7:01 the Joker at the bottom of the screen

I bet people never knew they were a fan of the strange dark and mysterious delivered in story format until they found this channel

Boy dies, official story is "no foul play", coroner disagrees, coroner gets fired? Definitely foul play.

US Navy veteran here. Thank you for your service John.

That last lady survived an encounter with the Predator, she is very lucky and my hero from this point on. Kudos to her for not screaming and running away, Predator knew courage when he saw it!

I'm not a woman or even a parent, but I can only imagine the sheer horror of hearing your son frantically exclaiming ''where are you?! Where are you?!'' only for the phone line to be cut off and for them to have disappeared is something that would haunt me for a lifetime.

I hike all the time by myself and go pretty deep into the woods of Ohio, Maine, California and several other states. One thing I've learned over the years is that if you are in the woods and everything is deadly silent with no signs of wildlife you need to leave immediately. You are not necessarily in danger but bad things seem to happen when people push on after noticing the unnatural stillness.

Regarding the last story you told about the (almost) invisible creature, I have been researching many stories regarding this phenomenon. It is collectively known as the Glimmer Man. This thing is real. There was a group of people playing music by a river who all witnessed the same thing. “It looked like the heat coming off the road on a summer day”.

That last story is so weird! I remember something similar happened to me once when I was out at night in the middle of the desert. I remember that we were walking down this path, and I suddenly felt the urge to stop and stare at one particular direction, not even knowing why. I was slightly scared, but not enough to tell the others, and I just felt something was out there, so I took out my phone and took a picture... but it came out *really* weird. I was only able to see the cactus directly in front of me, but they were enveloped in this weird rainbow-y light, like there were red, blue and yellow rays coming from somewhere to my right, but everything was in complete darkness. I took another picture, thinking maybe my finger had gotten in the way, but it came out the same. I even took off my phone case, but to no avail; according to my phone, there was some kind of light comming from somewhere even if I couldn't see it. I'm thankful I wasn't alone that night, and that I was relatively close to civilization, because otherwise idk what could've happened.

Soooo....the coroner, who attends at least 6 years of specialized schooling, JUST to determine cause of death, time of death, and manner of death, says its foul play...and people with zero specialized schooling fire him for doing his job and disagree? Nothing to see here folks

Person: *goes missing* Snow and Rain: allow us to introduce ourselves

Mr. Ballen is the most detailed story teller to the point I can see it actually happening in my mind. He keeps you intrigued. Some stories are sad, but deserve attention. Almost like paying respect. I especially appreciate the respectful manner in which you do give us the whole story and don’t leave out the pets ❤ 😊

Jans story - it really does sound like the alien from Predator.

Always, always, always tell people where you are going and when you will be back if you are going into the wilderness. This was the golden rule when I lived in Alaska and we never deviated. So many people live their whole lives in this country with a false sense of safety, never realizing they’re sitting comfortably at the edge of chaos...

Is it me or you never find the hidden secret because you’re so concentrated on these stories he tells us 🤔😟😂

It's amazing to me how many cops in these stories rule out foul play when they've got descriptions of their victims calling their loved ones sounding panicked and saying people are following them...you'd figure that would point to some degree of foul play?

Is it just me or do i just put my phone down lay down and listen to his storys because of how good of a storyteller he is

Am I the only one who loves these stories, but gets major stress and anxiety from them? Lol

whenever your in the woods and it all of a sudden goes quiet just get out of there

It’s odd how many phone calls are made where people claim they are being chased by a person or persons and then they are never found. A lot of your stories have this detail. Has to be something to these claims.

As a Canadian, thanks for covering miles to kms! ❤️ thanks for the stories!

The person found naked with his head in the ground seems to me to be suffering from hypothermia (paradoxical undressing) and the reason he was found with his head in the dirt is because a feature of final-stage hypothermia is terminal burrowing, or "hide & die syndrome".

I like that Jan's husband immediately believed her and took her story seriously.

In the last story, Jan did get a photo of what she was looking at, but the problem is the microchip in the Blackberry wasn't powerful enough to figure out what it was seeing. The distortion was of some *thing* or some *one* bending light around themselves, so what the camera picked up was the light refracting and fracturing around the moving object/subject. Had she held a regular camera, she would've gotten a motion blur similar to what you might see in the Predator movies. Even a video would've been better due partially to the fact that the camera would have time to figure out the proper resolution.

Really interesting story about the woman who saw a blurry, "saran-wrap" image! Thanks for covering this. I really enjoy the way you tell stories--animated, energetic, and great hand gestures! :)

Dylan Parker's death seems like something much more sinister was going on there, especially after the medical examiner was fired so viciously. They're probably covering up some murderer there.

