4 Deranged TRUE Cult Survivor HORROR Stories (Vol. 1)

number one I was an exchange student from Malaysia and was placed in Missouri in 2006 they were a family of four son and daughter and they live somewhere around in Webster Groves they look nice warm and welcoming but it was all a facade for they were trying to gain my trust coming from a country where all neighbors are practicing a million different religions would kind of desensitize you or make you very aware I was the latter the first week was fine but sometimes I would wake up a little early and find them gathered in the kitchen in a circle around the kitchen table mumbling and whispering they'd stop as soon as I entered it was very disconcerting but I brushed it off thinking it was an American quirk during the second and third week it became worst the boy wouldn't touch me because I'm born from sin his words and the girl was afraid of me because I spoke to the father whilst looking him in the eye I started prodding her for answers whenever little things that I did which are normal by the way like reading before bed talking directly to the parents eating a sandwich would elicit small gaps and hyperventilation she told me that I have residues of the wicked and that I'm going to hell she told me about a cleanse and a daily prayer wash I've seen them singing the same hymns over and over again reciting the same verses in different tones and it really freaked me out I wasn't stupid I realized I was in a cult when they took me to church I was made to sit in the front and the pastor was conducting the service specifically for me I realized it when I looked around and saw that everyone was looking at me I felt like I was in a horror movie wide-eyed silent stares men and women were separated people wore different colored ribbons on their wrists and the children looked haunted or just plain frightened nobody spoke to me or even came close to me the men never looked me in the eye and the women whispered and shunned me and went there twice school was on break so I had to stay in with them many weird things happened but none was as bad as waking up in the middle of the night to find the mother sitting next to my bed reciting verses from the Bible in the dark as soon as I'd awake she'd stop and silently walk away the family began treating me badly after that I was punished for being out of line no dinner locked in till morning no sweet drinks I had to cover up with long sleeve tops long pants or skirt etc I think I only lasted because I was curious they probably thought since I'm from Southeast Asia I must be quite gullible and naive they tried brainwashing me about how sinful I was how lost I was how the world is going to end and I'll be dragged into hell unless I accept their teachings I was there for a month before our chapter coordinator came by for a visit I told her everything outside the house naturally and I left with her immediately we came back with a group of people from the exchange organizations about an hour later and found them in the midst of burning the things of the sinful non-believer thankfully my passport and other relevant documents were untouched I never found out what kind of cult they were number two I want to try to be concise and still give a proper breakdown of my time growing up in a cult I'm going to start by breaking down the ideology second coming of Christ they believe the Second Coming is or was alive he was a Korean man who went by the name Reverend Sun Myung Moon he was given the mission by Jesus in a vision when he was 16 years old on a mountaintop and it is his purpose to create an example of the ideal family so all may shape their families and its likeness and create an ideal world restoration of the fall Jesus forgives your sins but what about restoring humanity to what it was before the fall by paying spiritual indemnities and cleansing humanity of those sins in the first place their idea of indemnity is almost like paying karma forward you can put yourself through misery to either pay for past mistakes of humanity or to ensure good things will happen in the future you can pay indemnity by one living in a van for years and years on one of their taskforce fundraising by selling candles or wind chimes sometimes more than 14 hours a day to getting an arranged marriage after abstaining from absolutely any contact with the opposite sex all of your life by the Reverend himself or now your parents thereby overcoming the temptation of the fall by denying your desires and obeying the church completely actually this is the most important aspect of the church that you get matched and blessed their word for marriage is the only thing that will eventually restore humanity three converting other members or doing hundreds or thousands of boughs to a picture of Reverend moon every night for X amount of days five taking cold showers every day for X days six fasting you can drink water or a providential number of days either 3 7 21 or 40 now note you must do a seven-day fast before you can get married 7 giving money offerings to the church the church also started charging for ancestor liberation in the last couple of decades just like old school Catholics you pay to have your dear old granddad hoisted out of the pits of hell since the church is Korean they have deep resentment towards the Japanese and ancestor liberation can be thousands of dollars per person liberated for Americans it was a little over a hundred I think 8 beat yourself too repetitive chance at an approved spirit cleansing event 9 or basically denying yourself of any human comfort or need for some time some do sleep deprivation conditions there's a lot else but I can't keep