Dark Synthesis
Case 1: Man uses occult to coerce girls into having sex:
An Elmore County man used witchcraft and the occult to frighten two girls, ages 10 and 15, into having sex with him, authorities say.
Randall Eugene Ransom, 45, of 3004 Kent Road faces two counts of rape and two counts of sexual abuse, Sheriff Bill Franklin said. Ransom lives in the Kent community, halfway between Tallassee and Eclectic. He is in the county jail under bonds totaling $400,000.
"The girls told us they were taken to an abandoned house in the Kent-Eclectic area, where some of the abuse occurred," Franklin said. "They described images of witchcraft and the occult being in the house. They also said other adults were at the house at the time of the abuse. We feel the threat of witchcraft was used to frighten the girls and keep them under Ransom's control. We have received information that a group of adults in the northeast quadrant of the county may be involved in the practice of witchcraft."
The girls told investigators and counselors of seeing black candles, altars and piles of bones, police reports state. The alleged victims, who both live in Montgomery, approached authorities about the abuse last week, Franklin said. The charges were filed against Ransom on Thursday.
Ransom could not be reached for comment. Court records indicate he hasn't hired an attorney or had an attorney appointed to represent him.
Jessica Sanders lives off Fleahop Road, southeast of Eclectic, and has heard rumors circulating about a group of witches in the area.
"I just thought it was the kids telling spooky stories," she said. "I've heard the talk for the past year or so. Lordy, having children abused is bad enough. We don't need this type of thing going on."
Franklin said other arrests may be made in connection with the case.
"We are still very much in the early stages of the investigation," the sheriff said. "We feel the girls are telling us the truth. If the empty house exists, and if there were other people there when these girls were being abused, I want them in jail right beside Mr. Ransom."
Ransom is involved in a related case, in which Emily Irene Taylor, 22, of Howell, Mich., faces statutory rape charges. Ransom filed the charges against Taylor in December for allegedly having sex with a 15-year-old boy. The relationship was consensual, Franklin said. She remains in the county jail under bonds totaling $20,000.
Ransom called the sheriff's office several times wanting to know why Taylor had not been extradited from Michigan, Franklin said.
"Michigan officials picked her up, and we brought her to the Elmore County Jail on Jan. 1," he said. "On Jan. 2, Mr. Ransom calls and wants to post her bond. We knew something isn't right about this. We recorded telephone conversations while she was in jail which show Mr. Ransom and Miss Taylor are in an ongoing sexual relationship. He just basically wanted the sheriff's office to pay for getting her back from Michigan."
News of the case was beginning to circulate Thursday afternoon in the quiet, rural area around Kent.
"I've never heard of something like this happening around here. Never," said Jake Fuller, who lives about seven miles outside of Tallassee. "It's just hard to wrap your mind around something like this."
Franklin, a seasoned lawman, is among those who found the situation hard to believe.
"I have been in law enforcement my entire adult life, and I've seen some disturbing things," he said. "But I don't recall every dealing with a case that had this level of depravity."
Case 2: Murder May Have Been Part of a Necromantic Ritual:
There are strange questions about the man found guilty in the murder of Jeseta Gage. But evidence still lingers concerning Roger Bentley, suggesting ties to the occult. KCRG-TV9 News has proof that those ties go back more than a decade.
One piece of evidence that caught the victim's family off guard was the "Necromantic Ritual Book." Among other things, this book details the practice of using corpses to rause the spirit of the dead. The book was nothing new to Bentley; it's something he's had years to study.
A decade ago, Bentley was serving time as a sex offender at the Mount Pleasant Correctional Facility. He and another inmate filed a law suit against prison officials, alleging a violation of First Amendment and religious freedoms. Court documents show Bentley and the other man called themselves Luciferians, members of the Church of Satan.
Among other things, prison officials denied the pair four religious books. But one book, "The Necromantic Ritual Book," would follow Bentley for more than 10 years.
