I hear a story like this where someone loses their glasses I get fixated on that!

@unknownuser8454

Жыл бұрын

fog isnt scary lmao

Imagine surviving for over a year lost at sea, watching someone die, contemplating suicide, and finally drifting onto land and being saved, only to have to deal with people accusing you of lying and cannibalizing your friend. Way to go humans.

@shanny4306

2 жыл бұрын

The nay sayers are in every story through history,,,,such unimportant people but they always get a mention,because they are harder to believe than awesome story’s about human resilience ,faith and the will to live we are capable of

@ku4546

2 жыл бұрын

I wonder why he didnt cover the dead body and give it back to his family. Couldnt he do that?

@Floridaman1780_

2 жыл бұрын

@@ku4546 I would imagine being lost at sea with a decomposing corpse would be mentally and physically crippling. His mindset was surviving. I would've done the same thing. I'm sure Ezekiel would have done the same thing had he been the one to survive. It's absolutely the right move.

@asuka-ryo

2 жыл бұрын

@@ku4546 think about it more deeply.....you'll figure out why, it's not hard

@endless3cho

2 жыл бұрын

@@ku4546 I don't know many ppl that could stomach having a rotting corpse next to them for months. There's quite a bit of fluid in you that isn't just blood or water, not to mention the other stuff that comes with decomposition.

It's kinda freaky to think that right at this moment there are people lost at sea, lost in the desert, lost in the woods or maybe even being killed by an industrial oven.

@janblackman6204

3 жыл бұрын

When I was in labor with my first child that exactly what I was thinking except I subbed women in labor. He was born in an army hospital and I was only 17 and they wouldn’t allow anyone to be with me. I think it truly warped me for a long time.

@christierella

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, and that’s just for starters!

@mattadoan-6436

3 жыл бұрын

I'd survived 22 days with an industrial oven before it turned on me & had to be put down. I'll tell you rn: it's NOT funny, not at all. Since then I always get stranded/lost with ceiling fans. Great appliance👍

@Matty80822

3 жыл бұрын

@@mattadoan-6436 I see you

@truth4004

3 жыл бұрын

And many more horrors.

14 months at sea?! He deserves his own movie deal 👏

@bellator28ttv78

Жыл бұрын

Too bad he caught liver disease

@MsMichigan

Жыл бұрын

@@bellator28ttv78 oh no! He did? 😬🥺

@bellator28ttv78

Жыл бұрын

From drinking seagulls blood I guess

@soldierofodin70

Жыл бұрын

There's a movie, not based off this man, but it's about whalers who are lost at sea in 1820 after a particularly vicious whale heavily damages their ship. Later, the story of survival will inspire Herman Melville to write "Moby Dick".

@SM-McKraken

Жыл бұрын

@@soldierofodin70 Vicious whale... you mean a whale defending itself against men trying to kill it.

she survived a 2 mile free fall strapped into an airplane seat, then trudged through the amazon jungle in a minidress and one flip flop and a bag of candy all the way back to civilization😳 That’s truly many many sets of miracles lined up in order for her survival to have been possible.

@jasminechan4705

6 ай бұрын

Also her expertise and keeping calm and thinking rationally. So amazing!

@michaeldoran4367

5 ай бұрын

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

@j3suisd3

3 ай бұрын

And her dad who started crying when he saw her & couldnt speak for hours 😭 an amazing lass ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Bats: "We will drink your blood!" Runner: *Uno reverse card*

@cujothemastiff84

3 жыл бұрын

Runner:ho ho you dare approach me

@teresadalessio1

3 жыл бұрын

lolololol crying

@xxwerd_pe0plexx826

3 жыл бұрын

XD

@iluvjaialai

3 жыл бұрын

This made me laugh so hard.

@meganhuskins753

3 жыл бұрын

BAHAHA

Imagine being good looking enough that after nearly dying and being lost in a freaking jungle for days you get mistaken for a goddess

@jennirivera108

3 жыл бұрын

LOL right?! now I want to here that story too.

@mossypanda7575

3 жыл бұрын

Lol

@timmythehydra7481

3 жыл бұрын

@M A C K 215 what?

@MurdahBassRecords

3 жыл бұрын

As a man I try not to imagine myself as a goddess but that's just me

@almondschanel8348

3 жыл бұрын

@M A C K 215 lol stfu

That last story… my heart. That poor kid went through all that hell a& managed to remember what she had been taught. She’s a miracle. I’m baffled that no predators attacked her with her deep leg wounds. In one flip flop, no glasses, seeing no one else alive… props to her. You did it girl.

@dorothyhaschke1409

Жыл бұрын

The predators didn't attack her because they had enough food from all the people who died in the plane crash.

@waltermorris5786

Жыл бұрын

@s swarlz no necessarily...I survived from not falling off a mountain cliff. A miracle

@kirag3637

Жыл бұрын

@s swarlz Juliane Koepcke - you can read about her, there are plenty of sources.

@joeybandit2861

Жыл бұрын

well sometimes a passenger survives an airplane crash, it is not super rare. what baffled me the most were rhe 2 man , they thought she was the mythical water goddess. yeah mindblowing part of this narrative

@waynecarnley6949

Жыл бұрын

She wrote a book about it. You should read it, it's Earth moving inspirational. No lie. It's called, "When I Fell From The Sky", and the movie is called the same, though I haven't seen it. For this young lady (and she was a young lady, 17 years of age, not a kid, but inspiring nonetheless) to survive such an ordeal... and we complain about our jobs that pay us to be there. 🤦🏽‍♂️

She fell two miles out of the sky and survived, that is simply crazy.

@waltermorris5786

Жыл бұрын

The canopy broke her fall

@esther-corinna

Жыл бұрын

And then managed to survive the jungle! It's such an amazing story. I think almost anyone else in her position would not have survived. But even in an extremely stressful situation, being so young and all alone, she remembered what her parents had taught her and she saved her own life. She even had a wound full of maggots and took care of it! It truly is a crazy story! Even though I don't know her, I feel incredibly proud of her! She saved herself from one of the worst and scariest situations a person could be in.

@merlinsaunders3550

Жыл бұрын

Not Crazy...a Miracle!

@Cereal_Killer007

Жыл бұрын

One lady survived a fall from 35,000ft back in the 70's. She was a flight stewardess who was on a plane when a terrorists bomb went off and nothing broke her fall. Or a guy named Frano who survived a 35000ft fall by landing in a giant hay stack, he didnt even get bruised

@kepigal

Жыл бұрын

@@Cereal_Killer007 I read about the flight attendant. That was insanely improbable. Someone was watching out for her; I refuse to believe it's just luck

Mr Ballen plays with my emotions. You either won’t survive a routine trip to the grocery store or you’ll survive a hopeless desert race with shapeless dunes all around you 🤷🏻‍♀️

@katies4521

2 жыл бұрын

I’d be the one to not survive the routine trip to the grocery store. I know my survival skills strength

@TheWeekendWarrior490

2 жыл бұрын

You'd be saved during a trip to the grocery store as long as there are bats and lizards along the way to your house.

@NODnuke45

2 жыл бұрын

All life on Earth at any second could be doomed by a random cosmic event such as a random stray wave of especially strong radiation from a distant star, it's all a matter of perspective. lol

@positivepessimist6853

2 жыл бұрын

True, I'm so confused! 🤣🤣🤣

@d1rtyr3d18

2 жыл бұрын

I want to give this comment a like, but it has 3 3's and therefore my ocd (cdo as i like to call it) won't allow it.

Who’s just happy that people actually survived at least in this video

@scottcantdance804

3 жыл бұрын

Sun's going down... ...better drink my own piss.

@rankedheatmobile1266

3 жыл бұрын

@@scottcantdance804 lmao

@Spot_em10

3 жыл бұрын

I wanted their pack tho..,🤣

@TrackerRoo

3 жыл бұрын

Did they really survive, or was it all an elaborate hoax?

@evanabbott2737

3 жыл бұрын

@@scottcantdance804 hahahaha

Surving for over a year, on a small damaged boat in the middle of the ocean. That's superhuman level.

