Disturbing Reddit Cults

Added: 2026-05-17

[00:00:06]Reddit is famous for its communities, places to share hobbies, jokes, and interests. But some corners of the site are darker places where people get trapped, manipulated, and forced to join cults. Today, we're uncovering the chilling stories of those who stumbled into some disturbing Reddit cults. Then make sure you like the video and subscribe to the channel. And without further ado, let's begin.

[00:00:36]Open the eyes of your heart. January 18th, 2025.

[00:00:42]A desperate post appears on Reddit. I just escaped from a cult in Kentucky. At first glance, it sounds like the usual internet user wanting attention. until you keep reading. She claims people are still inside the cult. Over 20 of them, following a man she says is starving them in the name of God. And according to her, it isn't metaphorical. She says she spent 6 months in the group. By the time she left, she looked severely malnourished. Others, she claims, weren't as lucky. People were allegedly being forced into extreme fasting. A disabled man was still inside being abused and the group's leader had just escalated things even further. Then comes the part that makes it harder to dismiss. This wasn't happening in isolation. There was no hidden compound where this was going on. No locked facility. The leader, she says, was doing all of this in plain sight and broadcasting it online on YouTube. The OP's original post was, "I just escaped from a starvation cult based in Kentucky. Please, there are still over 22 people in there following a madman. He's starving them to death and they're going to die because they believe the lies that this is what Jesus wants. I was deceived for 6 months. And it's embarrassing to admit, but it's truth. All of the fasting made me look like a corpse. And I was a size 16. I'm barely gaining my energy back as I was literally dying of malnutrition and starvation. Once I got out, I tried to warn others, but they have all blocked me. There are three others that got out just in time. One they don't know is out. She's being the fly on the wall.

[00:02:46]The leader just called everyone to a 7-day dry fast. After we completed a 3-day fast and barely broke Thursday morning, he told us that we had to go to a liquid diet so that we would be ready for the rapture. That's when I woke up.

[00:03:01]I refused to do any of it anymore. So, that means that the rest of them went from 3-day fasts every week to a liquid food diet for one day, straight into a 7-day dry fast. He's going to kill them and they don't realize what he's doing.

[00:03:18]Please warn everyone about Open the Eyes of Your Heart Ministry on YouTube. The leader's name is Julian. I just reported him to the FBI. But I don't know how long this is going to take. There are also four young people forced by their parents to do this and one mentally handicapped man. He has the mentality of a child. Please go to this page on YouTube if you are feeling the need to call this sick bastard out. Thank you for listening. This is so scary. Cult leaders are some of the most evil people to walk the planet. That's not a very hot take and not many people would disagree, but it's easier to imagine these monsters controlling and abusing a group of people when they're right in front of them. What's hard to picture is someone so sadistic but also charismatic and smart enough that they can manage to pull this off through a screen. This is who Julian A is and that is what he has somehow managed to do with open the eyes of your heart ministry. But this is far from a ministry because that's something that provides a service under God's name. So whether this be preaching, community service, or missions, it's a community of people that are out to help people through the calling of God.

[00:04:48]Julian should be ashamed to call his channel a ministry. What Open the Eyes of Your Heart actually is are over a thousand videos that are usually Julian, but sometimes this woman named Bonnie or other members, whoever it is, will often talk about a dream interpretation and usually how that dream proves that the end times are coming. Basically, the message is that the rapture is soon. But this isn't just the preaching of these ideas. Members are told that in order to reach salvation, they have to follow eight steps. Number one, confess sins.

[00:05:27]Number two, repent from sin turning 180°ree. Number three, read God's word daily, at least 10 chapters. Four, praying to Father God daily. Five, worshiping Father God daily. Six, participating in holy communion up to three times a day before each meal.

