5 True SCARY Stories from CALIFORNIA
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Who else eating a shitload of oreos and watching lets read on television?
Mint Oreos too??
@@bgood213 no just oreo thins and regular oreos
@@deshaefromarounthawayricha7324 plz tell me your having the oreos with cold milk
@@hisheeelijah1482 yessir i got my own mini fridge in my bedroom in my mother house!
@@hisheeelijah1482 also my own microwave
Something is seriously wrong with anyone, regardless of age, who is cruel to homeless people. Even if you can’t help them in any way, it costs nothing to be kind. I don’t understand why you would want to go out of your way to cause further pain to someone who is already struggling with a hard situation. It’s sick.
your empathy and way of thinking is agreed with highly regarded and should be how everybody feels, I think I know the difference in between right and wrong and I realize it's a matter of opinion as what's right to me is wrong to another, at the same time, even if I'm keeping law worldwide,different countries in perspective, I still can't help but feel like there's definitely a line. even though I strongly believe that we are right, as far as this being good, I also strongly feel that whatever God is or demons even would agree
thank you for being a decent empathetic person and not another douchebag
exactly!!!
I agree 100%. I never understood how someone can kick a person when they're already down. You have to be a pretty demented individual...
I see this kind of hatefulness everywhere. I was homeless for a long time and I won't even get into you how much worse it is for a female addict, let alone a 14-year-old girl like i was when I started, I'll just say that I grew up real fast. I'm just glad I wasn't homeless when phones had cameras and crap like that. I just read about a guy who was drowning in a pond, and he saw a bunch of teenagers on the dock and was yelling at them for help and all they did was bring out their cell phones and record his death. The DA tried to slap some charges on them but there was really nothing they could do to make anything stick because of the state they lived in. But you can see this behavior everywhere. Like when someone has their car break down, and everybody is honking and screaming at them to get out of their way. As if the person woke up that morning and thought, "you know what? it would be really cool if my car broke down in the middle of rush hour today, and if I could ruin a bunch of people's day, including my own, because then I'll have to pay a bunch of money to get my car fixed. Hell yeah, lets do this!" Or the time that I was in a parking lot and this poor guy's wheelchair battery died, and everybody was honking and screaming at him to get out of their way, and he's doing his best to kind of inch himself forward as fast as he could... no one was helping him. I was new to the area, and had no idea what the people were like. I'm kind of an idiot sometimes and rush in head first if I see somebody that needs help, it could have been a trap, but I didn't care, I had been fighting off people for so many years. I had a pretty good idea of what to look for. So, of course I jumped out and helped him. Once I got him out of the way, everybody started clapping and cheering...not because I helped the guy, but because I got him out of THEIR way so they could go on and get their shopping done. This, "I'm better than you", "you're in my way", "this is my world", kind of thinking and behavior is just getting worse and worse. It's truly sad, I actually have to watch videos where people are doing nice things to remind myself that there are good people out there. I used to be such a people person. I always wanted to be in a new place, meet new people, see new things, I've hitchhiked across the US twice, now I don't want to go anywhere, I think I've seen enough.
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This was the first set of stories in a while that genuinely made me feel sick, and I've been listening to these types of stories since middle school. Keep up the good work
Agreed! 😅
Yes. So true that one feels horrifying to realize these kinds of people and these evil actions exist.
Eeeeeeeks!
I dont know what it is but i feel that this thumbnail is gonna be iconic. Well done Joel for picking this thumbnail and well fone to the artist as well.
It looks like Red Hood.
@@vishakhabh.6341 oh yeah the dude from the DC comics
@@hisheeelijah1482 Yes, Batman's adopted son.
@robin.mikalsen on instagram!
@@vishakhabh.6341 I don't think Bruce ever officially adopted Jason wasn't enough time before he died, Dick was already Nightwing when he was officially adopted
Am I just a conspiracy theorist or does that second story leave you thinking they were all subjects in an MK Ultra experiment conducted by ‘Zero’ and didn’t realize it??