On trial for the murder and kidnapping of 10-year-old Jetseta Gage, Bentley's attorney, Peter Persaud, presented the book as evidence. Police found a copy of the book at Bentley's home in Brandon. They also found Bentley and Jetseta's body inside an abandoned trailer in rural Johnson County.
Persaud told jurors his client was an occultist who happened to find the girl's body, and then perform a sex act on it. On the phone, Persaud said, his reason for mentioning the book was to suggest that Bentley was practicing necrophilia or sexual contact with a corpse.
The jury didn't buy it.
A decade ago, prison officials and a judge had reason to deny Bentley the book. The judge said its practices "have no place in a prison setting... they are also illegal."
In the chapter about necrophilia, the book's author, Leilah Wendell, even cautions its use, saying it's "at best illegal in many places," and "I emphasize the use of utmost caustion in this working."
Bentley's attorney also brought up the occult when questioning the woman who first showed Bentley the abandoned trailer. She told the court that Bentley said he sensed three bodies on the property. It was a strange, if not bizarre tactic, one that did not persuade jurors in the end.
The jury found Bentley guilty of both the kidnapping and murder of Jetseta Gage.
On a related note, there are a lot of "Dark Pagans" popping up here in Central Missouri. Here is what they say they're about:
So often darkness is associated with evil. Since the term evil has no place in a nature-based religion, we Pagans are forced to look beyond such stereotypes.
Evil is a human term. It begins and ends with us. A tornado is not evil, yet it is destructive. Fire can be used to benefit life or destroy it. Nature is neither good nor evil. It simply is. It follows no moral code. Only humans, with our complicated set of emotions and intellect, can justify such categorizations.
Death, destruction, chaos… these are essential driving forces within nature. Life feeds on life; destruction precedes creation. These are the only true laws, and they are not open to interpretation.
When Pagans anthropomorphisize nature into something good and loving, they deny its very all-encompassing nature. When the dark deities are shunned in fear of the unknown, we deny ourselves full understanding of all deities and what they have to offer.
So, basically good and evil don't exist to their way of thinking.
I've met these people. Many of them take bits of Anton Lavey's Satanic Bible and mix it with Wicca. The end result is one of the most ate up forms of cut and paste occultism I've ever seen. A Wiccan priestess I know has expressed great concern over these individuals. Rumor has it that the local Dark Pagans have ties to the Temple of Set. She's also concerned about the way the Dark Pagans are luring so many young Wiccans into their fold and the fact that the local Pagan umbrella organization has legitimized Dark Paganism in the name of "diversity". One young Dark Pagan was even rumored to have poisoned the cat of a rival occultist with antifreeze...a horribly agonizing way for an animal to die.
This seems to be the direction the occult is headed and I think it's a natural progression. A long time ago, a man named Gerald Gardner was friends with the infamous Aleister Crowley, aka "The Wickedest Man In the World". Crowley's aim was to bring the world into something he called "A New Aeon". Sounds an awful lot like "New Age" doesn't it?
Anyway, Crowley's dictum was "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law." Wicca's only law is "An' it harm none, do what thou wilt." Note the similarities? That's because Crowley and Gardner cooked up Wicca to sucker in the more softcore occultists. Personally, I find Wicca's "Threefold Law" lacking. I've even met regular Wiccans who were fucked up cats. I can only imagine what the Dark Pagans are like.
So there you have it. Black magic has infiltrated white magic from the beginning. And now they're coming together again in a Hegelian Dialectic manner: Thesis+Antithesis=Synthesis. The cases I mentioned above are case in point for what I'm talking about. To any Wiccans or Pagans reading this, I'm well aware that you might be decent people. However, keep an eye on other occultists you meet. And if you see them doing something fucked up and it rubs you the wrong way, don't keep silent out of "diversity". Please don't keep your mouths shut for fear of drawing negative attention to your tradition. If you keep the silence, the cancer grows until it consumes everything.