[00:05:51]Number seven, fast weekly. And number eight, fruits and vegetable diet. This may look normal. It may seem as if these are pretty basic practices for someone who is religious. And Julian may be tricking people into thinking there's nothing out of the ordinary. But user GG Forever, who wrote the post I just read, is desperate to make sure others know this is not the case. Like they said, they tried to warn the others. Many blocked her, but one listened to what she had to say. A few days after her post and sending out a message to other members, user to hide W shared their own experience.

[00:06:38]Urgent help needed against a cult where they make people die from starvation in Jesus' name. I'm really sorry to write this here, but led by the Holy Spirit, this is going to be my first post. If I break any rules or say anything wrong, I would love to be guided by you all. I'm a loving Christian from Turkey where there aren't many Christians. I was saved by Jesus miraculously while I was lost in the world and I fell fully in love with him and everyone around me.

[00:07:10]One day I came across this channel called Open Eyes of Heart. As someone unprepared and lacking knowledge, I thought that this was a real ministry that spoke the words of Jesus, quoting scriptures and giving prophetic messages. I followed the eight steps they required each day to work towards my salvation. I didn't know that we are saved through grace. I was brainwashed.

[00:07:35]These steps must be completed each day as a leader chief angel of 144,000 or we risk being rebuked by the Lord and losing our salvation. The steps include worshiping, praying, excessive fasting, 3 days each week without food, just water, following a Daniel fast, which is not recommended for health. Studying scripture for at least 50 to 100 chapters each day without absorbing any information. If we only do 10, we are not getting enough washing through the word, repenting, confessing sins, and taking communion three times a day before each meal. After a while, I learned some scary truths about it, which I will discuss further. The most alarming and ungodly step was the fruit diet. Yes, we were on a fruit diet. This was not just for a couple of days, but until we die. The leader of this ministry, whose full name is Julian A, told us to eat only six portions a day with two portions per meal. One banana counts as one portion and one orange counts as one portion and so on. Full video. They are making people starve to death without any nutrition, claiming it's a biblical diet. While even Daniel ate vegetables, I thought, "Yeah, it seems cool. Let's start the eight steps to heaven, as they called it. After a while, I started to have dreams and visions with words spoken into my ears from deceiving spirits, which I thought were the Holy Spirit in God. And I began to dive deeper into everything. They revealed one of their videos they were working on with Archangel Michael regarding the ministry, which is here.

[00:09:28]Eventually, they invited me to the ministry to work with them. Yes. If a deceiving spirit establishes a stronghold on you, it invites you to become a ministry member and a chief angel, assuring you of your spiritual ascent to heaven. I was truly at peace and full of love, thinking, "Wow, I'm really doing a good job." After a while, fall started and I gave up so much food I starved myself to death. Even worse, I felt like I was dying. But because I loved Jesus so much, I was ready to truly die for him. Engaging in a deceiving fast where I only ate two fruits all week. But suddenly, I received a message from a member who just left the ministry. And I opened my eyes to the truth. They were really making people starve until they died.

[00:10:26]That last line is chilling. These innocent people who just want to practice their faith in God are coming to one day and realizing what they've been doing has been pushing their body to the edge. An edge that once they've stepped off, they can't come back. And that's exactly what some have done. This same user mentions later, "As time passed and after dedicated work, we discovered many bad fruits about this ministry, such as manipulating a pregnant woman into thinking she needed to go on a 3-day water fast with only two fruits a day, telling diabetics and heart patients to stop taking their medications, and a poor brother who has asthma and can't breathe was told to stop using his inhaler because it was demonic.

[00:11:19]young people that are being forced to starve. There were also two people who used to be on the team but died after excessive fasting.

[00:11:30]It's sickening to imagine the deception these people are under. So much so that they feel there's no other choice but to slowly watch themselves die, to kill their own offspring. What Julian is spreading isn't the word of God or the word of Jesus. Those two springs are messages of love, not starvation and suffering. Telling them the only way they can give themselves to God is by torturing themselves is nothing short of evil and diabolical. And tragically, I don't think his message has stopped spreading. Despite these two users efforts to stop him, it looks as if he's still going. There were others who came out and shared their near-death encounter with Open the Eyes of Your Heart. Even some whose family members are stuck listening to Julian. My family member is missing, and she's probably in a starvation cult. Hey everyone, sorry if I'm not supposed to pose this here, but I'm pretty desperate. Since April this year, my mother has been missing.