You’re not the only one!!! I was thinking he was CIA!
maybe to others you're just a conspiracy theorist but personally very glad that you pointed that out. very likely to be accurate good thinking well said
Actually wouldn’t be too shocking. I have several family members that even today I would classify as hippies that were around at the hight of the movement. I’ve actually heard a couple stories like this. Making me think it probably wasn’t all that uncommon
I remember when the Night Stalker was staking the area, suddenly, comfortable suburbs were no longer safe. I remember the photo in the newspaper of lock isles in stores cleared out. It was also when I was no longer considered crazy and paranoid for wanting to keep the house door locked at all times. (My parents would go on to keeping them OPEN during the day, after the whole Richard Ramirez thing died down, which drove me nuts, but . . . luckily nothing bad happened to us). For awhile, in the local news, he was also being called the "walk-in killer" as he walked in through easily accessed windows or doors, thus, the rush for everyone to buy locks. It was when veneer of innocence in the SoCal suburbs died.
One thing I will say is that, I think MUCH of the issues caused by people are caused by BROKEN people. So, for everyone living a good life to say "that's not my problem," there is a chance that it could, in the form of crime, in homeless encampments, and everything else that people don't want to think about. People can be broken in many ways - childhood trauma, war, poverty. We are interconnected in a way that a lot of people don't want to admit.
My uncle was an emt during the night stalker reign of so cal and the poor things he did to his victims was very awful and the worst part is that his family knew it was him and didn't turn him in a neighbor did
Richard Ramirez was my cousin!
Well the veneer is back!! So many of my neighbors have no cameras, no security systems and sleep with doors and windows open.
@@johngunn7234 I wouldn’t be so keen to brag about such a sick thing IF it was true.
@PsychGirl Raven Yeah. This is what happens when people don't learn from history. And these days, we have more tools at our disposal (like, the cameras you mentioned). AND criminals have gotten even bolder.
smh.
I’ve lived in California for so long that none of this phases me anymore. It’s a crazy place to live… not Florida level crazy though. 😂
Florida sucks ass
@@SA-hz1rs so does California
@@smokedoubt1262 California is a million times better
yes California is better than Florida I've lived both places, Hollywood way longer than pompano Beach, being empathetic everything phases me, being from Hollywood, spending time in San Francisco, makes it a lot more realistic but still all interesting stories by an amazing storyteller to me.
@@kristinbusick8803 I stay for the fishing in Florida
Story #3 hit weird with me since I was born and raised in San Bernardino. So much addiction and poverty around and I’m proud to say that there still is a thriving community that wants to help SB and try to improve on decades of neglect
My husband was stationed in 29 palms for 3 years and drove that Albuquerque route where I was born, through amboy, needles, and then to I-40. There’s literally nothing out there so it’s good he had his spidey senses up.
Author of story 5 needs an editor. You can't state at 44:26 that the prowler snuck up to the house and cut the telephone line then at 47:02 say how the victim rushed to her father's bedroom and dialed 911 with her toes.
I added my own personal knowledge to the story(I totally missed what you pointed out) in the comments, trying to keep it brief, as I always must, if I'm not mistaken this was done live? I can't even imagine all the work that goes into this and how worn down the storyteller must be at the last story, especially if live. good eye though that doesn't add up I just know too much about murders and other such things can't understand and want to or anything interesting I don't know.
omg! c? I just did it! I said I know too much about.. things I don't know. well that's funny I hope you understood what I meant
Radiator Springs in the Disney Pixar movie "Cars" is modeled after Amboy CA. Some random ass knowledge for you all.👍🏻💗😘
I love random fun facts like this- thank you! 🙂🙂🙂
@Althea Ramnarain omg really?! We stopped by there at one of the places that was recently opened, back in February of 2008 and thry were telling us about the guy that bought the town and was going to bring it back to life. We bought a historical book about the town from him, a coin and a magnet lol.
I love "Cars". Such a cute movie and I love that Paul Newman was in it. It came out the year Mt daughter was born ❤
I was just looking through older videos searching for one I haven't watched. then refreshed and found this. perfect timing ngl xD
Living in California is a scary story in and of itself
Be my guest and try living in london for a few years. 👍
Deadass 🤣
It can be. You just gotta learn who and where to stay away from
I call it Comifornia
@@hisheeelijah1482 really?
Oh how I missed Let's Read. 🖤 These are the best stories to fall asleep too. I know I'm not the only one who falls asleep listening to Let's Read, am I? 😁
Nightly routine
Every night. Its gives me a peaceful mind
Can"t sleep without his voice haha
Every single night
Mortis media is great for sleeping also 👌
I don't know why I was expecting the "Jesus looking leader" in the Bluebell story to be Charles Manson
He lived in San Francisco for a while. Who knows?
the Manson family operated from Los Angeles, everybody knows, you must not listen to Leonard Cohen, Kelly Alves, or have a fuzzy memory of Manson's personal history which you seem to be familiar with
@@kristinbusick8803 Also, It’s a good idea to check out a new piece of information before you decide the person giving it is addlepated.
