LOCKED UP BY MY OWN PARENTS | 8 True Scary REDDIT Stories

[@new_narrative]

The 911 dispatcher like.... WTF? This is not a job for a**hole.

[@arcticgalaxies9160]

you can say asshole

[@dredubz5825]

I had a super jerkface 911 operator too. Attempted suicide when I was 19 and changed my mind last minute when I thought about my parents and how I couldn’t hurt them like that. He basically told me I should go through with it, and why am I calling him and wasting his time? I basically had to beg him to send help.

[@dshoultz6110]

​@dredubz5825 I am terribly sorry that he treated you that way and how you had felt during that period of time. I hope that all is better, take care of yourself, and have a happy holiday!

[@dredubz5825]

@@dshoultz6110 Thank you very much 🙏🏼 You are very kind to take the time to write me. I appreciate it 🌹 I am doing much better, thank you and I also wish you a very happy holiday season 🎄☃️💚

[@clairstrange4362]

@@dredubz5825I’m mortified that anyone would dare say that. What an shame to see such evil people in this world. I’m sorry, but no one should ever have to go through that. ❤❤ sending you love and prayers 🙏🙏

[@yeso505]

I really hope the A-hole 911 operator that hung up on the two girls got fired. She's clearly in the wrong career.

[@margaretcoffee6522]

I totally agree that's crazy!!!

[@eyetrollin710]

Story 3 right away when he said the burning meat and Grandma went on to the floor I knew where this was going... that would suck to do that to your grandma and to find everything out that way

[@LuC-k777]

Fr mega fucked to find out that way if that was me I would feel guilty as hell

[@SaxyLament]

I hate myself for not figuring that out. I thought it was going to be a cannibal story. 😫

[@christinarogers3295]

Story 6. I hope that dispatcher lady was fired. So messed up.

[@CocoWantsACracker]

True. But the main character was so utterly dumb that I can imagine anyone thinking that helping them is doing THEM a favor, but letting Darwin's principle run its course is doing the WORLD a favor.

[@3dge--runner]

I don't know what I would do without this channel. I wind down before bed with it every night for many years now. As always, thank you Joel!

[@Scoutyie.]

I fall asleep to them so same ❤

[@ivanedenromerovillarreal6959]

@@Scoutyie.the intro song is my happy placr

[@DeeElizabethFlint]

Joel could literally read a phone book and I would listen!

[@darkangelprincess101]

Story number 3 is why you should include your kids in cooking the cooking process from a young age. My oldest is 10 and she knows not to adjust the heat setting on the oven because of how it can affect the food on the inside. At that age I didn't know no one taught me

[@Phoenix-mh5eo]

That story was heartbreaking, my goodness.

[@matthewherrmann6077]

I was in a sister program to tranquility bay called Casa by the Sea in Mexico. Those WWASP places are terrible. I struggle with ptsd 20 years later.

[@kgk3393]

I was in Casa by the Sea, from 98 to 01, I'm 40 now and 28 months there wasn't easy to put it lightly. I got threatened to be sent to Jamiaca, cause I sent the first year level one with 0 points staring at a wall with my hands on my head or lying on my chin, really I don't try to explain how bad it was cause it's hard to relate unless you've been there

[@AWMC2023]

Seems like the only was it helped story ones author was by sobriety and that was a coincidence

[@BeingAMomAndBeyond]

These places are so terrible, including the ones state side, so I can’t imagine the next level horror of those in these countries. I hope at some point you can find peace with it, though it’s understandable if you don’t. Share your story as much as you can, if you ever become comfortable, so ppl will know the truth and call out these terrible places. Kids are literally dying so often in these horror camps & it’s being covered up. Maybe sharing and saving someone else could help. I’m glad you made it out. Really glad. ❤️‍🩹

[@BeingAMomAndBeyond]

@@kgk3393can’t even imagine. Like I told the OP, if you ever feel comfortable, share or story. Maybe saving someone else from the horrors of these hell camps by sharing the truth could help you heal. Either way, I’m so glad you made it out. I really am.

[@AnaMinator]

Get into the juice. How'd you end up there?🍿🍿🍿

[@adamgonzalez1997]

This channel deserves a lot more exposure.

[@Jdavismoranti]

Agreed 💯

[@crystalchitty7554]

Over a million viewers is pretty good

[@ar0010]

I’ve been saying that for 7 years!!!

[@anitatiller2345]

​@@Jdavismoranti😊

[@purplepianoist88]

Agreed

[@marysagenguyen6531]

The house sitting story was really scary. I can't believe how unhinged that person was tying rabbits feet together.