@michaeldoran4367

5 ай бұрын

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

This young lady was very fortunate that her parents had taught her so much.

imagine getting lost at sea for almost a year and when you finally get home your family makes you take a lie detector test to see if you ate the other person on the boat.

@blastfromthepast7119

3 жыл бұрын

An emaciated person wouldnt provide much except skin and organs. Plus he knew what he was doing, catching sealife is easy if you know what you're doing, it's so abundant.

@pickles8126

3 жыл бұрын

Wasn’t it over a year too?

@Jeremyrice34

3 жыл бұрын

@@pickles8126 yeah it was 14 months

@magicpensel9548

3 жыл бұрын

@@blastfromthepast7119 wouldn't provide much but if he hadn't been able to catch anything else. It would still be better that Notting

@steffw5646

3 жыл бұрын

I mean so what if he did. He did what he was suppose to do.

Imagine being lost at sea for over a year jeeeez. That guy was truly a survivalist

@theboyali_gae2062

3 жыл бұрын

For real and then when you get back people call you a liar

@coffeefps

3 жыл бұрын

he could make a book out of his experience and chaching ez money, but Mr Ballen didn't mention if he did.

@BartBasquiato

3 жыл бұрын

@@coffeefps there's that guy who did 78 days & made a book called adrift was on "I shouldn't be alive" (haven't seen this whole vid so idk what you guys talking bout, but the one I saw wasn't a full year) but his story was back like in the 80s I believe.. then he made safety boats cause of it.

@coffeefps

3 жыл бұрын

@@BartBasquiato yup, I know that story but considering the man Mr Ballen mentioned survived for a year, and he came out healthy, he must have a lot of survival tips which are very useful.

@BartBasquiato

3 жыл бұрын

@@coffeefps well drink turtle blood that's it ahaha but like Mr Ballen said he lived of sea food from childhood not like his other friend.. that's crazy thoe I was born in el salvador would of been nice to meet dude.

Thank you Jose. For being the only smart person in any of these stories and never going back out on the water.

@loveGG3

Жыл бұрын

Yes! My thought exactly!

I’m happy that the Algerian tribe helped him this makes me proud of my country cuz I know as an Algerian u never ever leave someone without helping them and we always like to treat people and guests in the best way possible specially if they are in need of help but unfortunately many people think that we are just terrorist and that our country isn’t safe and others just don’t even know where we exist on the map or never even heard of Algeria and it saddens me because we are the 10th largest country but it’s ok maybe with time we will be seen and heard ..

@Aliz56

11 ай бұрын

I did not know that. Thank you Algerians 🙏

@Spookedjay

10 ай бұрын

I love to travel and if I ever am able, I'll definitely visit your country! It sounds amazing!

@Erzaphelia18

10 ай бұрын

@@Spookedjay you are very welcome to my beautiful Algeria 🙏🏻

@avalon4693

9 ай бұрын

Thanks for the info !

@alyagiadarksbane3139

Ай бұрын

Algeria is on my bucket list because of the rich history, food and culture. Oh and open air markets, I've dreamed of them for nearly 30 years now

Poor guy. Couldnt imagine what he went thru emotionally being lost at sea for a year just to have people be assholes.

@Shark-pj8in

3 жыл бұрын

Ik like...

@anomaly2422

3 жыл бұрын

Bruh wouldn’t you also suspect he maybe ate him use your logic bud, you never know a person

@buckiesmalls

3 жыл бұрын

@@anomaly2422 even if he did eat him? So what.. That doesn't mean he murdered him.. You cant survive off a single body for 14 months anyway..

@davidh6300

3 жыл бұрын

@@buckiesmalls true. People often don't think things through like that.

@bluijay4204

3 жыл бұрын

@@davidh6300 yeah, I myself have neglected to calculate how long I can feed off of a human body. Smh.

“-he began grabbing handfuls of bats and drinking their blood-“ I’m sorry he did WHAT now?😳

@jasonsexton2513

3 жыл бұрын

I would of died for sure

@s6m349

3 жыл бұрын

Corona virus

@ericfisher4736

3 жыл бұрын

He's an anti-vampire. If he ever meets a real vampire, they will both vanish in a flash of light since they cancel each other out.

@juanmeza958

3 жыл бұрын

Man we've been blaming china but him

@andrewkreis193

3 жыл бұрын

He had to do what he had to do

I remembered hearing about Jose’s plight on the news and at that time it was when he was found and everyone was accusing him of something. I remembered thinking how crazy it was for him to be finally back, only to be ousted by the community.

The saddest part, besides Ezekiel dying, was hearing how Julianne's mom survived the plane crash but died because she couldn't move. I'm so happy Julianne survived, but damn, I really wish she could've found her mom and they could've survived together.

Could you imagine just chillin as a bat in the middle of nowhere and this dude comes in and just starts snacking on your family?

@TheProtagonistDies

2 жыл бұрын

Underrated 🤣🤣🤣

@rustyshackleford2022

2 жыл бұрын

Not my Nancy 😭

@ginettemarkle6527

2 жыл бұрын

Sad😕

@bobsaturday4273

2 жыл бұрын

you identify with bats ? maybe you've got bats in your bellfry !

@patriciamcguire9958

2 жыл бұрын

😆😆😆 now that hadn't crossed my mind.

This man is genuinely the best storyteller ever. I watched one video and I was hooked from there.

@spiderrexyt1148

3 жыл бұрын

Same

@s0siimdying

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed!

@rudolphsmith2894

3 жыл бұрын

same

@georgekent2983

3 жыл бұрын

ive been watching for last 15 hours

@carlacheraine6437

3 жыл бұрын

One is all it takes 🥰🥰🥰

Her passing out before she hit the ground may have been what saved her life. I remember learning that being limp and wiggly in an accident helps prevent injuries, and i guess that also applies to falling out of a plane 2 miles up too…

@unknownuser8454

Жыл бұрын

Is that y when ppl pass out they dont get injured?

@kristinwojtowich8902

Жыл бұрын

I know this is late but I just recently discovered MrBallen and am watching all his videos; and you're absolutely correct. I had a friend in high school that got into a really bad car accident while drunk and shr was told by doctors that because she was so intoxicated and limp when it all happened, is the reason she survived and actually broke less bones than she could have. Crazy to think about.

@belindapaul9828

Жыл бұрын

@@kristinwojtowich8902 💯💯💯 My friend was in the back seat of a car that went off a bridge into water. The driver & the front seat passenger were sober - they go out, surfaced & went back down & pulled out my mate who was so drunk that he hadn’t even realised what’d happened. The emergency Drs said being that drunk had stopped his brain from switching to panic mode so he didn’t freak & take in water when they pulled him out. He’s actually a really poor swimmer too so it’s unlikely he’d have made it if he hadn’t been a floppy mess.😂

@gib59er56

Жыл бұрын

You have never heard that old line "God looks out for drunks and fools"? Yes, when you are drunk, you don`t tense up before impact. Your body is loose and goes along with the natural laws of physics. An object in action will cause an equal and opposite reaction.

@kittlekattle5627

Жыл бұрын

Her passing out helped, but it also helped that she was still attached to her seat and the seat was spinning and slowing her descent as she headed for the ground. There's a great episode on the Morbid podcast that covers her whole survival story, I was crying like a baby for most of it. ;^;

Three of the greatest survival stories of all time. And Julianne's story is so famous and made into a film, and I had also heard of Jose's story. But Mr Ballen providing amazing details that no one ever mentioned, is next to AMAZING!

Imagine being lost at sea for over a year, finally finding land, only to discover it's North Sentinel Island.

@alva4310

3 жыл бұрын

XD

@JerseySwanBeezy

3 жыл бұрын

Haaaa!!! 😆

@muska667

3 жыл бұрын

Hahaha

@thesilverbeast6092

3 жыл бұрын

I didn't know we all were on the same wavelength.

@nostalgicbird3954

3 жыл бұрын

Jesus christ..

Imagine being stranded at sea for 9 months and you get accused of killing the only person who kept you sane.

