Last Podcast On The Left - Episode 594: The Krugersdorp Cult Murders Part I - Dorp on Devil

Episode Date: October 18, 2024

This week the boys begin the devil-ish tale of one of the most notorius cults in South African history with the story of Cecilia Steyn and the Electus per Deus Cult. Last Podcast on the Left | LPN | Youtube | Twitch | Instagram | TikTok | X | [e-mail] Subscribe to SiriusXM Podcasts+ on Apple Podcasts to listen to ad-free new episodes and get exclusive access to bonus content.

I think there are a lot of true crime like podcasts and entertainment podcast. They spent so long Just like gross and these guys Never once they said they thought about just like asking like yourself like what's good about the criminal? and in this one straight up It's the hairstyles It's the hairstyles. I was going to say not the hair. I like the hair.

The hair is terrible. I think the hair, much like Yosef Fritzl, is largely her greatest attribute. Because it gives her a thing, it gives her a thing. You wouldn't know Carrot Top if he didn't have the hair. The muscles and the props. That's later on. The freckles. Later on.

The Carrot Top comes first. It's in the name carrot top redhead What are you expecting red hair his hair goes above and beyond the red that you're even expecting Selling a persona it comes down to packaging Santa Claus. What is he without the beard? He's just a fat guy from Nova Scotia On the left ladies and gentlemen, my name is Marcus Parks. I'm here with the hair obsessed Henry Zabrowski. No, I am just looking on the possum. I'm glass half full Henry Zabrowski. Oh, wow.

This is gonna be positive. Yeah, this is, you know what it partially is, is that I'm trying to begin the rehab of my personality so that I can join a church undercover and slowly but surely flip it from the inside to my own church and then get that church to go kill the other church. And we're here with the fair and balanced as always Ed Larson. That's right I'm ass half full. You gotta empty it. Guess what not, if you do feel a constant fullness in your butthole, that's a sign of colon cancer.

Oh, I just got my test back. I'm good. Damn. I'm good, I'm good. Go CC over here, baby. Yeah, CC. I'll tell you what though, I'm fucking excited to get to Europe this weekend with you guys. Oh, yes. This is gonna be great. Fucking wait, dude.

We can't wait to do our shows in London. They are coming up soon. We got a couple more tickets left in our second show. Go check it out in Reykjavik. Get dressed. The show will see you there very, very soon. Oh, God. I'm so fucking pumped for those evil bastards. Well, today we're not talking about Europe. Today, we're talking about South Africa.

South Africa. For the Krugerstorp cult murders. Yay! Yeah, we're back to cults. It's been forever since we've done a cult. It's been a really we've done a cult. It's been a really long time, and we were looking for a suitably spooky topic for the end of October. We always kind of go back and forth. Last year we did Madame L'Laurie,

which turned out to be like spookier in like a human pain over time. She was cute. No, opposite. We did not. Have I not remembered you correctly? You might be, you might have some fuzzy memory. You know, we've covered some, we did a lot of spooky this year,

and so we're like, well, what do we want to do? And it's like, it's been so long since we've had a good spooky cult. And I will say, this is one of those times when the booze and all the weed I consume really helps. Yeah. Because I was just looking on through dang Amazon Prime and I saw the word Devilsdorp.

As soon as I saw the word Devilsdorp, I thought it was gonna be something like a famous comedian on his knees with his shoes on his knees. Like he's got the short legs and he's playing like an evil version of a tiny devil. Yes, that's what I thought. That is legitimately what I thought. I thought Devil's Dorp was like a murderous gnome.

That's what I mean. It called to me and then when I clicked upon it, I realized, oh, this is one of the more compelling stories I have heard in a minute, and it's a cult, and it's involved in Satanism, and it allows me to come in and defend Satan from idiots Yes, see what I made a mistake. I researched the battle of Kruger, which is just a blast Oh, yeah, have you never watched the battle of Kruger? No. Oh my god. Do yourself a favor Google battle at Kruger. It's a bunch of lions versus will the beast and a crocodile Oh, yeah, I was gonna I was gonna ask is this an animal war? This is crocodiles

First crocodiles and will the beast the will to be spoil alert do pretty good The wildebeest, spoil alert, do pretty good. Well guess what? The wildebeest and this story do pretty well as well. Wildebeest murder a bunch of people. We'll find out today. No, Christ himself. Yes! Rock and roll man.

Jesus fucking kills man. Yeah, this is the only fucking series we've ever done where Jesus fucking really kills. Yeah man. Well the Kruger's Dorp cult murders were a fascinating set of killings that occurred between 2012 and 2016 in the titular South African mining community of Kruger's Dorp Do you know that means Kruger's town Dorp is town? Yep. So Devil's Dorp would be Devil's Town. That's why it's cool They were living in a devil town. You's why it's cool. Oh, they were living in a Devil's Town. Didn't know it was a Devil's Town. It was made a Devil's Town against their will. The two of us, this Dorp's too small for the two of us.

Okay, Devil, you can have it then. I'm going back to heaven. Well, in Cruers Dorp, a small boutique cult of Christians called Electus Perdeus murdered 11 people in the name of God. This is a high body count cult. It is. This story, I'm so surprised that it did not get the play that place that things like Snowtown did where Snowtown is a much more convoluted story with a smaller body count. Like, you know, that doesn't make it necessarily a better or worse thing.

But it's just crazy with this where like, these idiots killed a lot of people. Yeah, they really did. Well, their leader was a self-styled satanic ritual abuse survivor named Cecilia Stang. She definitely was self-styled because you can't pay for that hairstyle. She claimed she was a part of a Satanic witch bloodline that went back 42 generations to Pharaoh Ramses II. She had, however, escaped and claimed to be battling the very same groups to which she had once belonged.

By claiming that she had escaped her coven, she was able to convince a group of Christians who were caught up in South Africa's satanic panic that every outlandish claim she made, which rival even Mike Warnke's craziest lies, was the gospel truth. I actually think it goes steps even farther than Mike Warnke's craziest lies. Oh, it's far beyond. Because Mike Warnke, I mean, mostly he was doing it for the lulls, right? He was doing it for the content. He was doing it for the money. He was doing it for the lulls right he was doing for the content He was doing his money into sell books But this lady like talk about I like to fashion myself a performer

Right like a real actor an actor's actor I believe all the world's a stage and like honestly one of my favorite stages is my bedroom That's a different, that's a performance I put on for the benefit of my family and my friends. And everyone loves it. And everyone loves it. Natalie loves that. Everybody loves it. But this woman never stopped performing. This woman never gave up the ghost once. And that I even give her points above Alex Jones. Yeah. And even you don't do your own special effects. No, no, no. I hire out. But while Mike Warnke told a bunch of stories about being a satanic high priest for money

and attention, Cecilia's game was far more insidious. Cecilia was all about seeing what she could make people do. As such, her stories inspired 11 murders that were cleverly disguised as volleys against the scourge of Satanism in South Africa. Unbelievable. You fucking believable. You think the South Africans need Satan. I mean, yeah. Desperately. I know so many people walking around that need Satan. I see him. If I see you with a button down shirt on with the fucking button up to the collar, y'all need Satan.

Yeah, or golf shirts. Oh God, wicking. I talked about wicking. I hate wicking. Wicking's lying. Wicking is lying. God, our bodies sweat. Our bodies were made by Gaius to sweat. How dare you use your science-made fabric to wick away my well-earned juice? Well, Cecilia was able to convince one group of Christians that another group of Christians were actually a part of a satanic church and therefore needed to die. See, that makes her likeable. You know, in some ways, I feel like, how do you say it? I'm not happy with the result, but I don't have problems with the tactics.

But once the blade was wet, Cecilia was then able to convince her followers to kill pretty much anyone she wanted, all to serve the phony cause of her cult, Electus Perdeus, which means chosen by God. Would you not say that their motives, and her motives especially, are some of the more mysterious motives? Very much so. In any cult we've covered. Like this is someone that arrived,

much kind of like how Anders Breivik went against, it committed a one man war against the world that didn't know war was coming and then he claimed himself victor over a war that he started and then ended himself this lady kind of seems to have the same energy where she declared war on a group of people that had no idea that they were inviting this into their lives she just kind of rolled in as a true, like, true chaos agent. We're calling her Lady Charles Manson for a reason.

Yes. So the Kruger's Dorp cult murders were originally considered by police to be two entirely different sets of murders. Before authorities knew about the existence of Electus Perdaeus, they believed they had a set of murders called the Satanic Killings, and another set committed years later called the appointment murders. Two clusters of murders. No one had any idea that all of these murders were committed by the same people. And when you glanced at the cases, there was no reason to link them. Even if you truly studied these cases, there was no reason to link all these murders together.

They were all extremely different. The Satanic killings were a series of brutal murders that rivaled the Manson family. I'm talking like dozens upon dozens of stab wounds, blood on the ceiling, horrific shit. Vicious, vicious murders. But the appointment killings involved business people who would show up to appointments only to be murdered and robbed. And then very neatly disposed of, quote unquote, disposed of. They were cut up, put into bags and then they were robbed.

It definitely felt like they were looking for money. Yeah. Now were those all locals or were there people from out of town? All locals, all these people, these are all Kruger's Dorp locals. Yeah. And the one thing about Kruger's Dorp is as we'll get into it, it's a very small town and everybody knew everybody. So it was like, it was about 120, 130,000 people. It's about the size of Abilene, Texas.

Yeah, so a lot of people knew each other. So it was a very close knit community for it to kind of jump in murders out of nowhere. This is a place that has maybe two murders a year. Yeah, and jump in murders twice, like two different sets of them. But once the people in the appointment murders were identified,

their role in the satanic killings was quickly discovered. It was also ascertained that Cecilia Stain probably would have been arrested years before had it not been for the fact that she was married to a cop. Yeah, that's why my mom got away with all her crimes. Yeah. Well, the South African police are notoriously corrupt.

