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The Most EVIL Place On Earth_ CHATEAU DE AMEROIS (Mothers Of Darkness Castle) · The conspiracy

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Speaker 1: Today's episode of The Conspiracy Files is going to be
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Speaker 1: extremely graphic, extremely disturbing, and it contained some information that
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Speaker 1: may change how you view the world. I always start
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Speaker 1: this show with a couple of warnings. Number One, I
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Speaker 1: don't plan on doing anything to myself in the near future,
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Speaker 1: so if something happens, you might have an idea of
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Speaker 1: who did it. Number two, all facts presented in this
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Speaker 1: show can be independently verified by visiting the resources document
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Speaker 1: linked in the description of this show. I released a
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Speaker 1: document for every episode we produce. And number three, all
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Speaker 1: parties are considered innocent until proven guilty in a court
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Speaker 1: of law.
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Speaker 2: And now let's do a deep dark dive. The Chateau
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Speaker 2: de Ameroi. What a name.
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Speaker 1: So I initially came across this story someone tagged me
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Speaker 1: in this and I watched the YouTube video about it
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Speaker 1: when I was actually on vacation. And immediately when I
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Speaker 1: started learning about this place, I couldn't stop researching, so
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Speaker 1: I ended up going through I watched every video I
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Speaker 1: could find about this place. I did independent research, look
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Speaker 1: through documents, and tried to find as much information as
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Speaker 1: I could about the chateau. But it's very weird because
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Speaker 1: there really isn't much information about this place.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 1: With chateaus or castles in Europe, usually when you google
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Speaker 1: them and you try to find their history, you will
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Speaker 1: immediately discover you know, who's lived there, the things that
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Speaker 1: happened there, the dukes and duchesses that called these places home.
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Speaker 1: But when it comes to the Chateau dan Roy, it
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Speaker 1: seems that the history online has been heavily censored. In
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Speaker 1: my opinion, that's for a reason, but it is very mysterious.
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Speaker 1: With the place that's so huge and so historic and
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Speaker 1: it's an old building, usually you're gonna find information about
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Speaker 1: it online. But in my opinion, the history and information
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Speaker 1: about the chateau has been purposefully obscured and hidden. And
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Speaker 1: through this episode you are going to understand why.
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Speaker 2: I think that.
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Speaker 1: If you don't know, I have a YouTube channel, it's
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Speaker 1: my main channel. It's called The Paranormal Files. I've been
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Speaker 1: doing paranormal investigations for ten years, and next week on
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Speaker 1: the Paranormal Files, I'm releasing a full documentary about the
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Speaker 1: Chateau de Ammeroy. We actually went there in person. We
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Speaker 1: found some extremely disturbing stuff. We investigated the area and
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Speaker 1: it was indescribable. There's trip wires all around this place,
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Speaker 1: motion sensors, cameras. It's the most heavily guarded place I
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Speaker 1: think I've ever seen. And we got as close as
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Speaker 1: we possibly could, and we even, you know, drove right
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Speaker 1: up to the front gate. If you want to see
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Speaker 1: us actually visit this location and what our investigation yielded,
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Speaker 1: what results it yielded. That video is going to be
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Speaker 1: on my main channel, the Paranormal Files, on Monday. But
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Speaker 1: let's get into this. I want to shout out Sabrian
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Speaker 1: Chandler Lewis for researching and helping write this script. She's incredible.
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Speaker 1: Please show her some love and let's get into it.
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Speaker 1: Thear Den's Forest a beautiful expanse of rolling hills, towering trees,
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Speaker 1: and rushing rivers. A lush, sprawling region. The dense woodlands
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Speaker 1: and deep valleys cover thousands of square miles, reaching through Luxembourg, France,
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Speaker 1: Belgium and Germany. The thick fold evokes a feeling of enchantment,
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Speaker 1: while the rivers and streams bring serenity to the soul.
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Speaker 1: It's the mystical beauty of the place that has drawn
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Speaker 1: lovers of nature for many hundreds of years, but history
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Speaker 1: buffs have their fair share of attraction as well. The
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Speaker 1: history of the forest has been recorded since the Roman times,
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Speaker 1: and the area is littered with historic ancient villages. The
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Speaker 1: Ardens is even mentioned in the twelfth century song about Charlemagne,
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Speaker 1: and the rock Baird, which resides in the forest is
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Speaker 1: said to be the very sight where the legend of
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Speaker 1: Bayard took place. But the enchanted Forest has its fair
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Speaker 1: share of darkness and contains legends much more sinister than
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Speaker 1: those of the horse that jumped over the river Muse
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Speaker 1: with one powerful kick. Blood has soaked the grounds of
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Speaker 1: the Ardennes, as it was the setting for the Battle
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Speaker 1: of France, the Battle of the Ardennes, and the horrific
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Speaker 1: Battle of the Bulge. Knowing this already gives the mystique
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Speaker 1: of the forest in eerie light, but there could be
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Speaker 1: something lurking in the trees that carries an even darker lore.
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Speaker 2: In the gloom of the enchanting.
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Speaker 1: Forest, a massive Gothic structure looms, its spires reaching to
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Speaker 1: the sky with the spinly fingers of skeletons. The castle
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Speaker 1: in question has three hundred and sixty five windows, numerous
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Speaker 1: as the days of the year. Those windows peer out
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Speaker 1: into the forest, watchful and omnipotent. The castle's powerful exterior
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Speaker 1: may lend an air of beauty to the building, yet within,
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Speaker 1: demons dance to the tune of satanic ritual chants. This
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Speaker 1: place in question is the Chateau de Ameroi, the Castle
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Speaker 1: of Kings, or, as it's colloquially known, the Mothers of
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Speaker 1: Darkness Castle, a structure so foreboding that locals in the
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Speaker 1: nearby town refuse to speak its name. Rumors for years
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Speaker 1: have covered the castle numerous as the stones that built it,
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Speaker 1: and whispers wind their way through the grounds of her
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Speaker 1: guardianship like the wind. These whispers speak of witches, ritual
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Speaker 1: abuse of children, and a global cabal of the elite
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Speaker 1: that secretly runs our world. The rumors speak of the
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Speaker 1: fabled Illuminati and their dark designs that pull the strings
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Speaker 1: of our governments and media like puppets on a stage.
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Speaker 1: They speak of a man who stole children from their
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Speaker 1: families and even ended their lives to supply the witches
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Speaker 1: with fodder for their dark maca nations. These rumors speak
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Speaker 1: of fire, death and destruction, creating the lifeblood of one
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Speaker 1: of the darkest conspiracies in our world, one that could
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Speaker 1: shatter the peace we so carefully construct for ourselves, secrets
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Speaker 1: that would plunge us into a worldwide society of chaos.
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Speaker 1: Built originally in eighteen forty nine by the Count of Mesnio,
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Speaker 1: Chateau de Ameroi resides deep in the countryside of Belgium,
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Speaker 1: only a twelve minute drive south of the town of Buyen,
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Speaker 1: requiring passage through restricted roadways. The property was sold to
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Speaker 1: Theodore Vandernout, the eighth Marquess of Ashe, in eighteen fifty nine,
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Speaker 1: then sold again ten years later to Prince Philippe, Count
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Speaker 1: of Flanders, brother of King Leopold the Second. These new
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Speaker 1: owners were descended from the Saxe Coburg Gotha bloodline, the
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Speaker 1: same blood line as the current British royal family and
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Speaker 1: the same blood line as the infamous Vlad the Impaler.
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Speaker 1: Fire destroyed the original chateau structure in eighteen seventy three,
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Speaker 1: but Prince Voliep commissioned a replacement from architect Gustave Santinoi,
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Speaker 1: and his work, a massive Neo Gothic structure, still stands today.
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Speaker 1: After the prince died in nineteen oh five, his three
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Speaker 1: kids inherited the castle, after which they sold it to
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Speaker 1: the liege Wood merchant Robert Collette for seven million Belgian francs.
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Speaker 1: The exact date of the purchase is unknown, but Collett
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Speaker 1: later sold the property once again. Alice Solvey, the niece
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Speaker 1: of Belgian chemist and industrialist Ernest Solvey, purchased the castle
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Speaker 1: and her family continued its guardianship over one hundred years later.
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Speaker 1: The Solves themselves are an elite family in Belgium, as
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Speaker 1: Ernest and his brother Alfred created a chemical company in
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Speaker 1: eighteen sixty three, which they named after their family. This company,
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Speaker 1: created to produce sodium carbonate, still operates to this day
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Speaker 1: and earned twelve point four billion dollars in revenue in
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Speaker 1: twenty fifteen and employs over thirty thousand people in fifty
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Speaker 1: three countries. Solveae is still in active production today, working
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Speaker 1: on different types of sustainable fuel cell as well as
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Speaker 1: manufacturing fluorine or fluoride products such as sodium fluoride commonly used.
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Speaker 2: In drinking water.
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Speaker 1: Now that's a whole conspiracy. You can go down calcifying
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Speaker 1: the pineal gland sodium or fluoride in our drinking water
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Speaker 1: in the government's real goals behind that, but we're gonna.
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Speaker 2: Leave that to another day.
