An island, a cult, a blog.
So, I’m not quite sure how to start this. Still learning how to go about this whole blogging thing. I think I’ll just start this by telling everybody about myself before I get into the purpose of me making this account.
Anyways, I’m Linda Schwarz. I’m currently 15, and I live in Vancouver, BC. The story of why I’m making this page is very long and complicated, so I’ll get started.
For a few months now, I’ve had an immense interest in a particular story surrounding a once inhabited island, the history of which has been swallowed by lack of news reporting it.
The island was called Haufenleichen Island by those who didn’t inhabit it back in it’s day. This island is prohibited from public access nowadays, and barely any attention is paid to it now. However, in recent memory, I’ve been researching this place a lot, and I’ve been unraveling something of an under-documented tragedy lying underneath this island of pine trees and cabins eaten whole by their surrounding vegetation.
Somewhere in the mid-2000s, a mass suicide took place on the island. Supposedly, a cult had been inhabiting the island for decades. This cult was called the Northern Clarity Triad. Almost nothing at all was documented about their beliefs. Their manifestos and religious texts were collected, of course, but never brought up to the press, or spoken of to the public. All that was really talked about was the nature of their mass suicide, which was comparable to the Heaven’s Gate suicide in how uniform it was.
All families of three, lined up in their front lawns. Father, mother, child, father outermost closest to the street and child closest to the house. Parallel to one-another, arms to their sides, carbon monoxide tanks lying to the right of them, with an inhalation tube running from the tanks to oxygen masks. All uniform, all dead, and so, so eerie.
With that being said, what struck me the most about this story was surprisingly not how utterly fucked up their ritualistic and detailed suicide was, but rather the lack of information on why they did it. What kind of God did they ever believe in that would make them do that? What did they teach their people? Despite the fact that there was in fact physical evidence found on the site of the cult’s suicide, nobody said a single word about their beliefs. That’s what I’m here for.
I’m not sure when I’ll post again, as I’ve been very busy with classes and stuff, like most my age. But don’t worry. I’ll post whenever I find anything useful.
