12 YO Escapes Death Cult Minutes Before Massacre | The Case of Tracy Parks
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- Опубліковано 7 лип 2023
- “He’s going to kill us all”
On November 18th 1978, Gerald Park tells his 12 year old daughter Tracy to escape in the jungle, and stay hidden until it’s safe. As gunmen and helicopters close in on her, Tracy knows she needs to survive to avenge her mother’s death, and make sure Jim Jones would pay for what he did to her family, and 918 other victims. You might have heard about Jonestown, but this is the story of the little girl who lived.
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I was most shocked by a US politician actually doing his job and looking out for his citizens.
I hope they named a ship after him.
“I am from the American government, and I am here to help…..”
Yes, but he was completely bamboozled.
Quite ironic, while they were filming the show to excuse them from plotting the whole church saga. Senator seemed shocked that everyone bought the scam to be sacrificed for drugs and cash far away from home. Conscience is uncomfortable and uncontrollable when you overstep your spiritual boundary over evil and good. We're these people pretending to be mortals or immortals? Why is it that does that wear dark glasses in modern times are destined to commit evil against those that subscribe to their disgusting lies?
his face is bleached of color when he's speaking, not comfortable at all, i'd guess he's flattering them out of pure intelligence. back then most people had to deal with the real world.
the whole thing was probably cooked up as a ma5onic plot to get rid of people like him from the beginning :p
Our school system needs to teach us about cults like this in depth. Not just historical cults, but how to identify new ones. If the masses were educated on how to spot their tactics, these monsters would get reported faster and pull in less people
i was very headstrong as a child and this haunted me, i couldnt understand what force could make full grown adults feed poison to their own babies. it led to a life long study of cults and i knew and recognized all this current events from the very, very beginning. so few people did it seems. cults are unbelievably dangerous and knowing to identify the signs is absolutely key
Cults this big and dangerous are very rare (but still a occurrence like in Korea). Most people with common sense would never want to die or suffer. The methods they use are seemingly innocent at first.
Nowadays most people see red flags and run but even then some are still seeping through like human trafficking groups. For example, a lady comes up to you or your dad/mom and says you or your parent/or child can have a possible lead role for a family film and even hands out a flyer.
When you go to the audition, it's a trap. If you're waiting on your parent/child they'll say come back for them in 5-6 hours. When you come back, they are gone. They will use the victim for whatever, either to create more victims, abuse/torture them or at the end of their use cycle sell the organs.
My mother was one of the near victims of it and we didn't even know at first until years later there were reports of kids/people missing through a supposed audition or other methods. I just happened to have a bad stomach ache and my mom stayed home for me.
LMAO you want the leftist controlled school system that is in line with the culture of politicians and celebrities that are ACTUAL cult members and have been caught going to private islands to worship moloch(which means rape and sacrifice babies in sadist rituals) to teach children ABOUT FUCKING CULTS. Good lord Americans are so far gone its insane, the level of low iq is astounding.
Government is a criminal cult. They won’t teach you about themselves.
You're still believing school is there to educate people on anything other then how to be a slave. You drank too much fluoride already buddy a life of understanding anything around you has passed you by already. I sincerely hope you didn't reproduce, if you were an acorn growing on an acorn tree, it would sense how kuchis wrong with you and abort you. Sometimes you need to facefscts and live in reality instead of that strange little disney world you created for yourself in your mind.
The camera man adjusting his angle as he died to get the best coverage of what was happening is heart breaking and such a brief but tremendous moment of humanity.
The camera man never dies rest In peace my friend
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@@HeartsIIV 15:36
Senator Leo Ryan was a hero.
At that critical point, when he realized that place wasn't as it seemed and he started getting notes from people and realized he too was in danger, he still tried to rescue those people.
He died trying to save them. That is a hero in my book.
R.I.P. Senator.
Today some senators are part of a cult
He's the only politician I'll ever respect. Nowadays they just make tweets.
Leo Ryan was a Rep. not a Senator.
When the child has more clear vision of red flags than the adults. Respect and aadmiration.
Most of the time adults are blind
Children are more open to alternative explanations for things because they haven’t been brainwashed yet.
@@richardkallio3868truth based on objectivity
generally, now add generations of MK and your kids are mutilating their privates. west papua everyday
62 years silent genocide for world's largest goldmine (u.s. operated)
oj simpson verdict same date as mku1tra child r4pe verdict. america forgot the 5:50pm slot.
The amount of elderly people boggled my mind. Elders are usually wise but obviously not the ones who died in Guyana.
the levels of PTSD she probably had to work through her entire life, after being exposed to that level of violence as a child is unimaginable.
For her, none because of what she said at 24:57 but few did suffer from PTSD from 23:18
@@ahonui having ptsd doesnt mean you cant work passed it though. saying she had none is just wrong when she clearly talks about her struggle with alcoholism too
It unfortunately is an incurable thing that will forever plague her entire personality. Of course she is human like everyone else and can still transcend her suffering but the suffering will always be there to some degree.
@@ahonui right she chose to succeed but that doesn't mean it won't affect her forever. Every person is affected in some way by their upbringing, it is impossible not to be. Now the effects don’t have to be purely negative but she's human so some of them will be.
@@HelloThere..... yeah! incurable doesnt mean unmanageable, basically. and honestly what does "cure" even mean in mental contexts? obviously your past will have always shaped who you are, trauma or not, so even if you work pass the trauma part you do still carry it with you. so just like you said, this doesnt mean youre doomed to suffer forever!
I listened to the Jonestown death tape a couple years ago. I don’t know what I was expecting, but it was so much worse than I could’ve imagined. For a while, when I would try to fall asleep I would here children screaming and crying. It was horrible, and that was the last time I ever acted on my curiosity. It was so harrowing and disturbing. Jim Jones was absolutely twisted, and you could hear evil in his voice. I was traumatized by that tape for weeks.
I've read the transcript. That was bad enough.
Why would you do that to yourself
You gave yourself PSTD 😂
Yes I’m not going there. Need to go watch sponge bob after watching this
I've listened to it, and Jim Jones was a selfish masochist. When he speaks about the children, it's sickening. I truly hope he's rotting in hell
Greg Robinson one of the five killed on the airstrip, was my dear brother. He was a phenomenal photographer - just starting a brilliant career, happy, deeply driven and was a kind easy going guy. He belly laughed, his friends and peers loved him and still talk about him to this day.. I can still hear his laughter and how he called me Toots. I miss him every day, and this loss I carry to my last breath. It's SHAMEFUL they didn't take 2 minutes to look up his name and pay tribute to him. Not only shameful- it's painful. All the great still photography is shot by Greg with no credit. Painful.
