[Music] this happened in the fall of 2017 my sister Gigi was in high school my parents took a trip out of country so I was in charge of my sister I temporarily lived in my parent's house while doing so I took her to school and back picked her up when she was at her friend's or boyfriend's house and picked her up after her church meetings I was told she started going to regular church on Sundays with her boyfriend and his family which I'm happy that she's into we grew up Catholic but don't often go to
church after we moved to the United States but also she was going to another church at nights with a friend of hers I grew up with Sunday Mass and that's it so the thought of spending extra time and free time going back to church was weird but if she wanted to grow up as a super extra religious person Who am I to stop her on Monday she went to school and hung out with her boyfriend I picked her up from her boyfriend's house no big deal Tuesday she went to night church after school with her
friend I was told that they would get a ride from her friend's mom she was supposed to be home at 9:00 p.m. came in a little late at around 9:40 I asked why and she said they were preparing for a retreat that Saturday seemed alright of an excuse and I trusted her so no big deal Wednesday to Thursday mostly normal one day she went home after school and we hung out another day she was hanging out with friends one of these days she was hanging out with her boyfriend some friends and she asked me if
she could go to church this would be the second time going to the night church in the week I remember thinking when I was in high school hanging out with friends that not cross was spending free time at church they ended up not going which relieved me a bit at this point I was getting weird vibes from the night church Friday day before the retreat her plans were to go to night church after school and come home at 9:00 p.m. my plans were to hang out with friends and be home by 9:00 p.m. as well
I'm driving back home a little late and texture to not worry her got no reply waited a bit and texted her again no reply called her no answer at this point that was hoping she was already home and for some reason went to bed early no house was empty I kept calling texting calling texting panicking around 10:45 p.m. almost two hours after she was supposed to be home she calls me she says that they are still in church preparing for the retreat and that she wasn't allowed to have cell phones on I'm normally the cool
older brother but I lost it a bit not towards her but just got to the point I'm coming to get you text me the address I don't care what you're doing I'm coming to get you I got a text with the address and drove to get her that was a bit calm now that I heard her voice but I was angry at the place once I got there some lady was outside waiting for me and she says sorry for the trouble we're preparing for tomorrow that's why gigi is still here no that's fine I'm just
in charge of Gigi for the week and our parents wanted Gigi home by 9:00 p.m. every day so can you go get her please well Gigi can't come out right now the sermon or whatever she said it's not over yet at this point I lost whatever patience I had left you bring out Gigi right now or I'm calling the cops for kidnapping I'm her legal guardian and she's under 18 I don't know the law well but that's what I said this sparked a light under her feet the lady started walking inside and invited me inside
do you want to come in you're welcome to just go get my sister out lady walks inside in a moment later my sister and the lady come out the lady is giving my sisters some documents in his shirts and some information about tomorrow's retreat in the car ride home I'm trying to choose my words carefully when my sister goes I don't want to go to that retreat tomorrow can I stay home and say you weren't letting me yes turn me into the bad guy I don't care you don't have to do anything you don't want
to turns out everything up until tonight was normal Church stuff tonight they turn it up to 11 people all around were season yelling throwing up they were feeding people something which was causing this and the smoke and air smelled funny according to my sister I kept asking my sister if they fed her something but she said no they weren't supposed to feed my sister or anything until she goes to her first retreat the retreat which the night church said they paid for her making it seem like they were generous was supposed to be an initiation
or commitment to the place according to my sisters friend who already went to the initiation they gave you something that makes you sick represents the evil leaving you and you feel sick for a week or two the people there tonight were scary and it didn't look right in the head I read the stuff that they gave my sister all culty stuff and BS the place looked like a house that was made to look like a small Church - I also later found out from my aunt that their church named and make any sense at least
from a Catholic point of view and they weren't listed or officially a church by any legal standard needless to say my sister never went back to that church ever again [Music] two summers ago my now ex-girlfriend Kat and I were sitting next to the edge of this cliff at a beach on New York's North Shore overlooking the water with a very nice view of Connecticut's coastline it was super dark the only real light source being the full moon above us we were just chillin looking up at the clear night sky looking for shooting stars one
of her favorite nighttime activities the whole reason we always went to the speech especially the part we were at was because no one never went there it's pretty isolated and hard to find unless you're really searching for it you have to walk through a trail for about ten minutes or so before it opens up into a small area free of foliage above the main part of the beach below it was a great little spot to smoke in peace we were having a good time talking about stupid stuff and just hanging out when I heard this