[@chrissypringle5577]

Thank you Joel for continuously making our days better with your content. ♡

[@glacial_source83]

He's a pretty amazing conversationalist also

[@gretaholmes783]

OMG! My precious younger sister is a prison nurse! After 10y what a stupid idea that is, Someone wants to implement it has it for the moment and lock the door on the med room so if an she goes in there and an INMATE goes behind her no one GUARDS HAFE NO KEY TO save her!

[@teighan6240]

I never thought a horror story narrator could have such a positive impact on so many people. You've don't a lot for me and you don't even know. Thanks for your uploads. Awesome job

[@unknownposterr]

The story with the kids grandma broke my heart

[@hatetheantichrist]

its fake

[@kardona_3]

​@@hatetheantichrist Why do you think so? Do you not believe the thousands of extremely detailed first-person accounts and photographic evidence of the Holocaust?

[@lanagroves9480]

As a woman who suffers from PTSD , I love listening to all your content . It keeps me calm ❤THAKS JOEL ❤ your voice does more for me then any of the drugs the Doctor's prescribed

[@janelmpls612]

My day completely sucked - thank you for doing these videos every M/W/F - it is MUCH appreciated

[@melissamoonchild9216]

its been a real rough week for me too. 🖤

[@sunxsetzluv]

@@melissamoonchild9216I’m so sorry both of you! I hope your guys’ days get better ❤❤❤

[@purplepianoist88]

Aw man story 3 broke my heart..that poor woman, I cant even imagine.

[@moirahill6397]

It's 3 AM in the UK, and I can't sleep, so this is my go-to channel ❤ Thank you, Joel. I so appreciate your channel ❤️ 💜 ♥️ 😊

[@new_narrative]

😂😂 this made me laugh as I started listening at the same time... except I was getting ready for work ☠️✨

[@moirahill6397]

@@new_narrative 😊

[@dredubz5825]

I do the same thing. I wake up in the night and can’t get back to sleep. My mind is too busy and if I listen to the story it gives me something to focus on so my brain calms down and I can eventually fall back to sleep. It’s great.

[@moirahill6397]

@dredubz5825 Sending late night hugs. It's so crazy that we can't sleep 😕 bless us but thankfully something helps.

[@dredubz5825]

@@moirahill6397 thank you! Hugs to you too, from Sweden 🇸🇪 good luck with some sleep!

[@BeingAMomAndBeyond]

Way more light really needs to be shed on the horror of these hell camps like tranquility bay. The stats on kids literally dying in these places, even the ones in the US, are shocking. But these deaths are being covered up and they continue operating, which is worse bc these kids not only lost their lives, but lost them in vain. They’re literally abusing and killing these kids and for what? The camps are proven ineffective. For anyone who has been at one, if you’re ever comfortable and ready to share, people are listening. We can get these places shut down if ppl just pay attention to the horror stories of the participants, but until we do, I’m grateful for every person who survived and made it out. So very grateful.

[@jennifermoyer9419]

This man could make a doorknob seem scary

[@ROCKSTAR13133]

😐

[@orls9068]

😂 true, he's very talented

[@BeingAMomAndBeyond]

I mean, they could be. I’m sure there’s a story where they are. 😂

[@troyl200]

I had a buddy go to one of those military programs in Jamaica. He's extremely incoherent and can't form consistent thoughts. He was sent because of bad grades. Lazy parenting is extremely dangerous in the long run.

[@robertmartin3588]

The first story sounds a lot like the Elan School that was in Maine

[@brittwilhoit]

Just recently found this channel and since then you have been telling me my nightly bed time stories. I make sure to hit like before I drift off. Thank you for the great work.

[@Jtopatlantic]

Awesome! Thank you! I love falling asleep to your voice. So soothing

[@duetoronomy]

Everyday i mess up something, everyday. I just remind myself every time - Im an awesome parent. I wish there were more of us😢

[@allisonfoerg4579]

I started from day one and I am only through episode 13 but I have to tell you, you are the guy to listen to! I love you, and I hope that you do well on your channel! I know you gets all the time, but your voice is extremely soothing, as well as haunting, and it is one of my favorites ever on a podcast!

[@cecewithers7460]

You might be a king or a little street sweeper but sooner or later you'll dance with reaper 😂😂

[@DeeElizabethFlint]

I’ve been sick so I’ve been binging all your old videos lately! Joel, you could read a phone book and I’d listen! Thank you for all your hard work pumping out content for us!

