5 Hiking Stories that sound FAKE but are 100% TRUE... 

This is so interesting I'll have to look more into it- thanks! It's crazy what our bodies can survive on

@@wakranich3488. Survivor? That dumb reality tv show? I didn’t even know it was still on. Somehow I don’t think they actually let contestants starve….would they? 😳

@@silvermainecoons3269 The show would intervein if anyone's life was in danger for any reason, but that person would be taken off the show and to a hospital to recover. Otherwise they do starve, contestants lose a lot of weight.

​@@HellyeahRookYeah ok 👌 if you believe reality TV is reality I got a bridge for sale you might be interested in over in Brooklyn 😂

​@@silvermainecoons3269it would be a better show if they were actually starving instead of just being dbags on a "reality show"😂😂😂. Also, Maine coons are the best❤

What god? Thank the stranger….

The fool has said in his heart there is no God

That man is a fool.

The incredible one is the dude who actually saved her mom

They should be thankful for both the dude and whatever Providence that let him cross paths with them. Guys, thanking God doesn’t mean you’re not grateful for the humans too lol

I saw that on another video somewhere and I was bawling when I saw the footage.

Talk about the guy being in the right place at the right time! That was a miracle to just stumble upon. Added plus it was all caught on his go pro. 2 lucky women! They all worked together and he gave the extra oooomppphhhh needed. Must've been intense.

yeah that really got me

All true except we don't know if she would've fallen to her death, or even hurt anything other than minor injuries. People have fallen down sides of steep grade cliffs, even multi hundreds of feet & come out virtually unharmed.

@@_MjG_ the full video of it goes into a steep dive to a rocky outcove at the bottom of basically a cliff. It would be at least a medivac ride assuming they could get to her location in time

Way to be ignorant on purpose

Aaah an incel has entered the chat.

Both were troopers! Had to have been terrifying til dude just randomly popped up to help.

@@JamieJai 😆😆🤣🤣

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You learned from your mistake. You get to survive another day! 😂😂😂

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I've heard that the best day is buying a boat, and the next best day is selling the boat.

I’m here in Az too, born and raised here. The stories you hear! People that come here just don’t have a clue about our desert.

I live in paradise Valley in az and I recall about a year and a half ago a girl from Boston came out here in July or August and went hiking echo canyon with some guy who was a police officer and ended up dying in someone's backyard. No water!

Let me guess. They didn't pass it.

I've walked on moors and mountains all my life here in the UK. Everything's on a smaller scale but the weather is very changeable and can be ferocious. I regularly run into people who are totally unprepared for the conditions and/or have no idea where they are and how to get down. I've often had to abandon my day and guide them to safety. The stubbornness and lack of common sense can be astounding. One time at dusk after a long ice route we were making a dash for the valley from the top of Ben Nevis, our highest mountain, in the face of a blizzard sweeping in from the Atlantic. We came across a solo woman in street clothes and high-heeled shoes plodding through the snow and ice towards the summit - notorious for its complex navigation and treacherous cornices. She refused our advice to turn around, so we had to literally carry her down against her will. Technically I guess it was kidnapping, but if we had let her go on her chance of survival would have been 0%.

@@tullochgorum6323 Even a cobblestone street is difficult in high-heels, and she goes mountain climbing in them? More than stupidity at work there. I'm sure she had at least 15 credit cards on her. Those come in real handy on mountaintops.

Wow, what a job! 😮 You go neice! 😊

@@bethaniel841 thank you ! ☺️ Yes we are so proud of her haha !!

That's a hell of a job! What a dream to get up and close to big cats.

@@lannamama2034 ya ! She’s had an absolute blast doing it. 😊

I hope he got to keep the mountain lion. That would be a cool taxidermy to have in the house. Like yeah. I choked that thing with my bare hands when it tried to kill me. lol

He was probably an inside person. 😬 Not that I can really talk, I only go on easy hikes.

​@LizGardener I misunderstood your comment at first. I thought you were implying that it was a conspiracy 😂

If you are not acclimated to high altitude it would be a challenging hike and someone from NYC would not be used to high elevation hiking. Also, there was probably a lot of snow up there. I lived at the base of the San Francisco Peaks for 37 years. The weather up there can change quickly. That was a really dumb time of year for him to choose to attempt that hike. It is a beautiful, though, and in good weather it's very doable.

He was an inside cat...

the near blizzard conditions likely contributed.

Choking a baby mountain lion is coward shit

Wow ! Had no idea they started doing that.

😮!