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i’m so sorry🩷
Lol stop making shit up 🤣 source is trust me bro
Lying on the internet 👍
@@niggachu420 You know he could be right and you just dont believe ANYTHING people say?
There was an elderly black women that survived by hidding under a bed. Her story of walking out among the bodies of all her friends, stayed with me since I first saw her interview. The scariest part is how many "preachers" like this exsit now, it's only a matter of time before a similar tragedy happens again.
Doesn’t have to be a church, any ideaology that controls the narrative and uses absolutism and hyperbole to push the narrative as in climate science…….
Sadly it did, in 1997 a cult Heaven’s Gate did a similar one, 39 members committed suicide with poisoned applesauce.
The scary part is the amount of stupid people that still exsist
I think we'll see something like this with that preacher, I want to say he's from Tennessee. The one that claims women are witches. He seems Jim Jones-esque.
I am concerned about the Jehovah's Witnesses. They are also a death cult. The rhetoric of their leaders, 'The Governing Body' (9 men) is very disturbing. But they are already responsible for innumerable deaths, by monitoring their followers in hospital, pretending to be advocates and religious support, when they are actually making sure that no consent forms are signed to allow blood transfusions. If they do, they are disfellowshipped from the Jehovah's Witness church entirely. They have color photos in their Watchtower publications of the child 'martyrs' who died from not having a blood transfusion. Women can't leave their husbands in cases of domestic abuse, either, which is rife, due to their misogynistic teachings. There is too much that is deeply disturbing to write here.
One evil detail overlooked about the massacre, kids were the first ones forced to drink the poisoned kool aid using syringes and then soon died in their parents' arms, pushing the parents further to end their lives as well. Jones let the parents watch their children die first so that they'd drink poison, willingly. He really planned and thought this through.
Few people also escaped the massacre by escaping through the jungle.
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That's a demon there... Truly demonic
the reason they did the children first was so they wouldnt freak out and it would be easier for the parents to give them the poison. by the time of the massacure jones and the white women he had helping him, because at that time he was drugged out and paranoid, came up with the plan and made it seem like the goverment was coming for them to take their kids away for their beliefs. by this time they were already groups of people who defected and spoke out about the humilation and abuse they endured. This was the main reason jones wanted to leave america.
he faked drills of telling people they were poisioned to see how they would react. they made it seem like a rightious thing to commit suicide for their beliefs. its unfortunate how far it went.
Thats.. I have no words. How can a person be so evil.. Hope he is being tortured in hell
Disgusting pigs.
Tracy lost everything she had. She is a true warrior for not falling into depression and sharing her story. Props to her
What do you mean? She still had her dad, brother, and sister. Her sister recently died last year and her father is still around, helping her raise her children and nieces/nephews.
@@ering1107bro did u even like..watch the video..?
@@ering1107so basically you just explained that you didn’t watch the video at all
@@ering1107 watch the video before yapping bro
I've heard the audio recording of the massacre and it's extremely haunting. That man was an absolute monster.
I've wanted to listen, but stop myself every time. Not sure that I can.
I listened to the recording as well. It’s one of the most haunting things I’ve ever heard in my life, and I utterly despise the monster that was Jim Jones. May all of those people who suffered from his manipulations find peace in heaven.
I never knew that someone survived the Jonestown massacre. I'm so glad that not all the parents thought it was a good idea to let their children die with them
years ago I watched the interview of a man that escaped... but his young wife and his child were poisoned. He was still traumatized
There were about 80 survivors. The exact number isn’t known as some ran through the jungle and were unaccounted for.
I was just a kid but I watched the reports with my mom and I can not forget the news reports.
An elderly lady hid under her bed and escaped.
@@whatintheheck4692 pp
The father is one of the best out there, he saw his wife die, realized his life was a lie, almost lost all of his children, but still pushed through and raised them lovingly without his wife.
He was the idiot that caused all of their suffering for buying into the cult.
Didn't he lead them to the cult?
@TraceArnold religion can make people do crazy stuff
@@tazyjump5377cause people are so easily manipulated
Religion isn’t a cult
I was a child of parents in a cult and I never understood why they did certain things that were clearly wrong to me even as a very young kid. This was the first time I heard someone else articulate that experience, wow.
so was i. tracy's "i knew this was wrong" moment and seeing red flags are something I can relate to.
I feel like I shouldn't comment here...
@@ultimatecultchaos then why did you
I remember my mom watching a movie about Jonestown and seen a few minutes of it and said to her how messed up this would be if it happened in real life and she explained it did. I immediately went in my room and found a documentary and was absolutely horrified. A dark, dark stain on human history. So many innocent people lost their lives.
It’s heartbreaking to think many of the victims were not even still brainwashed and truly didn’t want to die.
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❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ I'm sorry that happened 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏😭😭😭😭😭🥹🥹🥹🥺🥺🥺🥺🤒
At some point they were convinced to leave home and travel to a new location where this cult was taken to a new and most dangerous level. Unfortunately, their realization of being part of a cult and having been tricked came too late. What an incredibly tragic and inhumane historic event. Such trauma for those left with memories of those occurrences.
Many were basically hostages. They had armed guards and would hunt you down if you tried to leave or beat you if you simply voiced dissent. Seem familiar?
@@bovinityleak2066sounds like N. Korea🤨
Tracy was a fighter. You can tell in every photo, she wasn'r having any of that bullshit even at 12 years old. That story of her running up and saying "get that bitch off my dad!"....
the courage it must of took to do that in a cult like that is immense.
I'm surprised she wasn't brainwashed
I couldn't agree more! ABSOLUTELY Amazing!
@@aliteralpieceofbread3373 I'm sure there was some brainwashing as it is impossible to be in a situation like that and not have any; but her spirit was stronger.
If I had to guess, the word was "bastard"
Well, like my mum always says. There are only two kinds of people who always speak the truth. Drunk men and children.
"I chose to succeed because I wanted my mom to be proud of me."
That is the power of love. Love will save you in the darkest of times. Love will set you free.
And God
Something about this young girl’s face was always haunting to me. You could see the fear and you just wanted to care for her. It’s a really inspiring end that she and her dad went on to remain good people in spite of horrific circumstances they endured.
Imagine the guilt Gerald feels for his wife’s death. He was the head of the household and made the final call to go. How very sad.
Hopefully he knows it was her only real hope for survival and that deciding to stay would have been even more lethal.
Jim jones, and nobody else is the one fully responsible.
@@evonne315 fully gullible people are. Without these people believing in some man saying he's a prophet of God there will always be cults.
@@evonne315 That's simply not true.
@@PalashaGabarrawho do you think is responsible for Jim Jones' death cult if not for Jim Jones ?