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Speaker 1: It is interesting, though, that this family that owns Chateau
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Speaker 1: to Amroy is in the fluoride business.
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Speaker 2: Just kind of weird.
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Speaker 1: The Solvas also maintained a pharmaceutical branch that developed and
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Speaker 1: sold the SSRI Louvox for the treatment of obsessive compulsive disorder. However,
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Speaker 1: this branch was sold to Abbott Labs in two thousand
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Speaker 1: and nine. As some of the pioneers of Belgium's industrial prosperity,
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Speaker 1: the Salves were certainly wealthy enough and of enough status
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Speaker 1: to own a chateau of such marvelous construction in history
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Speaker 1: as the.
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Speaker 2: Chateau des Ameroi.
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Speaker 1: But it seems that the Solvas were a private group,
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Speaker 1: as very few photos of the outside of the castle
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Speaker 1: are available or even exist, and pictures of the inside
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Speaker 1: are nearly non existent. There is no video tour, there
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Speaker 1: are no photos of this place.
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Speaker 2: Quite bizarre.
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Speaker 1: Even in Ernest Salvey's time, he was regarded with rumor
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Speaker 1: as he and his family led very secretive lives. These
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Speaker 1: early rumors of a secretive family living behind stone walls
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Speaker 1: may have spun the locals into telling even darker tales
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Speaker 1: as time has gone on, or perhaps there is something
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Speaker 1: more that made them wary of the property. When he
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Speaker 1: comes to the Chateau D'anmeroy, locals are frightened to speak
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Speaker 1: of the place. If coaxed into telling their stories, they'll
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Speaker 1: tell you tales of darkness, of things far more sinister
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Speaker 1: than a family who likes to keep to themselves. Locals
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Speaker 1: talk about tunnels beneath the building, secret chambers hidden within
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Speaker 1: the castle, a room with a thousand points of light
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Speaker 1: in the ceiling, and a low melody that echoes through
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Speaker 1: the woods on Belgium's darkest nights. Some even mention Egyptian
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Speaker 1: symbols representing the sun on the building, pointing.
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Speaker 2: To dark occult warship.
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Speaker 1: But beyond this mystery, haunting tales are shared between locals,
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Speaker 1: tales of witches and Satanic warship and a cabal of
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Speaker 1: the elite that joins with the witches in sacrificial blood magic.
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Speaker 1: But is there any truth to these rumors? And moreover,
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Speaker 1: how could any of this have been revealed? And why
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Speaker 1: wouldn't somebody just go in and.
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Speaker 2: Put a stop to it.
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Speaker 1: Well, the Chateau de Amroy was a fixture in Belgium
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Speaker 1: for a very long time, but didn't gain its claim
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Speaker 1: to a disturbing sort of fame until many years after
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Speaker 1: it was built. Some argue that the Solveys that family
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Speaker 1: were active in secret societies with tales of extravagant parties
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Speaker 1: that hosted many influential figures. The rumors of the Solvey
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Speaker 1: family were definitely gossip worthy, certainly, but they weren't enough
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Speaker 1: to warrant such an insidious reputation. People who approach the
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Speaker 1: Chateau de Ameroy today have noticed a number of extremely
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Speaker 1: bizarre things. The castle is surrounded by tripwires, barbed wire,
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Speaker 1: and a state of the art security system. They have
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Speaker 1: guards that are patrolling the grounds at all times, secret
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Speaker 1: cameras hidden in the trees, tripwires, motion detect there's a
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Speaker 1: video and photo proof of these things.
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Speaker 2: What the hell are they hiding?
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Speaker 1: We ourselves saw that stuff when we visited the chateau.
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Speaker 2: And it's really, really crazy.
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Speaker 1: I've been to one thousand abandoned buildings.
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Speaker 2: I've been to government buildings.
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Speaker 1: I've broken into buildings that were protected.
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Speaker 2: You know.
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Speaker 1: I snuck onto a Royal Air Force compound in twenty nineteen.
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Speaker 1: That was half abandoned, snuck right by military police. They
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Speaker 1: couldn't give less of a shit.
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Speaker 2: This was in England.
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Speaker 1: But the chateau is like the most secure place ever built.
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Speaker 1: It definitely has a very very eerie, odd vibe. When
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Speaker 1: you're out there, you know you're being watched. It's like
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Speaker 1: Bohemian grove and you just know that something isn't right.
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Speaker 1: It feels fucking terrible out there.
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Speaker 2: And it's interesting.
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Speaker 1: Because though the chateau is a historic building once owned
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Speaker 1: by a Prince of Belgium, both the National Geographic and
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Speaker 1: the BBC have been denied access to the building by
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Speaker 1: its owners. Yes, National Geographic and the BBC both independently
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Speaker 1: reached out to the owners of the Chateaud Ameroy, wanting
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Speaker 1: to talk about the history and wanting to visit the
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Speaker 1: building and show what it looks like inside, but they
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Speaker 1: were shot down. It's so strange, and the Chateau day Ameroy,
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Speaker 1: also called the Castle of Kings through all of this conspiracy,
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Speaker 1: has now gained the notorious nickname the Mothers of Darkness Castle.
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Speaker 1: But before we get into all of this, we need
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Speaker 1: to find some evidence and we need to talk about
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Speaker 1: the mark to true scandal because these dark tales wouldn't
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Speaker 1: find their roots until the turn of the twenty first century,
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Speaker 1: but they couldn't have found more putrid soil to sprout from. Indeed,
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Speaker 1: the stories of the Castle truly took a turn for
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Speaker 1: the unspeakable once a man named Mark de True entered
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Speaker 1: the public eye in the worst way imaginable. Mark de
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Speaker 1: True born November sixteenth, nineteen fifty six was a career
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Speaker 1: criminal who found his operating grounds on the streets of Belgium.
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Speaker 1: We already did an episode about Mark de True. If
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Speaker 1: you want to do a deep dive into his case,
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Speaker 1: it's ready on the Conspiracy Files. And we did a
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Speaker 1: documentary that's coming on my main channel in the next
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Speaker 1: few weeks, where we went to every single Mark de
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Speaker 1: True look, including the site of his house. We had
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Speaker 1: people confront us is fucking crazy. Markd' true was a
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Speaker 1: scrap dealer and an unemployed electrician who supplemented his income
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Speaker 1: with thievery, stolen car trading, and drug dealing. Some people
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Speaker 1: believe that the True was also involved in adult propertion,
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Speaker 1: but these crimes weren't enough for the True as he
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Speaker 1: grew older. You see, the True had a record for
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Speaker 1: being a pervert when it came to women. He would
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Speaker 1: regularly and purposefully bump into women at local ice rinks
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Speaker 1: as an excuse to touch them. This is a pretty
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Speaker 1: creepy enough, but the True also had a wife and
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Speaker 1: children at home. His first wife had divorced him over
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Speaker 1: allegations of abuse in nineteen eighty three, and he later remarried.
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Speaker 1: But the True simply wasn't satisfied with one woman. According
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Speaker 1: to his second wife, the True would regularly go out
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Speaker 1: and attempt to cheat, but apparently he wasn't meeting enough
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Speaker 1: women on these ventures since he wasn't reeling in enough
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Speaker 1: prospects the legal way. The True then took his crimes
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Speaker 1: to a much more disturbing level. In the nineteen eighties,
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Speaker 1: he began to kidnap and teenaged girls, aided by several accomplices,
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Speaker 1: one of which was his wife. Five teens, one as
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Speaker 1: young as fifteen and one as old as nineteen, were
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Speaker 1: kidnapped and assaulted before de True was finally caught and arrested.
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Speaker 1: He and his accomplices received jail time. However, d True
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Speaker 1: only received thirteen years for his crimes for rick five teenagers,
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Speaker 1: and of that time he only served three years in prison.
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Speaker 1: You see, Mark d' true was released by Melcherwathley, the
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Speaker 1: Belgian Minister of Justice at the time. This release was
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Speaker 1: granted against the advice from professionals, one the public prosecutor
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Speaker 1: and the other marked' true's prison psychiatrists. Both of these
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Speaker 1: individuals regarded to True as extremely dangerous, yet apparently the
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Speaker 1: Minister of Justice thought otherwise. And more concerning was the
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Speaker 1: fact that while he was in prison, Mark d' true
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Speaker 1: was receiving money from the government of Belgium. You see,
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Speaker 1: he had convinced a healthcare professional that he had a
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Speaker 1: mental illness that caused him to be disabled, and he
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Speaker 1: collected around the equivalent of three thousand dollars a month
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Speaker 1: in public assistance. Mark then used this money to pay
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Speaker 1: for several properties that he owned in Belgium. Most of
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Speaker 1: these were vacant and some were even eventually used to
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Speaker 1: and hold his kidnapping victims. But despite somehow having the
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Speaker 1: money for seven properties, to True's state stipend wasn't reduced.
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Speaker 1: The question could and should be asked, how an unemployed
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Speaker 1: electrician and scrap dealer was making enough money to own
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Speaker 1: seven properties, yet his funds were never looked into. Even
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Speaker 1: though these funds were being used to maintain ownership of
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Speaker 1: the locations used to hold and assault his victims, most
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Speaker 1: could assume that this high cash flow was due to
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Speaker 1: Mark's drug dealing and stolen car trading, but the truth
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Speaker 1: of this insane cash flow was never revealed. Now we
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Speaker 1: know that Detrue got this money from trafficking and children
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Speaker 1: to the elites, but we'll talk about that in a second.