What food could still be edible after 50 years? 🤔

@@CB-wq9wp Dried fruit and canned goods (including flour)

​@@CB-wq9wpwatch Steve1989 he's eaten 70 years old mre's

​@@CB-wq9wpjust looked on steve1989's page again and he's eaten food from 1917

You know you kind of did it to yourself going out hiking at three in the morning, I’m not saying you shouldn’t, but I’m sure you know that the cougars are more likely to be out at night

@sip_water : "A Cougar playing Pokemon Go" at 3am... This would be pretty life changing for Most ppl!

I've been almost run over by deer on three separate occasions within a block of my own house. In town! Twice by does with fawns in tow and once by a good sized buck, all 3 times because they were paying more attention to the cars and didn't notice my pedestrian ass until they were damn near on top of me. Luckily none of them saw me as a threat.

Yes

Same! That's why I love scary forest movies - but I'll never go into them again!😁

Idiots...

I appreciate this comment..in no way do i want to take away how terrifying it was for Travis and i am positive we would all do what he did to survive..i just cant help but feel sad for the baby mountain lion 😕 but im sure he in no way felt good about having to kill it I am so, so glad he is alive..i cannot imagine his terror!

A mountain lion will attack you for no reason other than you are in its territory ... They are not tranquil creatures...they are predators and a mountain lion will eat your child alive.....

Yes, unfortunately there wasn’t the option of tossing it a steak. It was kill or be killed. I would also hate to be in that position.

@@jenniferfoote5442 this didn't happen to Travis.

@@barbarapaine8054 I agree it was a fight or flight situation. He's just lucky it wasn't a full grown, healthy mountain lion. The woods are dangerous - we all know this. There was another instant of a kid jumping on a trampoline in the mountains and his folks were not around or watching him. Guess who was? They saw the cougar at the last minute and saved their kid. People don't think that when they are in the CO Rockies or just out for a run.

Yeah, chips would probably be very dehydrating.

But, you could use them for fire 🔥 😊

The salt on the chips could be a source of electrolytes though, couldn't it?

I freaked out thinking that there was an intruder in our front garden a few months ago. Nope, it was a hedgehog. Them and tortoises give zero fucks about how much noise they make. Guess that's what happens when you're predator proof 😅

@@phaedrapage4217 The salt would also dehydrate you, so it would depend on whether clean water was easily found on how helpful they'd be. If there was plenty of water available then chips would be okay, though if there was plenty of water there'd also be plenty of plants and even if you aren't familiar with them you can test them slowly to see if any are safe to eat. (Typically you want to start by pressing them against your skin and then waiting to see if there's a reaction, then next tasting but not swallowing, then eating a very tiny amount, etc. It is definitely a slow process, but unless something is poisonous enough to kill you from ingesting almost nothing then it can be done.)

We all have nitwit moments. It's nice when it's not your turn 😂😂😂😂😂😂

I love that Kyle didn’t use the guy’s name. I hate it when RU-vidrs humiliate people for likes and views. Unless a person is a murderer and/or clearly an evil person, no one deserves to be humiliated en masse.

Guy is an absolute bozo..😂That story should go with the definition of "Citiot".

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New Yorker: If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere. Mountain: Wanna bet?

He sounds the cowboys in those old salsa commercials who go “this stuff was made in New York City??”

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I agree! he's a great story teller! Its never boring, and his sense of humour whilst also being respectful of peoples situations and stories is great!

He didn’t say it was too much. He said it was too early for that many. Unless you do it badly and buy not subs. That would be unrealistic. It also encourages trolls to be nasty about what he has. He’s a humble man, that’s why he tells the stories so well. He doesn’t think he’s above anyone in it. He will get there but that’s not what he said.

I agree. I'm not a hiker but love his channel. Great editing and narration.

Actually …. Up by the Delaware Gap where the NE corner of Jersey is the highest point, mountain lion tracks have been found in the snow on top of that ridge. I’m seen tracks as far south as Lenape, Pa. on the roof of a detached garage. Seems that lion watched the people come home and walk to their house from that vantage point. Lots of equestrian and dairy around there. Fox hunting clubs, etc. Eastern woodlands are a perfect habitat for mountain lions. Especially the piedmont. I’ve heard stories of big cats in the Pine Barrens, too. They like to swim.

.45 colt solves a lot of problems. .44 mag solves them all.

@@Yestradamus- thanks didn't know that. Yeah the mountain lion that stalked me on the Colorado River was on a ridge above me following me as I fished my way down the river and I kept hearing something I turned around and saw him he was a ways away thank God and I ran like a mad dog back to my truck. I suspected there were mountain lion in Jersey I hike the Appalachian Trail quite often. According to Google there is no definitive proof of their existence in Jersey but lots of sightings of the actual animal and of tracks. 👍

@@DesertRat.45 … M 70 series Colt .45 with hollow point, armor piercing ammo solves all problems and then some. Except for the “cleaners”.