@@kristinbusick8803 Chatsworth is hardly considered LA and Death Valley is in Eastern CA, which everyone knows is not LA. Don’t speak like you’re some expert and be wrong.
@@Canyonradio I keep posting a link that has a quote from “Manson: In His Own Words” in which he describes his pre- messiah days living on “636 Cole Street at Haight” with a bunch of teenage Dead Heads. It was there he discovered acid. CZcams auto- deletes urls nowadays, I guess.
But let’s backtrack a bit- nothing against Leonard Cohen, but am I being asked to defer to his song lyrics over the stack of actual factual accounts I read when I was 17 or so and spent an afternoon in the library obsessing over the Manson case?
Manson was jailed about 45 minutes away from where I lived. He was kind of a local anti- hero. People read up on him because they were keeping tabs on his parole hearings.
Four of my friends crossed paths with the Night Stalker. It was a scary time to live in the Southland.
This is one of the best story videos made in awhile. You’re awesome, Joel! 💋
When I heard 'Richard Rameriz' I instantly payed attention. Such a sad and violent childhood, not that his gruesome crimes are to be excused
sounds like you are as familiar with the story as I am granted I had a refresh because a channel I like covered it in October. overall I blame the parents in particular father but of course him because he is the only one that can reside control over himself and is responsible for himself in the long run.
Can we get some Virginia horror stories? -Virginia Viewer
@@IskanderKhan Thank you! Yes he does, it’s one of my favorites of his. I’d love to hear some more close to home, something about it hits different
Yes agreed
They don’t play up on them
Virginia mountains.
Maybe some DMV area stories as a whole
That Summer of Love individual is forgetful about some details about that era, particularly the year 1967, for someone who was around then. Beatniks were a part of the fifties scene and gone by the late 1960s. The Mamas & the Papas did not compose or sing the song San Francisco (it was Scot McKenzie), and Charles Manson's family committed the murders which made them infamous in 1969, not 1967.
Came to the comments to see if anyone else caught this. Obviously acid greatly affected this individual’s mind and memory.
That's why it's been said that Charles Manson truly was the end of an era, and woke everybody up.
Zero obviously killed Angela
This whole video was the best one I have heard on here in a long time. Every story was so captivating...
This is a really good approach to provide people with, as it is sort of a think local first approach. It helps people to understand what is happening in your area. You do an excellent job in narrating and the dissertations of the stories are done well. Thank you for sharing.
I’m convinced you’re somehow watching me. When I first moved into my dorm, a video of college horror stories was posted. Now I’m going back home to California for a few months and you post this
The song San Francisco was sung by Scott McKenzie I believe, not the Mamas and Papas.
I always love knowing who wrote certain songs, due to Ghost writers, like Prince and several others, even today I might not ever know who wrote what. listening to Leadbelly, knowing all of his music has either been heard by slaves or whoever or he wrote it and The House of the rising Sun is probably the most recognizable, there's a lot of others that I was initially unsure why they sounded SO familiar..(perhaps due to the fact that all r modern hits maybe, there, genius self?).. so much desired knowledge unobtainable, perhaps a good reason for it IDK
I almost skipped this one. My own personal nightmare started when I met the man who groomed me as a teen and ran away with him to Los Angeles at 14.... A whole video could be made of that. I'm 46 now. .. and still struggle with the trauma.
Where did you live before you ran away ?
Just wanted to say thank you for never putting a bunch of ads in your videos like most other channels.
I'm bothered by zero never existed, fairly certain that means he brain washed his followers to think that
Exactly
I live in LA, also known as, hell
That's Florida and Texas
NOTE: ComplexPTSD is specifically related to personality disorders (due to the nature of hypersensitivity and sometimes narcisstic rage), especially Boarderline Personality Disorder; it is very separate from regular PTSD (or as soldiers once called it "shell shock").
It's not "very" separate. Alot of symptoms overlap. The big difference is in how you aquire the disorder. CPTSD results from more slow burn or recurring trauma piling up overtime (i.e. various childhood abuses) PTSD comes from sudden onset trauma.
@everyone this is so wrong. Cptsd just refers to its chronic nature and development over several instances of extended time periods, just as someone else corrwcted. It has no causal link with bpd!! Or narcissism. Jeez. Thanks Dr.🤔
Yes. Number 4. Excellent set of stories this round Joel. 👍👍👍
Thanks Joel
Thank you! I very much look forward to your uploads!
