The Most Terrifying Stories MrBallen Has Ever Told by a Campfire

All right, Mr. Bolland.

What's up, dude?

It's Halloween.

Yep.

You are the storyteller of all storytellers.

Give us some Halloween shit.

Yeah.

Actually, but first, you want to try these things?

Yeah, actually, we have to try these. You got to try these things? Yeah, actually we have to try these.

You got to try these. So these are the Vigilance Elite Swarm Bites.

Let me know what you think.

Yeah, dude. I have not officially told a story in front of a campfire in any sort of content capacity, so this is cool.

Are you serious?

No, this is the first time, dude. I don't know why that's true. Everyone's like yo you're a campfire storyteller never once done this.

That's hilarious. This is it. But I do have a good story. Um so these are really good.

These rival the gummy bears.

Yeah. Thank you. There you go.

All right, so we just released our second graphic novel, Where Nightmares Live, which is a collection of nine true scary stories, and one of the stories that I tell in there, it's called The Bell. And so this story, the reason we chose it for the graphic novel is because it's sort of become one of our, I don't know, fan favorites, if you will. Like there's a handful of stories that have sort of,

are talked about the most and are sort of memed quite a bit in the strange, dark, and mysterious community. And this is definitely one of them. And I think that, I think we do it justice in the strange, dark, and mysterious community, and this is definitely one of them. And I think that, I think we do it justice in the book, but there's a caveat to it. So the way it's portrayed in the book,

we had to actually set the story in, I think, Arizona, and it just had to do with a weird publishing issue. Like, we had to make very small scenery changes, okay? But the original story is from this girl out in France. And so we reached out to her, this is years ago, and we got this story.

And so this is the original story that has been adapted to the graphic novel, and it's quite good. I actually just told this at Comic-Con the other day,

people loved it.

Nice.

All right, so in June of 2019, there was this 18-year-old girl named Bella. And she had just wrapped up her first year in college, and she had returned back home to where she'd grown up, which is this little town in France. And her family still lived in the house she grew up in,

and it was situated up in these mountains in this rural part of France. And growing up, Bella, you know, she had loved living in this town. It was a small town and she spent a lot of time, you know, hiking in the woods. And you know, this is the first time she's come back since college.

And you know, she was just so happy to be back. And one of the things she loved doing when she was growing up is there was this man-made lake that was like way out in this forest that was right sort of abutting against her property. And the man-made lake, the reason she liked it so much is no one really knew about it beyond the people who literally made it. It's man-made, but it's not like a tourist attraction.

It wasn't something that was put there for tourists to go hike to or something. It's something that because she lived in town and sort of hiked all over the forest, she had found it. And whenever she would hike out there, which took about two hours to go from where she lived through the forest to this lake, she would never see anybody else.

It was like pristine wilderness, just forested wilderness. And so she loved that. And so the only other people she would ever see out there would be like her dad, who would sometimes go with her. So anyway, she comes back from her first semester, or her first year I should say in college,

and she gets back home, and one of the first things she does is she's like, I'm going to go hike out to the man-made lake. Do the thing I loved so much growing up. And so, on one of the first mornings that she's home, she packs up a day bag, and she hops in her car and she drives over to the, it's the trailhead, but it's not really a marked trail. It's basically, she drove like 15 minutes away from her house to the edge of this forest, and basically from the road, it just butted right up against the

forest. She would just walk right in where she knew it started. And the way you get to this lake is you basically go 15 minutes into the forest where you find this stream. And then you walk along the stream for about, you know, an hour and 15 minutes or so until you hit this east to west running river that sort of connects with the stream. And you turn left there and you go west and you follow

that bigger river for like 20 minutes. It feeds into the man-made lake. So it's basically this hour and a half long straight shot, effectively along a stream, you turn left, you follow the river, you get to the lake. And so she parks, she gets out, she starts this hike,

