The Brides of Christ of Corvallis Oregon

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What Happens in the Woods

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We're just your average couple, living normal lives, who happen to be obsessed with everything related to true crime. Shortly after relocating to the great Pacific Northwest, we realized there were stories upon gruesome stories to be told from this region. And we want nothing more than to share them with you.

So come join us every first and third Friday of the month as we take a deep look into the dark and twisted. It isn't for the feint of heart, but we promise it will be worth it.

And remember...what happens in the woods, stays in the woods.

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The Brides of Christ of Corvallis Oregon

What Happens in the Woods

54 minutes

2 years ago

The Brides of Christ of Corvallis Oregon

Your favorite podcast is back for a new season!
We’ve had some time to recharge and regroup and we are ready to get back into true crime cases from the PNW.

This episode takes us back to the early 1900s in Oregon, where a charismatic religious man was able to start a Holy Roller sect in the small community of Corvallis. Franz Edmund Creffield believed he was the new messiah and it was his job, his responsibility, to find the one lucky lady who would be the mother to the second Christ. His antics caused many issues with the men of the area and the local law enforcement.

Join Brice and Jess for the season 6 opener of the podcast! Let us know your thoughts and send any suggestions you have our way.

Some information from this episode:

A deep dive into Creffield and the newspaper reports of his activity at the turn of the 1900s with news articles included (this is also a review of the book written by T. McCracken and Robert B. Blodgett https://mchumor.com/edmundcreffield.com/index.html

Edmund Creffield and the Brides of Christ Church by Theresa McCracken https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/creffield_edmund_and_the_brides_of_christ_church/#.Y_QxQXbMKUl

An Examination of Franz Edmund Creffield and the Holy Rollers, 1900-1907 by Sophie Koh https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/younghistorians/2017/oralpres/24/
The definition of “Holy Roller” according to Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Roller