Today’s podcast will feature 2 horrifying stories that both take place on the open sea. The audio from both of these stories has been pulled from our main YouTube channel, which is just called "MrBallen," and has been remastered for today's podcast.Story names, previews & links to original YouTube videos:#2 -- "The Perfect Bait" -- Fishing trip turns into a nightmare (Original YouTube link -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocMkM1MM1A8)#1 -- "The Gray Blanket" -- A Japanese fisherman endures a two week long nightmare that would mark the first time in history that humans experienced a particular terrifying phenomenon (Original YouTube link -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0CgN8mvqzA)For 100s more stories like these, check out our main YouTube channel just called "MrBallen" -- https://www.youtube.com/c/MrBallenIf you want to reach out to me, contact me on Instagram, Twitter or any other major social media platform, my username on all of them is @mrballenSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Chapter 1: What horrifying stories are featured in this episode?
hey prime members you can binge eight new episodes of the mr ballin podcast one month early and all episodes ad free on amazon music download the amazon music app today today's podcast will feature two horrifying stories that both take place out on the open sea the audio from both of these stories has been pulled from our main youtube channel and has been remastered for today's episode the links to the original youtube videos are in the description
The first story you'll hear is called The Perfect Bait, and it's about a fishing trip that turns into a tragedy. And the second and final story you'll hear is called The Gray Blanket, and it's about Japanese fishermen who endure a two-week-long nightmare that would mark the first time in history humans experienced a particularly terrifying phenomenon.
But before we get into today's stories, if you're a fan of the Strange, Dark, and Mysterious delivered in story format, then you've come to the right podcast because that's all we do and we upload twice a week, once on Monday and once on Thursday.
So if that's of interest to you, the next time the follow button is fast asleep, secretly take their phone and change their language setting to Chalkatongo Mixtec. Okay, let's get into our first story called The Perfect Bait.
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At around 1 a.m. on August 27, 2000, a fisherman named Sam Watts did his best to keep his balance on the wet deck of the huge commercial fishing boat that he was working on. And as he tried to do that, he looked over at his crewmate, Michael Edwards, another fisherman, who was grabbing onto the mast as the ship rocked underneath their feet.
Sam and Michael and the four other crew members onboard this boat had just dropped their anchor 56 miles off the northeast coast of Queensland, Australia. And up until about an hour earlier, the sea had been very calm. But now, you know, this huge storm had rolled in, the wind had picked up, the waves were huge.
And while the four other crew members had already gone below to try to catch some sleep, Sam and Michael were now on the deck doing their best to try to secure everything before they went down below.
And so as the wind is whipping and the waves are smashing against the side of this boat, Sam and Michael decide they should split up to work more efficiently, where Sam will go to the front of the boat, then Michael will go to the back of the boat, and they would each kind of work towards the middle of the boat, checking all the fastenings and the knots to make sure everything was good.
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Chapter 2: What happened during 'The Perfect Bait' fishing trip?
We don't know what that was. We don't know what's coming next. We got to go. Now, for reference, pulling in these lines was not as simple as it sounded. It was kind of a long and complicated process. And so Awishi and the rest of the crew, they began doing their best to pull these lines in as quickly as they could.
But when the sun finally rose in the east, the crew onboard the Lucky Dragon number five, as they looked out towards the west, towards the Marshall Islands, they began to notice these weird gray clouds forming over these islands.
And as the crew began to talk about these strange looking clouds, they noticed that despite the wind blowing from east to west, these clouds, these weird clouds over the islands, were actually making their way towards them. Basically, they were moving against the wind, which made no sense.
And so as these clouds got closer and closer, the ship captain was screaming at Oishi and the others to hurry up, get these lines in. We got to go. We don't want to wait for this cloud. But it just was taking so long to pull in these lines. And before long, these weird gray clouds had moved directly over them and blocked out the sun. It was like it was nighttime all over again.
And as soon as these clouds were right above them, Oishi and the others, they just stopped and looked up. And suddenly it started to rain. Except not normal rain. It was like this weird milky substance, like gray milky color, and it was also hot. And so Awishi put his hands out and he cupped all this weird liquid in his hands, and nobody knew what it was.
And then before long, the rain turned into sleet, still kind of gray and milky, and then the sleet turned into what looked like snow. And so Oishi and the others, they had their hands out still and they were catching these weird snowflakes, but they didn't melt in their hands. They just kind of pooled on their hand and just sat there.
Now, Oishi and the others were definitely unsettled by the snow and frankly by everything that had happened that morning.
They really did not understand what was going on, but there was something kind of incredible about this weird substance that was coming out of the sky to the point where many of the fishermen on board grabbed bags and saved some of this weird mushy snow stuff to bring back home to maybe show their families and friends or even to give to science to see if maybe they could study it and see what it was.
And so after Oishi and the rest of the crew had kind of gotten over the novelty of this weird snow coming out of the sky, they just got right back to work pulling in these lines.
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