@@DesertRat.45 Blowing your foot off will help, yes.

I’m just glad you got out safe and proud that you put your foot down about leaving the trail! 👏💛🙂

I like the 411 case stories too, but it seems that the guy who wrote the books about them frowns on anyone else using his books as info sources. I can't remember his name and maybe it isn't true. I don't know. But MrBallen used to tell them on his youtube channel and stopped. People in the comments said that that is why.

​@@teenapittman4241he seems to dislike if he's not cited it seems. Which makes sense. However the tragic tales he tells aren't his property. Just more pieces to the puzzle of those who just seem to disappear.

Maybe so, and I don't blame him, but MrBallen not only cited his sources but encouraged listeners to purchase the books. So it may not be true at all and there may be another reason. I was just looking for answers as to why MrBallen quit telling them and I ran across that reason several times in the comment section. Now, I do know that MrBallen gradually changed his whole YT story format soon after he quit telling those stories and that may be why. I agree that the books are another piece to the puzzle, and the stories are truly tragic.@@lannamama2034

​@@teenapittman4241 Mr ballen was also getting quite a lot of criticism from people (myself included) who got annoyed at the poor reporting/ommission of facts and baseless speculation of "weird" or "supernatural" factors, which is a major problem with the missing 411 guy as well, and it was a lot of those stories that were the problem. I don't know if that had anything to do with him stopping though. I stopped watching after about the 5th "it's so weird that this person suffering from hypothermia took of their clothing and shoes".

David Paulides wrote all the Missing 411 books and made 3 movies about them. He invented the term "Missing 411" which he considers his brand, but by now it's become part of the language. It's like the word "escalator" used to be a brand name of escalator. He only takes offense when people use his data but then don't credit him.

Good point, never thought of that.

Yes, I think about same thing 😸I love cats in all size. But look on that from puma eyes... 💀 Also I love this is "fair" duel, he have no weapon, puma didn't have a weapon...its something from fantasy world. I bow down for him 👍

I couldn’t watch this because of the cougar story. The one I heard was sickening. The cat was a juvenile and the story is ridiculous.

Very true.

Truth

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For real!! I honestly want to know 😂😂😂

There is no fee for a Sheriff's Search and Rescue or even two rescues. Those who pay County property taxes fund the agencies involved in County SAR. If you use In Reach or other Satellite sos communicator systems, they often have a rescue insurance policy included in the annual fee for chargeable agencies involved or in other countries. Don't get lost(carry a map), always hike w a buddy, be prepared for conditions... SAR are dedicated unpaid professionals who need you to be smart hikers.

A helicopter rescue is $60,000.00, no kidding, sixty thousand dollars!!!

@@papajeff5486 what circumstances, agency and who called for them? These facts actually matters... There is no standard cost on helo evac and I know from personal experience there is no cost for SAR rescue work. CHP flies patients for free (tax payer funded) if they happen to be close by.

@@adriant1940 used to be on my Spot but each product is different and that can change at the companies whim...

Mine has both. I made eye contact with a mountain lion one night, while safely inside a vehicle. I've seen a bear in the wild while in a car, it was exciting but not terrifying. But the lion chilled my soul with his stare...

he definitely sounds like a New Yorker. lol

he definitely sounds like a New Yorker. lol

The guy who killed the mountain Lion .. he killed a baby.. less than 6m old.. it’s not really that badass. It was inexperienced and clearly not fully developed. It rings different when you go around stating “I killed a baby mountain lion” than “I killed a mountain Lion”

​@@cailin5309thank you. I keep seeing people call it badass. A 35 pound 6 month old mountain lion is little. At 6 months most mountain lions are only a few weeks or maybe just off it's Mom's milk.

@@jonyemmWould you want to wrestle a starving six month old mountain lion with your bare hands? One that had the jump on you (ie came up on you from behind)? I wouldn’t. They have sharp claws and teeth and could easily bite your neck and you would bleed out and die. He had to kill it with his bare hands. People sit beaming in pictures beside animals they killed with a gun from yards away from the safety of a vehicle or blind and act like it’s an impressive feat. This dude actually killed the animal with his bare hands in a life or death situation, so I’d say he earned badass status.