[00:12:38]She had already been acting a bit distant for a while, praying a lot, having many Zoom meetings, and often needing to fast. We were, of course, really worried, but her response was always, "Everything is fine." And the doctor says, "I'm perfectly healthy." In April, she left. She said she was going to work, but she had called in sick, and she just never came back.

[00:13:04]It's been 7 months of uncertainty and we just want answers. Long story short, some time ago, I found out that she had joined the Open Eyes of Your Heart Ministry. There are a few other discussions about this group online, but none of them seem very recent. Are there more people who have dealt with this group? How can I find out where my mother is? And most importantly, how can I make the authorities understand that she's actually in real danger as authorities do nothing?

[00:13:38]I've seen one or two YouTube accounts regularly commenting under their videos, calling them a cult and such, but I don't know how to contact those people.

[00:13:47]I just don't understand how to message someone on YouTube. Just to be clear, of course we realized something was wrong.

[00:13:58]Of course, we tried to find out what to do since we felt it had to do with her faith. It seemed to be turning into something cultlike. But everything we read online warned us to be careful about what we said to her because otherwise she might turn against us. So, we tried to be very cautious.

[00:14:18]Even with all of that, there's still a video posted 7 days ago as I'm writing this and a video at least once a week for the last year. Open the eyes of your heart hasn't gone anywhere. And some of the videos aren't even Julian, but some members themselves making their own videos. And while I haven't found specific information on if or how much money he's taken from them, there are some YouTube comments that allude to him cashing in on these victims as well. Was your stupid book marital castle not giving you enough funds, dude? The only thing Julian is looking at is the money they're scamming from vulnerable people.

[00:15:00]You miss an arrogant, egotistical devil who left his family and now separates families and makes up crap. brainwashes vulnerable people to take their money.

[00:15:10]He thinks that he is special, but he needs serious mental help. At least there are some people that are trying to hold him accountable, but it's not enough. The Reddit posts, the comments, the calls to the FBI aren't enough to shut this down. Right below a comment calling him out will be another one that praises him. Someone that is believing all of the he's posting.

[00:15:36]Another vulnerable person for him to manipulate. One user comments, "I hope you are doing well. I miss seeing a notification from you. Praying you are just taking you and God time. I've come to expect videos from you and I apologize for that. Your uplifting words and dream interpretation help me stay in the arms of Father, which is highly appreciated, especially right now when my whole being is a target for the enemy and his army. We know it's only going to get worse from here on out. So, everything and everyone we can find that helps us stay strong in the Lord are extremely important to hang on to. Thank you for sharing and for being one of those important aids. May God bless us all. It's nothing short of cruel to gain the faith of someone who's struggling and then tell them to starve themselves.

[00:16:29]All the while, they think they're getting closer to God. It's terrible.

[00:16:34]vile and sadistic.

[00:16:38]And until law enforcement takes this seriously, this cult will still be out there roping people in, manipulating their every move, and bringing them to their deathbed.

[00:16:57]User just made this account. Imagine your life without the internet. Imagine being unable to pull up Instagram for a quick fix to loneliness or Google to answer any question you have in under five minutes. And worst of all, no Tik Tok to doom scroll before bed. Many people don't realize how much they rely on these things. Most of us take that for granted. how easy it is to access the entire world in our pocket to connect to people from across the world and to learn about things we didn't even know we could learn. Not everyone has this ability though and some may think those people are lucky to live in ignorant bliss. A lot of us want an escape from the internet to get back to reality. But for user just made this account, the internet is the escape from the hell that is his life. On June 3rd, 2018, when he quite literally just made his account, he also made his first post on r/confession.

