Don’t go mountain climbing. But if you do, make sure you’re inexperienced because the experienced ones never seem to come back.

My husband is 79 and just this week started wearing his hat backwards and wearing a plaid shirt. He either admires Mr Ballen's style or is worried that I admire Mr Ballen way too often and way too much.

Imagine just how terrifying it would be to have your friend just disappear with absolutely no explanation. I'd never be able to stop thinking about it no matter what lol

Man I hope This guy never runs out of story’s I’m addicted 😂😂

Now whenever I'm doing anything remotely sketchy I just hear John's voice narrating my disastrous ending. Ugh lol

For those who are just consuming Missing 411 through Mr. Ballen, here's David Paulides advice on how to prevent becoming the subject of a bizarre disappearance like this: 1. If you're going to go into the wilderness, make sure that people know where you're going to be, and when you'll be back. Make sure theyre ready to call in authorities if you aren't back by the specified time. 2. Carry an emergency satelite phone. It's a kind of device that you can take anywhere and at the press of a button, it can send an alert to local authorities that you need help, as well as exactly where you are. 3. Be armed. The number of people who have disappeared mysteriously while following these steps is in the single digits. Not completely foolproof, but nothing really is.

Honestly, Mr. Ballen, how do you sleep at night? I'm a 45 year old grown ass man, and I've been looking behind me, in my own house SINCE I STARTED LISTENING TO YOU! Thank you! You're awesome!

The Ida Mae story. Bears most certainly can hold their front leg like that and carry things. We fostered an orphaned black bear when I was 14. He was capable of doing a lot of things that people do not believe.

Glowing red eyes is an extremely bad thing. Sounds like a Skin Walker, Goat-man, Windego, or an IRS auditor. It’s a serious situation, so, it’s best to just leave immediately.

The boy who was with “other Cappy” said that the creature was asking him questions - it would have been really interesting to know what those questions were...

As a navy seal. You know that in survival situations that a person may be busy trying to survive or to shelter or hide themselves from danger and would be harder to find.

That story about "the other Cappy" was wild! 😳

Everybody keep Dave Paulides in your thoughts because his son just passed away in the last month and he's been having a hard time obviously

Been trying to get this bug off my screen. It’s a black bird.

I've always been afraid to venture far into the woods. Here in Brazil the vast majority of our forests are too dense and don't allow you to go very far without getting stuck in some kind of vine or bushes full of thorns. But if you manage to overcome these natural barriers, the risks of you coming across some danger are real. Wild predators, poisonous animals and insects, even narco traffickers and bad people in general. A while ago the army discovered in a forest a clandestine cemetery where drug traffickers use it to kill and burie their victims, several and several bodies were dug up.

It’s amazing seeing how much better he’s gotten at storytelling since this video

Umm if I see some red eyes in the forest I’m not sleeping in my tent. I’m sleeping in my friends camper!

Ballen is the greatest. He also is so honest in giving all the credit to David Pallides on his 411. He just merely tells them..... very well I must add.

My Aunt’s friend had a weird experience while hiking Mt Shasta, but a positive one. Her and a friend got lost in the snow, not sure if they just got turned a round or it had started snowing, I can’t remember. They were starting to get worried since it was starting to get dark when two or three really pale men with really blue eyes found them. They were wearing light clothing, not something you would usually wear in the cold/snow. Well they didn’t talk much but led them out towards the town they were staying at and then they were gone. When they were telling someone who lives there, they had said something like “oh yea, that’s the blue people”. They kept to them selves and lived up the mountain and some people believe they are extra terrestrials who got stuck there. They don’t go into town but will help people who are lost from time to time. My aunt told me years ago so I might be wrong about some things, sadly she passed away in 2019 so I can’t ask her. Just thought it was a fun story 😊.

These videos and stories absolutely confirm that I should NEVER EVER go mountain climbing or camping in the woods. I was pretty sure those adventures weren’t my thing but NOW I’m positive. Thank you.

This man has single handedly stopped me going on long walks

As the father of a 3 1/2 year old, I can honestly say that I’d never outright discount anything that my son says. He’s always very direct and honest, and it’s easy to tell the difference between when he’s “playing” and when when he’s truthfully trying to convey something of a very real and serious nature.

I've heard of weird things happening at Mt Shasta for at least 40 years. My first room mate in the Air Force, back in fall of 81, was from Redding California. He told me there was always something weird going on there, strange lights in the sky, bigfoot sightings etc.

