The Cult in a Boarding School
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- In the early 1970s, an institution named The Elan School opened its doors. Behind the altruistic veil of its marketing, daily life at Elan would prove to be much more dreadful than advertised.
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Chapters:
0:00 - A New Life
3:28 - The Birth of a Lie
10:45 - Destination: Elan
25:45 - Tranquility[?]
35:26 - Some Eyes on Elan
39:15 - All Eyes on Elan
47:40 - Endgame
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“You want to act like a baby, you get screamed at”
Pretty sure you aren’t supposed to scream at babies.
Yea you kick them wtf
Obviously you punt them.
You eat them
Both of you good responses, tho if you punt them they go too far and if you eat them (unless alive, where it is just as good, or better sometimes, better) you don’t get the screams of pain, far better than crying
@@bdorsey19 Classical thought tells us to shake the baby.
"And some students sent in the ring were even pregnant."
Considering students were restricted from any physical contact, and that the adult abusers could punish the children however they wanted... That alone is extremely horrifying despite how understated it is.
oh my god didnt even catch this...wow that is sickening
Oh my god that’s fucking horrifying
Christ...
How could students even get away with making contact with the opposite sex, let alone *have* sex? Everything was so closely monitored with only three semi-successful escapes, it’s crazy to believe people found a way to do it.
Edit: A lot of people are saying it was more likely SA from the staff, which makes sense.
Given that’s it a place for troubled teens I would presume those people were pregnant before they arrived. At least I sure hope so cuz the alternative is horrific to think about
Charges not even being _filed_ against the school for the death of the kid shows how complicit the parents are in this: they didn't even care.
Those weren’t parents. They were just some people who gave birth to the kid. They didn’t care.
I went to this school. It’s been 25 years, I still can’t just sit down and watch this, but I scrubbed through it and read the transcript - your presentation looks very good and thorough and accurate, and you seem to have a very gentle and thoughtful way of presenting it. Thank you for sharing our story with others. These schools cause long term, complicated harm.
Hey, I hope your doing well now. ❤
Bless your soul I hope you’re finding peace!
This made me cry, i hope you got the support you needed
I hope your doing well now. Your strong for surviving such a hellscape. Proud of you stranger.
I’m so sorry that you had to go
There :( it sounds horrible
"if you act like a baby you get screamed at like a baby"
Who the hell screams at babies?
i mean the people who run these type of things seem like the type to scream at babies so
These things apparently, yes, things, these people have lost all humanity and don't deserve anything other than spite and exile
Ikr
@Chelsea aren’t Psychiatrists mainly meant for prescribing medication? Not actual mental health help? At least from my experience.
@@DraperStan23 Psychiatrists are mainly meant for diagnosis and advice, but I have a strong feeling these quacks forged their PHDs
“We’re an equal rights facility.”
Well, everyone’s got equal rights if nobody has them to begin with.
@@jaydenstrash8907 …? What the fuck.
@@jennnnn911 sorry i deleted that did not mean for anyone to take offensive to that like again sorry
China be like
had me laughing when he said that
@@jennnnn911 what did he say?
I was sent to a facility like this when I was 14. I'm in my 40s now and the trauma of the facility still impacts me and my relationships, my habits, my trust, and my behavior to this day. Even thinking of it still causes a feeling of searing panic in my stomach. The facility closed this year and there's almost nothing that has made me as happy as finding that out. The way these facilities abuse and isolate you for the rest of your life can't be explained
I am sorry, Doll. God bless you. You ain't alone, remember this.
I had to go to a mental hospital in highschool where I actually got worse instead of the help I needed. I can vividly remember hearing over the radio in someone else's car about 5-6 years later that they closed down the children's ward of the hospital due to not following a lot of requirements and a lot of legal things as well. I almost broke down crying in the backseat, I was so relieved.
Ironically, I found out a bit into our relationship that my partner actually also went to the same place a year or two before I did, and he echoed my hatred for the place, and my joy in its closure.
I feel you. I had a similar experience with a facility like this. We were in the middle of a national park and it was at least an hour and a half from civilization, so they didn't even put up a fence around the facility because if you wanted to escape you would have to brave the wilderness. Me and a friend attempted to escape, we survived for a few days in the woods before we turned back because we had no food and eating squirrels and birds only gets you so far. After 10 months I finally got to leave because I started trying to get into the Navy.
I really think the armed forces pull quite a few of their recruits from Job Corps. Most kids would rather take their chance in the military than stay in those places.
@@Andrew_Ryan_Says I read your comment. Though, I'm writing after finishing a whole bottle nearly, I understand you. God bless you and keep you safe. 😇🙏
I know this bares little weight but I am so terribly sorry you had to go through this...I can't imagine the pain you must feel
I was in one similar to this. Was forced to strip naked and lay on a cold hard floor for hours in a tiny 8x8 square room that was padlocked. There was a tiny window where staff would watch me. And it was cold. No blanket, nothing. No underwear or socks either. First time I got put in there, I got a cold because of it. The reason? I was feeling suicidal (which was completely valid considering the circumstances), and they encourage you to talk to staff when you feel that way so they can "talk you down". Turns out that actually means throwing you butt naked into a cold room with concrete floors.
Girls would frequently be stripped naked by or under the eye of male staff. I was 15. Others were much younger. Some were adults under 21 that were wards of the state.
They made us wear plain blue shirt and pants, unless you were a "runner", then you were stuck in a bright yellow jumpsuit. Those sucked really bad during the summer because it was long sleeved.
There were community showers and toilets like prison with scheduled use times, we walked in a line to and from the cafeteria and to the on-site school building, got locked into our rooms multiple times a day for hours with nothing in there but a Bible and our beds, were forced to be active outside for hours in the heat of summer with no consistent source of water. It was hidden way out in the middle of the woods in Rural Missouri where it was sure to go unseen by the outside world.
We were allowed one 10-minute phone call per week, so we could choose to either call our caseworkers and beg for another placement, or spend 10 minutes talking with a loved one. The woman who decided everything for us was the most heartless person I've ever met. She was abusive to everyone, even staff members. She would smile when something bad happened to a child in front of her. I saw it
If a kid had a breakdown, they called in the "crisis van", which was a van full of strong men who would physically subdue the resident, often painfully for the resident.
