US Marines witness PARANORMAL event in Afghanistan | Observation Post Rock

[@lisalalonde7051]

Wow..... These are not just awesome stories, they are immersive experiences. Though I would NEVER claim to fully understand what our brave Men and Women experience while on tour overseas, I was just given a small taste through watching this. The Backgrounds and sound effects made me forget Where I was for the duration of this video. Amazing Job MrBallen! Your hard work shows for sure.

[@MrBallen]

this made my day... Wes and I work very hard on these videos, its wonderful to get this feedback!

[@chadwilson2091]

MrBallen your the man

[@lisalalonde7051]

Massive Props to Wes Too! Best video I have seen on KZbin in years. No Joke. Keep doing what your doing 👍🙏🏻

[@FishesAndLoaves997]

I agree! Thank you MrBallen!

[@mikeburch2998]

@@lisalalonde7051 I agree, he tells a very good story.

[@sirparksalot2461]

You said "Helmand", and I got chills. Then you said OP Rock in Helmand, and I freaked out a little. I started my Marine deployment in Oct 2009 and spent 2 weeks on OP Rock where me and a small group existed in a cycle of eat, sleep, and pull 8 hour watch. Our sleeping area was dug into the top of this hill, and there was something off. Everyone talked about how messed up their dreams were, and the guy who'd been there for almost a month, who had seen many groups come a go, said the crazy dreams happened to everyone who stayed there. By the time I was there, OP Rock was fortified with sand bags, hesco barriers, and razor wire. The first human remains I saw was a large femur bone laying in the sun just outside the wire. Eventually those of us who were new on OP Rock asked what the hell was up with the place, and we were told a story of British soldiers starting an OP on a grave-site, and you covered the rest, and more. I was a part of the group who demilitarized OP Rock. We cut open all of the sandbags, and took down the wire, and burned everything we could do away with. I found skull caps, jaw bones, and other small fragments inside the hundreds of sandbags I cut open over the course of two days. Unfortunately, some human remains ended up in the fire. Ugly Betty actually was with us the last night we were on OP Rock with her latest litter of pups. Other people had it worse than I did with weird experiences, which I attributed to my strong Christian faith, but in the end, the weird stuff just happened for me later. I saw two people walk down a the road by a place we called the Taliban School, and stop by a power pole where they started digging. I alerted my Sgt. who looked through his binoculars. He asked me where they were, and as I pointed to them, they weren't there. My friends and I heard children laughing in empty rooms, saw glass break with nothing around to break it, had flashlights turn on and off. I began having horrifying bouts of sleep paralysis while finishing that deployment. Sorry to write a book, but its not every day someone covers something so obscure and familiar. Thanks for the good content.

[@crystalparker2542]

Thank you for your service!

[@abhayn9615]

Respect for your service man. I wish this comment was pinned.

[@hemanths2230]

Hey what kind of wierd dreams were they if you dont mind me asking?

[@jamiloy7769]

That was a great story.. I'm supposed that Mr. Ballen hasn't replied to you

[@sirparksalot2461]

@@hemanths2230 One I remember well, because the guy wouldn't shut up about it, was a shapeshifting dream: where he transformed between human and wolf-man form while going on an ultra-vivid killing spree. Some had dreams more along the lines of "Trippy", while others were disturbing. All were extremely lucid. I was with 2/2 battalion, who replaced 2/8. It's crazy to think we just missed all of this by a few months.

[@deanna_lynn02]

When I was deployed to the Middle East I was tapped/shoved on the shoulder once. I looked around but I was in the middle of the desert. No one around me. Right after I heard in my head "delay your convoy." I was only able to delay for a few minutes but my convey missed getting hit by a scud missle by a few minutes later down the road. I personally believe it was my guardian angel helping us out.

[@multimossad]

Thats for sure.

[@soookimbo6571]

Yeah I believe it too.

[@geraldflinchum3729]

People often make light of these type incidents, when I was in South Vietnam in 1972, our entire battalion deployed to Hoa Cam ARVN training center outside Da Nang for field firing and zero all weapons. It was a hot clear sunny day and three of us walked out of the range area with our weapons and gear, can't remember why. We're walking down a dirt road, I'm in the center flanked by two other soldiers, we're talking and moving slow because of the heat. Suddenly in my mind are the words STOP!!!! So I come to a sudden halt putting my arms up to stop the two others. In the dirt at our feet is a line of bullets hitting the dirt. We run back to range area and discover we're taking incoming machine gun fire from the ARVN troops firing in another area. Inner voice? Well maybe.

[@kathrynjeanmarie6997]

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[@cqccqc1728]

✨Yes...I Absolutely Agree w/You & That's Beautiful That You're "MAN·ENOUH" To Admit It👍💯 😉✌💜

[@JasonLihani]

List of things I never want to encounter: 3. Things that frighten US Marines 2. Things that spook Navy SEALs 1. Things that scare both at the same time.

[@KimberlyBarkdoll]

Amen.

[@mrbamfo5000]

I scared marines. Damn jarheads

[@Here4TheTEA40]

Hahaha 🤣

[@regdarnerough5075]

Damn sure of that! Let there be no doubt!

[@wheatstate3727]

I saw some spooked Marines in Fallujah in 2004. Definitely a sight you never forget

[@aoifeprice912]

I'm ex British Army and served in Afghanistan. There was a night when we saw bobbing lights and heard a noise like a woman wailing close by in the desert but saw no heat signatures

[@Stress_._Free]

Oh hell no that’s the llorona bro the weeping woman

[@aoifeprice912]

@@Stress_._Free Maybe. I mean it could have been some very effective Psy ops but I can't see how.

[@Iorvethfox]

Possibly psychological warfare. US used the same tactic against the Vietnamese.

[@crunchwrapsupreme9372]

@@Stress_._FreeThere’s animals that make sounds like that.

[@jesuscastanon7844]

@@crunchwrapsupreme9372he just said they didn’t see any heat signatures

[@jonjonr6]

Moral of the story: If someone tells you, "if you dig up anything, put it back"... you don't dig at all.

[@johnnymoore7206]

yea ,American ,British, soldiers, are they not ,so if one says trust me ,in the middle of nowhere, you take that as gospel surely lena should have clocked what he ment ,perhaps the british guy should have elaborated what he ment ,Russians ,voices ,bmp,s stuck out in mud ,you would have thought f**k this

[@johnnymoore7206]

and J C,should the moral of the story be ...old soldiers of any 'side' never die ,just need someone to gather them up ,to help them,to take them home

[@jb-if7sg]

@@johnnymoore7206 idk man id i was the solider id just wanna get the fuck outta there

[@thuggins2086]

The first thing I'm doing is getting the stupid fuck to explain what they're talking about. It's stupid people want to play the guessing game; especially in such a position that is supposed to be all about having as much information as possible.

[@leinadddd4875]

Haha.. Lmao

[@DevildogTV]

I was one of the Marines on OP Rock, my name is Adam Wilson, I was with 2/8 in 2009, and on the TV Show Paranormal Witness!!! This is cool people are still talking about this.

[@paulesterline5714]

Gentlemen there are many things in this world that we do not understand. Things that we can not explain in our modern 21st century brains we think we understand it all. We do not! It doesn't make you crazy, it doesn't make you foolish or stupid (even if others treat you like you are)just keep in mind you went and did a job in a part of the world that is older (culturely) then most. You did a job most of us would not, or could not do. You put yourselves in a position of Vulnerability. For that all of us owe you a debt of gratitude. Just like walking through the sand what happens someplace often has a "mark" left behind. You would not thinking twice about a footprint in the sand even if it turned out to be 1000"s of years old. Because we understand that. You walk across the sand you leave a footprint. And as long as it is not disturbed in any way it will be there forever. The same thing can happen with virtually anything. A small foot print won't last long, but dig a deep enough hole in the sand and it will last much longer. You were places that saw HUGE holes being created. It is no less amazing that you experienced the effects of that "hole", then if you had fallen into one literally dug into the ground. The thing I find amazing is not so much that you did experience something, but that others did not! Ok sorry I really did not intend to get so deep into the metaphysical. I just wanted to say thank you, and let you know, that I for one do not find our lack of 100% understanding of how our world works, that bizarre. So please don't feel "crazy".

[@msstarlight4770]

I can't get over the British soldier saying 'If you dig anything up here, just put it back'. It sounds really ominous, to me; but I'm wondering if that's due to my knowing something unexplainable was about to happen. Also, I'm very happy to know you made it back home to the US. ☺☺☺

[@msstarlight4770]

@@richardhartman6316 Oh yeah, that's a definite possibility, absolutely. I realise, now, that my comment made me sound extremely judgemental. I'm honestly not that type of person, so I'm going to edit my comment.

[@DevildogTV]

@@msstarlight4770 The British told us about what happened the first night. It was cool because we actually gathered around a camp fire, and they told us the story. They thought we were crazy because we were going further south then any US or UK forces have went in Helmand Province, so yeah OP Rock and my first deployment was nuts. I actually plan to write a book on it.

[@tobiashaak3143]

Devildog_TV I’d love to pre-order this book if you do end up writing it! 🙏🙏

[@zevongrie1402]

Who needs Netflix? I could binge on these stories for days!

[@cathleenc6943]

I have been, lol.

[@heatherdontcare]

I do binge on his stories 😆

[@rikers263]

Been binging for two weeks

[@thewannabegoat7798]

Agreed. I catch myself watching 3 videos or so in a row. Nothing gets me watching as much as he does. Catches my attention like nothing else!

[@charlessawyer836]

Just binge these here

[@gilbertlopez183]

I heard my grandmother whisper in my ear in spanish " you are going to be ok" one night while I was deployed. She died back in 1990, I was deployed 2003.

[@treroney4720]

That’s beautiful

[@spam1028]

How many children did you kill there btw?

[@therealbluetophat]

​@@spam1028me when i stereotype nornal soldiers as all war criminals

[@spam1028]

@@therealbluetophat lmao normal soldiers

[@therealbluetophat]

@@spam1028 oh sorry I guess every Joe sent to Iraq probably against their wishes were all war criminals hungry for oil or some shit

[@daytime2150]

I have a close friend who was in the Army and he told me a story about his first paranormal encounter while in Afghanistan.(I'll call him A and I'll call his friend B) He became really close with one of his fellow soldiers, they were always together, they made each other laugh and had similar interest. B was send on an escort mission, they would return the following morning. While A was asleep that night, he said he felt someone's hand gently shake him awake, he thought it was one of the other soldiers in the same camp. He remembers turning around and seeing the silhouette of a soldier in full gear, so he panicked like "oh shit what is happening?!" and then he turned around to frantically put his glasses on and we turn back around the person was gone. He was so confused and didn't know what to make of it so he tried to go back to sleep, so he wouldn't wake the other up, but he was restless the whole night. The next morning he found out B's team was ambushed and he had passed away in combat in the middle of the night. A said when he heard that he realized the person who gently shook him awake, was his friend who might have come to say his final goodbye.

[@ironmike755]

My grandfather told me a similar story!

[@provolone2617]

That’s insane man

[@Horrorandmore68]

Brought me to tears

[@jadall77]

sounds a lot like the ghost in the helicopter story i heard.

[@wms72]

​@@provolone2617 No, it's real. Heartrending. His friend was asking for prayers. That's why we should cultivate the habit of prayer to the One True God. He's a jealous God, and we are in spiritual warfare. We are not material beings who may have spiritual experiences. We are spiritual beings who are having a temporary material experience.

[@brendaschultz7161]

My uncle did 3 tours in Vietnam. He told us a story that his platoon was walking single file thru the jungle and he heard his youngest daughter call out to him. He shrugged it off as of course she couldn't be there and kept moving. She called out to him again, sounding more forceful, from behind some bushes. He left the line to check it out. Shortly after the soldier that was in front of him stepped on a landmine. A guardian angel in the form of my cousin saved his life that day.

[@angiedixon8017]

🙌🏻🙏🏻❤️

[@desperadox7565]

War psychosis.