@michellemackinnon2801

3 жыл бұрын

He was lost at sea for 14 months, the last 9 on his own

@Olivia-pe5vf

3 жыл бұрын

Horrible.

@gabrieltorrez464

3 жыл бұрын

Did you notice he said that Ezekiel took a lie detector test to prove that Jose didn’t eat him!?

@BayHarbo

3 жыл бұрын

@@gabrieltorrez464 wait-

@robertclark4784

3 жыл бұрын

@@gabrieltorrez464 yea i dont think he meant to say thwt

DUDE!!! I have no freaking clue how anyone EVER finds the little secret in these stories man!! I am always just so immersed in what John is saying and wondering how any of it could be real that I never notice the like button or any of his friends ever trolling these videos lol 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️😆 absolutely LOOOVVE Mr. Ballens stories tho. John B Allen tells it BEST ❤️🥰👌

@lorilance23

Жыл бұрын

I NEVER see it...I just look in the comments to see if it was found and where it is!

@dianawatton7570

Жыл бұрын

Nobody does it better!

@wildflower1397

Жыл бұрын

You are three steps ahead of me, because I didn't even know there was a secret to look for, lol. What is that all about?

@carloflorez8697

Жыл бұрын

Never have I seen anyone being told they found the Secret. It's a small scale scam.

@ijsantos91

Жыл бұрын

Ong I only remember about the secret when he bring it up at the end 😂🤦🏻‍♂️

Julianne’s story is one of my favorite tales of survival that I have ever heard. She was so level headed and resourceful, and she beat the odds a thousand fold! She was remarkably collected and wise beyond her years! It’s hard for imagine anyone surviving a free-fall for at least 2 miles in the sky. I still can’t understand how she only broke her collarbone and lost one flip flop! I can only surmise that it was a real, honest to goodness miracle!

@michaeldoran4367

5 ай бұрын

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

"We found his shoelace, he must be dead, call off the search" Thanks guys!!

@Momojli

3 жыл бұрын

I know right, YUCK

@mwit7640

3 жыл бұрын

Lmao

@samanthamattson5872

3 жыл бұрын

Ikr! Like yep I need my shoelace to survive so if he is missing one, he must be dead.

@alfonsohernandez237

3 жыл бұрын

That shoe lace told the last moments of his life the shoe lace whisper declared 📜

@J3diMindTrix

3 жыл бұрын

Right!! What were they thinking? If they even were... if you can find a shoelace in the desert, you can find the person. Even if they thought the worst they could have at least located the body for closure and a funeral. Also how would a detached shoelace be confirmation the person died ?? If anything it should have been a good sign; or that maybe he left it on purpose as a signal .. Aerial sweeps conducted in the vicinity could have fairly easily picked up a lone person out in the middle of the desert; they would stand out pretty starkly against the uniform sandy landscape, you'd think. That race though is pure brutality. One sandstorm or wrong turn and suddenly it's just you in the middle of a giant, endless, unforgiving hellscape being gradually oven-cooked.. Have to say this dude's a total badass though, yeah just casually grabbing bats and sucking them dry, making it 90 days in that nightmare scenario.. then when he thought it was all over took the decision to end it himself and go on his own terms rather than let it claim him. But he was too badass for the reaper even, he was like nah, I ain't takin this guy just yet And then he went on to do MORE extreme marathons! We could probably all benefit from a lesson in some of that sheer determination and willpower to keep enduring through a less than ideal situation we weren't expecting to be in. The comparison between the person/s that found the shoelace and just gave up, and my man Maro here, speaks for itself. Would be a cool guy to meet some day, I reckon!

Jose: I am done with the ocean. I am done with seafood. Mauro: I'm planning to run eight more marathons in the desert. Jose: You loco.

@brendagonzalez4826

2 жыл бұрын

@@erzuliekingslee1100 orr some people understand that they went through a traumatic event and don’t ever put themselves in that type of situation again??? Lol some ppl r hella dumb I swear

@calliopse5487

2 жыл бұрын

@From The Southside ask jose if it wasnt

@heatherhancock9931

2 жыл бұрын

EXACTLY!

@bigballz4u

2 жыл бұрын

Randomly getting caught in the storm of the century for 5 days is slightly different from running a marathon with 80 other people with a plan in place.

@zuboragabora8966

2 жыл бұрын

yeah wtf i audibly gasped when i heard he went back out into the desert after that

10:46 - the fishermen we're floundering in the water - HA! Fintastic story, MrB. It krills me how good they are.

It’s truly amazing how these 3 people barely escaped death by using their knowledge and common sense even in their extremely difficult situations and weather conditions😮

"She removed 30 maggots from her arm after pouring gas on her wound " man what a visual.

@TheDickem

3 жыл бұрын

@@Catherine-wt3st my dad once worked at a hospital and everytime he came in the patient's room maggots would be on the floor, after the 3rd time seeing them on the floor he called the doctor in and they found out the patient had maggots falling from his hip area and they were eating the necrotic flesh which was preventing infections from spreading.

@epizzle9232

3 жыл бұрын

The maggots actually probably helped her survive

@TheDickem

3 жыл бұрын

@@epizzle9232 prevented infection and necrotic tissue.

@unterdessen8822

3 жыл бұрын

''Surgical'' maggots were used in antiquity, but then the knowledge about their beneficial effects was forgotten until one of Napoleon's field surgeons rediscovered it during their campaigns. Nowadays there are some companies, that breed and sell specific maggots for medical use. These animals are clean and safe. Feral maggots can have parasites and transmit diseases, so... don't try this at home with housefly maggots from the garbage... I used to work with one physician, who used surgical maggots and I asked about some details of the treatment. They come in silk bags and are put in the wound while still in the bag, that remains closed. The silk fabric provides enough tiny holes, so they can eat the rotting tissue, but can't escape. So you don't have to worry about them crawling all over you or pupating in your flesh. They stay in the bag. You have to exchange them from time to time, getting a new bag with fresh, hungry ones, because after a while they will pupate and stop eating. They only eat rotting flesh. This is why they're also called ''the world's smallest scalpel'' - they are incredibly precise and only remove necrotic tissue. No human surgeon with an actual scalpel can do so much good with so little damage to the healthy tissue. I hate maggots, but should I ever need the surgical type, I'd call for a bunch of silk bags.

@J.ac.e

3 жыл бұрын

@@unterdessen8822 wow, i actually never knew that

It may just be me, but I'm too entrenched in the story to find the hidden image in the video. I'm far too captivated to look for something like that. Thank you Mr Ballen!

@GHall-we6hb

3 жыл бұрын

Same

@allamericananti-christ666

3 жыл бұрын

I don't even remember there is one until the end when he says something.

@mr.e1292

3 жыл бұрын

Well someones gotta do it which meant sacrificing their enjoyment from these videos i respecc them for that

@lexiledford3891

3 жыл бұрын

I've only seen it once & it confused me lol

@86crud

3 жыл бұрын

He's too good looking.

I've watched a ton of your videos, but this one might have the best collection of stories I've heard yet. All three stories are so insane they are hard to believe.

@debbylou5729

Жыл бұрын

Yeah? Have you heard about the guys hiking in the ice. One guy fell,down a cravass

@Isaiiahii

Жыл бұрын

@@debbylou5729 yes, I heard that one. Crazy.

These are incredible stories of perseverance and luck. Amazing survivors

Ezekiel a real one for taking that lie detector test denying he was eaten 🥵🔥💪

@minxstole93

3 жыл бұрын

I caught that too, I came to the comments to see if anyone else noticed and so far your the only other person to say something about that. 😋

@Lolo_Muys

3 жыл бұрын

Same... poor bloke died and still had to go through a lie detector test!