I am severely traumatized and was physically injured more than once, as well as psychologically abused. I have been unable to find a therapist or drug yet that can help me.
The reason I was there? I was a foster kid with depression, and they didn't want to take the time to find me a foster family. Sadly this was the case for many other children I met there. And I went to multiple facilities like it, but this was by far the worst. Valley Springs Youth Ranch in Black/Lesterville, Missouri. They paint themselves as a "treatment facility" for troubled youth, but it's really just legal child trafficking. Don't send your kids away. Become foster parents for teens if you can. And most importantly, hold these people and facilities accountable.
This was heartbreaking to read. I am so sorry for whatever you had to go through. I know a "sorry" won't help much. I am a teen and I can't imagine a life where my basic human rights were just snatched from me. I really hope you recovered and that your traumatic experiences don't haunt you as much today.
Thank you so much for sharing your story. A major reason I specifically want to foster and adopt teen children, despite many people saying it would be very difficult is because of this. Foster children in general are overlooked enough as it is, and teenagers hardly ever even get a second glance because so many people are just looking for a child they can mold into something they want.
Thanks for sharing the name of the facility.
I went through the same things. Amazing how similar the programming is in every one of these places, no matter where in the US they are. There are many similarities to prison procedures, including the self-harm protocol. But these schools likely have even less regulation, as they're private institutions. Willow Springs in Reno/Sparks, NV; Thunder Road in Oakland, CA; Heritage Oaks "Hospital" in Sacramento, CA. WS and HO both had pediatric wings, and WS frequently placed small children in solitary confinement. We could hear them screaming from the adolescent wing.
People with addictions and behavioral/mental health issues (real or perceived) are heavily stigmatized and given a degraded social status in the US, despite the progress we've made as a society in terms of acceptance and treatment. We need twice the amount of hard evidence proving abuses like these for anyone to even consider taking us seriously. In addition, few people are even concerned about what goes on in these facilities because of the kinds of people that are affected. It's the same belief that keeps our jails and prisons as inhumane as possible. It's based on a self-righteous narrative of "individual responsibility" that's contributed to the decay or disappearance of most of America's social services, public and private. "They must have done something to get themselves put in Elan, so they deserve whatever punishment they get." And that continues to be the dominant narrative in the US despite all evidence pointing to the ineffectiveness of punitive behavioral treatments.
This just makes me blood-boilingly angry to read, the horrors you were forced to endure. I was already familiar with these types of facilities, and reading this, I feel a strong sense of vengeance (for lack of a better word) for these horrible programs and the immense social, emotional, and psychological damage they do to innocent children and to society. These flagrant constitutional and human rights abuses need to be fucking stopped, and it's disgusting they still operate to this day in the United States. I'm so sorry you had to go through all this. ❤️ May future generations avenge you legally, and get these places shut down forever.
Holy shit, to escape that hell hole only to run immediately into a disgusting monster. That poor girl.
For real, this whole video was bummer after bummer but that explanation of what happened to her made my heart hurt.
@Calmor25 Right? I'm broken... 💔💔💔🥺
Hell has a special place for the people in Elan and that trucker...
The 1979’s was filled with murderers and it was legal
@@user-lh5hl4sv8z have you ever went on foot to a place that is new to you and try to find a way through without knowing where you are or where you are going, one minute feels like an hour, nervous, afraid, confused, tired, and frustrated, even when you have a sane mind it's hard and not to mention she was only a lost child.
It's fun to believe we can do better but the truth is most of us would do the same.
The parents are at fault for this still existing, if your kid is acting inappropriately, then take him to therapy, not a "camp"
Or maybe try to be a parent, yeah lest trust this camp to make our kid better with a bunch of promises
I agree with both of you to a degree. Some have tried all things possible and trust the wrong people. I had my oldest at 15, effectively ruining his and my childhood. I had a very angry child on my hands and was in no condition to help him as I became mentally disabled. My mom talked me into enrolling him into a Christian school for a couple months. He lived there with a nuclear family and structure. We thought he thrived 🤷🏻♀️ He's 27 now. He recently told me that the only thing the school did was introduce him to gangs. He continued being a lost, angry child until I grew up and bonded with him. He doesn't act out anymore and is a loving respectful son. I don't know why I'm saying this, I've never told anyone. I guess I'm trying to say that every decent parent wants the best for their child. Sometimes circumstances don't allow the best unfortunately. One Love 💛
P. S. It wasn't my decision to get pregnant at 14. It was a 26 yo mans. I had no parents around. So please don't say I should have thought about this before I got pregnant. I was forced into SA. I kept my beautiful baby 💞 Thank you 🌹
To be fair, even as someone sent to one of these places, the parents are often lied to and defrauded and never know. Communication is censored, there's no phone to call for help, and parents are instructed to believe the child is being "manipulative" if they ever complain.
Sometimes you have to basically lie to get out and the parents have no idea. However, once they actually go on campus and experience one of the "seminars" and aren't horrified, then I'm truly concerned about their critical thinking skills. Within hours of that seminar a parent should be leaving and taking their child with them.
In WWASP facilities these were performed under the group Resource Realizations by David Gilcrease. The T.A.S.K.S. trainings. There were some that even included r*pe re-enactments as attack therapy. These places were gulags.
Also many children sent there do not realize they are being abused until years later. It's taken some 20 years to fully understand. I understood quickly and tried to inform others that I attended with and was actually attacked and criticized for doing so. That was in 2009. I attended one of these places in 1999-2002.
@@atroubledmaker6091 this is true and it scares me to find out more from my son in the future.
It's insane that parents are so comfortable with not being able to contact their kids. I went to a boarding school which was the polar opposite of this (voluntary, fun, a place to explore who you are and break rules with other kids for a year) and the only reason my parents let me go was because they had seen it with their own eyes, could communicate with me all they wanted, and got to go home every few weeks. How could any parent just send their kid across state lines and let them stay there for years with limited communication? Makes me sick.
The parents didn’t care about their kids. They sent them off to be trained like dogs instead of doing their duty and raising them. Simple as that.
Please name the place
I was just thinking about this. I watched this with my mum and the first thing she commented, after her initial shock was "How on earth does any parent handle being unable to check on their child???" It's really a stark difference that's made me wonder if the US parent-child culture is this cold and distant everywhere. It's pretty unthinkable here in Greece.
