Former CULT members, What is your CREEPIEST or most DISTURBING story (r/AskReddit) updoot reddit

[Music] serious former cult members or friends of cult members of Reddit what is he pre piaced scariest or most disturbing story and is that what made you leave my parents were members of Islamic cult with a fake guru / holy man sort of thing he used to lead group chants and things in one time while everyone eyes were closed chanting away in the semi-darkness me and him locked eyes and he realized that I was laughing at how dumb it was he had a vendetta against me since then he turned my parents against me first convincing them that one day in the future he could read the future apparently rolls eyes I would break their hearts and leave and destroy the family because they were so invested in him they started believing it and treating me a thirteen year old as if I had already committed the unspeakable Act after this he made my parents focus on my older brother more than me lavishing him with expensive gifts such as Gucci watches a brand new Mitsubishi Jeep with a private plate before he even passed his driving test and experiences like executive box seats to major sports events up and down the country plus more this wasn't enough after this he convinced all of his followers that I was mentally handicapped and needed to be kept isolated for most of my teenage years I would come back from school / college / university to an empty house many times not seeing another soul for weeks the story of my parents [ __ ] child spread through the entire community where it is an accepted fact now and I can't get married because everybody just assumes that I'm mentally disabled after this he bankrupted my parents and family making them pay all his bills / expenses and rewarding them with prayers through a too complicated to go into now chain of events I was given the responsibility to become a full-time parent to my two year old girl cousin so he convinced everybody that I was a pedophile and molesting a baby so I could not be left alone with her he convinced my parents that I was their enemy and his sons were their real sons and to ignore me my entire life to this day I have never once been able to have a heart-to-heart talk with either of my parents I have been working for six years now they don't even know the name of my boss or team or even what I do they are only interested in what day I get paid there has been more done to me than this short amount but I just replied because I want to say that I am a better man than anyone has ever understood and I forgive my parents now that bastard has finally been dragged to hell I forgive them not because they deserve it but because I believe that this experience made me stronger as a person if all this could not break me through all those years then what the duck can break me now the most disturbing thing about this cult was firstly that there are a million holy men like this all over the world the second most disturbing thing is how easy it is for them to gather followers who believe that they are divinely powered individuals through nothing more than cheap parlor tricks vague prophecies and unprovable claims like the time he had visited Jupiter via spirit travel if anybody is reading this who is going through something similar all I will say is that your family is ill if they were of a sound mind they would not be doing these things be kind be good be better than them peace I was part of a fundamentalist Christian cult known as ATI /i BL p recent scandals have hit the news about the cult leader bill got hard when over 50 women came forward with allegations that he will actually harassed them but that's only scratching the surface let me tell you my scariest experience and just keep in mind I'm far from the only one first half throughout my childhood my father and sisters abused me wax Willie since the cult taught a strict familial hierarchy with a father being top dog then mother then children in order of birth as the youngest I was bottom of the totem pole my father would twist Bible verses to justify ripe death threats and more because ati is a homeschool cult it was really handy to cover up the abuse from any prying eyes my home was a prison for 11 years until he died of a massive heart attack and that's not even the scariest experience fast forward two years I'm 13 with a mother who's frantically fixated on me being a troubled child because one I dared resist my father's advances and argue against the abuse I was suffering gaming me the reputation of rebellious 2 I'm severely depressed because I'm a freaking ride victim and depression is considered sin and 3 I asked too many questions as to why we believe the things we believed you don't ask questions needless to say so she calls some cult members here and there pull some strings and long story short she gets me placed in a secretive program called the log cabin program they tell her very little details about it and she tells me even less all I know is I'm about to move to Oklahoma for a while to be fixed by nice counselors because I'm a dirty sinner Wednesday July 11th 2001 I'm dropped off in a lockdown compound in the middle of nowhere near skya toque Oklahoma called Eagle Springs training center they pose as a residential childcare facility for appearances sake this means my mother literally signs over custody of me her own child to a bunch of strangers at a compound in the middle of nowhere