An Elmore County man used witchcraft and the occult to frighten two girls, ages 10 and 15, into having sex with him, authorities say.
Randall Eugene Ransom, 45, of 3004 Kent Road faces two counts of rape and two counts of sexual abuse, Sheriff Bill Franklin said. Ransom lives in the Kent community, halfway between Tallassee and Eclectic. He is in the county jail under bonds totaling $400,000.
"The girls told us they were taken to an abandoned house in the Kent-Eclectic area, where some of the abuse occurred," Franklin said. "They described images of witchcraft and the occult being in the house. They also said other adults were at the house at the time of the abuse. We feel the threat of witchcraft was used to frighten the girls and keep them under Ransom's control. We have received information that a group of adults in the northeast quadrant of the county may be involved in the practice of witchcraft."
The girls told investigators and counselors of seeing black candles, altars and piles of bones, police reports state. The alleged victims, who both live in Montgomery, approached authorities about the abuse last week, Franklin said. The charges were filed against Ransom on Thursday.
Ransom could not be reached for comment. Court records indicate he hasn't hired an attorney or had an attorney appointed to represent him.
Jessica Sanders lives off Fleahop Road, southeast of Eclectic, and has heard rumors circulating about a group of witches in the area.
"I just thought it was the kids telling spooky stories," she said. "I've heard the talk for the past year or so. Lordy, having children abused is bad enough. We don't need this type of thing going on."
Franklin said other arrests may be made in connection with the case.
"We are still very much in the early stages of the investigation," the sheriff said. "We feel the girls are telling us the truth. If the empty house exists, and if there were other people there when these girls were being abused, I want them in jail right beside Mr. Ransom."
Ransom is involved in a related case, in which Emily Irene Taylor, 22, of Howell, Mich., faces statutory rape charges. Ransom filed the charges against Taylor in December for allegedly having sex with a 15-year-old boy. The relationship was consensual, Franklin said. She remains in the county jail under bonds totaling $20,000.
Ransom called the sheriff's office several times wanting to know why Taylor had not been extradited from Michigan, Franklin said.
"Michigan officials picked her up, and we brought her to the Elmore County Jail on Jan. 1," he said. "On Jan. 2, Mr. Ransom calls and wants to post her bond. We knew something isn't right about this. We recorded telephone conversations while she was in jail which show Mr. Ransom and Miss Taylor are in an ongoing sexual relationship. He just basically wanted the sheriff's office to pay for getting her back from Michigan."
News of the case was beginning to circulate Thursday afternoon in the quiet, rural area around Kent.
"I've never heard of something like this happening around here. Never," said Jake Fuller, who lives about seven miles outside of Tallassee. "It's just hard to wrap your mind around something like this."
Franklin, a seasoned lawman, is among those who found the situation hard to believe.
"I have been in law enforcement my entire adult life, and I've seen some disturbing things," he said. "But I don't recall every dealing with a case that had this level of depravity."
Case 2: Murder May Have Been Part of a Necromantic Ritual:
There are strange questions about the man found guilty in the murder of Jeseta Gage. But evidence still lingers concerning Roger Bentley, suggesting ties to the occult. KCRG-TV9 News has proof that those ties go back more than a decade.
One piece of evidence that caught the victim's family off guard was the "Necromantic Ritual Book." Among other things, this book details the practice of using corpses to rause the spirit of the dead. The book was nothing new to Bentley; it's something he's had years to study.
A decade ago, Bentley was serving time as a sex offender at the Mount Pleasant Correctional Facility. He and another inmate filed a law suit against prison officials, alleging a violation of First Amendment and religious freedoms. Court documents show Bentley and the other man called themselves Luciferians, members of the Church of Satan.
Among other things, prison officials denied the pair four religious books. But one book, "The Necromantic Ritual Book," would follow Bentley for more than 10 years.
