These kinds of places are very much so still a thing. I was in a place like this in 2018 which is still running. No one gives a fuck about “problem children” being abused, and sadly, I think it will stay that way for some time.
@@iDeker I think that really good programs exist, but the issue is when the kids parents don’t have the financial ability/interest in getting their kid into a decent facility. At that point, the county takes over and sends them to whatever place is cheapest. And, like he said in the video, those kinds of places are much more interested in making money off people than actually helping them. One of the more fucked up things was staff strongly feeding into the newer kids misbehaving. Like, if someone was starting a fight, they’d add fuel to the fire in any way they could. Verbally, sometimes even physically… until they got the person in a position shitty enough to be written up over. That way, they can document that the kid entered the program displaying behavioral issues and left without them. They use this to get more funding/ look better, even though it’s rarely ever true. One time a kid who was in there for sexual abuse/trauma was having a panic attack and started freaking out. The staff fucking hated the kid and one of them basically goaded her into trying to run away. At which point he, a 200lb + man, tackled her and was lying on top of her as she screamed and cried, begging him to get off her, that he was triggering her. We listened to her scream for hours. I was there for 8 months and we had shit like that happening pretty much on a daily basis. Right before I got there a kid ran away and killed himself by jumping off a highway overpass. They get away with everything because the word of a drug addicted or mentally ill minor means absolutely nothing. And, the public blindly believes that “professionals” know what they’re doing, have the training to handle troubled people when they really don’t. Society just pushes problematic people off a cliff and wonders why they’re so fucked up afterwards.
I think the story of the girl who attended, tried to escape, found 1 person that gave them that false sense of hope that they'd been freed, only to be beaten, raped and killed, is the worst thing I'll ever hear. Her entire life was without love or hope or joy, she existed only to despise existence. She escaped the frying pan but found out what surrounded her was fire. The thought she'd left the evil behind only to fucking immediately fall back into it. Think about that, she spent years hoping to escape to the outside world and she meets 1 'person' and they were just as bad, if not worse. What a fucking waste of human life. I actually don't think I can imagine much worse happing to a single person. I'm sitting here right now trying to put what I'm thinking into world but I can't.
@@shap7296 At this point the best trucker mention that I've heard in a true crime thing like this was a trucker that got robbed and killed, most of other instances truckers being mentioned are just vile.
I don’t really understand how they let people “graduate” or whatever and leave the facility without expecting anyone to talk at all. It just seems really strange to torture people for years and then be like “yeah that worked you’re good to go” and expect no backlash.
Info didnt spread like that in the 70s, in poland of all places. People probably wouldnt be believed. Nvm its poland, MAINE. dunno why nexpo didnt say that the first time
This is why most rape victims (if not almost all) are murdered. So yes, your thinking is correct. With all the detailed and advanced torture methods they devised, it would have been very easy to make it so students don't "make" it out. They could have made up an Elan university that is accessible only to the highschool students. Parents would be told their child was exceptional and would go to university and potentially become an elite member of society. (Not a single parent would say no since these idiots said yes to their children getting kidnapped). 4 years of torture would turn into 9 years of torture ... easily expendable with the excuse that you failed your classes and had to take another year or two. After "graduating" you would go straight into a mental hospital. Keep in mind they had waiting lists from all over the country. They could have easily expended this program, added electric walls and what not. Turn it into a secret prison. All they needed was one smart and soulless businessman and God knows the US has no shortage of those nowadays. This could have been much much darker.
@@floatint2137 shit like this is happening all over the world and has been for decades. it’s more terrifying when a governing body actually agree with it
@@GuitarBaron It's terrifying. And like that one guy who managed to escape the torture center only to be gunned down in the suburbs. What a horrible way to go.
If the school still stands abandoned today I would be scared of going there because of the feeling you would get from knowing its past while you were inside, just standing inside of an abandoned "classroom" where torture happened would send a shiver down my spine. And to make it worse this was probably not even the worst that happened in that shithole.
It took us to make those creepy monsters up, took us to build what would become abandoned and haunting, took us to act out any kind of disturbing event. We are the monsters, the horrors our mind fills with is only because we alone are the sole beings capable of acting out what we project as a "monster" but in reality, it doesn't take a vampire to drink blood or a zombie to eat flesh.
God, this was horrible for everyone.Even for the ones that escaped.Many were silenced,tortured,ignored,died,and suffered.The fact that something this big can go unnoticed for such long time and no one can do anything about it, is definitely terrifying.
Mental asylums in the 1900's were very similar to this video and there were thousands of them back then in America because people oppressed and discriminated against people with disabilities. This stuff was very common from maybe 1880's to late 1900's and luckily none of it exists today because of civil rights and legislation progression.
@@ohboydiamonds it is. That episode was inspired by this event and other similar stories. Are you seriously that stupid you think he is comparing them in magnitude? Or are you just that desperate for validation you are pretending that is the point he's making so you can feel righteous? I'd love to know
Holy shit, now that I think about it, there was a Phineas and Ferb episode where they get caught by their mom and sent to a "Boarding School" that looks like an actual school, but they get there and it's a literal fucking prison exactly how this is explained. Feel like it might've been inspired by this.
reminds me of a book of alex rider, where problematic kids of rich parents get sent to a remote school where "dupes" of the principal immitate the kids and replace them
just that very minor period of understanding and empathy from chat when the sexual assault from the truck driver was being explained gives me a sliver of hope
Lemmino has great visuals, Nexpo with awesome story telling. A great duo. But I'd be happy if there's also Disrupt in the list. The dark part of technology is expressed really well in their vids.
Never respected a man in a bunny suit as much as this day. You know that guy did NOT listen or submit to this bullshit. There's no way he got that treatment after just one attempt.
Parents who send away their children to a correctional facility will probably not care that much most of the time, or atleast not blame themselves. You gotta remember that in most if not all these instances the parents are the issue in the first place.
@@trevor245 It's also a huge problem if your parents are wealthy and have many friends, you can be sent anywhere at anytime and you seem crazy regardless of what you've actually done.
2011 is just 10 years ago. The fact that there are still so many people who are in society that were affected by this is sad af. I really hope they get the real help they need.
Where is the punishments, WHERES THE ACCOUNTABILITY. I'm so frustrated the staff didnt get reprimanded for the atrocities they did. It's absolutely disgusting.
anyone else disappointed that none of the students ever went on a murder spree killing a bunch of the teachers? at least the owner died of lung cancer, so there's one good ending here
The kidnapping of the kids still happens until this day. I was sent to a wilderness program in 2015 and I was the only one there who went willingly. My buddy jumped out his window trying to evade it yet still got caught.
