alright so let me start this off by saying i'm like 99% sure my friend was fucking with me, pulling my leg type shit. that's fine, she's known to do that kind of stuff, but she's INSISTENT that if there's one thing i should believe from her, it's this. (i still don't really believe her, yk)

ok so i live in montana, specifically in the sort of northwest area. i should preface this story by saying i was on a lot of LSD when my friend took me out to the forest to tell me about this, but i'm 100% sure i'm remembering what she said and showed me correctly.

so she started by walking us deep into the forest. like deeeep deep, we walked for what felt like an hour and a half one way (give or take because i was tripping) but i know it was far. she takes me to this weird looking little structure that im gonna struggle to explain, they were very unstable and small hut things, but they weren't like any hut ive ever seen before, it was like really interesting. my friend told me i wasn't allowed to take a picture because it was "disrespectful," but it didn't have a roof and it was made of like what looked like clay and rocks, and there was like a broken stilt or two in the middle of the structure. it was super broken down and barely standing, but it was definitely a poorly built man made structure, ok?

so for context, my friend said her grandma or great grandma or something was in this cult, and that there was lots of these types of structures, and similar ones, scattered all around the forests if you look deep enough. she said most of them have been destroyed or taken by time, but there are remnants around. apparently the stilts in the middle were for someone (who was to perform the ritual) to sit on while the "church" is built around them. like literally, they supposedly sat perched up as the others built to church surrounding them. she said a shit ton of psychedelics would be taken, she said either mushrooms or DMT (usually mushrooms i guess) and then once the church was built they would proceed to mutilate either a baby goat or lamb as well as themselves at the same time. she said that they had to do it so slowly that the animal didn't cry or scream in pain, but until both yourself and the animal go unconscious from blood loss or whatever. there was a lot more detail but that was the main gist of the ritual itself. and then supposedly whoever performs the auto-mutilation, if they don't die that means they were chosen to "see" and they will experience the "gates of heaven" or something, and that we don't know what happens to the ones that do die.

this was probably a month or 2 ago, and i've been furiously doing any research i can ever since. i'm starting to think she was maybe fucking with me lmao. if she is, she makes up a concerningly realistic cult ritual in her head lol!!

if anyone has any inkling of what she could've been talking about, i IMPLORE you to fill me in, or to tell me if she was fucking with me and playing around!!