@jkash2614

3 жыл бұрын

Haha yep, caught that. 😄 Dang good story though. 👏🏼

@tracyhowarth7058

3 жыл бұрын

I heard that too 😆

@PlantMC

3 жыл бұрын

I will forever cherish this heart from the legend himself Mr Ballen

"there was someone in there,.." Me: 😀 "..but they were dead inside of a coffin" Me: bruh

@MzParillon

3 жыл бұрын

Me AF🤣🤣🤣🤣

@LittleMacscorner

3 жыл бұрын

I may not remember correctly but fon't maggots actually keep wounds clean? Like they only eat the bacteria not YOU

@billflk2364

3 жыл бұрын

@@LittleMacscorner they eat ur dead flesh and then if you don't remove them they will eventually eat the healthy flesh too, but that also depends upon the type of maggot flies cause some like the flies in Africa are parasitic

@LittleMacscorner

3 жыл бұрын

@@billflk2364 Ah ok.....I just remember reading watching stuff a couple years ago that said maggots were great cleaners of wounds. Has to be the right kind I guess.

@hollowtrappedinaelevator320

3 жыл бұрын

Finally some good fucking food

I'm a believer in listening to your body ( gut) and what's happening around you. I passed this on to my kids. Recently on an Ice Shelf hiking trip in Patagonia, in the middle of nowhere, he and a buddy realized 10 miles up they have food poisoning. These are normally push through kinda guys ,no matter what. Another mile and they decide it's only going to get worse they need to turn back. So alone without the guide they two turn and head back 11 miles in the Patagonia wilderness. With horrible food poisoning ( use your imagination) After 2 days of using rocks as motivation " If we get to that rock up there the base camp is just over that hill", a map and a compass. Of course it wasn't, for hours, but it worked they finally made it. Another 2 days later the rest of the gang showed up, they weren't able to continue but another few miles them selves. A massive unexpected snow storm had blown in. So strong were the winds, it blew away the tents of another group killing 2 of their members. It also caused the fall of a famous mountain climber placing new pegs on a sport route up further on the trail on the face of a cliff. My boy said listening to his gut feeling probably saved his life. This kid has also been robbed at gunpoint by police in a mountain town in Taiwan. Apparently it was a normal occurrence with blonds so a nice personat the hostel warned them.

Werner Herzog was supposed to be on the plane too but he was delayed. Years later he made a documentary called, “Wings of Hope” where he accompanied Juliane as she revisited the crash site and took the full path out of the jungle.

"He was so thirsty he drank bat blood" 13 year old goths: *Jealousy intensifies*

@luigicadorna8644

3 жыл бұрын

I’m surprised at how easily he was able to catch bats. It sounds like he pretty much just plucked them one by one off the ceiling, like he was picking apples.

@k0orbb

3 жыл бұрын

13 year olds are too scared to drink bats blood.

@lorantkovacs1556

3 жыл бұрын

Mad doctor noises also intensifying

@Cp-71

3 жыл бұрын

@@k0orbb However they think they aren't :P

@bigsmoke5234

3 жыл бұрын

@@k0orbb they think they aren't

Just a note: If you find my shoelace, please don't assume I am dead.

@Impuritan1

3 жыл бұрын

That’s why I only wear Velcro strapped shoes. That way I won’t lose a shoelace and they won’t give up looking for me.

@amberhermann6437

3 жыл бұрын

Lol

@Samurai78420

3 жыл бұрын

Lol

@fazormcghee7936

3 жыл бұрын

You got it, stranger on youtube.

@icantthinkofaname15

3 жыл бұрын

Lol made me giggle

I think the guy drifting at sea for 9 months long is absolutely amazing! How the hell can people accuse him of anything

I love watching you tell tragic stories and I LOOOOVE survival stories, so I’m excited with for this!!

I feel horrible for Jose, he went through hell and fought like hell to keep his buddy alive, and eventually had to dispose of his body. Props to him for even surviving and getting home to share his story and being able to tell his family what his last words and moments were like

@SNP-1999

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, only having them then accuse him of murder and then cannibalism !!!

@playdoh2143

3 жыл бұрын

Arent they suing him for half HIS profits from HIS book he wrote about his journey? That's messed up.

@mal3506

3 жыл бұрын

@@playdoh2143 are you serious?

@verucasalt9182

2 жыл бұрын

@@playdoh2143 they will lose . It’s his life, his memoirs and they belong exclusively to him so he can do as he chooses to do .

I’m so fucking glad to hear he never went back out on the water.

@JayViro

3 жыл бұрын

But why tf did he go to El Salvador

@swarms4745

3 жыл бұрын

@@JayViro prob family there

@SlurryNoises

3 жыл бұрын

@@swarms4745 Or maybe all the hate he got forced him to move to Salvador :(

@bri_guy508

3 жыл бұрын

@@SlurryNoises yeah I can understand people questioning what happened but when you are acclimated to "life at sea" its a different story. The guy worked on a fishing boat to begin with and I also believe that mental strength plays a big part. He must have been a very positive and glass half full type of person to have not gone mad. I wonder if he eats seafood?

@polt1664

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah there’s all these crazy survival stories from people diving or something and it’s like “2 days after almost dying and he’s back to cave diving” ????

I remember watching a movie about that plane crash and the woman who survived. Crazy stuff man.

@carapierce4786

Жыл бұрын

What movie?

@IdratherbeinHobbiton

Жыл бұрын

@@carapierce4786 I don't remember the title, but it was on TV years ago. My mom was watching it, and it caught my attention.

@paulwales249

Жыл бұрын

If your talking about the girl who survived the plane crash and hiked through the jungle to safety the film, although it’s actually a documentary by a German director, is called wings of hope and it’s got the actual girl in it who survived and follows her retracing her steps ect.

@IdratherbeinHobbiton

Жыл бұрын

@@paulwales249 that sounds right. I was a kid when I saw it so I barely remember only a certain few scenes from it. One scene in particular is her using her ring to dig out bot fly larva out of her arm.

@paulwales249

Жыл бұрын

@@IdratherbeinHobbiton I don’t think I’ve watched the whole thing, If I’m honest I found it a little boring so I didn’t get to the end. It’s on KZread to watch for free!!! That’s where I found it.

I'm going back through all of Mr. Ballens videos to watch them all again and make sure I've liked every one. You should all do this as well!!

I can’t imagine surviving the second story only to be accused of nefarious intent. Including murder!

@leftphilange69

3 жыл бұрын

I think a common theme amongst survivors is that the survival ordeal never fully ends. The Italian distance runner still has to push himself to feel alive, the fisherman had to move inland to avoid water and deals with persecution and PTSD, the plane crash girl deals with lifelong guilt, grief and PTSD from the crash... they all deal with it in their own way, but that’s life. Life is an ordeal and we’re all survivalists of something. I get very choked up hearing about their heroism.

@urstrulyalexis

3 жыл бұрын

Right!!!! & Not even just murder, cannibalism 🤦🏾‍♀️. Smh.

@ShaneMcGrath.

3 жыл бұрын

@@urstrulyalexis Because it's more common than you think with survival at sea! Of course he should be questioned over the ordeal.

Imagine surviving the impossible and then everyone you love calls you a liar

@J3diMindTrix

3 жыл бұрын

interesting fact here about the case that MrBallen didn't mention, apparently about 3/4 of the way through an ordeal which can perhaps best be described as a brutal, relentless, lonely-as-it-gets 18-month constant nightmare, a Chinese freighter actually saw him in his little boat, they even waved at him from their ship, and just sailed on by leaving him behind. Can you even imagine.. he thinks salvation's here, only for them to deliberately leave him. Now that's what i call pure and utter heartlessness ... Then first thing when he gets back is face a lawsuit over his only companion out there that he had to watch slowly fade away .. again, callousness at its most vile. Answer me this those doubters : if he disappears off the coast of Mexico, and washes ashore on the other side of the Pacific ocean 18 months later, where ELSE could he have been that entire time? And if he was doing 'something' else, WHY would he make this story up? What are you implying, our maps are wrong, he was having a great time on some island Everything about this case is just so sad, and only gets more and more extreme.. going from an initial high over their bumper catch, gradually to the lowest of lows. From getting battered by a storm for 5 days, to getting lost at sea, to being trapped in a tiny boat, having to eat raw sea creatures birds and turtle blood to stay alive, to losing your only companion, to have nothing to even look at but the endless blue ocean extending out to the horizon in every direction, all day every day for 18 months, not knowing if you'll ever see your family, civilisation or even land again.. Against all odds, managing to survive, finally seeing your family again, only to be treated like that... I wouldn't be surprised if he lost all faith in humanity No wonder he moved towns

@uncannysin

3 жыл бұрын

@@J3diMindTrix I’m lost for words, that man went through so much. I’m glad he moved towns

@sharonv153

3 жыл бұрын

I remember reading his story in the news, the guy is a fighter. I did read some months after he was found that he was being treated by a psychologist because he was suffering of ptsd. The poor guy went through hell and survived, ptsd was expected.

