Top 5 Bingeable Scary Stories • NIGHTMARE FUEL Edition

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Time Stamps:
#5 -- "The Lamp” -- 0:58 -- One of the most fascinating Reddit submissions ever
#4 -- "Goosebumps" -- 6:42 -- Reddit user posts the craziest "glitch in matrix" story ever
#3 - "16 Minutes" -- 13:28 -- What he saw during those 16 minutes drove him insane
#2 - "The Woman in Black" -- 27:04 -- Sleep paralysis or a haunting?
#1 - "Thorns" -- 41:45 -- A woman has a dream that becomes reality

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[seanking]

The Lamp story is the scariest I’ve ever heard. Living ten years of a life only to wake up and realize it wasn’t real would be overwhelmingly depressing.

[TheRoc]

Has anyone else noticed that mrballen seems so much happier compared to a few years ago? It's just really nice to see, he deserves it so much

[MandaKaye]

The lamp story is actually fairly common! Many ppl have said that while asleep, in a coma, or just basically wide awake somehow spent days, weeks, months, or years claiming to get as old as 65 and in this they had family, children, a career, home, etc and basically lived out another life and when they woke up or came to it was only hours and it was like they went to an alternate dimension or parallel universe and lived this life so when they came back they had actually became attached and loved ppl or children and became deeply sad or even depressed like they was mourning the death of them and it’s so crazy. I love hearing those kind of stories and find them fascinating!

[ianhalsey]

Thanks for sharing the story about Sherman. He was the preacher at my grandmother’s church. A very small country church rested near the top of the mountain in a middle of nowhere town. So as soon as I heard you say his name I knew where this one was going cause my grandmother told all of the grandchildren, myself included when we was all younger, the tragic story. I can barely remember Sherman but my grandma always said he was a great man and I doubt anybody would be the same after enduring such events. Thanks again MrBallen for getting this story out there and keep up the great content!

[christinegoldfus]

I'm one of the 20, 000 people who had anesthesia awareness during a surgery. It was terrifying! I remember wondering if they knew I woke up, and then I heard them say "she's awake". It only lasted about 20 seconds and then I was back out. Thank God!!!

[HeisenbergFam]

2 MrBallen videos in 3 days is like witnessing a holiday event

[KiloFeenix]

As an American Italian i really appreciate the way Mr Ballen expresses his words with his hand gestures. The podcasts just don't hit the same way.

[suehuman]

The Lamp Story breaks my heart, having really lost people, to loose what you lived in your coma is not imaginable and just breaks my heart. Thank you for never disappointing, you are an AMAZING story teller ❤

[RavenReads]

"The Lamp" lives rent-free in my head at all times, I swear.

[jch]

No matter how many times I hear the anesthesia story, it gives me chills every time. I cannot imagine the agony Sherman was feeling. I've only gone under twice for different surgeries and both times nothing unexpected happened, and so hearing that this has happened to others besides Sherman is terrifying.

[SihleMeyiwa]

The woman in black scares the hell out of me! I mentally visualized everything as Mr Ballen was narrating

[zephyrthorne]

The lamp story in particular really gets me. When I was 8 years old I had a dream that lasted about 60 years in dream time. I grew up I went to college I became a teacher I had a house and four kids and my husband and I live together happily for such a long time and I remember having grandchildren. I remember so many friends that I met during that dream and different jobs that I had and different times of horror, for example losing my parents waking up from that and then having to go on as an 8 year old was so confusing and I know that some people don't believe that 8 year olds can feel depression but I think that's when my depression started.

[TheSourKraut]

Around 4 decades ago, I had surgery where they completely put me under. Immediately after the surgery, the part of the anesthesia that "turns off my vision/hearing" must have worn off faster, because I could hear everybody talking very clearly, but I couldn't open my eyes or let them know I felt some pain.
I must have been able to suddenly move, because their "smalltalk" abruptly turned into panic yelling for someone to hold me, but it was too late. I was later told - off the record, by a nurse who was present - that I pushed myself off the table and fell face first to the floor. I didn't see or feel anything, but I still remember someone screaming for a doctor and to "stop the bleeding". I still have a nice scar above my eyebrow, where I split my face open. Last thing I remember was someone saying "let's glue it shut" and "XX milligram of ... something...fast"
I then woke up hours later, in a room with a headache that made me not even feel my surgery pain. That pain came later, when the headache eased up.

Long story short, it was determined later - during an internal investigation - that my body processed the different anesthesia drugs at a different rate or speed. At first nobody belied me, but the big fresh head wound and me recalling all their conversations convinced them.

Did I sue? No. Due to the "investigation" it was deemed an unforseen and unavoidable accident.
Did I get ANYthing? Sort of. Besides the scar, I had the best experience and was treated like royalty for the rest of my stay. They even let my visiting friends roll my bed into the smoking lounge (yes, back then I smoked and smoking was allowed almost everywhere - even my primary doc had an ashtray in his exam room)

Oh, and I STILL - on occasion - have a short bout of panic when I recall the feeling of utter helplessness while trapped in my body but conscious. It was horrifying. And while I felt some pain, it was more like discomfort. Just imagining feeling a surgery is enough to make me break out in cold sweat.

THAT incident made me so afraid, that I stipulated in my will (the healthcare part) that I require at least 2 separate medical professionals (and a preselected trusted friend) to verify that I am ACTUALLY dead, before any autopsy or similar procedure. That's how much this experience messed with my head.

[dragongyal]

The 16 minutes story had me squirming in my seat with anxiety. The detail you go into really conveys the absolute horror that poor man went through. I could barely listen to it. I pray his family has found some peace.

[EthanBabin]

Whenever he starts explaining the layout of something, that’s when you know it’s about to get good

[chasingpirates]

I LOVE how you're crafting the art of storytelling. Growing up I used to listen to Laura Sims, her voice and stories were immaculate and seemed alive. I love that there's a storyteller getting this much well deserved adoration.

[idesiderata]

The scariest thing about the lamp story, which I saw you tell on someone else’s show, was all the comments underneath with people saying it happened to them. One lady said she ‘watched a family for generations’ while she was in a short coma.

[williammclaren]

As a 53 year old man who has had 20+ surgeries in my life every time I go under anesthesia I'm always paranoid that something like this could happen.

[oniastarsky]

"...the toilet paper rolls from underneath; like a serial killer..." Omg. You are such an amazing storyteller. You engage, mesmerize, shock, and fully immerse your audience. You're my number ONE content creator! Amazing, Mr. Ballen. Additionally, thank you for your service, Sir! Love from Boston, MA ( not Quincy, but close), your home! 😊

[snarflcat]

That sucks for Sherman… but any qualified surgeon would have noticed that his patient’s BP was spiking.