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Speaker 1: While Mark was in prison, he was prescribed sedatives for
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Speaker 1: a fake sleeping disorder that he created, sedatives that he
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Speaker 1: would later use on his victims. After his early release
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Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety two, Detrue went a step further into
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Speaker 1: the criminal world. Kidnapping rip weren't evil enough for him.
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Speaker 1: He had to converting the basement of one of his
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Speaker 1: homes into a dungeon with a hidden door. De True
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Speaker 1: took to the streets, this time targeting even younger victims,
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Speaker 1: and as children began to disappear across Belgium, people began
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Speaker 1: to panic. From June nineteen ninety five to August nineteen
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Speaker 1: ninety six, six girls, two as young as eight years old,
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Speaker 1: were confirmed to have been abducted by de True, though
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Speaker 1: some believed that many, many more children were victims of
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Speaker 1: this evil man, and of the six victims, four were
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Speaker 1: I definitely thinkd' true had way more victims. I mean,
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Speaker 1: I know that that's true. There's so much proof of it.
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Speaker 1: To True's reign of terror only ended though, when Belgian
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Speaker 1: police discovered two of his victims chained in his basement Dungeon.
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Speaker 1: Four of the girls had already been killed, and these
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Speaker 1: two were incredibly lucky to be alive. The proper investigation
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Speaker 1: could have saved more. You see, the house where the
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Speaker 1: victims were being held had already been searched before, after
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Speaker 1: a credible tip was provided that came from de Trux's
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Speaker 1: own mother. They see, tips had been coming in about
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Speaker 1: to True for months, but the police, for some reason
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Speaker 1: never followed up, despite de True already being arrested and
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Speaker 1: convicted on charges only a few years in the past.
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Speaker 1: So many people had called the local police and said
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Speaker 1: markd True is abducting and ra children, and they didn't
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Speaker 1: do anything for some reason, even though he was already
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Speaker 1: convicted of being teenagers just a year or two before.
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Speaker 1: And the Truth's mother actually called in a tip and said,
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Speaker 1: I think my son's doing these things. So the police
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Speaker 1: went to Mark d' tru's house. While they were in there,
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Speaker 1: they heard the screams of children. The police talked about this.
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Speaker 1: They actually said they were hearing screaming and children and
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Speaker 1: there was something that they were hearing.
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Speaker 2: And they didn't do anything.
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Speaker 1: The police later on said that they assumed the voices
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Speaker 1: were coming from outside, and they didn't attempt to find
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Speaker 1: the hidden door to the dungeon that concealed them, and
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Speaker 1: because of this failure, the two eight year old victims
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Speaker 1: would later die.
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Speaker 2: That's right.
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Speaker 1: The police were in the house where the girls were
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Speaker 1: being held hostage. They were hearing the girl's scream, acting
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Speaker 1: on a tip about Mark de True abducting in children
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Speaker 1: in and they just walked out the door and let
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Speaker 1: those kids die.
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Speaker 2: They should be sentenced to prison.
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Speaker 1: The True was only caught after being positively identified while
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Speaker 1: he was kidnapping someone. He was finally arrested on August thirteenth,
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Speaker 1: nineteen ninety six, along with two of his accomplices.
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Speaker 2: And as police.
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Speaker 1: Investigated the horror showed to True and left behind, they
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Speaker 1: located tapes and the bodies of children buried in his backyard.
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Speaker 1: But moreover, they discovered the body of one of the
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Speaker 1: True's accomplices, a man named Bernard Weinstein, whom he had
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Speaker 1: allegedly killed because he had become a liability and was
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Speaker 1: at risk of being caught by police. The True had
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Speaker 1: been caught and he would finally be sentenced to serve
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Speaker 1: out the rest of his life in prison. But a
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Speaker 1: botched investigation would set all of Belgium into a frenzy.
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Speaker 2: You see.
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Speaker 1: Aside from the police having allowed of those two eight
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Speaker 1: year old girls by failing to properly investigate, the Belgian
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Speaker 1: police practically protected every other accomplice of the truths that
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Speaker 1: could have been revealed.
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Speaker 2: You see.
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Speaker 1: Throughout their investigation, the police found videos, undeveloped film, and
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Speaker 1: photographs of the victims. However, the police failed to examine them. Furthermore,
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Speaker 1: a speculum, a device used to examine the vagina during
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Speaker 1: a pelvic exam, was located in Mark de True's home
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Speaker 1: and was even handled by police, but it was never
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Speaker 1: sent in for forensic analysis. Why then, the autopsy of
18:14
Speaker 1: one of the victims proved that she had been assaulted
18:17
Speaker 1: for a very long period of time, over and over again,
18:20
Speaker 1: yet the police claimed there was no DNA evidence, no
18:23
Speaker 1: witness reports or forensic reports to prove that these assaults
18:27
Speaker 1: were from de True or any of his accomplices. DNA
18:30
Speaker 1: testing was performed, yet no one was informed of the results,
18:33
Speaker 1: not even the prosecutors who would go on to handle
18:36
Speaker 1: the case that would finally shut the True away forever.
18:38
Speaker 1: It was also revealed that the police had failed to
18:40
Speaker 1: follow up on a tip that could have caught more
18:43
Speaker 1: accomplices and saved the young girl's life. One of the
18:45
Speaker 1: eight year old girls had been spotted at a nightclub
18:47
Speaker 1: in Charleroi, Belgium, but the police failed to show up
18:50
Speaker 1: at the scene to investigate. This only became more concerning
18:53
Speaker 1: as at the time of the sighting, Mark to True
18:55
Speaker 1: had been arrested for car theft, So that doesn't make sense.
18:59
Speaker 1: Mark de True at that exact moment had been arrested
19:02
Speaker 1: for stealing cars and he was in prison. He was
19:04
Speaker 1: actually serving a sentence, so if this victim was at
19:07
Speaker 1: a Charleroi nightclub during Mark de Trux's brief stay in prison,
19:11
Speaker 1: then someone else would have had access to Mark's dungeon
19:14
Speaker 1: where the girls are being kept. Mark's wife was apparently
19:17
Speaker 1: left in charge of the girls, yet she later stated
19:20
Speaker 1: she was too afraid to even go near them. Multiple
19:22
Speaker 1: unidentified hairs were found in the dungeon after the home
19:26
Speaker 1: was fully finally searched. Those hairs were sent to DNA
19:29
Speaker 1: analysis and these twenty five unknown DNA profiles were identified,
19:33
Speaker 1: but they never attempted to match them. Some means you've
19:35
Speaker 1: got twenty five words whose hairs were found in Mark
19:39
Speaker 1: de True's dungeon, and the police have done the analysis,
19:42
Speaker 1: they can compare these hairs, but they just never did it.
19:45
Speaker 1: And even more disturbingly, a judge lied to one of
19:48
Speaker 1: the case prosecutors about this harrowing fact. Besides all these failures,
19:52
Speaker 1: judges were removed from the case, victim testimonies were thrown out,
19:56
Speaker 1: and one of the victims who came forward about to
19:58
Speaker 1: True was assaulted in the media and called a liar
20:01
Speaker 1: to make her loose credibility in the eyes of the public.
20:04
Speaker 1: With all of this, everyone knew that there had to
20:06
Speaker 1: be something else at hand, something that simply just couldn't
20:09
Speaker 1: be in competence. Many could see where this was going.
20:11
Speaker 1: It was clear that the Belgian government was protecting someone,
20:15
Speaker 1: or worse, multiple people. It was revealed that de True
20:18
Speaker 1: was supplying children to a pedophilia ring, and there were
20:21
Speaker 1: accomplices within the business world and the government of Belgium.
20:24
Speaker 1: One of D'true's accomplices admitted that the two girls, the
20:27
Speaker 1: two youngest, were kidnapped on the order of a mysterious
20:30
Speaker 1: third party. But then suddenly this accomplice stopped cooperating with
20:34
Speaker 1: the police because of threats, pointing further to the fact
20:37
Speaker 1: that Datru was acting on orders. It was shown that
20:39
Speaker 1: he owned several houses and by the end of the
20:41
Speaker 1: investigation they determined that he was worth six million francs.
20:46
Speaker 2: The police didn't.
20:47
Speaker 1: Follow this trail though, but someone else did, thank god.
20:50
Speaker 1: You see, this is where WikiLeaks comes in. Through a
20:52
Speaker 1: wikileak's release, it was learned that large sums of cash
20:56
Speaker 1: were sent to de Tru's wife's bank account, even including
20:59
Speaker 1: from different currentcies than the Fronc. WikiLeaks even claimed and
21:02
Speaker 1: you can go verify these. I've looked at the documents
21:05
Speaker 1: that these currencies and this money arrived right at the
21:08
Speaker 1: same time the girls were abducted. So it seems the
21:11
Speaker 1: transfers and values suggested to some that markd True was
21:14
Speaker 1: indeed linked to a pedophile ring and that he was
21:17
Speaker 1: the supplier to True even said so himself. He claimed
21:20
Speaker 1: that he was acting on orders to kidnap the girls.