mumbling followed by twigs snapping behind us I put my index finger up signaling for Kat my girlfriend to be quiet and I turned around and looked into the dark foliage for about a minute but there was nothing it was a little weird because it was around 1:00 a.m. but I thought maybe it was just some other people exploring the trails no big deal right then I heard it again that same mumbling followed by twig snapping closer this time I quickly turned again and there was a dude standing right at the edge of the tree line
which is about ten feet away from us he had long dark hair no shirt or shoes on just jeans and a weird tribal looking necklace it was so dark and his hair was so long and thick that it shrouded his face so I couldn't really make out any distinct features he was kind of whispering but it was a really quiet night there was no wind and no waves crashing below us his voice made the hairs of my arms stand up it was really monotone but soft and he was speaking French I don't speak fluent French
but I understand a good amount due to the fact that I spent ten years of my life on the southeast border of England right by the Channel Tunnel so I learned some in school and also dealt with a lot of French tourists when I worked the fish-and-chip shop I'm fairly certain that he sends something that roughly translated - are you afraid of death maybe I didn't hear him right it's been almost four years since I moved back to New York by then so I responded asking in French what again in French she asks are you
afraid of death nope I definitely heard him correctly I stood up facing him my eyes adjusted to the darkness behind him a little where I saw two more people on either side of him a girl in some kind of white dress cliche I know and another shirtless guy slightly further back they were just standing there I didn't say anything I just crouched down - cat who had remained silent the whole time keeping my eyes fixed on these weirdos grabbing her hand bringing her up to a standing position and slowly walked us towards a much less
steep part of the cliff where we were able to carefully climb down towards the main area where I had parked my car avoiding the trail all the while constantly looking over my shoulder it was visibly shaken by the whole ordeal I'm not a small dude I'm six foot four but my girlfriend was about four foot eleven little latina chick and I had left my knife at home so I wasn't taking any chances cat kept asking me what the guy was saying but I didn't want to creep her out too much so I just told her
I didn't know and that they were probably just tourists asking for directions or something she wasn't buying it but she eventually dropped it once we got in the car a litter did some research on that area and found out that only five years prior there were reports of illicit and strange activity occurring there on behalf of a self-proclaimed pagan cult focusing on weird druidic practices originating all the way from France I'm thankful I didn't take the time to truthfully answer that french-speaking man's question [Music] I'm a female who is in a long-term long-distance relationship with
my boyfriend in England you can call me ginger and my boyfriend is Brandon these incidences still continue and I will update them if anything major happens any health offered with the whole situation would also be greatly appreciated since around August or September of 2017 Brennan and I have been continuously harassed and stalked by these online cyber stalkers we absolutely have no idea who they are or exactly why they are after us and it's clear that there are multiple people out to get us it started with my boyfriend getting a message on PlayStation Network from someone
who used to know back in early 2017 a person that tried getting with him and an obvious catfish they told him that they were going to make his life miserable we tried brushing it off and thought that they were making empty threats because they couldn't have their way with him however this was not the case and for a long time now this person has been doing everything they can to separate us and make us suffer they would use these IP hacking programs to boot Brandon off of his internet and would occasionally do it to me
it would only happen to me when I was playing a specific game so I avoided it for a while and tried changing up my IP address Brennan would also get the occasional message from this person saying things like your girlfriend doesn't love you and never will she just cheated on you or and your life now you piece of trash just the typical bullcrap that would come from some lowlife hiding behind a screen however as time passed the harassment only got worse it even escalated to the point of this person having other people join in with
them saying Brandon's real name street address and family names to us it then got up to me where they told Brandon my street address to him which I had never told anyone about not even him we would also have people come to us on skype kik or playstation network with screenshots of us supposedly cheating which still happens occasionally only screenshots that were real was when my boyfriend played along to one of them to see if they would admit their plans to him but they didn't he told me they had sent a few Photoshop images of
scantily clad girls saying it was them and to show the images to me so I would get jealous he did indeed show them and pointed out how the waistline of one of them was uneven the poor edits were quite noticeable from there it kept getting worse and worse they would pretend to be asked to an entire community throughout different accounts and try making us look like they were against each other one of them even got through Brandon's PlayStation account and pretended to be him to me saying that he had a new girlfriend and hates me