@ 16:05 : EASTER EGG - Jose and Ezykial survived months together on water before E passed away and Jose gave him a makeshift funeral in the ocean. after over a year, while surviving on the blood and meat from sea turtles, etc. Jose was rescued. When asked if he had survived by consuming Ezykial's body, JOSE, denied and took a lie detector test. It was here that Mr. Ballen stated Ezykial took the lie detector test!!!?! Unless they make post-mortem lie detector tests, it would be impossible for Ezykial to take one. Is this the Easter Egg? Love the videos Mr. Ballen!! Keep 'em coming!

Is anyone else like super addicted to Mr Ballen stories… by far the best channel on KZread. And also- no adventure ever😂 ..

Ready for my daily dose of survival tips!

@JustAnAverageJoe2

3 жыл бұрын

jasonhorton yep

@oxygen6005

3 жыл бұрын

I learnt u shouldn’t pet the big hairy brown monster things that eat fish, i thought it was a kangaroo until oh snarled at me

@MrBallen

3 жыл бұрын

Hahah awesome!!

@jynx3978

3 жыл бұрын

@@MrBallen What is the name of music that you pit in your intros ?

@keighttrinity2509

3 жыл бұрын

thank god I was starting to itch.

I’m glad Ezekiel was able to take a lie detector test after dying to prove that he wasn’t eaten by Jose. I’m sure Jose was very relieved!

@P-A-X

3 жыл бұрын

Wtf dude, way too keen!!

@zainabumar5295

3 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣 it was a sentence error

@constitution_8939

3 жыл бұрын

@@zainabumar5295 NO, Ballan Actually did say Ezekiel in the story and I didn't catch that either so Good On You Ken!!

@LiberatedMind1

3 жыл бұрын

😆 😅 😂 🤣😆 😅 😂 🤣

@bradlemmond

3 жыл бұрын

I didn't catch that, I just thought it was weird that lie detector tests _proved_ he didn't do it. Maybe people believed him, but it didn't prove it.

Juliana survived remember everything her parents had taught her. What a strong, bright willed young woman.

Just found his channel and I’ve went down the rabbit hole 🕳😅 and I love it!! I cant get enough of Mr Ballen 😊

I'm German and I know this story, but I'm listening the whole story all over again in English because you're a good storyteller. :D

@richhozzy480

3 жыл бұрын

Guten Tag mein German amigo! Your English is very good too! Lol

@Gabo-tf2dx

3 жыл бұрын

Tell me why I read this in a accent 🤣😂

@felibam3200

3 жыл бұрын

Hallo Genosse

@Samurai78420

3 жыл бұрын

Hello Germany! What a cool thing to say. John's storytelling is just so great. And he's just being his natural self. That makes it even cooler.

@suzxman

3 жыл бұрын

I tried that while I was living in Peru and watching stuff in Afrikaans. 🤔 It didn’t work. 😂

People who are lost: "I'm lost..." Me, someone who doesn't go outside: "The sun rises in the East and sets in the West..."

@elephantchessboard9060

2 жыл бұрын

That's what confuses me most tbh. Like how did that guy not know his way after the sandstorm with a map and a compass?

@carolg6598

2 жыл бұрын

@@elephantchessboard9060 when you’re lost, even if you know which way is west, you could be walking away from the nearest village/town within a thousand miles. And if you’re lost in the jungle or thick forest, you can’t see the sun to tell which way is west.

@lsixty30

2 жыл бұрын

You know it’s not dead on east and west right? Like.. that’s only at the equator. And the word is, ya know, huge. It’s why malls have a “you are here” mark on their maps, and that’s a mall.

@cutekanjii

2 жыл бұрын

@@elephantchessboard9060 if he knew where he was sleeping then there's no excuse if he had a compass abd map for getting lost as u don't need to look at the surroundings so it's irrelevant if it looks all different. All. U need to do is see where your destitution is on the map and then line your compass up and walk...

@cutekanjii

2 жыл бұрын

@@carolg6598 he had a map and compass. Different if he didn't have those then you don't know where your going but with those I don't get how he could possibly get that far lost

Jesus. Surviving a plane crash like that. Being the only one. And finding out later your mother survived too. But died later because she was trapped. The guilt she must feel. I cant even imagine it. Thats such an incredible story. Someone should make a movie about her.

More survival stories, please! You're fabulous and I'm hooked!

The fact that she passed out might have helped her survive. Like in car accidents, if you’re sleeping you are more likely to survive because your body isn’t tense, it just kind of goes with the flow of the movement.

@laurenserrato69

3 жыл бұрын

She was also attached to her bench seating at one end with 2 empty seats 💺 Because of her being light-weight, it was theorized that the bench acted like a partially open parachute 🪂 to resist a straight fall through the air, lessening her impact.

@jcolterh

3 жыл бұрын

That's why I only drive drunk. Drunk drivers always survive. 😆

@ninachr

3 жыл бұрын

@@jcolterh 🤣🙈

@SpydersByte

3 жыл бұрын

@@jcolterh yup, that's true, for the same reason, they don't have the reaction time to tense up

@aria_lu7762

3 жыл бұрын

@@jcolterh yeah but u could kill somebody who's not drunk

I feel so badly for Jose, he was out on the open sea for over a yr then when rescued he wasn’t believed. Even worse people thought he killed his companion to eat him. He must have felt horrible that people not only doubted him but called him a murderer.

@Bigboro

3 жыл бұрын

He actually told me he only ate 1 leg of Ezequiel. The other leg he used as pillow at night .

@willywonka7812

3 жыл бұрын

Screw Jose. The other kid died because Jose was so greedy he preferred to kill fish than safely flee the storm. Piece of trash

@RainwingDeiva

3 жыл бұрын

@@willywonka7812 Dude... the fuck? That's a straight-up stupid thing to say, did you pay attention to the story at all?

@willywonka7812

3 жыл бұрын

@@RainwingDeiva I did yeah. Ezequiel was an inexperienced mariner who deferred to Jose's wisdom and entrusted him with his life. Then he was duly rewarded with death, due to Jose's greed and hubris. Pretty clearly told story

@juantovar5084

3 жыл бұрын

@@willywonka7812the kid went into a depression and he starved himself to death and Jose tried to give him food

I can only imagine the guilt that last girl must have felt knowing her mother survived the crash. Not just how she spent her last moments but I’m sure she regrets not searching for her more. The thought that if she had found her mother she could have possibly survived too surely haunts her.

Mr Ballen is awesome, a great story teller.

The part about when the father couldn’t speak for hours after he reunited with his daughter got me in the feels man.

@PoptartParasol

3 жыл бұрын

@Angry Hippo that would be terrible luck. But on the bright side, if he died this way then he would die close to his daughter and family. Better than dying alone

@manyeown

3 жыл бұрын

what got me in the feels was that her mother survived but couldnt move. her daughter probably felt so guilty for that.

@chelsieb4575

3 жыл бұрын

@Benjamin me too😅 Suddenly I was blinking away tears that came out of nowhere! I'm kinda glad for it, I've been on a binge of these videos and it's nice to know I'm not too used to hearing such incredible stories

@Nantosuelta

3 жыл бұрын

I feel so incredibly bad for her. She'll have significant phycological trauma for the rest of her life

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3 жыл бұрын

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"Not a water goddess, just a regular person" "Awww man"

@quicksnipes2393

3 жыл бұрын

She should of went with water godess.

@vient3865

3 жыл бұрын

aqua?