Here’s some general advice for anyone that considers going hiking: 1. Make sure that *multiple* people know where you’re going, what you’re going to be doing and for how long you plan to be gone for. 2. Tell them what you’re going to be wearing. 3. Tell them your plan in case you get lost. Unless you’re extremely experienced and know *exactly* what you’re doing your best plan is to just stay out and wait for rescue. 4. Make sure you have more supplies with you than you think you’ll actually need (I usually try to have at least two extra days worth of food and water with me, just in case). 5. Invest in a LifeStraw, they don’t take up much space, they weigh very little and they can end up saving your life! 6. Buy a power bank that can be charged using solar panels and bring it with you. The reception out in the forest is usually pretty spotty but in case things go wrong you do *not* suddenly realise that “Oh shit my phone’s dead”. Make sure to wrap both the powerbank and your phone in plastic bags. 7. Finally, write down where you’re going, what you’re going to be doing and for how long you plan to be gone (along with all the supplies, clothes and equipment you are going to take with you along with your phone number) on a piece of paper and seal it in an envelope and clearly mark it with something along the lines of “If I go missing, give this to the police!” and give it to a loved one you know and trust. Your loved ones may be hysterical and unable to think straight if you go missing so this will help the authorities immensely. This may seem extremely excessive, but consider this: In the United States alone more than 600,000 people go missing *each year*. Most are eventually found (alive or otherwise..) but some do end up just disappearing without a trace. So ask yourself this: “Do I *really* want to chance it or should I prepare ‘just in case’ and laugh about it later?”

I was always reading until I am losing my sight due to illness, but since listening to you Mr.Ballen. I love your stories.

One of the things I like about John is that he doesn’t seem to judge; no matter how stupidly these people behave.

These stories really are wild. Basically if you insist on going to a national park, or hiking, bring a gun and don't ever be alone for 1 second.

I’ve got my own Mt Shasta story. It’s actually my parents story, but I’ll tell it. They were living near Mt Shasta Town, a little ways up the mountain from where the city center was. Their house was surrounded by woods, and they had a neighbor a few hundred yards through one of the thickets of trees. Well, my parents trained dogs, and had kennels next to the house. They would take their dogs up the mountain hiking and training at the same time. One of their occasions on the mountain they had a German Shepard with them. And they had stayed out longer than expected and were descending the mountain trail in the dark heading home. Their dog all of a sudden stopped in front of them, lowered its head and starred off the trail into the fast falling darkness and forest. After a few seconds a huge deer came running past them but the dog barely gave the deer a second glance and continued to stare in the direction it had run from. My dad grabbed his collar and tried soothing him, enough to get back on the move. They made it home that night without incident. But they were on alert due to the dogs actions, and when they got back the two other dogs were also acting strange. They cooked dinner and sat down in their living room, to settle down for the night. A few hours later they heard this blood curdling scream coming from outside their house, to the side of the driveway away from the nearest house. My dad ran out to see what was going on, and he found a woman, half crouched, half falling back against the base of the nearby tree. Her face was ripped open, and she was screaming. The woman it would turn out, was an addict on a trip of some kind, and She had been running around the woods for a few days out of her mind. She had decided to sneak up to my parents house, for whatever reason she had. As she had hidden herself in the nearby trees when my parents came home. Their dog that they had been training that day. Escaped his kennel with a 6 foot tall chain length fence, ran across the yard, intercepted her path stealthily and was laying under the picnic table when this woman, who was army crawling across the yard, crawled under the picnic table, which was located on the side of the house near the porch and side door. She came face to face with an angry German Shepherd protecting his owners. The dog ripped her face open, and her lips off. They had an ambulance come out for her and they had to go out and find her.... “parts”, for the ambulance to take to the hospital with her. I know it’s not paranormal, but it’s not always the boogeyman running around with nefarious intentions. Had the dog not done his duty, there’s no telling what that woman could of done to my parents. This world is full of crazy people, and no doubt that’s not all. Keep your head on a swivel and trust your instincts. Oh, and dogs are man’s best friends for many reasons. 😉😉

I still never notice the secret thing in the video. This man could change shirts halfway thru and I still wouldn’t notice. I’m just so focused on the story.

Mr. Wolf and Mr. Bear: “these damn humans don’t know how to take care of these babies. Ima make sure they’re fed with some berries.”