or whatever recently however my boyfriend has completely lost his account with all the details changed and he's had to use alternate accounts he also lost his main Skype account but I simply made a new one I have no idea if they plan on attacking me but I wouldn't be surprised that they did and been trying to ignore them recently even though I used to reply to them when they sent me messages but I'm doing my best to stay strong through all of this as of right now my boyfriend has been completely taken off of his
net for now again it was off for a month beforehand and we almost separated due to that and some other mistakes that I will not go into detail with however I can say that we patched things up now this is a bit off-topic but it connects with the rest of the cyber stalkers Brandon had an ex friend he knew in person for years a guy we will call Ivan he suddenly decided to turn against us simply because me and Brandon were dating and used to argue a lot this guy legitimately had no reason to hate
us but hates me most of all even though I did nothing wrong to him we were good friends to him and tried putting up with his toxicity for almost two years I knew from the moment I met this guy that he was incredibly shady but I tried ignoring that gut feeling for the sake of Brandon I did let him know that he was completely toxic towards us so he eventually broke off the friendship however while Brandon's net was off for a month Ivan did let me in him talk when I asked about him which I
found to be quite strange when Brandon came back and the three of us were playing a game together I beat Ivan and he suddenly turned against me once more I had enough to this waste of space and told him to never speak to me again even blocking him but not before sending him messages of how he had burned his bridges with me this guy was straight to Brandon and told him how much he hated me even saying how horrible of a person he thinks I am he was basically just calling me everything under the Sun
Ivan even threatened to end my life if I ever went to go see my boyfriend in England he just went on other accounts to try turning me against Brandon by coming up with lies about how he cheated on me would I just ignore them however Ivan then said he was going to go to work with our stalkers and tried to break us apart this had me thinking that he may have been secretly letting out some information about Brandon to our cyber stalkers since he knew his address and everything so I wouldn't put it past him
if he was one of them one thing to note is that Ivan held Brandon up against the wall and yelled at him just for talking to me he's a seriously violent and mentally disturbed person it honestly wouldn't surprise me if he got sent to prison for something terrible it wasn't until my boyfriend's internet allowed for consistent communication between us did my boyfriend finally come clean about what has been happening and this is where things have gotten incredibly strange and I don't know where to take it they told me about a few months prior to the
various stalkers and threats did he come into contact with Ivan through a mutual friend at his work he says that I haven't led him to join an online community that operated in his local area they were known for their open society promiscuity and my boyfriend came clean that his loneliness led him to succumb to participate in this community it wasn't until a month into the experience that he start to feel very sketched out by the strange practices the group would participate in such as animal sacrifices and strange rituals that he decided to abandon the group
altogether but persistence and use of blackmail has now placed him in an even more terrifying position he cried throughout all of this sudden revelation to me and I truly am in shock as I write this he's lost my trust but my fear for his safety leads me to wonder what should I do now my name is Morgan and I am a 17 year old male from North Wales UK me and my friends five of us in total we're going to the castle close to our house to do a Ouija board we all live on the
same street so we met at my house and then walk the three miles to the castle it's now 11 p.m. and it's completely dark they have to walk in the woods and up some very steep inclines it would take us an hour to reach the tower where we were planning to do the Ouija board so onto the story we were about 15 minutes from the Tower my best friend Cheryl tells us all to stop and listen just faintly in the distance we can hear talking and we can smell smoke Cheryl tells us to walk on
but slowly and quietly after about 15 minutes we are about 50 feet from the tower and now we can hear full-blown chanting we can see a fire coming from the tower and I can see a white figure facing towards this fire I tell everyone to stand behind me and be absolutely quiet we tiptoe towards the tower and when you're now at the entrance and I peek my head around and see about 10 hooded figures around a fire and what looks like a dead dog being burned on the fire after about one minute of staring and
shocked one of the hooded figures spots me he alerts the other figures and before they started to come after me I calmly walked away to my for absolutely terrified friends and quietly said run so we did we ran for our lives I could hear the figures hot on our backsides I started to cry they were not saying anything they were just bolting for us fully covered in white hooded robes with two black holes where the eyes would be after about what felt like five hours of chase but was only about five minutes we came to