I show this to my husband to prove you can tell a story without cussing. It is so refreshing to listen to Mr. Ballen

I read something once about the McCandless story, and you're actually right on both counts. He did eat poisonous berries, they made him weak and unable to move & also exacerbated the starvation process leading to death.

I read a lot about stories like #2 where the person tells their family they're going to do something very weird or at least a bit odd. They get lost or go missing just like Dustin. I swear it feels like they were suicidal and family just simply didn't know it. Which makes sense because it's very easy to hide that you're depressed. Maybe not so much depressed, but easy to hide you're so depressed to the point where you actually want to take your own life and do. That's a whole different kind of depressed. It seems he was fighting demons his family didn't know about and he planned on killing himself; maybe wanting it to be mysterious so he's maybe remembered and talked about? I've seen and heard much crazier things. Makes sense considering his case did not seem like foul play at all. Sometime you're 50/50 on it or just 100% certain but in this case, definitely no foul play. The first story for instance, now there's foul play involved. I believe he just planned on taking his own life, and did, unfortunately. Rest in peace buddy 🕊

When you bite the hot pocket but don't get all the way through the ham and when you pull back you pull out the ham and then it falls on your lip and scalds your lips so much that they blister. That is the biggest hot pocket injury possible. *RIP Lips*

Story #1 about Dylan Parker was actually one of my best friends brother. It is incredibly sketchy and was super sad because he was so young. He was an awesome guy and actually just got his life back on track right before this happened. Around the time he went missing/died there were two other girls from around the area that had weird deaths too. Brianna cook was one of them.

I know this is an older post but I love these stories. I'm a vet myself and it was hard finding my place again. Thank you for your positive attitude

Me:**gets to heaven** Them:"How'd you die?" Me:"Hot pocket cheese lava flow. The like button saw me coming"

This actually kinda makes me want to be aggressively friendly. If I'm going hiking/camping, I'm going to a nearby store first and will make sure they remember me and where I'm going. I am going to detail every moment of my life beforehand and what I'm planning to the poor clerk. That way, if I come up missing, I will have been so annoying and have over shared so much that the nearby store would DEFINITELY remember me. 😅

Christopher spent the entire summer in a school bus. He tried to cross the river but it was running too fast. The bus was moved because people were visiting it and they felt it needed to be moved to prevent another tragedy.

Jan picking up her phone instead of instead of her crossbow is astonishing.

This is the only channel that makes me scared in broad daylight, I get chills and it makes me look over my shoulders

The scary thing about this video, is that the last story has nothing to do with missing people being found in impossible places.

I want to be sitting by a campfire and listening to you telling these stories in person. You are awesome 💛

Omg I just love your stories I know I’m late but better late than never I’m one of your biggest fans keep doing what you’re doing you’re one of our best messengers of this generation

Saying your on a mountain in Oregon is like saying your in an apartment in New york

It'd be interesting to talk to the man who was fired after conducting Dylan's autopsy. There is clearly more to this story.

Guess "The Predator" Movies are *REAL*

I've been listening to stories from different channels and Mr Ballen is by far the best storyteller in KZfaq.

The underage boy leaving to meet his Mom, is beyond heartbreaking.

That last story makes me think of the Predator with its invisible camouflage

I've been watching your videos every single day for the last couple of weeks. I love the fact all the stories are true. Keep doing you Mr ballen you are a great story teller and very authentic 🙌

Thank you Mr Ballen. You are the best storyteller. This batch of 3 stories are mindboggling, comme habitude. What on earth drove Justin to abandon his truck where it was parked. How on earth did he wind up dead, naked, or near naked, with his head in a hole. It's frustrating for me, but what must it be like for the poor families, I can't begin to imagine.

The final story reminds me of Predator, the movie. I would be Flippin TERRRRRIFIED if I saw that. These stories have me literally on the edge of my seat, and I've been marathon watching you for over a week now. Love what you do!! Thanks for the adrenaline rush, the entertainment, and the reminder to always be aware of my surroundings.

Dude found dead in the woods, no pants and his head stuck in the ground. He's an ostrich. Can't rule out fowl play.