Yeah, and we're to see that. Yeah. They sell their, they, you know, they sell the lights on top of their car to, to criminals so they could pull people over and assault them or rob them. You know, they sell their uniforms to groups of people who like you wear them and like fucking just Rob jewelry stores and shit like that. In the middle of the day, it's a very corrupt society. And that's why they rely on private security and private police forces. But in a way, isn't it almost more honest? Because then things can be bought and paid

for. You know what I mean? And it's not all held together by nebulous ideas of duty and jurisprudence and being a good person. I mean, ironically, I think it is kind of a truly Satanist society. Oh, in that way. But Satanism does not believe in hurting people that have not hurt you first. That is true. You've been to South Africa, haven't you? I got the shirt. Yeah, it's not just a shirt you bought on Amazon.

Yeah, no, I did the International Comedy Festival in Johannesburg and I was there for 10 days. It was fucking unbelievable. I went to Soweto twice. It was a life-changing experience. I got to go on Safari and It's a beautiful place. Well actually the Johannesburg is a great comedy scene I also got to say it's really amazing that they let you leave the Safari What animal was I the nude. Buffalo.

Yeah. I was going to say warthog. Something like that was one thing I noticed though. Warthog was my favorite animal on the entire safari because I noticed that they party with all the animals. Every time I saw warthog, it was with another animal. This is an interpretation and I didn't think they're partying. And that's the thing that I didn't even know that that was my instinct. I was just like, what animal warthog? Definitely warthog. But before we get into this fascinating and complex story, let's acknowledge our sources.

First we've got the Kruger's Dorp cult killings by Jana Marx, which, while dense, is still a hell of a retelling with a lot of detail. The other is Satanism and Family Murder in Late Apartheid South Africa by Nicky Falkoff. Which is despite the title, it's pretty funny. That provided us with a lot of the information we have on South Africa's satanic panic. And speaking of which, this is not going to be an apartheid series. No, no, no, no, we're not yet at that point.

Let me tell you how it all happened, alright? Apartheid certainly will appear at the edges of this story, particularly the Satanic Panic and particularly because apartheid informs damn near everything in South Africa to this day. That's not what we're here for. And I'm sure there are a hundred other podcasts that can explore apartheid far better than we can. Have you seen that? My tongue's apartheid. It's got, it's, it's great. The great, great podcasts with a fucking was some guys, some other guy in the hock to a girl. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Today's cult leader, Cecilia Stane, was a trashy fuckup who had a pathological need

for attention and approval. As you said earlier, this is a true agent of chaos. As far as her appearance goes, I'd describe her as a surly, balding, truck stop, gas station cashier with short, spiky hair. Black hair. You out of pack of menthols? Oh no? You fucking pissing me off. early balding truck stop gas station cashier with short spiky hair black hair you want to add to menthols? oh no? you fucking pussy no it is the thing i'm gonna have to work out our voice because it definitely is

i like the direction you're in it now i like it lady charles manson that is for certain and because south african it's very difficult and there's so many different arrays of south african accent too like all the it kind of all sounds like they're from different sections of the world. And then also like all of the documentary footage, great documentary series, Devil's Door, they're a watch, but it really kind of puts it all together. They use like English phrases randomly. Yeah.

Yeah. And there's different languages spoken all throughout South Africa. There's many, there's many different dialects of Zulu and all that shit. It's very confusing. Yeah. Now I think that if it hadn't been Satanism, Cecilia would have found something else as a framework to manipulate people into doing her bidding,

because that really was her game. In fact, like Charles Manson, Cecilia never participated in a single murder. And especially for somebody like her, the fact that she sort of got away with not doing any of the dirty work Really kind of shows she actually was more of a higher caliber manipulator than Charles Manson a producer She's a real producer

But just as Manson was able to plug into the darker zeitgeist of the late 60s to gain control over his followers Geist of the late 60s to gain control over his followers, Cecilia was able to amplify South Africa's Satanic Panic to such an extent that her followers were willing to commit murder to fight the scourge of Satanism solely based off Cecilia's word. See, while America's Satanic Panic died down in the 90s and returned only recently with QAnon, South Africa's satanic panic never really settled the way ours did. There it actually established itself within their government in formal roles. It was extremely serious. South Africa's satanic panic coincided with the later years of apartheid, which ended in 1994.

In short, apartheid was an extreme form of segregation and discrimination so egregious that it's now considered a crime against humanity. But when you look at it- So we're against it. Right? I just wanna make sure that we got that on the record. Yeah, we're all against it.

We're with all the musicians. I don't like it. I don't like it. I mean, apartheid, my shoes shoes the wrong way was also a really inappropriate comedic I really again, I didn't even know how there's humor in this situation But when you look at apartheid from the satanic panic angle the end of apartheid was a time of extreme anxiety for the white Afrikaner population of South Africa.

And just as we've seen here with QAnon and MAGA, some white people tend to lean into some really crazy shit when they get nervous about their station in society. It's almost like it's like some kind of social madness. It is. There's like a thing about like, because even this, because apartheid wasn't, wasn't it called a, like not a majority was like a, it was, because even this, because apartheid wasn't a called, like not a majority, it was like a majority. It was minority rule.

It was minority rule. So the idea is that they are all like kind of clinging to some idea that we are supposed to be in charge of everyone here. Well basically it's, they have a certain worldview and when that worldview is shaken to such an extent that their entire, the way they look at the world has to change, everything about reality for them gets shaken as well. Becomes unmoored. Everything becomes unmoored.

And if somebody has a crazy fucking explanation as to why things are suddenly unmoored, then people latch onto it. We saw it in America when we elected a black president and people lost their fucking minds because having a black man in charge of them or having a black man in the top spot was so offensive and so intense. It was so crazy. Yeah. Like not just even offensive. I'm living in upside down town. Yeah. Like literally he was the most Republican fucking president we've had. And they were so angry. That's why I voted for Ben Laden. Hey, I keep writing it in.

I stole my neighbor's balance. I wrote it in. I stole my other neighbor's balance. I wrote him in. I'm looking for him to get his third shot. But here's the thing that's interesting about the South African satanic panic. While you think they'd focus on the African population, you know, the people that were pushing the change that was turning the world upside down, all of the so-called Satanists

that were kidnapping and eating South African babies, these were coming from the white African community. This was actually another form of racism and another consequence of apartheid. See, black Africans in South Africa did indeed perform What you'd called magic for lack of a better word Yeah, and it was their culture. Yes, like in New Orleans or Haiti Yeah, but to be worried about that magic would mean that white Afrikaners would have to acknowledge black Africa Which was something they couldn't do because apartheid would not let them acknowledge

the segregated population. So they had to be afraid about something, but since they couldn't be afraid of the black population because they believe themselves to be above the black population, they had to be- Like their magic couldn't fuck with our white power, right? Yeah, exactly. Their magic can't fuck with our white power, but I'm still afraid, so I've got to find somebody to be afraid of, but I've got to be afraid of somebody on my level.

I need some white black magic Instead the South African Satanic panic was rooted in the same stupid bullshit as ours Ghostbusters ninja turtles iron maiden dungeons and dragons rebellions drugs sex horoscopes in other words It's all shit that just comes from America or England It's all how sh it's all shit that just comes from America or England. It's all how sh- It's all of the- Like, I guess that's one of the worst parts about this story and about satanic panics across the world, is that it's buried in ignorance.

It's like, comes out of this soil of not knowing what in the living fuck that you're talking about. Yes. And it's also wildly specific in ways that should immediately show you that what they're talking about is horse shit. There was a guy named T. N. Gildenhois that was a ran a thing called spiritual house cleaning, which took over South Africa for a period of time. And it was this like concept. It was like this. It was stuff like showing the Evil symbolism inside of spider-man's web on his chest and how the lightning bolt is

the devil signal, which is why Harry Potter is the literal embodiment of the devil sort of like charming your child into getting them involved in their story. Don't give him that kind of credit. Exactly! This is what I'm talking about! Fly from your grave. What are you talking about? One of the most prominent Satan hunters, for that was what they were called, was a Reverend named David Nell.

He insisted that there were 200,000 South Africans who were members of a satanic group called the Brotherhood of the Ram, which made Satanists, in his view, a full 10% of South Africa's white population. Technically you should be courting their vote. Why are we attacking a voting block? These are people that need to be engaged with. But even with those numbers, South Africa's satanic panic started out small. In 1985, a group of female students at a conservative university refused to sell a student magazine

on the basis that it promoted Satanism. Apparently the magazine had two very scary pictures. One of a goat peeking over a fence with human hands. Cool. And another featuring a human kitty cat hybrid face. These pictures, the girls said, were Satanic and therefore should not be associated with the university. And a massive controversy occurred.

Meanwhile, there's just like a poor stupid fucking artist that's like, my problem is I can't draw hooves. I wish I could, I would have made the whole goat. I wish, please tell me how to make hooves, and why you don't make them look like little lions. Is that a goat with human hands? It's a human with a goat head. I didn't know how to do it.

I'm just a bit dumb, I'm a bit topsy-turvy. That same year, however, shit ramped up when a 16-year-old girl was arrested for killing her mother and brother before shooting at her father. She just kind of went crazy. An unnamed source told the press that a satanic cult was responsible, and that, of course, created a lot of speculation. What's great about a satanic cult is that number one to blame is that number one, it doesn't exist. Right.

So then the cops can sort of make up the evidence that exists based upon the most scant little pieces where they could say like, oh, they had a black shirt. Oh, they had an upside down cross earring that they wore. But what's great about them is that it gives them an explanation of why these things happen. That they don't have to think, they don't have to think, they don't have to investigate. It's a really good, easy escape for police

and for people to say, oh, it's satanic activity. Because then they get a bunch of money, as you can see, they get a bunch of money, shows up, and they also get total impunity, and they get to be warriors for Christ, which makes it a better story for them to try to get a blowjob from a man at a bar. After that, after that killing, the Department of Education launched an investigation into Satanist movements in schools. And this is what I'm talking about when I say South Africa's panic was more intense than ours.