@@ElvenAngel I live in the United States. My mom has made it clear more than once that, even after I leave home for good as an adult, she wants to be in frequent contact with me. She absolutely would not consider sending me to a boarding school... period, probably, but definitely not one that wouldn't let her talk to me often. Frankly, she'd probably assume that a boarding school that doesn't allow its students to contact their parents very often is a major red flag for abuse. And she'd be right.
@@ElvenAngel wow, I'm not the first Greek to be watching this and I was thinking the same thing! Maybe our culture is a bit different though..
Phil’s story is absolutely heartbreaking. The kid didn’t go down without a fight, and with that alone he deserves a ton of respect. Ricci and the rest of the Elan staff have a spot reserved for them in Hell.
If there’s no afterlife, they will never be held accountable for their crimes, just like many other criminals. They will happily live the rest of their lives, spending millions they’ve made of their prison camp for underaged. This world sucks.
Agreed @@olm8829
“Joe Ricci was diagnosed with lung cancer.”
That’s good!
“He only suffered with it for six months.”
That’s bad.
he's the subject of that eternal "General Meeting" down below
I was genuinely pissed when I found out he died and didn't get his ass kicked by the legal system (or fuck any thing really)
I wish i personally could have helped him leave this plane of existence, slowly. So many kids suffering through the damage he inflicted until their eventual deaths. People like that are the worst.
This reminds me of when Homer Simpson bought that crazy haunted Krusty the Clown Doll! hahaha
@@seabreeze9296 i really fucking hope so
The fact that this place closed down only 10 years ago.
Is frankly scary.
I was going into this video expecting to be creeped out or spooked but I ended up coming out of it fucking angry. Everyone involved in running this school deserve a life of punishment and to rot in hell.
even more scary when you realize that places like this still exist and kids are still legally kidnapped to go to these camps
@@bucklinspring the ex students some strong individuals for not doing whats on my mind after they were free
@@jurgenkk i am fucking impressed that it hasn't happened an mass killing by one of the students
@@jurgenkk even if you are mentally the strongest person in the world I don’t think you’d be able to come out of an experience like this without trauma that will affect you for the rest of your life. This isn’t simply a few days of mistreatment, but years of unending torture.
One of my best friends who sadly passed away a couple years ago was "snatched" the same way they describe here. He was able to somehow slip away while foghting back and ran escaping the two men sent to grab him from his bed. He called me and i picked him up. He was terrified. Allthough he did know that they were sent to brimg him to one of these "boarding schools". He was eventually caught and sent, and he came back worst then he was before. He would go into fight or flight mode with no reason and become delusional. These problems haunted him until his untimely death. He lived a lifr of crime and drug use. Allthough his original personality would shine through a lot of the time, he could become quite dangerous when he would become paranoid. Drug use and crime haunted him until his death a couple years back. He was my friend, and i believe that these schools are just as criminal as our governments and woul be the way we all get treated if they had it their way. Horrible things for a young kid to go through. Parents need to reach out to their kids. Not abandon them to some behavioral mod program. This shit is real, and very unsettling.
This happened in the early 2000's
My bf was born in the early 70s and went to something exactly like this. He still can't describe his experience without crying his eyes out and he's one tough dude.
>he's one tough dude
press X to doubt
@@pupsap7714🙄 and then you cry over how feminists or women laugh at men...
@@marir.s3620 I'm a woman who laughs at msn
@@pupsap7714Those kids are brave and strong to survive such a torturement and you're just a little baby who think he’s tough stfu. srsly
@@marir.s3620feminists have always been horrible to men, so no surprise there
It is so incredibly fucked up that that poor girl managed to escape from Elan and the first person she found, coming straight from hell, abused and killed her immediately. My god. May she rest in peace.
my stomach literally dropped when he explained what happened to her i think i need to take a break from this for my own mental healths sake
It's disturbingly common. It's as if they see a broken person and think "oh well, they're already fucked up, might as well." Rapists really are the scum of the Earth.
I completely agree. To an extent, the trucker did something even worse thank what Elan did to that poor girl.
@@peanutbuttermotherchucker
agreed! it's absolutely demented to even think of doing something like that, i believe in rehabilitation but there are some people too far gone
At the very least
Let's be fair, any parent who signs their child away knowing they will be kidnapped at night is a pretty shitty parent to begin with.
Thank fucking god you said that, I also keep a knife under my pillow all the time so if that’d happened to me someone may have died. An it’d all to be blamed on the parents, I’m sure there’s others who do the same
@@lilorin1516 I'm gonna start putting brass knuckles under my pillow.
@@lilorin1516 yep keep a knife with you at all times.
@@birdsamora9925 yeeeeaaah boi.
@@lilorin1516 I always had this chilhood fantasy of escaping a really strict, prison like boarding school like this one, just to be able to say ''f u, i finally did it'' to the people in charge. After seeing this im just glad i was never really put into such a situation. Like you, i also sleep with a knife within arms reach.
I like how to the closing of Elan, they blame the internet for it's closing instead of just taking their lost with dignity. Basically yelling "It's your fault! Your fault that our school closed!" That's quite a level of pettiness right there. XD
They just hate accountability.
parents who send their kids to shit like this don’t deserve kids. saddest part is the majority of those kids probably had “behavioral issues” because of how their parents treat them. nauseating.
It’s disturbing how children’s human rights can basically be signed away by a parent.
fr, children's consent must be taken before the parents signing them off anywhere
@@catsarerude you think they knew that it would be prison and not school?
@@Baitrix1 in many european countries it is legal to beat child as a punishment
@@jamkat7785 it's a sick world.. one may not even want to be here if they knew the truth that goes on behind the scenes every day
@@jamkat7785 The people should know, the more horrific it is the greater it's effect on people and it having that disgusted effect on people is a good thing, increases chances of change too.
“Gee, our son we beat with a hockey stick acts out aggressively and has mental health issues, I can’t imagine why!”
“Harder daddy”
I guess i should hit harder too
@@WeldersFSC You shouldn't hit your kids... Instead you should talk to them about what they did, the situation of it and why not to do it. And maybe you can ground your kids for a week of not seeing your friends. Also, hitting is actually concidered abuse.
@YungPatrick Don’t hit kids. Period.
@YungPatrick still wrong. there's no reason to ever hit a kid.
