Top 3 stories that sound fake but are 100% real | Part 8

Warning, distressing content.

Time Stamps:
#3 -- "For 'Science'" -- 0:39 -- What happens to some "donated" bodies after death
#2 -- "The Lamp" -- 2:59 -- One of the most fascinating Reddit submissions ever
#1 -- "Crossbow" -- 8:39 -- This is why you should never lie...

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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!! ☠︎

[arcanehornet]

“He decided that he would not tell Kristen, instead, he would kill his mother”
_well that escalated quickly_

[jameskirk]

I feel really bad for Mitch. Imagine waking up and being told your last decade didn't happen and your wife and kids don't exist. Heartbreaking.

[embramorgan]

The Lamp should be made into a movie. What an impact. I feel so sorry for him.

[lumgs]

The first story is heartbreaking. I can only imagine the sadness of the son in learning what was done to his mom's body.

[grasual_]

"mitch ADORED his children"
me: so he MURDERED them
"his entire life was a hallucination"
me: oh

[erock]

“The Lamp” would make such depressing movie

[glmybnes-pfxv]

I’ve heard the lamp story before so I knew the twist, but how you told it as if it was real at first was so much more impactful than the way I’ve heard others do it. Usually they give the context first. Honestly a really tragic story. I’ve had lucid dreams where my brain invented characters that I got genuinely emotionally attached to, to the point where waking up and realizing they weren’t real was upsetting to me. I can’t imagine living an entire life only to wake up from it one day and realize your entire family were, essentially, a delusion.

[ms-rachel-anne]

The first story turned my stomach and filled me with rage. I've lost several family members and the idea of their bodies being treated with such repulsive disrespect is beyond horrifying. I cannot imagine the mingled grief and rage and horror of the families who had their loved ones' remains treated in such a way.

[ObiWill]

Damn that football player decked Mitch so hard he knocked him into a parallel universe for 10 years!
Sounds super depressing though I feel for the guy.

[kd]

The second story reminds me of an experience I had under anesthesia.

I was knocked out for some oral surgery back around 2010. In total I was under for about two hours, but in that time, I had an incredibly vivid "dream." I was a white man named Fred. I lived in Nebraska, in the US. (I'm black, female, from Ghana, and lived in Germany at the time of my surgery.) And while my awareness of the experience started around 'Fred's' late 50s, I had memory of my childhood too.

I had a wife named Annette who I can still picture. I had three daughters, two of whom were married with kids, and the youngest daughter (Julia) lived with my wife and I.

I can very vividly recall my home and property. I could draw a blueprint of it to this day. Every tree in the yard, every room in the house. The wallpaper. How it smelled.

I 'lived' as Fred for around 11 years, I think. I remember having a lot of birthday parties with my grandkids.

Then one night I went to sleep as Fred and woke up... in an oral surgeon's office.

I was very depressed after, and I'm still very bittersweet when I think of it. None of it ever really happened, but I imagine Fred died in his sleep.

[ImJustSaijan]

The lamp story literally made me cry. I've had a similar experience, and still living with it. Thank you for what you mr. Ballin. You're awesome.

[turtleislandlac]

Wow I can totally relate to story #2. I once had a dream where I had this whole other life for months. And when I woke up and realized none of it was real, it took me a few days to get over it. I can't imagine someone actually dreaming years of another life.

[BathingTime]

The second story sounds like a mindfuck of a thriller movie. It sounds so crazy that it can’t even be real! Poor Mitch.... heartbreaking

[orc]

The one about the man being unconscious and dreaming of a perfect family hurts me so much

[dartanion]

The most strange and mysterious part about the first story with Jim and his mom-- is that the FBI actually investigated a case and solved it.

[NerdEmoji]

“The Lamp” was so sad, imagine building a life for 10 years, you have a family and you just love your life. Only to wake up one day and have it all vanish.

[andersonvillalobos]

Wife: "He is thinking about other women"
He: "WTF is this blurry abomination of hell, I need to see it again"

[electrontube]

My wife: "What are you doing?"
Me: "I'm listening to a retired Navy Seal tell weird stories"

[Shedoesdiy]

I LOOOVE the emphasis on the "very low paying job" in Brett's story... and then the picture of the blue vests, cause we know what business that is!!! 😂

[Hffhbd]

I feel for Mitch. A few years ago, after sleeping off a seizure episode I had, I dreamed of my daughter. The dream was so real, and everything I felt in it was so real as well. In the dream I was there for about a week after I gave birth, and then I woke up. I was genuinely confused that I was in my bedroom at my parents house, and that my daughter is no where near me. When I realized that it was just a dream I cried for several days. I’ve dreamed about my daughter twice after that, and every time I wake up wishing that it was my reality. Whenever I remember her, and the amount of love I’ve felt towards her it brings me to tears. It was a feeling I have never felt before, to the point it felt like someone took a piece of my heart when I woke up from the dream. I miss a daughter that I never had more than I miss a lot of people in my life.
I’ve gone to therapy and my sadness subsided a lot, but she still has a special part in my heart, that I keep thinking that it might be God showing me a glimpse of my future at my times of hardship to give me strength through them, and that I will get to see her again in the future.