the main path leading out of the castle I look behind me one more time and saw the last few figures walking back towards the tower we still had another 45 minutes walking down the path leading through the woods and out of the castle presuming we were safe we sat down had a cigarette and a beer each and my fiancee David and Cheryl both went on to tell us that the hooded figures were probably a cult they explained what a cult was and the hairs stood up on the back of my neck I had never been
so disgusted and terrified in my life but we soon changed the subject to lighten the mood and eventually set back off we finally arrived back at the entrance to the castle we decided to get a taxi home and I phoned the police I told the police about what we all saw and they said that they would look into it the next day we received a follow-up phone call from the police saying that they went to the tower found a fire pit with the remains of a dog in the middle of it but they never found
any trace of the group to this day we haven't been back to that castle and we don't plan on doing so [Music] years ago as a 17 year old I worked at a deli in a grocery store this grocery store was in a small town so it seems as if we had a very concentrated amount of crazy people I was really naive and did not know how to say no to people so I got into a lot of perplexing situations there for our uniforms we had to wear white button-up blouses black pants black aprons and
a huge name tag the nametag not only had her first names but our last names as well my first name is slightly unique but my last name is uncommon basically I'm really easy to find he searched my name when Google or Facebook and I'm the only one as of now that pops up I was always really uncomfortable with people seeing my full name in such a public job an older man with big glasses white beard and red plaid coat came in one day asking for something small as I was dishing it up I did my
usual chatter with a customer he was asking me a lot of really uncomfortable personal questions but that wasn't quite catching on that he was getting creepy that was a senior and shared that with him he asked me a few more things and he was on his merry way I promptly forgot about him he came back in one week later and asked me if he could take a picture of me I didn't know what to think of it but I smiled and said that I belong behind a camera not in front of one he had a
nervous laugh and disappeared about 15 minutes later a co-worker ran up to me and asked me if I had just saw this old guy in a red plaid coat take a picture of me from behind this glass window we had by the entrance it was really creepy but I let it go about two weeks after this he came back in and waited until I was free to speak to him he told me that his name was something like and this is not his real name or legal name as when he made up a manual Lambrecht
he asked me if I would like to go out to his home out in the country every Thursday night and be as hostess force readings that he had they said he wanted the beautiful woman to greet his guests and be admired by a side I told him thank you but I worked two jobs and I valued my few nights a week that I had off and would rather spend them with my Emily and trying to convince me he told me that he had a community of people that lived on his land and they were all
very peaceful I turned him down again and moved to a customer waiting for me later on that week a manual lamb branch came back in with some flyers apparently he had been going door to door and handed them to me told me he was waiting for me and left I read the literature on my break one was a typed out love poem it was very sexual the next was some political flyer because he was running for president or something the third absolutely creeped me out I wish I still had it to type it out for
you word for word basically it was informing people of the New Kingdom and how Emanuel lamb branch was the leader of the New Kingdom and that he had a bride waiting for him his bride was me he put my full stinking name in there and explained how he'd commissioned a local artist to paint a large portrait portraying me as his bride apparently it was sitting above his fireplace he said we were to have descendants who had ruled the New Kingdom that was it I'd had enough of him I went home crying and asked my mom
what to do she immediately called the police and they issued a restraining order on him they took all of the papers from him and talked to him they told them I wanted to be his bride and was waiting until I was 18 disgusting Emanuel lambreaux came into the store that I worked out for the next month it would stand over by the magazines and would just watch me for hours it made me nervous finally a co-worker alerted the store manager who told him he could never come back inside no he just stood outside the door
apparently that summer he was jailed for some violent behavior and thankfully I never saw that would-be cult leader again [Music] three years ago I thought I joined an amazing church I was never a Jesus Freak and in fact used to make fun of them as a kid referring to them as bible thumpers during college that changed i felt the need to form a relationship with God after the deaths of close family members it couldn't have been better timing because I ended up at a new school and a new job where I eventually met Joanna Joanna
was an instant friend we clicked right away we shared a passion for music we're studying the same major and could talk for hours about anything Joanna and I hung out for about six months before I started to notice anything out of the ordinary basically I would never see her on the weekends because she told me she devoted them to her church in youth group I didn't think that was strange but I was curious and asked her what religion she was she told me she was nondenominational and quickly changed the subject Joanna started showing up to