and leaves me there and goes back home far away they assure her I'm in good hands for the next two years I am tortured brainwashed starved sleep-deprived threatened with a shotgun punished humiliated interrogated and terrorized I lose 40 pounds in the first month or two they take me off my medications believing it is wrong to take them cold turkey I exhibit severe symptoms of withdrawal and they go ignored I am worked grueling hours sent on a muz hikes and marches scrubbing floors on my hands and knees until my knuckles are cracked and bleeding from the bleach punished with hard labor until I'm near fainting they had fun coming up with new and strange punishments this implies that it is deserved when in fact they are instructed specifically to break their students will whatever it takes one was a forced vow of silence you were told never to speak for days or weeks on end if you do you are punished further I was given tasks designed to fail for example extremely short time limits on difficult tasks in order to be punished and humiliated I was forced to grovel and confess humiliating sins exist in two non in front of the 30 or so members in the compound I was given spoiled undercooked foods and even chemically treated water that burned my throat and left me horribly sick I was placed in solitary confinement for two and a half weeks while they blared music to torture me the song lyrics went trust in the Lord he makes no mistakes he know at the end of each path that we take for when I'm tried and purified I shall come forth as gold basically it was a blatant message you're being tortured because God loves you and he's going to put you through fire to melt you into gold and gave me endless confessional papers to complete detailing what a terrible sinner I am I was interrogated for hours on end as well as hypnotized I was screamed at and exercised for hours on end I had no privacy even going to the bathroom they would stand outside the door I could go on and on and on I was there for two years the scariest part of all of this is that I am far from the only one the log cabin program was run in Oklahoma Indiana and I believe an alternate version for Russian orphans was done elsewhere either Indiana or Illinois all of these programs secretly tortured and brainwashed children and teenagers many of them were so-called delinquents they had committed minor petty crimes who were ordered by judges to be shipped to these compounds and held against their wills this runs very deep it has never been accounted for and probably never will be they tried to investigate alarming allegations of child abuse some of which included beatings in Indianapolis Indiana and the whole thing got swept under the rug the only thing you got to hear about on the news was got hard feeling up a bunch of women you never hear about his systematic child torture programs Bill Gothard and IVLP simply have their fundamentalist hands in too many pies they will probably never be caught one day the morning of going to said cult my mother woke me up and tried to force dress me since I didn't feel like going I had only gotten a few hours of sleep the night before and I also felt slightly ill like I had a cold so I really wanted to stay home after a few minutes of struggling to put ugly clothes on me she gave up and slapped me approximately seven times tried to choke me then shoved me off the bed onto the floor she screamed at me that I would be in trouble for this rebellion and left for the cult meeting that's when I finally decided I had enough and decided to leave it permanently I had already been thinking about leaving but this was just the final nail in the coffin later on she got me a therapist for the purposes of trying to make me go to their cult meetings crying that there was something wrong with her daughter lucky me the therapist sided against her and told her to stop forcing me to go thankfully never did it again though she lamented about me not believing anymore this was about seven years ago and I don't think I'll ever forget it in a way it was sort of a good thing because it opened my eyes to the world yes I've been part of a cult I may as well tell you the story from the top cast your minds back to a time when you were 18 just out of a-levels for just finishing them and looking forward to dealing with life like many of my peers I got it into my head that I wanted to go abroad and do development work I found an organization via newspaper advert signed up at the recruitment weekend in Hull and then straight after my last exam I jetted off to Denmark to train to do what I wanted to do for six months the basic idea was that I would train in Denmark then head out to Africa to do stuff like building toilets educating people about aids general well-meaning stuff you get the idea well the first mistake happened when I arrived that is because they forgot I was arriving I was sat in the bloody airport for three hours before thinking screw it and got a taxi to where I was staying making sure I charged it to the company anyways about a month in we were all put to work to clean up the school where we went to Train myself and a friend were working on the library and I happened on a book with a very interesting title the history of North Korea I read it and had a laugh it was essentially some very weak propaganda from our friends in Asia and then I threw it out thinking nothing of it another interesting occurrence was when the