Yes, many people here did go to jail, and many did have their lives ruined over bogus claims of Satanic ritual abuse. But there was no overarching investigation in which cabinet officials were seriously believing that our country was teetering on the edge of full Satananic influence. But make no mistake, this shit could still happen here.

Oh, it's in the mail. Show up in November. We're counting on all of you to show up in November because this shit could absolutely happen here. I actually think real change will happen in this country once they ban porn It's like once Miami's gone what Miami's in the water I'm sorry, but that's Miami's finally taken back by fucking Neptune and once fucking porn is banned Then people might realize that once we can finally replace the Miami Dolphins with actual dolphins replace the Miami dolphins with actual dolphins. The world will be a better place. So now you want, do you really want the NFL's training regimen to be put upon the dolphins

and then you want the dolphins to get CTE because you know what's going to happen is then we're going to have the very first dolphin family annihilation where the father dolphin's going to come back, strangle the pond and then kill himself with the training rig that they have in these underwater training area. That's already happened. The investigation came after clergymen called on the government to appoint an inquiry into a supposed epidemic of Satanism on the playgrounds of South Africa. Around that same time, South Africa launched what's said to be the world's only ritual murder task force, the Occult-related Crimes Unit.

We've had individuals in American law enforcement that have called themselves experts on the occult, but we've never had an official unit whose only job was to battle Satan's minions on Earth. South Africa did. Those are like priest cops. Yeah. Well, they were cops imbued with the duty of priests to fight on behalf of the state against the spiritual deviance, which is a big mainstripe of the apartheid movement,

which is this idea that we are going to stomp out any form of anti-Christian thought any form of would be a spectrum of a apartheid was also very Against Marxism they were very afraid of Marxism, you know communism and communism all that shit which they were terrified of and a tenant of communism is atheism or the idea that we're having an atheist government and So they would fight that tooth and nail and again these things are The thing about when Satan comes into play which I know all too well said things get a little sexy Things get a little bit spicier Heroes become a little bit braver the villains become a little bit more nefarious

So what these guys do is that like all of this just boosts the their power which also? Boosts their building to not be questioned in the use of their power. And who do the occult cops report to? The government or the... Government. The government. Yeah, no, they're part of like, it would be like if the FBI had an occult crimes division.

But that was before, we've had local police had occult crimes. There were occult crimes divisions. It's like individual guys. Yes, but not from the Pentagon yeah well the most high-profile cult cop was a man named Cobus Yonker also known as Dunker Yonker which means in Afrikaans means a dark Yonker donker is dark but from here on out he will be known as Dunker Young I've heard a lot of women don't necessarily need a donker In the media cops like donker younger were portrayed as Rambo-esque

Saviors who policed South Africa's national borders both physically and metaphorically to ensure quote-unquote collective purity. Now by 1990, Dunker Younger had enough cred to push concerns that on April 30th, the Satanic high holiday of Walpurgisnacht was going to kick off in the most horrific way possible with a massive amount of sacrifices all over the country. And that's right, Satanists do sacrifice. We sacrifice every day for the freedom of speech in the United States of America. We sacrifice, we sacrifice our mouths in trying various unnamed Asian markets slash restaurants that look kind of sketch. Would you know using the imperial, empirical vision of the lamplight of knowledge that I can see that there's the white people in the restaurant, that means it's good.

Specifically, Donker Younger said that babies were the most popular targets for sacrifice. So anyone with a baby or a child needed to be very afraid. Of course, they're just sitting there. Donker Younger also said that he was following a number of leads indicating the location of a satanic cult. Leads that included, but were not limited to, a cat that had been sodomized. Man, fuck these people, dude. You think that we're gonna fuck that kind of pussy?

No, man. We fuck awesome, good, humankind. All right, now the kind of one that's gonna fight back with all four of its little limbs. Or the butts. Yeah. Wow. If it was a lion, you know, I would have been more impressed. Tom LeVay would have never, no, lions was his pet. That was the most powerful animal in the Satanist, according to him, it was that and the bull

and the most powerful animals in the Satanic lexicon. Not the goat? No. I thought the goat was the shit. That's goat is a bathomet, but technically that whole whole thing is a symbol of balance not necessarily a symbol of power Mm-hmm. Yeah, if you want to say if you want to see something really fun Look up the the interview that Anton Lave did with his lawyer when his lion was taken away Yes now according to donker Younger sources...

How many more times are you going to say Donker Younger? As many as I can. I just kind of know, like... I already used the Fritzel voice. I cannot use it for Donker Younger. Actually, I think that might be the last Donker Younger. There might be one more. I actually really like peanut butter Donker Youngers.

But according to its sources, young people were being lured into Satanism at an alarming rate, but only after they were drugged, forced into demeaning sexual performances, and photographed, all to keep them in the COVID. Blackmail. Wait a second, was that my fucking Saturday Night Live audition? Now, Volpeuzeesnacht came and went without incident that year, as it always does. But less than a month later, the head of Cape Town's child protection unit, Captain Leonard Sohns, gave a press conference where he revealed his quote-unquote, findings from his own investigation

into Satanism. He said that he had it on good authority that 11 babies who had been specifically bred for sacrifice to the devil have been ritualistically murdered by having their throats slit and their hearts eaten. He should have picked 13. That's a more demonic number. Thank you Eddie. This was all seen over by a group of Satanists who were also high ranking members of the

government in South Africa's capital, Cape Town, which is a storyline that Americans are quite familiar with by way of QAnon conspiracies. The elites are killing and eating babies. But I do find it interesting is that why would the government that has sponsored an entire like part of the reason why we have the ever lingering idea that there are a giant pedophile cabal inside of our US government run by satanists is the fact that we didn't ever have a national like federal Investigation into it. That's one of the things they hold there like you see it's because they're protecting each other How do you manage to convince yourself that the government's involved in the Satanic cabal when they have purposely set up the federal?

Investigative unit to look into Satanic crimes. I know but this is the local Cape Town government and he's outside of that Sheriff is the devil It's the mayor of Cape Town he's the one that's evil But besides the baby killing these high-ranking officials also allegedly engaged in bestiality, animal cruelty, mass orgies, drug taking, secrecy, and threats of death for disloyalty. And while there was no evidence for any of this, not even an empty bottle of lube, Captain Solms assured everyone present at this press conference that everything was true because he'd been told it was true by Satanists.

People on the inside It doesn't matter but also I don't understand where it's like I mean again, we're trying to apply logic Yeah, but you see the Satanists are the arbitrators of all lies, right? They're the guys of the the of the message of deceit unless they are telling you something that you want to hear That is that that's the thing that I have noticed about these fucking people is that? Satanists are always liars unless they're telling you the story you want to hear and then they're telling the absolute Then they're telling the truth but it's also kind of funny because they are also like because you could see much how like Prisoners or like serial killers lie while they're in jail and make themselves appear more powerful so they can either get more respect or

Be safer inside of prison that the Satanists um they seems like they would be lying to make themselves to appear more powerful So what was he just hanging out with Satanist and then relying because then now he's suspect Well, it's always Satanists who are coming over to our side You know they're they're coming over to our side and they're telling us the truth. And they're telling us they want to get these horrible crimes off their chest. And oh my God, yeah, they were here. We did sacrifice everything, but I guess they cleaned it all up. It's all gone now. But we were here last night sacrificing babies. But oh, that is the power of Satan. The power of Satan. This is so power that they can clean up the fucking ritual murder of 11 babies in one night.

And there's not one mom looking for them? No, there's never one mom looking for them. And you can thank me. I'm Jackson and I'm the Satanist janitor. You can thank me because I always clean it up nice and good. I get my big stanky mop and I get my evil bucket. And I'm always picking up little baby parts, sligging it, little blood, looking at little I get my big stanky mop and I get my evil bucket Baby parts

Oh, I wish I could die on that To this by my sins of my free my previous life No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, eating press conference, a man dubbed Peter the Satanist by the press gave an interview in which he said he ate a human heart. And I'll tell you right now, it wasn't that good. Apparently had any salt. I'm really kind of underwhelmed in many ways. Just kind of whelmed. Weeks later in that same magazine, Peter the Satanist claimed that he'd found Jesus through the preaching of Pastor Neville Goldman, who just happened to be this magazine's favorite anti-Satanist

crusader. The former Satanist also said that he returned to Christianity after realizing his devil worshipping was affecting his son. Yes, one day I came home and I found my son sitting in his bedroom with a girl with visible nipple rings wearing a leather harness, and they were... I can't believe it. He was practicing bass for his death metal band. And he said he was going that night out to hang out with his friends at the Denny's and then take this beautiful woman to his concert.

I just couldn't stand to see what had become of him." When Vorpö just knocked rolled around the next year, the media created an even larger panic by making sure to note that two high-profile South African child abduction cases had occurred just before dates that were important to Satanists, so-called high holidays like Samhain and Halloween. As a result of this panic, some schools were completely emptied by April 24th because parents were so afraid Satanists were going to abduct their children, and police departments were inundated with rumors of abductions and reports of Satanists Hanging out at the mall

Original home of the dark arts Actually if you were to ask me like in the 1990s like where are the Satanists at them? They're hanging out at the mall. Yeah, very much so. They're at the Orange Lazarus. They are for certain all hanging out because you can see they get their big shoes on, big pants on. They're just griping.

They're playing with the like, you know, like sometimes some malls have the things you can drive around. Oh, little carts? Little carts. Yeah, they're fucking Larry. They're getting jinkos. Yeah outside the movie theater. They're hanging out outside the yogurt shop We know where they like to be. Oh, yeah, we used to always hang out near the the fountain The water fountains always a good place to hang out at the mall And let it run red with love!