[00:18:09]He said, "Confession, I'm on the internet right now. I'm born brought up in a cult. So, this is confessionw worthy. I'm supposed to be posting and marketing the products the sect makes online. And one of my mothers checks the search history nightly, but everyone is too dumbed down to realize that incognito is a thing. So when everyone is gone doing work and I'm made to post the listings on the internet, I will go incognito and browse Reddit and World News and Twitter feeds and whatever else. I'm 19. If they found out, I would definitely not be left with so much freedom and be punished. Yeah, even if now I'm an adult by the government's order, I'm still pushed in the group of being a child. So, I'd probably get a serious beating. I'm actually really lonely and empty all of the time. For the people who post their information and pictures and lives on Reddit, you really do a lot for me and it helps me get through these days. Thank you so much. This is my first Reddit post. I know I have to flare, but I can't find out how to do that until I post. I hope that's okay. Like I said, the internet can be incredibly terrible and sickening, but this post immediately made me remember all of the incredible things about it and how all of those things are tiny slivers of joy in the user's life. It's heartbreaking to realize that he didn't even know what the internet had to offer. At first, it was just something he had to use to get his work done. something on a computer that allowed him to do the things he's been forced to do. There's something so sad but also kind of wholesome about that. Like he was sitting blindly on top of a mountain unaware of the view that was before him being the internet. But thank God he stumbled upon Reddit and had his eyes opened. And it was just purely by accident. One time I tried to look up make color swirl candles and it gives me a link that went to Reddit.

[00:20:31]Then I found out there was more things than that here. Lol. And the tragic part of being in a cult though is that even with a tiny amount of exposure to the outside world, it's still exceptionally difficult to break free. Even if someone starts to understand how unhappy and sick they're becoming. But now that OP has found the internet and people that he can talk to, at least through a screen, he has an outlet to share some of these feelings that have been haunting him for years. The OP posts, "I'm really miserable all of the time.

[00:21:09]There isn't one time in my days that I'm not miserable. There are only times that I am so busy that I'm not feeling it as much. Sleep is miserable. Being awake is miserable. I don't want to do anything at all, but I have to do them anyway.

[00:21:28]Everything is intimidating to me and scary to me to the point that I am struggling to do anything different at all. But being like that still has me stuck in this miserable place. I don't know anything about anything. And I'm so far behind every other person there is in the world. I don't have the energy to talk to anyone or fight back against the bad things that hurt me now. I feel like maybe my body is weak and bad to the point where I'm just going to die soon and I'll experience nothing before that happens. Just the same daily thing that I'm always made to do. Now I'm just in this place. I can't study. I can't meet new people. I can't learn new things. I can't go to a new place anywhere in the world. I can't learn about myself or anything else. Here I am just like this and I'm stuck like this forever.

[00:22:25]It's just crushing to read this post.

[00:22:29]But then it's post after post after post like this and it just gets more and more heartbreaking because now he has the internet and now the OP is aware of thousands and thousands of more things that he's unable to have. And even though he's exhausted and isn't sure how to feel hope, there are some hopes that won't die. I have a dream of seeing the ocean. I want to see it one time before I die. I know they're all different, like the beaches depending on where you go, but any of them is okay, I think. I just would really like to see the ocean once. I'm really, really tired. Everyone deserves to see the ocean and not just once in their life, but to get there is a very daunting road for the OP. Some users actually get frustrated with him for not finding the courage to pack up his things and leave. But he's just a kid. Yeah, he's 19. But he has nowhere near the amount of education, life experience, and guidance that most 19-year-olds have gotten by that age.

[00:23:41]He's scared, or more like terrified, and has no idea how to begin. One user asked the OP, "I totally get the urge to convince OP to leave the cult, but I'm not sure how much it will help. People make big decisions when they are ready.

[00:24:00]Not before, no matter how much good advice they get from others." OP, I'd encourage you to consider where your boundaries are. When will you know if it's time to leave? What are the lines that you won't allow crossed? And how will you respond if that day comes? Best wishes. And then the OP responds to this comment saying, "Really, thank you so much. There's a lot of reasons why I have hesitation. I really do love my family and they provide me with things like food and electricity. I don't have skills in life like to drive or work.

