Vision leads to Satanist coven - SA

Nigel - The vision of a pastor has led to the gruesome find of a young girl's body in a suspected Satanist coven in an old mine ventilation shaft.

Police said the coven, in which several indications of Satanist activities were found, was discovered on Thursday last week. This comes after pastor Pieter de Beer of the Hope church had a vision in which he saw a snake slithering into a big hole.

"He followed the route as he saw it in his vision and found the old ventilation shaft of a defunct mine," said inspectors Johan Viljoen and George Stewart.

In the ventilation shaft, the officers and De Beer found the mutilated, naked body of a young girl. Paramedics estimated that she had died three months ago.

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The pastor himself murdered the girl, stashed the body with some phony Satanist props, then waited for the body to be found. When the body WASN'T found, he came up with the idea of claiming a "vision" led him to the crime scene.

He could have done it to cover up his own sexual crimes, or even as a recruitment drive for his church. After all, if he can make it seem like a "coven" of Satanists is operating in his town, he will surely get more people coming to church to receive his "protection".