You never met the 29 year old Satanist manager of a hot topic with like a lip ring just vaping outside just going whatever. And the thing is he's dangerous but not in the way you might think. No, no, no. But he definitely shouldn't be someone you let your daughter hang around with. Oh yeah, he's gonna come inside your daughter's house. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're looking at a sudden law. Yeah. Now there was a rash of schoolgirl disappearances, but they had nothing to do with Satan.

Instead, the schoolgirls have been kidnapped and killed by a pedophile named Gert van Ruyljen, who murdered at least six girls with a female accomplice before dying in a murder-suicide. Now that's of course fucking terrible, and there is some evidence to suggest that Gert van Ruylen may have been involved in a pedophile ring. And pedophile rings absolutely exist as well. Honestly, it was kind of more of like a circle. We were just hanging out in the way. It was more of a, if you look at the positions we were all in, it was kind of more of a trapezoid.

Yeah. But there was no evidence that Gert van Ruyn was doing what he did for any motivation other than his own twisted sexual desires. That's a matter of fact I could consider myself more of a Taylor Swift fan than anything else. That is how I identify. I don't know how many times we have to fucking say this, but when you find out the music tastes of serial killers or murderers, it's always the blandest shit on the face of the fucking planet. Like prog rock and weird. Like the only, the only one is Dennis.

Nelson actually did have pretty good taste. He loved Laurie Anderson, which I'm a massive Laurie. I'm a massive Laurie Anderson fan. She's insane. I saw her fucking exhibit at the Hirshhorn museum in DC fucking rock and roll. Dennis Nielsen, serial killer, favorite song, favorite singer. His favorite song was Oh Superman. That makes sense. It's like always the example I always give is that guy who Kurt murdered the little boy and that murdered the little boy in Brooklyn. Remember way back when we were living there? Yeah. His favorite band was Hootie and the Blowfish. Ah!

Ah, God. It's always like that. Well, you know, I like Hootie. You know, he's friends with Dan Marino. Okay. He was just arrested for selling ecstasy. Dan Marino? No, Hootie.

Oh, really? Yep. God, he gets cooler every day. Right? Hahaha. Now, after it became apparent that Donker Yonker and his cult cop compatriots, actually there's quite a few Donker Yonkers left, once it became apparent that he and his cult cop compatriots were coming up with a bunch of goose eggs, the South African police tried

issuing gag orders telling them that they were to make no further statements to the media regarding Satanism. Soon after though, in November of 1991, Donker Younger uncovered what he believed was proof positive that Satanism was alive and well. He'd arrested an alleged Satanic high priest and his younger brother in what Donker Younger called the biggest Satanism hall the city of Port Elizabeth had ever seen. Such a funny idea. Just the image of Donker Youngker on a boat with a priest and

his child on a giant fishing line. Just staple gun to tell to him. The so-called high priest and his brother, however, were pretty much just a couple of shit head kids. In essence, they were stealing gravestones and smoking weed. Whoa, man. That's fucking, well, it's not good. You're supposed to steal gravestones. You're supposed to switch them. That's true fun. Gravestones, it's sacred. You're not supposed to fuck with gravestones or graveyards or anything like that.

But the arrest was nevertheless seen as a victory for Donker Yonker who was soon after tapped to lead the aforementioned occult crimes unit. It's like going fishing and you just like catch a shirt. You know where you're like, we got something. One of their most bizarre cases occurred in the small town of Riot Fontaine. Their five schoolgirls claimed to have been victims of what they called The Thing, aka the Riot Fontein Slasher. These girls, and what sounds quite similar to cases like the Devils of Lyudon, they claimed that an invisible supernatural

force had torn at their clothes, scratched their legs, pulled their hair, and sexually abused them. But since this whole thing seemed to be related to the occult, Dunker Yonker was put on the case. Well there girls, where they put the tip inside, Dunker Yonker will be there. Name's Yonker. Dunker Yonker. Dunker Yonker. Please be incredibly serious while I speak.

I am a serious man. I'm a serious man. I'm a serious man. Yes, I'll take my favorite drink. Nondesu mixed with milk. Yes, nice tangerine flavor. Now after interviewing the girls without assistance from psychiatrists, Donker Younger reported to the press that this was a matter for Jesus Christ.

And that there was nothing else for Jesus Christ, and that there was nothing else the police could do. My hands are tied. This donker is Yonker. I'm done. I don't want to deal with this no more. We're going to toss this up to the Arab upstairs. He then passed on the matter to local priests, who exercised the school where all this was

happening. Get out, devil. Take a couple laps. Yeah, get out, devil. the matter to local priests who exercised the school where all this was happening. The school's principal then joined in, demanding prayer from his students, demanding it. Then the Minister of Health Services, a government official, traveled to the school and led the kids in prayer, saying that yes, Satan had come to riot Fon-Tine. When asked if the girls might be lying, the principal said no, because the girls were all well-adjusted and quite attractive. Yes!

Don't believe it. Believe me, I noticed, is I'm donker yonker. The yonker that donkers his way across South Africa. No pretty girl has ever told a lie And how I can tell is if my balls move I'm a human lie detector I look down to my young curse that I see if they move left or right a left means they're being deceitful To the right means I'm getting around my young curse are quite bunkers

My Yonkers are quite bunkers. Well, the kicker here was that Riot Fontaine was right next to the border of Namibia, which was considered a part of South Africa until Namibia claimed independence in 1990. Suddenly Riot Fontaine was right next to black Africa instead of being snuggled in white South Africa and white people therefore got very weird But while donker yonker was involved in some of the goofier cases that doesn't mean that he wasn't called when the major crime Seemed to have an occult edge in 1992 donker yonker man. There was so many more donker yonkers Every time I crack a little smile I like each one. And every time I crack a little smile, even though he's a gay guy, I just kind of smile a little bit.

Well, in 1992, he was assigned to the brutal murder of Don Orso. Now police were quick to draw connections to Satanism in this case. And when the killers were revealed to be Don's daughter, Dominique and her boyfriend, Lawrence, their testimony only confirmed the satanic suspicions of the authorities. Dominique and Lawrence's defense was that they had been possessed by demons during the time of the killing, which, incredibly enough, actually garnered them sympathy with the public because they seemed to be victims of the devil as well. But now we're seeing a function of satanic panic where it gives those of you, this is now

going to come up, where it gives people agency to act however they want in the name of either side and then the one side gets the Hail Mary. But there is no either, there is no either side. There's no satanic side. There is no. At any point. Almost, almost never. What happens is that truly people like Cecilia Stain are the things that make that stuff quote-unquote real Yeah Because they're using the smoke screen of the panic to allow themselves to get agency for their beliefs Like this the all of this shit is like being able to just say and get sympathy saying the devil made me do it Yeah means that now a lot of people got more excuses to do shit

Mm-hmm, but as the case progressed it became obvious that Lawrence was a fuck-up misfit who had been manipulated into committing a murder by his charming Girlfriend who wanted her mother dead as the judge put it the crime was too goal oriented to be involuntary But lest you think this judge was a reasonable person, he made sure to note that the court did accept that people could be possessed by demons. That just wasn't what had happened this time. I'm going to let you know I was possessed by demons all last week. And then eventually I went to the bathroom and I realized I'm lactose intolerant. As the 90s progressed, Satanism's stories fell out of favor in the mainstream South African press until they disappeared altogether, much like the Satanic panic did here in America.

But as is evidenced by the Kruger's Dorp cult killings, South Africa's Satanic panic left a permanent mark on the Christian Afrikaner community. If it hadn't, then there would have been no way that Cecilia Steyn would have convinced a group of devout Christians to commit 11 absolutely horrific murders. Before we get into the story of Cecilia Steyn, let's first talk about the woman who effectively empowered Cecilia to do what she did. A person whose biggest crime was being stupefyingly gullible. This woman's name was Rhea Grunwald.

Yeah, you say stupefyingly gullible, but I still feel it's all this, how do you say, sometimes you get what you ask for when you wanna be some form of superhero. And you think you're fueled by Christ himself and you have this, it's hubris. Yeah, very much so. Now at worst, you could see Rhea Grunwald as a busybody,

maybe even a full-on pain in the ass. See, Rhea was a believer in the eternal battle of God versus Satan, a battle that was being played out on Earth every single day by human agents on both sides. Rhea, of course, considered herself to be an agent of God. So by 2006, Rhea was a financial advisor living in a South African town called Florida. Just a few miles from Johannesburg.

She was divorced with two kids, she was 52 years old, and she was, of course, a devout Christian. I'm a divorcee, I got two kids, and I got crashes, my co-pilot. I'm unstoppable. You should see this snapper. I got three clips. I live in Florida, Africa, the safest place you will ever be. Oh man. I wrote a crocodile to the post office and then I punched the mailman in the face and he said, thank you. Praise Jesus. Ria's entire life was shook up, however, when she was invited to a Christian training course about how to identify the occult and how to help so-called survivors of Satanism.

These so-called Satanists were people who had supposedly managed to break free from the shackles of the occult by converting to Christianity. Let me just have you know right now, honestly, they never do that. They never go from the occult to Christianity. They go from the occult to owning a gem-based store. They go from the occult to becoming a podcast producer. They don't go to Christ. Yeah, or they go from the occult to just, I don't know, do nothing.

Nothing! It's like, it's not, the occult isn't evil. There's nothing, I don't know. It's all things. Now, for whatever reason, Ria felt like this training course was her true calling. So she devoted all her time and energy to saving people from Satan and the occult. I am burdened with this responsibility. Such was her dedication that she became almost like a sidekick to the local police, who and the occult. Such was her dedication that she became almost like a sidekick to the local police who would

work with Rhea when they were hunting Satanists. Rhea even started bothering and enabling the delusions of youngsters, like one high schooler named Monique who came to believe that Satanists were planning to kidnap and sacrifice her on Halloween. As we mentioned earlier, so-called high nights like Halloween, Samhain, or Beltane, these were when Satanists supposedly performed their most powerful rituals and made their most high value sacrifices to Satan. So Rhea encouraged Monique's delusions. Don't they understand that on our holidays we relax?