I have family who are Guyanese and were living there when this happened. I'm so glad they didn't get caught up in this cult. They've told me about friends trying to invite them to go and they were like "no thanks" -- my heart goes out to those who have lost loved ones to this madman.
Bless your family! They should be proud!
Really.
Jesus loves you
What do you think who that "madman" worked for and whos this project even was?! To keep it short, the cult you speak of is called United States of America fully backed by satanic Vatican ... just FYI you're welcome, good luck living in a hellhole.
What you hear and see in this video alone is one of USA's project, one in a million. And they learned this from Vatican since they did the same things centuries ago.
Separate kids from elders, put a % into slavery, kill the rest, then when they are no longer operational kill them too, kids from 5 to above are also placed into work, half day is work and another half is "school" which involves brainwashing. When these kids grow up they will fight against their own people aka "neighbors" in an exact same upcoming war and lobotomy project.
So yeah it's basically evident and the same thing.
My friend’s mom was leaving there when it happened as well. Never met her mom so didn’t ask her about it…
21:47 The fact that some of them took the drink willingly shows how much torture and pain they were in.
It shows how brainwashed some of them were
It wasn't because of torture or pain. It's because they were brainwashed, and they truly believed whatever he said
i possibly cannot even bare to imagine the amount of PTSD and traumatic scars Tracey has, I hope Tracey recovers, one way or another
"I didn't see her get shot, but I saw her brains in the plane." That poor little girl, no one should ever have to witness such horror 🕊️❤️🎗️
There's more to this than anyone could imagine.... Jim Jones was programed by the C👁🗨A.... Ryan new Something else was going on and the state department purposely didn't tell Ryan how much danger he was in bc the C👁🗨A wanted Leo Ryan dead. Jonestown was a mind control experiment that didn't work so jones was programed to convince everyone to commit suicide.... 98% of those people ran into nearby woods and were hunted down by army rangers and the military special forces!! Them people were all murdered at Jonestown!!
Exactly, a child or teen or an adult, no one at all should have to see that ever in their life…
sadly children are witnessing this everyday in Gaza
@@Mentous680sadly children in israel are witnessing this everyday
@@amanicondones last time I checked they don't
It’s unreal that this was captured on video and it’s a miracle anyone one survived. I’m so glad Tracy got to say goodbye to her mom years later.
I'm glad it was on video. Jones seemed like one of those guys who wanted to hide this stuff.
@eksbocks9438 I don't know if I should like the video because it's so said, but it's also very important.
I remember that story being aired on TV and I was very young and sheltered from evil . I saw the bodies lying everywhere and it seemed like a bad nightmare
Heh, Anyone one.
As a 12 year old child i remember when my dad said h'ed been offered a job in South America to work in a steelmill there. I felt a terror in my spirit that it was an unsafe place to go. Fortunately my dad never took the job and i was so relieved..
Wow😢😢😢😢
Was it this under the guise of a steelmill?
@@brinz-e2729 No, he was a steelmill workers in charge of the melt shop.
I'm really glad it wasn't and he's safe
One of the reporters who reported this incident (a year before) the massacre was named Phillips Tracy, my great uncle. Just to share some insight info, he passed away in 2016 due to lung cancer. He lived in a small apartment in California where my mom and I would constantly visit him and give him anything he needed like donating our microwaves, and chairs to him in order to extend his life. I unfortunately didn’t know of this story until long after he passed away. He after these events went into a long depression and smoked for around 30 years because he thought he was responsible for these events of 800 dead. My mom cared greatly for him until he died and he was cremated and his remains were put into the San Francisco Bay. It’s been 7 years since his passing and I’ve never realized his accomplishments until now (sadly) Rest in piece “Great Uncle Phil”
Edit: his reporting was the reason why people started to hate this said to be “good guy”. He never visited the place just got the backlash jones deserved to spark.
Bless those children, at such a young age knowing that what the adults were doing was wrong
Children are our best teachers! They just know what's right because they are innocent! I had a friend’s kid who turned her mother into vegan after explaining to her mother how wrong it is t behead chickens and her friend Peppa Pig😢
@@Vegan_scorpioo Vegan isn't christian.
@@Vegan_scorpiooLOLOLOLOLOLOL yes, we should be letting children tell us the best diet for survival. Heck, let’s get them into leadership positions. Put their hands on the little red button. 😄
@@julitakamaki4386 Children have innate wisdom and altruism. They know right from wrong from a very young age. They show empathy for those who have been hurt. They know injustice and unfairness when they see it. They have pure innocent souls and unflinching honesty.........until they are indoctrinated with BS......but as we have seen from this video, not all can be indoctrinated. I was a child who couldn't be indoctrinated. I saw through the hypocrisy and self deception of adults. I knew that nothing and no-one was what they appeared to be......and I followed my intuition.
@@Vegan_scorpioo55th qa1😂¹😊😊is ra x
If there is an afterlife, I hope Gerald is able to rest peacefully with Patricia again. Once they realized what was happening, they both protected their children until the very end.
They sure did. I hope the same for them both as you hope. RIP
She knew..they both knew this was a huge mistake and she knows Gerald recieved a belting for speaking up before they left. She forgives him..and herself too. Their children survived and I don't think she'd have it any other way if it was to save the children and their father..her husband. May God keep them, in Jesus name. And Patricia in peace.
@@Gigi1111Layna Amen
I can assure you 100% there is
Double it.
I'm guyanese and was curious about jim jones now that i understand the story my heart hurts for all the lives that were lost
Tracy looks so much like her mom. I hope she’s able to look on the mirror and see the loving mother she had knowing she’s always in her heart. She did not deserve to die, she was saving her family.
I heard many versions of the Jonestown incident, but never such modern footage of a survivor. I’m glad a survivor is still telling the story of how dangerous it can be to “walk by faith, not by sight.” The followers were so blind.
what led to their demise is they blindly followed man instead of God. man is sinful and not trust worthy. i really wish they could've seen the red flags before going :(
textbook satanistic Vatican procedure
separate kids from their parents, kill the majority of the elders, brainwash their kids, kill the problematic ones aka who wont obey, then when they grow up create a media conflic filled with lies which will make them fight their "neighbors"
Vatican did this centuries ago and this is how they created all the catholic countries and fake nations, killing Slavs and brainwashing their children.
USA repeated this same thing over and over and is even AGAIN documented in this video, around 9 minute in.
Seems like not many is learning on past mistakes and especially people in the western politics are being so heavily lobotomized on daily basis that they repeat lies like parrots or a broken record ... pathetic and disturbing at the same time
if these people would have at least half a brain they would know not to fly there AT ALL, especially not drag their children with them into their incompetence
@@MaeRose26That’s how all cults work. That’s why so many people no longer care for organized religion. We’ve treated priests and pastors like infallible idols, and anyone with sense can see that it’s not right.
