Milk Carton Kid Conspiracy

A disturbing series of events has revived horrible conspiracy theories surrounding the 1982 disappearance of Johnny Gosch, a 12-year-old Des Moines, Iowa paper boy.

On Thursday, his mother, Noreen Gosch, received two photographs in the mail of her son and two other unidentified children bound and gagged. Authorities are analyzing the photographs, but believe that the prints are from 1982 and that it is Johnny in the photograph.

Many people remember Johnny Gosch as the first missing child to appear on a milk carton. Others, however, remember his disappearance as the case that started the child abduction panic of the 1980's.

Following further investigations by Ms. Gosch and private detectives, a grand conspiracy was concocted that not only was Johnny taken by child predators, but by a nationally funded satanic cult involved with child pornography and snuff films. Allegations of who was involved with this cult spread as far as Hunter S. Thompson, former president George H.W. Bush, numerous politicians and a phony journalist named Jeff Gannon.

Despite the debunking of many of these claims and the refusal of this blogger to believe such horrid accusations against the good Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, the idea of a ritualistic cult involving people from all parts of society is not one of fantasy. In the spring of 1989, a cult surrounding the practices of Palo Mayombe, a form of voodoo based upon practices from the Congo, was uncovered in Matamoros, Mexico after a Texas college student went missing during spring break.

Led by a drug dealing occultist, the cult kidnapped, tortured and sacrificed hundreds of people in hopes that their gods would allow them to safely traffic drugs over the United States border. The followers included not only drug runners and thugs, but doctors, policemen and other people of respectable practices.

After an event like that, the claims of Ms. Gosch and countless others may not be that impossible after all.

The pictures Ms. Gosch received are now on her site and were shown on the Fox News Channel. Due to the disturbing nature of the photographs, the link will not be posted on this blog. With a little googling, one can find them easy enough.

At first glance, it's easy to say that Johnny Gosch was a poor kid who was abducted and his real tragedy has been thrown to the side by ridiculous theories. This may be so, but after researching the case a bit, it is hard not to be rattled by the entire incident and the series of events surrounding it.

A full explanation of the conspiracy about Johnny Gosch can be found at http://educate-yourself.org/cn/goschgannohuntertrublingtale05apr05.shtml. Try not to get a headache.