21:22
Speaker 1: He stated that he personally wasn't a pedophile and that
21:25
Speaker 1: he was supplying these children to other people. It was
21:28
Speaker 1: also revealed that de True was aided in some of
21:30
Speaker 1: his kidnappings by the Belgian police themselves. It became the
21:34
Speaker 1: belief of the people of Belgium that the True was
21:36
Speaker 1: supplying these girls to the government of Belgium as well
21:39
Speaker 1: as to the business elite. This only became more clear
21:41
Speaker 1: when Jean Michel Nahoul, a business magnate, was pointed to
21:45
Speaker 1: as an organizer for the parties when children would be
21:48
Speaker 1: supplied to pedophiles some byd True. These parties were not
21:51
Speaker 1: only organized for pedophiles to assault children at however, some
21:55
Speaker 1: also claimed that they were a place for sadism, brutal torture,
21:59
Speaker 1: and even the murder children. Yes, victims have claimed that
22:02
Speaker 1: they were forced to murder other children at these parties.
22:05
Speaker 1: Victims have claimed that some of these high ranking people
22:08
Speaker 1: in the Belgian government and business class would pay money
22:11
Speaker 1: for the ability top and then murder child. They would
22:14
Speaker 1: film this stuff. I mean, it's the sickest, most twisted shit.
22:17
Speaker 1: Yet much of this was completely ignored by the Belgian government,
22:20
Speaker 1: and when witnesses started coming forward to share their stories,
22:23
Speaker 1: they started dying in true conspiracy fashion, people who had
22:27
Speaker 1: information suddenly began in mysterious ways. Overall, twenty witnesses directly
22:33
Speaker 1: involved with the true case died. There's a lot more
22:37
Speaker 1: that had, you know, partial connections to it that died
22:39
Speaker 1: in weird ways as well, and much of this truth
22:42
Speaker 1: was hidden forever. I mean, this shit is fucking crazy.
22:44
Speaker 1: It's in that episode we did. But this would be
22:46
Speaker 1: like someone was like a witness would be driving to
22:50
Speaker 1: the police station to do an interview with the police,
22:53
Speaker 1: and their car would swerve and smash into a wall
22:55
Speaker 1: and they'd die. Or someone was going to testify to
22:58
Speaker 1: the police or whatever the situation was, but they'd be
23:01
Speaker 1: like talking to the authorities the next day, and the
23:03
Speaker 1: night before they would jump off a bridge and be
23:06
Speaker 1: found drowned in the river. Twenty people like that. There's explosions, gunshots, murders,
23:11
Speaker 1: self unalivings, all that stuff. And if twenty witnesses were killed,
23:15
Speaker 1: how many more were threatened into silence. That's a good
23:18
Speaker 1: question to ask moreover, to True's wife, the one who
23:21
Speaker 1: received those bank transfers and received that money for the kidnappings.
23:25
Speaker 1: She was sentenced to prison time as well, but quickly
23:28
Speaker 1: found refuge in a monastery and now lives alongside the
23:31
Speaker 1: nuns who inhabited. It was clear that something much bigger
23:34
Speaker 1: was going on than just a small gang of sick men.
23:36
Speaker 1: When it was revealed how to prave these men's crimes
23:39
Speaker 1: were and how the government practically protected them and his accomplices,
23:42
Speaker 1: marches were organized across Belgium, one which would be the
23:45
Speaker 1: largest demonstration in Belgian history with over three hundred thousand participants. Yes,
23:51
Speaker 1: the Belgian government covered up this story so insanely and
23:56
Speaker 1: the police, and it just showed that every single person
23:59
Speaker 1: was involve this thing, all the way to the top
24:01
Speaker 1: of the Belgian monarchy and government. That three hundred thousand
24:04
Speaker 1: people got out on the streets protesting the government for
24:07
Speaker 1: being pedophiles. This case almost led to a full scale
24:10
Speaker 1: revolution against the Belgian government, and after the events of
24:13
Speaker 1: the investigation, nearly a third of Belgians with the True
24:16
Speaker 1: surname legally changed it to have no association with the criminal.
24:20
Speaker 1: So eventually Mark de True was sentenced to life in
24:22
Speaker 1: prison in two thousand and four, and after the trial ended,
24:25
Speaker 1: the case files were sealed and heavily redacted to ensure
24:29
Speaker 1: that no one could ever stumble upon the grizzly truth.
24:32
Speaker 1: That's one way governments inact cover ups. They sealed files
24:35
Speaker 1: so that nobody can ever look at the truth of
24:37
Speaker 1: what really happened in these cases. WikiLeaks, though, wouldn't let
24:40
Speaker 1: that stand. In two thousand and nine, they made sure
24:43
Speaker 1: to publish what they could find for the public to view,
24:45
Speaker 1: but the Belgian government acted quickly. They scrubbed these documents
24:48
Speaker 1: from the Internet as fast as they could and ensured
24:51
Speaker 1: that no one could look in on their dirty secrets.
24:53
Speaker 1: They claimed that they removed the documents from the Internet
24:55
Speaker 1: because certain people were named who were innocent, but who
24:58
Speaker 1: had been mentioned during the investigation. The government of Belgium
25:01
Speaker 1: said that they didn't want these people facing unjust scrutiny,
25:04
Speaker 1: so they were hiding the documents from the public eye.
25:06
Speaker 1: This only confirmed to people who looked at these documents
25:09
Speaker 1: their suspicions that these perpetrators were sky high members of society,
25:13
Speaker 1: that the government of Belgium was hiding an elite pedophile
25:16
Speaker 1: ring that operated right under the citizens' noses. Moreover, the
25:20
Speaker 1: Belgian X files as they were called, were later released,
25:23
Speaker 1: detailing the accounts of witnesses. All the details of this
25:26
Speaker 1: case made it clear that high amounts of money were involved,
25:29
Speaker 1: as well as blackmail and a sophisticated organization that protected
25:32
Speaker 1: its members. You see, themes of blackmail and pedophile rings
25:36
Speaker 1: are extremely common, especially in the Western world. Just look
25:39
Speaker 1: at cover ups like the Franklin cover up, Jeffrey Epstein,
25:42
Speaker 1: you know, anybody, Jay, Edgar Hoover, Roy Cone, everybody. I mean,
25:46
Speaker 1: these people are all involved in blackmail. It's a political thing,
25:50
Speaker 1: and basically what it entails is people trying to get
25:53
Speaker 1: blackmail on politicians. Like let's say you set up this
25:56
Speaker 1: pedophile ring in your children out, you get a senator
26:00
Speaker 1: super drugged up. You know that he's already got an
26:02
Speaker 1: interest in kids because for some reason, politics attracts pedophiles.
26:07
Speaker 2: Just look at the last video or episode.
26:08
Speaker 1: We did and then you say, hey, man, we're in
26:11
Speaker 1: this secret room, the secret club.
26:13
Speaker 2: This is a political party.
26:14
Speaker 1: You trust everybody here, here's an underage prostitute that you
26:17
Speaker 1: can go out with. Then the videotape and photograph that
26:20
Speaker 1: senator having that child, and when they wake up the
26:23
Speaker 1: next day hungover, the person running that party sends them
26:26
Speaker 1: a photograph on their phone or slips them, you know,
26:29
Speaker 1: an envelope with a printed out photograph.
26:32
Speaker 2: Of them and says I own you now.
26:33
Speaker 1: Now you have to do exactly what I tell you
26:35
Speaker 1: to do. That's where the control comes from in the blackmail.
26:38
Speaker 1: But more information comes from the Mark to True scandal
26:40
Speaker 1: that isn't part of the general conspiracy, one that makes
26:43
Speaker 1: it even more evil and depraved than simply a massive
26:46
Speaker 1: pedophile ring. In the home of Bernard Weinstein, the accomplished
26:50
Speaker 1: kicked by Mark to True, an undated letter was found.
26:53
Speaker 1: This letter was supposedly sent by someone called Anubis and
26:56
Speaker 1: mentioned gifts for a high priestess. There was even a
26:59
Speaker 1: desert nation about the age and gender that the presence
27:02
Speaker 1: should be. The reason for these gifts was that a
27:05
Speaker 1: very special ceremony would soon be taking place. This was
27:08
Speaker 1: all written down in the letter. A cult in Charleroi,
27:10
Speaker 1: one of the main locations for Detru's crimes, allegedly had
27:14
Speaker 1: a member who used the very same alias. The cult
27:16
Speaker 1: that this member belonged to was called a Braxis, a
27:19
Speaker 1: Satanic sect operating in Belgium. In late nineteen ninety six,
27:23
Speaker 1: the police followed up on the note and rated their headquarters,
27:26
Speaker 1: the Institute of Braxis, with one hundred and fifty police officers.
