In February 1987, two “well-dressed men” were spotted in Florida with six children who looked “unkept and neglected.” After receiving complaints from concerned citizens, the Thalahasse Police Department arrested the two men and interviewed the children. This launched an investigation that would lead to one of the most explosive cases in American history.
At the center of it all is an enigmatic group called The Finders, a sophisticated network that abducted children, brainwashed them in horrific conditions, subjected them to satanic rituals, and trafficked them on an international level.
As we’ll see, the material seized by the police on the group’s properties was nothing less than horrific and extremely damning. In normal circumstances, the pictures, documents, passports, and computers found by investigators would have been more enough to take down this organization and arrest all of its members, alongside massive media coverage and public outrage.
However, this did not happen. Instead, the people who were arrested were quickly released, the charges were dropped, and the media abruptly stopped covering the story. What happened?
Well, this case can be divided into two distinct phases. In the first one, local police thoroughly investigated the group and transparently documented its findings. Shortly after, the FBI took over the investigation, and things quickly got murky.
The reason for this is as evident as it is alarming: The Finders were directly connected with the CIA. In his Illuminati Formula to Create a Mind Control Slave, Fritz Springmeier wrote:
The Finders, a joint CIA/FBI group procured children for the Network for years. Some of the children needed for programming are to be used for sacrifices to traumatize those being programmed.
In 2019, under the Freedom of Information Act, the FBI released documents related to The Finders. Although the texts have been absurdly redacted, some tidbits of information with far-reaching implications still provided deeper insights into this massive conspiracy.
Here’s a look at this bottomless rabbit hole, which offered a rare glimpse into the inner workings of the occult elite.
The six children who were found travelling with two men in a van.
On February 4th, 1987, Douglas Ammerman and James Michael Holwell were pulled over and arrested with six children aged between 2 and 11 years old. According to police reports, the children were dirty, unkept, hungry, disturbed, and agitated as they were living in the back of a smelly van for some time. The children’s bodies were covered in bug bites and scratches, and most of them had no underwear. At least two of them had indications of sexual abuse.
When the children were interviewed, most were unable to tell investigators who their parents were, where they lived, or where they had come from. They were unfamiliar with the inside of a house, the names of rooms, and had never seen objects such as telephones, televisions, and toilets. When they needed to go to the bathroom, the children asked to go outside or urinated in their pants.
The oldest child, named Mary, explained they were from Washington, DC, and that the younger children needed to be “weaned” from their mothers. She added that the men in the van took orders from a person called the “Game Caller,” who communicated with them via a computer. Police effectively recovered a TRS-80 computer in the van, which could be connected to a phone line – rare, advanced technology for the time.
Mary explained that they lived on a farm but were not allowed inside the house. Children were given food only when they did “good things” (without elaborating on what these things were). When asked about games they play with the “Game Caller,” answers were baffling. One game involved taking off a man’s clothes, putting them on, and going through the pockets for money. At Christmastime, the women of the house would come downstairs with no clothes on, and, somehow, that was a “game.” Mary’s bizarre reference to someone named the “Game Caller” led investigators to suspect that the children were brainwashed.
When asked about sexual abuse, Mary became very evasive. While she denied any “bad touches” or any inappropriate behavior by the adults, she nevertheless became “very fidgety and wanted to end the interview.”
Meanwhile, upon learning they were under arrest for child abuse, one of the men fell to the ground like a plank, face down, and refused to get up. The other man made no response, vocal or physical. Once in customdy, one of the men stated they were on their way to Mexico to establish a school for gifted children.
Michael Holwell and Douglas Ammerman.
Needless to say, the situation was highly suspicious. And investigators only uncovered the tip of a massive, highly disturbing iceberg.
One of the properties owned by The Finders in Washington, D.C.
