Is this a case of mental illness or was it a genuine kidnapping plot? See what you think…

Don LaRose claims to have been born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, in 1940. He claims to have been abducted by a Satanic cult in 1975, in Maine, New York, and that his captors erased his memory and let him off in Minneapolis. He became a Baptist pastor in 1978, overseeing a congregation in Hammond, Indiana.

According to the Northwest Indiana Times, “The day before he disappeared, he was speaking to a group in the church, and in the middle of his sermon he stopped talking and looked at the back of the room. No one who turned around saw anything, but LaRose later claimed he had seen one of the Satanists through a window.” The Satanists, LaRose says, are an “underworld crime group.” Threatening his family, the group apparently forced LaRose out of town, and he fled the area on a bicycle – without notifying his family or his church.

Who found him? It turns out LaRose has been under the guise of one Bruce Kent Williams, a man who was killed in 1958. He remarried, moved to the Bentonville, Arkansas, area, and won three elections – including that of the mayor. The Benton County Daily Record pieced together his story, and now the mayor is stepping down from his office. He says he now fears he and his family will again be in danger from the cult.

I have to ask – if you’re running from a Satanic cult, so much so that you are willing to change your name, why would you run for such a visible public office? And if you think the Satanic cult would threaten your first family, why remarry and place that burden on another family? One has to question whether the mayor is really a pastor threatened for blaspheming against Satan or whether this is just another case of schizophrenia. Seeing dark shadowy figures that tell you to do things – and no one else sees them? Feeling threatened and paranoid? Withdrawing from his family and friends? Sounds like schizophrenia. Look it up.

I guess how you judge this case depends on whether you believe in science, whether you believe in cult plots, and whether you think this man’s character is, well, sincere. But I think before we start spending tax dollars to protect this guy, we better get him checked out.

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