she goes through the woods, she reaches the stream, she's walking along, and everything's going great. But when she's maybe, you know, like 45 minutes or so or an hour into the hike, she hasn't seen anybody, it's daytime, she starts to hear something. And at first she can't even tell what it is, but she's truly like in the middle of the forest and it's there's nobody around. But

somewhere off in the distance, she couldn't really tell exactly where it was, but it seemed like it was sort of in the direction she was heading. She heard what sounded like a bell, but it wasn't very loud. I mean, it was loud enough that she could hear it clearly,

but she couldn't tell if it was like a big, like cowbell size bell, or if it's like a little bell, or if it's on a church steeple somewhere, but she's like, there aren't any churches anywhere near here. And so she stops, and she's just standing next to the stream, and she's just listening to this bell. And the bell sound, it was sort of sporadic. It wasn't like constant or anything.

It was just kind of random. And you know, she didn't know what to make of it. But she's thinking, you know, I've been out here my whole childhood, and the only other people I've ever seen out here are you know her own family and so she's sort of instantly ruling out other people she's like this this can't be a person like she actually thought it was two things she thought one maybe it's a dog that has a bell around its neck and

it's running around out here but she's like I don't know the sound of the bell doesn't really add up that doesn't that doesn't seem like the type of bell that would be around a dog's neck. It just seems too heavy, too deep. And then the other thought she had was like, maybe there's like a bell that's in a box that's on the stream or on the river somewhere,

and it's like gotten stuck against a rock, and the water's like rocking the box against the rock. It's like a really specific thought she has. But she would say, like, that's just what I thought it was. It's the bell in the box in the river or a dog. But she's like, I don't know. But as she's sitting there and she's listening to this bell,

you know, somewhere out there, it just stops. And so she had stopped there for at least a couple of minutes and she heard it long enough that it was, she experienced it, but then it just stopped. And so she's like, okay, well, whatever. Just gonna keep, carry on, you know? Who knows what the bell was? And so she keeps walking straight along,

basically forgets about the bell, but maybe like 15 minutes before reaching the east to west running river. So she's getting close to the lake at this point. She hasn't heard the bell again. That was, you know was 20 minutes earlier,

but she looks up ahead and off to the side of this stream she's walking along, she sees something on the ground. And she doesn't know what it is. And there's a little goat trail that sort of, it looks like a goat trail that follows the stream

and it's basically on the trail. It's like this dark mass that's on the ground. And so she walks up to it, you know, there's nobody around, you know, the bell sound's gone. And she finds it's an animal. It's a dead animal. It's a beaver. And at first, you know, animals die out here. There are animals out here. She wasn't overthinking it. But as she got close to it, she happens, animal predation, it is what it is. But she quickly noticed that the beaver's head appeared to have been almost like surgically removed. That the cut across its neck looked so clean that like a butcher had made it with a knife. Like this was not, you know, an animal shredding the beaver apart.

This was, this was a tool was used to cut the head off. And so that goes through her head. So the first thing she thinks after that is, you know, that's weird, but she kicks it with her foot and she feels it's kind of like still, it's not rigid yet, it hasn't,

rigor mortis hasn't set in. And she's thinking, oh my gosh, I've stumbled across some other predator's prey. They were in the process of like maybe eating this thing. Heard me and it scattered off. It's fresh.

It's fresh and shouldn't smell like decomposing or anything. And so she starts to worry that there's like, you know, some, you know, knife wielding bear or something in the wool, whatever. She doesn't know what it is, but there's some predator nearby that's like killed this beaver. But again, she's thinking it's weird that its head has been removed so, so surgically. But after a minute or two, she just kind of convinces herself that like, you know what, I'm in the wild, it's a dead animal, in the wild.

Yeah, it's weird, but not that big of a deal. And so, she just decides to walk on and just forget about the beaver. And so she walks the next 15 minutes or so, she meets the east to west running river, she turns, she follows the east to west running river to the man-made lake, she has a nice time,

you know, sightseeing and doing exactly what she wanted to do and then, you know, at a certain point, she turns around and begins to retrace her steps. And so she walks back along the river, she turns, she gets back on the stream, and as she's walking, you know, 15 minutes goes by, there's the beaver. The predator has not come back to claim it. No one seems to have claimed it.