As someone who has been through this, its very encouraging to know that awareness is finally being spread about this. Yes, it sounds like a scary made-up story, but i promise you, as someone who has been through this, it has ruined two years of my life, and continues to haunt me. I never did drugs, I never did anything illegal, i never acted out. I was just depressed and anxious as a child.
always nice just casually stumbling upon one of the most fucked up awful real story ive ever heard. never heard of the "elan school" once before this video. considering the mountain of disturbing things that happened there and the fact that it didnt close until 2011, it's mindboggling to me that i've never heard of it until now. how does something like this get swept under the rug for so long..
For real, when the video timeskipped to talking about 2000 I was shocked and like "It was still going?!" And then it ended up going till 2011, literally horrifying Thought at first this vid was going to be about students making a cult in a boarding school that lasted a couple years. I only wish it was just as bad as that
It's remote location is probably a big factor, Maine is rural and very sparsely populated, I'm sure almost no outsiders ever visited this school when they weren't supposed to.
@@aj897 I was sent to 3 CEDU programs, the wilderness was literally in the back country of North Idaho. No one would have found my body if any accident were to happen. One of the kids that I went to at the CEDU Running Springs program is still missing. His name is Daniel Yuen, you can find it on Google.
I also feel bad for the guy who got shot after escaping. Both are terrible, its even worse when one of the people inside was someone he knew, just the homeowner (most likely the parent,) didn't know him, so they shot him. Honestly stupid how the school lasted until 2011.
Even now there are "school" like that that found an even worse loophole. They operate in a foreign country like the Dominican Republic so when a kid is sent there they take their passport and it's impossible for them to leave EVEN AFTER THEY TURN 18
Remember: the troubled teen industry is still alive to this day. Keep that in the back of your mind. Kids are still being sent to these facilities. This is another testament that this industry is a joke.
Fun fact: In Toy Story 2 in the scene where Buzz gives a speech in front of the American flag, the flag was edited to be a globe for release in non-American countries
That broom on the floor was used for general meetings and the rule was, if you could fit within the length of space of said broom, you could stand there and scream at the poor soul that the meeting is directed at. So if 2 people could fit there, there were 2 people screaming at once in your face. They were to scream as loud as they possibly could at the top of their lungs.
I'm pretty sure there's a Phineas and Ferb episode that was based on Elan now that I think about it. It's an episode called "Phineas and Ferb Get Busted!" and if you've seen the show or the episode, the title is pretty self explanatory. The boys get caught making a huge, dangerous tower and are eventually sent to a reformatory school which advertise themselves as one that are extremely effective with their program, just like Elan advertise itself. Eventually, we find out that it's basically a prison, and there's scenes where both Phineas and Ferb were basically seen as slaves to the school, one scene stood out to me the most and it's only because I remember it but they were cleaning the toilet with just one toothbrush. Later in the episode, Candace decide to get them out of the school and see her brothers absolutely brainwashed. It took quite a lot of effort for her to get them back to normal.
that legit happened in "joe vs. elan school" during one of the parent meetings where they go to a dinner, joe pepper sprays his "big brother", and then at attempting to even explain his situation to his parents, all they do is talk over him and say he's just disrespecting them, even doing their best to go to the nearest phone and call the elan number almost immediately
love how at 43:20 chat just all went PauseChamp like "arrest?" but then when they realized he had been admitted to elan it's all just MonkaW "OH NOOOOO"
Sadly theres many places like this still going on today like turn about ranch the ranch dr phil would send trouble teens too it was actually full of abuse and sexual assault. Sadly other places as well. I've seen this one documentary about a boarding school but it wasnt one at all it was a testing facility they'd test on kids it was horrible.
Its sad because they make so much money from it too and thats what drives them more its insane and it starts with one person that some how finds people just like them which is even scarier to think about.
While death penalty sounds satisfying to us outsiders, I think that's way too forgiving. Put them in prison and have them feel even a fraction of what they put all these young and helpless people through. On top of that, they're useless as dead people. Alive, they can still offer insight and information as to why and how they conducted such acts for so long. Intricate details as to how they manipulate and organize everything down to its core. Because that may be able to help uncover other crazy cults and facilities just like this as well as establish new laws that enforce checks and regulations for new organizations and facilities to prevent this from ever happening again.
I've lived in Maine my whole life. This is actually very disturbing. My school as a kid had k-8 and a guidance class for all grades until 7th. I remember kids coming in to talk with us from elan during one of our guidance classes and explaining all this. I explicitly remember them saying they literally were abducted from their beds in the middle of the night. I think I was in 3rd or 4th grade and still thought that shit was weird as fuck. Weird shit that our school thought that was okay.
This really reminds me of the episode of the boarding school episode of Goosebumps Brian O'Connor can never quite please his parents. When Brian's parents come across an advertisement for "The Perfect Boarding School", they quickly send him away, thinking it could do him some good. When Brian gets on the train, he befriends a boy named C.J., who has also been sent to the Perfect School. When he is dropped off, Brian encounters the school's "graduates": robot-like children dressed in gray uniforms. The new students meet the school's director, who says the kids will each be assigned a number that replaces their name. Even stranger, staff members must be referred to as Guardians.
one time my mom told me i had a checkup and drove me to a hospital i had never heard of or been to. upon arrival, she left immedately. i knew something wasnt right when i was forced to change into hospital scrubs. i didnt leave that hospital for over a year(yes, i was inside for a whole year without being a discord mod?!). apparently it was a psychiatric hospital for people grades 6-12. if i wasnt in sight of security at all times(including bathroom and shower) i would be tackled to the ground. some rules were: no raising your voice, no talking about the outside world, no physical contact. all remotely sharp objects were forbidden, including things like pencils. some punishments were beatings by security, verbal abuse by "doctors" and solitary confinement for days at a time in either a blank white room or a completely pitch black one. they would often draw my blood, so much that i wouldnt be able to stand afterwards. maybe they did this to weaken me. they would also make us take meds that i didnt know what they were. im not going to mention other punishments or things i saw or endured. i snuck a toothbrush into the dark solitary room just so i could sharpen it against the concrete and cut myself because i hated myself so much for being there. now that i'm out, i still have nightmares and visions about being there, as well and other sick hallucinations. maybe i really do belong there.
Any parent who sends their child to one of these types of facilites is completely fucked in the head. How hard is it just put them up for adoption if you're clearly not interested in being a parent in the first place?