going growing up in the church there are countless strange rituals in the church lick on your birthday you and your whole family have to wake up at 5:00 a.m. go to your altar of Reverend moon say a prayer and offer food when the ritual is almost over the birthday kid usually has to take the food and offer some to each of the family members and you always leave some on the altar there are countless stories told to the second generation or children born from marriages approved by Reverend moon since we're supposed to have been born as purely as Jesus without original sins stories of members who left the church and immediately got hit by a bus or became prostitutes and died of odine or killed themselves out of guilt now Koreans Korean the church is seen as the New Jerusalem Koreans being the new chosen people every leader in the church is a Korean despite the religions heavy unification of world cultures and religions overtones Koreans often were only matched to other Koreans none of moons kids were allowed to marry anyone other than a Korean Japanese members have always been the church's cash cow guiltin them into paying more and tithing and overcharging them for everything Americans got their fair share of that too the church often comes up with a new ceremony like a holy wine ceremony we're drinking this new blessed wine usually juice will heal you of all your sins that of course you have to pay to get into sometimes they just make a big plea for extra money like their total life offering which was something like if you pay the church sixteen thousand dollars you would never have to pay them for anything again which was a lie some members took out second mortgages on their house to pay these offerings I will say in response to people in this thread who asked how someone could fall for this and how people could stay in it for so long cults like this never approach it like hey a Korean guy is the Messiah you want to join they take you through steps almost like Scientology but not so clearly defined the unification Church was going around in America in the 70s preaching for true love and Family Values stuff many people especially people with Christian backgrounds can get behind the church does have heavy Christian influence so much the language is the same but they'll start discussing things with you like the evils in the world if Jesus restored the world then why would there need to be a second coming we should prepare ourselves for the next Messiah a messiah is exactly what we need how else can we right the wrongs of this world once you get them going on that you just pumped them with all the same religious feel-good stuff God is our Father God is watching out for you he wants the best for you God hurts when you don't do what's right and eventually God becomes some kind of emotionally sensitive dude you have to coddle and take care of then once your members are pumped the living and Vance they're trying to recruit other people that's when you start with a deeper you know the Messiah is here the tension has been building to this moment for literally years the members are overjoyed and can't wait to do anything the sky says so they can be like jesus' first disciples now no one thinks they're a victim they think they're literally saving the world it appeal to a lot of people who were raised Christian but were dissatisfied with the contradictions or shortcomings of their parents religion number three I was married to a Scientologist well Scientology is weird it's all-consuming as most cults are my ex-husband only knew and associated with people and Scientology however all his friends were actually very very nice and really cool to me I made a lot of friends through him I never felt outwardly pressured to join Scientology but the insidiousness was absolutely there and I'll get to that ex-husband was raised in it you could say he was a second generation Scientologist his parents joined back in the L R ron Hubbard days and they were in it they both worked for the church as auditors they were dirt poor all of their money went to the church hundreds of thousands of dollars they were so deep in debt they had no health insurance and no money for anything except rent for their tiny run-down apartment that part made me the saddest they were nice people now I married him back when I was younger more idealistic and willing to overlook major differences I was a bit lost myself and really just looking to connect with anyone and was always atheist and actually really against organized religion but he always assured me that Scientology was not something he was active in and that it wouldn't be a problem he wasn't taking any courses at the time we dated and were engaged so I believed him that Scientology was more like his parents thing than his after we got engaged he started telling me how a friend of his needs some help she was training to become an auditor the e-meter thing you hear about and needed someone to practice on I declined he kept asking and insisted that it's just for her practice it doesn't mean I'm doing Scientology and that it would mean a lot to him so I did and what a silly experience honestly it's just ridiculous you sit in a room with the Auditor hold these cans let me tell you the rigmarole they used to get the cans set right so they pick up your wavelengths or whatever they call it is laughable lotion on the hands squeeze the cans that didn't work go for a walk drink some water lotion again squeeze the stupid cans all this over and over until something on the auditors ends says it's all working now and then you're good to go I lied through the whole thing they acted like I made some amazing breakthroughs I