I live in the middle of Allegheny National Forest in PA, and my husband and now 6yr old daughter found an entire pile of deer bones and the skull yards away while mushroom hunting and the way the bones laid looked like the way someone would lay rib or chicken wing bones as they eat. We live super close to Kinzua dam and there's multiple reports of an albino Bigfoot/white yeti looking thing in the forest around here. I've been inside and heard things that made my blood run cold. Side Note: MrBallen definitely does keep his word and respond to his messages. I found him last June after my aunt was murdered by my cousin, her grandson, and then 10 more deaths in my family right after,, and I thanked John for making stuff like this to help people who have severe anxiety and allow their thoughts to consume them and he did respond genuinely 🖤 definitely my favorite storyteller on a bad day.

I know this is an older video, but ever since I had come across one of your videos I have been non stop listening to them daily. Thank you for the amazing story telling and letting us know about the fascinating world of this unusual world we live in.

This man hustles his ass off, he deserves 1 mil. Who else is with me?

You know whenever I'm flying in a plane over some heavily forested areas, I always think "I wonder what type of unspeakable horrors I'm flying over right now, with no way of knowing." Or driving down a dark desert highway, I think "only a few miles from here there's probably some horrible things just beyond those hills." Paved roads and cities really do keeps us safe from the unknown horrors out there. Imagine what the original pioneers had to encounter before all of this was built for us...

The “Mr Wolf” one was actually solved by the girl decades later she said a man with a wolf pelt as clothes found her in the middle of a lake and picked her up and took her to his “cave house” and he fed her blueberries and wolf meat the man was found and thanked by the girls father and they were friends and even went on vacation together before they died

Mount shasta has some weird energy, anyone who's also been there def will understand.

You are saving lives by telling these stories because a lot of people out there don't know the possible dangers, so thank you for that.

He certainly has a “gift” for telling stories. I love listening❣️

I've been a steady fan of yours now for almost 2 years. This video not only introduced me to Mt. Shasta but inspired me to research it, the local natives and all the lore. I am a Florida local and had never seen mountains besides smokey mountains. My gf and I got invited to a wedding in Sacramento. We made a 3,000 mile pilgrimage and thanks to you and the strange dark and mysterious I made my way to mountain following the wedding. I have never experienced natural beauty like that. Florida has it's spots but it didn't even look real standing 9000 feet up on Shasta. Thank you for these uploads. I'm similar to a lot of your erm.. subjects I have a huge love for nature. If it wasn't for the fact it was my six month anniversary with the love of my dreams I would have stayed. I even told everyone to give you a heads up should something had happened. I was in awe

One thing I've learned from Mr. Ballen stories is to never, ever go off on your own in the woods or mountains. Never!

The common theme in these is never go ahead and never separate, always stay together.

Mr Ballen took me Mr Ballen fed me berries Mr Ballen told me stories

This guy is better than anything or anyone ive listened to in the past. Your stories are addictive.

I've only ever witnessed one concerning or weird thing. I grew up in Florida, there was one camping trip i went on with my family somewhere in Midland northern Florida, there was a nature trail out over a swamp, well most of it was boardwalk, and the only way out was how you get in, we had gone on it earlier that day and it was basically just a decent size loop over the swamp. I remember sitting and getting the campfire ready, a family of 3 (Mother, Father, and a child that looked about 6yrs old) went towards the entry to the trail which was only about maybe 100ft from our campsite, however.... It was about sunset, the trail maybe took about a half hour or so, i remember looking at my dad nervously and we discussed that it's getting late, and maybe we should tell them it's a bad idea to go out there at this time but didn't say anything as they were already gone in the few minutes we discussed it. Half-hour went by and nothing, then an hour later it was sunset and getting dark, we talked about going to look for them but didn't want to take the risk, hours kept passing, it was well past sunset and pitch black out. We watched many hours into the night, We didn't see anyone come back from the trail, we never saw the family return. I still wonder what happened to them, there's literally no other way to get off that trail other than the entrance Infront of our camp. We didn't hear any sound all night either, just nature.

Always pay strict attention to what a little child tells you when they're that young because they are very rarely going to lie to you they haven't yet learned how to be duplicitous. They often won't understand things they've seen and might tell them in a fantastical way but if you pay attention to what they say you usually can get the story people are way too quick to just dismiss what a small child says about things

We are so lucky that mr ballen actually reads, ❤ and replies to our comments. Because sooner or later his channel will grow enormously and won't have time to do it, like all big KZfaqrs

These stories make me wonder if there are invisible ‘worm hole’-like tunnels in these areas that open and close randomly. And, if a person is in the wrong place at precisely the wrong moment when one opens up, they disappear into them. Maybe some tunnels are short and ‘open’ on the other end, which could explain why some people/children are found so far away. And then maybe there are other tunnels that are ‘closed’, as in, if a person inadvertently steps into the opening, they’re just gone forever. Maybe not dead, but in a another (parallel) dimension. Very science fictiony I know. But I believe this Earth has mysteries we don’t understand. Where are Mulder and Scully or the Fringe team when you need them? LOL🙂

One addition to that first story, and what I think is the most compelling part, is that the grandma Cappy had her experience within the same general location as her grandson. By that I don't mean on the same mountain or within the same forest, but literally within like 2 miles from where they found the boy a year after...

