Cults | Teal Swan & The Story of Baby Holly (TW: Suicide)

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🗓️ 21 July 2022

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

Join us for this episode of the True Crime Society Podcast as we delve again into the fascinating world of cults and followers.

TW for this episode – suicide discussion.

Have you heard of Teal Swan? Teal claims she is part-human, part extra-terrestrial. She has also said that she can hear tectonic plates moving and can inject herself into people’s brainstems.

Teal’s followers are known as ‘Tealers’. Teal routinely gives out advice to suicidal people (she has no medical or psychiatric qualifications). Several of Teal’s followers have taken their own lives after reaching out to her and her team.

Is what Teal Swan is doing dangerous or does she have other’s best interests at heart?

We also discuss the crazy case of Baby Holly. Tina and Harold Clouse were found murdered in Texas in 1981, but their remains were not identified until 2021. The couple had a baby before their deaths and their extended family prayed for over 40 years for answers about what had happened to the family. In 2022, ‘Baby Holly’ was found alive and well – she had been legally adopted and was unaware of the story of her biological family.

It is believed that Tina and Harold were likely killed because of their involvement in a cult called ‘Christ’s Family’. Members of this cult wore diapers on their heads as turbans and men and women were separated from each other.

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0:00.0	The True Crime Society podcast contains adult themes and violence and is not intended for all audiences.
0:05.0	Listener discretion is advised.
0:23.7	What's up guys? Oh my goodness. So the True Crime Society podcast with Stephanie and Olivia
0:28.7	we're back. Woo! Back refreshed ready to go. It might not seem like it's been that long too
0:35.6	guys. I know we skipped last week but for us we haven't recorded it for like three weeks at least.
0:40.4	Like a whole month. I was thinking yesterday I'm so proud of past me because I was so organized
0:46.3	and now I'm back into it and feels a bit like chaos but anyway we'll be right we'll get it all
0:50.8	sorted and ready to go. So Olivia is back fresh from vacation so she is ready to be
0:58.8	very um great I don't know extra great extra great extra great we've been back in the country
1:07.2	for just over 24 hours now so I've been asleep for about 13 hours but no feeling good actually
1:14.8	feeling very fresh which is surprising I think I've got a little cure for jet lag which is
1:20.1	where basically you just need to go as hard as you can the first day you get to the country
1:24.8	and then sleep as hard as you can that night which is what I did last night so I was asleep by 730
1:31.2	pm Australian time last night so hopefully you're addressed it and back yeah back to normal
1:38.6	I feel like it takes a few days for your body to adjust to like meals and things like that which
1:43.3	sounds weird but like your body's like it must be breakfast time when it's you know dinner time
1:47.5	and things like that so anyway hopefully that that should be all right the kids were asleep very early
1:54.4	yeah we had we had a fair bit of sleep on the flight on the way back which is always good because
1:58.3	I think I had one hour of flight one hour of sleep on the flight going over that makes for a very
2:03.8	very long 36 hours or however long but anyway it was worth it it was great we had a great trip
2:10.6	what was um remind everyone of the like main places you went to and then what was your faith
2:17.3	we're away for about three just over three weeks so we flew to LA had a few days there then
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