The phrase "for profit behavior modification" sent chills down my spine
The fact that there are probably a lot of boarding schools similar to Elan that have not been found is terrifying
terrifying to think parents paid thousands of dollars for years just for their children to be tortured.
They are still doing it, we just call it the Education system. (XD)
@truly nobody 🤡
@@gummyneighborino7217 what is that emoji for
@@user-sc9ht2tb7u himself
@truly nobody
You calling the people that lived through the worst financial crisis in modern history *Twice* lazy? With your pensions, 401ks, social security, etc?
You're talking about people who will be paying their college debt into their 40s lesser than old people who sit on their mountains of wealth, detached from the modern world while running almost every facet of the government and economy.
This ‘troubled teen’ industry is absolutely still alive and there are probably thousands of teens who are facing similar treatment today. Advocating against this industry is just as important as ever.
I haven’t looked into it yet, but I imagine this place wasn’t the first and like you said, it definitely wasn’t the last... but it does seems like this one place had a whole lot of influence on the spread of traumatic abuse under the guise of discipline
It happens in mental health clinics too I’ve been to 3 in my life time and all have been the same demoralization 0 help and nothing but fear.
I was one of them, i was gone for three years and it was SO crazy that he made a video about this and this topic is finally making some light
@@josephang9927 ?
@@josephang9927 Aren't you gross.
Out of all of these horrible series of events, that poor girl Dawn's story hit the hardest. She was thrown into a hell by her oblivious parents, and after enduring months of torture, she finally managed to escape, running for her life, only to run into a monster on the road and die a horribly agonizing death. I can't even imagine the kind of despair and hopelessness she had felt. :(((
As a parent, it hurts me to know that people can let just the kidnapping portion take place, let alone all the other atrocities… this makes me sick to my stomach
Hey guys! Fun fact! The "troubled teen" industry still exists and kids are still legally kidnapped to attend these camps just in case anyone was wondering.
As someone who was labeled a troubled kid. I went to something very similar to this. Describing these as death camps is very closed minded
@@caz8577 sorry I didn't mean it like the literal meaning, meant as an expression.
@@caz8577 edited to remove it
@@dabawanico5841 thanks.
Yup, and sometimes the camps are not even in the US
Unbelievable that this school only closed in 2011. 41 years of torturing teens. What's even worse is that "troubled teens" are still abused today and sent to these shitty camps.
"You are being sent to a camp in Poland."
Uh oh...
"Poland, Maine."
Ohhhhh.
Yea
Show me.
@@scottcantdance804 there’s a Norway, Maine... there’s a Mexico, Maine... and I might be wrong but I’m pretty sure there’s a Washington D.C., Maine
@@scottcantdance804 it’s almost worse
I remember my mother threatening me with this. I slept a bowie knife in my bed from the time i was 12 to 17 when i got out of that house. I had forgotten about it until this reminded me. Yall be thankful for good parents.
Break the cycle. treat your kids how you wish you were treated.
Any parent who signs their kid up for something where the first step is openly kidnapping them at night is pathetic and weak. Sorry you were too much of a failure to raise your kid properly, but don't put them through this because you failed.
True. I mean if they are shitty parents. They should instead put them in a TRUSTED and not a suspicious orphanage but still.
Weak and pathetic, no. Criminally negligent, horrible human beings, deserve to be jailed for their entire lives -- yes.
@@newvocabulary why bother knocking the weak and pathetic part off, they're all of the above really
@@thefunkyrolo sure, i'll go with that. All of the above.
There was a case where the would-be kidnap victim killed one of the kidnappers who came for them in the middle of the night. It was ruled self-defence and they faced no punishment for it.
That needs to happen more often, in my opinion.
Imagine escaping what could only be called a horrifically inhumane and cult-like prison, crying out to the first truck you see for salvation, only to be raped and murdered and left in a ditch on the side of the road, that's one of the bleakest most depressing things I've ever heard
I really fucking hate humanity
Truckers are typically human garbage. Unless they're in a fleet or expediters.
That and the kid that just got shot for all his trouble. Those two were the saddest part of this video, honestly. All of that pain and effort to survive to end up...not.
@@ElysetheEevee Yeah but her story is still worse. I think the guy got shot because he was mistook for a burglar or something. The girl was assaulted and killed with intent. People like that make me sick to my stomach.
@@Malphas38th this is not humanity, but monstrosity
This is especially horrifying for me to watch as someone who went to a "therapeutic" boarding school for my depression that was somewhat similar. We were neglected there and I dropped 22 pounds from malnourishment. I was 117lbs going in, and 95lbs coming out. The school was shut down for neglect and tax evasion soon after I was kicked out. The "therapy" there was very cult-like and similar to brainwashing. Once I went back home and was finally able to tell my mom what it was like, she was horrified.
Parents, don't do this to your kids. The people running the schools can lie to you, and say that your child is lying when they try to tell you how they're treated. Don't let them end up like me.
I'm from Maine, yet I've had friends go to camps regularly during the summer for behavioral issues.. it saddens me to think my peers went through something like this yearly.. I hope everyone affected gets real help and love from their families and peers
Do any of your friends know a worker from the Elon boarding school named Bambi Skula?
The worst mistake a parent can make is thinking a child will act and think like an adult. Kids are dumb as hell; they're kids. It's the responsibility of parents to help them grow up, not expect it to happen naturally.
Edit: I can't believe I still have to say this but I used the word "dumb" here as a figure of speech.
Another mistake is treating them like children while at the same time expecting them to act like adults
@@r3born206 exactly, usually it’s the parent that decides arbitrarily depending on how they can best avoid responsibility, either by saying their kid should have acted more mature or that they can’t control their child’s childish behaviour :/
@@r3born206 children are like the new ones and they need to be taught right and not immediately put stress or pressure on to them.They would eventually learn about life and become and act like an adult ONCE they become an adult.
Kid's are not ''dumb as hell'', the assertion that children are inherently stupid has been used as justification for the ''troubled teen industry'' for centuries.
@@anxietywave8735 Apology for the vague hyperbole. What I meant was that kids behaving irrationally every now and then isn't an irregularity that the parents need to worry about. It's part of their growth and development to eventually become impressionable and rebellious. It is the duty of parents to guide them during this stage of development, but do so in a way that it doesn't violate children's rights with too much restrictions, or spoil the children by giving them too much either.