@@carelessdreamer yep exactly right. I've always felt like churches were very cultish. So I have church by myself now
We are called to walk by faith..and not by sight...but in IN Jesus Christ, our Lord ans savior who laid down His life for us! We are NOT to follow or walk by sight in a man. A crazed, paranoid man. People seriously MUST spend every day reading the Bible if they hope to not be deceived.
I was 10 years old when the Jonestown massacre happened - I saw a news story about it (while my father was watching the evening news) and I was horrified by the footage of the hundreds of bodies (including children) piled up inside Jonestown. Before today, I hadn't known that anybody had escaped the massacre by fleeing into the jungle. I'm glad those 5 children survived and were able to rebuild their lives.
I google it every now and then not to be morbid but because I'm still trying to wrap my mind around how one person controlled so many people.
@@goldieslacks After the Jonestown massacre, my mother explained to me - as gently as she could and in an age-appropriate fashion - what a cult was because I'd asked her why people had agreed to poison their children instead of protecting them from Jim Jones.
@@emilyvogt66 yes same here my grandma was on it back in those days she always talked to me about cults and she didn't even go to church back then but I remember the bakers too she always told me they were a cult as well.
Yes, I was about that age. I was horrified to see the dead bodies 😭
I was 13. It was the biggest news story for weeks. Sooooo sad. 🙏🏻
The most horrific thing is that the dead Tape is actually on UA-cam.
I thought I'd seen every interview with survivors but hadn't seen this one. What an amazing woman.
Senator Leo Ryan is a hero who should be remembered. It is so sad, that he did not yet understand the danger a cult like this could pose. He should have come with hidden armed forces. At least a few armed men. He just couldn't imagine something like this. He lost his life in an attempt to save people. That's the definition of a hero.
...and I can't understand why this seems to be the first comment on his behalf.
@@CarminaLuminosaAbsolutely. Reading about his work makes it clear that this was very typical for him. He went to Folsom State Prison undercover as an inmate to investigate, and took a job as a substitute teacher to investigate the LA area conditions after the Watts riots. This man was truly a hero.
Indeed, even as a child I recognized his heroism when it happened. 🙏
Leo was a hero. Unlike the selfish politicians today of today who are so corrupt. Back in 1978, I don't think people were very aware of cults and their tactics. Like you said, Leo Ryan had no idea of the danger they all were in. Jones planned this years earlier. Most of these people that joined People's Temple became brainwashed/malnourished/threatened over a long period of time. Many of them sold all their belongings, including their homes to give the $ to Jones. I think that's how he got the members to go--they had lost their footing/families back in the US, which made it a lot easier. He had convinced them that they were going to Paradise.
I can't even imagine how traumatized this poor girl must be....for even an ADULT to witness that horror, its terrifying, but for such a young child? I hope she is doing alright....
The blond woman speaking periodically is actually Tracy herself
A 12 year old is not a young kid. I get some people are stupid, but this is beyond ridiculous.
@@codecrab7822 The brains fully froms at 25 y.o. 12 years is a young kid.
@@codecrab7822 look this is not a youtube video about development.. your comment has not reason to exist, what someone thinks its a young kid depends of the person because everyone doesn't have the same thoughts.
@@codecrab7822special springs to mind lol
The first fresh story I have watched in years about Jonestown. Thanks for this production.
“Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.”
Very wise and very true. This is why we simply cannot continue to erase American history by taking down statues, banning books, altering our schools’ history books, and neglecting to teach about the painful happenings of history. We are doing our society and everyone in it a tremendous disservice when we do these things. It is ok to hurt and experience negative feelings. It is never ok to encourage the repression of those feelings. We have done just that. It’s time our government focused on helping people to heal and get healthy rather than on burying their heads in the sand. But the government is often way to prideful to admit when it was part of the problem.
That thought is well beyond what the left can understand.
I could not agree more. I tell people this all the time. We are raising weak kids that can’t handle anything
It's haunting that so few families rebelled, and how many were convinced
After 2020 I'm no longer surprised the vast majority of people are easily conned, even to death.
@@launderedcotton8070Thankfully it’s not the majority
you sheep of USA gobble up that man made faction you deepthroat called the bible. basically in a cult already sweetie
many were found with injection marks, meaning if they wouldnt drink the koolaid, they were injected with it while their backs were turned apparently.
@@purplelove3666 you do realize you’re speaking about a minority right?
4:16 is actually chilling. That child looks terrified and miserable, but knows he has to smile for the camera and try to not show his true feelings.
He was showing his teeth to the camera, not supposed to be smiling.
@@666PsychoMantiseither way this eyes are very telling
Came to the comments to see if anyone had mentioned it. I thought it was a photograph at first
Yes, that smile looked very forced.
His eyes looked like he was on the verge of tears 😢
This is so sad. I can't even imagine how hopeless they must have felt.
I'm so glad that she was able to survive. This is so difficult to watch. I cannot even handle hearing and seeing kids in distress.
The audio from the time they committed their death pact was so haunting that I couldn't listen to it after 5 minutes.
Well, that left me in tears! .... I was a friend of a now deceased Ham Op who was noted for making a call to the US government authorities that something was amiss when he overheard radio conversation from Jonestown about Senator Ryan's visit and that there would be trouble.
How horrific that parents get their children involved in such danger. You have one job as a parent protect your child at all costs! God bless this woman.
But the thing is, their parents THOUGHT they were protecting their children by doing this. By the time anyone realised, it was too late.
Including and not limited to the schools/board.
@@Letthat Right? Like, at this point it's not okay to get kids involved in religion at all, it's all hyper-radicalized cult trash trying to control you anyway.
I don't think they knew they were joining a cult, at the start they were promised that Jonestown was a beautiful new home, obviously they didn't tell them it was a cult. It's similar to what the nazis did to the jews when they sent them to the extermination camps. They promised a place where there was a wealthy life and a job for everyone. Nobody would go against death knowing it.
@@sirmiles1820nah you know the Christian preacher is shady or off when he compares himself to christ
It took them so long to show the grown up Brenda that I was convinced she must have died in the jungle. Literally teared up hearing her.
I’m pretty sure that Brenda’s death in 2013 was from suicide. I don’t know for certain. But the obit says she passed unexpectedly and her brother’s comment on the obit site says something about, “I’m just glad you are no longer suffering.”
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Damn it Jim Jones. I hope you are suffering in the pits of hell right now for all of the pain and suffering you caused.
