She was in great danger. Former followers describe strange rituals and lives changed forever. Its right here. I think Brain Washing is a wonderful term in terms of trying to define what happened to me. Im david muir. Im Elizabeth Vargas and this is 20 20. Reporter we are told the rendezvous was a secret, five women summoned to a house outside albany, new york, one night this past march. Sarah edmondson says she was one of them, willingly participating in a strange initiation ritual led by a woman who told everyone to take off their clothes and put on a blindfold. Led us in blindfolded, and sat us in a semicircle, buck naked, no clothes, on a sheepskin rug. Like, could you could that be any weirder . Reporter no, it could not be any weirder. We were all you know, my goodness. Whats going on here . This is so weird. Reporter weird doesnt begin to cover it. Sarah told authorities she thought they were going to get tattoos. Instead she says they found out they were all going to be branded.
She was in great danger. Former followers describe strange rituals and lives changed forever. Its right here. I think Brain Washing is a wonderful term in terms of trying to define what happened to me. Im david muir. Im Elizabeth Vargas and this is 20 20. Reporter we are told the rendezvous was a secret, five women summoned to a house outside albany, new york, one night this past march. Sarah edmondson says she was one of them, willingly participating in a strange initiation ritual led by a woman who told everyone to take off their clothes and put on a blindfold. Led us in blindfolded, and sat us in a semicircle, buck naked, no clothes, on a sheepskin rug. Like, could you could that be any weirder . Reporter no, it could not be any weirder. We were all you know, my goodness. Whats going on here . This is so weird. Reporter weird doesnt begin to cover it. Sarah told authorities she thought they were going to get tattoos. Instead she says they found out they were all going to be branded.
Reporter no, it could not be any weirder. We were all you know, my goodness. Whats going on here . This is so weird. Reporter weird doesnt begin to cover it. Sarah told authorities she thought they were going to get tattoos. Instead she says they found out they were all going to be branded. Reporter it sounds like a horror movie, what youre describing. It was a horror movie. It was the most inhumane, horrific way to treat anybody. Reporter what was that like . It was worse than childbirth. Reporter it was worse than childbirth . Yup. It was imagine a hot laser dragged across your flesh for 30 minutes without anesthetic. Reporter at this point youre probably wondering, how in the world did this happen . Sarah seems so normal. She lives in vancouver where she is a wife and mother with a successful film and television career. Do i know you . I dont think so. Oh no, im forgetting so much recently. But i never forget a face. Reporter but her life changed after she crossed paths with a secre
In new york. Six days until election day. Today is the deadline to request your absentee ballot in massachusetts, washington, arizona. One week from now the country will be waking up from election day. We may not know who won but we do know the pandemic is driving americans to vote early in record numbers. About 69 million votes already cast. Remarkable. Thats more than half of the entire vote total from 2016. Overnight americas terrifying new normal was on display again. Over 73,000 new coronavirus cases reported. That is the fourth highest total. Almost 227,000 americans have died and yet the white house astonishingly is claiming credit for ending the pandemic on the list of science and technology accomplishments. Thats right. The white house according to the white house, the pandemic is over. Reporter on the flip side, joe Biden Campaigning in atlanta at a socially distanced rally. Hes trying to expand the map to nail down 270 electoral votes. There arent a lot of pundits who would
With him is sentenced to a 120 yearjail term. In exactly one weeks time, an election will decide who the most powerful leader in the world is to be. Choosing the next president of the United States has already proved remarkable for the Record Number of postal votes and early voting in many states. While the democratic candidate joe biden is currently leading President Trump in the national polls, that doesnt guarantee victory. The race is very much still on, and our north america editorjon sopel is in one of the states being watched very closely georgia one week to go, and joe biden has georgia of all places on his mind. No democrat has won here in decades, yet polls suggest this once rock solid republican state is there for the taking. Joe, go home though famous Southern Hospitality was markedly absent from the Trump Supporters who lined the roads leading to where he was speaking. So where are we with the race between donald trump and joe biden . The key to this election is what happe