@justinlizamor1541

3 жыл бұрын

😂

Hey dude that is the three best stories you've ever told I've listened to a bunch they were great and very heartbreaking you're a great Storyteller dude

I can only imagine how proud Juliane’s mother would have been ❤

Got it: One, If I'm ever lost at sea--which I won't be, because you've instilled the fear of the ocean in me--I will eat turtles and sea birds to fend off scurvy; and two, if I'm ever lost in a jungle--which I won't be, because I now also fear the outdoors in general--I will walk in streams and use gasoline to get rid of maggots.

@hoebiwan-kenobi6198

3 жыл бұрын

I generally wouldn’t walk in the middle of a river in the jungle, shallow, ankle deep stream sure but anything above knee height nope, sometimes whats under the water is scarier than what’s in the jungle

@gracielacanales9548

3 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂me: I am anxious and never venture out me: am now even more terrified after KZread videos and will just probably die a boring lonely death smdh probably with my phone on a KZread channel 😑lol

@vonbook1973

3 жыл бұрын

Although disgusting, maggots are actually useful for wounds that are starting to become gangrenous (as hers probably was, hence the maggots) - they eat the dead flesh and leave the healthy part - so they were probably doing her a favor.

@anti-ethniccleansing465

3 жыл бұрын

@@vonbook1973 Just a little bit itchy, no? Lol.

@themegaofmen538

3 жыл бұрын

Me walking in the middle of stream: watching all the reptiles im avoiding on land, get in the water.

These are those stories where someone says “what’s the worst that could happen?”, right before something terrible happens

@scodiofficer0012

3 жыл бұрын

I remember saying this back in 2016 when I was hiking with my cousin, dad and uncle in one of the most uncharted forests in The Philippines, my dad and uncle pretty much grew up in heavily forested areas and were raised by my grandfather to be extremely capable in the water meanwhile my cousin is a very skilled outdoorsman that typically does these hikes. So even though I'm the typical teen gamer that barely has any experience in hiking I felt pretty comfortable going in this hike with them, we travelled starting 3 PM to this very well known part of the local area where we were staying at, there were ungodly amounts of trees, ridiculously tall grass, and armies of bugs, it was safe to say that it's not exactly the trip that I was expecting but we continued on and tackled the more farside part of the forest that's dangerously far away from any house or road but since my squad of "jungle commandos" are with me I felt safe enough to go with them in these enchanted forests, while we were travelling high grass and giant trees I recall the leader of the group (my uncle) telling stories to the rest of us about mystical spirits and entities that lives in these forests, they are called "Engkanto" in tagalog, he explained that these magical creatures oftenly play with lost locals in these forests, they can throw rocks at you, make a branch fall at you or even make you go crazy never able to escape the boundaries of the forest. As you can see, my uncle was trying to creep us out with these stories and It was actually very entertaining, only my dad was the one that got creeped out by my uncle's stories, he believed in these mythical creatures, we even teased him about it, meanwhile the sky is getting dark from the thick forestation around us obstructing from the view above, we were not concerned cause we expected the area that we were tracking as heavily forested and so we continued on our path sharing stories as the sky gets darker and darker as we move forward, this must have been the part where we lost track of time cause after walking a lot we decided to take a rest underneath this Big "balete" tree near a cave entrance (maybe a couple hundred feet away) I was so tired at this point that I just told them to stay under this tree for awhile to regain some energy before we go back home, they agreed with me and so I ate the spare food I got in my backpack and lay beside this tree for awhile to get a bit of sleep, I was completely expecting to rest but for some reason I felt extremely tired and eventually fell asleep, this is not in my intention whatsoever, If I could go back I would have never let myself go to sleep. I was woken up with this feeling of wetness, as if drops of water were being poured at me, my mind was not in it's 100% yet so I didn't mind it and dozed off, eventually the drops of water has grown faster and faster to the point that I was completely woken up, it ended up being rain but it's not just any rain, the drops of rain was too huge and too fast to just be normal rain, it's as if a storm just conjured up out of nowhere, at this point my cousin, uncle and dad started waking up (it turns out they fell asleep as well) and we were all in this shocked state since the daylight is gone and it's completely dark when we woke up and heavy rain is just dousing on us out of nowhere, my dad immediately goes to survival mode and broke through our shocked state, he ordered us to get our bags as fast as we can and take cover, so we did, but the rain is pouring so hard that it goes through the thick forestation very easily, even the ground was already muddy, so while we're just trying to take cover underneath this balete tree that was barely shielding us, my hoodie is soaked, my bag is wet all the way through and my phone is getting so wet I started panicking, I'm not about to lose my phone just because of some rain, my mind must have used this as motivation and immediately thought of an idea. I shouted to them that we can run to the cave that we saw earlier to take cover from the rain but they immediately told me that it's a bad idea, they argued that we don't know what's in there and a landslide could occur at anytime since the cave entrance was connected to this huge landmass, if we were in there when a landslide happens then we'll be trapped for sure but since my teenage brain has a bigger priority than my safety I ran as fast as I can towards the general location of the cave entrance in defiance, pumped up with adrenaline and with my dad and uncle shouting for me to get back I whipped out my small flashlight and ran as fast as I can, the small flashlight was a little more of a gimmick, it was so weak that I can only see 3 feet in front of me but I didn't mind it, I'd rather risk death rather than get my phone to break, Now I know what I did was incredibly stupid but at the time my adrenaline filled mind just wanted me to get to that damn cave as fast as I can, and so I ran, I ran so far away until by dumb luck I reached this area that was quite near to the entrance of the cave, so I redirected my position and ran straight to the cave, The feeling after running that far in almost complete darkness while raining is like winning a marathon, after feeling proud of myself I took my bag of and immediately got my phone out of my pocket and tried my best to wipe the water away, shortly after that the rest of my group finally caught up to me and entered the cave while being understandably pissed off at me, my dad in particular, I argued that if I hadn't ran to the cave then we would still be underneath that tree being soaked in water and dying of cold from the strong winds passing by, after a while we calmed down and assessed the situation, we were stationed in the cave entrance itself, we didn't go back further into the cave since it was pitch black down there and we had incredibly crappy flashlights, only my phone has the capability of being a good flashlight, unfortunately the battery left on my phone is 30% so we just didn't risk using the phone's battery to venture out there, we figured out that we should probably just wait the storm out and travel back home in the morning, everyone agreed and we settled down for the night, I started to wonder how could this possibly happen, we've checked the news earlier that day and it never said that it was going to rain, furthermore, we felt extremely tired for no reason which led to us falling asleep, we already rested and even ate our lunch so we should've been filled with energy but no, we fell asleep due to exhaustion, it absolutely made no sense to me, however, I theorized that the clouds must've been getting really dark while we were in the forest cause of the storm and not just due to the thick forestation and after we fell asleep that must have been where the clouds had the time to gather up and eventually pour rain, I wondered how long we were asleep and when I looked on my phone I realized that it was already 8 PM and surely my mom would have figured out that weve been missing so I was secretly hoping that she would call the authorities to save us cause none of us know where we are or how long weve been travelling for. My uncle told us that we should pull out all our current resources to manage them, we only had a couple of butterfly knives (balisong), some wet paper, some food, water bottles, crappy flashlights, some lighters and some notebooks, we realized how underprepared we are considering how bad our situation is, unlike America, there's barely any animals to hunt over here in The Philippines and we were far inside the most forested parts of the country, there's no phone signal and we can't even make a fire cause of the intense heavy rain so we just decided to sleep and wait out the rain, I already slept so I didn't want to sleep again plus it was cold as hell so I couldn't sleep either way, my uncle and cousin on the other hand removed their clothes except their pants and just laid down on the ground (the ground of the cave is not wet from the rain) and used their bags as pillows to fall asleep once again meanwhile my dad starts saying that the "engkanto" are doing this cause we disturbed their homes somehow, I just laughed it off and teased him but he seemed seriously about it, his face is filled with fear and concern over our safety. I was beginning to doze off even with the hard noise of the rain but just as I was beginning to fall asleep I hear a faint echo in the cave, it came from inside the darkness of the cave, it almost like a growling noise, at first I thought it was just my imagination, but I was wrong.