@@foxwoodjones9831 She died of pancreatic illness, not suicide.
If they sent the military like they actually should’ve if the government cared enough this could’ve been avoided
Thank you for giving Tracy the spotlight here. 💜💜💜 courage comes in all shapes and sizes
It's so chilling to see the videos of people once singing, dancing, kids playing, everything before they all died in a sad sad way. It's heartbreaking...
I’ve been researching this situation on and off for years and I NEVER knew anyone survived. Heartbreaking but heartwarming story. Thank you for making this.
There's a very good book about Jonestown called Raven. There's also some very good documentaries that you can get on UA-cam. One old woman survived by hiding under her bed and not going to the Pavilion with everyone else.
do you know what happened to jim jones?
A few people survived
@@xiuurrhe got someone to shoot him I think
@xiuurr Jim Jones was using drugs the whole time.... coke, I believe. He was too much of a coward to drink the cyanide laced Kool-aid... he shot himself in the head when they were almost all dead. I did hear a few of his enforcers (gun guys) escaped as well, but I'm not sure about that...
Tracy, you were a brave young girl back then. So glad you were able to escape. RIP to all who died in the massacre.
Thank you! I appreciate your kind words! Life is much better these days.
free west papua
the oj simpson verdict was a cover for the mku1tra child r4pe verdict on the same date.
thank you for telling this story again. i learned to deal with my own experiences from west papua, where a 62 year silent genocide for u.s. gold mining is taking place. they understand grief. but you've definitely had enough i'm sure.
@@mikimiyazaki Were you actually involved? It would be interesting to hear about, if that's true.
No she wasn't
@@redneckshaman3099 no:
bitches
friends
life
will to live
I was 16 when this happened, it was on all news. It definitely made me ultra cautious about “churches” and learning the true Word of God.
I grew up in churches that were the complete opposite of this and learned true selflessness by supporting others with any help we could. While I have lost touch with religion as I grew older, one saying always stuck with me and can still be used for every day life. “Beware of the wolf in sheep’s clothing.”
In 1999 i did my high school senior english paper on Jonestown. It was one of the hardest papers i ever wrote but was so worth the grade. My heart goes out to the families of the victims
I never knew there were any survivors. This is SO disturbing and devastating. All those people...wow. I've never seen any of this footage. I had only heard bits and pieces and knew that this is where the phrase, 'don't drink the kool-aid' came from. The fact that a politician and a reporter actually came to the rescue and were killed, not knowing how much danger they were in. I'm really struggle to wrap my mind around this. Hearing Jones' voice leading them to their death is so disturbing and horrific. That poor girl seeing the remants of her mother being shot like that...
I wonder if this event transpiring the way it did - with the senator & reporter not having known the grave danger - was part of what caused Waco to go down THAT way. So sad.
To be honest, I only realized while watching this that this must be where the phrase “don’t drink the kook-aid” came from. It is incredibly devastating and makes that phrase completely unhumorous in any way to me now. However, phrases like that said in “popular culture” being passed down over the years at least gives opportunity for truly devastating and horrific events in time like this not to be forgotten so people do stay aware of cults and trying to stay safe.
@@rachellewidmann3621It’s an unfortunate idiom considering how willing it portrays the drinker. The true willing are always the ones holding guns making sure the unwilling are in line for their kool-aid shot.
@@CheesyenchiladyThis video is real from the 70s Waco was a DIFFERENT DECADE.
@@BettyDidit idk whatchu talking about.
My heart broke for that little girl crying and wiping her tears with her hat. God bless her soul and all the victims of that horrific massacre 💌
that’s tracy the blonde woman telling the story she survived
Preaching God is what got them killed
@@chloebradley-almond5911
Not true
So the cult did not just start as people just going church then
@@chloebradley-almond5911
Allah is God not Jesus
Such an amazing, brave and strong woman. This was a beautifully done video.
Something I always think about when I watch this sort of retelling of atrocities, is just how good I have it. I’m not rich nor am I good at socializing, but I’m blessed with what I do have and many don’t.
I love this channel so much because they focus on the victim and don't try minimize the horror they won't through!
Me too!
Wicked-pedia chimes in 😮
Agreed! I have my notifs on for this channel
Agreed, easily one of the most underrated true crime channels.
They should have way more subs than they do.
Iv always said the same thing and when I tell mates who like true crime to give this channel a go that’s what I say! Is it’s a survivors story and always inspiring
There were 197 children under 12 in Jonestown and only 7 made it out alive. I've read that the youngest survivor, who was 3, became troubled with the law and is facing prison time for shooting his wife and stepdaughter over an argument.
Yes, Jakari Wilson.
Only 3 and already troubled with the law, some people just were born like that
Was a motive ever found for why he shot his wife and daughter over an argument? Most people don't shoot others over arguments...
@@arcticcircle9178 she looked at his phone and saw he's been having a relationship with another woman
@@carlg.7882 I still don't quite get how that would lead to him murdering her *and* his daughter, not on its own at least.
I’m sorry for everyone who were traumatized, and i’m sorry for those who died that day. May you rest in peace. ❤
Thats sweet thankyou. I just wanna find the guy who did this
Reminds me of the crazy crap my brothers, sisters, and I went through. I'm glad we are still around
Thank you for telling this like it is, it wasn't a mass suicide, but a mass murder. May the poor souls who passed that faithful day rest in peace, all but those who are involved in the killings, for those murderers, may you rot in hell.
That’s what one gets when one chooses to be brainwashed by a lunatic extremist cult leader……..we’re seeing it in politics with the cult following of right wing extremists with fascist, religious nutcase, espousing false narratives of some moral majority, the “wanna be” next president of this U.S………Donald orange face Trump being one example……..Beware people.
*fateful day
For the murderers the deepest pits of hell have opened
Most of the "Victims" Willingly drank the Kool Aid. It's not murder if you agree to it.
those who didn't were forced a gun on their head, they were at best brainwashed into believing killing themselves was the right paths, pushing someone to suicide through such manipulation is still murder@@ParaousiaComingnow
I remember when this happened. It was horrible. FYI, this is where the expression "drink the Koolaid" came from. I think people do not realize the horror and tragedy that the expression refers to.
I did not know that😢.
Yah me too when it happened we were all shocked to hear about it. So horrific.
It wasn’t even Kool-Ade that was used it was Flavor-Aid you can see it written on the boxes in the picture of Jim Jones holding the lid of where it was stored, open.
@@auroralights2759so you just repeat something that you have no idea where it came from? Yeah, that's real brilliant.
@@jamierupert7563 Don't be dramatic, there are millions of people out there who say stuff that they don't understand the meaning of.