[00:24:39]And I don't have a really big education at a big school like a lot of people do on the outside. There is my pets here that I love very much and try to watch the younger kids. I don't feel comfortable leaving them, but I can't take them because the government would take him back here. It's the only life the OP has ever known. I don't think many people can understand what that's like to leave the only people you've ever met, including his innocent siblings that he wants to continue to protect. This seems to really be the biggest obstacle for him because he has another post about wanting to get custody of his siblings, but his story hasn't gone under the radar. Hundreds of people from Reddit are now rooting for him. He starts to become more than just another random person with a sad story.

[00:25:35]People get to actually know him. Through their questions and the comments, OP becomes a real person to those following him. I like to look at the news, weird things that people put up for sale on Etsy, Twitter pages and feeds, the Wikipedia site, recipe places, on websites, and on Reddit, or whatever I can find. I think I'm pretty good at searching for things. For a few years, my sister, before she left, taught me some things about how to use the internet so the history doesn't come up and what websites have interesting news to look at. I was taught by people here.

[00:26:14]It's not always the same. Sometimes one of my mothers or when I was younger, it was an older teenager. I interact with them not very often because the girls are busy and the boys are working a lot.

[00:26:27]I work a lot, but I'm really weak and get sick easily. So, I do things indoors like cleaning or cooking or listing things online for sale because I am religious. I wear whatever clothes. My clothes are very big, I think. Lol. But it's cool, I was told. Like, there's people that wear big clothes because it looks cool. Well, I don't mind it. We make all of our food here, but it's usually the same kind of things. But I'm good at making bread because of that.

[00:27:01]The internet has made me really happy. I really love reading things. I saw football on TV before though when someone was watching it. I don't know what the thing you listed was. Sorry.

[00:27:14]Thank you for your questions. It was nice to be asked them and answer them.

[00:27:19]So, in August of 2018, when the post suddenly became more different, everyone noticed. This starts shortly after a post he makes on July 21st. I live far away from major cities and I have no money. If I'm going to be homeless soon, where should I go? I searched what I can and I don't know what to do because I live too far from the places that people tell me I can help and I don't have money, a friend or family to take me and I don't know how to drive. I live in like a far rural place. If I'm going to be homeless, I'll really just be kicked outside. What should I do? Finally, it seems like the OP is going to try and make an escape from the cult he is a part of. Of course, people want an update. They give him resources and pray that he reaches the life he deserves.

[00:28:15]But he doesn't give us the answer we are hoping for. Though what comes isn't really bad news either. But it still doesn't feel good. A little over a month later comes a post that just says, "Look in the garden." And then another one, there will be weeping and nashing of teeth, for you will see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all of the prophets in the kingdom of God, but you will be thrown out. Luke 13 28. A couple of posts like that continue for the next two months.

[00:28:56]just Bible verse after Bible verse and another cryptic spam posting of one specific question. Buy highop plant fresh dry oil where he has multiple postings about this highop oil. each one. It seems like he's trying to figure out where to buy it, even though he never formally puts a question mark or an actual sentence into the post, which is really, really strange. Like, obviously, he isn't the most familiar with the internet, but his first couple of posts were nothing like this. He knew how to post a question. And the fact that he's even asking a question is strange. when he said himself he feels like he's pretty good at looking things up and then the overwhelming amount of religious Jesus praising postings. He's given enough information that makes it pretty clear he comes from a religious cult, but he never really gave any sign that pointed to him being religious. In fact, he said, "I guess I am religious, so what's happening?" Well, when someone straight up asks him, "What's the deal with these cryptic posts?" His response is simply repentance.