@scodiofficer0012

3 жыл бұрын

The echo grew a bit louder, now it sounds like mutiple growling noises, now I'm really woken up, I know that what I'm hearing is real and it's definitely coming from the darkness of the cave, even my dad was spooked to the point that he woke up both my uncle and cousin, they were a bit annoyed at first but as the growlings come closer they too started listening, my uncle told us to pack up as fast as we can, meanwhile my dad pulled the butterfly knives out of the bags and gave it to each of us, I still don't know why we have butterfly knives while hiking but I'm not complaining now, there's drowling coming from the darkness and were not about to let ourselves go down without a fight with whatever those things are, they were coming closer so I decided to flash my phone's flashlight at the growling and oh my God I can't believe it, 4 pairs of *glowing eyes* pierced through the darkness, we all saw it and it immediately froze us with fear, we were shocked seeing multiple eyes looking back at us but a soon as the light shined upon their eyes they growled louder and Ran towards us, no we were not about to run back into the harsh intense rain outside but we also don't want to face whatever these things are running towards us, out of the panic my uncle shouted to be ready for battle, we need to use our knives to fight off whatever these things are or risk death, I looked at my phone to see the time and I was shocked to see that it's only 2 AM, as these things run closer I hear a bark, then another bark coming from their direction, we were confused, how could there be dogs in a cave in the middle of nowhere and why are they running towards us? I could barely think of anything until they finally reached us, and just as we've heard, they are in fact dogs, those sets of eyes that we've seen are "Azkal Dogs" or wild street dogs, we've heard about groups of dogs suddenly being lost in forests before but this far into the forest is unheard of and why are they in the cave? I wasn't even finished thinking until one of launched towards me trying to bite my limb, fortunately, the adrenaline pumping through my body forced me to thrash slashes to the rabid dog whenever it tries to launch itself forward at me,the other were wildly kicking, shouting and flailing their knives towards the dogs to figh them off, looking back, the dogs looked like they haven't eaten for a couple days and their nearly furless skin has dark tint to it, I was able to slash the dog a couple of times while it tried to bite my feet and limbs, I sustained a couple of bitemarks in my limbs, even when wounded the rabid dogs seems to be desperate for a meal and they're willing to die for it, I start to feel the pain from my limbs and a fairly large amount of blood is alresdy seeping through my pants, after seeing this I just had enough I just bolted the fuck out of there, I told them to run and follow me, I pulled out my phone and used it as a flashlight at that moment I did not care if my phone would seize out from the heavy rain, I just wanted to get the hell away from there as fat as possible, I can hear the rest of the group running behind me with their own flashlights shining light around us, although my phone was the only useful flashlight I didn't care, atleast I know they're still right behind, unfortunately, the rabid dogs are stil trying to run after us while barking, adrenaline must've pushed us to our limits cause after running like usian bolt in a muddy forest while there's heavy rain in the middle of the night eventually ran the gas out of us, we basically ran until we got tired, at this point the barking has stopped after some time ago, those damn dogs must've just given up cause we can't hear them anymore. By dumb luck we managed to stumble through one of the local "tribes" fences, this should mean a village is nearby, so we climbed through the fence and made as much noise as possible eventually 2 locals saw us and though that we were "aswangs" (a mythical monster) but as soon as we spoke tagalog they realized that we were just covered in mud and called the rest of the townspeople to help us and call the authorities, they cleaned us up, fed us and helped us. We explained to them what happened and even they were shocked, a group of wild dogs being out that far into the forest is unheard of. Anyways, I thought It's my time to share my story.

@cobinjoyner4401

3 жыл бұрын

U right

@pearlrankwane564

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, 😂 and in my African language, we have twisted phrases instead... We have this one, which means, "do not try God,".. As i was growing up we had nights where we would share the mysterious unbelievable stories we know, and my grandparents knew all the spooky real ones and they led most of the night time stories. Not fiction things but real things that happen.. And they would end it with that phrase "do not try God," or "God is real" if someone did survive. So most people who get affected here are foreigners mostly white. They even pretend to know the jungle and forest more than us who lived here all our lives. We do have surviving skills which do not need the campus, if u come around ask the local old people first, how are they able to go around the jungle and come back home safe, what do they do when they are lost.. They will tell u how nature can lead you home giving u tips of any weather change,any season... They even know how to read the stars, moon, sun.

@flinchfu

3 жыл бұрын

"This is probably a bad idea." (Proceeds to venture into the Texas icepocalypse in a 2-wheel drive 3/4 ton truck...)

Interestingly we had a whole Chapter in English text book about Julinane Kopke and her heroic survival story in our pre university College titled 'Girl Aginst the jungle' back then I did not care that much about the story but now I'm impressed how she even survived the plane crash in the first place let alone survive in the Amazon for that long.

Mentour and Ballen have GOT TO get together and tell some plane crash stories💥 ✈️

One line that really registered with me was the feeling of the loneliness the girl felt when falling from the plane. What a dreadful thought.

@stevens7487

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, same. I pondered on that line for quite some time.

@georgyzhukov6409

2 жыл бұрын

imagine that but for a year drifting at sea

@kdawson020279

2 жыл бұрын

There's a flight attendant who was in a jet that exploded and she miraculously survived a fall from over 30,000 feet above mean sea level onto and down a mountain. She has zero recollection of the incident, only the moments before the plane blew apart and after being found.

@deneilbaker

2 жыл бұрын

@@kdawson020279 yes I saw that! WILD. Her brain probably wouldn’t allow her to remember such trauma even if she was conscious

@franny15100

Жыл бұрын

When I was around 19 I had a horrible car accident and as my truck was flying in circles in the air I remember thinking I was surely going to die and I felt extremely sad and lonely in those few seconds that felt like several minutes.

That moment when you hear the vitamin c in the sea creatures' blood was enough to prevent scurvy and you're like "i gotta remember that just in case i end up adrift on the ocean".

@marzclose272

3 жыл бұрын

yep also remember to follow streams if lost in a forest on an island because it'll lead to civilization.. gotta love these videos.

@cutekanjii

2 жыл бұрын

Then one seems a bit fishy excuse the pun lol considering the amount of sailors that got scurvy constantly before they knew what vitamin c was I'm sure they ate a lot of fish considering the scarcity of food and being in the ocean with an abundance of fish all around you. Why did they get scurvy

@adjit2

2 жыл бұрын

@@cutekanjii because vitamin C gets cooked out of the fish. This guy was eating it raw.

@patrickolah

2 жыл бұрын

@@cutekanjii because sailors didn’t eat the seagulls? I have no idea. I also don’t believe that seagulls and turtles have much vitamin c

@rodgerdavis3932

2 жыл бұрын

Driking oem liquod waste,turtle blood...yimmy..😌

Such a weird colliding of worlds when the strange dark and mysterious delivered in story format brings up the Marshall Islands (something I study a lot of in one of my grad school anthropology classes)

What amazing stories , WOW just incredible ! Thank you

Juliane's story is even crazier the more you look into it, she also lost her glasses in the fall so had to survive without being able to see. also (graphic warning) her collarbone wasn't just broken, it was sticking out of her 😰

@raywright2401

2 жыл бұрын

Kids...

@leahwhiteley5164

2 жыл бұрын

I saw the video where she went back there. She was a very smart and very lucky girl.

@amethyst1826

2 жыл бұрын

marasii.world That made me think of my mum who fell down the stairs in her house! She just picked herself up, did a quick check, yup everything is fine & went about whatever it was she was doing. A little while later, she noticed red stuff on the carpet & did a better check, & called my aunty "Hi. I had a little fall & could do with some help." Lol my aunty asked if she could finish her vacuuming first, mum said yeah. Aunty later told us she nearly fainted. She walked in, mum was sat at the table with her arm wrapped in a tea towel, held up. She unwrapped it to show aunty. 🤢🤢🤢🤢 As she had landed, she must have bent her wrist & the force of the fall/landing had pushed a bone through her forearm just above her wrist & it was jutting out, like a twig!! Mum was left with a lovely scar where the surgeon pushed it back in & stitched her up. I'm so glad I wasn't there to see it!!!

