Don't Look Back | Campfire Stories with MrBallen

**MrBallen** (0:00)
Hey, guys, welcome back to the Campfire. I have another awesome story to share with you tonight.
So when I was a kid, I used to love reading this book called Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, which is this really, frankly, not kid-friendly, scary story book that's marketed for kids. But it's like terrifying. The stories in there are like, they kept me up at night. I mean, they were really disturbing stories. They were fictional, but they really, they rocked me as a kid. And when I read the story I'm going to share with you tonight, it just really brought me back to that feeling I got when I used to read those stories as a child. This story tonight feels like it belongs in that book, except tonight's story is not fiction like the book was. This is a true story. But before we get into tonight's story, if you're a fan of the Strange, Dark & Mysterious, Delivered in Story format and you've come to the right campfire, because that's all we do and we upload two, three, even four times every week. So if that's of interest to you, please offer to water the follow buttons plants the next time they go away for a long weekend. But instead of using water, use bleach.
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One summer night in the 1970s, a young woman named Hanna was sitting next to her husband at a blackjack table inside of the Genting Highlands Casino, which was this huge casino in Central Malaysia. The room they were in was bright, it was loud, there was people everywhere, you know, there's cigarette smoke hovering in the air, lots of drinking and chatting and laughing and gambling. And so as Hanna is sitting in this environment, she was doing her best not to let her nerves get the best of her, but she couldn't help it.
She was really feeling anxious because her husband had just bet all their chips on this one hand. So her husband had been dealt his two cards and they totaled 19, which was basically good because in Blackjack, you're trying to get to 21, you want your cards in total to equal 21, but you don't want to go over or you bust, you lose. And so 19 is pretty good, but you're playing really against the dealer. And so basically, it's between you and the dealer. Who can get closest to 21 without going over? So the dealer had two cards. One was face up and one was face down. The face up card was a 10 And so Hana is anxiously waiting to see this other card flipped over, just praying it's not a 10 because that would give him 20 And that would beat, you know, her husband's 19 and they would lose. And so the dealer, he flips over this other card, and it's a four. So now he's got 14 And so that's good. It means Hana and her husband, they're still in the lead here. But the dealer will keep on hitting, so adding more cards to the pile here, adding to their total score, until they either hit 17 at least, or until they beat you, or until they bust. They're going to keep on drawing more cards. And so the dealer draws another card, he puts it face down, and it's an eight. And so now collectively, the dealer has 22, they've gone over 21, they've busted, and Hana and her husband have won. And so Hana, she turns to her husband and she's overjoyed. I mean, they've just gambled all their money, and they've won. I mean, this is a huge win. And Hana and her husband, they didn't really come for money here. I mean, they're very modest people. They had saved up money for this trip. They'd really wanted to come to this casino for a long time. And now it was like their luck was just incredible. They're having this unbelievable run. They had won a bunch of money beforehand, and now they had just won this hand and they doubled their money. This is incredible. And so at this point, Hannah and her husband, they take all their chips. They leave the blackjack table. Everyone's so excited for them. The energy is awesome. And so Hannah and her husband, they make their way over to the cashier and they cash all their chips. They get all this cash. And Hannah's talking to her husband, this is awesome. We were going to have to drive home tonight. Let's get a room here. Let's use some of this money and stay at the lavish hotel they have. Maybe we can go back to the casino tomorrow. Let's make a vacation out of this.