I don't mean to say that kids being stupid is a justification for these junior concentration camps. I'm just saying that it's perfectly normal for children to behave that way, and parents need to accept that.
English is not my native language so be patient with my wording please.
Parents: "Parenting? Eew. Here's money, take care of it."
I call them PAYrents
They already tried their best, their best was lacking hence the hockey stick beatings.
@@carlost856 if hockey sticks were for attempting their best and failing then clearly they had low standards as parents and would be terrifying to see what them at their worst would be.
@@carlost856 also any adult that thinks a child should be beaten with a hockey stick should be beaten themselves with one just so they can see how much of an brutal form of physical assault that is.
@@alexillescas8521 I don't. The problem is that too much abuse gets passed up as parenting.
As someone who was “threatened” with military/boarding school when misbehaving, this is horrifying. My heart breaks for these children and anyone who is undergoing this in secret.
It’s insane to me how there are just “loopholes” that let you essentially kidnap and torture people.
It’s so disgusting to hear that even after all that abuse, even after managing to escape, two of the three students were murdered. It’s heartbreaking.
Yeah that part is heartbreaking like much of this video. But for that girl to escape hell only to be greeted by an even worse form of hell is so sad. She was brave for sure.
this comment right here will teach me not to read the comments before finishing the video lol
@@juanamaral7134 I too have learnt
i couldn’t help but tear up when hearing about dawn. i can’t even imagine how much courage it must have taken to escape and then to be assaulted and have your life be so cruelly taken away by someone who you thought was going to be your savior? just unbelievably horrible
I wonder where that John Doe is.. I hope he is doing fine.
This school was so horrible a policeman refused to send a kid back, and gave him instruction on how to hitchhike back home.
That's wholesome
@@MASTEROFEVIL true that.
I’m not the biggest fan of the police but that…. I felt pretty happy about that.
@@darkmomokocore3919 police is generally good, yes there's a LOT of media posts against it in america but they're good people, i respect them with all of my heart...
ACAB except that guy
@@deereye87 true
Every child deserves parents but not all parents deserve children
what a good way for a parent to be disowned and never talked to ever again
The audacity of them for making one of the rules "Don't be manipulative" is absolutely insane
Yeah and the whole ass school is being manipulative by itself. I meant the one who created the school and the rules. And the other rule that "cant look at the opposite gender" how are they supposed to do when walking past eachother? Look down or closed their eyes? And also the audacity to the parents to PAY 50K DOLLARS just to fucking send them at a "school" like this.
They breaking their own rules fr
i think there might've been a couple worse things happening rather than being hypocritical@@ESUIS7sg
''Friendly Fire'' is the only way to describe it
I wouldn't want any competition either if I were them.
Even disregarding the fact that tragically he was essentially beaten to death, the excuse that he had “regularly faked headaches” when a student had died of a brain aneurysm is patently absurd. Like nobody outside of the school when hearing this considered that maybe he _wasn’t_ faking and was just neglected.
the comment i was looking for, that pissed me off
It made my heart ache 😖 then I got pissed 🤬💪🏽
That's Americans for you
if I was the parent of the dead student I would go hunting for them.
@@Onche518
Just Americans?
Huh.
I know it isn't nearly as bad as the boarding school in this video, but I went to a mental health facility known as Columbus Behavioral Center. It was somewhere in indiana, i dont remember the specific city. But some of those rules were there and I remember so many days there so vividly to the point I go into panic attacks and "screaming crying fits" according to my mom at the mere mention of it. I wish places like these got more attention so they could properly be investigated.
@@hotpinklightpinkwhiteorangered Yes it was referred to as that!
Indiana? I’ve heard of one in Seale, Alabama.
Maybe it was Columbus, Indiana? 20 years ago my ex gf was sent to a similar sounding facility but it was part of Columbus Regional Hospital and was called The Stress Center, if I recall. But it was nothing like Elan.
Bruh, Elan is more like a maximum security prison, rather than a Boarding School. “No Smiling.”? How the hell is that a rule? 😡
:)
So, one of my former best friends was actually a graduate of this. She used to tell me that they'd make her relive her sexual abuse. There were a bunch of kids, male and female, who were raped on campus. She found out that one of the people who came forward with this actually killed himself. It's a common outcome from this kind of abuse.
Over the years, I met a bunch of people who were from this industry. Most of them have very serious drug issues and none talk to their parents. I haven't seen one that has been okay since then. I'd put this on par with human trafficking, if I can be blunt.
Yeah I was honestly surprised at the lack of sexual abuse from this. Least nobody is talking about it. But this kind of environment seems like it'd be able to almost make it ritualistic.
My theory on why this is the case is that there's just too many people complicit there would be dozens of students that would have been involved considering that they liked making the students part of these rituals. if there was any punitive sexual abuse nobody is gonna talk about it. the victims aren't gonna wanna bring in a small army upon themselves and the ones who would have done the abuse even though they were victims themselves of this culture aren't gonna wanna bring down more chaos into their lives so they're just gonna keep this bottled up forever. they're gonna take it to their graves but the lack of any mention of it in a place you had teenagers monitored 24/7, no shower privacy.... speaks volumes to me. something has to give and they engineered it so that energy was placed somewhere.
This is plain torture.
@Rusty Howe I think the pregnant students were pregnant before admitted to the school. Remember, some of them are troubled teenagers
Wtf what kind of monster would you have to be to force teenagers to verbally abuse another pregnant teenagers
That policeman was an absolute angel for what he did to get that boy home, normally the protocol would be to take him back to the school
Exactly, god i wish we could at least know who he was.
This was the only good thing to happen in the video, specially when considering the following stories right after :(
It’s especially lucky for that kid considering the fact that Joe Ricci had the right connections with the right people to be able to basically intimidate the police into looking the other way/keeping their mouth shut if they came across something suspicious involving the school.
@@idontknowmyname.1200 stay ignorant
I wish the other two escapees got people just like that cop to save them.
@@noodlebruh4423 says the ignorant one
There’s still places like this to this day and it needs to be talked about more.
“It’s not a boxing ring, it’s a ring of human people.” Sir?! And?! That makes it better?!
The fact that this ''school'' was operating all the way until 2010 is actually fucking disgusting.
Exactly my thoughts.