You have yourself another sub, Unseen. Quality work here
I literally cried multiple times while watching this, this is absolutely devastating. Bless those poor souls.
I've listened to the full tape of those final moments and it's truly one of the most disturbing things I've ever experienced. This man was a true monster.
From just the short amount of tape they played here, Jones sounds drunk to me. Since he knew what was going to go down he probably got himself good and drunk to face it, while the sheep he was supposedly shepherding (he was of course a false shepherd, false prophet and false teacher) were forced to face it stone cold sober.
In my own personal beliefs, I very much doubt he will have such a luxury for the eternity he will be or is facing. "weeping and gnashing of teeth forever".
@@coleengoodell7523 Nope. He is just dead.
Listened to the whole thing too. Things were going smoothly until they started giving the KoolAid to the kids. Then panic started to rise, and it just devolved from there. Very disturbing stuff.
Yeah... I heard it too... Biggest regret... Plus I have a daughter... I can't imagine her going through anything like that... I love her so much words can't explain... 💖💖 RIP little angels and everyone that succumbed because of that evil demon!!!
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I just know her mom is looking down and beaming with pride for her courageous and incredibly strong daughter.
If people can look down from heaven and see life on earth then why does God allow all this to happen? Look at the holocaust.. 6 million Jews murdered. World wars.. all them years of brutal slavery.. all the deadly diseases in the world.. rapes..kidnappings just all sorts yet its allowed to happen. Seriously I think about this stuff often and struggle to find answers or meaning to anything tbh
No, you don't know that. It's nice to imagine, of course.
@@scottcharney1091 always gotta be one of you.
"Um ackshuellee, God not real u dummy haha" even as someone who's not at all religious it gets annoying.
@@randomfactsthatdontmatter3466 Always gotta be one of you telling people that God's not real as well. You people are annoying too. How about just letting everyone believe whatever they want to believe.
@@godschildyesI mean the guy was actually sounding like a smug asshole, but ok.
918 people dead and 1 survivor omg the evil in this world is too much...
For some reason I have never heard this family's story. Thank you for sharing.
I can NEVER for the life of me understand how someone could be so deprived from any sense of morality and so extremely demented to commit such atrocities. I just boggles my mind and it really scares me that such people capable of doing things like this roam around like anybody else. It could be you neighbor, your friend or a family member, so scary.
Just one fanatic ended the lifes of over 900 people, it's absolutely terrifying, some got brainwashed by what he told them but no matter what the horror of knowing you're never going to leave the place and that you're 100% going to die along with your family is haunting.
Beats me, well not really. I can understand the temptation, however what needs to go down to be such a nefarious son of a bïtch? I've started reading "ordinary men" Order Police Battalion 101 from Nazi Germany, but they're a bit different than this fūcker. He's the big party pooper in the town, calling the shots. Battalion 101 on the other hand were mass-exēcutioners, I think
Trumpers are insane people with automatic weapons who stand around mailboxes trying to prevent the military and others from voting. No one at a gun show checks to see if they are insane. Clinton was a right wing president who was probably LYING about guns at Waco. Jim Jones had REAL GUNS because he was REALLY SATANIC AND AN EVIL FAKE FAITH HEALER WHO PAID THAT WOMAN TO PRETEND SHE NEEDED A WHEELCHAIR
The laughing at people who are being beaten reminds me of Scientology
It's what happens when one man thinks he is a God and that the rules don't apply to him. We are at risk of that happening again.
I was an intern for Jackie Speier, the legal aide to Sen. Ryan.
Fantastic, strong woman. She shared her experience with Jonestown, and it’s absolutely heartbreaking.
Fantastic strong woman?was she a member
@@cynthiapowers3469 no. She was the legal aide to Senator Ryan, the man who was shot to death. She was also shot, but did not die.
@@The_Spicy_BajoranDid the congressman's people not realize the danger he was in? They weren't aware Jones's henchmen were carrying guns & were proported to be dangerous?
As a legal aide, I hope she understood that she was not working for a Senator. Leo Ryan was a Congressman. Big difference.
@@Ashleygum im sure she did. It was my mistake
I'm glad that this woman shared her story I never knew there was survivors my heart goes out to people that had to go through that
Tracy is so strong, so proud of her and what she is doing
I've listened to the audio tape when they start drinking the poison. You can hear children crying and jim jones saying "they're just crying because it tastes bad, it's ok". Most upsetting thing I've ever heard.
Incradibly frustating and painful.
Yup. Alot of people forget to mention that Jones made the children drink the flavor aid first. So that way the parents would be less likely to leave.
I listened to the audio and hearing the cries of the children go silent is utterly haunting.
I don't think I could listen to it, Jones was a monster... but those parents, who remained at the retreat, weren't much better. A handful of them tried to fight, but most betrayed their children in the worst.
How could you listen to that?😢 Makes me cry just thinking about it
@@ulrichenevoldsen8371 morbid curiosity. I didn't enjoy it, but I wanted to know what they were experiencing at the time.
@goawayleavemealone2880 The thing with cult leaders like Jones is their charisma and ability to manipulate. Jones used their fear to control them. The followers were kept against their will in Jonestown. They were humiliated, beaten, fed misinformation and conspiracies. Some experts believe they didn't drink it for Jones, but as a way to escape. They were stuck. If they ran, they were killed. They had nowhere to go. (This one family tried to leave, but Jones sent people to kill them, along with a senator and a couple of journalists who went to investigate what was going on down there.) We will never know exactly why they willingly drank the poison and gave it willingly to their kids, but they aren't to blame (I forgot to mention, those who refused to drink the kool-aid were forcibly injected with the poison. They had no other choice.)
@@monkeygirl1894 fair enough
I was 7 years old but I still remember seeing the aerial photos of the bodies on the ground on the evening news.
I remember when this happened 💔
Tracy - thank you for sharing your story, I am sure your mother is so proud of you!!!😇✝️ You are a fighter - you are a survivor. May God Bless you & your family✝️💜💜🙏
This affected me greatly as a young/sensitive/naive 20 year old. Today, at 65, I have shed more tears watching this video than I did when the news was fresh. We at least have the knowledge that some of the survivors have built a positive legacy. I vow to remember.
excuse me for adding to your awareness,
west papua = 62 years silent genocide for u.s. gold mining
apart from demonstrating the state of u.s. media, as a culture they have dealt with silenced grief for generations, and they are among other things, accomplished in music, and without generations of MK.