Haven't watched to the end yet but sounds like a case of you'd rather go to prison than there. Surprised nobody actually tried to murder any of the so called "teachers" because jail sure sounds preferable. Hoping as this video goes on that the teens actually did this.
i think its already explained in the video. remember when he said the students were robbed of everything including their own privacy? thatd make you feel alot more powerless. thats how they manipulate their students and survived for 40+ years
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I can't understand how none of the students went berserk and started heavily attacking staff, hell since it's a "school" you could definetly find weapons like broom sticks, knifes, and shit like that
Years of psychological breakdowns can do that to you. Standing up for yourself is a sign of a very healthy individual but under so much psychological torture and no one to look for, for support, you feel helpless. It's called "learned helplessness".
xqc already mentioned, by the time you got there a ton of students would have already been brainwashed so any attempt at an uprising would just be reported. This aint a movie.
A lot of the things happened in the video happened to me. I was taken from my bed at 6 the morning back in 2003 to CEDU HS in Running Springs, CA. Then I was taken to Ascent which is CEDU’s wilderness boot camp in the back country of North Idaho. CEDU was started by members and followers of Synanon. The founder’s name is Charles E Dederich, which C E D U was named after. I later ended up at CEDU’s northwest academy for 17 year olds in Idaho. As of today, there are still many kids missing even after CEDU was shut down. PTSD is very common among the alumni where some peer groups have suicide rate of as high as 60%. CEDU high literally hired staff that was later convicted for multiple murder and sexual assault of minors, that guy later committed suicide in prison.
This is why so many people need to be aware of places like this. You watch it right, and question if it's real or not. Not everything is out of an horror movie. You have no idea what happens behind closed doors. To those who watch this and say, "This is fake." or "Yeah... right." is very naive. Because this shit really happens and there's still Schools like this exist. This is terrifying. I pray for all those kids, who went through all that Torment at Elan School. My heart goes out to them, and I hope they fully heal one day. ❤️
Yeah I think in this situation killing one of the staff to see if they would have the police get you would be the most hopeful outcome. I'm not really a violent person, but that is so fucked up that I would rather die fighting while still being who I am.
I like how some people are saying "EU MonkaW", when Poland, Maine is in the US OmegaLul, and then like half-way through the vid they actually realize it IS in 'Murica
i honestly cant imagine this happening, and the fact that it did actually happen is just disgusting, that shit is so brutal imagine your parents paying $17K per year for you to get bullied and possibly killed NA WeirdChamp
14:15 Shout out to Goonga in the chat the voice of reason while the guy is talking about screaming at babies saying "who the hell is screaming at babies?"
I’ve been to one of these troubled teen societies. one of the worst parts is that they let you call or talk to your parents every now and then. but before they allow you to speak to them, the “counselors” tell your parents that if you say anything about abuse or horrible treatment that it’s nothing to worry about because it’s just your kid being dramatic and lying so you can go home sooner.
just goes to show how parents undermined there children sometimes they don’t try and help there kids and just beat fear into them and it makes it worse instead of trying to understand and show love for there child
This is how you raise a killer if you ask me. These kids probably go home with great vengeance and looking for retribution, NOT love. This would give the feeling of ones parents abandoning them, create division even if that isn't the primary goal. The damage done here is life long trauma, PTSD. I'll tell you this now, unconditional love overpowers EVERYTHING in the end. Sending your kids to a place like this or "boot camp" is you giving up on your child. About bonds and bail: Bail money will be provided back to the person who posted bail if the defendant isn’t found to be guilty or if the charges are dropped against them. Until the defendant has completed all of the charges, the court will continue to hold on to the bail money. After the defendant has shown up for each court date, the courts will return the money back to the individual who painted the entire bail amount. On the other hand, if the defendant skips out on any appearances to the court, the bail amount will be held by the court. The money that the court makes off of the bail money will be distributed throughout the city and county. If you are found guilty, the courts will refund the bail money that was posted. How the bail money is returned to you is completely dependent upon who paid your bail money. For example, if you paid a bondsman to post your bail, you’ll owe your bondsman 10% of what your bail amount was.
Seems like something I'd imagine in a nightmare, and for the people there, it probably was, just one that they wouldn't let them wake up (or fall asleep, probably isn't easy to fall asleep with a flashlight on you). Also doesn't make me feel any better seeing how recent it was, and how I never new about it till now. I mean I'd think it's super unlikely for anything like this to happen nowadays, but isn't that just what people were thinking when this was happening? And if so, they clearly weren't right, so how can I be sure I am? Guess I'll just have to wait and find out (or not find out). Hope I don't get shot or bludgeoned by a golf club before I do (or don't) find out.
I was court ordered to go to a similar facility here in Arkansas, known as Trinity Behavioral Health. While this was in 2012, and much of the more sadistic sides of the industry were long gone by then, I can say the experience was likely beneficial. I was a terrible teen, who was well on the way to becoming a full fledged meth addict, and likely would be dead or in prison if not for TBH. This school turned me into a well adjusted adult, who has gone on to become extremely successful in the business world. That being said, I am a shell of who I was once was. I find no enjoyment in the company of others, and the most exciting times of my life are spent alone, in front of a computer screen, escaping reality. I say all of this to say, these places, in modern times, do have success stories from the outside looking in, but, the things they do to your mind might not be worth the prize.
The statistics that 2/3 are killed upon leaving, by people unrelated to the school... Also school existing in 2011 is insane. Wtf kind of developing country is this taking place in?
Considering they did them, I can confidently say they didn't have any real psychological study about the elan snatch. Mainly since a 7yo could confirm that it's a terrible stupid idea if you have any intention of improving someone's mental state lol
I watched this yesterday and didn’t realize until I got to a certain part that I already watched It and fell asleep, the narrators voice is so soothing
I always hated the troubled teen industry, they would kidnap kids and torture them and they’re still all over the world, some are even doing well/being promoted by local sources.
Ngl, this video really disturbed me the more I learned about the school. I was always a "trouble child" when I was younger, so if my circumstances were different like having different parents, etc. there's a chance I might have ended up there. That in it of itself terrifies me.
That screaming at the beginning reminded me of what i heard in my head while i was going through psychosis in 2017. It was hell i couldnt really sleep cuz it just didnt stop, but thankfully i finally got rid of that demon. Later i realised that i think it was from my childhood trauma of my drunk parents constantly fighting. Weed triggered this for me and i quit.
