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Hello and welcome back to Cult Leader. I'm your Cult Leader, Spencer Henry. Cult Baves, I'm sure that some of you have already seen the news that broke over the weekend. But I'm so excited because I can finally share that I have signed with Morbid Network. And I know there was a lot of questions about it, a lot of comments, a lot of excitement. So let me give you guys a quick rundown on what it is.

I think that the easiest way to explain it is it's like a TV network. So you have your ABC, your NBC, they all have their different shows under them. And it's kind of the same situation for podcasts. So Ash and Elena, who co-host Morbid Podcast, have started their own network. And when they reached out about adding Cult Leader, I was like, hi, yes, absolutely. Because I love their show. And we're just now one big creepy family. And you guys also always said, well, I'm sorry.

So always send me messages asking for my podcast recommendations, what I listen to. So please do yourself a favor and check out Morbid. If you have not already, they're funny, they're cool. If you vibe with Cult Leader, you'll definitely vibe with them. And as always, I got to do my quick plug. So follow along online. So you don't miss major updates like this at Cult Leader Podcast at Spencer Henry. And if you have a story that you want to share for a future little leader or an episode suggestion, go ahead and send it on over to Spencer at Cult Leader.com.

That's it. I did it. I got through it. I just fucking want to tell the stories of ads. So after the Anilis Michele Exorcism episode that I did a few back, I've had this lingering desire to learn more about other paranormal related deaths and homicides. So I did some digging. And I happened upon this little article from viral Nova.

The article was like this compiled list of unexplained paranormal deaths. And I was like, oh, hey, perfect. You just what I was looking for. And on that list, there was this little blurb about the Jameson family from Oklahoma and the details immediately caught my attention because it is so bizarre. There was only one little paragraph on that article about them. So I was like, all right, time to get the research. I put on my detective hat. I started with some articles from CBS and V.C.

This is me citing my sources, the Oklahoma newspaper Buzzfeed Unsolved and then last and definitely not least I listened to episode 50 loves and laughs from one of my other favorite podcasts. And that's why we drink the more I read the more I listened the more I was like, wait, what the hell actually happened here?

So we're going to go through exactly what we know, what we think and all of the insane theories surrounding this case because after all that research, I'm talking hours and hours and hours and hours. I still have zero clues. So let's meet the Jameson family.

We have the dad Bobby Jameson. He's 44. The mom Cheryl and Jameson 40 and their six year old daughter Madison, Jameson. The family lived in Ufala, Oklahoma, which I did look up how to say that name. So it's like and not how I remember it is like you stand up or you follow, right? Right. It's a city in Macintosh County, Oklahoma, whose name is derived from the Ufala Native American tribe. And we'll touch on that later. There's a lot of people who are in the Ufala.

I'm not going to touch on that later. There's a reason I'm telling you that information. And while it doesn't seem like life in Ufala was, you know, big city living by any means, the Jamesons were eager for an even slower pace, which is why in October of 2009, Bobby and Cheryl and set their eyes on a piece of land about 30 miles away in a more rural area called Red Oak, Oklahoma.

On October 8th of 2009, Bobby and Cheryl and Jameson load up their family truck with their daughter and head out to Red Oak where they were looking to purchase this plot of land that was about 40 acres on Buzzweed Unsolved. They claimed that the family was planning on living in a storage unit that they owned on the property. But I didn't hear or read that anywhere else. And it seems odd to me to buy 40 acres of land just to put a storage unit on it.

Now, this was a sizable storage unit. It was at their house that they owned prior to wanting to move. And it's one of those shipping container storage units, which I've seen turned into other things. There's actually a few places in Long Beach, LA, Orange County, where they take shipping containers and they turn them into like little outdoor mall things or coffee shops. Like, hi, would you like a $13 latte? Please come in. But you can't come in because we're a storage unit. We're different. We're not like the other coffee shops.

But I think the other thing I think is that the family who, after this day on October 8th when they went to look, they were never seen again.

What? Yes, it's true. It seems like we're just fucking moving right through it here, but I promise you it just escalates real quick.

So eight days later on October 16th was when friends and family became worried because nobody had heard from Bobby or Cheryl in.

And while they knew that they were like out looking for a quieter place to live and had planned on moving, it wasn't like them just to completely drop off the grid like this.

They weren't at their house. People were trying to call them and on that same day on the 16th hunters in the area find the family's truck.

And it was the contents inside that would leave everybody with a lot of questions.

Near the driver's side door was Bobby's cell phone and a GPS.

Cheryl in purse was on the floor of the passenger side of the vehicle. Perhaps even more surprising was a bag containing $32,000 in cash, which like, you know, no big deal.

Just some spend and money for the mountains. And if you think that shocking, the family's dog, Maisie, was also in the truck and had miraculously survived after being alone for eight days.

And though she was extremely malnourished, she survived. Meanwhile, if I leave hot dog in the car to even just like grab my mobile order from Starbucks, she gives me this look of disdain like, you motherfucker, you really were going to leave me.

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