The Fright Experiments: Bonus

Escaping NXIVM

CBC

True Crime

4.7 • 665 Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2018

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Jennifer Kobelt — Sarah Edmondson's former assistant in NXIVM — tells her story of joining NXIVM at a moment of crisis in her life and being involved in the group’s so-called "fright study.”

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0:48.3	Yeah. podcast. So Brandon starts hooking me up and I'm like, I'm not worried.
0:54.0	It was very obvious that this was not educational forum material.
1:00.8	This was a film.
1:02.0	And it opened on a dark street and I just heard someone screaming at someone.
1:07.7	Bite the curb.
1:09.0	Bite the curb.
1:10.2	And someone's screaming, Daddy, no, and this little boy
1:12.9	standing there in the dark, and then I heard some sirens, and I'm just like, what the hell is
1:17.7	going on?
1:20.6	Jennifer Cobalt is a former member of Nexium, who participated in what has come to be known as
1:26.0	the Fright Studies.
1:27.7	It's a part of Nexium that has received less attention than the secret women's group, DOS, and the branding.
1:34.5	In this bonus episode, I want to tell you more about Jen.
1:38.8	I first interviewed Jen as I was investigating Sarah Edmondson's story.
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