[@NathanielMarkarian]

R I P the other guy

[@kysmf4985]

@ObiShinobi 😂😂😂😂

[@MARKIEBANUNCE]

I believe it

[@RobbieSkyeHamilton]

Mr. Ballen’s military training allows him to calmly tell a story for twenty minutes despite a raging sandstorm approaching in the background.

[@evelynzlon9492]

It's curious that the best-funded armed forces in the world by far has such primitive, dated communications equipment. Literally, talk is cheap in the US military. It really is byo fascinating conversation, which probably influenced Ballen's down-home yet lucrative storytelling style. Bravo.

[@Kostadin_Arolski]

@@evelynzlon9492 ok

[@elisarosenberger7288]

😆

[@thedarkerarchery3553]

🤣

[@greenman360]

@@evelynzlon9492 Like Ballen said, it's old but it's reliable. I'll take reliable over flashy any day, especially when the purpose is to communicate incredibly important, life and death things.

[@schfiftyfive9680]

I was up at night in the barracks pulling CQ duty at fort drum. It was early in the morning about 3 am. My sergeant had went to his room to take a small nap so I was there alone. I was exhausted and sort of dozing off when I heard someone sprinting down the hallway towards me. I immediately perked up to see nothing, but as the footsteps went by, I could feel the wind from the person running by. As this invisible person ran past me and into the barracks entry, the propped doors slammed shut. I went to the entrance and looked outside to see if I could identify this person, but there was nothing. I told my sergeant when he got back and he just said, "oh, you met Sgt Duncan". Sgt Duncan was killed shortly before I arrived to the unit.

[@tsc.consultinginc.mr.4898]

woah

[@InnocentSorrowRin]

Wow yeah if that was the reaction of your Sergeant then that definitely happened more then once and they got used to it

[@ebonaparte3853]

@@tsc.consultinginc.mr.4898Where did you get that emoji from?

[@churrle8528]

What’s a small nap? Like napping on a 3 foot cot? 🤔

[@schfiftyfive9680]

@@churrle8528 he lived in the barracks. We used to give each other breaks so no one had to go the entire 24 hours without sleeping.

[@308momo]

Always trust a dog. They can sense and see things humans can’t. Cats are the same. Paranormal for sure.

[@308momo]

Don’t smoke crack hater

[@thomasmorris4449]

@Kazam K I'm willing to bet dogs don't like you much

[@kyriereece361]

Kazam K What reason do you have to be such a dick about someone’s personal thoughts they’re sharing? If you disagree you disagree leave it at that

[@WTF_BBQ]

That moment when you see your dog growling at the corner of the room for no reason........... good luck.

[@anvilbrunner.2013]

Yup. You can always trust in dog.

[@davemiller6155]

So...I click on this channel and 5 hours later I am still binge watching.

[@Sassy-pants68]

I found him over the weekend, and I can’t wait to get home from work so I can watch more and more and more

[@judybash9393]

✋

[@goshawk4340]

Ive been binging his channel for the past week.

[@mcd949sm]

Haven’t been able to stop for two weeks, I think I have a problem!

[@kingkilo2314]

i started watching his videos at 8pm, its currently 3am, i know what youre feeling

[@RoseVeteran]

As a vet, Thank You. These videos may be paranormal but they educate EVERYONE in America and around the world. I heard of this story while I was there in '09 for 'Task Force Phoenix'. Many of us heard the radio transmissions. Your facts are dead on as if you were there brother. Great Job!!! Salutes!

[@capital_beaz4725]

*'X' For Doubt*

[@thatmtgnerd]

@@capital_beaz4725 why?

[@KP_Gem]

He was there.. lol

[@KP_Gem]

@@capital_beaz4725 what?

[@TheBeardedAtheist]

We’re you part of the 48th Infantry Brigade Combat Team Georgia National Guard?

[@aliaman2735]

My parents used to live in a village far from everything in Afghanistan, my dad used to tell me his donkey would refuse to keep walking in certain pathways in the mountain because he could smell death ( ghost ). My mom used to tell me how some ghost would come and wake the cows in the night. My dad told me werewolf and witches ( woman who kills childrens at night ) was a thing. The scariest part he said was dont worry about werewolf, worry about humans, because theyre more unpredictable.

[@SavingSoulsMinistries]

When I was in the new age. My cats would stare at the top corner of the wall fixated on something i couldn't see.. Their heads would both move to the other corner in cadence. I will never forget the few times they did that. Also I would walk my dog at 2-3 am some nights, he would refuse to walk down a road we walked down all the time during the day. Like he would drag me in the other direction. One night insane a full blown shadow person running down that road. I locked eyes on him fora solid 3 seconds. Oddly enough I wasn't even surprised or startled. I kind of just shrugged and kept listening to my iPod as if nothing happened

[@skimask5911]

Bro I hear similar stories from my dad and he's from Mexico.

[@theramblingmoore-on]

@@skimask5911 It's everywhere in Latin America, and it can be disturbing af when you first think the stories you're hearing are just campfire tales for fun, only to then experience the same things yourself. I've lived in Ecuador 7 years now and during COVID there was no one using the little sport stadium/public assembly building across the street from my neighbors who had just welcomed a newborn to their family. Yet suddenly, there were sounds like children yelling and playing at weird hours in the night in the stadium; a few times I went to check with my dogs because emergency services never responded where we lived, even if there were fires, yet there was absolutely no one inside and everything was locked. Weirder still, the sounds didn't stop, but seemed to somehow be on the roof of the complex, which itself would be impossible since it's one of those steeply-arched tin roofs you'd expect on a WW2 aircraft hangar. Maybe you can move around on top of it with tools and construction equipment like safety harnesses, but zero chance there could be a dozen kids running around kicking a ball. When I talked to my neighbors about it who lived across the street from the complex, it turned out they were terrified because everything had started the first night they brought their newborn home, and they had heard footsteps and the same laughter and yelling on their own roof ever since. Shortly after, they told me that one night the grandmother had a horrible suspicion someone was trying to break into the house, checked every possible entryway into the house, and when she drew back the curtains covering the window of the baby's room, she screamed and woke everyone up because she saw the twisted, gnarled face of an old hag. Until then, they had been waiting to get the baby baptized until the restrictions were lifted and family from other provinces could make the trip, but after that experience they rushed to get the baby baptized ASAP...at which point everything stopped. I never heard any sounds coming from that complex again until it was officially reopened. Down here, the belief is that witches are rare but real, and they seek out newborn unbaptized children to steal before raising them to a certain age where they will then be used as a ritual sacrifice and then consumed cannibalistically; supposedly, that is what allows them to continue living past natural limits and basically makes those consumed souls permanently their thralls. So according to those beliefs, all of those weird sounds of children playing and running around and shouting in the middle of the night? Those were the witch's previous victims who for eternity are now bound to her and used like lure for new victims, much in the way an angler fish would do. I'm not making any concrete claims here one way or the other; all I can speak for is how weird it was and the timeline of everything. But my opinion on what is the scariest part of all of this? It doesn't matter if any of it is real, or if I believe it, or if you believe it...the scariest part is that there ARE people who believe that it's real and act as such, meaning there are people truly stealing babies and raising them for ritual sacrifice. Evil is evil, and it exists; whether or not the magic part is real doesn't change the fact that people truly suffer as a result.

[@urgaaanZ]

@@theramblingmoore-onthis dropped the temperature in my room by like 30 degrees

[@MrT8T3R]

Of all the animals on the earth, only a human will go for your your throat when he’s not hungry.

[@itchitrigger1]

Let's take a moment to appreciate that he continued to tell the story with the apocalypse happening behind him.

[@ForeverBlessed777]

You mean sand storm?

[@graemedaley8060]

@@ForeverBlessed777 sand storm from hell, it's a scene from mad max

[@User2024-dw6jv]

See the book of Enoch. Nephilim who after death become demons, the origin of genetic evil. Which the Adamic race intermixed with. If we were made in the image of Christ with no ado, why would we need to be born again of spirit. Strongs Concordance, precise linguist transl.hebrew and greek says that what took place in Eden was in fact Eve's adultery. The very word woman - H802 root comes from 'adulteress'. Genetic mixing is what enabled the Adamic race for evil. And the seed of the serpent - eg.Cain - Genesis 3.15 and 6.4, still rules the world. Through bloodlines like Davos Rschilds.

[@Dapryor]

😂😂

[@G4MMABA3]

It’s a sandstorm lol but apocalyptic nonetheless lol

[@taasch2505]

Being a 31 year old man can I just say I have mad respect for the young teens and twenty somethings that served overseas? Like serious MAD RESPECT! Thank you for your service!

[@Salim_shahidy]

As being a 19 year old (soon to be 20 in may 24) i had mad respect for the other dude at my age

[@guts_and_frognuts]

the only thing i can respect here is how the guys are able to endure the extreme stress. but other than that, this service is nothing more than mercenery dirty work for big money and firing expensive weaponry at cheap lives. also strategic landgrab for future offensive wars.

[@annieseaside]

Thank God to all who made it home also!!!

[@facethestrange15yearsago81]

Farts on toast

[@kimberlyingram8985]

You can still join. Cutoff is 36.

[@deborahloyd8972]

Mr. Ballen has a way of pulling his listeners into whatever story he is telling and it’s just like your there. This story had me in its grip and I almost had an anxiety attack. This is the best , I have never been so captivated.

[@Ericrr79]

Yep you really get to use your imagination

[@jenniferstewart9012]

IKR??

[@911_terrorist]

At first I thought your pfp was colored honeycomb

[@deborahloyd8972]

Three colors of hydrangeas

[@deborahloyd8972]

@@911_terrorist I didn’t see your name before .

[@howardwrentworth3359]

I was in the Air Force. We discussed the paranormal quit often. Several of us thought our hangar was haunted, in a sense. Not evil haunted. Our hanger was used to sort bodies after a bad plane crash. Several times I was in the hanger by myself and heard and saw things that would give me goosebumps. We thought restless souls.

[@thomgizziz]

Overactive imagination...

[@howardwrentworth3359]

@@thomgizziz I don't think so. I've experienced paranormal stuff all my life. Seen unexplainable things. I don't care if people believe it or not. As far as the hangar thing, it was numerous enlisted and officers that talked about the weird happenings. Credible people of sound mind.

[@kamikazi5144]

@@howardwrentworth3359 What exactly did you hear or see if you don't mind me asking? I believe you btw

[@carolphillips1593]

I believe you. I work at a military treatment facility that used to be a hospital. Several years ago a few of us were at work after hours (the MANY rumors were that housekeepers could hear babies cry and such, in the evenings, and other sounds/sights) trying to help a patient. As we stood in the nurses' office, one of our housekeepers stood in the doorway between the office and hallway, where clinic patient rooms were. A male figure in a black trenchcoat and a Fedora hat (this is AZ. No one wears a trenchcoat and Fedora. I didn't think about that at the time) walked past the HK, down the hall. I said "R____"! " Stop that guy!" "R" looked down the hall and said, "'C', No one is there." I replied, "Yes! A man just walked past you, down the hall!" "Nope, no one there." I insisted. Then, one of my co-workers said, "Ah! You saw a ghost!". Kidding, I assume. I replied, "I know what I saw. A man walked past "R", down that way." No other explanation than a ghost.

[@eveningstar1]

@@thomgizziz why do people do this?! You werent there. Why is it so impossible to believe that death isn’t the final end? Are you too scared to believe in things you can’t see?

[@dudleyrector8406]

I overcome my fear of ghosts a good while back. Now I find out they’re armed.

[@tonsinawells286]

OMG, you win the internet!

[@Prince_Afghan22]

🚨🚨Afghanistan is the most haunted place in earth❗❗ it is called the Graveyard of Empires ❗❗... it is also not s coincidence how so many Hollywood Horror War movies are based about events in Afghanistan... cuz the horrors and atrocities that gave taken place there in past centuries... was discovered by anyone who got deployed there... The greatest OP Rock crime occured when dozens of Afghan Communist Government soldiers were massacred there by the Mujahideen after they surrendered... Their bodies were buried right under there. 💀💀

[@Jeff_11B]

So would they be using the controversial "ghost guns" I heard about?