[@Corbellations]

It's not often I have the mood or attention span for Reddit stories, but when I do this is the only place to come to for me

[@Nordicbabe]

Best Friday ever when i see your uploads 🎉❤ thank you

[@djpempek]

Thank you Joel.

[@tonipurley6555]

This episode had some interesting & awesome stories, thank you I appreciate you 😁

[@juneforbes3471]

You're the best Joel.

[@joymetallinos2932]

I have listened to all your narrations!!! Going through them again and always waiting for the new ones to come out... Joel 👍👌💪

[@gretaholmes783]

My GOD! You are a gifted storyteller! ❤I LOVE LET’s Read!

[@darksecretsz]

A well crafted horror story is a journey to the edge of sanity. ♥

[@feistyrealist]

4:30am here in the UK, & I’m listening. Thanks for the content.

[@samsham8218]

2:11am.. This is just what the doctor ordered. THANK YOU!!!!

[@jacobbowling263]

Let's Read is Awesome.

[@ROCKSTAR13133]

Go away!

[@orls9068]

@@ROCKSTAR13133why are you so weird to people who comment positive messges 🤨

[@ROCKSTAR13133]

@@orls9068 😎

[@hollyjordan3872]

The story of Mikes mom being stabbed to death is eerily similar to what happened to my close friend Mikes mom when we was in junior high. Except for it wasn’t his sisters bf but his mothers! It was horrible my friend and his sister were devastated! That story gave me chills!

[@amemooress6291]

Actually, there's a "special school" similar to the one described in story 1 in the USA. Still active. Wish I could remember the name of it...

[@SvnLeafClvr]

Thanks Joel! 😊

[@michaeldaniel173]

I was in a program called Carolina springs academy I personally knew a couple guys who were transferred from tranquility bay Steve orozco and Bryant Sutherland and this little guy named Jesse they had horrific stories about that place I’ll reach out and see if they would allow me to tell one of the stories I was told

[@adamgonzalez9013]

Thank you for 9 years of scary stories, Let’s Read, Keep up the great work .

[@Flamsterette]

Thanks for the upload!

[@SherryJMorris]

Great stories!!!

[@DarthGreenLos]

Started listening to you recently and haven’t stopped since. Thanks for your content!

[@randomvids9507]

Always love the classic intro

[@CharlieJones-bc3gd]

Yes I agree. I like how he tells stories

[@kingsqueen2180]

Time for my nightly ritual so let's read😂

[@td7446]

That's island Bois in 10 years

[@Anonymous66623]

😂😂😂😂 that’s a good one

[@queengemini1198]

Just in time to go to sleep 🖤

[@dde1fy]

Dude who wrote the first story seems like an insufferable nightmare

[@DanielleAlt]

$20,000 for 6 months of treatment is actually really cheap. That's like a little over $100 a day.

[@johnclaybaugh9536]

I wouldn't call it treatment. I'd call it abuse.

[@meganpowers3276]

Perfect per usual

[@emo7636]

Story 1 sounded real to me until he got to the part about the cost of the rehab. He's saying a 6 month stint in an American-run behavioral rehab in Jamaica cost his parents 20K, I don't buy that. It's just way too inexpensive. Unless it was a completely inept facility with untrained workers and no M.D. on site. I was sent to a rehab facility in a mid-west city in the U.S. and the cost was 20K for one month. I always felt awful afterwards about my parents having to pay that much. Either way, 20K for months and then 15K for the next 6 months sounds extremely underpriced. But I absolutely believe there are facilities out there that are just as harsh as he described.

[@deshaefromarounthawayricha7324]

Who else is watching this before work in the morning?👨🏾‍🔧

[@AnaMinator]

I often do 😂

[@user-digitalfarmgirl]

Tranquility Bay sounds like a modern Lord of the Flies

[@kikorainbow3515]

Story 6 is so frustrating but I still thought it was funny when they said the alarm was so loud they covered their eyes 😂

[@OverDrive804]

That first story almost reminded me of a book I had to read 12 years ago for 7th grade English class, Touching Spirit Bear where the narrator gets sent off the grid.

[@carmenst.laurent5838]

What parent would do this to there child it's abuse and is disgusting and deplorable that's why the program was not in America they can get away with the abuse

[@juliannabrock3617]

The best ❤

[@jakobtudder2631]

bro the outros are always so funny 🤣🤣🤣

[@toddwest2851]

Moral of the first story. Don't burn down your parents house

[@makenzievelazquez6696]

lol that first story my goodness! He tried to kill his family and has the audacity to call his parents crazy? What a punk!