9:10 is something that still happens very often and is not that bad honestly. As long as you don’t fight back. If you fight back that’s when they might use “handcuffs” or whatever. It’s called gooning
idk, all this is bizarre from the start, even not know it was a cult. i dont understand parents would do this, if you dont have a health relationship with your child, try to make it better and learn, dont just throw them at this type of places, people are not dogs
I think when the guy said he was “helped” it means he got rid of his trauma and survived, not committing suicide like the other alumni. Especially since it said “others weren’t so lucky”
youd be surprised how many parents out there like that, would rather send their kids away to places that they did little to no research on instead of being a parent, Basically sending them away to be trained to be obedient like a pet
@@Ian6279 yep. those "parents" are the opposite of parents. A parent takes responsability for their children. They shouldn't have had kids to begin with if they didnt want to take responsability at all. As felix said himself, "what about parenting though?". My 87 year old grandmother has told me the best life advice and it is "Love your children". Which is what you need to do, in order to be able to take the responsability of taking care of them... Those "parents" who just dont give a shit, all deserve the bullet, ngl.
@@siegpasta those parents definitely loved their kids but was dumb about it since iirc, there was a generation of americans who were discouraged to parent their kids at all in the mid 1900s. The awful parents never had an example nor thought of finding one because it was normalized.
@@angela.luntian it was during the 1960s to 1970s, because of the entire hippie movement, parents were confused on how to get their kids to listen. They tried a bunch of things to correct them and that let to a rise in the popularity of boot camps and boarding schools.
the parents probably believed what they wanted to see, and the letters their children wrote to them was exactly what they wanted to see. they probably thought, "oh! it's true! they're really changing!"
The fact that the school was open for almost 50 years and played it off like it was a good school until 2011 which wasn’t too long ago is crazy.
These kinds of places are very much so still a thing. I was in a place like this in 2018 which is still running. No one gives a fuck about “problem children” being abused, and sadly, I think it will stay that way for some time.
@@sifagayev7793 that’s horrible, why is anything like that even allowed
@@sifagayev7793 NA Sadge
@@iDeker I think that really good programs exist, but the issue is when the kids parents don’t have the financial ability/interest in getting their kid into a decent facility. At that point, the county takes over and sends them to whatever place is cheapest. And, like he said in the video, those kinds of places are much more interested in making money off people than actually helping them.
One of the more fucked up things was staff strongly feeding into the newer kids misbehaving. Like, if someone was starting a fight, they’d add fuel to the fire in any way they could. Verbally, sometimes even physically… until they got the person in a position shitty enough to be written up over. That way, they can document that the kid entered the program displaying behavioral issues and left without them. They use this to get more funding/ look better, even though it’s rarely ever true.
One time a kid who was in there for sexual abuse/trauma was having a panic attack and started freaking out. The staff fucking hated the kid and one of them basically goaded her into trying to run away. At which point he, a 200lb + man, tackled her and was lying on top of her as she screamed and cried, begging him to get off her, that he was triggering her. We listened to her scream for hours.
I was there for 8 months and we had shit like that happening pretty much on a daily basis. Right before I got there a kid ran away and killed himself by jumping off a highway overpass. They get away with everything because the word of a drug addicted or mentally ill minor means absolutely nothing. And, the public blindly believes that “professionals” know what they’re doing, have the training to handle troubled people when they really don’t. Society just pushes problematic people off a cliff and wonders why they’re so fucked up afterwards.
@@iDeker sorry I don’t know why I typed all that out, that video brought up some really ugly memories
The scariest thing is xqc finishing an entire 50 minute video
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I think the story of the girl who attended, tried to escape, found 1 person that gave them that false sense of hope that they'd been freed, only to be beaten, raped and killed, is the worst thing I'll ever hear. Her entire life was without love or hope or joy, she existed only to despise existence. She escaped the frying pan but found out what surrounded her was fire. The thought she'd left the evil behind only to fucking immediately fall back into it. Think about that, she spent years hoping to escape to the outside world and she meets 1 'person' and they were just as bad, if not worse. What a fucking waste of human life. I actually don't think I can imagine much worse happing to a single person. I'm sitting here right now trying to put what I'm thinking into world but I can't.
I doubt the who is what she was thinking about in the moment. She just wanted someone to take her as far away from élan as she could
@@shap7296 At this point the best trucker mention that I've heard in a true crime thing like this was a trucker that got robbed and killed, most of other instances truckers being mentioned are just vile.
America is a wonderful place
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@@shap7296 victim blaming smh
I don’t really understand how they let people “graduate” or whatever and leave the facility without expecting anyone to talk at all. It just seems really strange to torture people for years and then be like “yeah that worked you’re good to go” and expect no backlash.
this is fake story
Info didnt spread like that in the 70s, in poland of all places. People probably wouldnt be believed.
Nvm its poland, MAINE. dunno why nexpo didnt say that the first time
This is why most rape victims (if not almost all) are murdered.
So yes, your thinking is correct.
With all the detailed and advanced torture methods they devised, it would have been very easy to make it so students don't "make" it out.
They could have made up an Elan university that is accessible only to the highschool students. Parents would be told their child was exceptional and would go to university and potentially become an elite member of society. (Not a single parent would say no since these idiots said yes to their children getting kidnapped).
4 years of torture would turn into 9 years of torture ... easily expendable with the excuse that you failed your classes and had to take another year or two. After "graduating" you would go straight into a mental hospital.
Keep in mind they had waiting lists from all over the country. They could have easily expended this program, added electric walls and what not. Turn it into a secret prison.
All they needed was one smart and soulless businessman and God knows the US has no shortage of those nowadays.
This could have been much much darker.
@@robusa718 and no, this is absolutely real.
@@ThatOneDude7 yeah
The fucked up thing about this all is that the New York States Education Department actually gave the school a POSITIVE review.
Wasnt that the movie
Edit: i have commented on the wrong comment but now no one will understand my ways
america approving torture and violence?...not a surprise
"United" States of America OMEGALUL
"This is America"
@@floatint2137 shit like this is happening all over the world and has been for decades. it’s more terrifying when a governing body actually agree with it
No creepy monster, disturbing event, or abandoned place scares me more than the darkest depths people are able to descend.
For real man it’s crazy what people can do. Especially the part about the girl who escaped. That’s just messed up
@@GuitarBaron It's terrifying. And like that one guy who managed to escape the torture center only to be gunned down in the suburbs. What a horrible way to go.
If the school still stands abandoned today I would be scared of going there because of the feeling you would get from knowing its past while you were inside, just standing inside of an abandoned "classroom" where torture happened would send a shiver down my spine. And to make it worse this was probably not even the worst that happened in that shithole.
It took us to make those creepy monsters up, took us to build what would become abandoned and haunting, took us to act out any kind of disturbing event.