school decided to have a sing-along session fine and dandy but we decided not to go because we had plans of our own mainly involving lounging around him doing nothing one of the teachers basically busted in and ordered us out she seemed most put out when I stayed where I was I don't think she was equipped to deal with anarchie English teenager who wasn't in a mood to put up with bull crap the final straw came when I found a website called trend alert have a look around I think it's still out there and noticed several odd things about this supposed charity I had signed up with first of all there had recently been a police raid at their headquarters secondly there were allegations of money laundering tax evasion false accounting brainwashing and best of all gun running not forgetting wage-slave and shoddy treatment of its workers so not liking what I was reading I emailed the link to my dad who was a journalist at the time he emailed back saying it's real get out of there oh crap anyways I started to email the creator of the website in order to formulate an escape plan the only problem was what was meant to be a private email was posted on the website which was monitored by the lovely people I was working with here's where the story gets interesting we were just about to go on and outward-bound weekend when I was pulled off the bus regarding the email that had been sent I was put in an office on my own with a large pissed-off Danish man oddly enough called Rene he couldn't understand why I wasn't afraid of him could have been something to do with the Loch knife which I had on my person should he try anything so after an hour or so of him trying to intimidate me and me making a fool out of him he tells me to leave the office here's the fun part I get in contact with my mom over MSN and she actually phoned up this guy and threatened him with coming over there herself with a press pack and making life very difficult if he didn't pay for a flight home and put me on the plane suffice it to say I got the plane on the tacit understanding I wouldn't contact the media which I did the very next day as a postscript to this the leader of this cult is now on trial the place where I was staying as closed and the whole organization seems thoroughly tits-up and that's the story of how I managed to screw over a Danish cult I was best friends with an Olympic athlete who was into Scientology due to his semi fame he was given the VIP treatment at their Hollywood celebrity Center where I often accompanied him i sat in the waiting room with the likes of Lisa Marie Presley and Giovanni Ribisi while he did his auditing sessions when he introduced me to John Travolta at one of their celebrity events Travolta wrapped me in a bear hug and lifted me off the ground my friend convinced me to leave my day job and work as his personal assistant he was doing a lot of corporate speaking appearances I moved into his house and we lived like brothers swimming in his pool going to strip clubs working out at his training gym I had some amazing experiences like going backstage of the American Music Awards and hanging out alone with guns and roses for two hours the church's publicity team wanted to set him up with a girlfriend they set up a series of dates with very cute Scientologists but nothing really took off we had a lot of philosophical discussions I found many of Scientology's aspects to be very insightful but the money-grubbing in the Z new business kept me too skeptical to fall in at one point he made an anti-gay argument basically saying imagine carrying that to the extreme we'd all die off things got creepy when he started asking me for a rub downs after his workouts then one night inviting me to masturbate with him I passed then at a party he propositioned my gay cousin who immediately told me obviously I have nothing against gays but I felt very creeped out he was behind on paying me because he had run up huge debts for services at the church I left and we haven't spoken since I feel like I got closer to the inside of Scientology than any non Scientologist haver has I think I have a pretty good idea of what's going on with Tom Cruise you know my two best friends are ex Jehovah's and one of my former best friends still is one of my friends older siblings were molested by members of the cult when they told the elders they tried to cover it up my friend and his family were later kicked out which means that aren't allowed to talk to some of their own family members that are still Jehovah's similar thing happened to my other best friend but not to the same degree the former friend and me used to be extremely close between the ages of 6 to 11 at 11 my family moved to another country for three years when we came back he had stopped hanging out with my old clique of people whom I stayed in contact with now to the duct up thing I was at a grocery store with one of my ex hey of all friends he was never baptized and therefore can't be kicked from the cult this means that he can still talk to members we bump into my ex friend's mom and he says hi and they talked for a while during all this time the mother doesn't talk to me at all or even acknowledge that I'm there she also hides from my mom if they happen to be in the same place I assume that it's because she realized that she's not going to be able to recruit us into her ducked up cult the ex friend is and has always been very sheltered in all he noses hey Ava