You were just still growing in to the real world reality at that time. You most likely never seen that kind of death and violence in your life because of being so uncommon in public unlike how it is today. You were most likely not brought up in violent neighborhoods and never been mentally, verbally, physically abused nor threatened by someone, especially in that manner. You were still young and carefree. Didn't have the concept yet even though you were an adult. But there is nothing wrong with that. It's by how you were raised, who you hung out with; how they had treated you, how your neighbors were; how they treated you. Your emotions were completely numb since it was your first time in seeing people dead, especially that amount of people, by that way of killing. Don't be hard on yourself. It's not your fault in their deaths. We all act differently to something we have never seen in our entire lives before. God himself allowed it to happen. Not you.
@@marciturner4980 nobody has any idea who you are talking about bruh
@@TsunzucchiniTzatzikiSan may they perish in hell
Amen to that. Me too. 😢
So incredibly heartbreaking that the whole family couldn’t escape alive. I can’t imagine Gerald’s and Tracy’s pain. I never knew so many people were being held captive at the compound. I thought they were there willingly. It makes it that much more terrifying to imagine how those poor people felt. RIP to the 909 lives lost.
Also shoutout to Brenda, she was unbelievable strong to keep the other four kids going despite herself feeling ill.
@@biazacha yes, Brenda and that whole family were fighters! Tracy and the others never would have made it without her.
They're just 1 family in a group of nearly 1000 people. Even if they had escaped it wouldn't have changed the tragedy in any way. Only consultation is I'm 100% certain that "pastor" is suffering his punishment as we speak
There were other people who’d run away and hid in the jungle near the compound when the poisoning began. The survivors, about 80, were the escapees or members who lived or were in Georgetown, including Jones’ sons Stephan, Jim Jr and Tim. Stephan hadn’t wanted to live there from the beginning, but relented for his mom.
At first it was a willingly
He took people in when no one would help (California)
He built a kinship that started with goodwill then unfortunately god complex crept in
Some didn’t have any place they wrote over everything believing in a dream of peace, community & caring for fellow man
There just wasn’t any check-n-balance or the “what if” foresight precautions.
I wasn’t even there but it definitely had a profound effect on my life.
Just found your channel, very well put together!
Tracy's story is one of courage and tragedy at the same time. I remember watching a Jonestown documentary over 10 years ago on UA-cam that originally aired on PBS. Some of the survivors described their experience. One lady stated that if you worked for People's Temple full time you worked 20 hours a day. It was also stated that you got a measly allowance of $5 a month and if you had a job outside of People's Temple, you had to give most of your paycheck to Jim Jones in order to get a little bit of money back. Those who worked outside of People's Temple most likely volunteered part time. These people truly lived in poverty and were controlled by Jim Jones. It's good to know most of Tracy's family survived. But, what happened to her mother was a tragedy. She was only 44 when she died. 😔
Ironically, one of the survivors of Jonestown was one of Jim's adopted sons. He also spoke about his adoptive parents and the only reason why he and his brother survived was because they went to a basketball game in town. Unfortunately, I too know what it's like to grow up with cult teachings. My mom was a member of WCG (Worldwide Church of God) along with some of her siblings. Despite not being in the WCG or an offshoot for years, she lived as though she was still in it and taught us these cult teachings. Some of my mom's family is still brainwashed. I've since stopped keeping these teachings as an adult. It's truly a miracle that Tracy and myself made it to adulthood. 😥
I just can’t imagine how much pressure the eldest girl felt. She really took care of all those other children. Bless you brave girl ❤
The child was far more aware of the dangers than the parents. That is so tragic.
Well the Dad however, also knew. He knew he’d made a major mistake the moment they took all their belongings and surrounded them with guns when they arrived and he also knew that although the Kool-Aid was not poisoned, it would be eventually
And the parents were childlike. Believing that anyone could offer them a utopia. That life doesn't have to be a struggle.
@@jjsstikbotvideos4421 Too late
@@mikshin9825 check out Wikipedia on how he did it. It was mostly politically motivated.
What a light in a tragic story. Bless her and her family
I remember this all too well. Its very disturbing how people can be manipulated into things like this.
It just amazes me that the US government really let that Senator go out there under the circumstances without any protection….
I guess you weren't alive or old enough to realize what happened? No one knew, for sure, that there were "circumstances". The Senator was investigation allegations made my families. He said he was going to bring anyone home who wanted to leave. Period. No one outside of the cult truly knew what a crackpot Jones was and no one expected the violence on the airstrip or the mass murder/suicide.
He cared about the people. Most politicians don't. They probably knew he wasn't coming back.
To be fair they have no reason to believe there is anything is wrong
Just who do you mean when you say "the government"? He was the government. There's no big daddy controlling the senator's actions, thank goodness, or this would have carried on indefinitely.
@@YourAverage_MayStill, even if there was nothing wrong going on, they were going to one of the most dangerous jungles in the world, a few security guards were warranted.
My dad was one of the Pilots that flew the deceased back to the states. Im sorry for the loss of all the loved ones every family has loss. My heart goes out to so many. I just want to say that after what dad told me his experience. It guidied me to avoid ppl like Jim Jones when trying to find my faith in God. But honestly, I seen some really ugly things in groups. And I'm better off dealing with my faith on my own. Again my thoughts and prayers to all the families ❤
Wow! Prayers for your dad having to see that. Im sure that will never leave him! God bless!
They were traumatized by the scene they were confronted with. They couldn’t get there for a few days bc their govt wouldn’t release them to the US govt. there are a few written 1st hand accounts of the pilots that returned the bodies, many families refused to accept the remains bc jones forced them to sever their family ties. Many families were also angry about how family members squandered all their money, giving everything to the cult. Many even signed their checks from the government or retirement over to Jones.
@Missfenyxx I know my dad was messed up over it. He still brings it up. And he lost a infant to cids right before that. And so seeing the children was a huge trigger
At the moment, I’ve been coming to that conclusion also about my relationship with God and studying His Word.
@OldJoeBlows I understand what you mean. The last church I was in had a lot of isolation and control. This church would dictate to Peoples lives, their money, relationships, marriage, thinking , and what emotions to feel, etc. They would work us so much that we would have no time outside church and manipulate us to think it was God's work or Gods need. All our money was meant for the church, we would be told how to budget and when and how much to give. There would be punishment, as far as shunning or demeaning and humiliation.. and hard labored work. I started asking questions and rebelling against leadership, and the ppl turned on me. I'm alright now but when it was happening I was so mad and confused etc. But it was all for my better good. It's definitely worth leaving and being on my own. Nothing close to jonestown, but I can see where it can easily go that way on other beginning aspects of a religious occult. It's easy to get caught up in it fast. A lot of the credit goes to my dad because if it weren't for his experience and knowledge, I would've never been able to spot the red flags.
Never gets easier hearing about this. Its just beyond words.