[00:30:21]Is his I guess I am religious turning to a true and complete faith in God, which given the context of him living in an abusive controlling cult doesn't feel like a good thing. Well, someone notices something about highop oil that points to this being true. Highop oil is typically used as medicine to help with stomach problems. It's also used for purification rituals in the Old Testament, specifically for David, who has committed adultery. It was also the plant that made up the sponge that Christ drank wine from, which was his last act in the mortal world alongside his words, "I thirst." I think the user is asking for purity. But a lot of people can't believe this is really him.

[00:31:14]This is no way the same person. The person asking for highop oil before clearly had no idea how to use Reddit either. I hope you are okay. We one. I told you. I'm going to keep saying this to you. We know this isn't our friend. I hope my comment keeps you awake at night. We hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world all know this is not our friend posting. He is smart and knows how to properly use Reddit. He is arguably the most genuinely kind and good person on Reddit, if not in the world. That is why we all care about him so much and why we are all his friends. This is why so many people follow him and check in with him to see if he's okay. It's why so many people have offered emotional and financial support to him. He is our friend. He truly cares about people and we care about him. That is what love is.

[00:32:21]Also, his artwork is dope and you're a jerk for tearing it up. Like I said, there are some people that cannot even fathom the idea that this is the same person, and I don't want to believe it either. But there's a couple of posts and comments mixed in with all of this that gives me another theory. The last one or two weeks, I've been doing something bad, and I feel guilty about it. I've been taking alcohol from the store rooms that my families have, putting it in mixed water in a bottle, and drinking it when I can. It's clear.

[00:32:55]So, it's easy to do it like that. I don't know why. I think it makes me feel far away and it helps me so I can do chores, but I think it's making me more tired. But I think the taste is bad, though. I'm not supposed to know there's alcohol in the store rooms because men in our family aren't supposed to drink it, but everyone does anyway. I'm not a kid, so maybe it's not a problem anyway other than in my own family. I just wanted to get it off my chest. Thank you for reading. And then on one of the first Bible verse posts, he replies to a comment with an update on his situation, saying, "Okay, my family is having a wedding now, and I am really drunk. I made coconut wax and soy wax. How are you?" So, he's clearly struggling with drinking, which isn't hard to understand. He's in extreme pain, having to live with people that are actively hurting and entrapping him. But in that place, is it really so hard to believe that he's drunkenly making these posts?

[00:34:08]And just a couple of encouraging comments and posts on Reddit probably aren't enough to give him the courage to get far away from these people. We don't know a lot about the cult, but it's obvious he's been brainwashed and indoctrinated into what they believe. It takes time to get out of that, to start to think for oneself. All of the desire to run away, to see the ocean, become a new person, has to bring feelings of shame onto the OP. In the cults, these are bad things, sinful things. And when escape seems too scary and all he has to return to is what he's used to, he's going to want that guilt washed away, to return to the god he's been taught, purification.

[00:34:56]Either way, whether these posts are him or it's his account being infiltrated by his abusers, it's terrifying because it means that he hasn't escaped these people. He doesn't ever go into specific detail on what he endures here, but there's hints along the way that show the prison that he's in. One post particularly felt haunting. Before the shift into Bible talk, he made a post on a subreddit dedicated to users discussing abuse. You're saving your sisters from being soiled. Don't you want your sisters to be modest and married? Men won't marry non- virgins, so you'll protect that for them, won't you? I was always underweight as a kid, short of a different ethnicity that people think was interesting. So, even as a boy, this was the obligation put on me. If I said no or fought it away, then it was my fault. For who got abused instead? A girl probably younger than me. Then how can I forgive myself for that? I will let that happen. I know that isn't it or isn't the truth, but this is what I was told. Modesty was never given to me because I'm a boy, but now I'm an adult. I'll always be a boy.

[00:36:20]I'm never going to be a man. I can't stand with my own feet. I can't support myself or function in the world like people do. I can't make eye contact with people. I can't lift my voice or give an opinion. I'm subservant. Anyways, thanks for reading. It's like the OP is vomiting out onto the screen. The words are all jumbled and run into each other, but the message is clear. He's been hurt, very, very badly by people that are supposed to protect him. They're keeping him trapped under their thumb so they can use him any way they want.

