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My paranormal experience retold in the Montana wilderness Campfire Stories with MrBallen - MrBallen · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: All right, we are here at this amazing campfire in Montana.
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  Speaker 1: I've never been to Montana, but I'm excited to be
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  Speaker 1: here tonight with my friend Steve Rinella, who is the
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  Speaker 1: founder of Meat Eater. He's one of the most well-known
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  Speaker 1: people in Hunting and outdoorsmanship. I mean, you're sort of
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  Speaker 1: like the face of Montana.
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  Speaker 2: In my mind.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, well.
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  Speaker 1: When I was coming out here and I began Googling
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  Speaker 1: Steve Brunella.
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  Speaker 2: Via Michigan.
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  Speaker 1: You know, but no, I had the pleasure today of
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  Speaker 1: coming out here and joining you on your show this morning.
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  Speaker 2: So thank you for that.
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  Speaker 1: And so tonight what we're going to do is I
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  Speaker 1: asked Steve to come out here into sort of the
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  Speaker 1: middle of nowhere. We're at the Lone Mountain Ranch in Montana.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: We're out at Campfire here, and we're going to hopefully
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  Speaker 1: swap some stories. I got a good one for you tonight. But, Steve,
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  Speaker 1: thank you for being here tonight. Thanks.
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  Speaker 2: I'm excited to hear the story, especially because I understand
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  Speaker 2: it's local-ish. Well, it's sort of local-ish.
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  Speaker 1: We originally, we had planned a couple of stories that
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  Speaker 1: were sort of geared towards Montana, because we're in Montana,
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  Speaker 1: of course. But I was thinking about it, and I
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  Speaker 1: My team is probably going to know this is going
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  Speaker 1: to happen. I have a habit of throwing in extra
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  Speaker 1: stories at the end. I'll probably get to those, but
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  Speaker 1: there's actually another story that I've been sort of waiting
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  Speaker 1: to do again that I thought would be very apropos
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  Speaker 1: for a campfire setting. And actually, sort of before we
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  Speaker 1: even get into that, and I'll tell you why, I
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  Speaker 1: think it's great for tonight. So you are someone, in
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  Speaker 1: virtue of being like the hunter, the outdoorsman, the conservationist,
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  Speaker 1: you spent so much time out in the wild. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: like you were what, just in Alaska for the last
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  Speaker 1: two weeks? Some of the stories that you've just sort
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  Speaker 1: of anecdotally thrown out included like, uh, he recently had been, uh,
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  Speaker 1: what'd you call it with narwhal oil?
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  Speaker 2: You were, what were you doing? I had, I had
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  Speaker 2: occasion to render some narwhal oil.
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  Speaker 1: He's rendering narwhal oil as one does, you know, in
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  Speaker 1: my life, I do that frequently, but no, in, in
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  Speaker 1: your experience spending so much time outdoors and in our
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  Speaker 1: podcast this morning, you described it as your peaceful place
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  Speaker 1: being out in the wild, but, Considering my domain ends
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  Speaker 1: up being more strange, dark, and mysterious, I'm curious, in
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  Speaker 1: your life, has there ever been a time when you're
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  Speaker 1: out in the wilds, right? Out in the forest, whatever,
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  Speaker 1: in Alaska, doing your narwhal thing, where something just felt off,
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  Speaker 1: something felt creepy, doesn't need to be outright paranormal, or
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  Speaker 1: even hinting towards it, but some experience where you're like,
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  Speaker 1: got one.
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  Speaker 2: There's been scary instances.
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  Speaker 1: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 2: Like, Fractions of seconds scared. But the most scary, prolonged
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  Speaker 2: thing that happened was a group of us were camping
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  Speaker 2: in different tents. Where was this? This is in Alaska.
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  Speaker 1: Of course.
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  Speaker 2: Unbeknownst to me, one of my companions, a woman had
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  Speaker 2: went down to get water from the creek, but got
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  Speaker 2: very lost in the dark. Oh boy. So to wake up,
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  Speaker 2: and hear off in the distance a screaming woman.
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  Speaker 3: Oh boy.
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  Speaker 2: And then the moments before it was put together that
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  Speaker 2: Jennifer was not in her tent, and in fact it
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  Speaker 2: was her, because we're nine miles from a road.
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  Speaker 1: That's a skinwalker, obviously.
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  Speaker 2: And so to be like, hold on a minute. We're
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  Speaker 2: here now. This is the makings of a horror story.
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  Speaker 2: There's a woman screaming off in the mountains. But then
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  Speaker 2: pretty soon it was like, oh, my God, Jennifer's not
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  Speaker 2: in her tent. Yeah, that's terrifying. But it was like
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  Speaker 2: it was it was it was long. It was long scare.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, man.
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  Speaker 1: Did you like did you like go out and did
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  Speaker 1: you guys try to make sense of what you were? Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But once it made sense, but it was like minutes
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  Speaker 2: of horror.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, man.
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  Speaker 2: You know, minutes of horror before someone put together that.
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  Speaker 2: assembled other things are just fast.
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  Speaker 1: Like what are some fast ones that have come like
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  Speaker 1: even one example of a fast moment of.
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  Speaker 3: Oh boy this is not okay like something with a
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  Speaker 3: bear for instance of course you know.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah well there's no there's like the you know.
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  Speaker 1: Right have you have you come in close contact with
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  Speaker 1: bear i mean obviously yeah but i'm talking like unwanted
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  Speaker 1: close contact.
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  Speaker 3: Very close yeah very close never been well i maybe
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  Speaker 3: had one step on me one time but yeah but
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  Speaker 3: no very close geez yeah and that's scary quick not
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  Speaker 3: scary long Wow.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, so I have over the course of, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the last several years that I've been doing the whole Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Ballin thing, I've covered so many stories of other people's
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  Speaker 1: horrors that have happened out, mostly in the wilds. To
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  Speaker 1: be honest, I've always been fascinated with sort of like
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  Speaker 1: the terrifying things that happen outside of the city, out
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  Speaker 1: in the forests. But, you know, basically I'm telling other
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  Speaker 1: people's stories. And I thought, who better to share my
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  Speaker 1: one and only experience with Something strange that happened to
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  Speaker 1: me in the wild than with you, the master of
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  Speaker 1: the outdoors here. So, yeah, this story, just as a preface,
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  Speaker 1: it's one that I've told live a number of times,
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  Speaker 1: gets pretty big reactions to it. People think that this
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  Speaker 1: story in a way is like my origin.