Thanks again for your brilliant narration and content Joel you’re awesome 😊🥰🖤
Thanks for another interesting and informative vid Lets Read!. The last two stories were something else.
yessss ❤❤ thank you so much! you've just made my incredibly horrible day much better. your voice is so soothing!!! ❤❤❤😍😍😍 never ever change please 🥰🥰💜💜
Thank you. I'm battling bad nausea and horrible headache. This is so soothing to lay down and listen to. You make me feel safe.
💚🍑💙🍑❤🍑🧡🍑♥️🍑💙🍑💚
great collection of stories. well done
This was a really good episode. Thanks man!
Was not expecting Ramirez to be downplayed like that that was cool.
Me ready to sleep snuggled up ready to listen to let’s read
Joel is here to save Friday night!
Awesome as always. Thank u
Great read. I had to close my blinds!
Thanks for the upload
I love your channel so much! 🤗🥰
Your consistency is 🔥🔥🔥
Down with my second round of Covid after nearly 2 years and 2 vaccines 🤦🏼♀️, so grateful for the best voice on the inter webs 🙌🏻. Keeping me sane one again Joel.
I hope you feel better soon ♥️
🤔 I just recovered from my first round… missed the Dead South concert I’ve been waiting for for 7 months because of it… that bit truly gave me the shits…
But as the same guys from the south keep telling me, I know I’m a 100% sure that in hell I’ll be in good company.
I have a bone to pick with the guy that supposedly rules over there
Proof the vaccine doesn’t work 🤡🥴
@@briannemarie9214 exactly, fook that posion experimental shite
@@briannemarie9214 haha apparently not!
Awesome video as always 👍.
Love these stories
I love the story about the shelter system. The same thing happened to me, though I was disabled and had a baby, so not using drugs. (I went through my own experience with that later and am now in the chemical dependency treatment field). But I was one of those who was assaulted and told I had to move because I was a liability. Not the person who had assaulted a mother carrying a baby and goaded a group into participating while they threw me on the ground and kicked me. I brought a lawyer in there who told them how illegal it was, they had called me a liability anyway. I figured I’d live up to the name. They gave me a little more time, afraid of legal trouble, then came up with a loophole by which they could deem their shelter “inappropriate” for someone with a disability, stating I needed a higher level of care. That’s an easy way to kick a person with disabilities out onto the street, because insurance isn’t going to cover a medical care home when you’re not acutely ill, and there are shelters that could easily make accommodations. More often than not, in my experience, they don’t.
I am so sorry you had to endure all this. I hope you are coping better now. Sending healing vibes ❤️🩹
Gnarly, dude! I can’t wait.
The story about the homeless man really got to me. And strangly enough mostly the cruelty he had to indure.
Love the video ready 💜💙💙
The scariest thing in California is the traffic
💯
All the illegals is scarier
@@briannemarie9214 Floriduh is Scariest
the scariest thing everywhere is traffic. I am no stranger to the scary things in life unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately, knowledge is power and knowing is half the battle) I've seen demons in the flesh but nothing scares me more in life than the general public operating vehicles. I never got my driver's license even. yesterday I was on the interstate and we were the only vehicle pulled over while an ambulance was trying to get by wtf? nobody knows who's in the back and who's possibly dying because they are an idiot okay I'm done I'll go on forever otherwise
Just in time for my birthday! Thanks Joel 💕😊
Happy Birthday
Happy Birthday 🎂🥳
Happy birthday 🥳
Yea thanks for this tonight!!!;)
please so SCARY CANADIAN STORIES PLEASE ❤❤❤🤟🏼🤟🏼🤟🏼💯💯💯
YESSSSSSSS
TGIF... Thank you, Joel! 💙😊
Why is that everytime I go take a dump, Joel uploads another banger?
This is a mystery Joel needs to cover
Eat lots of fiber, my friend.
Nice! Scary stories from my California!
Great stories LR
San Francisco was sung by Scott McKenzie.
This is correct, the song was sung by Scott McKenzie but was written by John Phillips the guitarist for The Mamas and the Papas.
Thank you!!!!
Creative Genius!
this was such a good video
I might need therapy. I've been listening to podcasts for over 24 hours. Granted, some were playing through the night so they don't count. But honestly, when you pause while the hairdryer is on you know it's serious. Hahahaha x
Glad I'm not the only one!! ;)
Same!!