[00:37:03]Making sure he stays where they want him, far away from the rest of the world, far away from anyone that could help him. These are evil people. And it's chilling to watch him go back and forth between almost finding the strength to leave, but then returning back to what's familiar to him, what he's used to. And this is no fault of his own. It's abuse which takes an enormous amount of courage to break free from. And despite everything the OP has been through, people have faith in him for good reason. The Opie is smart, determined, and brave. So, this is a rare time where the story goes in a positive direction. At least I think it does. After the multiple Bible quote posts, he then made a post asking what Vancouver was like. Then he kind of disappeared. Not for a while, just for a couple of months. But even when he came back, he wasn't posting anywhere near the amounts we're used to. He made one post in 2019, a picture of a drawing he had done, and then nothing else until 2020. This is when he started to frequently make posts about criminal cases against those who committed acts on young people. It's like this was an obsession for him. Most were just reports of articles, but he made one where he vented about one case in particular.

[00:38:34]John Austin Galen in Ottawa should be guilty of 32 cases of SA religious operations of people who hide beneath the cover of God to launder money and do horrible things to young people and women network outside of their own territory and religion. Angle Scientology, TFI, OTS, and even more than that. Popular and favorite celebrities fund it. And now we can all see how it is tied together. Things like this are upsetting for most people, at least people with a heart. But I think OP may be feeling a little more than that. But a post like this actually feels hopeful. It shows he's starting to understand what has been happening to him, believing that it's not okay and that he deserves better. posting article after article. He's trying to expose the people that maybe the general public isn't aware of. Maybe John Galen is connected to the cult he came from. And maybe he's trying to out him for being a monster. Or maybe not. But either way, it feels like he's in a different mindset than the first post. He's made it to the other side. When first reading through these posts, that was just a gut feeling. But then I scrolled through the comments on some of those posts and what I found was overjoy.

[00:40:04]You're out of the cult. Yes. For almost a year, I have been living in Vancouver.

[00:40:10]I was working part-time with help and counseling, but now because people are sick, I'm only staying inside. I just hope that maybe I can share things I read to make people know how many sick people there are in the world. I guess I have a lot of anger about it, but I'm okay. I am safe. Thank you. How are you?

[00:40:31]He's safe. There's not many times I come across stories like these and realize they have a happy ending by the time I'm finished. The thought of the OP making his way to freedom is extremely heartwarming and exciting and if I'm being honest, almost too good to be true. Maybe that's me being cynical, or it's the feeling I get from his most recent and last post. On August 16th, 2023, he posted a 9-minute and 40 second video that's just a black screen with lighthearted instrumental music in the background. It starts with a man's voice who sounds a little bit like AI but also a talk show host. He says, "As a little child, a compilation."

[00:41:26]Then a different piano song starts followed by 9 minutes of a woman reading us stuff from the Bible, I assume. And like I said, this is all over a completely black screen. So, that's pretty much all of the information I have. I mean, I hope it's nothing. I hope all it means is that he may have found his way back to religion and faith, but in a healthy way, not under the guidance of abusive cult leaders. Or the fact that it started out by referencing a little child. It's possibly a reflection on the things he learned as a kid. That doesn't have to mean he's returning to that person, but instead processing what he went through, or it means nothing. Hopefully, the worst case scenario is too heartbreaking to even think about too much. I'd rather imagine he's still living in Vancouver, continuing to build his life there, making friends, finding new and better jobs, building a family, moving past all of the torture he was put through by people he thought loved him. And by now, I hope that he's seen the ocean and way more than once.

[00:42:54]And all right, guys, that wraps up some disturbing Reddit cults. These weren't exactly Reddit cults, per se, but it's people that came to Reddit to expose cults or talk about the cults that they were in or a part of. Some pretty disturbing stuff. If you enjoyed this video, please comment down below and like the video and subscribe to the channel. It helps more than you know.

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