We are the monsters, the horrors our mind fills with is only because we alone are the sole beings capable of acting out what we project as a "monster" but in reality, it doesn't take a vampire to drink blood or a zombie to eat flesh.
And it happens every day even right this second.
God, this was horrible for everyone.Even for the ones that escaped.Many were silenced,tortured,ignored,died,and suffered.The fact that something this big can go unnoticed for such long time and no one can do anything about it, is definitely terrifying.
Mental asylums in the 1900's were very similar to this video and there were thousands of them back then in America because people oppressed and discriminated against people with disabilities. This stuff was very common from maybe 1880's to late 1900's and luckily none of it exists today because of civil rights and legislation progression.
@@Hi-db8ip I can assure you a lot of mental asylums are still like this.
@@SwitchbIade yeah, i guess i worded it poorly, but it def still happens today
@@z0x 10 days in a madhouse. S reporter in the early 1900's purposely got herself in an asylum just to see the conditions. Not surprising, awful.
this is literally that Phineas and Ferb episode where the mom finally catches them for once
Classic LULW
@@ohboydiamonds it is. That episode was inspired by this event and other similar stories. Are you seriously that stupid you think he is comparing them in magnitude? Or are you just that desperate for validation you are pretending that is the point he's making so you can feel righteous? I'd love to know
@@ohboydiamonds dude chill, he just said that the episode might have been inspired by this.
@@ohboydiamonds Chill the fuck out.
@@ohboydiamonds ❄️
Holy shit, now that I think about it, there was a Phineas and Ferb episode where they get caught by their mom and sent to a "Boarding School" that looks like an actual school, but they get there and it's a literal fucking prison exactly how this is explained. Feel like it might've been inspired by this.
ARG PogU
reminds me of a book of alex rider, where problematic kids of rich parents get sent to a remote school where "dupes" of the principal immitate the kids and replace them
@@polycrylate brought back childhood memories, alex rider books were elite
BROO I WAS THINKING THE SAME THING
Prison is better. The is more comparable to an extreme basic training for military
The amount of MonkaW's produced by this video is crazy
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Yknow I can never tell if these types of comments are meant to be ironic or not. But I like to think this is genuine.
just that very minor period of understanding and empathy from chat when the sexual assault from the truck driver was being explained gives me a sliver of hope
Yeah 90% of the time it's a bunch of Goblins in the chat, glad it showed that even the toughes of hides could be cracked with emotion.
Some of them have already done that
Ah that is nice and unexpected from chat lol I just wish the europeans wouldn't use that opportunity to shit on america as well
Damn...
Imagine a collab of Lemmino and Nexpo. They would make an amazing documentary
@@Medahlian Boo hoo
lemmino nexpo and JCS
@@Medahlian cry about it
Lemmino has great visuals, Nexpo with awesome story telling. A great duo.
But I'd be happy if there's also Disrupt in the list. The dark part of technology is expressed really well in their vids.
@@Medahlian bad take
Never respected a man in a bunny suit as much as this day. You know that guy did NOT listen or submit to this bullshit. There's no way he got that treatment after just one attempt.
ON GOD , i literally was like... I found where i wouldve been. hes mentally strong
He’s such a chad. His clothes fold itself
That "school" looks about as legit as Stake HQ
Imagine being a parent when they found out their kid suffered this and you sent them to it
*teen returns home broken*
Parent: "Oh thats right, I have a child."
Parents who send away their children to a correctional facility will probably not care that much most of the time, or atleast not blame themselves. You gotta remember that in most if not all these instances the parents are the issue in the first place.
@@trevor245 It's also a huge problem if your parents are wealthy and have many friends, you can be sent anywhere at anytime and you seem crazy regardless of what you've actually done.
They would not care
I feel so bad for them, they needed help in life and they got the *COMPLETE* opposite financed by their parents
Fr I'd just kill my parents when I got home after that shit this is worse than jail
@@MegamanTheSecond facts
@@MegamanTheSecond yeah being tortured there almost certainly creates hatred towards the parents
@@MegamanTheSecond I don't get why previous "students" didn't go back to that place and kill them and free the kids
@@dangoodwin8476 Because real life isnt a video game or a movie.
2011 is just 10 years ago. The fact that there are still so many people who are in society that were affected by this is sad af. I really hope they get the real help they need.
And you didn't know about it back then either. Think about all the things we don't know about today that are out there happening right now
Where is the punishments, WHERES THE ACCOUNTABILITY. I'm so frustrated the staff didnt get reprimanded for the atrocities they did. It's absolutely disgusting.
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Most of the staff were also victims and didn’t have any choices
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@@lil_cunni "victims" yea as if they couldn't just team up with the other staff and the students to run away
@@unknwn3846 just run away
anyone else disappointed that none of the students ever went on a murder spree killing a bunch of the teachers?
at least the owner died of lung cancer, so there's one good ending here
This sounds so bad out of context. lol. I agree though.
they are isolated none of them are even allow to talk "normally" to other people so planning a escape would need an iron steel mind.
Nah his dead was easy way out. He only suffered like 6 months and that's not enough, aadly.
The easiest way is breaking the glass and cutting throats of unsuspecting "staff"
I would went postal in the first week there. I'd probably get rekt but still.
The kidnapping of the kids still happens until this day. I was sent to a wilderness program in 2015 and I was the only one there who went willingly. My buddy jumped out his window trying to evade it yet still got caught.
Really hope he reacts to more videos from Nexpo. His content is brilliant
Absolutely brilliant innit mate
@@CynicalGrey59 proper fucking brilliant that like
Nope
@@dakdak3331 ik his content is hard to understand by the lower fellows on the social scale that only know about 21st century humor
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As someone who has been through this, its very encouraging to know that awareness is finally being spread about this. Yes, it sounds like a scary made-up story, but i promise you, as someone who has been through this, it has ruined two years of my life, and continues to haunt me. I never did drugs, I never did anything illegal, i never acted out. I was just depressed and anxious as a child.
Where did you go too?
Me too, i was sent to west ridge academy; and red rock canyon school, i was just an overweight insecure teenage girl.
If my parents ever did this to me I would of hate them for the rust of my life
always nice just casually stumbling upon one of the most fucked up awful real story ive ever heard. never heard of the "elan school" once before this video. considering the mountain of disturbing things that happened there and the fact that it didnt close until 2011, it's mindboggling to me that i've never heard of it until now. how does something like this get swept under the rug for so long..