Glad you made it home..what a tragedy that was...enjoy everything you have in life and continue your journey .
What a strong father. Loses his wife and one daughter… and stays strong for the family. Amazing.
Where does it say he lost one of his daughter?
@@1985cactus I would have to watch the video again to find the exact time, which I don’t want to do, but towards the end it basically says one of the daughters died to either suicide or drugs, I can’t remember which.
@@kassi4837 Yeah, but she died later in life. Not with her mother, while in the cult. And it wasn't indicated that she died from suicide or drugs.
@@1985cactus maybe so, but she still died before he did. The point is the same, he lost
his wife and a daughter. That’s not easy. My grandmother lost her daughter early and she never recovered fully from that. It’s not easy. This guy was tough.
I'd call him an idiot frankly. He took his family into a fanatical cult living in the jungle. Granted, the end result for Jonestown was worse than even a pessimist like me could have realistically predicted, but I would never expect anything good to come of joining such a group.
It was such a horrific scene, I remember it being in the news when I was a kid in Australia, it shocked the world. Always be wary of anyone who tries to separate families, their intentions are never good. History has proven that.
Just like scientology
@@MsSpider26 exactly
Like the sick trans cult, destroying families, separating parents and children, and butchering bodies!
But by the time the families were separated, it was already too late. They'd already followed that mass-murderer-to-be for years, before they followed him to Jonestown and had the signs of his true nature shoved in their faces. With walls and armed guards, deep in a dangerous jungle, with no way out.
Remember it was just a few years ago governments across the world were forcing families to stay apart and hide from each other through propaganda and fear
I read some of the comments and that’s what I love about these videos is that it bring a lot more facts and truth out of a bad situation that nobody knew about and it honors the victims. None of those people wether they believe jones or not deserved to watch their kids die and then die themselves. Jones has to be one of the worst serial killers out there bc he killed over 900 people in 45 min. I hope Tracy is doing ok and I’m so glad she decided to share her story. I’m sending much love ❤️ her way….
I live in Lake county California which is the next county over from Mendocino county where redwood valley is. You cant imagine the amount of people I know in their 70s and 80s who knew Jim Jones personally. My friends mother told me that her husband’s grandmother was obsessed with Jim Jones but was ultimately not able follow him to Guyana.
I was in my second year of college when this happened…completely clueless. Based on what I heard in the news at the time, I thought everyone willingly drank the Kool-Aid. I had no idea what really went down. This story breaks my heart. I can’t imagine how hard it was for the Parks family to recover from this trauma. The parents clearly thought they were escaping the dangers of Cold War and walked right into hell. I’m not a fan of organized religion.
I know this is semantic parsing but the demands of most organized religion are clearly and distinctly more mild than for cults. I was raised Lutheran, I was not isolated from society or taught to be fearful. My pastor was an amazing, kind, and generous man who loved all of us like we were his kids, even our parents.
We weren't conditioned to be belligerent risk takers but he would do things like walk up to someone ODing, flailing around with a knife and talk to them until they calmed down. He frequently had gang members sleeping in his living room with his wife and son upstairs.
I gather that overall he is an exception to what most people experience but it's not all bad.
Religion is a cult
@@Velereonics "it's not all bad" is a common phrase for many structures that continue to do great harm and damage. People can be good, organized religion just gives people a reason to hate one another.
But "organized religion" is vague. Catholics, lutherans, methodists, Calvinists, Jehovahs witnesses, Nazarenes, etc have wildly different belief sets, methods for evangelizing, the structure of their church authority etc.@@EdieDawnJay
@@Velereonics and they ALL suck and take advantage of their members in different ways. When I say all organized religion I mean ALL ORGANIZED RELIGION.
I remember this massacre hitting the news. I was 15 and the story left me shocked and haunted by the idea that a loving father figure was actually off his rocker and hell-bent on killing everyone. It freaked me out. I didn't remember that anyone survived. How utterly devastating for the entire family. I'm so sorry.
I'm shocked that it seems that nobody remembers or heard of the survivors. The survivors were not just the ones spared on the runways. Several people including children escaped the compound during the massacre. Some of the people that were shot instead of poisoned, survived as well.
I remember it. But addimittedly I was not too interested. Same with Koresh. I just didn't and don't understand putting so much trust into one person spouting nonsense.
@@tessaducek5601 Koresh is a different story altogether. His people were murdered by the US government, plain and simple.
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I was 25 when it broke on the news, but until I watched this documentary just now, I thought there weren't any survivors. Of course, that wasn't logical as there had to be in order for the rest of the world to find out about the mass murder, but the truth was kept so hush-hush for so long, everyone just believed there weren't any survivors.
Just heartbreaking!!
Never ignore what your children tell you.
Never join a cult or religion that refuses to let you leave.
Question everything.
Stay safe out there! 🙏
They dont' tell you they're not going to let you leave before you're locked in. But listen to red flags before hand.
@@Volleyball_Chess_and_Geoguessr Fair point. I guess one way to suss that out would be to talk to members and ask them about their life outside of the commune/group. No easy way to do it, though. 🤷♂
BTW, love ur YT username - I guess that's the way to go what with all that's happening in the world right now! Wishing the very best in life. Stay safe, stay strong. 💪👍
Your name is valid! Never give up.
They lie to you. Very deceptive.
Never join a cult/religion. The end.
I have seen every single type of documentary regarding Jonestown and I have never seen anything like this video before. I’m absolutely blown away you’ve done your homework, and to hear the story of the little girl in the jungle is unbelievably amazing I’ve never even heard of this little girl and her harrowing story.
I've also seen many as I was 11 years old when this happened and probably my first introduction to cults. I've been interested in learning about them ever since. I didn't know this family's story though or really anything about the shootings. Maybe I heard about them but most documentaries that I have watched have focused on the Koolaid part.
@@shethingsd11 years old!!! This traumatised me as an adult, when I watched a documentary many years later. I can't imagine how it effected you.
I was nineteen and I couldn’t wrap my head around how people could just blindly follow someone like that🤨
@txgal6855 It usually starts off with 'love bombing' and a community to belong to, with principles that sound ideal. But they never tell you the full story from the outset, because no one would join! Eventually you get trapped, and take on all the teachings of fearing the outside evil world, and people controlled by evil influences etc.
I know this case inside and out n yet you have given a whole new perspective! Amazing work! ❤
Man….don’t ever think you got it bad!! & be thankful for being sane enough to be able to deal with tragedy’s like this!! But then again…how do you put yourself & family in a situation like that in the 1st place!!??🤷♂️
This was horrible. Things like this prove that you never really know what someone’s situation is. Seeing all those people smiling and cheering when they really were scared and trapped, is horrifying.