I kept thinking to myself "when would this place get exposed and shut down?" once I watched 3/4 of the video only to be shocked and sick to learn that this was very recent.
these camps still exist today. with similar treatments and deaths. Called the troubled teen industry.
So in my calculations that is to much for a "school"
2011
I've been to one of these camps in 2019 little has changed since then everything matches up except the fight circle.
The absolute hatred for children in this place is astounding. Worse even so when you realize that more often than not, kids who act out are doing so for a valid reason, mostly trauma and mental illness. These kids didn’t need to be beaten and screamed at. They needed to be held and cared for and given the proper time and dedication that it takes to raise any child right.
love and comfort does more for someone in pain than anything else every could
💔💔💔💔
Exactly, childrens are flawed and its normal for a child or a teenager to act irrationally, they don't know shit about the world yet, extreme punishments and expecting perfection from them isn't a way to "fix" them to be a better person, i personally think its up to those children's to better themselves just be there to guide them, not this, and i hate how i used to think this is normal as a child. I see it every time when i was in elementary school.
They knew what the kids needed. But they were getting what they wanted out of them
As a father of 2 (nearly 2nd one due in 2 weeks) I absolutely whole heartedly agree with this, well said
“Can’t wait to go to my summer camp and meet all these new people!”
Elan: *I will break you*
i think one of the scariest parts of this video, at least for me, is at the beginning when it’s talking about when someone first arrived, and was met with screaming.
it disturbs me the incoherent-ness of that screaming and whether it was intended or not, the only words i can seem to make out is “PLEASE”
It makes me beyond angry that a man who turned child abuse into a profitable business managed to escape justice. I can’t imagine how sick your mind has to be in order to rationalise treating children that way.
Because he did not care. The only thing he wanted was the parents' wallet. When you're money hungry you'd do anything to get that sweet, wonderful cash.
Money and power will always and forever be a double-edged sword, and as much as I hope I am incorrect, might eventually be the downfall of humanity.
@@bashattack2414 I guess you could say money has been and still is fucking up humanity. Its been our downfall for years, we just haven't reached the inevitable end yet.
I think the Elan school psychotherapist went on to be a faculty member of a University in California.
@@emmalouie1663 what makes you think that? I couldn’t find any mention of it online.
The punishments for these programs, and people involved with it, should be test subjects to radiation poisoning.
Like legit, this would be the most beneficial punishments to the scientific community and the general public
The worst part is: If you managed to contact any authorities, they would likely assume you were an "unruly teen" that needed "tough love."
Tough love is a bullshit lie created to justify abuse.
@@dibkle thank you tough love is hitting your kid that isn't love that is abuse
Abusers join arms with abusers
@@maximuffin6395 Damn, I never thought of that.
@@dibkle I think the term refers to telling people that they're not going a good way in life and calling out bullshit, more than outright abuse.
Your videos are amazing. They make me feel so deeply. I remember hearing one of the survivors story’s from Elan and it was horrible. I’m so glad he was able to carry on after he escaped.
What’s scary is that some parents now a days
Wish this would come back since they raise kids poorly now a days
"you're gonna act like a baby, you should be treated like a baby"
Babies don't get spanked or screamed at. They're babies. They should be calmed down. They won't understand why they are being yelled at or hurt. Babies are just babies.
It was the 1980s, parents were still spanking their kids back then.
@@ggkproductions1632 parents still spank their kids
@@just_fork much worse than that my man, and spankingcan be a good thing...mindless beating, no
@@rowenlampe7426 Id rather get a spanking and a itchy butt for 30 minutes than torture and abuse
@@tiktok_content9505 and getting KKK’d
He came home. In a box.
This sent chills down my spine. I honestly hate parents that thinks sending their child away to some facility they heard about and not even see him face to face once a week is a good idea.
no he didnt
@@MrEquusQuagga you must not be there yet... or just dim.
@@MrEquusQuagga They literally say that a kid came home in a box. He died.
@King Pistachion nah. He came home in an URN!!!! OHHHHH
My parents did that twice already
What I dont understand is how those parents think that some STRANGER is going to "fix" their child ?? How can you trust strangers? YOU as a parent know your child the best?? And in most cases the parents are the reason why a child is "troubled"....
The sad thing is that these "schools" still exist. They have wilderness therapy centers and troubled teen centers that are like this. And sometimes worse. Its extremely unsettling that these parents sign away their kids human rights not knowing that these kids will walk out of that if they make it through with severe PTSD and extreme trauma. At the hands of these people that the kids parents trusted there kids with. I know alot of people blame the parents but the thing is. The parents have ZERO idea what is happening. The kids are often forced to write letters about how great it is there and how much they like it. Its truly sick that these places still exist.
I dont care if they have an idea of whats going on or not. A parent deserves to be blamed, if the sway from the act of "parenting" and put the child in a facility. the work is in the fucking name. so any parent who sends their child to a facility like this for correction is probably sending them because they are fucked up parents.
43:47 "Today, he walks a free man." When the punishment for a crime is a fee, crime is free for the wealthy.
absolutely. the system is so broken.
When you don’t know what a bond is
@@yesnt8907 1.2M is free money for wealthy people
@@yesnt8907 Money is no equality for retribution of crimes committed.
@@Reinhard96 however, if you get a good lawyer you might just escape it... The judge is pretty much constrained to the merits of the argument in the adversarial model of justice system followed in the US.
Unfortunately, parents who send their kids to places like this are usually too dumb to realize that their child’s behavior is often a product of the parent’s actions and behavior. It disgusts me how many kids had to experience this literal torture just because their parents were too lazy to actually talk to their child and work on the underlying issues.
Or they refuse to accept it
@@lottiecharman6946 Idiots. It reminds me of my parents and they only listen now that one of them is dying
@@bmona7550 I'm sorry to hear that, I hope you're okay
It must be really hard to accept that you're the problem and you're the one who needs to change, especially as a parent
And I know a lot of parents assume that kids just get over things 😢
When I was in therapy my therapist low-key begged my family to do proper family therapy and they refused, because they didn't want to admit to themselves that they were at fault for some things
But then again, having a kid is a huge commitment and some people don't see that 😅
I need to thank my parents for taking me to a good school or even better, a hug.