[@calebkrahn6110]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@thesilverlining8361]

😂😂😂

[@StubbornBullet]

So the biggest badass that ever stayed at OP Rock was a dog

[@MustangWriter]

😂👍

[@vicaravitakka8332]

I hope Ugly Betty went to a good home after these guys left.

[@jasta777]

Was the dog really there

[@StubbornBullet]

@@jasta777 cue the X-files theme

[@AW-sg9wd]

@@jasta777 I actually saw a segment on OP Rock a few years ago on Discovery or Sci-fi channel on some paranormal show about haunted military and battle sites that had personal photos from the Marines and the Brits. In both the American and British photos they had photos where you could see a mangy mutt that was supposed to be Ugly Betty. My guess it was probably a Sheppard mixed with an aghan Hienze 57 mutt. So I would not doubt it is legit about the dog. But it would definitely not shock me that they have some very active haunted battle sites around the world that troops have been stationed at. But have a ton of paranormal energy given all of the trauma and death those areas have endoured. Not to mention all the blood spilled onto and into the soil and dirt. I certainly don't doubt that troops have experienced some very strange and creepy places while in service in the various combat zones around the world.

[@nickrandles1102]

Never went to Afghanistan, but I did a deployment to the Middle East on the USS Dwight D Eisenhower. Second oldest ship in the Navy, tons of suicides on it, combat scenarios, etc. This thing had some history and at night time, all kinds of weird stuff would happen. One particular time I was sitting in a room towards the aft of the ship and I was watching a movie on my phone. It was about 4 in the morning. There was a hatchway that was open in front of me, the only door in or out. So I’m watching the movie and all of a sudden I feel like someone is looking at me in the doorway. So I looked up and standing in the doorway was a HUGE silhouette of something staring right at me. It had to be close to 7 or 8 feet tall, it looked like one of the ringwraiths on LOTR. I’m just frozen. By the time I could process exactly what I was looking at, the thing floated to the right of the doorway behind the wall. I jump up, run to the doorway and look both ways down the P-way of the ship. See nothing. So of course, I nope out of there and ran to my work center and there was some people up working at night that I knew, including my chief, who was one of the most practical, solid men I’ve still ever known to this day. He can see I’m visibly freaked, so he says, “What’s going on, Randles?” So I reluctantly tell him what I saw, just waiting for the barrage of heckling from him and the guys. Instead my chief gets this knowing smile and says “Ohhhh, you met Little Man!” I said wtf is a little man? He says, “Little man is a big black shadow that walks around the boat at night. I done met him a few times.” And just continues working. The other sailors are just standing there looking really freaked out because if chief vouched, then something is up.” Needless to say I never went back in that room again, day or night. Love your channel dude! New subscriber. Thank you for your service.

[@motorbreathjz]

yeah ive seen a shadow figure like that to 1 time "one i saw was like shape of the pokemon haunter" in my room as i went to lay down to go to bed... scare the soul right out of ya is what it feels like.. demonic shit.. it sounds so cartoonish picturing this type of shit in your mind if your someone that dont believe in it.. but its a very spooky wicked rated R deathly feeling

[@LKH9Channel]

This shit is scary at midnight...but no more scarier than an evil human with a physical body...

[@LKH9Channel]

@@motorbreathjz so the Pokemon Haunter is based on real things...

[@motorbreathjz]

@@LKH9Channel ​ i wouldnt bet on it but i wouldnt be suprised if its likeness was influenced...not very important none the less. but what i saw is alarming.. ive also seen a angel on a hill at a park in the early morning hours later on after seeing that demonic entity..

[@Shavonbest4u]

@nick randles thank you for your service and telling us your experience.

[@whatintheworld6413]

Well there's a story from a veteran Russian soldier who serve in Afghanistan. He said that when he was posted there there were paranormal activity in desert such as hearing charging horses rumbling sound and people shouted war cry, but when they check it there's no one but themselves staring at empty desert field. Another that terrified them was hearing people hauling in agony and screaming in the middle of the night to dawn but there's no people there's no fighting, only dessert sand and rocky mountain wind echoing. They even see like middle age soldier wearing armor and sword walking through the tent or watching them from afar.

[@BobbiKay-]

I heard a story from it was either a Russian soldier or another country who came in after Sadam Hussein had killed his own citizens with chemical weapons. They could hear the screams & cries but no one was in the village.

[@tiffanyhoeppner3707]

That region of the world holds so much history, thousands of years all types of people have been through there. Lots of deaths, brutal deaths.. doesn't surprise me that it has some sort of energy.

[@Victor-xv7jh]

Ive seen some *craaaazy* shit here in the states... Like "I have no mouth and I must scream" crazy... I believe even the bible references "evidence of things unseen"... I once met a mormon girl who told me once that every religion has a puzzle piece of the same picture implying when you put them together you get the whole picture... I didnt think of it then but i recently came across some other spiritual references and it shook me to my core. My advice, do not "look" (for any reason) for anything into the unknown... Whats the unknown? Youll know if you're looking. Do. Not. Look. There. No one can look there... 🥲🖤

[@Anonymous-by5jp]

A lot has happened in that region over the centuries I believe even Alexander the great was there at one point

[@brittanymorris898]

I really wouldn't want to bump into anything that would scare a Russian, or a marine. Not much gets them.

[@caseymarion7273]

Afghanistan is an ancient place with ancient secrets that has seen bloodshed of all kinds since time immemorial. Awesome story

[@annecollins1470]

Especially when the bloodshed is the result of unimaginable cruel & murderous deeds of wicked men possessed by dark spirits of evil. In the midull eest they're called the Jinn.

[@caseymarion7273]

@@annecollins1470 I’ve heard some about the Jinn. I’m pleasantly surprised to hear about them I’m reference to a comment! I have a feeling they, these Jinn, influence the opium fields, and help to make heroin such a terrible and troubling thing for those unfortunate to experience it.

[@annecollins1470]

@@caseymarion7273 Yep & they can't be fought in the earthly realm with earthly weapons. They are dark spirits of hellish nature that must be fought in the heavenlies by God's Angel Army supported by our diligent prayers. Our troops need faithful, constant prayer covering.

[@pedrouruenalopesmoraes2933]

@@annecollins1470 the Jinn are not evil by nature

[@sule2318]

As a Muslim I’ll educate y’all about the Jinn. They are a another being with free will to sin and do good unlike angels that god tells us do not have free will and thus can not fault or sin or make a mistake or go against gods command by nature. They are made from a smokeless fire whereas we are made from earth and are hollow ie jinn can pass through our bodies and possess you. Satan is a jinn. The evil jinn his army are called the shayateen although this can also be used for a corrupt evil people too. They can travel at speed unknown to man and have strength beyond ours, however all communication with them is forbidden and attempting to gain magic- which is just a contract for the assistance of the jinn, at the price of your soul and afterlife. It is at the very least, beyond disbelief in God what these black magicians do to gain “magic”. I advise you research into black magic, jinn, satan and Adam as story in Islam from thr Quran. Gods unchanged word from his final prophet.

[@fallnostalgia2904]

I spent 2 deployments in Helmand province as a marine corps infantryman. Not only myself, but almost every dude from my platoon experienced hauntingly creepy shit at night at our outpost that was built alongside an old Afghan prison. Even the Taliban we detained and kept there would freak out and even cry because they said it was haunted. They were war fighters afraid of ghosts. At first I didn’t take it seriously. Until events started happening that I still can’t explain today. The things that happened were experienced by all of us not just myself. At first I chalked it up to lack of sleep and malnourishment. But then things began getting worse and more frequent to the point where I would see people walking up to our cop and when I would use my thermal vision there was nobody there. I heard people walking on my post and I would run out with my rifle thinking it was Taliban and nobody would be there. Then there was a ghost we all would see so frequently we would joke about it (as if we weren’t actually scared shitless). There was something sinister there.

[@fjalling]

Thank you for the share. I have learned that the old tribes that Yahua kept instructing the Hebrews to annihilate were nefilim, as in, not all human, and were abominations. Because of this, when they die, their spirits stay stuck in "our realm" and are ghosts. They are tricky and powerful and are here to steal, kill and destroy us pesky humans. I have been wondering just how active they are in the middle east, where so many have been killed, cause they just enslave and eat and worse to us, so I am very grateful for shares from people that have been there.

[@Bizones16]

Read my posting for SirParksALot.

[@Ywonova]

@@Bizones16 how?

[@snake6700]

bulllllshit. pics or it didn't happen

[@oorahjoe]

Semper Fi brother kzbin.info/www/bejne/hnqooGapg6iWqKc

[@Dapryor]

The humility you appear to have while being a former SEAL and a current KZbin celebrity is telling. Keep it up!

[@colinstewart1432]

Former SEALs are so chilled because they know 5 different ways to kill you using nothing more than a well-aimed fart.

[@mrconfusion87]

​​@@colinstewart1432 Some SEALs are known to be chest thumpers though! Ballen strikes me more as being the Audie Murphy/Leo Major kind of warrior - understated and humble, and would downplay any epic shit he's done in combat! 😎💪🍻

[@colinstewart1432]

@@mrconfusion87 Yes he seems very like that. 👍

[@Bumpsy58]

Having been involved in firefights in combat zones, weird and unexplainable things have happened. After 26 years in the Army and now retired for two decades, I, and others on the spot, can not explain a number of incidents. I summarized these experiences by simply concluding no matter how weird, the greatest evil still remains with how humans can poorly treat other humans.

[@wjveryzer7985]

hey cj, just want to say thanks for doing what you do!

[@queenb5189]

And animals by that fact.☹

[@beebeautieful]

Agreed

[@Shinebrightwithstar]

Thank you for your service 🫡🇺🇸 If you don’t mind sharing your stories I would love to hear them and maybe share (if it’s ok with you) 😊

[@areyoujelton]

Well that’s why you were a disposable killing machine and not a scientist. You aren’t cut out for answering “how” things happen, you just do what you’re told.

[@johnbowen3523]

Afghanistan is known as “ The graveyard of empires “ for a reason. Countless wars have been fought there over the centuries, an unending cycle of death that has stained the land with blood.

[@RecklessGenesis]

@Stuart H not only religion. what about greed , hate , stupidity ? ....

[@EEsmalls]

That's a pretty epic name. Not in a good way, but still poetic I think.

[@yasserbaulacky4721]

@Stuart H did God send American soldiers there?

[@daerdevvyl4314]

Most of those wars had nothing to do with religion. And keep in mind that the Russian Communists who invaded were following leaders who were atheists.

[@concentratecorner1744]

@@yasserbaulacky4721 god is spelled OIL. Just a joke. I support our troops fully

[@TheAelfgar]

This is why ancient traditions say to honor and respect your fallen enemies.

[@richardmiseljr2413]

Respect because they shared the field of honor with you.

[@malachytully5469]

Native American Indian's were given no respect!

[@richardmiseljr2413]

@@malachytully5469 True. I grew up in Ohio. I and a couple friends back in high school days found what was left of an Indian burial ground. Out of respect we left it alone. WE did NOT tell anyone where was so it would NOT be disturbed.

[@ted5128]

Tell liberals that

[@sammycinnamon7300]

Not, leave their severed heads on spikes at the gate and eat the rest?

[@sidneydaugherty4895]

I was at the Arden Forrest in Germany once when I was in the military. Myself and others watched shadows move in and out of the tree line through night vision goggles. It looked like troop movement and even got to the point that we were waiting for people to come at us. We watched movement all night long and at one point sent a patrol of men to confront whoever it was. When they came back they were scarred and said they never saw anything but heard people talking and footsteps. That happenened in 1982.

[@lm-usmc]

I was a Marine during Desert Storm/Shield. We spent the night about a mile from the "highway of death" before we pushed north. When the wind was just right, the Marines on watch, including myself, could hear the screams and moans coming from that area. Spooky as hell.

[@queenb1119]

Just remember, if you're ever confronted by a djinn all you have to do is holler BISMILLA! 😉 But seriously though, thank you for your service! 😁👍

[@melissatyree566]

Thanks for what you did for us, I can,t even imagine how frightening it could be not knowing what could happen to you. Major props. Melissa from ohio

[@Erika-kw7ur]

@@queenb1119 I love the Bismillah guy!