It's just, you know, it's just here. She did think that was a little bit odd, like if something killed it, you know, probably would have taken it by now. But either way, you know, the hour and a half from there all the way back to the road. She gets in her car. She drives home. Overall successful day, you know, weird bell, fine, weird beaver, fine, but overall normal day.

So she's at home for the next week and she visits her family and she, you know, does all these different things. But after a week goes by, she's sort of bored. The novelty of being home from college is sort of worn off and she's sort of bored. And on a night, this is a week after this hiking trip she's just been on, it's a night, she's at her house and she's just bored and she's like, you know what, I'm going to go back to the man-made lake. I just love it out there. I love hiking. I'm gonna go for a hike.

However, remember it takes two hours just to get to the lake and then however long you're gonna be there and then two hours to get back. And it's assuming no setbacks at all. And she decides to head out at like five,

six o'clock at night. And you know, sundown I think was eight o'clock that night. So basically if she rushed, I think it was nine o'clock, she basically had three hours until sundown. It takes four hours to do it. And so she was like, I'll just, I'll hustle in there. I'll see the lake and I'll hustle back.

And it'll just be like sort of a, it'll be more exercise than sightseeing if anything. And she's done this hike so many times that she's not concerned about doing the trip. She's done this a hundred times. She knows exactly what she's doing. But in addition to it getting dark out,

there was a storm in the area. Hadn't started raining yet, but there was a chance of a thunderstorm that night. And so, you know, I don't know if her parents or loved ones encouraged her not to go, but somehow or another, she did tell her parents that she was gonna go out and do this hike,

you know, at six o'clock at night here. And basically she said, I'm gonna be quick about it. And so she leaves her house and she drives over to the same drop-off spot. She gets out and it's starting to get dark, but not dark yet. She hikes into the forest and she starts walking and she gets to the stream and she's walking

along the stream, she's making good time, everything's fine, there's nothing weird happening. And she gets all the way up to where the beaver is and sure enough, the beaver is still there. And in fact, it looked like it was decomposing somewhat. It had decomposed the amount you would expect. It sort of looked like it's been sitting here this whole time. She's thinking it's still odd that no one's claimed it,

nothing has claimed it, but either way, here it is. By the time she reaches the beaver, though, it's really starting to get dark out, which was expected, but also it's starting to rain. And the beaver is about 45 minutes from the lake. It's 15 minutes to the river, 30 minutes to the lake from there.

And so it's starting to get dark, it's starting to rain. And so she's sort of reached a point at the beaver where she needs to make a decision, am I going to keep going or not? And she decides that, you know what, screw it. I'm going to keep going. I'm so close.

I just want to get there and I'll turn around. And so from the beaver, she starts hustling, practically running to the river. But the sky, it really just opens up and it's like thunderstorm, lightning. It's completely downpouring. makes that turn at the East West River and she's like running, you know, trying to get to the man-made lake, but she's realizing like, what am I doing this for? Like, this is, it's becoming pretty dangerous

what I'm doing, you know, it's over an hour's hike back. I could fall, I could get hurt, like this isn't worth it and what's the point to just say I went to the lake? So she gets, you know, halfway down the East West River before she's like, okay, I'm just gonna mail it in, turn around, retrace my steps and head back home. So she turns around, it's literally just pure downpour at this point, and it's basically as dark as it is right now. And so she goes back to where the river meets with the stream, she turns, and as she's going along the stream

now, the long straightaway that'll bring her, you know, the hour and a half all the way back to her car. She's on that path. When she turns onto it, it's raining so hard and it's so dark that she's basically looking straight down because she doesn't want to trip. You know, it's rocky, that's not really a real path, it's wet, and so she's hustling,

and she's got where the beaver is. But she's not thinking that, she just gets to the point where the beaver is and she's moving along as fast and as carefully as she can and at some point, something hits her in the head and she just like stops and she looks up and it's the beaver. The beaver is strung from a branch,

suspended over the trail. It was tied up, basically hovering over the trail, like a trap you'd walk into. And it's got its head back, but the head is stitched onto its paws, positioned in front of its body like this.