Yeah. This is not the time. We don't party involved. We don't do rituals on World Purgis Nock. That's our work. We save that for Monday to Thursday. And Satan's busy. He doesn't need more sacrifice. No, he's got a lot going on.

The election's coming up. He's got a lot of stuff on Satan's plate. Rhea discovered that Monique's mother knew nothing of the dangers of Satan and the occult, so Rhea started educating her as well, instructing her on how to fend off spiritual attacks with prayer. Now, of course, nothing happened to Monique, but because nothing happened, Rhea could say that nothing happened because of her. Rhea Grunwald became enamored with the idea that she was battling the devil's minions

here on Earth, so she formed an organization and chose a name that does not sound as good as she probably thought it did. She called it Overcomers through Christ. There is a shirt she wears that says I am an overcomer Side stories LPOTL and gmail.com. I will pay good money for somebody to, I will put up the actual picture of the shirt. I want one, but spelled the right way. Because. Overcomer for Christ. Over it's cause I am an overcomer. And I think that because you know what's nice about overcoming is that then you're not horny enough to be tempted. So

if you overcome, you ever do that? Oh yeah. Where it turns to just like water. Like Julie's out of town or whatever. You never just gone to fucking town yourself a master. There was a summer in Tallahassee when everyone was out of town and it was just me for like three weeks. I was empty. I am not going to lie in Australia in the hotel room. I reached the end of my balls. Honestly, interestingly enough that I felt the power of Christ. That's why when we shook hands, they stuck together. Hey, you know, I just want you to know where I've been. And it's not Overcomers for Christ, it's worse than that, it's Overcomers through Christ. Oh, that's so much cum that it blasts out of his own head. Well, Overcomers through Christ basically functioned as a small church with meetings,

directors, and official members. Rhea even had a graphic designer named Candice Riaviss design business cards and a logo for overcomers. But that's all to say that Rhea wanted overcomers to be as professional and official as something like this can be. Which again, once you overcome, then you can be. Then you can actually focus on your work. Now if you're fighting Satan's minions on earth, then you're not going to keep that to yourself So Rhea and the other overcomers

You do love the main, you're slowly becoming one. I want to dress up as a minion and I want to take a gun to the store. Maria and the other, Maria and the other overcomers went to every school and church in the area to warn teachers and students about the dangers of Satan during week long seminars called enrichment weeks. I think a lot of people in America experience something like this. I'm pretty certain that people have gotten, because I know that we had a, what was it? We've talked about this before, the Christian dudes, the big power lifter guys, powerlifting for Christ.

They would ripple. But people had that. Do you have church people visit your school we had well there was the the church yo-yo people the people yo yo yeah no no that they had they did yo-yo church tricks and then they talk about Jesus oh yeah and they say yo-yo's at the same time yeah Christian yo-yos, yo-yos, yo-yos. What was it about our lives as kids? I love yo-yos. But we were given yo-yos were toward yo-yos. They were jammed down our fucking throat. That's cause our dads like them. Yeah. Is that what it is? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's exactly what it is. And then video games kill the yo-yo. Yep. Yeah. Now we also had this other one. Pussy killed yo-yo for me. Yeah? Yeah, it was having sex. It made you better at fingering.

Yeah, baby, I'm gonna walk your dog. Ria worked with the local police social crime prevention unit to scare children and teenagers about the influences of promiscuity, drug abuse, and most of all, Satanism. Rhea would also have a band play and lecturers would give speeches, all while she or some other overcomer led the children in prayer throughout the whole week. These enrichment weeks, and that's the crazy thing about it, is that it's a week. When the Yo-Yos for Christ guys came through, that was a couple hours at most. These were like festivals that would be held at these schools. Yeah, because those yo-yo guys, a lot of them had to go check

back in with their parole officers. Yeah, it's so hard to be a yo-yo guy. Yeah. They also weren't free. Recharged around $345 per enrichment week. Yeah, because Christ ain't free man. Yeah. And that doesn't sound like a lot But she did suggest that schools and churches all have one enrichment per month You had to keep enriching otherwise it wouldn't work and wear off. It kind of sounds like a like a MLM or something it sounds like a Like a scam. Yeah But if you if you learn how to make an enrichment week Then you can start doing enrichment weeks and then you can also pay me for the privilege of giving you the enrichment training materials and training and then you can be in my down line.

Would you like to buy some Tupperware? Well do you know that the OTC like essentially like that's what it was like they did like that's why it was different than a church. It kind of felt like a weaponization of the church's ideas. This lady really thought that she was fighting Satan every day. Yeah. And so they would think, they view themselves as sort of like conscripted soldiers. Yeah.

But it must be said that Rhea put all the money back into bothering people about something that didn't exist instead of spending it on herself. So at least she's not a hypocrite, which I know you think is the worst thing a person can be. You can honestly, you can person can be you can honestly you Can kill you can on a mass scale you can steal you do it, but as long as you say I'm sorry Mm-hmm. I'm cool with it as long as I expected it from you What do you call a blood that wears blue what a hypocrite? You just got put on the fucking hit list Edie I What a hippocrypt

Edd Ie T une s Dot-com and one every piece of merch keeps him one inch away from the poor Man go get your ham daddy hats, please But while Rhea would not be the person who would take her highly paranoid Christian busybody Overcomers and turn them into murderers, she did bring all of them together through her personal quest against Satan and his minions. In February of 2007, Rita Grunwald and overcomers through Christ held an enrichment week at a high school in the town of Rudaport.

There Ria met a 40-year-old English teacher named Marinda Stain, who's not related at all to Cecilia Stain. It's just a coincidence. But while most of the people who saw the overcomers were at most impressed with their message, Marinda came out of her school's enrichment week saying that it had been the highlight of her life and that the overcomers had also somehow helped her to stop smoking. I guess you can overcome a lot of stuff through Christ. It just seems like they're giving them a lot of credit. It's like Reiki.

Yeah. And while this woman sounds innocent enough and back then she absolutely seemed like she was just a regular 40 year old English teacher, Marinda Stain would become one of Cecilia Stain's most violent murderers just a few years later. Miranda Stain's pretty much her Tex Watson. And she was an English teacher, which is why you wonder, like when you have that super mean teacher at school, they're an inch away from killing you. Yeah.

Now about five or six months after Merinda became an overcomer, Rhea got a call from a former Satanist begging for help. Do you know how over 30% of women can overcome? No. No. No. The person on the phone said that her name was Petro,

but in reality, Petro was Cecilia Stane, 26 years old, when she kicked off this entire operation. 26. She was actually 26. Stane, 26 years old, when she kicked off this entire operation. 26. She was actually 26. She just presents as a hard 38. Yeah, she just has, she's got what you said, she's got 7-11 clerk face. Yeah.

Now, Cecilia Stane was born Cecilia Brand in December of 1980 to Mara and Pete Brand. Pete was an electrician at various gold mines around the town of Harris Smith and seemed to be a normal person, as was his wife Mara. Yeah, because the entire book, all they do is interview them while they're barbecuing. You notice that, right? You read the chunks of all the chapters talking to her parents. It's just them barbecuing. Yeah, they're very normal.

Yeah, and they're all like, well, you know, is Cecilia crazy? They're religious, but not overly so, and Cecilia seemed to be a fairly normal, if mischievous, goth girl. Cecilia didn't have any friends and spent all her time wandering the ruins of abandoned buildings catching spiders and snakes. She also had a discipline problem, but not too bad. She attacked anyone who gave her shit, but her father always said he was really proud of her for not ever letting anyone walk all over.

She smashed windows. She threw rocks at cars. Nothing horrific. Nothing really that bad. It seems like those were all bad things you listed, but not that bad. The compared killing 11 people and torturing them and then cutting them up. Yeah. She's not Joseph Fritzel.

No, like, you know, like she too young! She'll get their fingers crossed. But in keeping with the times, Cecilia was expelled from school her freshman year, 1994, not for being mischievous, but because she was a goth kid, and therefore must be involved in the occult. Now this is a line from her father that he said that he always had issues with how Cecilia viewed herself so this is what it was even though like he was supportive of her rebelliousness I just thought this was a funny comment she's always been the greatest alcoholic greatest lesbian and greatest Satanist Pete says that's what happened when that time when she got expelled from school too she

never meant it she just said that she must have said something similar to friends but or someone at school I think the court should refer to my child for psychological treatment. I think that she has a psychological problem. She had never been raped or molested or anything. I never even hit her. What do you want to metal? Get anyone else you want from me. This accusation was so bad that cops even searched her family's home to look for evidence of further satanic activity.

Cecilia was thereafter moved to another school, where this time she was just seen as a pain in the ass instead of an occultist. She was asked to leave, but Cecilia would often lie and brag that she'd met all the requirements to graduate when she was still in the ninth grade and therefore she'd never needed to finish high school You know they ask me, you know they actually offer for me to teach Jim That's how good a student I was She looks like a gym teacher

Now by age 16 Cecilia left the goth world and devoted herself to God This is like the equivalent of like, you know when someone gets sober at 21? Yeah. Yeah, and they get really serious about it. And they're all like, well, you know, I don't drink anymore. And you're like, you find out they haven't drank in like 25 years.