[@carolinel7027]

Love this..never stop.x

[@LakeReeder]

Story 3 with the grandma really shook me. I guess my history knowledge or memory is spotty as the place she escaped didn't ring any bells for me, maybe I tuned out the unfamiliar word. Though, I was gripped, and already horrified by the statement of "smell of burning bodies" giving that woman a ptsd flashback from ww2, but I didn't consider who she was within the war. Maybe it's how privlige lives on after wars end. Regardless, I just thought, christ, war is hellish. But then op said "I didn't even know I was jewish" and it finally connected the dots in a horrible moment of realization. War is a nightmare.

[@yduronerom6380]

Thanks for the stories bro.

[@Bowser14456]

That first story game me my own flashbacks 😰

[@jameslookstwice]

Cool

[@LordFarKwadth]

6:47 the way she started the story it was so condescending I really felt hard to feel bad for her

[@Emalo28]

Its so weird hearing some of these after being on the livestream for them lol

[@nucleartoaster01]

Calling your parents crazy after you tried to burn your house down is wild But holy crap did that person go through hell

[@user-digitalfarmgirl]

Grandma goes back to the womb when dinner is burnt

[@angelofdarkness6028]

Thanks Joel ❤

[@ill_intention]

Thanks Joel

[@redadmiral5623]

In regards to the tent story, that sounds like a bunch of raccoons partying it up in their tent.

[@astardustparade]

The first story sounds like that school Paris Hilton’s parents sent her to.

[@anwynrath2993]

i love your intro so much

[@LSSJTHOR]

Everytime I went to jail I DIDN'T get my meds. Heart,seizure,anxiety,depression, blood pressure, NONE OF MY MEDS!!!

[@user-digitalfarmgirl]

Famous last words: Honey, we really hate to do this to you , but it's for your own good.

[@darkangelprincess101]

I spent most of my childhood at my two best house and I still could not give you the address for it. When you don't write down the address of a house regularly it's easy to forget it. In fact it took me months to properly remember my address after i moved. I know how to get here, so clearly I'm not going to keep the number stuck in my head unless I need to write it down.

[@johnclaybaugh9536]

Absolutely. Much of the time we remember the street name and then just remember it's the house on the corner, or the one with a garage, or the yellow one, or whatever. And sometimes we don't even remember the street name. We turn on the road before or after a particular business or the first road after a certain curve.

[@Mariethechaotic]

Story 5...I'm still stuck on *a cop* messaged this girl on *Facebook* to tell her she was on Ashley Madison??? Is this normal? I guess if they only had the social media and no way to get a hold of her by traditional means... Still, a cop messaging on Facebook seems so weird, I definitely thought it was going to be the creepy effer again

[@DreadArkive]

My eyes picked up the sound of at least 3 knuckle cracks.

[@Shar1022]

What’s @ 53:09??

[@Luisa-qf2io]

Oh dear gramma, what do you think that meat you're cooking went through before ending up in your oven 😵‍💫😬

[@ashleybrown1666]

Whooooopppppp❤

[@ROCKSTAR13133]

This channel is fucking lit🔥

[@roberthollingsworth1011]

Smackledwarf

[@rmcar549]

I don't know it's creepier being stalked at 13 by a classmate or dating a girl that can pass as your twin That's really creepy.

[@SABRMatt2010]

The particle effect on top of the image used in the video reminds me of the Upside Down (stranger things)

[@Shar1022]

What “particle” effect”? I don’t understand…..🤔

[@maxsportsman2416]

Any Tranquil Bay survivors here?

[@matthewherrmann6077]

Casa by the Sea here

[@kgk3393]

Casa by the sea

[@ellesandralady8596]

❤❤❤

[@p1nkishninja]

In regards to last story, pretending to like somebody to be "nice " is far more cruel than just outright rejecting someone im the first place. Kind of a cowardly thing to do. Not excusing stalker behavior, just saying be honest with people

[@TheDutchDutchess373]

❤❤❤❤

[@MissDesiree]

❤

[@Cherryberry.kaydee]

😊

[@diabolicalbaby]

i love you joel you’re so cool 🫶🏼

[@marinavue5293]

Story 1 😮 Netflix series "The Program" So fucked up.

[@RockerRed]

Hiya from 2024! Love you KZbinJoel! ❤ 👍🤘Thank you! Thank you! 💚🦋💚

[@chellefromhell]

Neckbeards 4ever 💕

[@joninature]

🙌🐸😎

[@eugenia.a]

Story number 4 : delulu