Holy shit.

And it's decomposing, and so it's like slimy and gross, and she's walked square into it. But think about the implication here. When she came through 15 minutes ago, the dead beaver was right there on the ground she's only been gone for like 15 minutes or so and

it's dark out it's thunder and lightning out she's over an hour away from her car in the middle of the forest and this dead beaver that is now suspended above the trail it had to have happened in the last 15 minutes. And as she is figuring out what she's going to do, from somewhere in her periphery, she hears a bell. It begins to ring in the forest right near her. It's the same bell she heard a week ago. She has no idea the connection, but it's undeniable that this is so horrifying. And she immediately goes into this mindset of like, I can't run, because if I try to run from here,

I'm gonna panic, I'm too far away to run, I have to like stay composed. And so she sidesteps the dangling carcass with its head, you know, doing her best not to panic, that clearly somebody's watching this, someone's watching me right now.

It's dark enough that she really can't see into the forest and she's hearing this bell sort of off in the distance as it Seems to be moving closer to her She walks past the carcass and she starts basically speed walking but controlled, you know back towards her car

and

After maybe 10 or 15 steps the bell sound starts getting louder and louder and louder Something is sort of crashing through the woods behind her, but she's so scared She doesn't want to turn around and look. And so she starts walking faster and faster along this trail. And with every step that she goes faster, this bell gets louder and louder.

And it's like every step of whatever's behind her is getting louder and louder. Branches are falling. Something clearly is trailing her. And so eventually she just full-blown panics, and she just starts fucking hauling ass down the stream. She's just running as fast as she can,

and the whole time there's this bell, and crashing, it's raining, it's thundering, and lightning, she has no idea what's going on. All she knows is there's somebody, something that is chasing her through the forest at this point, and it is like adrenaline mode,

running as fast as she can. And as she's running, she pulls out her phone and she calls her dad, but he doesn't pick up. She puts her phone back, she's still running. And eventually she just trips after like running as fast as she can. She trips and face plants on the trail, hits her head pretty good.

And as soon as she falls, she can hear the rain and thunder and lightning, but whatever was behind her stopped. The bell stopped, everything stopped. And she's just laying there. She's totally out of breath. But she kind of gets herself up. She hasn't turned around yet. She's still just like on the ground looking this way.

And she knows that she's so far from her car at this point. Like she has to just turn around and see what's behind her. She has to look. Like she's too far. She's not going to make it. Whatever it is, it's right behind her. And so she kind of composes herself a little bit, she's totally out of breath,

and she turns around. And behind her, it's like, you know, there's not much of a trail, but there's the trail she'd been running on next to the stream, and there's a little bit of a clearing where she's looking, and there's a little bit of moonlight coming through, and she's looking back basically out towards just a bunch of trees and a little bit of a clearing and there's nothing there. There's nothing in the clearing. And for a second she's thinking it's all in my head. And then she's thinking, do I have a bell on me that that's the sound

it's been making? Have I been making this up in my head? But then somewhere off in the woods, she hears the bell ring and this tall, dark figure walks out from behind a tree and stands in the middle of the trail and looks at her. And she sees there's this bell that's attached to its hip.