27:30
Speaker 1: Police took away full bags of papers, video cassettes, and
27:33
Speaker 1: even a whole refrigerator. The news outlet Irish Times even
27:36
Speaker 1: said that the police took away black magic ritual implements
27:39
Speaker 1: and human skulls. The high priestess of this satanic cult,
27:43
Speaker 1: Dominique Kinderman's, later spoke to the police and stated that
27:46
Speaker 1: of course she had no knowledge of the True nor
27:49
Speaker 1: his accomplice Weinstein, but more kept coming out. An abandoned
27:52
Speaker 1: mind complex was searched nearby in the suburb of Jumae.
27:55
Speaker 1: The authorities believed that abducted children kidnapped by de True
27:59
Speaker 1: were being held in inside of this abandoned mining complex.
28:02
Speaker 1: This is because the True had written about this and
28:04
Speaker 1: drawn out diagrams of it before he was arrested. A
28:06
Speaker 1: spokesman was then asked to comment on the link between
28:09
Speaker 1: a Braxis and the mining complex. However, this spokesman refused
28:13
Speaker 1: and Abraxis is insane, So if you actually dig into
28:16
Speaker 1: this case and you actually do the research on this thing.
28:18
Speaker 1: A lot of people that I've spoken with about the
28:20
Speaker 1: true when you bring up this a Braxis angle, they
28:23
Speaker 1: want to say, oh, there was nothing definite ever proven there.
28:26
Speaker 1: There was no concrete connection. And I'll say, true, there
28:29
Speaker 1: really wasn't anything that was initially discovered, at least to
28:33
Speaker 1: our knowledge inside of the Abraxis compound, which, now that
28:36
Speaker 1: I say that out loud, it's like, you got one
28:37
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty police officers. They obviously thought something was
28:40
Speaker 1: going on there. The Belgian police were already corrupt as
28:43
Speaker 1: fuck in this case. So it's like even if they found,
28:46
Speaker 1: you know, fifteen roles of child, it's not like they
28:50
Speaker 1: would come out and say that. I mean, it's really weird,
28:53
Speaker 1: but there's some really weird things about a Braxis. The
28:56
Speaker 1: main thing that when you talk to people, they say, oh,
28:58
Speaker 1: they were just kind of escape goat from mark to true.
29:01
Speaker 1: But that's in my mind untrue. I mean, the letter
29:03
Speaker 1: itself is extremely bizarre. It's written directly to Bernard Weinstein.
29:08
Speaker 2: It's in his house.
29:08
Speaker 1: I think it was the night before or the day
29:10
Speaker 1: before the raid on Abraxis witnesses who lived in the
29:13
Speaker 1: area that surrounded their temple. They actually saw members loading
29:18
Speaker 1: a ton of shit out of the building, like it
29:20
Speaker 1: looked like they were moving out. They said, there's people
29:23
Speaker 1: that saw this and they testified about it. So it's just,
29:25
Speaker 1: I mean, really weird timing. What are the odds that
29:28
Speaker 1: you're going to be moving out a ton of shit?
29:30
Speaker 1: I mean, like, that's a really weird fucking point. People
29:33
Speaker 1: have mentioned rumors for many years that secret tunnels connect
29:36
Speaker 1: Chateau de Ameroy to the rest of Belgium, but there's
29:39
Speaker 1: even more compelling evidence that links Marked to True his
29:43
Speaker 1: massive pedophile organization, and the Mothers of Darkness Castle. Many
29:47
Speaker 1: of the Marked to True Scandal activities are said to
29:49
Speaker 1: have taken place in castles named by leaked documents on
29:52
Speaker 1: the True case. This theory was further pressed forward by
29:56
Speaker 1: the two thousand and one book Pedophilia Phile The Scandal
29:59
Speaker 1: of the True Affair. In this book, the Chateau de
30:02
Speaker 1: Ameroy is said to be the site of not only
30:04
Speaker 1: child to be but also satanic rituals. Apparently, according to
30:08
Speaker 1: the authors, a report that surfaced from the De True
30:11
Speaker 1: Affair brings a concerning letter to light is from a
30:14
Speaker 1: retired gendarme or police officer, and specifically it mentions this castle.
30:19
Speaker 1: This gendarme apparently hosted a priest from Mexico in early
30:22
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety six. A friend of the priest, a Dutchman,
30:25
Speaker 1: came to pick him up from the gendarmes home. This
30:27
Speaker 1: Dutchman apparently claimed that the Chateau de Ameroy was a
30:30
Speaker 1: place where pedophilic parties as well as the Satanic ritual
30:34
Speaker 1: sacrifice of children took place. Councilmen, lawyers in high ranking
30:38
Speaker 1: judges in the government were all said to have attended
30:41
Speaker 1: orgies organized by Detruz organization, and according to the Dutchman
30:44
Speaker 1: who wrote that letter, the one who informed him of
30:47
Speaker 1: this activity was a member of NATO and he was
30:50
Speaker 1: an American. Apparently, this American participated in one of these
30:53
Speaker 1: rituals and was disgusted by it and later returned to
30:56
Speaker 1: the US.
30:57
Speaker 2: But that wasn't all.
30:58
Speaker 1: Apparently this priest who the Dutchman came to see, was
31:01
Speaker 1: later in contact with the families of the two eight
31:04
Speaker 1: year old victims of Mark To true that more came
31:06
Speaker 1: forward from authoring conspiracy theorist Fritz Springmyer apparently the castle
31:10
Speaker 1: is indeed used by pedophiles and Satanists and small children
31:15
Speaker 1: in a ritual called the Pink Ballet. Now, to put
31:18
Speaker 1: this in a perspective real quick, the Belgian X files
31:21
Speaker 1: I've read through every single page. There are hundreds of pages,
31:25
Speaker 1: and they're some of the most incredibly disturbing should have
31:27
Speaker 1: ever read. They're all essentially summaries of testimony or direct
31:31
Speaker 1: testimony from victims and witnesses of the true crimes that were,
31:36
Speaker 1: I believe, mostly if not completely, deemed unusable in court.
31:40
Speaker 1: So they had hundreds and hundreds of pages of testimony
31:43
Speaker 1: of children talking about getting naming people's names, talking about
31:48
Speaker 1: watching children get I remember one of the things I
31:51
Speaker 1: read was this girl watched these men make another little girl.
31:55
Speaker 1: I don't even know how to say this sh had
31:57
Speaker 1: no clothing on, and apparently they made a dog do
32:01
Speaker 1: things to the girl, and then they allowed the dog
32:04
Speaker 1: to eat the girl from the privates up while she
32:08
Speaker 1: was alive, and they filmed this whole thing, and the
32:10
Speaker 1: men were laughing watching this. We actually visited the place
32:13
Speaker 1: where that was supposed to have happened in our true documentary.
32:17
Speaker 2: But that's just one.
32:18
Speaker 1: There's thousands of things like that that these children are
32:22
Speaker 1: claiming happened, and the police completely ignored all of.
32:25
Speaker 2: Them and said that, yeah, this stuff didn't happen.
32:28
Speaker 1: These are just, you know, we can't confirm that this
32:30
Speaker 1: happened because there's no witness that's gonna speak to it
32:33
Speaker 1: other than the witness themselves, which is the child. And
32:35
Speaker 1: so that's why when you get into these X files,
32:37
Speaker 1: it's a controversial thing because you know, it's weird. There
32:41
Speaker 1: isn't like direct physical evidence, but there is a lot
32:45
Speaker 1: of really really really direct evidence. Like there's one victim
32:49
Speaker 1: who testified named Regina Loof, and she talked about where
32:52
Speaker 1: that dog thing happened, and she described the interior of
32:55
Speaker 1: this building, said it was made by this corporation. It's
32:59
Speaker 1: got a very distinct interior. She described the furniture, the lighting, everything.
33:03
Speaker 1: It was an industrial building, so a place that a
33:05
Speaker 1: child would never be. She had no family that worked there,
33:08
Speaker 1: anything like that.
33:09
Speaker 2: And when the.
33:09
Speaker 1: Police brought her there to talk about it, they went
33:12
Speaker 1: into the building and found that it was the exactly
33:15
Speaker 1: how she had described it. So stuff like that, there's
33:17
Speaker 1: a ton of corroborating evidence in there, and it's just
33:20
Speaker 1: wild to me that the police just never did anything.
33:22
Speaker 1: They sealed these these files, that people would never read
33:26
Speaker 1: them or.
33:26
Speaker 2: Learn about this stuff.
33:27
Speaker 1: Let's get back to the Chateau and the Pink Ballet.
33:30
Speaker 1: I just wanted to explain that. So when we talk
33:32
Speaker 1: about the Belgian X files, you know what I'm referring to.
33:34
Speaker 2: It's a victim testimony.
33:36
Speaker 1: The pink Ballet is mentioned quite regularly in the Belgian
33:39
Speaker 1: X files. The files were named the X files because
33:42
Speaker 1: the witness's own identities were redacted in favor of the
33:45
Speaker 1: letter X and a variable associated so these kids.
33:49
Speaker 2: These victims.