[@queenb1119]

@@Erika-kw7ur YES! Me too! 😄👍

[@BigEyesSmallMouth]

You were probably over there at the same time as my husband. His MOS was 2171 (electro-optics). Trained at MCLB Albany (GA).

[@sharonrigs7999]

I was at Kandahar Airfield in 2007/08. One night just after I finished work at midnight, I went for my usual walk around the track to relax before hitting the sack. I was walking passed the derelict, bullet riddled Soviet made hangars when I noticed someone walking towards me about 150m away. I figured he was just another late night walker at this point. As the figure grew close enough, I noticed he was wearing a Soviet era Afghanka uniform and had an AK-74 slung over his shoulder and .... his legs faded away to nothing below the knees! I was stunned in disbelief as the figure passed right by me( giving me a brief static like chill) without any sign of acknowledgement. I kept my eyes on the figure until he faded away to nothing about 15m behind me . I thought I was seeing things from not sleeping well until I met others who had seen a spectral Soviet soldier.

[@DontDefuse]

Damn, I wonder what happened to him. Maybe got sniped or hit by an explosive and died so fast he still thinks he's alive. Still patrolling for the rest of time

[@blake1880]

I was apart of the initial insert of Marjah back in 2009-2010 and returned back to the southern Helmand province in 2011. I also had sleep paralysis and knew something was weird in regards to several different outposts. When I returned back home a lady I had never met before in my life approached me and told me a dark spirit had attached itself to me from Afghanistan. Mind you I had never spoken to this woman before in my life. This may be coincidence but I was involved in a motorcycle accident that should have taken my life and it landed me in the icu for 2 weeks this was only a day after I approached by this lady. I just found it really odd how the timeline played out.

[@adamjeffery764]

@@blake1880 It is not a coincidence. You have an angel watching over you my brother.

[@indigenousaquarian3112]

@@blake1880 that lady you met had her third eye opened. I think most soldiers would have came back with dark spirit attachments to them because of that area you patrolled! You must learn to protect yourself spiritually when in war not just physically

[@indigenousaquarian3112]

yes he should pray to God & ask for Archangel Michael he is the Angel of protection. Ask Archangel Michael to protect you from evil

[@michaelmcguigan5278]

RIP to the 3 men whom gave their lives for us. Thanks to you as well Mr Ballen for your service & to any service men or women who see this ! 🇺🇸

[@crawford22904]

Thank you for the support.

[@ricardoperez2793]

appreciate the support!

[@redmoon4276]

RIP all those innocent kids gunned down by your military so you can have your lovely freedom leaving like shit to keep all this politicians happy and rich.

[@eugenewebber535]

Thank you. Semper Fi

[@rubenvanderhoeven1700]

FOR US? They died for nothing

[@JohnDoe-wt9ek]

You only ever really talk about it after the fact... When I heard that one of the Air Force hangars, on Bagram, once had Russians strung up by the neck in the suspension rafters, in the last days of their evacuation, courtesy of the Mujahedeen, sent chills down my spine. The very fact that there are innumerable souls all the way back to the Greeks under Alexander, wandering its hot, sunny deserts and craggy mountains, silently whispering their way through history not knowing that time and mankind has left them far behind... It settles deeply the reality of how Afghanistan really IS the Graveyard of empires... And it now has American souls wandering there, alongside Russian, British, Mongol, Indian, Pakistani and Greek souls lost to time and the marching beat of war...

[@babloo1666]

Afghanistan used to be the western boundary of Hindu civilization in ancient times. Hindus were eventually pushed back to mainland India where they established fortifications against invaders. Western invaders were stopped at Afghanistan for centuries which is why India was never converted to Islam all these years. Even when western empires attacked India all at the same time, there were 7, they still could not defeat India thanks to its indigenous warrior race.

[@poker6524]

​@@babloo1666ahh dude another hindu myth it's the Afghans who lived there for thousands of years they accepted islam

[@drar2669]

@@poker6524 islam only came in 1400 years ago what r u blabbering about ? What hes saying is true theres extent maps of the 3-6th century which shows hindu rulers ruling the area matter of fact the place where im from , the king of that area ruled afghanistan at one point

[@nikaawan9555]

​@@babloo1666lol buhahahahahah SERIOUSLY 😂 stop with this bullsh!!!!!t

[@shamikgh]

Its poetic but true. Greetings from India.

[@Halfhourtill12]

This dude needs to write his own books he explains the stories like he was there hes so good at this...

[@jejoko]

Not everyone who is a good story teller is good at written word. Speaking your mind and writing a book is very different.

[@traviskeeton1269]

He takes his stories from a TV show called Paranormal Witness. You actually get to see the people and listen to talk about their experiences.

[@traviskeeton1269]

IDK if he mentions it in the video because I'm not gonna finish it but some of the people who came home from OP Rock ended up dying in some pretty bizarre ways..

[@borceapostolovski372]

And you was dum enough to bealive him?

[@AMERICANsparky32]

🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

[@onecooldude1644]

My Dad just passed a few weeks back. I am dealing with my Mom's grief as well as mine. These stories help me take my mind off all the issues. Thank you.

[@imranjaffer6531]

Stay strong for your mom, she needs you now more than ever . Been through what you going through, it's not easy.

[@onecooldude1644]

@@imranjaffer6531 Thank you for the kind words. I am sorry for your loss as well. I was just out visiting with my Mom. Tears and a few laughs going through so many memories together. I pray the pain lessens

[@truthseeker6584]

I am very sorry for your loss! Everything will get better but sadly it needs time. I wish you all the best, hang on in there! may God bless you and your mother always.

[@oni_goroshi]

I'm here for the same reason. Lost my dad in 2020 and I'm still dealing with the loss. Coming here listening to stories helps. You might check out videos on here called "time team". It's a British archeology show and it seems a lot of people who are dealing with the loss of a loved one or PTSD like the show. I'm one of them.

[@edstar83]

You'll see him again. kzbin.info/www/bejne/oGeqfoGmf8eIa7M kzbin.info/www/bejne/gqi6na2borKmedE

[@koreyloft]

I’m alone, on my couch and those whispers come on.... 😳 don’t EVERRR do that to us again!!

[@margz0420]

😅😅😅 my heart dropped when I heard them

[@suonatar1]

Come on! That's what we're here for. 😉

[@pkaila79]

Totally! I was listening to this with my new headphones that have the spatial sounds....the whispers totally made me shit my pants before I realized it was the damn video! LOL

[@viralkenyan6249]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@nkatashuk25]

Sameeeee

[@ShabirFaizi-l9z]

I’m originally from Afghanistan, but now I live in the US. I believe Afghanistan is one of the creepiest countries in the world because of all the eerie things I’ve seen and heard there. For instance, I knew two women from a village who seemed to be haunted by ghosts. These women couldn’t speak any language other than their native one, yet when possessed, one of them would suddenly start speaking Hindi, which is odd because she had never been exposed to Hindi through TV or any other means. She also exhibited violent behavior towards herself. Once, when asked why she was doing this while possessed, she said it was revenge because someone had accidentally killed her child. I have many more stories like this to share.

[@blankface1904]

I’d love to read more, very fascinating

[@karendantes4313]

It’s paranormal. OP Rock is a place where consistent battle and trauma has occurred that place is probably reliving the past horrors over and over again. Maybe places can suffer PTSD too just like any living thing that’s gone through horrific events.

[@lonnietaylor4800]

That is a very interesting perspective about locations ...never looked at it that way ..

[@samuelmmmk181]

There are many ancient beliefs about blood being spilt on a battleground, it marks the place. As if the earth knows somehow.

[@annecollins1470]

@@samuelmmmk181 It's called Hallowed Ground, where blood has been spilled. The ground at the foot of the cross where Jesus Christ bled & died is Holy & such a place.

[@samuelmmmk181]

@@annecollins1470 The place doesn't become holy just because there is blood on it.

[@tracyhill7960]

Residual energy. None of the dead are at peace

[@SkelterRed]

I did 2 tours and i was Afghanistan in 09...i heard this story 1,000 times and each time it was different lol. I love my brothers in every branch but they can’t keep a story straight for shit lol. Im glad you broke it down for me properly finally. 🤝

[@arod919721]

@@alphaomega5202 Yo! Is that legit?

[@alphaomega5202]

@@arod919721 Its the only mound in all of the Garmsir district (where OP Rock was located). It also overlooks the poppy fields, like the NYT article said OP Rock did. So it has to be it.

[@rhythmicwalnutst8456]

This the same story I heard from a source.

[@Prince_Afghan22]

🚨🚨Afghanistan is the most haunted place in earth❗❗ it is called the Graveyard of Empires ❗❗... it is also not s coincidence how so many Hollywood Horror War movies are based about events in Afghanistan... cuz the horrors and atrocities that gave taken place there in past centuries... was discovered by anyone who got deployed there... The greatest OP Rock crime occured when dozens of Afghan Communist Government soldiers were massacred there by the Mujahideen after they surrendered... Their bodies were buried right under there. 💀💀

[@AEA1111]

SOLVED "VERY VERY LIKELY" I only have one possible explanation based upon a trivial piece of history ,.. the oracle of delpi,.. the location of the oracal of delpi was constructed upon a natural deposit of ethylene a research team discovered the presence of ethylene in the temples geology. Ethylene in large quantities can cause hallucinations, and if one breathed enough of it in they will hallucinate ,.. the soldiers were exposed to base level of Ethylene just being there as it is in all the surrounding soil,.. when they started to dig it released much more of the gas trapped in the soil. when they hit the pocket a very large amount was released basically in their faces. the effects can last as long as 3 days if exposed. not in the story but I'm positive happened is that when their radios went dead .. they prepared for a fight ,.. this would entail a lot of moving around perhaps more digging of lose topsoil and if not that now opened hole even if recovered may be pouring Ethylene upon them in massive amounts. it is not uncommon for subjects of extreme drug testing to share hallucinations,.. in fact their is a whole paper on the effects of acid i remember reading that talked about that aspect of drug induced hallucination,..and since they were paranoid about being attacked at any moment,.. their minds made that happen. the rest is just coincidence they got killed it was a rough place. p.s. this is entirely 100% PROVEABLE AS IN THAT LOCATION THE CHEMICAL "Ethylene oxide" WILL STAY LOCKED IN THE SOIL FOREVER ,.. ONLY PARTIAL RELEASABLE THROUGH AGITATION LIKE DIGGING THROUGH IT.

[@1minigrem]

That was seriously disturbing, I feel so sorry for the Marine who believes he is cursed, what a terrible place, the Taliban probably knew of its reputation. RIP those Marines who died after that tour.

[@brainretardant]

The dead move on, it's the living that carry the burden

[@jeffreystewart9809]

I worked for 3 years in the PACAF headquarters at Pearl Harbor-Hickam. The building that they set it up in was the old barracks of Hickam Army Airfield, which took heavy casualties during the Pearl Harbor attack. That building is notorious for its paranormal moments. Ive come across cold spots, seen figures roaming the halls, had something watching me over my shoulder. Eveyone working there had their own encounters too.

[@nate4036]

They were just keeping watch. Brothers from another era

[@jeffreystewart9809]

@@nate4036 yep. It's a creepy place, especially at night, but I never came across anything that felt malicious. Just watchful and a bit forlorn.

[@nate4036]

@@jeffreystewart9809 wonder how the naval yard is?

[@Chillforev-dd9wr]

@@nate4036Yeah I would feel safe knowing my predecessors are still helping keep watch and watching over me and that I have nothing to worry about if they are there to guide me.

[@fattmouth7715]

I'd trust any dog named ugly betty

[@kayhill2984]

This comment made my day

[@brucewayne-ej3cx]

Crazy thing is, do we even know if ugly betty was alive? "Inherited from the last post" and then does UB jus live there? Where did she go ? Did only they feed her? Dude. So many questions.

[@mukhar786]

Lolololol

[@fattmouth7715]

@@brucewayne-ej3cx That's a good point. The dog could have been a ghost too. That's a story within a story.