And so every step it's taking, that's the sound of the bell. It's this enormous creature that's charging through the woods. And so she doesn't even know what it is. She doesn't know if it's human. She doesn't know what's going on,

but she just gets up, her dad picks up. And so she's charging through the woods, her dad's in the line, she's screaming at him, like, come to the pickup point, someone's chasing me through the woods. And she's running along and the dad, like, instinctively knows, like, clearly there's something going on. He and his wife hop in the car, they speed out to that, where her car was, where their daughter's car was. whole time, you know, Bella's charging through the woods, this thing's chasing her with the bell. And when the parents actually got to the pickup point, they'd been on the phone

with Bella the whole time. She's been screaming and crying into the phone. And she would keep saying to them on the phone, Bella, that it has a bell. Can you hear the bell? Like almost to prove that it was actually real. This thing was really happening. And the parents would later say they could actually hear in the woods this bell just like chiming through the woods. Their daughter's being chased by whatever this thing is. And so the dad, he's like, where are you? And she's just running through the woods. He eventually just runs in after her

and he practically collides with her. She's like 15 minutes away. He runs into her. He grabs her. He turns around without even looking and basically runs her out of the woods. they practically jump into the car and they drive off and there's nothing there as they're peeling away.

Whatever it was, they couldn't even see it. And so the Bella and her family, they're like, she's so upset, like they don't even know what to ask her, like what the hell happened. They go straight to the police station

because they don't know what else to do, like they don't know what to make of this, they don't know to make this either. And so the following day when it was bright out, the police went out there to go search the woods, which there really shouldn't be anybody out there.

And they couldn't find anything, except they found one of Bella's shirts that she hadn't brought out there, that was folded up and left under a rock.

That she had not brought out there. That was just out in the middle of the woods.

And so she has not returned since. And so that is the bell story.

What the f...

So yeah, just some tall dude with a bell on his hip just running around in the woods apparently.

What do you make of the shirt?

I don't know, man. I feel like that part, it's hard to verify it. I feel like that's a great add to the story, but that's what was said. But either way, I mean, the police report does say there was a shirt.

You talked to this girl, though.

Yeah, but five years ago. And part of the issue was for the version now, we couldn't re-talk to her. We had to rely on what we had, the conversation we had five years earlier. But yeah, dude, it's, the crazy part with that story is, it wasn't like a viral Reddit story. Sometimes you'll see these like crazy stories

go viral on Reddit and you're like, all right. Like there was that crazy story about like the staircase in the woods. Have you heard of it? There was a period of time in like the 2022 timeframe, I think, where there was this like folklorish story about, oh, have you seen a stairway in the woods?

And it's like this idea that like out in the forests of the world, there are these just random staircases that go nowhere and there's all this folklore around it, but it's just like a viral made up thing. Her story, nobody was reading it.

It was like her personal testimony, and when I spoke to her, she was just so shaken up by it. It was like, damn, this feels like you're just getting the shit off your chest, but you don't know how to make sense of whatever happened to you.

And so it just struck me that even if all it was is some person in the woods with a bell on their hip chasing after them, I don't know, it's pretty terrifying. I wouldn't, I wouldn't.

What's with the beaver? I don't know.

Yeah, what happened, if we assume, you know, this figure, this person, this thing is responsible, like I guess, what, they killed the beaver and cut its head off with a tool, I don't know.

Fuck, man.

A lot of unknowns. Wild, wild. So we, that's in the book along with eight other stories of similar ilk, you know, that are just sort of creepy and, you know, nightmarish. But yeah, there's lots of crazy stories out there, man. How'd you pick the stories for the book? I don't even know. Well, I do know. I completely know.

I'm 100% aware. I don't know. Actually, I don't know why I'm just... We wanted... I literally authored this book.

Oh, man.

No, we wanted the graphic novels to sort of mirror what we do on YouTube, meaning if we're going to use the graphic novel medium, it's pictures, let's kind of make it feel like the thing that people really enjoy, which is like the video stories that we do on YouTube. And so we sort of picked stories that were sort of best to showcase the visual aspect of the story.

And so lots of spooky stories with great visual elements to it. So, but yeah, it's a great story. There's a few others.

How many of these stories do you reach out and talk to somebody who is involved?

Depends. If it's like a public source story, like if it's just widely reported on, we could if it strengthens the story, but if we have the information, we can just take it and run with it. Anytime you're doing... Actually, can I tell another one?