When Thalahasse investigators contacted the Metropolitan Police Department in D.C. about a group called The Finders, they responded that they had already been watching these “freaks.” A few months earlier, a D.C. detective looked around one of their properties and found the following:
“A clearing approximately seventy yards behind the house and several stumps surrounding the open area. Several round stones had been gathered near the circle, this practice is sometimes used in Satanic rituals, and evidence that several persons had gathered in the clearing recently.”
The new information gathered in Thalahasse led the Metropolitan Police Department to execute two search warrants on The Finders’ properties. A 1987 Washington Post article describes their findings in The Finders’ warehouse:
D.C. police, who searched a Northeast Washington warehouse linked to the group, removed large plastic bags filled with color slides, photographs and photographic contact sheets. Some photos visible through a bag carried from the warehouse at 1307 Fourth St. NE were wallet-sized pictures of children, similar to school photos, and some were of naked children.
D.C. police sources said some of the items seized yesterday showed pictures of children engaged in what appeared to be “cult rituals.” Officials of the U.S. Customs Service, called in to aid in the investigation, said that the material seized yesterday includes photos showing children involved in bloodletting ceremonies of animals and one photograph of a child in chains. Customs officials said they were looking into whether a child pornography operation was being conducted.
– Washington Post, Officials Describe ‘Cult Rituals’ in Child Abuse Case
Investigators also found in the warehouse “a large number of computer goods, a hot tub, sauna, a large TV room, a library of books (some concerning mind control), a satellite disc on the roof, and various stage-like settings of rooms that were roped off.”
Yes, the FBI files explicitly state that the group had books about mind control.
A U.S. Customs memo describes what was found at another property.
“During the execution of the warrant at 3918/20 W St., I was able to observe and access the entire building … There were several subjects on the premises. Only one was deemed to be connected with the Finders. [He] was located in a room equipped with several computers, printers, and numerous documents. Cursory examination of the documents revealed detailed instructions for obtaining children for unspecified purposes. The instructions included the impregnation of female members of the community known as the Finders, purchasing children, trading, and kidnapping. There were telex messages using MCI account numbers between a computer terminal believed to be located in the same room, and others located across the country and in foreign locations.”
Also found in the ‘computer room’ was a detailed summary of the events surrounding the arrest and taking into custody of the two adults and six children in Tallahassee the previous night. There were also a set of instructions which appeared to be broadcast via a computer network which advised the participants to move ‘the children’ and keep them moving through different jurisdictions, and instructions on how to avoid police attention …
…one of the officers presented me with a photo album for my review. The album contained a series of photos of adults and children dressed in white sheets participating in a ‘blood ritual.’ The ritual centered around the execution of at least two goats. The photos portrayed the execution, disembowelment, skinning and dismemberment of the goats at the hands of the children. This included the removal of the testes of a male goat, the discovery of a female goat’s “womb” and the “baby goats” inside the womb, and the presentation of a goat’s head to one of the children.
The warehouse contained a large library, two kitchens, a sauna, hot-tub, and a ‘video room.’ The video room seemed to be set up as an indoctrination center. It also appeared that the organization had the capability to produce its own videos. There were what appeared to be training areas for children and what appeared to be an altar set up in a residential area of the warehouse. Many jars of urine and feces were located in this area.
– U.S. Customs memo
A declassified FBI document describing items that were found at The Finders’ properties. Like most of these documents, a significant portion of it has been redacted.
As the document above states, The Finders obtained children through various means, including the impregnation of women who are part of their group.
The Metropolitan Police Department also found “large amounts of documents dealing in child rearing and shaping (…) with manuals for master plans and “dirty tricks” for enemies of the Finders group.”
The Finders’ offices contained computers, telexes, and other equipment that were highly advanced and expensive for the time, which were used to communicate internationally. One search found a two-page listing of names, addresses, and telephone numbers to countries such as Czechoslovakia, England, the Philippines, and the People’s Republic of China.
During a search of a farm owned by The Finders in Virginia, officers discovered “cages that witnesses revealed were used to keep children.”