work less and less and she started missing classes she was always tired when she did show up or looked completely drained or out of it rumors around school and work was that she was doing drugs I knew that was false because both of us had a disdain for drugs and others who partied hard like that Joanna had less and less time to spend with friends so I rarely would see her after about a month like this she called me out of the blue to go out to Denny's we met up and she pulled out her
phone she showed me a YouTube video of a recent volunteer activity she did with her church group Joanna explained to me that she volunteered a lot with her church and it took up a lot of her time the video quality was excellent for a church video and it played almost like a short film the passion she had talking about all the good deeds they do and how much fun it was piqued my interest I asked her to the name of the church again she did not disclose but said non-denominational Christian she asked me to come
with her right now because it was better than I see it myself I found that strange because it was 10:00 p.m. at night on a Wednesday I went into a small office or warehouse looking building I found it strange so the church wouldn't have any signs or pictures of Jesus in the space it looked like a child's daycare or learning center immediately women rushed over and hugged me it was unreal I later learned I got love bond before I knew it I was sitting in a corner of a room with a woman slightly older and
Johanna she had a dry erase board and started teaching me about the Bible the Bible study made sense but soon after she asked me if I was ready to be baptized it was now around 11:30 p.m. and I felt some sort of obligation I had no ride home had no idea where I was and these happy shiny people were cooking for me and teaching me the Bible how could I say no I was hesitant but the intensity grew and I could feel the attitude start to change the desperation they promised it would only take a
few minutes and that God was watching and I may die if I deny being baptized after learning the truth so like an idiot I agreed and was rushed into a bathroom to get changed into a white robe well then let them know I had changed they ushered me into a bathtub or a small Asian man walked in apparently he was a pastor he told me not to be nervous and that the water would be warm I knelt in the shower with the lights dimmed while the rest of the women came in wearing veils over their
head singing in some strange monotone voices I heard him baptized me in the name of some Asian God and that's when I got freaked out once I left I was baffled and nervous it was such an intense feeling I was still stuck there as Johanna had driven me away out into another County so I had no idea how to leave they made me some more food and later told me that the name I was baptized under would later be explained to me when I returned to study more everyone kept telling me how I was part
of the family now I ended up returning and being pretty ly heavily brainwashed by this group to the point where I felt like they were my family I did things I'm not proud of I helped recruit people and spent hours and days and weeks there are later found out that Johanna was just a recruiter which would soon turn out to be someone who just forms fake French to bring more young women into this group and escaped mentally and deprogrammed and D fellowshipped it was a truly haunting experience that no young female should go through I
still see Johanna from time to time with her vicious Wolf Pack preaching the women on campus and malls are usually hide or run the other way and I hope I never end up back in that cult again I own this property in the countryside of Alabama it's in the middle of nowhere with 60 plus acres and as an abandoned house barn and greenhouse the barn house are close to each other in the greenhouse is far into the woods me and my friend were setting up film equipment in the house because we were going to film
a video the next day we had to sleep over for some reason I forget I didn't want to sleep in the truck so we slept inside the house my friend wakes me up and tells me he's getting really weird feelings about all of this so we go sleep in my truck I fall asleep and we get in the truck and my friend is still awake he told me it was around 4:00 in the morning and he saw seven to eight people in hoods and robes he said they looked around the house for a bit probably
to see if anybody was there because they saw our equipment in my truck one of the guys stared directly at my friend in the car but the windows are tinted so the guy had a hard time seeing my friend the guy stops investigating my truck and goes back with the group my friend tried to wake me up but I guess I wasn't morning came and my friend was still very sleepy from not catching any sleep we're going to the house to check on everything the lights are smashed papers are burned umbrellas are broken we found
candles around the house a cat nailed to a wall with a pentagram around it I was very shocked by everything and wish I was awake my friend sounds like he was terrified previous days we had found decayed animals to dogs some horses some cattle Birds a bat and some kind of hand buried since this place was once farmland I just assumed the previous owner who just left the animals to die or something but I didn't know how to explain the bat birds in hand this stuff was found near the barn and in the barn so
one day we come back to see if there's any more weird stuff going on we find three pigs sown crosses near the house the pigs were decapitated and the heads were on the ground in front of them they were wearing makeup and they had wigs sewn into their heads my friend tells me he thinks the people he saw the last time were there did it and it was telling me that he thought that they might be part of some satanic call to some other group around the crosses and pigs some of the grounds were burned