Yeah.

Yeah, all right. I haven't prepared this one, but it's a great story, and it was actually in the earlier graphic novel. For the people that are watching this, you'll have to forgive some inaccuracies, but it's a great, great story. If it's a first person account, you know, the only way to verify it is to speak to them, but even then you're not really verifying it,

you're just hearing it for yourself and trying to gauge it. And then what we do is we say, look, this is their account. It doesn't mean it's true. It means I've spoken to them, it's their account. And we had this one, and actually it's funny, her name is Bella as well.

The protagonist of the story is also named Bella. But I spoke to her and dude, this story, it's great. Got a great plot twist.

Right on, let's hear it.

This one, the title of it is Thorns. And it was put in our first graphic novel, which, you know, it's comparable to the novel we just released. So if you're interested, it's in the first one. All right, so there's this girl named Bella. Might be Belle.

Anyway, we're going to call her Bella. So Bella. She grew up in Germany, in this quaint little village in Germany. And growing up, a big part of her childhood is she would go to summer camp. It was a sleepaway camp for a couple of weeks in the summer.

All her friends went, and it was right near their village out in the forest. It almost felt like a theater camp. They'd go, and they'd sleep away, and there'd be games and stuff. They'd also put on performances and plays and stuff. But it was a really big part of her childhood. And then the sort of rite of passage for the kids that typically went to this camp

is they would, after being a student, what's the name, a camp goer, whatever. A camper. A camper, that's the word. After being a camper, it was pretty common for folks to become camp counselors, especially in their college

years. And that was sort of the cycle of life of this camp. And so Bella, she was about to go to college. It was her senior year summer before she's going to college, and she had reached the age where she couldn't be a camper anymore, nor did she really want to be. It was her first year of being a counselor. And she was actually really excited at the prospect of being a counselor, because this is, again,

like something that matters a lot to her, and all our friends were gonna be counselors as well. And so that summer, on the start of the camp, she and the rest of the counselors showed up early, and they helped set up all the different little cabins in the woods, there's like a little lake nearby

and they set up all the different stations the kids would be playing at over the week, she helped prep the camp. And then the kids finally arrived on the first day and it's like all these happy little kids running around and Bella and all the counselors, it was great.

They got to give these kids the experience that they had growing up. And it was a multi-day camp. And then at night, on this first night, after the kids all were ushered into their various cabins and were finally asleep,

it was tradition amongst the counselors, especially I guess on the first night of camp, to actually not sleep in the cabin with the kids, to like put the kids to bed and then the counselors they got in the woods, they basically party and then crash in the woods.

It's like great, great for the kids. So they abandoned the children in the cabins. But they, so the kids are all in their cabin and she and the other counselors, they head out into the woods. And so the cabins where the kids are all in their cabin and she and the other counselors, they head out into the woods.

And so the cabins where the kids are, it's all been cleared. And so they barely go into the tree line and they set up their cots and their tents and stuff. And Bella was having a great time. Everyone's having some drinks. They're just like laughing.

At a certain point, they had had enough fun and they decided it was time to go to sleep. And so Bella, she had her cot laid out, it was a metal cot, and it was inside of this tent. And she just felt it was really uncomfortable sleeping in the tent because the tent was sort of low and the cot was raised. And so she was very close to the material was very hot And so she like a lot of the other Camp counselors had just done away with the tent finally and just literally was just sleeping out in the open just on her cot And so Bella eventually alongside many other counselors falls asleep

And she starts having this unbelievably vivid dream She starts she dreams that she's in this like, almost like an apocalypse scene, where she's looking out at this city skyline, but all the buildings are sort of like deteriorating,

and the ground is mostly sand, like it's almost like you're out in the desert, and there's like this city in the middle of the desert, but instead of it being an oasis, it's like whatever the opposite of an oasis is, like crumbling, death, destruction.