[@wnalikka]

Lool

[@mrgreenelander4952]

It would be interesting for Bob to do a segment on Russian soldiers who served in Afghanistan in the 80s, and hear some of their paranormal stories

[@Jason-gg4lm]

spoooooooooooky👻

[@mnaylor81]

I used to have night terrors when I was there with Russian soldiers and there family’s. One specifically was in a concrete pool all drained of water. There was men woman and child getting shot in the pool. A few days later I saw another end of our camp I saw a drained pool with bullet holes all over. Currently used as a basketball ball court. I later found out we were at an old officer Russian base where they had brought their families there. When Russia pulled out they abandoned a lot of soldiers there.

[@meatiest1989]

Members of my family worked with Soviet forces when they were in the Afghan Army during the 1980s. Maybe I should ask if they experienced anything paranormal lol

[@marwan4358]

Who's Bob?

[@Preacher96]

None left

[@patricialessard8651]

I've heard this story a couple of times. The way you tell it is like hearing it for the first time and so much better! You are an excellent story teller. As I'm mostly stuck indoors, I look forward to your stories. Thank you so much and stay safe!

[@maryannanderson7517]

I wouldn't say he's my favorite KZbinr but I had actually clicked on a video by someone else and while it was coming up the thumbnail for MrBallen's video showed up and I dumped the other video and clicked on his instead. I was not disappointed. His story of OP Rock was chilling. My husband retired after 20 years in the Navy and I used to BEG him to tell me stories of his escapades when he was on active duty and he would tell me very little. He would always say that was classified and I would argue that he had been retired for many many years and the war was long over (Vietnam) so surely those things were not still classified and he still told me NOTHING. Like a child, I used to do quite a bit of pouting over that. All of my pouting did NOT make him change his mind. I am delighted now to hear the types of stories from John that I wanted to hear from my husband decades ago. BTW, the strangest reaction I ever got from my husband was when I said to him, "If you had first hand knowledge of aliens or an alien space craft, would you tell me?" His answer was strange because it actually was NOT an answer.

[@VadulTharys]

@@maryannanderson7517 I know what your husband goes through with you, I was Naval Intelligence, and no nothing I did can I talk about. People are always asking, always wanting to know, one night when very drunk with a couple buddies who were army I guess I relaxed a bit too much. I know I did not say anything classified, but it seems what I did say was a bit too much for them. Seems describing the feeling of crawling through rotten dead bodies in a jungle is not something that sits well with people.

[@maryannanderson7517]

@starstruck14 Thank you for your thought. It is greatly appreciated.

[@maryannanderson7517]

@@VadulTharysWell there's my problem. My husband very seldom had anything to drink at all and he never got drunk. If I had only known...

[@VadulTharys]

@@maryannanderson7517 Well its been 20 years since I last got drunk, and that night with my friends was the last time. Things came out that most people can not understand. You don't want to hear, your husband saw and did things you could never understand, or process. Even those friends I talked to that night still look at me odd at times. They know how evil I can be, that is something you never want to find out about someone you care about. even after all these years I still wake up sometimes covered in sweat, wife wondering what I was dreaming, and not understanding what I was screaming out.

[@adamhenry3061]

I’m not ex military (huge respect for anyone who is or was) however when a mate and I drove through Salisbury Plain on our way to Stonehenge with his wife and kid in the back seat we drove through a HUGE column of Roman legionaries, hundreds of them with full armour on officers on horseback too, marching towards us. It was pitch black and a little bit misty and they lit up as clear as day with the headlights. Awesome sight and as we all saw it together no one argued against it. Pretty awesome sight !

[@Slemoster]

"If you dig anything up, put it back" "...So anyway, I start digging"

[@j.strike.8366]

Lmfao

[@TotyoEnchev]

"... and why should I bother putting it back?''

[@Zer0t0lerance93]

Where’s a pic of Danny Devito when you need one

[@AO00720]

@@TotyoEnchev you really want to know????

[@quentintalley1871]

I swear Mr ballen could tell a story of paint drying and have us all on the edge of our seats he's that good 💯

[@robsmithracing]

Having been in the British Army, I was stationed for a short time at OP Rock. I’ve heard the stories but I didn’t experience anything myself. The area does have a very depressing atmosphere like somethings telling you to leave.

[@leemoore9933]

I have heard similar stories from a Marine that was in Vietnam in 67-68 around what they called dodge city in the I-corp. Very creepy indeed.

[@bighands69]

I would assume they were subjected to a psychological operation from a foreign force that never truly left the region.

[@jerulew3547]

👍🏼🙏🏽we should pay attention to our gut when U don't have much in the way of knowledge or intel. It Never lies.

[@jerulew3547]

@@bighands69 good one! The ground cries out like it did for Abel when Caine killed him..

[@henryate5028]

Did you see any of the bones?

[@devonking7655]

From one veteran to another, it's an honor to watch your videos. I was army at fort Campbell, Kentucky. 11B. Infantry. Air assault. Very cool.

[@doloreswinquest2484]

I've heard horror stories about OP Rock. And I believe them. I was a combat medic in the Army and I believe that when a person dies a horrible death, their souls still think that they are fighting.

[@artistdigital]

They Jinns possess such places!

[@pariss1445]

Absolutely

[@keeshapowell533]

Not unless they know God! Straight to heaven for them.

[@rhafaelvelez6764]

@@keeshapowell533 no comment.

[@andrewg3257]

I bet you they’ll make a movie

[@swhite8381]

I cannot even attempt to imagine the stress these soldiers go through . I don’t even have the mental capacity to wrap my mind around it. Thank you to all of the military, for all you do .

[@notenough1937]

Head meets nail comment. Thanks.

[@adamjzimmer]

Also stressed are the millions of people under occupation by those same US military troops. Everyone suffers in these needless wars

[@swhite8381]

@@adamjzimmer word

[@MrPr1nglz]

@@adamjzimmer War is a terrible business

[@17th_Luv]

This might be the greatest comment section on YT. Thank you all of you for your service and war stories!

[@kristieandjeff2720]

I agree! 🙌

[@mage1439]

You're right. I haven't so far seen a single person slinging hateful comments at another here.

[@nymom8204]

You are so right! GOAT comment section Thank all of for your incredible bravery and sharing your experiences.

[@tyronnezx]

I was literally thinking this lol

[@EughhBrothereughh]

What service ffs they come there to kill rape and steal! They r not defending your precious hamburger country, literally no one is attacking you. They come to middle East to destroy those poor countries. Educate yourself if you even know what that means in America

[@alexandergreene6986]

The one personal story that defines the changing of fate, was when I was nineteen. Towards the spring of nineteen eighty-one, I found myself in the Canadian Military. A far cry, from the sixty-one I am today. As I was preparing for one month of leave, my original plan was to backpack solo through Great Britain, Scotland, and then finally on to Paris, France. Having remustered from the Infantry after our training platoon was taken off active standby for war in Afghanistan. I stayed, while most just $ off, and ran home to Mommy, such heroes? One guy who I hardly knew, had overheard my conversation with the barrack warden concerning my month-long leave of absence. Just by chance, Perry asked me if I was into psychic phenomena? Hell, yeah, my mom was Acadian French from Northern New Brunswick. If you've been to the state of Maine you've been to New Brunswick. and I had more than my share of hearing Mrballen-type stories growing up. Again, l hardly knew this guy, maybe said hello twice? The night before my trip, Perry asked me to come to his room, have a few beers, and then the reading would begin. Dude went into a trance, said a few things I now forget, and then stated that I would meet a dark-haired woman in Switzerland who would want me to go with her, but If I did? I would be murdered. I thought, okay, I am not going to Switzerland at all actually. Perry just stated over and over that I was in great danger if I went with this woman, and that he was never wrong. Okay, so be it The next morning I leave, and the trip begins. I was stationed at CFB Trenton, ON. The plane takes off, and we land in CFB Ottawa to pick up some senior brass, who are heading to either London where I was heading, or Baden Soliegen West Germany. Halfway over the Atlantic, the pilot announces that we had to bypass London, and would be going on to West Germany instead. So I had to replan the whole trip, now remember this was old school Europe on five dollars a day, real old school when social media was television, books, and radio only The plane lands in West Germany, and man it's hot and humid as %. I look at the distance, say & it, and decide to backpack through Western Europe. So my nineteen-year-old self, boots around Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Sweden, back to Copenhagen, on to Munich, watching the East German border pass by, miles of landmines, and barbed wire. Freaky stuff from back in the cold war era, when President Putin was still a KGB Colonel in East Germany The train leaves Munich for Innsbruck, then finally on to Paris, VIA SWITZERLAND. Now I had forgotten Perry's words completely. I was fixated on Paris as the last stop, and then back to West Germany, and finally Canada. At this time I had wayyyyyy too many beers and bottles of wine to even remember? Still, I was young. So I am standing in the isle way, just enjoying the Swiss Alps zoom by, beautiful memories just caught up in my thoughtsMany people love the corridors, allowing you to collect their thoughts. Down the hall, a woman with DARK BROWN HAIR approaches me. The woman is in her late twenties? kinda plain Jane, a solid five plus in looks, starts asking me the usual questions, and then asks if I want to spend some time with her in Lucerne? Sure, why not? Again, fate had decided on what decision I should make? The train pulls in, and I am standing on the platform. To this day, I still recall the train for Geneva on the right side, just pulling in, and waiting, as if for me to make the decision that would determine my fate. I look at the dark-haired woman on my left, and she's passing up and down frantically. I ask her if she's cool? and she gets very belligerent telling me to not ask questions, that she's waiting for someone, and then just as I say, its okay $ lady, I am good to go Then suddenly Perry's words come crashing into my head. To this day, nearly forty-two years later, I can still remember his face as I looked at that train for Geneva. Christ, I nearly fainted. Everything slowed to a crawl in time, I gathered my wits quickly, and wait until the woman with the dark hair moves down the platform, and then jump on the train for Geneva just as the conductor is boarding. I give him my ticket, walk into a cubicle, and watch the woman with the dark hair, looking up and down my train with some guy screaming at her in German, looking for me I held my breath, as the train pulled out, and as they walked back down the platform still arguing. I sat there, ordered four beers, and calmed myself down. The train pulls into Geneva, I spend a few days just walking around in a daze and then said $ it, forgot Paris, went back to the base in West Germany, and then back to my base in Canada. I arrive and call my mother who had fallen on her knees in prayer to God thanking him for my safe return. I thanked God and Perry. When I arrive, Perry asks me how the trip went? I told him the whole story, and the dude just looks at me and says, "I am never wrong dude, if you had gone with that woman, you would have never returned" By this time, I had had enough of the Military life, and just wanted to leave and enjoy freedom. And I did, on to other adventures in life. A rather long story, but one hundred percent true. ALWAYS GO WITH YOUR INSTINCTS, it may very well save your life

[@S4ndDunes]

Thats fucking wild

[@alexandergreene6986]

@@S4ndDunes Thanks for replying. Yes, 100 Percent true. My wife and I talk about it occasionally,. I think the only story that comes close, maybe, was when I was traveling with my wife to Havana, Cuba. Left the plane, boarded the bus, and actually met a woman who not only knew my mother but had lived with her as well, which I remember her saying. My wife flipped out, like what are the odds, in the billions in meeting that one person, on that one bus, on that one day, traveling to that one city

[@smokagaming]

Are you actually acadian french as well? Did you happen to grow up around Northern Maine?

[@jonasalanpoe]

Christ bless you! Praise Him for keeping you safe. See the book of Enoch. Nephilim who after death become demons, the origin of genetic evil. Which the Adamic race intermixed with. If we were made in the image of Christ with no ado, why would we need to be born again of spirit. Strongs Concordance, precise linguist transl.hebrew and greek says that what took place in Eden was in fact Eve's adultery. The very word woman - H802 root comes from 'adulteress'. Genetic mixing is what enabled the Adamic race for evil. And the seed of the serpent - eg.Cain - Genesis 3.15 and 6.4, still rules the world. Through bloodlines like Davos Rschilds.

