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https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/exploration-survival/colorado-off-grid-deaths/Talon Vance, 13, lived in an apartment complex in suburban Colorado Springs with his mom and Aunt. Other relatives lived nearby. Typically, he spent much of the week with his father, half brother, half sister, and grandparents, all of whom lived together not far away in a different town. All of that would change in August 2022: Talons mother, Rebecca Vance, had hatched a plan to disappear from Colorado Springs and go permanently off-grid.
Talons paternal grandmother, Marilyn Burden, still seems shell-shocked by his sudden departure. Her extended family lives in a ranch-style house on a small cul-de-sac; when I stopped by for dinner last September, there were plenty of people on the street, and lights were on in every home. Eric Burden, Talons father, stood in his driveway speaking to a friend. He ushered me inside and introduced me to his mother, and we sat down at the dining room table.
Just over a year before, on August 1, Rebecca had dropped by out of the blue around lunchtime with Talon in tow. She handed Marilyn a photo album and other mementos of Talon, who Marilyn had helped raise and who shared a bedroom with her other grandson, Ashton, when Talon was there. Rebecca, she said, told her they were leaving town, that they had to move to be safe. Safe from what? Marilyn asked. Rebecca wouldnt explain. And she was vague about their destination: she said that she, Talon, and her younger sister, Christine, would be driving to West Virginia, where her father lived. Marilyn didnt think Talon had ever met that grandfather. Then, to forestall the possibility that Marilyn would ask Talon about the trip, Rebecca whispered to her not to bring it up, because he doesnt knowhe thinks were just going camping.
Another relative was told a different story. Christine said to their stepsister, Trevala Jara, that they would be heading into the wilderness to live off the grid. Trevala, who saw Christine every week, knew that Rebecca had spent much of the pandemic glued to her computer, growing increasingly obsessed with conspiracy theories and the end of the world. She feared vaccines, technology, and the power of global elites, and thought that the only escape was to get as far away from other people as she could.
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Karadeniz
(22,516 posts)suffering they caused for others.
GaYellowDawg
(4,447 posts)I used to think that we lived in a universe where karma of a sort exists. I don't think that any more. I think all of the people who have pushed all this conspiracy crap and made money off of it will just take their money, fade into the background, and live quietly prosperous lives with no consequences whatsoever.
Karadeniz
(22,516 posts)incarnations. Some souls were floating way out in the cold void, so without merit were they. I transfused a bit of my soul energy into them to remind them of how Goodness feels. That experience was so unlike anything my mind could've created based on my earthly life, so I believe it!
Elessar Zappa
(13,991 posts)Whether its some kind of punishment or just not being able to move on. If Im wrong then I wont care, Ill be dead!
Srkdqltr
(6,290 posts)struggle4progress
(118,285 posts)Scrivener7
(50,949 posts)That poor child. And his poor deluded mother and aunt.
Hugin
(33,147 posts)I thought it was such a tragic story.
Nevilledog
(51,104 posts)dalton99a
(81,497 posts)ProfessorGAC
(65,042 posts)I vaguely remember hearing about back then, but this article provides tremendous background.
Fla Dem
(23,671 posts)UpInArms
(51,284 posts)October 4, 2023, was the day the federal government had scheduled an extra-long test of the Emergency Alert System. Matt believed that this was ominous for several reasons: the FCC and other federal agencies were involved, and this time an emergency tone, which used to be sent only to radios and TVs, would be broadcast onto cell phones, too. OK, so? I asked.
Matt explained that were pretty sure the tone was designed to activate chips already present inside most of us, put there via vaccination and by eating certain brands of meat. The tone is a special frequency that will activate the nanochips, Matt explained, either killing people outright or turning them into zombies who will do the bidding of their masters, members of the international elite. And do you believe that? I asked.
Enough that Ill be taking the day off, Matt replied, smiling. He and his wife planned to put their phones inside Faraday cages that day, to shield them from electromagnetic signals, and he would be armed as well. Ill be packin! he told me with a wink. Why? To protect them from zombiesor any other signs of the apocalypse. (Actually, Matt often carries a gun for self-defense anyway.)
And, finally
Conspiracy theorists fall into a dark place where they are special, where they are in a place of secret knowledge .
It often ends in tragedy.