And standing sort of shoulder to shoulder in front of the city skyline, but pretty far away from her, is imagine like back in the day when armies used to stand and face each other and fight hand to hand combat. They would like line up and charge at each other. She was looking at what looked almost like an army of people standing there, not moving, staring up at her, like they were poised to attack her or something. And as she's staring at this sort of apocalypto scene, she realizes that there's two people

standing on either side of her, one on either side of her. It's these two, these really big guys that are on either side of her. And she doesn't really know what they're doing, but she's not paying much attention to them. And as she's staring at the people out in front of her, she notices they start to move towards her. They're like walking towards her. And then eventually when they get close enough,

she's staring at their faces and they all have these horrible expressions on. They're like, they look terrifying. Like their eyes are wide, their mouths are like bleeding. It's like this horrifying thing. But as she's staring at this sea of people coming towards her,

the guys on either side of her, they turn and they're looking at her now. They're both like basically looking at each other with her in the middle. And she realizes she can't move. She's like frozen.

And so she can't even turn her head, but she's sort of looking out of the corner of her eyes are these two huge guys that are not really looking at her. They're kind of looking at each other, you know, across from Bella. And then they pick something up sort of next to her and they raise it up over her head. So both men are holding on to something that's now situated above Bella's head. But she can't look up at it. She's just sort of obliquely aware that they're holding something over her head. And as she's like sort of dreading whatever's gonna happen next they begin to they begin to lower their arms

And then whatever they have it touches her head and immediately Bella feels this Blinding shooting pain in her head and it feels so real. It's almost like she can feel it in real life It's like she's sort of aware She's dreaming but this feels so real and it dawns on her finally that she kind of looks up and she sees blood is sort of trickling down her face, that they have this crown of thorns,

that they're digging into her scalp and they're pulling it as tight as they can into her scalp, and it's like excruciating for her, and finally she begins to be able to move her body again, and right as she does, she just lets out this horrible scream, and then she wakes up and she sits up and she's totally

like, like, oh my god, like I'm okay, that was a fucking horrible dream, I'm okay. And she's just sitting there and because when she sat up she'd made some noise one of the people next to her, one of the counselors who was asleep, they woke up too and they're like, Bella are you okay, are you okay? It's dark, they can't see anything. They just, she can hear Bella breathing heavily and she's like, I had a horrible dream, I don't know. And so the girl next to her, the other counselor, she turns on a light and she shines it at Bella. And when she does, she's like, oh my god, Bella, we have to get you to the hospital. And Bella's

like, what's going on? And she reaches up and she's like what is going on here and so like immediately everybody wakes up like let's go and they grab Bella they throw her in a car and they rush her to a hospital Bella has no idea what's going on and when they get there like she had to get all these stitches to her head and they're like what happened to you like nobody knew what happened to her she's like I was having this dream and it's like weirdly connected to this well would turn out what really happened to her that they would later discover after people came forward with what they saw that night, other counselors, when she fell asleep,

a fox with rabies walked into the camp and was eating her scalp.

And it coincided with her dream.

Get the fuck out of here.

Are you serious?

Holy shit. And so when she got to the, they treated her for rabies immediately because they didn't know what it was, but sure enough, when the story got out to other counselors, one of the other counselors was like, yeah, there was a fox that kept coming back over to us and I kept having to shoo it away. And so the only explanation is while she was laying there, the fox was eating her head.

Whoa.

Whoa. Whoa. So yeah. I talked to her and she actually came out to a book signing and like signed a book. No kidding? Yeah. Can't tell though. You can't tell. Dude. Whoa. Yeah dude. Damn. John Ballin ladies and gentlemen. Thanks bro. Mr. Ballin. Hell yeah, get yourself some of these. Can people buy these?

Oh yeah.

Yeah, get yourself some s'more bites. Perfect for the campfire.

Book is in the description.

Yep, where nightmares live. Get after it.

Happy Halloween, everybody.

I'm good.

Cheers. Thank you, man.

You got it, now. Well, now. Well, now. Well, now. Well, now. Well, now. Well, now. Well, now. Well, now.

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