Totes benny totes 100
one thing brought up in this is that the kids were not allowed to talk poorly of the school but what isn't to say that the parents wouldn't just not believe them. if i was being mistreated by an adult my parents would have 100% sided with the adult because why would an adult lie about abusing me. so glad i never went to this school.
I recently discovered your channel and I have to say that I am thankful for all you do ! A real person who dive deep and detailed into lots of interesting subjects.
Knowing psychology, being attacked and hurt only makes someone more aggressive when they’re older. So it’s kinda making the students worse
@Faith it’s a combination of both. The profit incentive makes it so you want to spend the least amount of money and resources as possible.
That means you make more money, but the staff you hire will be deranged and hungry for suffering at worst or indifferent to the suffering at best.
kinda? I wouldn't be surprised if half of these kids are now serial killers or rapists
Not always, I was beat and beat badly, beat so bad I've been put into the hospital multiple times. As youth I got into fights and lashed out, but as a father I have never beat my kids or even had the slightest thought of beating my kids if they mouth off. My beatings only have strengthen my need to protect my kids so I'd say for me it's had the complete opposite effect
KINDA is an understatement lmao
dont want to discredit your knowledge, but I guess this is just common sense .. how being aggressive to someone would make him/her better?
I was never a fan of Paris Hilton, but I ended up watching her latest documentary out of curiosity. Discovering she had been sent to one of these children labor camps, even kidnapped in the middle of the night, has caused her such extreme PTSD that she's still having trouble sleeping or living her life each day was heartbreaking. Not only because of Paris, but because of all the children that are imprisoned and tortured in these facilities who still don't have a voice.
This isn't even tragic. This is pure evil. It's pure evil.
i didnt know that! i feel so bad for her and all other kids :(
She’s been an advocate for exposing these institutions since that documentary’s release. The doc was a way for her to address it publicly ahead of appearing in court against the program that she was apart of. People are more and more aware of this now, but they do still exist.
I immediately thought of her when they said they kidnapped them in the middle of the night
@Johana Struve I watched that documentary also and had the same feeling
I was thinking about Paris' story too. Wasnt a big fan of her in general but what happened wasnt ok
Sadly, when cases of child abuse like these surface, people only ever pay attention to the most extreme, physical forms of abuse, like violence and sexual abuse, or in this case, the Ring.
But nobody ever considers the more subtle forms of control and abuse present. All the "forbidden actions" rules and incredibly tight scheduling, The complete absence of privacy and supervision over every aspect of these kid's lives, All of these things are no less abusive than hitting a kid, but everyone fails to consider them abusive when there is no visible, immediate harm to the child.
The sad truth is, when you're a parent or some other authority figure in a child's life, you can get away with a lot of abuse as long as it doesn't spill into physical territory.
easily one of the best videos you’ve ever made. i am sincerely grateful for your channel.
"we're a equal rights facility" treating everyone equally like shit
not really true, those kids clearly have no rights while the adults do
@@sydney_pepper Whats ironic is those fights are all about someone's basic rights being taken and losing rank
Same "equal rights" the commie POS are marching for.
they are a no rights facility
he wasn't lying tho 😳
>"If you're gonna act like a baby, you're gonna be treated like a baby."
I really hope someone looked into this guy if he thinks that this is how you treat a baby - by screaming at them and hitting them.
Hey, abuse breeds monstrous behavior. Abuse is the only way places like this stay in business, those abused people vent on their own children and others, creating more "problem children" to fuel the Abuse Industry. The gear keeps turning and the beast is fed.
As someone with autism that has frequent autistic meltdowns, I was horrified at that part. I'm sure some students there had autism and had meltdowns as well, and in turn were reprimanded, having more meltdowns and the loop continues. It's horrifying.
I think God did when he merc'd the fuck out of the psychopath back in 2001
@@oddeyesies It was designed for you to fail and then you would be punished for failing
@@oddeyesies I feel you so had. I have severe anxiety that caused me to have meltdowns when I was younger (and still today less frequently) and my dad employed almost the exact ame punishment. All it taught me was to hide y emotions as much as pssible.
When the Director started talking about the ring I felt sick. He's so casual... How can someone be so cruel
This is great - thank you for your contribution. Another TTI cult in a boarding school is Hyde School in Bath, Maine (unfortunately still currently functioning)
The fact that this camp was designed by a psychologist is appalling. Even back in the 70s we knew how ineffective punishment is for behaviour change, how psychologically damaging verbal abuse is and how problematic power imbalances are within groups of peers.
Yeah, it really is sickening. Like, your a professional, did you not read the books? Did you not listen during lectures??
And the fact that people just eat that shit up because it's from a professional, like it's just so goddamn disgusting.
You say that like mental health professionals have the best interests of their patients in mind.
@@benjaminbrockway5998 a lot of them actually do.
@@benjaminbrockway5998 lmao yeah all mental health professionals are bad and you definitely proved it. case closed.
More like a psychopath
Man your editing is fantastic! Can't wait for more!
there’s a phineas and ferb episode that heavily references elan.
candace has a dream about her actually managing to get her mother to find out what phineas and ferb were doing and she sends them to this reformatory school that marketed themselves as a good place that will help their students improve, when in reality they were brainwashed and candace had to go back and save them because she misses them
in the episode, the thing i remember most is the two boys having to clean the bathrooms with a single toothbrush
When he said 50,000 to pay for this my jaw dropped. To pay that much for your kid to get assaulted is awful. Imagine the amount of real help and guidance you could get for your child with that. The parents just want to hand them off like a bad pet to get trained instead raising them.
All children deserve parents, but not all parents deserve children
Well the average is $17.00 but yes I completely agree with you!
@@Judo_Master you act like the parents knew what was happening
@@Judo_Masterwell no some children are like these parents o think about 13000 children are like that even then dont send them here
@@catsdogswoof3968 who taught the kids to act like that?
Behind almost every "troubled teen" is actually a troubled household. Maybe there is something wrong with the parent's marriage, their finances, their family relationships, their mental health, etc.
Fix the problem at the root. And nearly always, the root is almost never the teenager.
This 👏👏👏
agreed. but also a “troubled teen” can choose their own path. they aren’t dumb, and can differentiate from right and wrong. they just choose to ignore the consequences
@@jocelyn-nk9es Most of the time their circumstances forces them to choose the "easy way out" which is most of the time "wrong way"... Without proper guidance mistakes will be inevitable and before you know it a simple mistake can lead to bigger ones..