@PandaPawz735

2 жыл бұрын

@@amethyst1826 oh my gosh 🤢 that's awful!! glad she's ok!

@randyeggleston7138

2 жыл бұрын

@@amethyst1826 dude you should draw an amoji.

Why is nobody talking about how they could find a tiny shoelace but not a human?

@J3diMindTrix

3 жыл бұрын

Sounds like they just gave up to me. Like, why? Surely that'd be a good sign, wouldn't you want to continue in that direction assuming that's the way he went? An aerial search especially, should yield results, it's one guy out in the middle of nothing but sand, how hard could it really have been? I'm just gonna go with if they couldn't handle the desert heat and they had food, water, shelter etc, and this guy's lost for ages without those things, in their minds there's no way he could've survived. I dunno, but that's the only thing that makes sense unless like I said the heat and discomfort won out over their willingness to find him. Which only goes to show how much of a badass he was to survive out there for 90 DAYS solo But i think most people would be pretty pissed if they made it through all that to find out their searchers just gave up on him when if they carried on and were successful he wouldn't have had to go through that entire ordeal

@tjalliemicheaux3719

3 жыл бұрын

LOL! True. I thought it was strange that he was in 4th place and no one passed him? and curious of how many other people got lost during the sand storm. sounds like a glitch in the Matrix.

@jillianc7485

3 жыл бұрын

bro he walked 180 MILES away lol im certain that the few miles close to the race were filled with searchers and that’s why they found something as tiny as a shoelace

@jillianc7485

3 жыл бұрын

@AmericanLiberalism IsHatred YES ! You tell them, king. People really can’t spend 3 seconds using critical thought lol. also i love your name

@shellyloudavis73

3 жыл бұрын

Lol maybe because I never would have even thought of that. Lol but awesome point

I just love the "replace all their Oreo's cream fillings with Playdough". It's so innocent and mean at the same time (:

I love when the Quincy comes out of Mr. ballen! “ a wicked storm!” Blows my mind he grew up 5 miles from me. I actually asked around some of the older Quincy kids I know and they remembered him! Much love from Weymouth Mass!

Sure was nice of Ezekiel to come back from the dead to testify on Jose’s behalf. What a bro.

@hannafriesen5113

3 жыл бұрын

i was wondering the same thing lol

@deejaydadon

3 жыл бұрын

Wat?

@lordslattttt953

3 жыл бұрын

lookin fo dis comment right chea😂

@darnellpervisknox5239

3 жыл бұрын

I knew I wasn't da only 1 2 catch dat!

@brycekayski9284

3 жыл бұрын

TRIPLE OG lmao

Why don't they give all contestants in those crazy races a GPS tracker so they can find them when they are lost ?

@malignusrex3968

3 жыл бұрын

Ikr. Or buy/bring your own.

@doodlenoodle878

3 жыл бұрын

@@malignusrex3968 mainly if the adviser asked where do you want your body to be sent

@jerrycadenhead9761

3 жыл бұрын

Because it was Morocco .

@bosswoman5128

3 жыл бұрын

They might do that now, a lot of times extra safety measures get added like that after something extremely bad happens so they might at least give them tracking bf devices now so they can find them at least

@ericwilliams2185

3 жыл бұрын

That’s a really great idea.

I ❤ Mr Ballen story time tha ks for all the hard work finding all these peoples life stories they are shocking and amazing 👏 thankyou to all of you who share your personal experiences ❤️ ✌🏽🙏

Wow Just found out you used to be a navy seal That's amazing man. Thought you were awesome before I knew this but now I respect you even more. What a legend you are. Thanks for all your service and the vids you post.

"And there was a person in there but he was dead in a coffin" that line got me!!

The plane story made me so sad, knowing that her mother had survived only to die alone and scared was so horrible. I can’t imagine the guilt the girl must of went through when she found that out.

@beentheredonethat5495

2 жыл бұрын

She'd been better off not knowing 💔

@unknownuser8454

2 жыл бұрын

why would she feel guilt?

@jeanettewatson7614

2 жыл бұрын

@@unknownuser8454 because being a very close relative, she would have felt survivers guilt 😔 & SADLY, it's very unlikely she will stop feeling that guilt/pain... ever! But I do hope she manages to find some peace ❤

@unknownuser8454

2 жыл бұрын

@@jeanettewatson7614 even if its not her fault?

@jeanettewatson7614

2 жыл бұрын

JuliaR

I don't know what would be worse, having to be on the ocean for fourteen months, or coming back and being accused of eating the other crew member! So devastating!

You are just so great at telling stories!!!!

For those doubting the Vitamin C thing with Jose (I saw a couple people mention old-time sailors eating fish yet getting scurvy anyway), here are some fun facts! For one, Vitamin C gets cooked out of meat that contains it - not only that, but fish contain very little Vitamin C, to begin with. Sailors would usually survive on whatever rations they brought with them (which, at the time, would usually be beef, lamb, bread, that sort of thing) alongside cooked fish. So unless they had fruit on board, scurvy was an inevitability. They eventually started bringing orange and lemon trees along on ships for that, as a fun aside. Now, as for Jose, they specifically said he mostly ate sea birds and turtles, and he mostly ate them raw. Their meat wouldn't contain much Vitamin C... but their *livers* definitely would. Humans are one of the very, very few animals whose livers do not create its own Vitamin C, hence needing to eat it from outside sources - the raw livers of the birds and turtles he was catching and eating would have been a SPECTACULAR source of it! (As for whether or not he ate Ezekiel, and why he buried him at sea... you really must not have heard a lot of "lost at sea" stories, because it's not uncommon for people to 1. not eat the corpse of a shipmate, and 2. give them the dignity of a burial at sea. It's neither weird nor special that he didn't eat Ezekiel.)

@mukkaar

2 жыл бұрын

It wouldn't make sense for him to eat Ezekiel anyways, he already survived months at sea and clearly could catch food. And even if Jose had bad streak and was starving at that moment, he still has very substantial chance to get some being at sea.

@DianosAbael

2 жыл бұрын

Also, carbohydrates intercept the metabolization of vitamin C. Without carbs the need of vitamin C plummets. I’m in carnivore diet and is definitely good 👍🏻

@alexcisneros2980

2 жыл бұрын

Eh. They weren't that fun. Please refrain from saying fun facts unless they're actually fun.

@H.P.Blavatsky

2 жыл бұрын

Can confirm there’s enough vit c in raw meat. Up north they don’t have many lemon trees - or any trees - but there’s raw organs a-plenty. Plus, fermented seal.

@moirahill6397

2 жыл бұрын

The eyes of fish contain lots of vitamin C too. I've read Alvarenga's book and quite frankly he appears to be a very kind hearted man not capable of dastardly deeds.

It’s so sad when people are thinking someone is going to come looking for them and no one comes 😔

@janelleabbott2227

Жыл бұрын

This would be me

I very much enjoy these adventures/situations, I like to place myself in the various situation’s and live them vicariously

MrBallen, our team of Master Storytellers, think YOU are THE MASTER STORYTELLER! Love listening to you!

Famous last words: “What’s the worst that could happen?”

@TheUnfluencer

3 жыл бұрын

Or "hold my beer" 😆

@b.singh16

3 жыл бұрын

Or “I bet that I could do_________”

@Damned-Soul-Sundea

3 жыл бұрын

Or "Try me"

@squeakSquak

3 жыл бұрын

Or "bet"

@peacethrufiregames7058

3 жыл бұрын

“We’re completely safe”

“There was a person in there, but he was dead”😂

@zoegrier-hall6285

3 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣

@mayaswellbethewifesaccount7625

3 жыл бұрын

I was like “I’m dead”

@carryonwithjessicacampbell6787

3 жыл бұрын

😆

@PoochieCollins

3 жыл бұрын

💀💀💀

@bigsisbri3336

3 жыл бұрын

It went from "YEA-" to "bruh" real fast

Amazing survival stories. RIP to those who lost their lives