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Hello and welcome back to Cult Leader. I'm your Cult Leader, Spencer Henry, and I'm sorry if it is loud at all at any point during this episode, but I have to keep turning the AC on because it is a million degrees and I am dying.

I went to Target today, the pickup not inside. I'm still too scared to go inside stores right now, but I got another air conditioning unit. First, you may be wondering, hey, why don't you have AC?

Well, let me tell you, apparently if you live even somewhat near the vicinity of a beach, they think you don't need it, but let me tell you, you definitely do. And I will never, mark my words, never.

Live in an apartment without air conditioning again. If you remember, I did by an AC unit last July. I set it all up and then it flew out of the fucking window, almost knocking me out on the way down. So here is to round two. She feels secure. I'm sure I set it up wrong, but it is screwed in place. She's going nowhere.

So enough about my air conditioning drama. Let's get to it. Today's story takes place in Auburn, Indiana. Is that you? Well, if you live there or nearby, chances are you've attended or heard of the annual DeCobbe County Fair, so eloquently credited as America's Family Reunion, which to be honest, like no, things that is not a reunion, I feel like going to anytime soon. According to their website, they still plan on operating this September.

Which like I urge you not to go to a county fair right now during these times. I just don't think it's right. Are you guys like me? Are you like me? Are you normal? No, but like I panic at the thought of being in a crowd of people right now, like Florida Open Disney World today.

Who the fuck wants to go to a hot crowded theme park right now? They just had like 15,000 new cases and even on TV or in a movie when I see people like hugging and standing close, I'm like, ah, don't do it. Get away from her.

But that's probably just the mental mindset you go into after not being around people for five months, but you know, who knows?

But enough of 2020, I'm fucking sick of her. I want to take me somewhere else. We're going back to 1991. A great year. Perhaps one of the better years in American history because, you know, your quote later was born in 1991.

And brace yourselves because we've got everything in this episode. We got Satanism. We got carnivals. We got hot dogs on sticks. And most importantly, the reason we're all here, we've got moida.

So, picture this. Come with me. Come back in time with me. We're on the fairgrounds. It's 1991 and William Alt is tired of feeling lonely. He's 21 years old and he's a bit of an outsider. And due to his work, he had a difficult time establishing friendships with people as he was often on the go traveling with his carnival job where we're going carnie here.

There's a very mean girls theme you're going to see going on between William and some of the other carnival workers who will get into one of you. But the gist of the story is that William really wanted to be friends with this specific other crew that he was traveling with at the time, but they were very clicky and thought he was annoying.

And much deeper than just a click of bitchy high school girls, these guys were dark sided. Please tell me that you've all seen that episode of WifeSwap where the Christian lady, Marguerite, I think was her name, where she calls herself a god warrior. It is the best episode of TV probably in history.

She swaps with this tarot card reader and she just loses her fucking mind the entire time. She's like, it's dark sided. It's not Christian. I reputed in the name of the Lord. There's Moon, Taros, which is so fucking good.

Anyways, let's talk about the crew. So we have William, Anthony Alt, who I was just talking about, but he went by Tony, a nickname derived obviously from his middle name. So from here on out, we're going to refer to him as Tony.

He was born on July 2nd, 1970, real close before 4th of July, a freedom baby, in Rochester, Indiana. Rochester is in Fulton County, and it was named after the founder who originated from Rochester, New York, Sedunkett, Twisted, were in Indiana. It's tiny. It's literally just like this five mile total land, and definitely small town vibes.

So his parents were surely in Gerald, and they separated at some point during his childhood, and his mom remarried to a man named Robert Alt, which is how Tony obviously got his last name. He had a sister named Angela, and a brother named Charles.

After graduating from the town's high school, he began working for a company called Poor John's Carnival, which eventually led him to meeting the other main guys in today's story in September of 1991, on the DeCobb County Fairgrounds when he was just 21 years old.

Now on the right, we have Jimmy Peneck, Mark Goodwin, and brothers Keith and David Lawrence all around the same age as our boy Tony. And as I mentioned previously, these guys were into some pretty dark stuff, and we're going to get into it right after this message from today's sponsor.

Okay, I'm back. So the boys, the boys, the boys, they had started a cult. Hey, we know about those. So I want to read an article, and it is from February 22, of 1992 in the Daily Journal from Franklin, Indiana, and the title is Cult Worshiping, Involved Sacrifices, and Orgies.

Special Reports, Swade by Satan. So it says Diary of a Satanist. While a student at Custer Baker Middle School in Franklin, Goodwin often played the heavy metal rock album Diary of a Mad Man by Aussie Osborne, Goodwin wondered what the upside down cross and pentagram a star with a circle on the cover of the Osborne album meant.

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