On trial for the murder and kidnapping of 10-year-old Jetseta Gage, Bentley's attorney, Peter Persaud, presented the book as evidence. Police found a copy of the book at Bentley's home in Brandon. They also found Bentley and Jetseta's body inside an abandoned trailer in rural Johnson County.
Persaud told jurors his client was an occultist who happened to find the girl's body, and then perform a sex act on it. On the phone, Persaud said, his reason for mentioning the book was to suggest that Bentley was practicing necrophilia or sexual contact with a corpse.
The jury didn't buy it.
A decade ago, prison officials and a judge had reason to deny Bentley the book. The judge said its practices "have no place in a prison setting... they are also illegal."
In the chapter about necrophilia, the book's author, Leilah Wendell, even cautions its use, saying it's "at best illegal in many places," and "I emphasize the use of utmost caustion in this working."
Bentley's attorney also brought up the occult when questioning the woman who first showed Bentley the abandoned trailer. She told the court that Bentley said he sensed three bodies on the property. It was a strange, if not bizarre tactic, one that did not persuade jurors in the end.
The jury found Bentley guilty of both the kidnapping and murder of Jetseta Gage.
On a related note, there are a lot of "Dark Pagans" popping up here in Central Missouri. Here is what they say they're about:
So often darkness is associated with evil. Since the term evil has no place in a nature-based religion, we Pagans are forced to look beyond such stereotypes.
Evil is a human term. It begins and ends with us. A tornado is not evil, yet it is destructive. Fire can be used to benefit life or destroy it. Nature is neither good nor evil. It simply is. It follows no moral code. Only humans, with our complicated set of emotions and intellect, can justify such categorizations.
Death, destruction, chaos… these are essential driving forces within nature. Life feeds on life; destruction precedes creation. These are the only true laws, and they are not open to interpretation.
When Pagans anthropomorphisize nature into something good and loving, they deny its very all-encompassing nature. When the dark deities are shunned in fear of the unknown, we deny ourselves full understanding of all deities and what they have to offer.
So, basically good and evil don't exist to their way of thinking.
I've met these people. Many of them take bits of Anton Lavey's Satanic Bible and mix it with Wicca. The end result is one of the most ate up forms of cut and paste occultism I've ever seen. A Wiccan priestess I know has expressed great concern over these individuals. Rumor has it that the local Dark Pagans have ties to the Temple of Set. She's also concerned about the way the Dark Pagans are luring so many young Wiccans into their fold and the fact that the local Pagan umbrella organization has legitimized Dark Paganism in the name of "diversity". One young Dark Pagan was even rumored to have poisoned the cat of a rival occultist with antifreeze...a horribly agonizing way for an animal to die.
This seems to be the direction the occult is headed and I think it's a natural progression. A long time ago, a man named Gerald Gardner was friends with the infamous Aleister Crowley, aka "The Wickedest Man In the World". Crowley's aim was to bring the world into something he called "A New Aeon". Sounds an awful lot like "New Age" doesn't it?
Anyway, Crowley's dictum was "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law." Wicca's only law is "An' it harm none, do what thou wilt." Note the similarities? That's because Crowley and Gardner cooked up Wicca to sucker in the more softcore occultists. Personally, I find Wicca's "Threefold Law" lacking. I've even met regular Wiccans who were fucked up cats. I can only imagine what the Dark Pagans are like.
So there you have it. Black magic has infiltrated white magic from the beginning. And now they're coming together again in a Hegelian Dialectic manner: Thesis+Antithesis=Synthesis. The cases I mentioned above are case in point for what I'm talking about. To any Wiccans or Pagans reading this, I'm well aware that you might be decent people. However, keep an eye on other occultists you meet. And if you see them doing something fucked up and it rubs you the wrong way, don't keep silent out of "diversity". Please don't keep your mouths shut for fear of drawing negative attention to your tradition. If you keep the silence, the cancer grows until it consumes everything.