@@samanthawright8830 thats a pretty stupid question. Any reasonable person wouldn't want there to even be a starving mountain lion, period. Less would want there to be a starving 6 month old mountain lion, and even less would want to fight one. (I consider my self to be one of those reasonable people) So to answer your question: No, i wouldn't want to fight a starving 6 month old mountain lion. Would i though? Yeah, depending on the circumstances i would. Do you realize how small a 35 pound mountain lion is? So it has claws and teeth? So does a house cat. Doesn't mean I'm going to immediately put a hole in it about the size of a 45 if it was coming after me. *Edit: Missed the 2nd part* So he killed it with his bare hands? Should we be giving a title of badassery to people who kill other animals, commonly weighing well in excess of 175lbs, with their bare hands? You miss the whole point of why people take photos of animals they harvest during hunting. It isn't because they can shoot an animal from yards away. It's because they are some if the minority who still maintain at least some ability to provide food for their family with the least reliance on others. What you say already tells me how little you know about hunting. You realize how many times in a day we face life or death situations? How close to death we come on an average day? And how little control we actually have over many of those situations? So yeah, i don't find killing an alone 6 month old 35 pound starving mountain lion to be badass. It's something i would avoid doing in most circumstances and wouldn't be proud of. It would be a unique experience and i don't shame/fault the guy for recording and sharing it, though. At the same time if i felt like it was a matter of taking its life or letting it kill or maul another person i wouldn't hesitate to kill it, by whatever means.

@@jonyemm But your initial response said “it’s not really that bad ass” because it was “JUST” a baby mountain lion, as if killing a baby mountain lion is easy and anyone could do it. I’m curious where your dividing line of bad ass is, if killing a starving wild animal with your bare hands doesn’t make the cut.

How has Kyle not liked this comment?

Regarding the hiker found on a webcam on Dumpling Mountain in Katmai National Park. The actual circumstances do not appear to have been quite as extreme as the news stories (and Kyle) have described. While it is true that the park is remote and not accessible by road there is a significant part of the story the news reports left out. Dumpling Mountain is about 5 miles, almost all of the way by trail, from the park visitor center and a lodge. The trail goes at least most of the way to the webcam location at 58°34'53.0"N 155°51'33.3"W is which is near the top of the mountain. Yes the guy got lost on a day hike from the lodge on a damp and cloudy day. It was interesting that he walked up to a live webcam. I'm glad that he made it back okay. It must have been a slow news day for the media to inflate this into a story into something bigger than it was.

A total of 126 attacks, 27 of which were fatal, have been documented in North America in the past 100 years. Fatal cougar attacks are extremely rare and occur much less frequently than fatal snake bites, fatal lightning strikes, or fatal bee stings. We aren't what mama taught them to hunt. Here's a video of a suburban lion hiding as a jogger runs by: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BlYg2TzDDSk.html&si=wxosCjlSIrRwfnEc

Human is the unique predator because they don't take the sick, weak, injured, but they go after the largest, most reproductive individuals. I have nothing against most hunters, but it's something I learned in school that I never considered before, and thought you might find it interesting. Anyway, I'd like to respectfully challenge a few things you said. If they have no issue pulling the trigger on attacking a human, and they have come close enough to attack you four times, and you have never been attacked, then I would say that they absolutely do hesitate on pulling the trigger. You were pretending to be prey on purpose. They are going to come investigate. Once THEY know that YOU know they are there and they see that you don't act like prey, if they aren't absolutely starving, they are going to hesitate on pulling the trigger because they are pretty sure you're another predator and they could get hurt if they attack you. And as far as not having a fear of humans..it's not as sinister as you make it sound. It's not likely a species that doesn't experience predation is going to be afraid of humans until they have enough negative experience with that species to make them afraid. For example, there are big flightless parrots that have no fear of humans, and it's not because they are some super killing machine. It is that they haven't been exterminated by the super killing machine that likes to project it's killing machine-ness onto other species.

Great video idea! Similar to the structure of some popular Mr. Ballen videos. While you guys are in different niches, there is a decent amount of overlap in content He has a huge, dedicated fan base, and I bet many have devoured his back catalogue, Eric (2 week survival) likely ate the 1st half of the salsa with his chip before he got lost.

Don't forget the ranch people 😂

I saw a coyote grab my puppy. Well, first I heard the scream, the yote turned around to look at me with the little dog in its mouth and trotted off.

@@rt66vintage16 It actually killed a bunch of our cats but that was the only one I witnessed. I'm so sorry about your puppy 😞

There were a couple of Bonanza episodes where they would hunt down mountain lions that were killing cattle.

You do know that it's not a domesticated kitten, ..a 35 lb. cougar, kitten or no, would be almost impossible to fight off, even semi- domesticated barn cats can send you to the doctor easily.

If you would have seen the initial reports in the news you would have thought it was a full grown cat. Also, from first hand experience with wild cats around 30 lbs, yes you can fight them off without major injuries.

I love in Oklahoma too (Yukon)! Hi!

I go by myself....I too have zero friends into nature sadly

Find a large rescue dog or two and just take it easy

Been a solo backpacker for years. Really quite safe with the right gear and plan.

@@JadeAkelaONeal I’m in mustang:)

I'm so sure it was probably his backyard first.....