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Caroline McKuen is a social worker in Maine. She’s a mom.
She never thought she’d be reaching out to a website like The Underground Bunker, but she wasn’t sure where else she should turn.
While her life today is very satisfying for her, and calm, she explained to us that she had lived through something terrifying she is still coming to grips with, and that she is surprised has never received any press attention in the United States.
To help us understand what she’s talking about, she asked if she could send us a copy of a two-hour long video.
It’s a digital conversion of what was once on videocassette, which in turn had been made from a live video feed at a place on the other side of the world.
So, the quality is poor. The colors garish. The image jumpy and low resolution.
But there’s simply no question what is going on.
A woman in a long white dress, on a stage, is cutting off a man’s toes in front of a live audience.
One by one, the woman is snipping off his toes with what look like pruning shears, exposing bleeding flesh and white bone. The audience shouts in ecstasy, arms waving in the air, mouths agape in religious fervor.
Meanwhile, a narrator can be heard citing Isaiah 53:5-7.
But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
Snip. Another toe comes off, blood gushes over the stage. The crowd shrieks in jubilation.
What in the hell, we asked Caroline, were we watching?
It’s a long story, she said.
Caroline was the second of nine children born to a rather odd couple from Pine Bluff, Arkansas.
Dad was quiet, and Caroline suspected that he was mildly autistic. He joined the military and was an engineer, and so the family was posted in various parts of the world. Caroline was born in Germany, then grew up back in the U.S.
Mom was one of 16 children to a Christian minister, and her dedication to Pentacostalism was total. Where Caroline’s dad was reserved, mom was very outgoing and boisterous about her faith.
She was an end-of-the-worlder, and if the family kept moving, it was more about mom looking for the best place to be for the next revelation. Dad’s skills allowed him to find work at nearby military bases. So the family’s moves from Arkansas to Florida to New Mexico and then Montana were more about mom’s religious fervor than dad’s itinerant career.
In September 1987, when Caroline was 12, the family moved to Seoul, South Korea, because her mother was convinced that God’s judgment was about to smite the United States.
“It was a big change,” Caroline says, thinking about what it was like to go from Montana to Seoul at that age. “I loved Montana. We had a big, beautiful house and horses. But my mother was just obsessed with the prophecies of David Wilkerson. She would say, ‘I saw a demon in your room.’ She was violent, hitting the demons out of us. She was increasingly obsessed with prophecies, that we were all going to die for Jesus.”
Caroline’s mother told her children that they would likely endure being beheaded. There was no point thinking about going to college, she’d tell them. You’ll be dead by then.
“It was a lot for a kid. She was so disturbed.”
Caroline was hopeful about the move to Korea. They didn’t know anyone there, but it had to be better than the darkness she had experienced in Montana.
“Dad was a contractor for the military, and the military does a good job taking care of you. They found us an apartment and a school. They had the commissary, with American food. In some ways it was an easier life than in Montana,” she says.
[Caroline at about 14, center, and two sisters]
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