[@User2024-dw6jv]

See the book of Enoch. Nephilim who after death become demons, the origin of genetic evil. Which the Adamic race intermixed with. If we were made in the image of Christ with no ado, why would we need to be born again of spirit. Strongs Concordance, precise linguist transl.hebrew and greek says that what took place in Eden was in fact Eve's adultery. The very word woman - H802 root comes from 'adulteress'. Genetic mixing is what enabled the Adamic race for evil. And the seed of the serpent - eg.Cain - Genesis 3.15 and 6.4, still rules the world. Through bloodlines like Davos Rschilds.

[@MTWHIT]

Growing up a Navy brat and then serving 8 years in the Air Force, I heard stories all the time. I had neighbors in housing that were on the USS Forrestal and used to talk about how haunted that ship was. Phones ringing but nobody on the other end, seeing "shadows" walking into compartments that were empty. I remember when that show Sightings first came on in the early 90s, my parents had a couple of their friends over for a friday night of drinking and when the show started talking about ghosts they all started asking each other if they went to boot camp at Great Lakes and started talking about the ghost of Ricky the Recruit (supposedly a guy either killed himself or fell through one of the steam grates on base and burned to death. My first duty station was at Offutt AFB in Nebraska which was an old west fort (FT Crook) before it became an AFB. I took my girlfriend at the time there on my 21st birthday and she used to claim to see ghosts all the time. Well, one of the buildings on base was the old Bachelor Officer Quarters when it was a old Fort and was now the Distinguished Visitor Lodging. We used to get calls all the time from guests there that someone was in the attic partying at 2 in the morning. Normally you would shrug it off and come up with some excuse ect, but these are O-6 and Flag officers staying there so you had to call out the cavalry. Security Forces would get called and we would all have to go check it out. Nothing there, the attic was empty, not even used for storage. We suspected mice or something like that, but you would have a flag officer telling you adamantly that they heard voices and full on conversations. This happened a couple times there. So my girlfriend was going all off about how she can see ghosts so i took her there to the parade ground which had all these old brick homes that made up general's row and the DV lodging on one side of it. I asked her if she saw anything and she would say oh there's a lady in that one looking at us, nothing special. I pointed at the DV building, known as quarters 13, and asked if she had seen anything. She had stopped about 5 feet behind me and was just staring at the building and her face had gone white. She stood there for a minute and turned to me and said we need to leave now. I've never seen someone freak out that bad before, she ran back to my truck and started freaking out trying to navigate her way off the base (I was drinking so she was the one driving.) We got back to my apartment and I finally got her to tell me what she saw. Apparently there were a couple of "people" on the porch and when they saw her two of them came over to her and told her she didn't belong there. What gets weird is when i asked her what they were wearing and she said they were almost like the old civil war uniforms. She was from Virginia and was only out visiting me for a couple of days, so she didn't know anything about the base or it's history. Nor did she know anything about the building or not. But she picked out the building that was notorious for being haunted and described what they were wearing. That was probably one of the creepiest moments of my life, including the times I've had stuff happen to me personally that I couldn't explain.

[@h.hholmes.492]

Man swear on your Almighty that you are not making this up, this scared the shit out of me

[@MTWHIT]

@@h.hholmes.492 Nope. That is the truth. Crazy stuff

[@gecsus]

I had several friends stationed on the Forestall and one died there. They all told me the same story of who was the cause of the destruction... John McCain. I went to have a look at the Forestall after it made it back to port in Norfolk, VA. It was a real mess. You just can't imagine the destruction that made the inches thick steal look like it was shredded and crumpled tin foil. I have never seen such destruction. It was incomprehensible. My friend that was killed, ran back into the evacuated armory to get his girlfriend's letter and photo he had just received, when it was destroyed by a detonation from above that set off the armory as well.

[@jocelynnowen3078]

Thank you

[@sustainablerenewableintegr8311]

Next time you encounter such strange things, don't go straight back to where you live. Take a detour. Go for a drink. Then, you go back to where you live. You don't want it to follow you back to your home

[@chadglasner4755]

A take on the normal paranormal tale. My Dad was in Nam. His until was hit with multiple land mines from the enemy. My Dad caught the second and third blasts. His mom couldn't sleep that night. She gets up and goes down stairs and sees my Dad in his dress blues. Mind you he was over in Vietnam actively dying from his wounds.

[@maedhros0111]

Brother, that is deep.

[@ChrystalSafariRoy]

Mothers have all their childrens’ DNA in their bodies. I think that’s the connection

[@cynthiakeller5954]

@@ChrystalSafariRoy Never thought about it. Explains why I love my children with complete abandon and approval. They are of my flesh, blood and soul.

[@EughhBrothereughh]

That's a good : dont come to someone's land warning

[@Dennis-nc3vw]

Did she know about it? Interesting I had an experience sort of like this. I remember when my sister had this terrible boyfriend she and my parents were fighting ruthlessly over it. I remember walking by her room, I could swear I hear her crying in there. I don't think much of it. I walk downstairs and look out on the driveway and see her car is gone. I ask my mom where she is and she says she's out with her boyfriend. I don't consider this paranormal, just a hallucination on my part, but I think it explains a lot of hauntings.

[@JonnoPlays]

I didn't know you served bro. Thanks for your service.

[@zacharynevarez2997]

Lmao he was a whole ass navy seal

[@B_Holden]

When did you start watching?

[@eddiegreencheez]

Thats always an awkward situation in person when someone says thank you for your service. Just smile and nod lol it would be odd if you were just like yeah you're welcome lol

[@stewie84]

Gotta watch the "story of Mr. Ballen" video

[@waypasttheline]

Yeah he got blew up n shit

[@garywhite8880]

I was in Afghanistan March 2009 - September 2009. The big offensive you mention is Operation Panthers Claw which I was a part of with the Black Watch. SAS and SBS. We heard about this story when we were out there at that time!!

[@diseasedwombat5611]

I just imagine Mr. Ballen in military barracks laying down and saying: “If you a fan of the strange, dark, and mysterious, then you’re in the right place.” While everyone is trying to sleep.

[@allykatt1908]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@BrownSugarBaby1992]

😂😂😂

[@oilersridersbluejays]

Platoon Warrant: shut the fuck up! Oh, Cpl. Ballen it’s you. My bad. Tell me more!

[@mrconfusion87]

​@@oilersridersbluejays 🤣🤣🤣

[@Racko94]

Do you know how to get to Bells Canyon?

[@katbutler6887]

Spent many deployments in Afghanistan and was “lucky” enough to see almost all of the country. You can find tons of ancient and recent articles from all the wars fought in that land. Afghanistan was built on bloodshed and it will not allow you to forget it. Trust me on that!

[@jed-henrywitkowski6470]

Alexander the Great said it was like sending his men to march across swords. Alexander could not take Afghanistan, nor the English. The Russians failed as well. And we had the audacity to think we could.

[@cemalgan]

I’m sure it was a life changing experience for you I served in Middle East due to mandatory draft where I was born and shits no joke It’s never so “black and white” as people think and I’m most cases you are so paranoid that everyone becomes th enemy or the potential enemy, every area is governed by local tradition with its own agenda and are just so sick and tired of being dragged into this bloodshed that’s been going on for the eternity, even though was somewhat local, it’s impossible to relate to what you are Experiencing and it takes a lot out of you Once you start adapting you start losing your ties to your own reality that you are used to back home At that point you realize, you are not there for the flag or for your general, you are there for the guys that you became family over the days months and in some cases years Also, the shit you see in movies don’t happen in real life, when you start taking fire, you start unleashing hell without a particular target you are locked in to, I didn’t know many with balls big enough to stand and do a “Rambo” out there Your training becomes your biggest savior, and you just live on adrenaline and reflexes And soon you realize, nothing you do will make a difference for the betterment of their lives, Poeple that don’t have anything to lose will live desperately and every one you kill, 10 takes their place because they hold you(rightfully so) responsible for having no schools, no hospitals, no jobs and no safety of life The only difference between us and them is that we were born in different places, and they pay the cost

[@cemalgan]

Jed-Henry Witkowski places like Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya are extremely hard to take over by military force. Guerrilla warfare is not something a regular army can accomplish with great success.

[@williamstokely9589]

Kat Butler fighting in the mountains really was like fighting ghosts wasnt it?

[@superfrostynugs6997]

Cem__Cem the point of gorilla warfare is not to succeed the point is to make your enemy suffer

[@Tatopatato]

No one's gonna talk about mr ballen told this story in a fricking sandstorm for 23 mins???!?! Props to my guy

[@briannamendoza7405]

this comment made me laugh omfg

[@jaydakiddo9661]

Right

[@simbriant]

He should be fine as long as there are no recently resurrected mummies around.

[@The-Spotlight-Kid]

...i don't "get it" what's going on, what have i missed? Where was the sandstorm? What are the props? What got your'e panties in a twist?

[@commotus8319]

@@The-Spotlight-Kid the background my dude

[@Ottakazi]

I was deployed to Mosul Iraq with the 82nd during their mission to recapture the city working with fedpol and the iraqi army. We stayed in these blown out buildings and war torn streets. I have always had weird paranormal stuff happen to me growing up and i firmly beleive that my mom could like sense it and passed it on to me. Almost like that feeling of the hair standing up on the back of your neck. But one night on guard sitting behind a 240 in a WRECKED building we were using as cover, i rememebr thinking how weird it was that i didnt feel anything. Hundreds of people have been dying in this city and it was just... quiet. Not like ominously quiet but almost calmly quiet. No spooky vibes or anything. And the more i thought about that the more it felt unsettling. Like something about that place was off because spirits werent creepying around. Super weird to explain.

[@BlackJeepConvertible]

We had a shitload of ghosts living with us in Baghdad.

[@armynation31B5V5P]

Thanks for the story Navy Brother. I've been deployed to Afghanistan once and Iraq three times. There are crazy stories from there. Much respect calling out the Marines...RIP.

[@kevinfoster2163]

British: "Don't dig anything up" Americans: *Dig every last thing up the very next day

[@jedidiah0341]

Yea, we Americans stopped listening to the British long time ago =p

[@salar80s]

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[@PhunkyMunky10]

Seems to be some kind of National trait bred into us. “Don’t touch!” Me: burns my hand. Same kinda thing I think.

[@sandrajohnson2489]

Well if we didn't dig things up we wouldn't be archeologists.

[@PhunkyMunky10]

@@Bob.Jenkins I did watch it, thanks. I don’t comprehend why you feel the need to be a useless twat, but you do you bro.

[@ridermak4111]

You sir, are a fantastic story teller. No stumbles, no “uh”, no “umm”, no blank pauses. 🤙 Big salutes to those men for what they went through. And a huge thank you to all Veterans and active.

[@BoneItis639]

thats cause he cuts the video 1,000x every video so it seems seamless

[@BoneItis639]

@Anne Frank’s Ball Point Penn you a veteran? if not, don't disrespect our veterans.

[@coreyperry6449]

I was at Opie Rock in 08 and 09 and its is very spooky please for sure

[@0311rog]

I used to take a dog with me whenever I had tower guard duty at night while I was stationed in khost Afghanistan. I used to see and hear weird shit happen at 3 a.m. Sometimes the radio would pick up weird crackling.

[@hunterw9270]

well i cant explain it but it seems at night your brain hears and sees thing far away or that you cant normally see atleast for me

[@0311rog]

@@hunterw9270 Afghanistan is a weird place.

[@hunterw9270]

@@0311rog yes i know i wanted to join the military still might atleast until i researched into tales of war im afghan and other middle eastern place im not sure i can handle living the nightmares not the killing not the sleep deprivation but the horror the paranormal thats what draws me away

[@xavierhodge5956]

Khost? Camp Clark?

[@stevedickson5853]

Always trust a dog ,they sense things we aren't even aware of, I've never known one make things up..🐶

[@tracybrown2482]

The men who fight for our country are really putting their lives and souls on the line and that definitely deserves to be acknowledged.

[@samluca1244]

But when you learned that it was pure politics that's responsible for sending them in that hostile environment, it's freakingly disturbing to be sympathetic...