which is a shame seeing as he is incredibly clever in the cult limits his options greatly we were small he wasn't allowed to be in the reclass us TL DR jehovah's is a duck top cult not exactly a cult per se but it gives you a good idea of just how influential religion can be even in rational intelligent people my parents were heavily involved in our Christian Church during my whole childhood we're talking attending services three to four times a week giving significant portions of income etc if you remember the church scene in Borat that was my church but times 10 now don't get me wrong the church did a lot of good for the community but there was a lot of sinister indoctrination under the surface when I was 15 my parents found out I'm gay long story and reacted poorly they turned to the church for help advised by the church I was essentially shunned in my own household not spoken to not acknowledged grounded from privileges etc until I sought help either from a Christian psychiatrist or the higher-ups at the church I chose psychiatrist met this psych dude who was an ex-gay Christian one thing that sticks with me is him saying I get it turning away from a sinful homo actual lifestyle is difficult I did I have been married to my beautiful wife for six years and I have two beautiful daughters sometimes though I still meet men off the internet for wax and I didn't ask for God's forgiveness needless to say those efforts were fruitless no pun intended my parents lost friends over it they're best friends from the church told them they needed to do whatever they could do to purge me of my choice this was around the time my older brother got a tattoo which caused problems also we were made to attend summertime sleepaway camp think Jesus camp light where they tried to force us to wear hoodies that said abortion is homicide and Hama Washu ality is an abomination around town our reluctant to comply was not received well all these things seem to be the straws that broke the proverbial camel's back soon my parents were shunned from the church made to feel guilty and like failures this was years ago and things are much different but the power religions can have over rational minds is sad and sickening TL dr. cultish church tucked up my parents heads not really all that bad there were some memorable moments so I had been in this foster home for about a week and they took me and my siblings to their church we get there sitting in a Pew about halfway to the back of their church music is being played on an organ their preacher comes out and begins to talk about their God I'm watching this finding it all new and strange at the end of the sermon the parishioners go up to their altar and begin to pray it isn't like in the movies where their hands are pumped a palm in there whispering quietly to themselves no their eyes are closed and tipped back like they're trying to stop a nosebleed they're all crooning and crying out their individual prayers it all becomes some sick cacophony of tears then all of a sudden one of the woman begins spamming her arms pumping like she's fighting a Sith Lord with a force her legs are shaking like she was wearing shock collars for garters and her buxom church lady loved pillows begin to bounce and jiggle like crazy felt like I was watching an African mating ritual then another begins to shake and gyrate and spasm these begin to spout hard syllable gibberish like a baby with turrets then to my utter amazement they take off running laps around the outside of the pews like they were in gym class and begin shouting louder the preacher's son falls on the ground and began shaking and quaking like some villain who was pushed into an electrically charged pool of acid he's crying out in the preacher is going from torrid afflicted parishioner to toward afflicted parishioner crying out these prayers at the top of his lungs and it was hot that day and I look outside and across the street and there are children standing out there shielding their younger siblings from having to see the spectacle taking place inside this church I'm never going to another Pentecostal church ever those duckers are crazy I was also a member of a discipleship program it was a 13 month minimum Pentecostal reformative Center basically dot the program was in the middle of Arkansas I was one of 35 students there I was in the Women's Center every morning we would wake up at 5:30 to pray we would all go to the basement and sit on our knees facing the backs of chairs and pray out loud for one hour every morning they had leaders walk around the room to make sure everyone was praying if you didn't pray out loud or fell asleep you were punished after that we ate a communal breakfast read proverbs and did chores around the center until 9:30 we then would either go to the shop or down to the classroom in the classroom we did Bible study and practical application of biblical principles to our life the shop was much better we would make crosses and plaques and other knickknacks which we would sell to fund the ministry it was a free program so we would stand outside of Walmart's with our crafts tables taking donations and selling our handmade wares much like gypsies after we were done with our daily tasks we would eat dinner and take showers weekday lights-out was 10:00 p.m. we could only talk to our families once a week for 10 minutes at a time the leaders would listen to our phone conversations and if we said anything