I love how supportive Bruce was in the last story. If I had told a story like this to anyone I’d be carted off to the laughing academy

I wonder if Justin had a type of suicidal ideation, possibly affirmed by "Into The Wild". It's unfair to speculate about what happened from this video alone. It just strongly popped into my mind. I hope his family and friends are well, and this awful story gets further resolved. ❤

After binge watching MrBallen for about a week now, I’m not sure I can ever go back in the woods. And I love the woods. 😩

The last story reminded me of an experience I had. I was doing Advanced Individual Training (AIT) in the army back in the summer of 1991 at Redstone Arsenal, AL. My platoon was doing land navigation training exercises in the forest and had separate into squads to work on our objectives. It was a hot, bright, sunny day and the woods were alive with sounds...crickets, cicadas, birds, squirrels, etc. The noise was incredibly loud. My squad was moving along from point to point on the topographical map and recording our progress. At around midday, we were walking up this short hill and reached the flat top of it, about 50 meters across, when we noticed that all sounds had stopped. We were in an old-growth section of the forest that had gone completely silent. And it wasn't a normal silence. It was almost like the silence in one of those hearing test chambers. We could hear each others' voices, but they seemed to fall completely flat...no echoes whatsoever. We looked around and there were probably a dozen or so depressions in the ground scattered around us that were around 6 feet long, 2-3 feet wide, and maybe 6-8 inches deep. To me, they looked as if they were maybe very old graves that had sunken in. I was never able to find any information about them later, nor do I know if they had anything to do with what followed. In what seemed like a very sudden event, we were all overcome with this intense sleepiness. It hit us all at once. We could not hold ourselves up any longer, so we just lied down on the ground and immediately fell asleep. I think it was about 30 min later when I was awakened by a cheeky squirrel throwing acorns at my head out of the tree I was under. The sounds had returned. Everyone sort of came to at the same time, and we just got up and continued on our way. I would have to say that's one of the strangest things I have ever experienced, and I have no explanation for any of it.

I actually got to go to a panel about the Missing 411 book and the Pacific Northwest has an insane amount of missing people for the size. And I know it's the woods and people can easily get lost but it's honestly a little creepy HOW many there are.

I grew up in Lima (it’s pronounced lime-uh) Ohio. There are plenty of hunters in the area. Plenty. I never heard of someone experiencing anything in the woods like that. Our version of the woods are small patches of them within fields. Not much density or coverage within them. However, I have personally seen UFOs and so have several of my family members over low flying over lima and paulding county. Weird things in the skies always there. I wonder if this suit wasn’t some military activity.

There’s an interview with this woman somewhere, Maybe it’s in one of the 411 films, or with David Paulides. She talks about how she could “see” it moving and grasping branches that were farther away than anything with normal appendages could get to. Like this shimmering holographic being would reach out and then the “arm” would stretch out and lengthen to reach the next tree, which would dip down towards this creature. And this happened well before the “Predator” films came out. Really creepy.

Watched this last night and heard “Dustin Self” and was totally shocked. It’s been almost a decade since he left. We both went to the same school and he was by far the best skater out of all of us. RIP Audio!

"Tongue scalding Cheese lava flow within"... LMAO, OMG, easily the best one yet... I'm laughing so hard!!!

"Although it may sound unbelievable, in our country, when people go missing and are later found in bizarre locations that seem impossible to access, it is said that they have been taken by ghosts. This belief is well-known here."

I think we can all agree that this man is saving 2020 by just being alive

When I was a child I found a toad stuck in a street drain croaking and in distress. I flagged two little boys I didn't know and asked them to lower me into the drain. They held my feet and lowered me into the narrow drain, my whole body length in I grabbed Mr toad and they pulled me back. Today I still think of the horrific end if those two boys had lost their grip, it was straight down and full of water.

Anyone else find this channel by accident and now it’s your favorite? Go Mr. Ballen, great ass story teller

Am I gonna be able to sleep tonight? No. Did I continue to watch the whole playlist? Yes.

If you continue to mess with the like button, one day you’ll be telling his story on your channel once he snaps.

I live in an isolated area, abandoned buildings, no trees, but my family loves going camping in the deep woods. I already dont have full trust for my neighborhood. After binge watching these videos, im not really trusting the woods :/

Picturing a dead person naked on hands and knees with his head stuck in a hole is the weirdest thing ever. Poor guy

I’ve learned if you’re ever hiking or walking in the woods don’t be last in line. Thanks for all the great stories.

When people die of hypothermia they feel a really hot sensation which cause them to shed some clothes. Because of that a lot of hypothermia victims are thought to be victims of sexual assault

One of my biggest fears is being alone in the forest and be hunted by a creature i once had a dream where a pall figure with Black eyes and sharp claws hunted me in the forest at night i wasnt alone i was with one friend but at some point me and the friend got split up and i could only hear screams i was to scared to move everything went quiet and i started walking again towards the exit and before the exit i saw my friends body torn up hanging from a sign intestines laying out and an eye missing i wanted to run but turned around and that creature jumped towards me and screamed i woke up in a puddle of sweat and thats how i got that fear

Dustin was SAd and murd’d. Whoever said there was no foul play couldn’t have been more wrong.