In short, authorities uncovered more than enough material to prove that The Finders were involved in the abduction of children, their torture, and their trafficking on an international level.
Despite this wealth of damning information, the two well-dressed men never faced trial. The state of Florida dropped all charges and released them as Federal investigators concluded that there was no evidence of criminal activity.
More bizarrely, the six children were returned to “people claiming to be their parents or guardians.”
The word “claiming” is alarming.
How is it possible that the Federal Bureau of Investigation didn’t bother to investigate whether they were returning vulnerable children to their actual parents?
Four of five women who claim to be mothers of six children in a Tallahassee law office.
The mothers’ interview stated they were “part of an alternative lifestyle, communal type association of intellectuals who have chosen to live the way they do.” And the FBI pretty accepted that explanation. What happened?
Journalists take part in an interview with R. Gardner Terrell, a member of the Finders, in a warehouse owned by the group. Terrell wore a rubber mask of President Reagan on the back of his head to prevent identification.
A few days after local police raided The Finders’ properties, the investigation took a drastic turn. The FBI and the CIA took over, new information stopped surfacing, and evidence got either lost, stolen, or destroyed. In other words, a classic cover-up job was taking place.
A memo from the FBI’s “File Destruction Program” about the elimination of “Miscellaneous documents” regarding The Finders.
Agent Ramon J. Ramirez, a U.S. Customs investigator, reported that the CIA has taken over the case and that “no further information will be available and no further action will be taken.”
As the federal authorities took over the case, an alternative narrative surfaced. All of a sudden, The Finders were described as “a loosely organized group of adults exploring alternative living arrangements, education systems, and social structures.”
For years, this was the official story. However, in 1993, under the Freedom of Information Act, new information about The Finders surfaced, and it was startling: Several members of The Finders were current or ex-members of the CIA and the intelligence community. The bizarre links started with the founder of The Finders, Marion Pettie, and his wife.
A rare picture of Marion Pettie, founder of The Finders.
Pettie was a former United States Air Force master sergeant. His wife had been employed by the C.I.A., and his son worked for a C.I.A.-owned proprietary firm known as Air America.
A company named Future Enterprises, which employed members of The Finders, was found to train CIA agents in “computer operations.” It later turned out that Future Enterprises was a wholly owned subsidiary of the Finders organization.
An FBI file listing organizations related to The Finders.
In other words, this is a classic case of a conspiracy going “all the way to the top,” to a near caricatural degree. We’re quite far from a “loose group of intellectuals exploring an alternative lifestyle.”
Interviews with family members revealed that The Finders engaged in the brainwashing of children and the blackmail of family members using pictures.
While investigations into The Finders did not yield any results, the FBI files contain surprising conclusions from agents assigned to the case.
One agent concluded that The Finders was part of the D.C. Intelligence Community and had a splinter group involved in child sexual abuse.
This doesn’t sound like a “case closed” situation.
The case of The Finders provides a rare glimpse into the inner workings of the occult elite, and it should be well studied. Although most of the documents regarding the case have been redacted, destroyed, or suppressed, enough information remains to paint a rather damning picture. And, when one understands the basics of Monarch mind control, its usage of abuse and satanic rituals to cause trauma and dissociation, one clearly sees what The Finders were truly about.
The Finders was a network of well-connected individuals (along with useful idiots) who sought to obtain children from various sources, including kidnappings and birthing them using slaves. The children were then subjected to mind control and satanic ritual abuse, and were trafficked worldwide. Mentions of “bloodletting ceremonies” might also indicate that the group engaged in the extraction of adenochrome from the children.
This case is a “blueprint” of occult elite organizations dealing with child trafficking. It can be likened to Pizzagate, which also operated in Washington, D.C., and whose story was heavily suppressed by the powers that be. Of course, we cannot forget about Jeffrey Epstein, who was believed to be part of the Intelligence community.
Needless to say, The Finders probably still exist today. But good luck finding them.
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