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15 Jan 2020
The FBI investigation into the Finders failed to produce proof of child abuse or kidnapping.

So the FBI files on the Finders, they're pretty much a dud. And it actually reveals how much of this narrative is based on paranoid fantasies that were very common in the cultural psyche back in the 80s. There was a full investigation of these two men who were arrested in Tallahassee. The police were able to find the parents of the six children, and quote, the mothers were all aware that the children had been taken to Florida on a trip. They were familiar with and thoroughly trusted the men in whose care the children had been placed. The men would go on to spend about 10 days in a local jail and then were released. The U.S. Attorney's Office declined to prosecute the case largely because there wasn't strong evidence of any specific crime. A special agent whose name is redacted from the files, quote, advised that the media blew the case out of proportion. And that's basically what you find happening throughout a lot of the issues in the Satanic Panic. Yeah, it bums me out that while it's happening, people don't realize that they're redoing the witch hunt, the witch burnings. Like, guys, we've done this before. But I mean, you don't even have to go back that far. I mean, if you just look at that, like, yeah, no, every 30 years. It's more easy to relate to being in the 80s as opposed to the 1600s. So I've read over most of the Finders files, and it seems like the conclusion one should come to is that this was a group of people who wanted to live an alternative lifestyle, sort of a commune kind of vibe under the leadership of a weirdo called the game caller. Yeah, I mean, hey, if you could, it's good work if you can get it. Running a cult is easy stuff. Apparently, what he would do is he would tell people in the group things to do in order to gain experiences because he would learn through their experience. Love it. Love it. He's gamifying knowledge. That's perfect. Somewhat. I'm sure there was some nefarious angle to it, too. Well, obviously. I'm sure it was. I'm sure there was not great things happening. No, no, of course. It was loot boxes all over again. It's entirely possible that some abuse was taking place in that environment. And I am not saying that there wasn't, but also FBI investigation failed to produce any proof of it.