[@tracybrown2482]

@@samluca1244 Yeah absolutely, doesn't change my sympathy to the people in the line of fire just because the government put them there though. Just cause a soldier is naive as to what they are sacrificing themselves and others for doesn't make most of them evil or bad. Just sadly misled and misused.

[@samluca1244]

@@tracybrown2482 , sadly though war makes a devil out of men. Some men of war are in fact afflicted with WAR-related ptsd, specially when they found out that they're part of those responsible for the killing of innocent civilians. My brother had this particular case. Living a civilian life now he's still haunted with the hapless sight of civilian's corpses in the aftermath of their operation... They're not actually in those wars to fight for their country but to carry the evil whims and caprices of shrewd politicians back home.

[@AliNest2011]

For your country in Afghan? Deny them entry, do not roam their lands, stuid evil! Do hot host their dictators, mafia, warkords, do not launder their money

[@longslonz4982]

Fighting for our country??? Bro who is attacking ur country..

[@jamesgravel7755]

Your probably one of the best story tellers of our time. At no point do I ever want to cut it short.

[@rat_finkdiam]

It's called great editing 👌

[@mayling39]

I know! I always say the same thing!!

[@rat_finkdiam]

@@mayling39 No, seriously he credits his amazing editor as a big part of his success. Superior editors truly don't get enough credit

[@kingtrawal]

He’s terrible. Monotone voice and no inflection

[@rat_finkdiam]

@King Trawal Obviously, he's an amazing storyteller, too. Editing can only get someone so far. He tells stories better than most documentaries do about crimes.

[@bishop5400]

That poor dog never gets to leave.

[@jukeboxactual]

I like this. I was an optics tech in the Marine Corps once upon a time. Two combat tours in Iraq with 1/2. I had marines come to me constantly in deployment, saying that they could see people at night but the NVGs and thermals failed to pick them up. I always thought they were just trying to offload their optics for maintenance for a few weeks while we did troubleshooting and repairs. Makes me think now.

[@RazorX860]

When they described the feeling of being watched, feeling cold and hearing whispers, that is exactly what I felt in my experiences when I saw apparitions in my job as a state prison guard also in other paranormal experiences I had overseas in Asia while I was in the military. Once you described what they experienced I said "yes exactly what I have experienced". I also tried to write them off as being tired and seeing things at 3am in the morning. Thanks Mr. Ballen for sharing these true stories with us. Semper Fortis ⚓

[@ctakitimu]

Weird how it's usually 2:30 to 3:30am when these things happen. I've noticed that too with my occasional occurrences

[@bighands69]

@Razorx860 Those marines probably were subjected to a psychological operation by an enemy force that was not the taliban. Probably trying to develop tactics to see how US forces respond. Once a person has been subjected those experiences they probably are going to be scared by it.

[@Lowerclergy]

@@bighands69 no more likely that they experienced the lingering spirits and energies of various negative and deadly experiences, which were greatly amplified by the human remains once belonging to those experiences. On top of the fact that the middle east is very well known and well documented, by the inhabitants of the countries in that part of the world, as being a hot bed for entities, spirits, demons, ghoulish like creatures, giants, skin crawlers, wedingos, and what has been described as possibly ET or an ET looking ghoul of some sort (all of the ghouls and creatures are some sort of demon with the exception of the regular ghosts/spirits of the humans that died in the areas they haunt) I used to not believe in spirits until I lived in a haunted house for a year and it's true what they say that it all happens in the middle of the night, and seeing is believing I guess. After that I began accepting that spirits actually are real and also accepted that there is no logical reason to deny their existence other than the fact that the living do not quite fully understand the differences between their world and ours and most of all it's easier to not let yourself get scared or spooked by something that you don't believe is real (until confronted with it multiple different times) Then several years later I encountered a place I was told wasn't haunted by a ghost but rather a demonic entity of some sort which manifested at night and was told if it bothered me or started trying to look at me (which is its way of bothering you and the energy things like that carry will naturally fill the air around you with a cold, sinister vibe while being looked at by one of these entities causes a kind of primal reaction that comes from within that is a feeling of the upmost terror, a child like terror, if only for a moment) to always dig past the inner terror that is felt at first and bring out your own aggressive assertion that you stand up to any and everything while also saying the lords prayer to which this seemed to cause a look of great disappointment and resentment from the entity followed by the cold vibes and the entity to dissipate for the rest of the night. Luckily I didn't live in the place with the demonic energy but I did stay there for a week and one thing that is impossible to avoid it the fact, that while there was 2 nights with audio and visual encounters and 3 nights with just audio, but EVERY night there was an initial insomnia that occurred while trying to go to sleep and a feeling of being closely watched. Though the most seemingly inescapable part was once you DID fall asleep in came the horrific, disturbing and very vivid nightmares... yeah it may be comforting to your core beliefs that the logical explanation is that some non taliban enemy intelligence found its way to a remote outpost in Afghanistan, where it proceeded to monitor a small group of marines while scaring them with their state of the art equipment that allowed them to not appear on thermal vision, seemingly teleport distances of 100 or more meters in a couple seconds, tap someone on the shoulder while wearing an invisibility cloak, walking on the roof in said cloak, and for the grand finale use emp technology to disable their radios and test out the new "modern warfare firefight, sounds of combat" machine to make them think they're being shot at.... yes you're right it sounds more likely that this is what probably happened the only question is was it the Chinese or Russians or? Playing these pranks while not actually engaging the marines?

[@praxepipi5739]

@@ctakitimu me too. They said that's the time when God died and when the devil gets into the world something like this.

[@panteleymonschekochikhin-k1978]

@@praxepipi5739 i guess god dies in each timezone separately huh

[@overcomer4226]

Physician here who Served at Bagram Air Base in 2009. These are a tough listen. I was well protected. Mad respect to all these people outside the wire. Seems a lifetime ago now.

[@mnaylor81]

I heard stories of this base while over seas. The locals even warn some of the soldiers there.

[@YL702]

DUDE I HAD MY HEADPHONES ON AND THOSE WHISPERS ALMOST KILLED ME..

[@gabiparadisee6112]

🤣

[@angelmartin2214]

nearly peed.... might have been a lil hii. but geeze

[@YL702]

Foreal huh gals ? Shivers came up my spine like, "yeah we bouta take yo soul"

[@FlyGuyStuy]

Na me too

[@YL702]

Joe Dirté damn I feel you, players stop my bad dreams every time

[@gregmullis5359]

I ain’t gonna lie when I heard that whisper it made me look around. I thought someone was whispering behind me😂

[@thomasgraham5842]

hahahahah me to

[@pungalo_fairyserver8507]

I thought i was trippin.. i had to look around.. xD

[@riap5148]

I was listening on my lunch hour and the whispering started just as I was walking back into the office and screamed “Ewwww!!” I scared the people in the office but I know it would’ve been worse if they heard what I was listening to! 😲🤣

[@peckspwnz]

Scared me so bad that I had to check the comments to make sure it was from the video. 😅

[@nicka2512]

Haha i got that chill going thru me and started looking around like oh no mr.ghost not tonight

[@keepitabuck2313]

I can attest to this story. While I was on an OP in Iraq back in 2006. I was was on guard duty overlooking a good section of our sector. There was a bridge in front of the power plant we were using as an OP. This bridge was the brutal execution sight for some of the guys from the unit we took over for in right seat rides a few days before. I won't tell you what happened but it was barbaric and kept us extremely attentive while pulling guard duty. I was so shaken by what happened to them I was paranoid and determined to not let it happen to me. So I not only used my NODS with a fish eye detachment I also used the CLU for our Javelin to see thermals as well. So I would use them 75% NODS 25% CLU. About half way through my shift I saw 4 soldiers on the bridge in full battle rattle attire through my NODS. I was puzzled at first because no other missions were going on in our sector besides route security but the nearest vehicle was at least 5-6 km away. So I radioed the TOC and asked them if there were any missions going on in our AO by us or our neighboring marine unit. I got a big negative and couldn't understand how that was possible. So I radioed my Lt to ask him to come up and verify. The whole time the solders were talking to each other and down on bended knee like they were discussing something. Keep in mind the bridge was only about 200-250m away so there was no way I was just seeing shadow or some other nonsense. The Lt came up and saw the same thing as me and reported it up the chain so I knew I wasn't just seeing stuff like the TOC was eluding to. Lt flashes them with his IR laser on his m4. No response from them. So Lt decides to get a team in go down there to link up with them. The whole time I am keeping eyes on while still monitoring my sector. As I was monitoring other areas I saw movement out the corner of my eye and turned to look. I saw all 4 guys get up and sit on the railing of the bridge with their back facing me. This is odd behavior for any team out in sector with no real safety except training along with cover and concealment. I then noticed none of these guys had weapons. Now I'm starting to feel a sense of dread and uneasiness because things are not adding up. The Lt and the team left the op and started to there way to the bridge. Lt kept sending the he could no longer see anyone on bridge after he left our op. I kept telling him they were still there but acting oddly. I watched as the Lt kept getting closer but the strangest thing happened the soldiers start to become ethereal the closer Lt got. At this point I am beyond uneasiness and am feeling like something is going on that is not physically possible. As these solders started to become less and less corporeal I remembered that I had the CLU next to me and turned it on thermal. No heat signature at all. I'm switching between NODS and CLU but the CLU showed nothing. Thats when I had to accept it was some kind of Paranormal stuff going on. The Lt reached the bridge and saw nothing at all and just as the lt reach the bridge the soldiers vanished from view. Both me and the Lt were flabbergasted. We reported back to the TOC that there was nothing and it made me look foolish and I never lived this down from higher. But Lt told me eventhough he didn't see anything that when he and the team got to the bridge they ALL felt an overwhelming sense of fear, sadness, anger, and hopelessness. I can tell you that I do believe what I saw despite what higher wanted to think. Not to mention that other solders saw similar things on thier own stints of duty on OP Alpha. I have another story even more outlandish then this about an event witnessed by multiple units at the same time, thousands maybe 10s of thousands, solders one night out in sector. Tons of radio chatter about it but was later told to shut up or face consequences if we continued to talk about it any longer. Higher used some unbelievable event to explain it away. No one beleaved them but no one wanted to go to Leavenworth or face court marshall either. A tale for another day I suppose.

[@kyliemcsmiley88]

I wanna hear that tale??

[@GriseWeisshark]

So I guess those ghosts are the men who were executed? Did you try to look up their names and what did they look like?

[@nashrunner]

Was this in Fallujah at the Bridge?

[@zipshed]

C'mon and finish the 2nd story please...dont keep us hanging!!!

[@TheSeamJimi]

Damn...Makes me think though, psychological stimulus has been used in war for as long as war has existed. Maybe freaky hologram projections could be used to deter future combatants.

[@AubreyWasBornIn2010]

I remember walking to the PX in the middle of the night during the summer in Baghdad, and I walked through a cold patch. Got chills all over my body and ran the rest of the way there. I could feel someone watching me. I worked nights and would also get woken up by a man yelling my first name when I was sleeping days and everybody was at work. You could hear people walking on the rocks so you always knew when someone was outside. It wasnt someone outside.

[@BEasy198031]

Afghanistan is an old place. I was there twice and it had such a weird energy.

[@DEEPMUCH]

Ancient.

[@loganbaileysfunwithtrains606]

It’s all the dead and defeated militaries that have tried to conquer it, too much death does that to a place, bad energy or what the kids call it “a vibe check”

[@beatrizward9878]

Isn't that where they killed the red hair giant? Spooky

[@strikem1241]

I was there in 2015.

[@igitahimsa5871]

@@beatrizward9878 Yep.

[@tracycraft2546]

My husband was in the Army for tens years and also has stories of weird happenings while in Iraq, things that couldn't be explained like the whispers and screams. Thanks for this story cause things like this happened to alot of soldiers during desert storm like my husband. Thank you for your service!

[@andrewrestrepo4007]

I swear we heard the same, would sound like little girls were whispering to us, never been so creeped out in my life

[@kckittkatt]

My late hubby, also. Weird crap over there!

[@nunyabidness1841]

As a Marine, I was stationed at Pearl Harbor. We had supernatural occurrences very regularly.