got a floating needle and then that was it however I was then called over and over and over to come back what the hell I thought this was a one-time thing to help this chick out no they were all over me they wanted three-hour sessions days in a row on weekdays no wonder Scientologists are all porous they want you in constantly during work days I became so disagreeable to them that they actually gave up calling me to get me in I guess they figured me being married to one of them is enough to eventually get me the Scientologists on the lower portion of the bridge tend to know nothing about the Xenu stuff I asked them and they acted like they've never heard of it I guess you don't get to read that tech till way later a few hundred thousand deep the overriding insidiousness I saw was the learned ability to scam people I witnessed a Scientologist own business get taken down by the feds for frauding their clients now the reason I divorced him was because he stole a large sum of money from my account that was not to be touched it just vanished and he had nothing to say for it he opened two credit cards in my name and Max the mouth he put me into financial ruin it was a disaster number four I was born and raised in a cult and considered myself a member up until I left my parents home at the age of 18 the group I was associated with is not well known but the effects on the members are tragic and undeniable we were literally brainwashed we had weekly services with a set program three hymns prayer sermonette hymn announcements main message him prayer it never altered from that layout as well the messages we would hear were often videotaped sermons for maybe five main people at headquarters the topics were extremely narrow prophecy the end is cuming self-improvement all of you suck and you should hate yourselves setting ourselves apart don't talk to worldly people they will taint you there were many ways in which we were indirectly encouraged to harm ourselves many people looked down upon modern medicine and felt that using it was a way of turning away from God slapping him in the face making it clear he wasn't needed I personally knew people who died for their faith waiting for God to heal them on the other hand when any of the main leaders fell ill they were immediately rushed off to receive medical care they controlled our diet we pretty much were kosher though they denied all influence or association from or with Jews there were annual days of fasting and whenever the leadership could scare up enough drama within the members they would declare a church wide fast so we could all get closer to God and resolve our issues we fasted when the churches income was said to be dropping with bastard when the leaders were ill we fasted when people died we had her own personal fasts for the hell of it or when we thought especially guilty and out of touch with God parents were encouraged to get their children involved as young as possible my parents tell me I started observing the annual fast when I was 3 years old I remember one year when my brother was 2 or 3 at one point during the day he just broke down sobbing because he was so thirsty and yeah we abstain from food and drink we got obscenely dehydrated every time looking back I just don't understand how a parent can behave that way and they were so sex negative I can't even describe it we spent so much time and energy frantically thinking I can't think about sex that it was all we thought about it was evil dirty wrong and it would hurt if we weren't married I literally built up so much fear over it that when I did finally have sex as an unmarried adult I had literally developed vaginismus a sexual pain condition the cause does often psychological in my case being so afraid of it hurting that it hurt which further fed into my fear there was actually an entire message once where one of the leaders took on the subject are we a cult and he actually went through a checklist with us his conclusion that we were a cult but that it was a good thing we should be proud only not bright as a sin we should be pleased he had to be baptized before a minister would marry you he couldn't be baptized and marry someone else who wasn't you can marry outside the church some ministers wouldn't baptize you if they thought your only incentive was to get married there were rampant cases of sexual abuse from the leadership but we were always too fearful to report it always taught that it must have in some way been our fault traditional gender roles were enforced ie women stay home pop out babies cook and clean men were to work and support the home having children and lots of them was strongly encouraged be fruitful and multiply and all that adoption was frowned upon even for those who were unable to have their own children so many families were living in poverty because there was just too many children to take care of God forbid that any of them have a medical condition that required constant treatment we were robbed on a regular basis they called it tithing not only did we give 10% of our entire income but we were also to set a second 10% aside to be used at a seven-day religious convention of sorts every year and on every third year we would give an additional 10% to the church imagine losing 20% of your income every year and 30% every third year imagine being poor to begin with imagine being told you are poor because you have been literally stealing from God by not diligently paying your tithes hey guys thanks for watching as you can tell from these stories the reality of cults are very 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Length: 26min 30sec (1590 seconds)

Published: Sun Dec 06 2015