a few large circles may my friend spent the rest of the day taking down the pigs and burying them in the woods we go here again to ride some dirt bikes and ATVs and nothing weird was there when we came would put the vehicles in the barn because we would come back later in the week my friends putting up his ATV and tells me he saw a person in the barn just relaxing when some hay but it was in the dark and one of the horses or cattle stalls my friend stood there for a while
to see if it was a person and the man moved his hand in a goodbye kind of way my friend runs out of the barn and tells me what happens I go in there because I thought my friend was messing with me but no one is in there and then when I'm leaving the barn I see the guy trying to sleep on the second storey and I asked if he's all right and he tells me he is and tells me to go away and let him sleep even though it's my property I don't want to
start any crap with him so I let him be my friend says he thinks he is part of the group that's been doing stuff on my property we go there again about two weeks later and we see from my truck the guy walking out of the barn and talking with two guys one of them point in my truck and they all run into the woods I get my knife and gun keep it under my seat and it finally came in use and they got with my friend to go find the guys to tell them they
can't come here anymore and then it's my private property I can't find them but we found that most of them stay inside the greenhouse we found clothes books and dead birds and squirrels and I'm assuming that's what they ate there was a pond nearby so that's probably where they bathed then or didn't bathe at all we go to the barn to investigate and we found books on the second storey an altar and some tall candles all of this was out of sight from the ground we also found stuff like ropes knives nails a hammer and
a mallet we conclude that all of those guys there are in the group and they did all of that weird stuff we have not been back at that property for months so we don't know if they're still there or it moved on the police have searched there before for two guys that had kidnapped a nine - so those guys might be related to that unfortunately the police found no one there [Music] about two years ago my friends and I found out about an abandoned insane asylum located in Downey California being the curious 17 year olds
that we were we decided to be a good idea to go explore this abandoned facility just to see what we could find inside so on a Saturday night we gathered a few more of our friends and made the drive out to Downey so we could explore this building for ourselves after about thirty minutes of driving we arrived in Downey and make our way through the city to where the asylum is located the closer we get the shadier and shadier the neighborhoods were passing through become and after about 15 minutes of driving we arrived at our
destination we parked the car climbed through a hole in the fence and make our way into the building to see what we could find to be honest it started out not being too bad considering we had about 10 people we were thinking what's the worst thing that could happen to a group of 10 people so we meandered through the building looking at all the broken furniture scattered throughout the rooms the patient files thrown upon the floor and we're pretty much just having a good time looking at what once was this weird mental institution but this
is where things get weird as we're walking and we of course have a flashlight pointed down the hallway because the power that once was in this building was and is clearly out but as we're walking with our flashlight pointed ahead of us and we come to a corner we see the adjacent wall of the corner light up from what we assumed was another flashlight and sure enough we turned the corner and there's another group of four kids shady weird kids we confront each other and they asked us if we had been to the slide we
politely answer no because we have no idea what they're talking about and they tell us that we should follow them of course we declined because we're getting weird vibes from these people and as they're talking amongst themselves one of the kid comes up to me with a kid you not a solid six inch long bowie knife looking thing isn't this cool look what I found as he moves the knife closer to my face I politely answer what a cool fine that is and we start to back away telling them that we're going to go explore
the roof of the building surprisingly they say all right and they turn the corner and continue on their way all right now that that was out of the way I'm seriously beginning to feel weird about being in this place and about how we're definitely not supposed to be here so at that point I say screw it we need to go to the roof go down the fire escape and get out of here so we make our way to the roof and we're sitting there plotting our escape like I said people are not supposed to be
in the asylum so they have a police car stationed at the main gate to make sure no one comes in so as we're up there and we tried to figure out the best way to get out of here without getting noticed by the police that's what my friend sees a fire escape ladder coming down off this higher portion of the roof we decide that that is probably our best bet so we grabbed a small ladder and that will be able to boost us up onto this higher portion of the roof my friend Jonah goes up