For real, when the video timeskipped to talking about 2000 I was shocked and like "It was still going?!" And then it ended up going till 2011, literally horrifying
Thought at first this vid was going to be about students making a cult in a boarding school that lasted a couple years. I only wish it was just as bad as that
It's remote location is probably a big factor, Maine is rural and very sparsely populated, I'm sure almost no outsiders ever visited this school when they weren't supposed to.
@@aj897 I was sent to 3 CEDU programs, the wilderness was literally in the back country of North Idaho. No one would have found my body if any accident were to happen. One of the kids that I went to at the CEDU Running Springs program is still missing. His name is Daniel Yuen, you can find it on Google.
"how about we watch something small to lift the mood" youtube frogs:
Man I feel so bad for the girl that managed to escape and then got in the truck of a rapist
yeah R.I.P
I also feel bad for the guy who got shot after escaping. Both are terrible, its even worse when one of the people inside was someone he knew, just the homeowner (most likely the parent,) didn't know him, so they shot him. Honestly stupid how the school lasted until 2011.
Honestly, I can't even imagine it. Saddest thing ever, probably, this world treats some people so bad
"-permanent brain damage, PTSD, and even death."
*[gentle music]*
Even now there are "school" like that that found an even worse loophole.
They operate in a foreign country like the Dominican Republic so when a kid is sent there they take their passport and it's impossible for them to leave EVEN AFTER THEY TURN 18
Remember: the troubled teen industry is still alive to this day. Keep that in the back of your mind. Kids are still being sent to these facilities. This is another testament that this industry is a joke.
Fun fact: In Toy Story 2 in the scene where Buzz gives a speech in front of the American flag, the flag was edited to be a globe for release in non-American countries
Facts
Thank you Shrek
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Thank you, master 🙏
was it for relatability reasons or is there an issue with the flag?
Finally someone reacted to it
@@airischan1516 shuush
*XQC do be looking much healthier and not sleep deprived here tho. I've been wanting to watch this so might as well with x commentary lol*
He’s finally getting the juice again
I'm a bit shocked that it only got closed in 2011.
and that no one ended up in prison or was held responsible
@@Hmmm0101 i mean, ricci died
Welcome to America.
The disgusting shi*hole that it is.
@@isla2202 you act like America is the only one who does this
@@isla2202
The entire world's a shithole kid. Only difference is America is heavily televised.
That broom on the floor was used for general meetings and the rule was, if you could fit within the length of space of said broom, you could stand there and scream at the poor soul that the meeting is directed at. So if 2 people could fit there, there were 2 people screaming at once in your face. They were to scream as loud as they possibly could at the top of their lungs.
I'm pretty sure there's a Phineas and Ferb episode that was based on Elan now that I think about it. It's an episode called "Phineas and Ferb Get Busted!" and if you've seen the show or the episode, the title is pretty self explanatory. The boys get caught making a huge, dangerous tower and are eventually sent to a reformatory school which advertise themselves as one that are extremely effective with their program, just like Elan advertise itself. Eventually, we find out that it's basically a prison, and there's scenes where both Phineas and Ferb were basically seen as slaves to the school, one scene stood out to me the most and it's only because I remember it but they were cleaning the toilet with just one toothbrush. Later in the episode, Candace decide to get them out of the school and see her brothers absolutely brainwashed. It took quite a lot of effort for her to get them back to normal.
Damn this is actually pretty disturbing. Even if some of those people escaped what if their parents think they're crazy and just send them back lol.
oh that's a scary thought
I mean 3 reported escapists is not a lot considering what they were put through and the fact it was over the spend of 40 odd years
that legit happened in "joe vs. elan school"
during one of the parent meetings where they go to a dinner, joe pepper sprays his "big brother", and then at attempting to even explain his situation to his parents, all they do is talk over him and say he's just disrespecting them, even doing their best to go to the nearest phone and call the elan number almost immediately
love how at 43:20 chat just all went PauseChamp like "arrest?" but then when they realized he had been admitted to elan it's all just MonkaW "OH NOOOOO"
God I missed nexpo and horror vids so much...
What did I just watch. How can we make humans make life literal hell for eachother like this. Holy fuck this shook me hard
Sadly theres many places like this still going on today like turn about ranch the ranch dr phil would send trouble teens too it was actually full of abuse and sexual assault. Sadly other places as well. I've seen this one documentary about a boarding school but it wasnt one at all it was a testing facility they'd test on kids it was horrible.
Its sad because they make so much money from it too and thats what drives them more its insane and it starts with one person that some how finds people just like them which is even scarier to think about.
there should be a death penalty for this kind of abuse
While death penalty sounds satisfying to us outsiders, I think that's way too forgiving. Put them in prison and have them feel even a fraction of what they put all these young and helpless people through. On top of that, they're useless as dead people. Alive, they can still offer insight and information as to why and how they conducted such acts for so long. Intricate details as to how they manipulate and organize everything down to its core. Because that may be able to help uncover other crazy cults and facilities just like this as well as establish new laws that enforce checks and regulations for new organizations and facilities to prevent this from ever happening again.
I've lived in Maine my whole life. This is actually very disturbing. My school as a kid had k-8 and a guidance class for all grades until 7th. I remember kids coming in to talk with us from elan during one of our guidance classes and explaining all this. I explicitly remember them saying they literally were abducted from their beds in the middle of the night. I think I was in 3rd or 4th grade and still thought that shit was weird as fuck. Weird shit that our school thought that was okay.
They still do that kidnapping thing with Wilderness programs bru.
This really reminds me of the episode of the boarding school episode of Goosebumps
Brian O'Connor can never quite please his parents. When Brian's parents come across an advertisement for "The Perfect Boarding School", they quickly send him away, thinking it could do him some good. When Brian gets on the train, he befriends a boy named C.J., who has also been sent to the Perfect School. When he is dropped off, Brian encounters the school's "graduates": robot-like children dressed in gray uniforms. The new students meet the school's director, who says the kids will each be assigned a number that replaces their name. Even stranger, staff members must be referred to as Guardians.