Parent: My little girl was abducted! Bigfoot: Actually it's pronounced "adopted."

The fast grabbing and moving, lack of tracks, imitating a loved one, and dens full of human belongings give off wendigo vibes.

I was born in Mt. Shasta. I've spent many years taking my own forays into the local nature spots and going off trail. I have seen some weird things and often tell weaker looking parties to avoid staying in certain places. One of the lesser stories I have was made stranger by the Cappy story. I was driving through some of the wider trails just to see how far a car could go. My brother was with me. At one point, we were on a part of the trail where the bush was really thick and formed a hedge to either side. A small opening my little car couldn't get through opened up on the left. I stop in place on the trail since there is no room to pull over and my brother and I look into a clearing that had no other entry point. Inside the clearing were two RV's that couldn't have gotten there placed in a loose V shape with an open tent making the bottom of the V. Sitting in the tent among a thousand trinkets an old woman said "Hey boys, you want some tea?" So I rolled up the window, put the car in drive and continued on my way. After staring ahead for a few minutes, my brother asks if we can leave so I drove over some shrubs to avoid going back the way we came.

No time stamps so here you go: Story 1 2:00 Story 2 8:43 Story 3 12:56 Story 4 15:54 Story 5 17:09

I'm actually concerned he will run out of ways to say hit the like button 😂

I've always found the third story involving climber Eric Lewis highly strange, and just plain scary. He literally disappeared while being tied by rope to two other people, while on the side of the mountain. How in the hell is that possible without leaving any clues? I never knew about his backpack being found in an ice cave. That just kicks the strangeness up another level.

I've been here since the beginning and would love for you, @MrBallen, to visit more 411 content. ✌️

Good evening! I was curious what happened to the spooky videos like this one and the haunting ones? I soaked in every Mr. Ballen episode when I first stumbled across your channel, and still keep up, but have noticed things have focused more on true crime these past few months as opposed to the strangely mysterious. Love your work, thank you, just missing those creepy woods and haunted attics!

To all you who are dogging him for "" stealing"" David Paulides 411 work you need to read the description box he gets permission from David to use his name and content!!!! They have what's called mutual respect for one another!! So before you judge and blab!! Do some research!!!!!

Randomly ran across your channel and started binge watching while I can’t sleep.

If you ever wake up with bite/needle mark and feel sick, please go to the hospital and get a test to see if you've been poisoned, drugged, etc. It could save you and others.

I'm an Oregonian and this state has so much crazy ish going on here but relating to this story....I used to have a friend that lived at the base of lower table rock Rd and you could see mt Shasta from his house very close to each other and I stayed a few nights there and it was trippy I heard flutes playing most of the night I heard a female and a child talking I saw weird lights on inside and outside the house it w as a trippy I was laying there with my spouse eyes wide opened thinking oh shit my brain broke and I'm seeing and hearing stuff now great but then I finally asked him if he kept hearing stuff and he asked like flutes? And girls talking in the next room? Yea it was crazy...I can vouch though Oregon crazy period!

Judging by the last story, I'd say we now have in North America: Black Bears, Brown Bears, Kodiak Bears, Polar Bears and Babysitter Bears.

He's posting before I'm even awake! I hope he gets to the point where he can post everyday, cause if there isn't a MrBallen video it just isn't a good day.

My 24 year old son used to talk to a man who no one else could see at my moms old house, when he was 3-4. I asked him recently did he remember & he actually does. He says he’s still freaked out that no one else could see him.

Imagine being a 30 year old man with a memory of your grandmother abducting you in the woods and transforming into an alien. Trippy man

This guy could read and record himself for audio books. He keeps u listening. Love this 👍

I kept wiping my screen thinking the bird in the background was a smudge

Thank you so much for your great narration of all the fascinating stories. We occasionally rematch/listen to them even. Thank you again.

Typically, I think channels who do this mystery type content need a lot of visuals to get my attention, but this guy is one of the best storytellers on KZfaq. Keep up the good work man.

I love listening to this guy. Best story teller ever. I’m a hair stylist and all my clients are now addicted to listening to him too. Thank you!!!

