I was in excell family. Galt Ranch. We actually spent time in the lodge where it was warm and dry. I just found this website and thankful for it. I was also the youngest on the facility, for I was a fresh 13 year old. The ranch is a perfect destination for fly-fishing enthusiasts because it is surrounded by 50 miles of freestone streams. Take a good hard look at the situation. When i went i was 17 so i only had a year to do. what up david. It never goes away no matter how long in the rear view the experience was. I kept in touch with Henry a bit. I was in montana with josh. Central Montana has a wide variety of outdoor recreation. I had one of my best friends from 9 years old tell me about 6 months ago that I didnt come back from that place the same. Sorry Harrigal, I meant Atwoodhope you see the post above. Cant remember exactly. Not to mention whats his name who ran the seminars that guy was a damn psycho. Josh was a fucking great guy in my opinion during the time I knew him. I will make it to California within the next 2 days. Please contact me at howiseetheworldblog@gmail.com Staff worked us like slave labor chopping down trees. I would love to see much of the staff I remember, Mike Needham, Mike Tarry, Dan (the former Marine), Miss Lee, Mr. Donaldson, Miss Amy and again many others whose names not remembered but faces well known.I was there for the Bigfoot (Red) vs Bear (Blue) months. Good job!!! Then not long after the school shutdown like I mentioned in the beginning. I been in prison now and still this place was the worst place I have ever been. Or was it respect. I wonder whatever happened to Atfield? They humiliated me on purpose for furthering the breaking down process of their mental conditioning. I remember a few weeks in once it REALLY sank in I lost it. And what capacity? I went inside one of the bathrooms and locked the stall and stood on top of toilet seat top so u couldnt see my feet. Its crazyIm 34 nowand still, I remember these things. Wtf? Take care, good to read your memories cause not a lot of us are from that first year in 96. I still listen to Tony Robbins and I know the answers on jeopardy when its related to old literature like the Canterbury Tales. Lord they were pissed about that. Me and Mark? The next time the Flue rag bitches tried to creep on us, they got completely smashed on. When I first arrived it felt like military walking around heel toe not being able to talk or even look at certain people. I hope youre doing great and have found someone that loves you for you! in my case i long for the things they took from me. Soon (I hope) most you will (or have) grown up and witnessed your self that things arent just handed to you and no one is just going to give you what you want when you want it.. Life is Hell out there but you have to make it a livable one maybe even a happy one. And thats what they would do. It was merciless cold of January. I was there too. I was lucky that my parents were growing tired of for me to go there. Kids as young as 12 were at this school and they got no exceptions. I have apologized to her but not sure she really forgives me. which is why nobody talks about it. Ranches and farms are some of the most worthwhile and secure investments you can make. Joshs story, Undated. She said that she has worked with many students and has a 95% success rate of getting us were we need to go. What was all this standing and marching in line? MLS# 22110842. I wished I would have run sooner. maggie.bidwell@gmail.com, I am trying to help my boyfriend piece together the story of his time at Spring Creek Lodge. I wanted to get a list of the rules. I was there in 1998 I was 16 and in Destiny. Everything you said X 10 I couldnt speak of it in detail until a few years ago. I left in 97, spent a year there. I stopped talking and listening until they didnt know what to do with me. Its The Sleepers (or just Sleepers) with kevin bacon. Congrats! Who the hell do you think you are????? I finally talked to him when I was old enough to understand that he would never and could never understand. God what a miserable time. RV Sites - 57 total Dont even get me started on the seminars. Shout out to unity family in 99 and 2000, to both Patrick S. Patrick M Mike C and Mike R My bunkie Jimmy, big Greg from Virginia while he was in Unity, Andy from Alaska, break dancer Kevin, Karl from Wisconsin, there was another guy that skateboarded I cant remember his name it might of been Mikey. Mr. Dave was good people. Thank you all for keeping this info flowing. Who the hell were these guys? This, coupled with the long growing season, allow crops to be grown both to benefit and attract the area wildlife and to generate income. I actually found this page because I had to list my graduating school which was spring creek. Stayed in the 18+ house where we had ping pong table, steak cookouts ECT. My name is a Nick Theriault. As soon as my parents came up for one of the seminars, they were like I think even your little rep person Ms Kathy is spun out of her mind. READ REDFIN'S, Do not sell or share my personal information. I graduated in 2007 and looking on how to get mine too? Hey, I was at Spring Creek Community in 1988 as this place was evolving into the nightmare scenario it ended up being. From Wisconsin? Seeing as how we were not allowed to exchange personal contact information during our time there. The Seminars were where the True Fruit were, and of you went through them, and didnt see that, then you were Blind or you are Lying to Yourself. So good to finally find some people who can relate to my experience. Even after the loss of multiple lawsuits, news reports outlining the abuse and new lawsuits filed regularly, they turn a blind eye to hide the children that they broke using the guise of helping them. Trying to find my best friend at the time Tristan!! Johnny Boy, I love