Last night I had a long talk with our new member Red Wolf, a former member of H Storm's cult.
http://newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?PHPSESSID=676f4380e7543acbcb728730f069e736&topic=894.0We've long known about Storm's false claims in his books, how he offends the Cheyenne, ceremony selling, and his front group NAMA. I always thought the worst thing he'd ever done was steal a medicine bundle, but now we know these:
- After the failure of his book Lightning Bolt, Storm gathered a small cult of his most dedicated believers. They numbered between 18 to 30 members plus their children. Sometimes visitors came to the cult compound in Mendocino County near Laytonville CA, but they were pretty isolated, even had to get the power company to instill a power line. There was an earlier cult site in Nevada City and Storm also had followers around him since his first book of Nuage falsehoods, Seven Arrows.
- Storm and his wife Swan raped at least one little girl about nine years old and tried to molest another.
-They raped at least two adult women.
-An unknown number of others were molested or raped, but likely includes many of the cult members' female children. For the male children, the case is less certain, nothing conclusive. Many of the children, now adults, refuse to talk. But the high number of psychological problems may be a sign of their abuse.
- They did all these molestations and rapes under the guise of it being a ceremony. Victims were told they had to pledge to Mother Earth to never reveal what happened.
- In describing what happened, one survivor tells a story of severe psychological manipulation and terror. She was taken to the woods, placed in a spot surrounded by tripwires with tin cans attached that would signal if she tried to leave. Then the Storms hid in the nearby woods and screamed for a long time, that someone was coming to kill her or kill all of them, with the Storms claiming they were fighting off the intruders. After being so terrified of leaving they had an easier time breaking down her resistance to rape.
- Some of the cult members may possibly have been manipulated into giving over their children to be molested or raped, and that may be what makes them reluctant to now come forward.
- Storm apparently has raped or molested others before this. This included Natives in British Columbia who took part in Sundances led by Tom Yellowtail.
-His record of molesting children even goes back to before he set himself up as spiritual leader. He worked in Los Angeles, and a co worker described Storm molesting his daughter.
-Whether Storm abused his own children isn't known, but they have virtually nothing to do with him. In the years he was out with his cult, only one of his children visitied a single time, and that was to sign legal papers.
- One of the girls he raped, now an adult, came forward 3-4 years ago. A lawyer and private investigator were hired to build a case.
- The compound was sold and people paid a share of it.
-The Storms are now in hiding, location unknown. Possibly New Mexico, possibly Texas. Whether they are still receiving help or shelter from other supporters in Europe isn't known.
-The status of the case isn't known. The FBI was supposed to be looking for them.
-Storm apparently trained Harley Reagan in ceremony, then split with him because of his drinking and drug use.
-He apparently also is an old friend of David Carson, alleged Choctaw and inventor of medicine cards with Jamie Samms.
-Storm only briefly knew Lynn Andrews, and dismissed most of what she claims in her books about him as false (as do many others about virtually every aspect of her books.)
RW will be asking other cult survivors to come forward and come here. I think it's incredibly important to try and track down the Storms, who likely are still looking for child victims.
Once we gather up the accounts, I think we should make a lot of noise to try and get the feds to catch them, go to NDN media, national media, cultwatch groups, America's Most Wanted even. And any other ideas for how to catch them or help the cult survivors, let's see what we can do.
