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Spooky Month on 10-minute continues with a weird one today.

If you like me and you believe in God, sometimes you feel like you're being led one way

or another.

Like there's a path laid out that you're supposed to go down.

And today's story is similar to that times 10.

A group of believers in what some people would later call a cult

thought that angels were speaking to a young boy,

giving them direction on what to do, actions to take, and who to murder.

November 3, 1988, Michael Halstead, who was living in a small apartment at a rural

Oregon horse ranch, came home and realized his place had been ransacked.

Stepping inside, he saw clothes scattered, his furniture was out of place, drawers dumped on the

floor. Couldn't quite figure out

if anything had been taken. He was angry, so he wondered if the same thing had happened to his neighbor

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