Better than Mr. Nightmare & all others! Excellent!!!!!
Wait. How did the GSK victim dial 911 with her toes if he cut her phone line??
She fixed the phone cables with her feet before making the call :)
hi joel
Born and raised in Stockton. That place as always bad. Super sketchy crap. I remember that guy being set on fire. My grandma went nearly every day downtown and to that shelter to feed and preach to everyone down there. She saw so much stuff but never quit going until we moved out of that armpit. I pray for all of those left in that hell hole. It has gotten so much worse.
Cool I'm here early big fan bro your a god keep it up
Story 5. Wasn't that the Golden State Killer got caught recently due to the ancestry dna test services?
Yep!
Was the GS killer the actual Zodiac Killer who turned out to be a cop or retired cop?
Scott McKenzie sang "San Francisco." I have never heard a version from the Mamas & the Papas.
Yes story time, finally resting after a long azz day from work..
Hope you enjoy the stories king and I hope the rest your nights relaxing and peaceful 👑
Well done my man rest up and enjoy the night man
@@xBIGxSAVAGEx17 thanks!
@@hisheeelijah1482 thanks!
@@horrorlifemedia daamn man you also do narrations. You dont find that often in comment sections.
Yk you love true crime when you immediately recognize who story #4 is about 😭
1st story i remember Mr nightmare reading a similar story in his early days
Just in time for bed
Time to sleep. Thank you, Joel!
I absolutely love your voice
I guess he didn't cut the right line for the phone then if she was able to dial 911
you know somebody else mentioned that too and I thought the same thing initially as soon as it was pointed out, in October I had a very good memory refresh on the story in all of its glorious details and can't remember for the life of me what happened as far as that went because it was really in I believe Fresno but somewhere in Orange county there was a kid that was working on one of his bicycles prior to anything Ramirez did there,wrote down the stolen cars license plate number as he found it to be suspect, (kid could use his chakras I guess) and it was that little kid that ended up being the end of b all f u night stalker damning evidence key to everything almost, and would be most definitely, (word almost being buyer and seller of stolen goods who knew due2 obviousness and his daughter would not let him not say anything, he received immunity exchange 4 his info, I suppose the kid working on his bike is the key but the stolen merch guy would be the lock
better leave the comment section before I get stuck here because all I could think about was the kid that is not mentioned in the story and I know if I continue there's going to be other stuff I know about that story aside from my love of conversation I really need to leave this section, plus now all I can think about is how was that possible and I think he either cut only one of two lines or just didn't cut the right wire but I don't have time to look it up let alone comment on everything either way I'm glad that you guys pointed that out
One time I saw someone using a plastic straw in Cali…was terrified for my life
Yay! ❤️
Summer?
For some reason Yay translates to Summer...
I'm now wondering what word you meant lol
Just kidding, was random, I guess there's a language out there where Yay means it Bikini season
@@mrg6185 yay+
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@@Violet_Elle Exellent. It was what I thought.
The translate button is handy for more international channels..
But Yay translating (in some language) to Summer just made me smile. I hate winter
The first story- he’s already talking about citiies that are less than an hour away from me, and it makes me thing that the desert isn’t that safe lol
On story 3 when he said Stockton CA, I laughed this makes so much sense now 🤣
Hi
I'm a LING TIME viewer if this channel. Love it lol but he covered this exact nightstalker story a couple years ago.
Love you Let's Read 🥰 Thank you for entertaining us❤️
In the first one I already guessed it was an attemp to rob OP, it's one of the classic tacticts, stay safe guys, call from inside the car if youbare worried
Scariest California story: Anything in California.
You’ll have to wait a bit before pillow talking me to sleep tonight. Having a night out so won’t be in bed for at least an hour.
Have a great night everyone 💋
You changed the birds at the end! Lol
I had a super stressful day but after packing a bowl and clicking on this video, I know I'm off to a good weekend
That outro took me out !! It really do be like that sometimes 🤣🤣🤣
Everybody gangsta until someone brings out the fence post
Thanks let's read today's my birthday to I was born on 11/19/2003 thanks again you the goat 💯🥳🥳🥳🤯😂
Happy Birthday
Scariest part of California is the rent prices 👀
i’m 17 hours late but I love you Joel ❤️
Perfect, it's 2am and I need to sleep lol
Joel coming in hot with Albuquerque in the first story ☺