*A distorted figure that scares away all wild life* Girl: "Say cheese!"

Story #3, the gas station the teen called his mom from - no-one thought to review the security footage to see if he walked off or was abducted? I feel like something huge is missing here!

Anyone watching this in 2023?..I discovered this channel 3 days ago and I've just been binge watching

Jan’s picture looks like she turned the camera back on herself by accident instead of shooting the trees in front of her. Doesn’t explain the weirdness, but it looks like her in the upper left quadrant of the photo.

*goes missing* Snow: “Prepare for trouble.” Rain: “And make it a double”

*Unknown mysteries to missing people* Their clothes: I’m not even here. I’m just a hallucination

Found you from Tiktok and love your videos on KZfaq!!! ❤ You are an incredible storyteller

Thank you John always love your content 💕 David Politis 411 missing is incredible. The more he investigates, the more strange cases he finds. He's strictly authentic, an ex policeman. He states the facts of the cases backed up by overwhelming evidence. It's great that John is spreading some of these disappearances. People should pay attention. Jen is a good example of what others have experienced.

This channel is my favorite thing of 2020

Listening to the story about Dustin I immediately remembered a fellow I rescued in the Smokey's a number of years ago, he was acutely hypothermic and having lost much of his cognitive ability he stripped nude believing he was overheating and took shelter under what he thought was a large rock outcropping. In reality when I found him he was on the summit of the mountain (Either Thunder Head or Rocky Top, I can't remember atm), nude, and pressed up against a small bolder covering only his head and face with the rest of his body exposed to a constant icy mist.

It's a relationship red flag if something terrifying and disturbing happens to you alone in the woods and you don't tell your spouse when you get home.

John, where are the sources you were referring to at 18:44. No such sources found. Also, thank you for your continued service.

Love how this channel has permission from David Paulides, the original person and founder of the missing 411 and you provide links to his works and promote him and his work.

this is the perfect channel no cringe intro only creepy and weird stories ITS PERFECT!!!!! thank you for this

I have a problem with the third story. This is apparently taking place while daylight is still Shining. The picture she sent to her friend was supposedly at 6:00. The picture she took of the anomaly in the trees was supposedly between 7:50 and 8:00. But in November in Oregon, which is when deer season begins the latest the Sun stays out is 5:50.

These videos are the reason I get sketched out outside my house at night time alone. I live in a remote spot in the Colorado Rockies

Am i the only one that feels that the 411 stories when the victim calls a loved one in a panic just before disappearing are the weirdest ones

In terms of the immediate circumstances of Dustin's death, it's a perfect example of the common, but paradoxical, behaviour of someone experiencing hypothermia. As one's blood begins to move to the core regions of their body to keep the vitals warm while feeling is simultaneously being lost in the extremities, they can mistake the sensations associated with these processes with overheating, convincing their hypothermic mind that it's a good idea to strip. Combined with this is an extremely primitive mammalian response to hypothermia called "terminal burrowing" or "hide-and-die syndrome." In our ancestors it likely served a purpose, but now it leads to people who have lost heating in their homes being found naked under their beds or in closets, or in Dustin's unfortunate case, in a hole in the ground in a highly disturbing, primordial attempt to escape the cold. The circumstances that led him to that point, however, I have no explanation for.

Jan is Jan Maccabee... wife of Bruce Maccabee,,,, I've heard him telling this story..... thank you!! ~~ Love from Lakeside ~~ Phoebe

That story in the forest and the thing that was described sounds like the Predator in the movies. Pretty wild.

Has anyone think its weird that just about evey story of a missing person they have no boots on .

This video inspired me to wrap myself in Saran Wrap and crawl through the treetops.

Thanks Mrballen

I KNOW THIS IS OLD BUT YOOOOO the Jan Mcabee story is WILD to me because They’re my grandmas neighbors, who I used to live with. I know those woods like the back of my hand and I’ve literally sat in Jan’s Hunting stand many times. My homie and I used to go explore back there all the time and I’ve always said there’s some weird shit going on back there . Like whole landmarks I’ve mentally made note of just straight vanishing one day and then they’re back the next. it threw me off hearing a story about my own neighbors !

that last story really creeped me out. I don't get creeped out easily, but something about it just really unsettled me

*This man is a beast standing outside in the snow in frigid temperatures telling stories while wearing no jacket*

That was a great three stories, and the one would make me scared too.

13:52 she saw the predator???

so dustin hears the story of how a guy died from living in the wild and says "oh boy, sounds great, i wanna do that too!"?