that the ministry deemed unwholesome the phone call was terminated and you lost your right to speak to your family and definitely every aspect of life is regimented you were never by yourself unless you were using the bathroom or showering if you broke one of their rules like blaspheming the Holy Spirit for one or questioning authority you were put on discipline discipline lasted usually from two weeks to up to three months depending on the infraction you ate last getting the leftovers once everyone else was done you couldn't speak to your family at all you had to work out in the shop for long periods of time this was bad because there was no running water or toilet just a bucket you had extra prayer time had more scripture to memorize etc they didn't allow you to take medicine or go to the doctor if you got sick it was because you allowed the devil into your body and the only way to fix it was through prayer I was put on discipline a lot when I first came into the program being 19 I was that the youngest girl there and coming from a non Pentecostal religious upbringing I was shocked and scared by the environment I couldn't tell my family how and they wouldn't have believed me even if I could tell them the sort of environment I was in I came in on March 10th 2009 and after four months of being on pretty much constant discipline I resigned myself to my fate and started buckling in I was a good fundraiser I usually brought in around 1,000 to the ministry every weekend the program claimed to show no favoritism to the students who brought in the most money but that was not the case being the youngest and having all of my teeth meant they brought me with them to various churches and other sponsorship opportunities the pastors used me as an example to people they were trying to get to give us money as a representation of how beautiful the love of God could make people I was one of the favored students and they began letting me watch a little TV talk to my family more take me to get food occasionally along with fundraising they decided to open up a diner they hired the program directors daughters baby daddy as the main chef because he used to work in the kitchens in prison his name was Jay he was not a good man they only sent the good students to the diner the ones who had been there the longest there were about seven of us going there every day working in the kitchens and running the cash register he was young and really good-looking and charismatic he started flirting with all of us and everyone loved the attention we weren't allowed to talk to men so it was nice to be able to talk to a man without being written up for it he had total authority over us while we were there every day and he soon started taking advantage of his ability to punish us he started going a lot further with his advances there were only a few girls there that he liked and he would make a point to be alone with us as much as he could some of them liked it I didn't he liked the fact that I didn't like it and he would hound me every day going further and further with what he tried one day he cornered me in the walk-in cooler and grabbed me from behind he was trying his hardest to get me to have wax with him and when I refused it enraged him and he started trying to take it from me by force I fought back but he was a lot bigger than I was as he was yanking my pants down I remember really praying for the first time God please save me and right as I said this someone happened to walk into the cooler it was one of my sisters Jay dropped me pulled his pants up and walked out screaming I caught Emily with a cell phone in the walk-in I was put on discipline for two months the longest I had ever heard of anyone being put on discipline for he told the pastors he caught me trying to call my boyfriend I didn't even have a boyfriend going in I tried to tell them that he had attacked me showed them the bruises on my back and arms but they said I was trying to get out of my punishment all the other girls at the diner were scared to say anything about him for fear of punishment he requested I stay on at the diner during my discipline because I was good in the kitchen and they allowed it I don't know if it was a cult or not but I grew up in a church group that was pretty close if not my creepiest story is this a big church that led read controlled by fear a lot of little churches ran a college redone accredited brainwashing for all the little churches kids so we didn't have to go to secular school which was pretty much considered the devil the pastor of the big church was almost worshipped everyone loved him and gave him free reign to tell them what to do with their lives I went to this college because there was really no other acceptable choice when my family was in this group between my freshman and sophomore year there this pastor was convicted of having whacks with a teen girl he was counseling and of taking her across state lines etc he was later sentenced to 12 years in prison the creepy factor is I know for a fact that this man had keys to every door on campus and he was known to make surprise visits to the girls dormitories meaning this convicted predator had a key to my room and no one dared question him on anything my family had been slowly on their way out for years but this situation was the straw that broke the camel's back [Music]

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Published: Tue Jul 23 2019