33:50
Speaker 1: Instead of using their names in these X files, these
33:52
Speaker 1: victims were referred to as X one, X two, X three,
33:56
Speaker 1: x four, and so on. The witnesses state that the
33:59
Speaker 1: pink Ballet was connected to or supplied by, to True
34:03
Speaker 1: and his accomplices. Apparently, video evidence was captured of this event,
34:07
Speaker 1: videos which included the faces and names of prominent politicians,
34:11
Speaker 1: with confirmation that this ritual exists. Could Springmire have been
34:15
Speaker 1: taking it a step too far by saying it was
34:17
Speaker 1: a satanic ritual where took place. Witness X one or
34:21
Speaker 1: Regina Loof, says otherwise. During the trial Regina was deemed
34:25
Speaker 1: Witness X one to protect her identity, but later came
34:28
Speaker 1: out into the open. This woman and others described some
34:31
Speaker 1: horrific events that would occur at these gatherings. Loof went
34:34
Speaker 1: to the media in nineteen ninety eight, being interviewed by Panorama,
34:38
Speaker 1: partially sharing her story. According to Regina, she was raised
34:41
Speaker 1: by her grandmother from birth to be used by the
34:44
Speaker 1: massive pedophile ring, of which to true was only a
34:46
Speaker 1: small part. Regina was trained in the most dementive ways,
34:50
Speaker 1: experiencing things that children should not even know exist, let
34:53
Speaker 1: alone be subjected to. Regina stated that she began to
34:56
Speaker 1: be abused by pedophiles within the ring at the age
34:59
Speaker 1: of three or five, and that money was the primary objective.
35:02
Speaker 1: She also said that snuff films were a regular aspect
35:05
Speaker 1: of her life. When she was ten years old, Regina
35:08
Speaker 1: claimed she became pregnant by a pedophile. After giving birth
35:12
Speaker 1: to this man's baby, Regina was only allowed to be
35:15
Speaker 1: with her child for a few moments before this group
35:18
Speaker 1: of pedophiles ripped the baby from her arms, assisted it,
35:22
Speaker 1: and murdered the baby, then murdered its corpse, all on
35:26
Speaker 1: video while smiling and laughing. In front of Regina, whence
35:29
Speaker 1: she was ten years old. She continued on saying that
35:31
Speaker 1: when children were past the age where they could be
35:33
Speaker 1: bought and sold, they were killed on film and those
35:36
Speaker 1: films were then sold to clients. Regina stated that she
35:39
Speaker 1: had seen the films herselves and that these videos were
35:41
Speaker 1: regularly viewed and played at these parties. At these parties,
35:45
Speaker 1: several children will be provided to groups of pedophiles. She
35:48
Speaker 1: went on to say that those who had been witnesses
35:50
Speaker 1: to the memorial life were at the parties and that
35:52
Speaker 1: they gave commentary as the video was playing out, cold
35:55
Speaker 1: and remorseless of their monstrous crime. She stated that well,
35:59
Speaker 1: the pedophiles would be watching these snuff films she and
36:02
Speaker 1: the other children in attendance were. She then gave an
36:05
Speaker 1: account of the murder of sixteen year old Christine van Heats,
36:08
Speaker 1: a murder linked to both Mark to True and Michelle
36:11
Speaker 1: nahoul the business magnate. Sixteen year old Christine was apparently
36:14
Speaker 1: forced into by Michelle Nihouel after being introduced through Marked
36:19
Speaker 1: to True. Regina explained that Christine, the sixteen year old victim,
36:23
Speaker 1: was murder because she couldn't adapt to the science and
36:26
Speaker 1: so she was but the true Nahoul and others that
36:29
Speaker 1: she refused to name. She then named other girls who
36:32
Speaker 1: were victims and described the levels at which people entered
36:35
Speaker 1: the organization. She said that people didn't immediately enter the
36:38
Speaker 1: ring and take part in the murder. She said that
36:40
Speaker 1: people were introduced slowly over time, and as they became
36:43
Speaker 1: more trustworthy and moved up in the ring, they were
36:46
Speaker 1: pressed into further atrocities. At first, she said, these men
36:49
Speaker 1: would have to engage in a pedophilixt with girls bordering
36:52
Speaker 1: illegal age. But then as the men moved up in
36:55
Speaker 1: the hierarchy of the ring, they would take part in bestiality, sadism, torture,
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Speaker 1: and at the highest levels ritual me. But not just
37:03
Speaker 1: anyone could join. They had to be powerful and have
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Speaker 1: good connections that the ring could make use of. Regina
37:08
Speaker 1: said that it was just as much about maintaining contacts
37:11
Speaker 1: with the elite as it was about pedophilia. Regina didn't
37:14
Speaker 1: share everything in her Panorama interview, however, in one of
37:17
Speaker 1: her testimonies, Regina talked about something that makes one's blood
37:20
Speaker 1: run cold. At an unnamed castle, children, according to Regina,
37:24
Speaker 1: were forced to strip naked except for shoes and were
37:27
Speaker 1: then told to run off into the forest behind them,
37:30
Speaker 1: men with dogs waited to chase them. Regina was not
37:32
Speaker 1: a victim of the hunting party. In this testimony, she
37:35
Speaker 1: said that she was forced to participate in the hunt.
37:37
Speaker 1: She was told she had to go hunt in her
37:39
Speaker 1: child or that she would be herself. Interestingly, one supposed
37:43
Speaker 1: survivor of Satanic ritual abuse discussed something that she experienced
37:47
Speaker 1: a situation so exactly similar that it could have been
37:50
Speaker 1: at the same event, at a party attended by members
37:52
Speaker 1: of the ruling elite. According to this victim, children would
37:55
Speaker 1: be stripped, naked except for tennis shoes, and allowed to
37:58
Speaker 1: run into the forest behind them. The members of the
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Speaker 1: elite chase them, wearing masks, armed and ready to kill
38:03
Speaker 1: that children were caught. It mimic The Most Dangerous Game,
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Speaker 1: the famous story by Richard Connell, where a Russian aristocrat
38:10
Speaker 1: hunts a castaway on an island in the Caribbean. Even
38:12
Speaker 1: in real life, this so called game was dubbed with
38:15
Speaker 1: this title, even though the victim was not an accomplished
38:18
Speaker 1: big game hunter, but blameless innocent children. The survivor stated
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Speaker 1: that the game would start early in the evening, which
38:23
Speaker 1: Regina Loof also corroborated. This unnamed survivor felt she had
38:27
Speaker 1: no place to run and no place to hide, though,
38:29
Speaker 1: and there were no limits as to what could happen
38:31
Speaker 1: to her.
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Speaker 2: At the time, it.
38:32
Speaker 1: Was one of the most extreme situations she had ever survived,
38:36
Speaker 1: yet somehow she managed to pull through the fact that
38:38
Speaker 1: Satanic cults could exist right now before our very eyes,
38:41
Speaker 1: and the depth of evil of the crimes they were
38:43
Speaker 1: committing seems like something that could only happen in a
38:46
Speaker 1: barbaric era. But was this horrific game also being played
38:49
Speaker 1: at the Chateau d'An roy and was it satanic in nature?
38:52
Speaker 1: As the unnamed survivor experienced. There have been reports about
38:55
Speaker 1: the chateau that these are the games that they play,
38:57
Speaker 1: the most dangerous games, these hunting parties, and obviously that's
39:01
Speaker 1: not something that's going to be written down in history.
39:03
Speaker 1: Regina Luf did have something to say about Satanic rituals
39:06
Speaker 1: in her portion of the X Files. She talked about
39:08
Speaker 1: blood rituals being held at a castle near Eindhoven in
39:11
Speaker 1: the Netherlands and said that Mark Detrue was indeed connected
39:14
Speaker 1: to Satanic groups. Moreover, multiple witnesses in the x files
39:18
Speaker 1: claimed that prominent men in Belgian society were witnesses to
39:21
Speaker 1: and accomplices in Satanic rituals at several locations in Europe,
39:25
Speaker 1: some of which included blood, magic and sacrifice.
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Speaker 2: But who was this cult and what was their aim?
39:30
Speaker 1: Well? One of the cults that was named in the
39:32
Speaker 1: files of the Truz case, like we mentioned before, was Abraxis.
39:36
Speaker 1: This cult's name has ancient origins and is known to
39:38
Speaker 1: worship a demon by the same name. This demon is
39:41
Speaker 1: mentioned in an ancient Egyptian invocation as well as in
39:44
Speaker 1: Judaeo Christian texts. The Basilidians, described by Infernal Dictionary author J.
39:49
Speaker 1: Colin de Plancy as the heretics of the second century,
39:52
Speaker 1: labeled this being as a supreme god. The Catholic Church
39:55
Speaker 1: had labeled this being as a demon and plants He
39:57
Speaker 1: stated that the Basilidians attributed a brac Xis's rule to
40:01
Speaker 1: three sixty five skies and three sixty five virtues. Plantcy
40:05
Speaker 1: further states that the Basilidians believed that Braxis sent Jesus
40:08
Speaker 1: Christ to earth and that Jesus was merely a benevolent ghost.
40:12
Speaker 1: The being is referred to as several different beings, some
40:14
Speaker 1: claiming it's a god, some a demon, and some an archin.