You know, like, it's all right, buddy. It's like, it kind of feels like that the way she left Satanism. She like, she literally just had black shirts and like a nose ring. Yeah, and read a book. Yes. She underwent deliverance, which is a spiritual practice in which curses are broken

and demons are driven out. It sounds like those videos you see at church services where people are exercised in front of the whole congregation. One of my favorite is priority deliverance. It's only $2.99 more, but the deliverance comes immediately and you don't have to wait for it to get cold. Yeah, you barely have to squeal like a pig. What no one really knows is why and how Cecilia came to be such an effective manipulator. There's a black hole of information when it comes to Cecilia in her late teens and early

twenties. Pretty much all we know is that she went to church and she was briefly married to a Romanian. The way I kind of I think certain things are History comes around To a person finding their place. Yeah, I do think that they are in that way We're like she had a almost like I guess that's what you'd call it. It was an Unremarkable life like in a not in a bad way. Just a normal life. She had her son was your daughter, right? I think that they had dead. Yeah that a daughter. They had a daughter. It seemed relatively quiet and home, but this obviously was brewing inside of her. I view her, her manipulation style is being different than any cult leader we've ever had. And the way I view this is like a gravity where she used everybody's sympathy against them versus

like creating like cult leaders a lot of times create a problem and the solution the dialectic right so they create the problem amongst the people and tell them about the problem and then but they provide the solution she in this case she was the problem. Which I find interesting, she made herself like the kickoff point of the cult. Yeah, and unlike a lot of other cult leaders, I've never seen another cult gamify themselves

the way this one does. So fast. It's just like QAnon is, like that's what QAnon is, it's the gamification of conspiracy theory. And and this is and she does the exact same thing Yeah, she gamifies the entire thing and LARPs it everything becomes a LARP and Eventually, but you LARP yourself into being a fucking murderer. I just LARP myself into becoming a comedian. Yeah, I Just kill audiences. Oh Well things come back into focus in 2003, when Cecilia married a cop named Andres Steyn during a shotgun wedding.

Their marriage wasn't strained or abusive, but it is important to note that they lived completely separate lives. Andres had work and video games to keep him busy, while Cecilia had her own hobbies. She had an extensive collection of almost 500 knives and also had an impressive collection of 127 Zippo lighters. It's not the knives, but the Zippo collection, it's lesbian-coded. Oh, yeah.

I do feel like in that way it does reveal that she was, she's definitely at least bisexual. Yeah, let me show you my lighter. Yeah, all right, let me use this lighter and take a bad definitely at least bisexual. Yeah, let me show you my lighter. Alright, let me use this lighter I can take a bad look at that pussy. Yeah, you wouldn't have to have an extra gas for my lighter, would you? But really, knives were her main passion. It's my passion.

And she carried one with her everywhere she went. Now from what it seems, collecting knives and zippos weren't enough to fill Cecilia's day. Because when she was pregnant with her second child in 2006, she contacted Rhea Grunwald and the rest of the overcomers with outlandish tales of Satanism run amuck. I was trying to figure out what was the real trigger point. And the closest thing I got, which was, but it wasn't, it was two years later, which was the Nick Dedrick's, the high high school slashing the samurai stabbings Well, what happened at the time? Well, we'll definitely get into the samurai

Stabbings like later on. Yeah, and how was she as a mother? Like was she normal whatever she had pay attention to her children or even bring it up? Yeah, so we don't know one thing that we don't probably abuse her children We'll get to that here. Yeah, and we also don't really know whether or not she had begun the talk at home like you have the concept of these things started at home and she built up the lore because oftentimes with these satanists remember Mike Warnke the idea is that like they like one day quote-unquote wake up from their programming and then they remember everything that's happened

because the Satanists are supposed to put a layer of Hypnotism over you where you don't remember anything that happened or her husband did say that he never believed any of her lies Delusions like he said he had heard it all and was like no This is also a warning to all you husbands out there that go get lost in video games in the other room for six hours at night Stuff happens when you're in there on Baldur's gate three. What you need to do is check in, pop out, check in, make dinner. Yeah.

Still believe in Satan? Now we don't know why Cecilia chose the overcomers and we don't really have any evidence of Cecilia doing anything like this before. It could be that she'd been hearing the Satanist storyline her whole life and wanted to try it on for a while, then it got out of hand. Or it could be that she saw an opportunity for a scam, way to make money. Could also be that she was just really fucking bored. And when people like this get bored, this is what they do. It sounds like it's the steps up. It sounds like it starts because you just wanted to try to be a

Satanist to somebody else and eventually she... Because it's mostly about the scam in the beginning. Yeah. Well, I mean the scam took a little while to come in. Yes. I mean when Cecilia called Rhea, she already had a massive backstory all cooked up. And Rhea believed every single word Cecilia said because Rhea had been waiting her entire adult life for someone from the Satanic community to reach out for help.

This woman was begging for this interaction. She wanted a satanist to come forward. And you know, in that way, I think Ria sort of created this scenario and it all worked out for her. It almost, sometimes we've talked a little bit about like roles. I think people want to fulfill roles in life. And I think at some point, Cecilia's like, I'll be your Satanist. Yep.

Now, Cecilia told Rhea that she'd cut bonds with the Satanic Church in October of 2006, about a month before the call, and she'd converted to Christianity after undergoing deliverance, which had expelled all the evil spirits that had been living within her. They made a crazy noise when they came out too. They looked like little kernels of corn. Smartly though, Cecilia did not say that she was the one who needed help. Instead, she invented a woman named Andrea, who was a former friend and current witch in the Satanic Church.

Cecilia claimed Andrea had two children that she was going to sacrifice in a Satanic ritual, and Cecilia needed Rhea's help to save the children. Can you even imagine that? My fucking my satanic union card ran out. Even though I ain't done no satanic rituals all year. And she completely made up Andrea. Yeah, absolutely. She made up everything.

Ria said that there was a place in Kruger's Dorp where abandoned children could be safely held if only they could get the kids away from Andrea. But Cecilia said that as a former Satanist, she knew that any member of the Satanic Church could gain entry into any place they wanted. I'm still a Lanyard right now! You'll show you how easy it is! Oh look! Oh, I believe in Christ.

Easy. It gets right in there. It's so easy it is! Oh look! Oh I believe in Christ. Easy. It gets right in there. It's so easy to say! Ria frantically tried to come up with another option, but just when the pressure was taken to its maximum point, and that's what Cecilia was so fucking good at, is taking the pressure to the maximum point, Cecilia would relieve the pressure by saying she received a message that Andrea's children had been taken to safety.

Because Rio was calling people. She was calling people, she was calling people in the city, she was trying to get the orphanage involved, she was trying to do all the stuff and cook it up because this is a great get for her. This is an amazing, like, I'mma flip this whole Satanist community, everybody's gonna fucking love me, everybody's gonna be overcoming. Yeah. Hahaha! Everybody's gonna fucking love me. Everybody's gonna be overcoming. Yeah. Hahaha. Of course, this was all just a story, but the immediacy of it had fully pulled Rhea into Cecilia's world.

But because Cecilia was a convincing storyteller who knew how to hook people that were obsessed with Satanism, it would take years before Rhea could pull herself out again. Years! See, from what Cecilia told Rhea, everyone in her family was into the occult, and Cecilia, a 42nd generation Satanic witch, was intended to have been sacrificed in a Satanic ritual by her father, the diabolical Mr. Brand. Yes it is I, Mr. Brand! And I, BBQ Chicken chicken on the weekends.

Having a nice glass of white wine with my wife in the backyard. Most devilish. Mr.Brand was supposedly a high priest in the Satanic Church. Yes, we're gonna go down to the flea market. I wanna look at a long table for the dining room to about the wall. So we have a place to put our drinks when we play board games. The most devilish, devilish of activities.

Likewise Cecilia's mother was a witch named Elise with a similarly strong satanic bloodline. Biological mother. Biological mother biological mother. Yes, and to prove it Cecilia showed Ria a picture of a witchy woman saying this is my mom Except this picture was not Cecilia's biological mother Instead it was a picture of Spanish actor Arlie hovair who played the vampire with the slick back blonde hair in the first blade movie Okay, well, you know, it's good choice. Yeah, it is but I mean if you're gonna choose a vampire. Okay. Okay. Well, you know, that's a good choice.

Yeah, it is. But I mean, if you're going to choose a vampire, yeah. Oh yeah. She's attractive. Yeah. She said that's her mom. Yeah. She said that's her mom.

Yeah. Mama be hot. And plus no one saw that blade. I want the first blade was great. First blade was great. Yeah. She's a blade too, right? I think she was in the first blade.

Oh, she's the first play then, you know, bad choice. But that's the thing, is that she knew that Rhea wouldn't have seen Blade because Blade is a satanic movie. Yeah. So she knew, that's the thing about her, is that she knew all of these, she knew all the areas that she could hit because she knew which areas that Rhea avoided. You know, she knew these people. She's a fucking master manipulator.

And in Blade, they had Steven Dorp. As we've heard from other satanic panic stories, Cecilia claimed that her father subjected her to ritualistic abuse from birth because being tortured ritualistically somehow makes you a stronger satanic witch according to according the podcast the best friend By Candice who is was Ria's best friend? Chronicles of the Kruger's Dorp killers she talks about how her father Cecilia told her that her father would torture her fetus While she was inside of her pregnant mother by sticking needles upper vagina into the fetus right which I don't think work It doesn't work like that.

I don't know, I've never been there. I've never done it, never tried it. No, no, no, how far my finger goes up. Pregnant lady. And so you stick it up there. But what that does is, it starts to destroy your personality in the womb. That's how you get multiple personality disorder

when you're born. It's the dumbest fucking thing I've ever heard in my life. Or is it so dumb that it's right? Well you put needles up there, she could be born with stigmata. Well speaking of stigmata, Cecilia claimed that she had supernatural powers from the satanic ritual abuse.

Those powers, however, had gone away when she converted to Christianity, which is the magical equivalent of saying you have a girlfriend in Canada. And like the girlfriend lie, Cecilia was able to talk a big game about what she had once been capable of. She said that she had telepathy, telekinesis, she could walk on water, pretty much made herself a fucking X-Man.

