The tape recording they found will give you CHILLS

WARNING, there is a distressing audio recording starting at 8:33 -- I describe it right before I play it, so you can mute the actual recording and still understand the story.

Time Stamp:
#1 -- "S.O.S." -- 0:42 -- A distress signal was found inside a deadly valley in Japan

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#Japan #sos #mrballen
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Nothing to see down here...
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Seriously, no need to keep scrolling.
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You are at the end. Nothing more exists beyond this. Promise.
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What are you looking for? There is nothing else here.
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OK, we lied, there's more....
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☠︎ Found the secret easter egg in today's video? Be the 1st to comment what it is and where it occurs in the video, and you will get pinned!! ☠︎

[geeleduc]

At first I was like ‘oh goodie they found the two hikers’ then I was quickly reminded that i’m a fan of the Strange, Dark and mysterious delivered in story format..

[alonedownthere]

"i can assure you, cutting down a tree with an axe is harder than you think" this guy owns 200 flannel shirts, you have to believe him

[fuckyoutube]

The fact that no one has removed false rock or put an engraving on the real one is just mind blowingingly stupid to me

[joehendrix]

Seems like they can save alot of lives by just posting a sign saying "NOT SAFE ROCK" or "FLASE SAFE ROCK"

[cassini]

It's incredibly sad to think that whoever built that SOS signal perished despite their best efforts, but it really is incredibly fortunate that that signal saved the lives of those two men years later.

[sandyclaws]

If the SOS has been there for 5 years.... I kinda feel like people haven't been looking very hard, for anyone, or anything.

[WebHead]

"Should we put a sign on False Rock?"

"Nah, this'll be funnier"

[sirridesalot]

I just watched this again.

Even without signage there's a huge warning that you've gone onto the wrong trail. That warning is the bamboo forest. If you're on a trail and you come to a bamboo forest after passing what looks like Safe rock, then you know you're on the wrong trail. Don't enter that bamboo forest; turn around instead and go back.

[michaelharper]

They really should write "This is not the safe rock" on the rock.

[Dutchfalco]

"False Safe Rock" sounds way too innocent, I'd go for 'Doom Straight Ahead Rock'.

[LonelySandwich]

Hearing John giggle during his intros while trying to be serious makes me laugh every time

[MyChinton]

hey Mrballen just wanna say thanks for not having any swear words in all your videos. it allows me to comfortable chill out with the fam knowing that nothing rude is going to come out of your mouth. thanks man. love from Australia 🦘

[cas]

Why don’t they just put a sign saying “wrong way” or “this rock is a liar”

[rwdonohue]

Fun fact: John wears his baseball cap backwards to make himself more aerodynamic in order to control his accidental takeoff when he uses too many “air quotes”.

[PKMNTrainerWilson]

I like that he converts measurements and places them in the subtitles, additionally, the fact they hang around for a decent amount of time is nice too. Overall, Mrballen is the best 😂

[Adays]

Stories like this one and the previous one (where the man got trapped in a ravine while hiking) about people being saved by the tragedy of the person before them, always get me worked up. It makes the person's death mean something in the end and that it wasn't for nothing. A bitter-sweet ending.

[cuboidbirdsgaming]

“A lot of people seem to be getting lost at that rock. Should we put a sign there?”
“Nah, that’s stupid.”

[JamesBiggar]

It would have been a struggle on his own if the logs were freshly cut. They'd weigh a lot. But it's not that unbelievable, especially if the logs were cut previously by someone else and left behind. Maybe they wanted to build themselves a cabin and gave up. Who knows. But what isn't likely is that the lost hiker had an axe to cut them with. My guess is the logs were cut years prior, left to rot and dry out, which made them much easier to handle. Unlike most areas in Japan, Hokkaidō isn't affected by the rainy season so summers tend to be drier there. Just speculating from experience working in the woods.

[JohnnyChimpo]

Coming from someone who lives in a massively forested area (interior Alaska), and the way the entire clearing is described, along with the logs.. VERY much sounds like it was a logging area in the past, where they cut down birch.. hence the fairly equal length logs, and the big open clearing… Nobody in a dire survival situation would bother to cut equal length anything, they would simply get whatever they could find. The voice on the recorder was also definitely male and not female.. it’s just a crappy ancient recording plus it’s damaged by the elements. My money says Kenji found a bunch of tree tops, left behind from previously logged birch where the logging company had kept just the best parts of the tree and left the tops. He used his final bits of strength to drag those logs into the open clearing and made his sign. Think about it… It’s his tape recorder, he went alone, it was found with all his belongings, and the voice on the recorder is male and is already verbally stating SOS.. and then that was also the signal found in the clearing made out of birch logs, with a partial skeleton next to it that turned out to be him.

[anadubar]

Some 15 to 20 years ago, I went out with my friends and got to know this young lady. Her brother had just gone missing on a hike through a natural park up to a volcano in Borneo. Her eyes were red from crying and she was obviously in a very bad state. Her parents were on tv all the time, and they got the money to start a huge rescue operation. The jungle around that volcano was very thick and it was easy to get lost. The rescuers did not find the boy, but they found FOUR other hikers who also had gotten lost. Two of them were still alive, and two were skeletons.