Box Canyon if you know lost angeles or have seen movies set around lost angeles

You can probably picture it the dusty orange ground the cliffs rising up to me to deep blue sky trees and bushes dot in the landscape

About 30 miles from downtown LA. It is smaller and narrower than a river canyon with steep walls and only two points of access

Leaving it insulated from the rest of the world little corner of nature on the edge of a sprawling urban area

The rocky hideaway in southern California started out as a place for a weekend getaway for a lot of lost angeles notes

But its legacy would be cemented later on when it became the home base for a doomsday cult

The fountain of the world cult also called the WKFL fountain of the world

Standing for wisdom knowledge faith and love or just WKFL fountain

brochure from the mid-1950s would describe the group like this

Located in the beautiful Santa Susanna mountains overlooking the San Fernando Valley and near Chatsworth Lake and the picturesque

Sime Valley

Lives this intriguing group of people wearing flowing robes of various colors walking in bare feet and having long hair

Nursing electronics carpentry photography music art and drama are but a few of the talents found among these joyful people

And those things would be found there, but so would a lot of other weird shit

Started in the late 1940s by a man founded by a man who called himself Christian eventa

He called himself a lot of stuff actually the commune would well maybe not thrive, but certainly exist for decades

The fountains members gathered to live together pool their property and above all else

Seeing the praises of their master Christian eventa these long-haired and constantly barefoot members often helped to fight wildfires in the area

neighboring communities mostly approved them. They were weird, but they were humanitarian helpful strange

mostly good people and mostly they were good people except for their leader the master not a good dude

Within the cult's monastery venta preached about an impending World War III fought between communist Russia and

Capitalistic America which would coincide with the race war in the end a godless Russia would prevail for a little while

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