[@Priest748]

This is believable

[@nunyabiz3557]

@Tumour Consumer 🙄

[@curiouscuriouser2670]

@Tumour Consumer 😏🤯🤐

[@kharn7932]

Thank you for your service, sir.

[@kie-skatemods4141]

Bullshit!

[@victoryak86]

God bless the brave young men and women in combat, currently and in the past. Though i don’t really understand what it was or is like, your heroic sacrifices must be acknowledged. Thank you.

[@WyattsWorld22]

Dude I’ve been on KZbin for years and years and this is like my new favorite channel, all this stuff is so beyond interesting

[@WolfoftheWoodsAirsoft]

The restless ghosts of dead soldiers killed in battle still fighting their war. Does anybody else think this would make for a great suspense film or series. Who else thinks Mr Ballen has heard a few tales from his fellow SEALS that would give you a shiver down your spine.

[@anonymoose116]

My spouse spent a year in Afghanistan. 11B, Army Infantry. The scariest stories do not involve the paranormal.

[@WideAwakeHuman]

@@anonymoose116former cop... Have seen first hand the fact that there are two different worlds people live in... The one where evil rules and the things that happen make your worst dreams seem like Sunday school and the one world where everyone watches their iphones and cares about being green and thinks killin an animal is "cruel".

[@RecklessGenesis]

There is a movie about this , pretty good actually .

[@juliepenney2683]

@@RecklessGenesis name of movie pretty please 🙏🏽

[@RecklessGenesis]

@@juliepenney2683 spectral its called .

[@rsboy5]

Former navy greenside here, my team was assisting in an exercise in Jordan at a small camp, typical dog and pony show stuff, very safe compared to other deployments. We were in charge of security and I was the cog, one night I'm walking to one of our "towers". When in the darkness not 15 feet away from the wire i see a silhouette of a man with something in his hand which would normally be alarming enough but his back was slightly contorted like he was leaning back and to the side like he was staring into the sky. I completely froze for a second when I shouldve been calling in the contact to the attwo as this deeply disturbed me but I remembered I was standing about 10 feet from our igot (generator) that powers the outward facing floodlights and utilities so in a flash I close the gap to the igot and turn it on without breaking contact with the figure but as soon as I turn on the light it's just gone, nothing at all. Not even some rubble or anything that couldve given a false silhouette, just the usual dirt. After that I gained a deeper appreciation of all the middle east as being something more ancient than I could comprehend.

[@SP_Airsoft]

Thank you for your service.

[@bluejayxox]

This was a Jinn, this is their scare tactics to get rid of human occupation from their territory... Ugly Betty can see them like all dogs can. No surprise here... If you want this experience to stop, you must read out loud Ayetul Kursi from Quran, disturbance will stop immediately.

[@kabloweey3981]

Tldr

[@darkfox4100]

@@kabloweey3981 Should have read

[@PaulHoleybatch]

@@kabloweey3981 If you see a short paragraph and immediately discard it as 'tldr', then you're truly living life on '30 day trial mode'.

[@scorpions1965]

I'm from Afghanistan (currently living in USA), 3 of my brothers were all in united state's army. They were deployed number of times to other countries, but they all agree that Helmand and Kandahar are the wildest places to be as a soldier

[@selecttravelvacations7472]

They literally began bribing soldiers to go there by adding for example much better food than in other bases. At least that’s what a soldier told me who was stationed in Germany.

[@cynthiakeller5954]

Welcome, Afghanistan seems like an interesting place. I lived in Turkey for a few years, had my last son there. Good vibrations to your family from my heart.

[@User2024-dw6jv]

See the book of Enoch. Nephilim who after death become demons, the origin of genetic evil. Which the Adamic race intermixed with. If we were made in the image of Christ with no ado, why would we need to be born again of spirit. Strongs Concordance, precise linguist transl.hebrew and greek says that what took place in Eden was in fact Eve's adultery. The very word woman - H802 root comes from 'adulteress'. Genetic mixing is what enabled the Adamic race for evil. And the seed of the serpent - eg.Cain - Genesis 3.15 and 6.4, still rules the world. Through bloodlines like Davos Rschilds.

[@officerpepewski5089]

My family is from afghanistan. I live in the U.S now but could always remember standing on a bridge in kandahar with a lake about 20 feet down. I was 6 but could still remember someone violently pushing me from behind into the water. I was alone on the lake and my family was on ground. Nobody believed me and thought i jumped in but i definitely felt a hard push right behind me. My uncle miraculously found a tree branch which i grabbed before being washed away.

[@FOREVERLOST-k1]

Kandahar is the headquarter of Taliban. Even Mullah omar looks like a monster.

[@danpovey]

"If you dig anything up, just put it back." What a warning!

[@stevenjohnson7086]

Typical British understatement.

[@backyardtortoise.]

I'v even seen a video where a british guy filming a train but then another train comes in and just barely missed him. The other guy who is filming that camera man Just says Wooohooo.

[@Turtle-xk5qt]

When he got to the part saying the guy felt like someone was right behind him my dad came out of nowhere behind me and scared the mess out of me🤣

[@yazeeit6183]

😂😂

[@Kazeemi2810]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@ivettelily]

LOL

[@DavidS-in4gn]

Wow, you were a former SEAL? You definitely found your calling as you're a natural storyteller. Your kids and grandkids are going to be truly fortunate to have a pa/gramps like you.

[@anacolon1142]

@ David S - I couldn't agree more. MrBallen, you do tell your stories so well.

[@dhutch12345]

I love your stories , it’s definitely paranormal,around where I live there are a lot of Native American Indian burial mounds,a friend of mine just could not resist and decided to dig in one ,the very next morning he was in the hospital with a blood clot in his upper leg ,he almost lost it he lost the use of his sexual organ, him and his wife started fighting,he lost his job ,and within 4 months he hung himself in the little garage outside his house ,and that curse carried on downward to his stepson who tried to burn the house down saying that the voices told him to ,the moral of this story is let the dead rest especially when they have died a tragic death .all of this happened in my little town called elgin Kansas .

[@BrownSugarBaby1992]

Omg! Thanks for sharing that’s deep my friend. 😮

[@ebonaparte3853]

@KMVS8686he

[@lisabrockway7836]

My dad, who was a medic in Vietnam, saw a ghost. He was up one night on patrol in the bush. They were secured on 3 sides of their camp, but his job was to watch out over the field on the open side except for a fence. A old Vietnamese man was walking toward him in the field on his side of the fence. My dad yelled out to the man "đi đi mau (“go quickly”)" multiple times. The man didn't stop so he opened fire which then made his platoon waken and join him with shooting. The man began to run away while tons of bullets were raining down on him. The platoon then went out to find his body, which had to run through a fence mind you, and there was no body.

[@bighands69]

Enemy forces have been carrying out those types of operations for a long time. In the middle east and parts of Asia people believe more in the paranormal so those types of acts work very effectively on them. They can be very convincing when used in remote locations where the subjects are alone and in a heightened state. When you get a massive fright from something you tend not notice the little details that would make the magic trick more obvious.

[@KylieJonkman]

Great medic 🤦‍♀️

[@Shinesman21]

Ever hear of the tunnel rats who found Vietnamese in stasis down in dead ends of the tunnels? They were live humans who were absolutely paralyzed in position in a cavern. They believe it was related to the Vietnam "vampires" that soldiers encountered. Crazy AF but people seriously encountered some crazy and cryptic stuff in our wars abroad.

[@thefisherking78]

Sounds like your dad's platoon were all terrible marksmen

[@ribertfranhanreagen9821]

​​@@bighands69 i doubt any asia country will be colonized if they can use supernatural to attack. in fact i believe there will be ghost army in every nation military. it will be the best scout lol

[@fishbulb9053]

Ghosts are exponentially scarier when they have RPGs and machine guns. 😱

[@tjrex9458]

Its all fun and games till the ghost says "Say hello to my little friend"

[@hollowtrappedinaelevator320]

"What are you going to do? Shoot me?" *Ghost pulls out gun* "Oh shit you are."

[@FreeOpenTruth]

Are the ghosts machine guns and RPGs "ghosts" too? Like are they spirit bullets and spirit RPGs? Do they go through you just like ghosts go through you???

[@asdfghjkllkjhgfdsa9161]

@@FreeOpenTruth it's also a part of the imagination, like the ghost.

[@dungeonrat]

A line from the movie "Gladiator", "Brothers, what we do in life, echos in eternity"; seems appropriate.

[@seand.g423]

Legit!

[@RAH1868]

You sucked me into this story, and I appreciate you telling us this. When I was listening to thing I was in the basement, and I just kept looking around me, and scanning the dark rooms and hallways. I got soo paranoid after listening to this. Good story, keep up the good work.

[@marcmckenzie5110]

What strikes me is that it’s not even just the last 50 years where people have died on OP rock; imagine the dynasties upon dynasties that have coveted that strategic point. There could be over 5-8k years of warfare and death in that spot. Maybe that’s part of why peace refuses to come to many areas and villages in that region, irregardless of who is prosecuting the effort. While obviously cultural, perhaps there’s a spiritual legacy we don’t understand. I sure honor all of our troops serving duty like this. And such young men and women to deal with such extreme, complicated situations.

[@jenniferwilliams4315]

Good point, I Love to travel to different countries, but I have no desire to visit any of these places. Not because of war, but it seems dark.

[@jimanderson9403]

Sure is a very good and plausible point . 2 fold actually very strategic placement. And mindset of those in the region must be a little askew.

[@raynjpg]

Sorry to be a grammar nazi, but irregardless isn't a word. That would just be regardless.

[@marcmckenzie5110]

rayn Actually, it regardless is a non-standard synonym for regardless, used as a intensifier. Always glad to learn, but the word is in every dictionary in my office!

[@raynjpg]

Marc McKenzie Wow. That's cool to know, I've just been around people who constantly complain about the word irregardless and have just ended up believing it. Thanks for turning it around on me haha.

[@Jamesbond-kq1xe]

it's crazy how he doesn't have so much more subs. Also he gets almost no dislikes

[@rykersmimi]

Who could seriously dislike his videos?? Even the most hardened haters have to agree Mr. Ballen makes awesome videos!!

[@MrBallen]

Haha thank you!!

[@balls833]

@@MrBallen BRO UR SO UNDERRATED IT MAKES ME ANGRY!!!!!!! UR STORIES R AWESOME MAN!!!!

[@fiafia5802]

The dislikes I guarantee you are other youtubers hating on him. What’s not to like?!!

[@davidpena7022]

sophia foshee facts

[@letmeoffthisplanet6208]

As strange as it sounds,never underestimate or ignore a dog as they are on a level far beyond our own.

[@breshannondevereaux7725]

AMEN!

[@thamsanqahadebe5778]

Yup! I have a cat and I always pay attention to him especially when I'm outside smoking late night with him at my feet. Never ignore the animals!

[@richardmiseljr2413]

I have ALWAYS trusted the instinct of ALL the dogs I'v had in my life. Dogs DO NOT LIE.!

[@luv2luv720]

Doesn't sound strange to me!

[@chadhendrixson9840]

Exactly right!

[@carlyscott8016]

Thank you for your service! I'm a new found fan, I can't stop watching, your narrative skills are mesmerizing and incredibly respectful to the people and their stories!

[@MyelinProductions]

I spent 15 years in US Army SF, officer, Team Leader & OI Ofcr. In many countries - Central & South America, Africa, Mid East, etc etc saw/experienced MANY MANY paranormal events/experiences. This stuff is true! The 1st Desert Storm had MANY US military units positioned on "ancient spiritual/ritual sites" w/ Lots of serious insane issues including "suicide outbreaks" and long term issues. Afghanistan is infamous for ALL MANNER of "wicked" realities. Thank You and Be safe & well out there.

[@u.s.paratroops4633]

Lets hear a good one that defies any rational explanation....

[@u.s.paratroops4633]

@Tommy Ly Yeah, I watched it, all soldiers tell stories esp. ones under extreme circumstances, tired, alone etc. The mind is powerful !! esp. during REM sleep

[@u.s.paratroops4633]

@Tommy Ly This guy thinks he's "Mr Paranormal"