MrBallen

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Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=phJD8mb0Tfs

[janette]

Posted by selinam (here)
In a similar vein, I also listen to Beyond Creepy. He only posts once every couple of weeks but he has some really good stories. Here is one of the latest ones

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=DaLLxm5Q70M

Hope I posted the link correctly
Selina

Yes me too ..another great storyteller who draws you in to the tale as if you are living it. Very addictive listening lol xx

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In this installment he tells the story of Joe Kennedy junior going on a suicide mission to stop Hitler's vengeance weapons that had killed over 5,000 people in England. They had stripped his plane and turned it into a bomb. Had he not died he might have become POTUS. I think they killed him to steer the timeline to their liking. Maybe with him as the president a nuclear exchange would have happened during the Cuban missile crisis.

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A little more than a year later, on August 12 1944, Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. was killed when his plane, packed with explosives for a top-secret bombing raid, exploded over southeast England.

03/24/24 (16:54)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=BaGJBlKT8NA

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

A Mr Ballen story accompanied by an AI video, a combination that works pretty well.

I'd never heard this story before from Mexico, about a young pilot who flies out over the ocean and...I won't spoil it. I would really like to know more about this case. Absolutely fascinating.

https://x.com/TUPACABRA2/status/1953903201725690149

[Inversion]

This is probably the best video AJ has done. He speaks with John B. Allen from the YouTube channel MrBallen. When he was young, he would smoke pot and play a skateboard videogame in his mother's basement. He became so skilled at it he didn't realize he was one of the top players in the world. Then he noticed a mail icon in the corner of the screen with thousands of comments to him and he received invitations but, opened them too late. At that point the game became a job, and he wasn't interested in it anymore. He skipped a lot of school and left college due to a riot he was involved in after a sporting event. His mother was very disappointed in him, and he decided to clean up his act and go back to college. He met his future wife and told her he wanted to go into the SEAL program. It just so happened that his mother's best friend had two close relatives that he knew for years that were in the program. He had a tour in Afghanistan that he was proud of. In a later deployment to Peru, he started taking large amounts of Benzodiazepine. He was ruled unfit for duty due to his mental state and the fact he has grenade shrapnel in his body. While in the service his nickname was Shakespeare because of his story telling. While listening to him I felt like I was in an AA meeting and a men's group. They talked about alcohol abuse and AJ admitted for a year he would do shows with a hangover, red face and bloodshot eyes. The hat and plaid shirt are part of the MrBallen character, and he doesn't wear them in his normal life. AJ asked his advice about him debunking the story he just told in his show. John said to look at it as entertainment value. Bill Ryan commented about him debunking his own stories in The Why Files thread (post#23). They both called their presentations theater for the mind. Later in the show John told some of his stories that were interesting.

08/03/26 (3:48:43)
The Basement: John B. Allen | Becoming MrBallen

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=J8XpLUeDz2I

John Allen built an empire telling strange, dark, and mysterious stories. But the darkest story he's ever carried is his own.

We talk Navy SEALs, the night his life went viral in a water park hotel room, the price of fame, and the confession he's kept buried for over a decade.