and immediately turns around so we could help other people out by pulling them up as I'm getting myself up there my heart completely sinks Jonah did you not see this when you got up here I whisper what are you talking about man he responds I'm looking forward and he slowly turns to see what was pretty much our worst nightmare there's about 1,500 people sitting in a circle up there surrounding a burning cat or some other dead animal these guys are talking in tongues and just making noises which seems satanic as we're both getting down we
get noticed and they start talking amongst themselves in this weird language and as soon as we get down these guys stand up and start sprinting towards us I tell everyone to ditch the idea of the fire escape and to not worry about the cops we need to get out of here now so we start sprinting through this building with this cult and close pursuit behind us we miraculously make it out of the building and are starting to run across the field to the main gate and as we're doing so the cop notices the commotion turns
on the sirens and comes driving in then God he manages to cut the called off from us he starts to chase them as we get away safely honestly I can safely say it was the scariest experience in my life what would we have done if they had taken one of our friends what do we have to go back in and confront them I don't know and I'm glad that it didn't happen [Music] my friend Connor has a girlfriend who lives a few hours away and her mom reads all her texts so they generally stick to
Skype well after a while his girlfriend Ellie wants to introduce him to her Skype friends this is a group of people who met in various places across the internet who have those awful chats you can't keep up with and she introduces him to Jack Jack is the epicenter of the group Connor mentions him to me in passing a few times over about a month and then he finally messages me one night and says I need to talk to you so we talk and he tells me what Jack's been saying Jack is what I like to
refer to as lier crazy legit and I asked to mate the odds of each of those are fifty forty nine one see Jack claimed to be a supernatural being which I'd normally laugh off except he's got a group of hapless people convinced of this and Connor describes the group dynamics and it's red flags all around for controlling behavior and well that's sort of my speciality dealing with people like Jack but Connor doesn't want to stir up trouble because he's not confrontational I don't have similar inhibitions so one night he invites me into the group chat
which is ominously dubbed the truth cults have a collective belief in varying levels in something in this case the truth is about Jack the first thing anyone says to me is did you get Jack's permission every alarm bell and my system is going off Connor and I both played dumb slowly hesitantly a few other members of the group all strangers to me start saying hello not welcome me just asking how I know Connor not trying to explain that the chat is kind of private just saying tentative hellos the girl who first am Anand to know
if Jack gave me permission to join announces she asked Jack if I'm allowed to stay Connor meanwhile is messaging me about group dynamics the only non-believer Connor knows of this king whose vocal about his problem with Jack I talked to King who tells me that the other person doesn't believe is the girl who challenged me about entering the group red flag number one someone who doesn't believe jack is still the first to challenge outsiders cults don't appreciate outsiders that's about when Jack arrives he's likable don't get me wrong he is good at what he does
I think for about thirty minutes that he's too good for me to be any use but I'm a writer so I can commit to a character pretty well and he buys into my southern belle act once he invites me to a private chat I'm immediately told that I can ask him anything without fear of repercussions dude lives 600 miles from me what kind of repercussions could there be so I talked to King and the girl who challenged me and it turns out he's doing something else that scene and cults he's using threats and fear to
get people to obey Him something about being sold in the magical slavery if he doesn't protect them I'm gonna pause here to say the people who don't believe Jack are the most emotionally stable once there are abuse victims and depressed teenagers in this little group they're smart but they have two options believe Jack or lose friends anyway back to the circle of creepy the Jack Skype mood is going to kill my brother I inquire he tells me that his brother stabbed him with a sword and sides with her father who Jack hates after this guy's
lore comes from The Dresden films for a creepy would-be cult leader he really sucks at lying so I mark him down for dysfunctional and real-life family and possible violent tendencies I then lured Jack into a trap I won't bore you with details but I get to irrevocable screenshotted proof that he's a lying liar who lies not delusional and not legit I let Jack know the jig is up as retaliation he decides he should ban me and Connor from the group but before he can I go off on a nice little tangent in the group chat
about a Criminal Minds episode where a cult leader kicks out anyone who challenges him lest the others be swayed Jack is angry at me really angry like hope the city it can't trace my IP address or I'm dead angry but it doesn't end there oh no Jack returns to the group chat with a sob story and I let him stew because I've been slowly working my way through the group ripping off the jack is a liar who lies and manipulates and really shouldn't be talking to this guy no really band-aid I go talk to King
he tells me that his fellow non-believer a challenger has a picture of Jack's ID because I believe in having leverage I do some totally legal digging into the sky who has an unfortunately unique surname dear Jack's mom you should change your facebook security settings some fun facts about Jack his little brother is a jock better-looking mesomorph body athletic popular and Jack is none of these as mum stops talking about her eldest son quite suddenly no more pictures of Jack not a single mention of Jack since he was 18 so I made note of it and