@@vivid8979 well said.
"nearly always... almost never"
see, you and @jocelyn are right - some of the kids are just bad and so are partially to blame for getting treated like this
I live in Maine and can’t believe you’ve covered this!
"If you act like a baby, you should be treated like a baby"??? So he says it's ok to hit you baby? What a sick, sadistic person
the fact that this stayed open for so long and closed because of bad pr and not because of the law is a insane testament to how our society treats kids as objects or animals more than people
Society and right and wrong are just smokescreens for our true cruel natures
@@SamuelBlack84 woah bro so deeeeep. Don't cut yourself with all that edge man.
@@NeoAstrisk Do all of you read from a script to say the exact same phrases over and over again? It's incredibly dull and boring
@@SamuelBlack84 bro, go listen to your hawthorne heights album and cry yourself asleep. Bet you were the weird smelly goth kid nobody liked.
@@NeoAstrisk bro, who hurt you?
I remember talking to a homeless man on a bridge, who told me about this program. he said that he was forced to go through it when he was a teen and it ruined him mentally. I thought he was full of it. Sorry for ever doubting you Joe.
That’s so sad:(
Sometimes it's important to really listen to people. From being homeless, which started age 17 when my abusive adoptive parents just decided to kick me out cuz I wouldnt attend their cult church anymore, I found out how many homeless shelters were structured on the abuses Elan is based on.
Especially Salvation Army.
People in so many settings are being made to accept being 'guilty'
Oof Joe is On God's side bless him
The top comment says that there’s a Webtoon called “Joe vs. Elan school”
@@Petrichoredits1 wonder if it's the same Joe. Or if "joe" is just a acronym for the people who attended these places.
Man, what a good video, based on recommendations from acquaintances, I went to watch one of your videos and damn, what a wonderful video, listening and focusing on the story left me very immersed and I really loved it, great video nexpo.
I was kidnapped as a “troubled youth” by the state of Michigan. I spent my entire teen years in their custody. I’m now 55 years old and the damage caused by my time there continues to this day.
I almost got sent to a “troubled teen” camp. My mom convinced my dad they would do more harm then good for me. She spent about a month talking him out of it. I’m so glad she was in my corner for that occasion.
Praise your mom. Thank goodness she was able to do that for and stayed by your side
Your mother is a saint compared to your father, glad you're ok.
@The Beardless 1 oh no it most certainly was not. I was being sent away cause my dad thought I was on drugs. Turns out I just had type one diabetes and was dying. Once I got hospitalized and diagnosed they realized why I lost so much weight, my skin was grey, and my hair was falling out. I was also moody all the time because I was sick.
@@Shy-xm4kn My goodness, I hope you're doing better now! Bless your mother for standing up for you! :)
@Beardless 1 type one is a life long disease but thank you know that we know what was wrong with me I’m definitely much better :)
Nexpo: “I can make an entire hour long video on Synanon”
Me: is that a promise?
@emes bro the guy was just saying he wanted a video on synanon, whats your problem?
@emes Ironically, In saying that you've also not posted anything meaningful about the video.
@emes Damn why so negative? Fuck did OP do to you?
@emes :(
@emes who hurt you my man? wanna drink some water and breathe a bit?
being there is one of the few things i really can't imagine. no video has ever made me so sad. i wish peace and happiness to all people that had to suffer there.
I never heard of this school 😢 thank u for making this video so sad and angers me this existed period.. I hope the ones who survived are thriving still and rip to the ones who never made it home ❤😢
Since the parents allowed their kids to go to this prison, they also deserve to be sued for negligence in the crimes aginst their children's dignity, physiscal integrity and probably their lives.
True!
Those parents should have been put to death and be forced to drink the kool aid cynide just like Jonestown went through around the same time this was happening int he 70s and 80s.
Good luck getting _that_ legalised
I might be wrong but aren't they sent mails of how they're treated very equally and they'll go as far as to fabricate the original work so it looks like they were having a normal life inside the camp. I don't think they would be blamed for that though since they thought this was for the better and that they'll be well behaved.
The parents thought this place was going to change their kids for the better. Remember- they didnt know about the cruel methods up until the end.
The parents were manipulated aswell.
I had a friend in high school who was sent here for a short time. He never talked about what went on there, but his story of being kidnapped at night is something I’ll never forget. The worst part is he was not a bad kid, he had shitty parents who didn’t want to be parents
Wait why didn't his parents do something about his kidnaping?
@Rusty Howe Wtf??? these scums really exist?? Dear god I'm really pissed off
How come they LITTERALY consent to the kidnapping of their children? Sick bastards
@Rusty Howe it's really true when they say, every kid deserves a parent, but not every parent deserves a kid
I know a kid who has the same experience. Kidnapped at night. Her parents should have been sterilized. I’m so sorry for you pain. So so so sorry. There are better people out there. Just sadly not a lot
i hope his parents rot wherever they are...monsters
Such a great video. Ive been following Joe Nobody's online comic he writes about his time in elan & life after the trauma he endured. I cant imagine a child going thru this, & am appalled at the year this institution was finally shut down. Who knows how many places similar to this hell on earth r littered across America
This is one of those things that just makes my blood boil. Can't imagine the shock and trauma of having your parents send you to a place like this.
"Corporal is such a harsh term." You're right, we shouldn't call it that. Its child abuse, you bastard.
“Corporal is such a harsh term.”
“No no you’re right, it should be much harsher. Child abuse, you son of a gun.”
My friend was abducted just like this in the middle of the night by youth mental facility people, and it wasn't 1970; it was 1990. He wasn't even the slightest bit "troubled" or any of the things his parents claimed, he was just into skating and punk music, not a corderoy-wearing, grace-saying Christian like they were. A solid month he was IMPRISONED for being an absolutely normal healthy 16 year old.
Lol God really doesn’t care what music you listen to
@John Spöner what the fuck thats awful
I hope he disowned his parents afterwards.
@@sandwichmonster7067 Them AND any trace of faith he had left.
@@audreymuzingo933 good on him for cutting those bastards out of his life. I hope he's doing okay now.
I love how one of the rules "thinking of escaping" like they're fucking Akinator to know what those students think
This made me grateful for my school