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Moms and Mysteries: A True Crime Podcast

The Disappearance of Allen Ross & The Samaritan Foundation

Moms and Mysteries: A True Crime Podcast

Moms got ya covered-feed

True Crime

4.68.8K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2023

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Allen Ross was a beloved and talented Chicago filmmaker who was struggling to cope with the loss of his mother in the early 1990s. Seeking a way to heal, Allen traveled to Guthrie, Oklahoma, after hearing about a spiritual healer named Linda Greene. Linda claimed to use a practice called "dowsing" to connect with the subconscious and rid the world of evil. What started as a search for peace quickly turned into a nightmare as Allen became deeply entangled in Linda's cult, the Samaritan Foundation. As Linda's teachings grew increasingly bizarre and paranoid, she convinced her followers to move into an abandoned jail, cut off contact with the outside world, and rely entirely on dowsing for their survival. When Allen suddenly stopped communicating with his family and friends in late 1995, they knew something was terribly wrong. It would take years of relentless searching, a highly publicized custody battle involving another cult member, and a shocking discovery in a Cheyenne, Wyoming basement to finally uncover the truth about what happened to Allen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey guys and welcome to the Moms and Mysteries podcast, a true crime podcast featuring

0:28.0

myself Mandy and my dear friend Melissa. Hi, Melissa. Hi, Mandy. How are you? I'm doing great. The

0:35.2

summer is whizzing by. I'm enjoying the wonderful warm weather that we have here.

0:42.7

It's just going great. Yeah. And also you use the word whizzing. I don't know the last time I've heard

0:48.1

whizzing like as a speed. I said whizzing wonderful. Wait, I said whizzing wonderful and weather. You went straight on

0:55.5

W's. Yeah. It was a lot of alliteration there. But yes, it is whizzing by for sure. It's, it goes from like,

1:03.1

oh, I can't wait for summer to be here. And it's like slow. Everything's slower. You know,

1:07.1

you don't have to have the kids at certain places at 745 in the morning to being like oh no

1:13.0

that's that's right around the corner we're about to do that again and uh what have I done with my life

1:18.9

I ask myself that at least three times a day yes oh my gosh not pertaining to school yeah we had to pay

1:25.6

some school expenses starting this month you know for the' school books and stuff that they need next year.

1:31.3

And so it's like, oh my gosh, already I feel it kind of like impending, not doom, but just like the impending responsibility coming back to us again.

1:41.1

Yeah, really, really soon with school going to be starting up in August because we start back in August here in Florida. So yeah, some people are just getting out of school and we're like, I can't believe it's almost over. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So it's definitely going by. I've been enjoying the summer though as much as we can, as we said, it's so hot, you have to stay indoors or be outside in the water.

2:04.4

But yeah, yeah, so that's, we've just been revolving between those two options. We've been staying indoors and going outside and being in the water and then coming back

2:08.3

inside and, and enjoying the cool weather again or enjoying the cool atmosphere again.

2:14.0

So, yeah, I've decided my husband is a saint because his AC only works sometimes in his

2:20.0

vehicle and he works like 30 something minutes away and so he'll be like yeah my AC didn't kick on again.

2:26.3

I would lose my mind. There's just I would pull over and find a new car. If I had to steal it,

2:32.9

I would steal it. Whatever I had to do,

2:34.5

I could not take it. And he doesn't have tended windows, so it's like, it's an older car. And so I'm always like, I don't, I've got to give you a little more, like, I got to be a little nicer to you because I would be a woman on the edge if that happened to me. I couldn't take it. Oh my gosh. Yeah. No, I would be on the phone

2:52.7

with my husband complaining the whole way home while I didn't have AC just so that I could make

2:58.5

sure he knew how upset I was. Thankfully, he doesn't do that to me because I'd be like, wow,

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