moved on with my background check but then I noticed something an arrest not unusual except before the arrest date he and his brother are equally pictured on their mum's Facebook and then nothing I can't figure it out until I'm talking to Jack distracting him and letting him talk himself in circles I see his mood again gonna kill my brother dear God I think remembering that every lie holds a kernel of truth he actually has a brother he wants to kill I asked him why he was arrested even though I feel it in my gut that
I'm right assault he says on whom on my brother I need confirmation and a few other things before I present the facts the group still called the truth even as more and more members sit behind their computers marveling at the irony so I keep talking him to make sure I had the right jack but I'm not dealing with a catfish creep we video chatted it is him mug shot and ID confirmed he keeps asking me questions where do I live north of you what do I do for a living consult how old am I 17
what's your full name I wasn't giving that one out I like Jack have one of those last names that are incredibly rare it could find it if he googled me at any point Jack could do five minutes of googling and find my full name first middle and last anyway I told the group about Jack lying that day and shutdown as manipulative attempts to garner sympathy now he says he's dying and his father's a mobster and his brother is his adoptive brother except there's no one around for this equally ridiculous story he's trying to convince me
literally just me I live in a rural part of Chuckie there's not much to do here for a couple of bored teenagers you always hear about local urban legends every town has one or two my town is no different Kentucky has a cult presence there was a DaSilva in a remote part of the area it sits by Kentucky River on a stretch of road out in the middle of nowhere kids in the area love to throw parties there one of my friends Jay was one of these kids Jamie to our school in the middle of
the year he knew everyone and everyone knew him during a dull math lecture Jay and I started talking about local myths surrounding the area there are quite a few Jay starts telling me about a distillery he used to throw parties at he says that he's heard rumors that a cult meets there and continues to tell me weird experiences he's had there everything from dolls being nailed to the walls inside the distillery to a homeless guy shooting at him down there I decided that I wanted to check it out Jay a few friends and I decide
to go to the disarray the following weekend to explore the area around it our plan was for me to drive my car and Jay to drive his car we had a total of eight people going with us and for me to follow Jay there Friday comes in the whole day at school we are getting psyched up for our trip at about 10:00 that night we all meet and saddle up I follow Jay in his car with my four passengers and Jay drives his car with two passengers we drove for what seemed like forever about 45
minutes I didn't even know if we were in the same town Jay turned his car onto a two-lane road this road seemed normale no sign of anything out of the ordinary I keep following J's car down this road for about another five minutes that's when things start getting weird the road got smaller and we passed a street sign that just had the word hell spray-painted on it we passed a couple of houses that had weird red lights on the inside and a few houses that look like they were falling apart a little further we passed
the distillery and took a left up another holler this road was even crazier it was almost straight up a mountain with no guardrail on the side if we were to swerve off this road we were dead we get to the top of the hill and keep following this road until we come upon a gravel driveway and Jay stopped his car this is it he said as he got out of his car and walked over to mine I noticed some strange things right off the bat the driveway led up to a huge house surrounded by trees
and the trees I noticed ropes hanging from them they look like nooses there was signs posted everywhere about shooting anyone who came onto the property I also noticed a weird rock formation in the clearing of trees off to the side of the road almost like a stone hedge type deal after talking to Jay for a little while about the route we were taking to go back home we noticed lights coming down the drive a few of them drive drive Jay shot as he took off back to his car I immediately floored it I left Jay
and his passenger in the dust I almost had three deer that jumped out in front of my car my buddy in the backseat started asking us if we had seen those things behind us I asked him what he was talking about and he said that it was what looked like dogs and the road behind us he said that they look like dogs but they were way too big to be dogs we got back to town and stopped at a Waffle House to rehash what had just happened Jay said that he had seen a few dirt
bikes and ATVs coming down the Drive and didn't want to be around when they got there could this have been the cult everyone was talking about I may never know hey friends thanks for listening be sure to subscribe and click that notification bell to be alerted of all future narrations if you got a story be sure to submit them to my subreddit our let's read official and give them receive feedback from the community and maybe even hear your story feature on next video and join my discord to interact with me and other listeners directly and
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