This reads like some horror shit, what is goosebumps for a channel?
damn i never seen the episode but i think i read that book as a kid
I kinda remember that episode actually I think goosebumps is still on netflix or something
I really enjoy these videos.
nexpo is top tier content imo
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@@dorara9654 true
@@dorara9654 xQc Always used to watch NEXPO videoes when they came out. Idk why he stopped.
nexpos vids are sooo good. happy to see mr cow react
one time my mom told me i had a checkup and drove me to a hospital i had never heard of or been to. upon arrival, she left immedately. i knew something wasnt right when i was forced to change into hospital scrubs. i didnt leave that hospital for over a year(yes, i was inside for a whole year without being a discord mod?!). apparently it was a psychiatric hospital for people grades 6-12. if i wasnt in sight of security at all times(including bathroom and shower) i would be tackled to the ground. some rules were: no raising your voice, no talking about the outside world, no physical contact. all remotely sharp objects were forbidden, including things like pencils. some punishments were beatings by security, verbal abuse by "doctors" and solitary confinement for days at a time in either a blank white room or a completely pitch black one. they would often draw my blood, so much that i wouldnt be able to stand afterwards. maybe they did this to weaken me. they would also make us take meds that i didnt know what they were. im not going to mention other punishments or things i saw or endured. i snuck a toothbrush into the dark solitary room just so i could sharpen it against the concrete and cut myself because i hated myself so much for being there. now that i'm out, i still have nightmares and visions about being there, as well and other sick hallucinations. maybe i really do belong there.
sounds like hell you deserved better , hope you recover fully one day from that traumatic experience and live on in peace
Wtf? Dude, if you’re being serious you should tell authorities about that, that’s severe child abuse.
I'm so sorry for you, you didn't deserver that I promise whole-heartedly! And I agree with the guy above me
Your mom is a despicable human being.
Any parent who sends their child to one of these types of facilites is completely fucked in the head. How hard is it just put them up for adoption if you're clearly not interested in being a parent in the first place?
Haven't watched to the end yet but sounds like a case of you'd rather go to prison than there. Surprised nobody actually tried to murder any of the so called "teachers" because jail sure sounds preferable. Hoping as this video goes on that the teens actually did this.
>nobody tried to murder the teachers
That why its a cult
I wonder the same thing sometimes, especially in such a situation
i think its already explained in the video. remember when he said the students were robbed of everything including their own privacy? thatd make you feel alot more powerless. thats how they manipulate their students and survived for 40+ years
That Skakel case was insane, and it wasn't even what the video was about.
I've never heard of you before, as I hardly watch twitch, I came across a video you reacted to that its now blocked in my country and I'm glad, cause I usually watch this same content and you seem like a nice person! Keep up the good work!
Maine native. Asked folks, "Oh, that place. We don't talk about it..." oh fuck.
I can't understand how none of the students went berserk and started heavily attacking staff, hell since it's a "school" you could definetly find weapons like broom sticks, knifes, and shit like that
if knives were easily accessible then there would’ve been way more suicides inside the school
You are so naive lol
Years of psychological breakdowns can do that to you. Standing up for yourself is a sign of a very healthy individual but under so much psychological torture and no one to look for, for support, you feel helpless. It's called "learned helplessness".
@@Moreoverover yeah but i think he is talking about the newer students who havent been broken yet
xqc already mentioned, by the time you got there a ton of students would have already been brainwashed so any attempt at an uprising would just be reported. This aint a movie.
11 years for a rape and murder..... jesus... Where is Dexter when you need him
11 year and alot of bragging money but still ...............
A lot of the things happened in the video happened to me. I was taken from my bed at 6 the morning back in 2003 to CEDU HS in Running Springs, CA. Then I was taken to Ascent which is CEDU’s wilderness boot camp in the back country of North Idaho. CEDU was started by members and followers of Synanon. The founder’s name is Charles E Dederich, which C E D U was named after. I later ended up at CEDU’s northwest academy for 17 year olds in Idaho. As of today, there are still many kids missing even after CEDU was shut down. PTSD is very common among the alumni where some peer groups have suicide rate of as high as 60%.
CEDU high literally hired staff that was later convicted for multiple murder and sexual assault of minors, that guy later committed suicide in prison.
Literally worse than prison, i would honestly rather die than being there
Yep I'd go on hunger strike and just constantly try to leave. Fuck it, let me die then
This is why so many people need to be aware of places like this. You watch it right, and question if it's real or not. Not everything is out of an horror movie. You have no idea what happens behind closed doors. To those who watch this and say, "This is fake." or "Yeah... right." is very naive. Because this shit really happens and there's still Schools like this exist. This is terrifying. I pray for all those kids, who went through all that Torment at Elan School. My heart goes out to them, and I hope they fully heal one day. ❤️
So basically people paid 50k to send their kids to prison? a paid prison? goddamn
DAMNIT i just watched it on my own because I thought xQc wouldnt react to it, welp time to rewatch it
just watched it as well... fuck
Lol it be like that
I mean that is not a bad thing just means your actually supporting nexpo (the person who made the video)
@@izac112 yeah he makes such good content, I hope xQc reacts more to Nexpo and other creators like LEMMiNO and Disrupt
S A M E OMGGG
Yeah I think in this situation killing one of the staff to see if they would have the police get you would be the most hopeful outcome. I'm not really a violent person, but that is so fucked up that I would rather die fighting while still being who I am.
17:40 chat spamming "?" and xqc making that same facial expression all in unison is a beautiful thing.
I like how some people are saying "EU MonkaW", when Poland, Maine is in the US OmegaLul, and then like half-way through the vid they actually realize it IS in 'Murica
39:38 i was literally thinking in my head "who gets in a random truck back in those days and survives?" ...
Even prison is better than that place. I'm sure this is what hell will be like in the afterlife.
I already watched nexpos vid but I'm totally willing to watch it again with Mr cow
ok
i honestly cant imagine this happening, and the fact that it did actually happen is just disgusting, that shit is so brutal
imagine your parents paying $17K per year for you to get bullied and possibly killed
NA WeirdChamp
True
50k a year
when he said "ill turn my light out." he literally made it into one word and i had no idea what he said until he turned off the light
I hope he watches more of Nexpo's content. Good stuff
how unlucky does one have to be to escape a hell whole of a school just to be shot
Hold my hand chat I'm scared
You can hold something even better gachiHYPER
This sounds ALOT like Marine Corps Bootcamp, it’s pretty fucking insane
Wait, so the staff got away with this?!?!?
Why aren't they behind bars?!?!
14:15 Shout out to Goonga in the chat the voice of reason while the guy is talking about screaming at babies saying "who the hell is screaming at babies?"
I’ve been to one of these troubled teen societies. one of the worst parts is that they let you call or talk to your parents every now and then. but before they allow you to speak to them, the “counselors” tell your parents that if you say anything about abuse or horrible treatment that it’s nothing to worry about because it’s just your kid being dramatic and lying so you can go home sooner.
just goes to show how parents undermined there children sometimes they don’t try and help there kids and just beat fear into them and it makes it worse instead of trying to understand and show love for there child
They treat prisoners better than this…
You’re smart
This is how you raise a killer if you ask me. These kids probably go home with great vengeance and looking for retribution, NOT love. This would give the feeling of ones parents abandoning them, create division even if that isn't the primary goal. The damage done here is life long trauma, PTSD. I'll tell you this now, unconditional love overpowers EVERYTHING in the end. Sending your kids to a place like this or "boot camp" is you giving up on your child.