To give it an edge of reality, Cecilia would take screenshots of horror movies about the occult, presumably stuff like The Devil's Reign or To the Devil, a Daughter, fucking incredible movies. Then she would insist that the fuzzy figure in the background was her demonstrating some sort of magical power. I've got to tell you, Ernest Borgnein was such a professional. And this was my favorite set because we got this incredible pasta salad. Because I requested it as an agent of the devil. Pasta salad is satanic. I fucking hate pasta salad.

It's not satanic. It's actually quite angelic because it's bad. I don't like pasta salad. Am I around two people that don't like pasta salad? I like macaroni salad. I like normal. Is it macaroni salad, pasta salad? No, it's like pasta salad. Am I around two people that don't like pasta salad? I like macaroni salad. Is it macaroni salad, pasta salad? No, it's macaroni salad. But macaroni's pasta. I don't like cold pasta.

Macaroni salad is not pasta salad. Pasta salad, I would say, is different entirely. It's entirely different sub-bracket. What kind of pasta is a pasta salad then? Rigatoni. Rigatoni's in that. Or, yes, rigatoni I would put into cold noodle salad. How about spaghetti? Can you spaghetti in a pasta salad? No, no, why not? Cause then a spaghetti spaghetti salad. If you make it, if you put spaghetti, cold spaghetti, get out of my house.

Although I love cold spaghetti. I do too. Grab a whole handful of it. Why do we, why am I totally fine with eating cold as a meal cold? Elbow noodles cold routine needles. I'm fine with eating it but cold spaghetti. I'm like, what is this? Like if you were to serve me cold spaghetti, I'd be like, are you fucking with me? Yeah, is this are you trying is this like you trying to tell me to go fuck myself? I mean serve yes, put a handful out of your fridge. That's different. Delightful. That's my right. That's your spaghetti. That's my spaghetti. It's bizarre It's a bizarre way to eat spaghetti. No Just give in give in man. You got to relax back to Cecilia Cecilia she likes spaghetti

Well, Cecilia claimed to be able to morph into a werewolf or a vampire Producing fanged teeth and or blood every time she did it. These transformations- Greedy! It's one or the other. Everyone knows. She was officially a werewolf.

Yes, she was officially a werewolf. And these transformations were actually caught on video, but unfortunately for the hopeful believers, Cecilia can clearly be seen putting in a set of fake teeth in her mouth before presenting as a werewolf. What she used to do was tell the people that were closest to her that she was about to change and she'd go like, oh, oh, cover in her mouth. I mean it. If you listen to the description of her changing into a werewolf from Candace's point of view, you just, I just am extremely puzzled because they come in.'s like she did never want to show anybody to change

So what she would do is go away, right? And then she'd go into another room and come back and says I'm all done being a werewolf now I just changed and I changed back and then she'd be like wow Another time she fell asleep in the bed, right and they all fell asleep. They were supposed to be watching her She said oh, I'm to change into a werewolf tonight. They all fell asleep. She woke up in the night and then she apparently, she turned into a werewolf and then came back.

And the way she proved it all is that there was, I mean this, a single hair in the bed. And she's like, see, that was when I turned into a werewolf. Meanwhile, you got a bunch of fucking, you have the flimsiest, what I even call a set of hair. You have a crown of hair. It looks like honestly it's a blooming onion. She has a blooming onion on her head. It's just loose ass, broken ass, fucking weird

crispy ends. I'll tell you what you want to convince someone you're a werewolf while they were asleep shit on the floor. Her hair, if you ate her her hair it would be 1800 calories. But when it came to the power Cecilia claimed to still have, she said that she could travel through the astral realm, which is how she was able to know so much about what was happening all over the world at any given time. Amongst other places, Cecilia said that she could travel to the moon. Whoa, the moon! You could go all the way to the moon? You bet! I'd go to the moon every Thursday. On the way! What's it like in the moon?

It's cold. Oh, I bet! I bet I'd throw! Where's the devil's cheese? That's the devil's cheese. Instead of being married to just some cop, Cecilia said that she was really married to Satan and had proof in writing. Hey, don't tie him fucking down like that. As a bride of Satan, it was her task to open the gates of hell on earth and bring about extreme chaos.

Cool. To her credit, though she may not have opened the gates of hell, she definitely caused extreme chaos. Oh yes. Cecilia claimed to be the most powerful witch in all of Kruger's Dorp, which is batting the minor leagues a bit if she really was a massively powerful satanic witch. To put it into perspective, it's like being the most powerful witch in San Bernardino. Hey, you don't, I'm not messing with these San Bernardino witches. No, it's just serious San Bernardino. Hey, you don't, I'm not messing with these San Bernardino. Serious San Bernardino town. It's the wrong town. No, no, no. You think they got witches? You know, I actually

looked around and I started things like a Fresno. I'm not fucking with Fresno. I'm definitely not fucking with Bakersfield. You know where it is? San Jose. Oh yeah. You're the best witch in San Jose. Mostly you just make very good, like I want to say Lengua. Well, San Jose is pretty, but that's, it's a little too big. Like it really Oregon most powerful. Actually, I'd say the most power I've already mentioned at once, but it's similar in size. It's the most powerful witch in Abilene, Texas That's that's about what it would be like compromise reach

But because Cecilia was such a powerful witch her name itself was full of demonic power So she insisted that everyone simply call her see instead of Cecilia. You couldn't say the name Cecilia. But don't you spell it out wrong! It's just a letter! I don't want you putting out here or look or taste because I'm too powerful of a bitch! I didn't know Jackie was here. That's what it is! But when Cecilia turned her back on Satan, she claimed her life became very dangerous. When she wasn't under constant attack from Satan's supernatural forces, witches were constantly bothering her to try and bring her back into Satan's fold.

The danger, Cecilia said, was that she would be murdered if she didn't go back, because she knew too much about the workings of the Satanic Church's inner circles. But then why do they want her back? No. They keep trying to get her back. None of it makes sense. That's the thing, it's perfect. It's purposefully confusing because remember that this is all being fed to ria Over a very short period of time. It's like two hangout sessions

Yes, all of this is told her told to her over two hangout sessions. She's just downloading all this information and these guys are That's why like this is the first one of these, in terms of a cult. Like, normally, we have... I actually feel, on last podcast on the left, we came really good and got around to the idea of realizing, like, having sympathy with members of cults. Sure. Because, you know, a lot of times it's... Just looking for something better.

It's looking for connection. There's many myriads of ways normal people end up in cults. But something like this this where these people really there's something about maybe it's just I and I don't want to put my full anti-religion bias in there, but there's something about this idea that I'm chosen. I have these superpowers. I have to show my the world the power of my superpowers of Christ and this woman needs me which is literally what she then keyed into yes and behind everything Was Cecilia's father the fiendish malevolent wicked?

Mr.. Brad I just bought us all season tickets to six flags Except for the big time summer holidays. Most definitely. And Saturdays, of course. Now, as far as I can tell, this was all told to Rhea Grunewald during the first two times that she and Cecilia met.

And sometime after the second meeting, Cecilia called Rhea using a different voice to tell Rhea that Cecilia was in trouble. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey,

hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey and raced to Cecilia's apartment, where she found Cecilia lying on her bed with red welts covering her back. According to Cecilia, the wicked Mr. Brand had dropped by to punish her for telling satanic secrets.

This only served to bond Rhea and Cecilia further. From that point on, if Rhea wasn't doing enrichment weeks with overcoming through Christ, she was spending her time with Cecilia. Cecilia's husband, meanwhile, just stayed out of it completely, at least for the time being. She was happy to play his games. He really is. It's just like, it's the only spouse of a murderer that I'm like, oh, he knew nothing.

Of all of them, that man purposely sat with noise-canceling headphones and he was becoming a nothing in the other room. Oh no, he absolutely, every time they came over, Ria's, every time Cecilia's friends came over, they either went straight into Cecilia's room or he would leave the room altogether. He's like, I want nothing to do with this. I want absolutely nothing to do with this bullshit. But in order to really hook Ria, Cecilia upped the stagecraft to flesh out the world

she was creating. And this is where she's honestly a fucking genius. One day, Rhea arrived at Cecilia's house to find that Cecilia's child had blisters on her hand. Cecilia claimed that Mr. Brand had come over and pressed the child's hands onto a hot stove to punish Cecilia for refusing to return to Satan. Yes! Then... he used all the ice! Ha ha ha!

After that, Cecilia got a hold of a bunch of burner phones so she could send Rhea threatening text messages that were supposedly from a whole series of witches in Satan's service. And all this made Rhea so fucking wet. Ha ha ha! Like, that's a thing. All this just... She loved it. She loves this. witches in Satan's service. These messages would threaten both Rhea and Cecilia with murder, saying that there was nothing either of them could do to stop it. But to keep her off balance, Cecilia would also send messages from these numbers praising

her for resisting Satan. I wish I could be like Cecilia. I wish I could get out. One number supposedly belonged to the Andrea character Cecilia created, who kept sending Rhea messages about how terrified she was that her children were going to be sacrificed. Another number claimed to be Elise, Cecilia's fake mother. Here's an example of a text from Elise, who told Rhea that Satan communicated with Cecilia in her dreams. saying she's okay, but she's not okay, and Mr. Brand won't stop. And as far as Ria's concerned,

that's from a satanic high witch. Yeah, yeah, yeah, sexy. Yeah, well, you gotta call your satanic witches. You can't just steal a text. I just feel like at some point, you're like, do we need this in writing? I feel like this is a lot of satanist secrets that are all just kind of been willy-nilly

Shot all over the place if he was like maybe if they're coming for you They should technically come for them and come for us Yeah, now this doesn't make any sense coming from a high priestess of Satan. No, but that's part of the point Yes, Cecilia was trying to confuse Rhea on every level and it's very important to remember that Rhea wasn't looking at all this Like a bothersome if elaborate prank. As far as she was concerned, she was in direct contact with agents of Satan in their most evil form, people who sacrifice and eat babies several times a year in their unholy rituals. But I'll have them know, me and my team of saviors, we're going to overcome all over those ritual babies. We're going to overcome all over these witches.