you buddy. They would work everyone into a frenzy with some hypothetical horror show and play that song and have someone come around and nance around everyone in some contrived attempt to elicit some false sense of security and happiness within the program. Those asshole twins never submitted them. It worked a couple times but then they just decided to cover me with a sheet while they restrained me instead. Dan Peart is Robert Browning Litchfields brother-in-law. I was in Dignity, and I remember a lot of shit that happened there. Kids trying to commit suicide was a weekly issue. and SHARING, WTF is SHARING?? It is a unique spring creek for the fact that you could practically . They wanted my stepdad to shave his legs and dress as a female. I found out yesterday chaffin was arrested as a child molester for having sex with one of the girls in the program. Try to put me in the hobbit now. He was half a fag. Nelson's Spring Creek is a premier fly fishing destination in Montana and is located on our ranch 10 miles south of the town of Livingston, Montana in Paradise Valley, just 40 minutes from Yellowstone National Park. I am Brann Adams and I went to Spring Creek Community around 1988. But as far as the staff go I had nothing but great staff member Chaffin and Cameron did walk around like kings but they were harmless. No wonder my counselor at school had so many questions when I told her I went to Spring Creek. While I try not to judge others, as I dont know the particulars of what theyre going through with their kids, I just wouldnt and couldnt ever do that and feel that sending your kids away is giving up on them. I was unaware that a website like this existed until a girlfriend of mine told me about it. My boyfriend (at that time) got sent there in 1999. lately I have been finding a lot of these comments about the old wwasp programs and I find it great that we can all now come back in to touch with people from this time!!! I would love to hear from you .a sort of closure or new beginning j.columbus1982@gmail.com take care! I told her to stay strong, do her best and to look around her and find strength in nature and what she sees around her. I stole a car twice, escaped, robbed a liquor with a stolen car and brought tobacco back to feed the masses. It was getting on toward evening, the end of the day, Cold temps, animals, trains, human predators, and I felt the dangers ahead out weighed the other dangers she might face in custody. Remember that we have an advantage over the unenlightened masses, we know real sufferingtherefore we can better recognize real happiness. I could have done this as my family married into the Lichfield mafia in Utah I no longer speak to them. So we literally had like a 10 ft head start. It was a definite case of the insane running the asylum. FAX 406-222-0744. Sorry to hear that these places lasted so long. I was pretty much gone for the Summers staying at a friends house near the beach surfing everyday with my three best friends smoking, drinking, taking ecstasy,acid, getting arrested,steeling my brothers car and driving it to Pennsylvania. My name is Nick Theriault. During this time, Steve Cawdrey would come walking in outta nowhere and every couple days and along with our guides would inflict upon us his crackpot version of therapy where he let the wilderness conditions break us down mentally so he could begin rehabilitating us. Whats up everyone. His hands were in my underwear. I got threw in the habit in winter and was left to die. We have missing indigenous girls all the time around the Reservation , its like a hunting ground for the sex trade. It was only once we found this website that he felt like anyone would really believe him. We shared rumors and strategies to get out. Maybe he figures were too f-ing stupid to look into the people we hope to glean some advice and guidance from. I hoped she would not get hit. Hi, I was in Serenity 2001-2003 as well. In a way we are kind of like people who have been through any sort of trauma and didnt seek help. I had questions: non of them got answered. Wow . But after they saw that he and I wwerent causing iasues, they let us interact and hang out at free time which is when most jumpings occured. I remember a shitty little pond we would visit maybe once a year. Before the 2 story additions. This place was a crock. They moved us to Thomas Creek by the old 18+ girls facility and me and another kid John escaped. I didnt want this to be our lives and I didnt want to be responsible for this shit and I just wanted to go home. i tried to run away once, but it was just with one other girl. The two ladies catch up and the girl refuses to get off my truck. We had to have been at SCC together at the same time, I mean, everything you said in your post was perfect. This place was hell. I think the reason Im pretty good with names is only because Cameron (we called him Dough Boy) had me do the censusso Id type up all the kids names on that weekly level report they posted in the hallway of the school buildingthe building across from the Hungry Horse that had the case workers like Laurie Travers & Jades wife Cassies offices in the middleso yeah, I can recall a lot of names. What is this facility? They made us build fort style fences around the staff cabins and lay rock gravel pits. So many memories of that shit hole I could go on for hours if not days. Luckily tho, my parents found out about the school from the parents of my brother in law who was still enlrolled. Yes, I was 16, doing some recreational drug use, maybe a little overboard with the speed, esp so young but whatever,but when i got out i moved out of my parents house, bounced around, no real address for a few years, and was mainlining by the time i was 18. after getting in some trouble, i got out of all of that. Need transcript if anyone could point me in right direction.