Jim Jones submitted by Charlene.

Hi, I hope that everyone had a wonderful Christmas. I have another story. Back in 1973, my grandmother

discovered that her 79-year-old mother was being taken for all of her money by her pastor Jim Jones

Now for those of you for whom that name does not ring any bells I will tell you why it's infamous.

Back in 1976 he murdered his entire flock in order to steal their money and property.

My great-grandmother's daughter, my grandmother, was livid when she found out that a young man from the congregation

had taken her to the bank and taken all the funds out of her account.

Jim Jones had been telling the members of his congregation that the government was going to take

their money, but that he could put it all in a special account and take care of all of them with

it. Soon after my grandmother found out what had happened, she had my father, the one who later frightened

the hat man, drove my grandmother and nine-year-old aunt up to the church up on Alvarado in Los Angeles.

While my father waited outside in the car, my grandmother took my

little aunt inside to look for the pastor. Before they left the car, though, my 18-year-old

father told my grandmother that he was worried about them going into the church.

After all, he had been driving my great-grandmother to and from church every Sunday

and was never permitted to go inside the gates, him not being a member of the church himself.

Besides that, any church and pastor that was bold enough to be taking people's money in that way,

had to be crazy.

My grandmother was far too pissed off to just let it go though. They had taken all

of her mother's $1,500, which is a lot for people in that time period. So she walked

my little aunt to the back of the church and ushered her inside for the secret

meeting and asked for the pastor who was told not, who they were told was not available.

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