We're going to overcome all of these devils. We're going to overcome and come and overcome and overcome and we're going to leave them dripping with the power of Christ. Well, while Cecilia did make Rhea's world unbearably terrifying, she also confirmed every awful thing that Rhea had ever suspected. She's so happy! My life has purpose! There really was a Satanic cabal, which made Rhea's life far more interesting and made her group, Overcomers Through Christ, that much more important.

Yeah, they used to be just a bunch of shitheads in a conference room. Now they are fighting the devil themselves. Yeah. Now Rhea of course couldn't keep Cecilia to herself forever. In late 2007, Rhea introduced Cecilia to Candice Riaviss, who had designed the logo for Overcomers Through Christ. Now you can see here what I did is it's an O for Overcomers and then a T, that's like a crucifix that's

what Christ died on. And a C here that's for Christ. Very creative Candace. Very good. Candace and Cecilia hit it off and soon became lovers and before long Cecilia told Candace her story about being a reformed Satanist. Just like Rhea, Candace believed every single thing Cecilia told her. Poor, poor Candace. Poor Candace also said that she had, what's the term, what's that thing when you're pathologic, when you have to be with somebody? Oh, codependent. Yeah, she said that she had codependent problems and she and her, there's something about her.

Like, have you ever seen Cecilia talk no You're in footage of her talking you can tell exactly what this type of person is you know somebody who does a thing I? Can't stand over familiarity mm-hmm when people are overly familiar with me my first thing is get the fuck away from me Right that freaks me out This but sometimes has an opposite effect on people like that are codependent. Candace viewed, Cecilia did the thing where she's like, I don't believe in small talk. We're going to talk all about my horrible memories. And then Candace was like, oh, my God.

You know, I mean, like so excited to hear about your trauma because then you get closer. Yes, it's much better than talking about the weather. Yeah, yeah, cuz the weather sometimes kills you. Yeah, especially in South Africa Yes That's the things where Ria held a maternal role Candice was in a romantic position and both of them were convinced they needed to save Cecilia what's interesting though is that Candice and Ria hardly ever spoke to each other nor did they talk to each other about Candace and Rhea hardly ever spoke to each other, nor did they talk to each other about Cecilia, at least in the beginning. It's because they were fucking jealous, and I'm actually pretty certain that Rhea and Cecilia slept together as well.

You think so? She floated. Cecilia floated that Rhea and her slept together, and Rhea said obviously not because she had to. But I have a feeling a little bit of fucking scissoring was going on in that fucking apartment, and I'm not talking about making graphs Now eventually real Grunewald brought the rest of the overcomers through Christ into the game and soon enough the so-called Satanic high holidays became big events for the group because of Cecilia on

Volperges knocked or saw in or what have you The overcomers would all gather at Cecilia's apartment to sing and pray while playing Christian music in the background. And this was all while Cecilia put on an intense hour long performance. Honestly, this must've been so cool. This must've like seeing the boss in that little like off Broadway, you know, like the 800 cedar. Like she would put on hours long fake possessions. Well they weren't necessarily possessions, they were attacks. See before things would kick off, the overcomers believed that they needed to prevent demons from entering Cecilia's body.

So they would plug her up by putting their hands over her nose, mouth, ears, vagina and butthole. Yes I said buttholes. You don't think the stinkiest mouth ain't the perfect resting place for the devil himself. Now is she naked? No, she's just doing it over the clothes. Well, they're not really covering it. You see, you dumbass man, is that what I have them do is take two fingers and press the fabric of my pants up into my butthole like a stopper and they would do the same for my pussy hole. Oh, Cecilia, you're not an overcomer, you're an oversharer.

Oh, you bet. But once the end of the performance came, I was overcoming. But at around 11pm, Cecilia would start jerking around and screaming. She would make bizarre sounds of pain while blood bubbled out of her mouth. According to Cecilia, this was because witches had forced her soul to leave her body via astral projection to the location where that high holiday satanic ritual was taking place. At that time it was taking place in Delaware. How is she making blood come out of her mouth?

We'll get to that in a second. Cecilia's soul would bond with a kidnapped child that was being sacrificed on an altar somewhere in Kruger's Dorp. And the overcomers believed that if they prayed hard enough, they could save both Cecilia and the child. They also believed that if they failed, Cecilia would die right in front of them. And of course, the child would die as well. Cecilia, you're breaking my heart.

But around midnight, Cecilia would suddenly become calm and announce that her soul had returned to her body. We did it, y'all! She'd then clean up the blood that had bubbled out of her mouth and would tell everyone to leave, making sure to add that they'd better be prepared for the next high holiday. It's me, Jackson, the Santa General, and I gotta say, I'm getting too old for this shit. Now the thing that a lot of these overcomers would point to is something that couldn't be explained was the incredible amount of blood that would come out of Cecilia's mouth

during her spiritual attacks. How, they would ask, could someone spontaneously make themselves bleed from their mouth in the volume that Cecilia did without cutting or biting herself? Well, the answer is more cheap dumb tricks. The key here is dumb tricks. You would really be surprised. I think the audience would really be surprised how much confidence can sell things. And if you're in the throes of the cell already, when you have the whole thing going on, people don't want to see.

That's the biggest thing about it is that people are, you would be very surprised at what people won't see if they don't want to say, don't want to see you scamming them. But I feel, cause Candice started talking about this even herself that on some level, she wondered what is happening here. Yeah. It's almost like when people play along with hypnotists. Yes.

Well, according to Cecilia's ex-girlfriend, Candace, Cecilia would take a surgical glove and cut the finger off. She would then draw her own blood with a syringe and fill each finger. She then tie off the finger and then put the blood balloon in her mouth. Well, it's like murder fist. Yeah. And except she used real blood. That makes us posters. I guess. No, it just makes all of you very sticky from all the high for corn. Sir. Yes it did. Kero love you.

Miss you. Well, later when she felt like having a satanic fit and needed an extra push, she would pop one of the fingers of blood with her teeth, which would enable her to spit a large amount of blood that seemed to prove that satanic witches were attacking her organs. And I've seen videos of it. It looks fucking terrifying. She does a good job. It is also a group of them all going like, how am I going to do the tongue prayers on

you? And they're all having a great time. So does she have a blood balloon in her mouth? Like the whole speech? Yeah. Cause she's, well, that's the thing is that she goes quiet. It's like she'll, she'll go very quiet. She sits, she sits and she kind of sits and she sits silently. Then she lays down rigid. Then the attack starts. She can't

talk because her soul has left her body. You fucking idiot. So consistently stupid. Hahahaha! Now all this sounds absolutely crazy, and it is! Oh yeah! But Cecilia was just getting started. One by one, she was starting to draw more people from the overcomers to her side. They believed in her bravery, they worshipped it, but more importantly, they trusted her inside knowledge of the occult. It also made them, I'm gonna go on a limb and just say,

feel cool. Yeah. Because Cecilia became the star of OTC. Yeah. But you gotta forget that too, it's like within this, she's getting, but when we talked about this, positive validation. She is getting people all being like,

oh my God, Cecilia, we care so much about you, oh my God, Cecilia, what's wrong with you? And in that, she turned the whole organization on its head because the entire fucking thing became about her. Yeah. So we talked about Candace and Ria, how many overcomers are there at this point? I want to say there was like maybe 10. No, it was bigger than it was. Overcomers through Christ was the, they had a board. Her own cult is only like six people.

Yes, they had their own board, but it was mostly courses you paid to go take. Yeah, maybe like 20. Yes. So it's like UCB. Oh, very much so. Exactly the same. Well, Cecilia created a world for these people to exist within, a world that no one else could see or experience.

And it was within that world, in the name of battling the Satanic Church, that Cecilia would command her followers to murder 11 people. And that is where we'll pick back up next week for the Cougarsdorp Cult Murders Part 2. This is thick. This is really fucking thick. This is going to be a three part series. Yeah, because the next stuff like we got.

No one's heard of this really, out in America. There's some coverage of it, the next stuff like we know it's heard of this really out in America There's some coverage of it, but it's small. I never heard of this shit before This is I was I literally just stumbled upon this in a documentary and I can't believe that we had not heard about the story Especially for how much shatanic panic and we've covered all over the years Yeah, but this is very I just find it. It's it just getting thicker and honestly It just gets dumber. It does. It's, that's, this is also one of those cases, which actually we found a couple of times where there's something about the dumb ramping up the violence.

Like there's something about those two. I don't know why we saw it with them. Oh, most violence is very stupid. Or you have to be kind of stupid to do it. Yeah. In many ways. Yes. This happened between 2012 and 2016?

2000. Yeah. Well,. Yes, this happened between 2012 and 2016 2000 yeah, well the first murders were 2012 was it 2012 the first series the Satanic murders were 2012. Yeah, that's fucking wild Yeah, but yeah, this is brand new. Yeah, 20 to 2012 2016. So hey guys, if you're looking to start a Satanic cult There's still time Anyone it's passing life ain't over at 30 You can start a cult now. It's actually safer for you to start a satanic cult than have a child Slash last podcast on the left you can watch us yell and scream and flop about you also can see us live on Tuesdays For last dream on the left. It's fun. It's good. You like it You know that you do go to at LP on the left on all of the social horsemen

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Yeah. He's got nothing to do with Satan. Cause you know what's funny about all this shit? Almost got nothing to do with Satan. Yeah. It's all God. Yep, it really is. Man, that's so impressive.

You know what? Scariest guy of all. Yeah, Unheil Ging. I'm gonna Hail Satan again. Thank you. Alright, there you go. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Today he deserves it.

Yeah, he does. Give him the respect he deserves. Come on, kiss his butthole. Alright? Be chosen.