About bonds and bail:
Bail money will be provided back to the person who posted bail if the defendant isn’t found to be guilty or if the charges are dropped against them.
Until the defendant has completed all of the charges, the court will continue to hold on to the bail money. After the defendant has shown up for each court date, the courts will return the money back to the individual who painted the entire bail amount.
On the other hand, if the defendant skips out on any appearances to the court, the bail amount will be held by the court. The money that the court makes off of the bail money will be distributed throughout the city and county.
If you are found guilty, the courts will refund the bail money that was posted. How the bail money is returned to you is completely dependent upon who paid your bail money. For example, if you paid a bondsman to post your bail, you’ll owe your bondsman 10% of what your bail amount was.
Seems like something I'd imagine in a nightmare, and for the people there, it probably was, just one that they wouldn't let them wake up (or fall asleep, probably isn't easy to fall asleep with a flashlight on you).
Also doesn't make me feel any better seeing how recent it was, and how I never new about it till now. I mean I'd think it's super unlikely for anything like this to happen nowadays, but isn't that just what people were thinking when this was happening? And if so, they clearly weren't right, so how can I be sure I am? Guess I'll just have to wait and find out (or not find out). Hope I don't get shot or bludgeoned by a golf club before I do (or don't) find out.
Very similar to the new cormoran strike book no? Cult in a institution,verbal bullying etc
I was court ordered to go to a similar facility here in Arkansas, known as Trinity Behavioral Health. While this was in 2012, and much of the more sadistic sides of the industry were long gone by then, I can say the experience was likely beneficial. I was a terrible teen, who was well on the way to becoming a full fledged meth addict, and likely would be dead or in prison if not for TBH. This school turned me into a well adjusted adult, who has gone on to become extremely successful in the business world. That being said, I am a shell of who I was once was. I find no enjoyment in the company of others, and the most exciting times of my life are spent alone, in front of a computer screen, escaping reality. I say all of this to say, these places, in modern times, do have success stories from the outside looking in, but, the things they do to your mind might not be worth the prize.
The parents who signed off on this without even checking the "campus" should be in jail
The statistics that 2/3 are killed upon leaving, by people unrelated to the school...
Also school existing in 2011 is insane.
Wtf kind of developing country is this taking place in?
God Bless the United States lmao
NA OMEGALUL. My country sadge
If you think about it, 2010 is not that long ago, it's probably the time of your childhood.
Considering they did them, I can confidently say they didn't have any real psychological study about the elan snatch.
Mainly since a 7yo could confirm that it's a terrible stupid idea if you have any intention of improving someone's mental state lol
Pretty much a school teaching you how to become a serial killer.
relaxing on bed ✔️
blanket ✔️
dumbass sleeping schedule ✔️
3.40am ✔️
we cozy
Wait holy shit! Except time you got everything right! Its 2.15am for me, literal degen hours 🤣
anxiety ✔️
3 50 am here degens time
Afternoon gang
In my chair
It's too hot for that
Same bro
9:55PM
Kinda cozy
I watched this yesterday and didn’t realize until I got to a certain part that I already watched It and fell asleep, the narrators voice is so soothing
Nexpo does ambience very well.
4:18 “JUICER ASYLUM” from chat pepelaugh
IDK why but chat weirdchamping the school had me dying
"Sadge well this is so horrid" so cute chat
I always hated the troubled teen industry, they would kidnap kids and torture them and they’re still all over the world, some are even doing well/being promoted by local sources.
When he said its like a cod lobby all i was thinking was yea the lobbys hes in this video was mostly the definition of xqc
Ngl, this video really disturbed me the more I learned about the school. I was always a "trouble child" when I was younger, so if my circumstances were different like having different parents, etc. there's a chance I might have ended up there. That in it of itself terrifies me.
The only thing that gives me peace is that two of the three co-founders of the school died considerably bad deaths.
That's why fucking kids today are lucky and better fucking fix their attitude and be grateful.
@@requiem4741 That shouldn't give you peace, that means they didn't pay for what they did.
That screaming at the beginning reminded me of what i heard in my head while i was going through psychosis in 2017. It was hell i couldnt really sleep cuz it just didnt stop, but thankfully i finally got rid of that demon. Later i realised that i think it was from my childhood trauma of my drunk parents constantly fighting. Weed triggered this for me and i quit.
I knew this case was truly dark......
I ended being surprised of how much tenebrous it was in reality.......
9:10 is something that still happens very often and is not that bad honestly. As long as you don’t fight back. If you fight back that’s when they might use “handcuffs” or whatever. It’s called gooning
idk, all this is bizarre from the start, even not know it was a cult. i dont understand parents would do this, if you dont have a health relationship with your child, try to make it better and learn, dont just throw them at this type of places, people are not dogs
I think when the guy said he was “helped” it means he got rid of his trauma and survived, not committing suicide like the other alumni. Especially since it said “others weren’t so lucky”
You really gotta be a disconnected parent to not even know how your children WOULD write a letter.
youd be surprised how many parents out there like that, would rather send their kids away to places that they did little to no research on instead of being a parent, Basically sending them away to be trained to be obedient like a pet
@@Ian6279 yep. those "parents" are the opposite of parents. A parent takes responsability for their children. They shouldn't have had kids to begin with if they didnt want to take responsability at all. As felix said himself, "what about parenting though?".
My 87 year old grandmother has told me the best life advice and it is "Love your children". Which is what you need to do, in order to be able to take the responsability of taking care of them...
Those "parents" who just dont give a shit, all deserve the bullet, ngl.
@@siegpasta those parents definitely loved their kids but was dumb about it since iirc, there was a generation of americans who were discouraged to parent their kids at all in the mid 1900s. The awful parents never had an example nor thought of finding one because it was normalized.
@@angela.luntian it was during the 1960s to 1970s, because of the entire hippie movement, parents were confused on how to get their kids to listen. They tried a bunch of things to correct them and that let to a rise in the popularity of boot camps and boarding schools.
the parents probably believed what they wanted to see, and the letters their children wrote to them was exactly what they wanted to see. they probably thought, "oh! it's true! they're really changing!"
7:50 This message gives off a lot of “This hurts me more than it hurts you energy”
This one dude at 49:40 or so saying "Lost to 2K Upvotes" got me offguard, fuck xD
same KEKVV
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