I love the stories with happy endings. I Wonder why hipnosis is not used to find out what happened in some of the se cases.

I’ve been going through these randomly until today. He’s such a great storyteller that I’m starting from the beginning. Looks great with the haircut in this one. These stories are 😮!

Mt Shasta is so beautiful, and the folklore around it is amazing. In 2019 we took our 6 year old camping there and all throughout the night we heard movement around our tent. In the morning there were bear tracks by my side of the tent, except they looked more human-like... All we could think about was the guy at Shasta Caverns telling us about an employee who quit because she claimed to have seen a humanlike creature by the cavern entrance a week before we got there.

I've been binge watching these 411 cases and I'm now genuinely scared to go into forests

The only thing more disturbing than these stories is the thought of having eight kids..

Love seeing my home the Tatoosh Range in the background art. I know every inch of that place.

6:44 MrBallan: "Glowing red eyes." Also MrBallen: *Shows glowing yellow eyes."

Do more mount Shasta mysteries pls! I’ve snowboarded mount Shasta a couple times with my buddy that lives up there and the locals definitely believe that there’s something strange going on up there

Man I’m sure glad I watched these last year while high. Now it’s almost like a brand new story a year later!

Was hoping to come to the comments and hope to see if anyone else made the spider connection. The kid said he was brought to a cave filled with spiders, (like that was the main detail) and than cappy and her friends experience, they believe they were bitten by poisonous spiders. spiders just got a hole lot creepier.

Every time I go out into the wilderness, the thought of vanishing always lurks in the back of my head... Man, I hope I never end up as a subject on this channel.

I love these missing 411 stories, they pretty much combine everything I’m interested in true crime, paranormal stuff, conspiracy theories, and just general horror like just imagining being stuck in the forest is the scariest situation I can imagine

I flip back and forth between Mr. Ballen and the Why Files. The episode Mt. Shasta on the WF's has some of these same stories! Love, both of these channels and content!

Some, definitely not all, of these stories can be chalked up to hypothermia and dehydration because both can make people delirious. In hypothermia, right before dying, people begin to feel so hot they start removing clothes and before that hallucinations can occur. As a survivalist, I can definitely attribute the strangeness of SOME of these cases.

I am a horror movie addict and I have learned that nothing good ever comes from going into the woods. Also, you are the best story teller!!!

Im so frustratingly curious as to what the questions were ' the other cappy ' was asking the 3yr old boy, and why it was making her so mad that he couldn't answer them...

Scary how good you are.

I grew up in Mt Shasta during my high school years from freshman to my senior year. And needless to say there is a lot of mystery in that place there are true cults that live on the base of my Shasta and everyone who lives there knows about them and there are a lot of bear there but the bears mind there own business and keep from people for the most part but being out in the woods there anytime I was alone or away from people I would always feel like I was being watched almost like being stalked by a mountain lion you never see or hear them but you always get this feeling that something is there and that something is watching you I wish I knew what I do now from watch mr ballen I would have paid more attention when I was out in the woods there

Verbal storytelling is a lost art and you do it so well. Thanks for all the great stories ☺️

"Eyes all around us, when we shined a light, they would be gone." Me: So anyways I started blasting.

So many of these stories with the kids make me wonder, it often seems alot of the kids are found alive a far distance away with no memory if the event. But alot of the adults are never found. Or found dead. Maybe whatever is causing it doesnt kill children.

This is the first KZfaq channel that I ever felt deserves to get paid a lot. And thank you for your service brother❤❤❤❤❤

Am I only one who keeps wiping my screen cause that bird in the background looks like a spect 😂?

Mrballen do you no how hard it is to be a mailman ON MOUNT SHASTA while listening to your stories

Brand new subscriber to your channel ❤ I love your storytelling. I will be binge-watching your videos and giving likes to all of them!❤️

Mt Shasta is like one of the psychedelic capitals of America. Something weird is always happening at Mt Shasta.

This dude could read radio instructions and be mesmerizing, hope he never quits telling us stories.🙂🌺

Old Mr ballen videos just hit different watching this 3 years after its publish date

listening to mrballen in the background while I do my daily challenges in the game crossout, has quickly become one of my favorite past times and your voice is the best, as even if you talk about your merch or you youtube channel or to give attention other accounts you may have and be trying to promote I normally skip other youtubes promotion but yours i just love listening to.

When they boy said “I don’t like the other Cappy” I automatically think Skinwalker

When he said mt Shasta I got the chills because I lived near there and I knew the people from the first story