The Finders: The Cult Panic That Became a CIA Conspiracy

Podcast: Cults and Secret Societies · Forbidden Knowledge Network

Opublikowano: 2026-08-21

In February nineteen eighty-seven, police in Tallahassee, Florida, found two well-dressed men with six dirty, hungry children in Myers Park. The adults were linked to the Finders, a secretive Washington-area communal organization centered around Marion David Pettie, a former Air Force master sergeant known to followers by names including the Stroller and the Game Caller. Within days, investigators searched Finders properties in Washington, D.C., and rural Virginia, seizing photographs, records, and computer equipment while early authorities and press accounts discussed allegations involving cult rituals, satanic practices, possible child pornography, kidnapping, and abuse. The most extreme claims soon weakened...