40:18
Speaker 1: What is repetitious in all beliefs, though, is that three
40:20
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty five is a very significant number for
40:23
Speaker 1: this being, as the name in Greek contains the number
40:26
Speaker 1: three hundred and sixty five, the same number as the
40:28
Speaker 1: days in the year. The Basilidians believe that Abraxis had
40:31
Speaker 1: another three hundred and sixty four gods at his disposal. Interestingly,
40:35
Speaker 1: the Chateau de Ameroi has exactly three hundred and sixty
40:40
Speaker 1: five windows. A Braxis in ancient amulets is depicted as
40:44
Speaker 1: a being with the head of a king and a
40:45
Speaker 1: serpent or two serpents for feet. In the amulets, a
40:48
Speaker 1: word is spelled, possibly related to abracadabra, the ancient ritual
40:52
Speaker 1: incantation meant to ward off illness, misfortune, or harm. Above
40:56
Speaker 1: his head, he holds a whip. This connection was discovered
40:59
Speaker 1: in the note to Wine's sent by an anonymous member
41:01
Speaker 1: of a modern day of Braxis cult. The true received
41:04
Speaker 1: aid in kidnapping children for the pedophile ring he was
41:07
Speaker 1: employed by, apparently from police who were also wrapped up
41:10
Speaker 1: in his scrap dealing in car theft. Interestingly enough, the
41:13
Speaker 1: publication de Spiegel announced that four Belgian police officers were
41:18
Speaker 1: discovered to be a Braxist members, with one serving as
41:21
Speaker 1: the cult's treasurer. One of the witnesses to the cult
41:24
Speaker 1: implicated Prince Alexander de Moraude of Belgium in a black
41:27
Speaker 1: mass where children were, rib babies were and sacrifices of
41:32
Speaker 1: both animals and adults took place. Apparently the less ritual
41:36
Speaker 1: were men in black hoods. Prince Alexander is again implicated
41:40
Speaker 1: by witness X two as being part of the child
41:43
Speaker 1: hunts that Regina Loof described, though these occurred.
41:45
Speaker 2: At Chaime Castle.
41:46
Speaker 1: Satanic feasts are also mentioned, as well as a ritual
41:49
Speaker 1: where an infant and sheeper and their blood combined.
41:52
Speaker 2: Will it takes place if.
41:54
Speaker 1: This weren't enough, Apparently, according to these files, children were
41:58
Speaker 1: forced to eat human flesh and were branded with hot irons.
42:01
Speaker 1: It doesn't seem that any sane being could preside over
42:04
Speaker 1: such horrors, but according to some, those who preside over
42:07
Speaker 1: the rituals were once victims themselves. The Chateau de Ameroy
42:11
Speaker 1: is better known by English speakers as the Mothers of
42:13
Speaker 1: Darkness Castle, and this name comes from the supposed witches
42:17
Speaker 1: who allegedly perform dark magic within its halls, called the
42:20
Speaker 1: Mothers of Darkness or High Priestesses. It's claimed that these
42:24
Speaker 1: Satanic witches were ordained from birth, having descended from old
42:27
Speaker 1: Satanic families. Rumors abound that the powerful elite have been
42:31
Speaker 1: part of Satanic families for generations, with some even saying
42:35
Speaker 1: that Queen Elizabeth, the same bloodline as the former sax
42:38
Speaker 1: Coburg owners, is also descended from Satanists. The Mothers of Darkness,
42:42
Speaker 1: or the Witches of the Chateau de Ameroy, are said
42:45
Speaker 1: to have been the subjects of Satanic ritual abuse from
42:48
Speaker 1: an extremely early age. These rituals are alleged to contain physical,
42:52
Speaker 1: settle and mental abuse. This abuse results in a disassociative
42:56
Speaker 1: disorder that allows children to be programmable, so that is
43:00
Speaker 1: they grow older, they will willingly participate and even perpetrate
43:03
Speaker 1: the abuse of children. This disassociative disorder is typically multiple
43:07
Speaker 1: personality disorder now known as disassociative identity disorder. This abuse
43:12
Speaker 1: that these children suffer at a young age fractures their minds.
43:15
Speaker 1: Early on due to the continuous trauma. In disassociative identity disorder,
43:20
Speaker 1: the victim's personality becomes incredibly warped as a way to
43:24
Speaker 1: deal with the extreme suffering they faced as children. Because
43:27
Speaker 1: they were trained to live with the trauma, they become
43:29
Speaker 1: accustomed to it, and they're groomed to take part in it.
43:32
Speaker 1: The result of mental trauma is well documented, with abuse
43:35
Speaker 1: survivor Paul Banassi, famed for speaking out against the Franklin
43:39
Speaker 1: Credit Union pedophile ring, suffering from the same disorder, claiming
43:42
Speaker 1: that he too was abused as a child in order
43:45
Speaker 1: to be programmed. But back to the witches of the Chateau.
43:47
Speaker 1: According to people who've researched this matter, when these women,
43:50
Speaker 1: the mothers of Darkness, have reached adulthood, they're finally able
43:54
Speaker 1: to continue the cycle of violence that dominated their whole
43:57
Speaker 1: lives as children. Now that these women are adults and
44:00
Speaker 1: hardwired to accept the trauma, they perform these horrific rituals
44:03
Speaker 1: at the behest of the elite, doing their bidding, regardless
44:06
Speaker 1: of the cost. Now where does all this information come from?
44:09
Speaker 1: I mean, it seems like we're just pulling this from
44:11
Speaker 1: thin air, right Well, Regina Loof can be cited as
44:14
Speaker 1: a source of evidence in this case. She stated in
44:17
Speaker 1: one of her witness testimonies that she was forced to
44:19
Speaker 1: participate in the abuse as she got older, already having
44:22
Speaker 1: been programmed to accept the abuse from her earliest days.
44:25
Speaker 1: From a young age, Regina was programmed to accept the
44:28
Speaker 1: traumas of her life, even apparently forced.
44:30
Speaker 2: To kick some points.
44:32
Speaker 1: If Regina could be trained to perhaps these women of
44:35
Speaker 1: the Chateau de Ameroy could be trained to do even worse.
44:39
Speaker 1: Something eerie about the chateau and the mothers of darkness
44:41
Speaker 1: as well, is apparently according to some people and some
44:45
Speaker 1: stuff that I've read, these women are never allowed to
44:48
Speaker 1: leave the.
44:48
Speaker 2: Walls of the castle.
44:49
Speaker 1: So that would mean that these witches, these satanic witches,
44:52
Speaker 1: are inside of the Chateau de Ameroy at all times.
44:55
Speaker 1: They don't come outside and maybe every once in a
44:57
Speaker 1: while at night to do these rituals, but they're held
45:00
Speaker 1: there and confined there and broken and abused until they
45:03
Speaker 1: become these contorted human demons. So that was eerie when
45:06
Speaker 1: we visited the chateau, thinking there could be these people
45:09
Speaker 1: in there, But why in Belgium, why would all these
45:11
Speaker 1: horrible things be happening there, and why would a satanic
45:13
Speaker 1: pedophile cult be hiding in the chateau to Ammeroy Well,
45:17
Speaker 1: Brussels hosts the Council of the European Union as well
45:20
Speaker 1: as serving as a hub for NATO, just as a
45:22
Speaker 1: NATO member was mentioned in the witness statements about the chateau.
45:25
Speaker 1: Because of these major organizations being concentrated here, some believe
45:29
Speaker 1: that Belgium is the concentration point for the New World Order.
45:32
Speaker 1: Many rich and powerful people make stops in Belgium, all
45:35
Speaker 1: well connected and useful for a cult such as a Braxis.
45:38
Speaker 1: Perhaps because these connected people meet here, a Braxis uses
45:42
Speaker 1: it as a poaching ground for inducting new members into
45:44
Speaker 1: their dark ranks. Or perhaps it's the other way around.
45:47
Speaker 1: Perhaps this massive satanic cult with Satanic ritual sites mentioned
45:51
Speaker 1: across Belgium, Holland and the Netherlands place their own into
45:54
Speaker 1: these positions of power and flourished from there.
45:57
Speaker 2: There are more.
45:58
Speaker 1: Supposed Satanic estates in Belgia itself. We visited a few
46:01
Speaker 1: of them. Certainly, the Institute of Braxis and Chateau da
46:04
Speaker 1: Amroy aren't the only ones. These rituals are said to
46:07
Speaker 1: bring the members of Satanic cult's power, fame and riches.
46:11
Speaker 1: These kinds of lures are exactly the type that would
46:13
Speaker 1: lure those seeking power in Europe and world governments in
46:16
Speaker 1: Such a thing could lure anyone even if they aren't
46:18
Speaker 1: willing to do what's asked of them. Apparently, one such
46:21
Speaker 1: man exists who saw the inner workings of the cult
46:23
Speaker 1: and said no. His name was Ronald Bernard, a Dutch banker.
46:27
Speaker 1: He's gone on interviews. He was a whistleblower and he
46:29
Speaker 1: claimed that the world's elite did participate in these Satanic rituals,
46:33
Speaker 1: those that involved the abuse of children in torture. But
46:36
Speaker 1: how would he know this, Well, Ronald Bernard was one
46:39
Speaker 1: of the men they asked to attend, and he did,
46:41
Speaker 1: but he found that he couldn't stomach what these cultists
46:44
Speaker 1: were doing behind closed doors. You see, Bernard was a
46:50
Speaker 1: major player at the highest levels of finance and turned
46:53
Speaker 1: whistleblower for the evil elite after seeing the truth of
46:56
Speaker 1: what they did. He gave information on what the world
46:58
Speaker 1: of the elite did, what he was asked to do,
47:00
Speaker 1: and who they really were, as well as how long
47:03
Speaker 1: this had been occurring for Ronald Bernard said that he
47:05
Speaker 1: played at a high level for five years, but it
47:08
Speaker 1: didn't happen overnight. He had to earn his place amongst
47:10
Speaker 1: the ranks of the world's highest level power brokers. Interestingly,
47:14
Speaker 1: comments made by Regina Loof mirror this admission. She stated
47:17
Speaker 1: in her interview with Panorama that to be introduced into
47:20
Speaker 1: the ring, he had to be asked to join and
47:22
Speaker 1: slowly brought into the fold. She stated that men were
47:25
Speaker 1: started off with girls age sixteen to seventeen, and that
47:28
Speaker 1: as they were pulled further into the ranks, the ages
47:30
Speaker 1: got even younger as.
47:31
Speaker 2: You moved up.
47:32
Speaker 1: And how did Bernard earn his place in the ring?
47:34
Speaker 1: He said that in the financial world he saw the
47:37
Speaker 1: truth as it really was, instead of only a small portion,
47:40
Speaker 1: because he could connect the dots of information and complete
47:42
Speaker 1: the pictures himself. Because of this unique position, he learned
47:46
Speaker 1: all of the actual truth, as he called it. When
47:48
Speaker 1: asked in what regard, he said that his clients gave
47:51
Speaker 1: him glimpses into how the world worked. He stated that
47:54
Speaker 1: in hindsight, he didn't know everything, but he did know
47:56
Speaker 1: a lot because his clients were banks who didn't want
47:59
Speaker 1: blood on their hands and needed someone to cover their trail.
48:02
Speaker 1: Within those banks, he said there were always several people
48:05
Speaker 1: who knew damn well what was going on. He said
48:07
Speaker 1: that on average, one percent of a bank knew the
48:09
Speaker 1: truth regarding the happenings within the world because they were
48:12
Speaker 1: involved with the flow of money. He stated that he
48:14
Speaker 1: worked with governments, multinationals, secret services, as well as terrorist organizations.
48:20
Speaker 1: He stated that you get all the groups involved with
48:22
Speaker 1: the big money as clients. After this happens, he says,
48:25
Speaker 1: you start to see the connections. In other words, everyone
48:28
Speaker 1: knows a little piece of everything, but only those at
48:30
Speaker 1: the very top know the whole story. But because Bernard
48:34
Speaker 1: was in the middle of it all, he saw and
48:36
Speaker 1: knew everything and how it related to everyone involved. He
48:39
Speaker 1: saw where the money was coming from and where it went,
48:42
Speaker 1: and continued to gain information and through that he gained
48:45
Speaker 1: the complete view of everything that was happening in the world.
48:48
Speaker 1: In his position, he said he had to serve and
48:50
Speaker 1: keep everyone happy, everyone in every group, including the terrorist organizations.
48:55
Speaker 2: He later on.
48:56
Speaker 1: Stated that the secret services of countries were thought of
48:59
Speaker 1: as a body meant to protect the people, their country, etc.
49:02
Speaker 1: But in truth, he stated that these were the criminal
49:05
Speaker 1: organizations hiding behind a mask. But what did he mean
49:08
Speaker 1: by that? He was talking about the fact that these
49:10
Speaker 1: secret services are the ones financing and creating wars, much
49:14
Speaker 1: like the CIA funded Iran Contra scandal back in the
49:17
Speaker 1: nineteen eighties. He was talking about the fact that these
49:20
Speaker 1: high level organizations were the ones creating all the misery
49:23
Speaker 1: in the world. Secret services, he said, would stop at nothing,
49:26
Speaker 1: they needed nothing, but they also had their own flows
49:29
Speaker 1: of money. He said that they were trading in drugs
49:31
Speaker 1: and weapons as well as in people, and that all
49:34
Speaker 1: that money had to go somewhere. Everything in this world
49:37
Speaker 1: has to be financed. He said that every government in
49:39
Speaker 1: the world was engaging in this activity everywhere, no matter
49:43
Speaker 1: how clean and high standing the country looked. He said,
49:45
Speaker 1: the entire world as we know is only an illusion
49:48
Speaker 1: that we all collectively believe in. He went with all
49:50
Speaker 1: of it for a time, but then all those horrible
49:53
Speaker 1: things began to eat at him. Bernard had seen the
49:55
Speaker 1: true horrors because of his complacency. In the interview, the
49:59
Speaker 1: host asked Bernard to tell her the worst thing he
50:01
Speaker 1: had seen, the tipping point that made him decide to
50:03
Speaker 1: speak out. In response, Bernard stated that was the beginning
50:07
Speaker 1: of the end. You get so deep in these circles,
50:09
Speaker 1: you sign a lifetime contract, not with blood or anything,
50:12
Speaker 1: to never disclose the names of companies, organizations, or people.
50:16
Speaker 1: I think that's why I'm still alive. To put it carefully,
50:19
Speaker 1: most of these people followed a not very mainstream religion,
50:22
Speaker 1: So you have Catholics, Protestants, all sorts of religions. These people,
50:26
Speaker 1: most of them were Luciferians. And then you can say
50:29
Speaker 1: religion is a fairy tale, God doesn't exist and none
50:32
Speaker 1: of that is real. Well for these people, it is
50:35
Speaker 1: true and reality, and they serve something immaterial, what they
50:38
Speaker 1: call lucifer. But then at some point I was invited,
50:42
Speaker 1: which is why I'm telling you all this, to participate
50:44
Speaker 1: in sacrifices abroad. That was the breaking point. As he begins,
50:48
Speaker 1: Bernard can barely speak. He looks in sounds as if
50:50
Speaker 1: he's beginning to start sobbing, doing his best to hold
50:53
Speaker 1: himself together as he holds back tears, his voice breaking,
50:56
Speaker 1: He states, children the interviewer has taken aback on to
51:00
Speaker 1: believe it. She asks if he was truly invited to
51:02
Speaker 1: do such a thing, and he confirms, Yes, he was
51:05
Speaker 1: asked and he couldn't do it. Bernard had been asked
51:07
Speaker 1: to participate in child sacrifice to Satan, and that was
51:10
Speaker 1: his breaking point. Horrors such as this were described by
51:13
Speaker 1: the witnesses of the de true case and by independent factfinders.
51:17
Speaker 2: It could be that what.
51:18
Speaker 1: Bernard had been swept up in was a small part
51:20
Speaker 1: of the detrue ring all along, but Bernard had more
51:23
Speaker 1: to share. After regaining his composure, Bernard continues. He states
51:27
Speaker 1: that this hasn't only been going on for the past
51:29
Speaker 1: few years. He says that the practice of sacrificing children
51:33
Speaker 1: goes back thousands of years, and that after studying theology
51:36
Speaker 1: in the Bible, he found references to those practices occurring
51:39
Speaker 1: within the Israelites. Indeed, there are several references in the
51:43
Speaker 1: Judeo Christian texts which mention this. Specifically, in Leviticus and
51:47
Speaker 1: Two Kings, they discussed the sacrifice of infants and young
51:50
Speaker 1: children to a deity called Molik by burning a child alive.
51:54
Speaker 1: Knowing these sacrifices happened made him believe in what these
51:57
Speaker 1: organizations were doing, because he realized there was more to
51:59
Speaker 1: life meets the eye. If it was happening, then it
52:02
Speaker 1: could be happening now. Bernard said that in his studies
52:05
Speaker 1: of theology, he discovered a document that he believed made
52:08
Speaker 1: sense of what was happening in the world. But how
52:10
Speaker 1: could Bernard talk about all of this and get away
52:12
Speaker 1: with it? I would assume that he would have been
52:15
Speaker 1: Ronald Bernard said he was allowed to leave, but it
52:18
Speaker 1: wasn't a pleasant goodbye. In his exit from the ring,
52:20
Speaker 1: he was subjected to torture to ensure that he never
52:23
Speaker 1: said anything about what he knew. He said that certain
52:25
Speaker 1: types of torture were inflicted to ensure his silence, almost
52:29
Speaker 1: as a method of mind control. Yet Ronald Bernard revealed
52:32
Speaker 1: all of this and seemingly managed to get away with it.
52:35
Speaker 1: Ronald Bernard wasn't specifically talking about the true scandal, but
52:39
Speaker 1: as a Dutch banker, he certainly had to have knowledge
52:41
Speaker 1: about it. But now we couldn't end this without a
52:44
Speaker 1: visit ourselves to the Chateau de Ameroy. So let's cut
52:48
Speaker 1: to August twenty twenty four, when Connor and I entered
52:52
Speaker 1: the country of Belgium to go visit the Mothers of
52:55
Speaker 1: Darkness Castle to try to track down the source of
52:58
Speaker 1: these conspiracies and look evil straight in the eyes