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Summary: This proven hoax has been reissued?!
Review: Folks, do yourselves a favor and type +"Lauren Stratford" +cornerstone into Google's search engine. The very first link you will probably see is one to Cornerstone magazine's website, there you will see an updated expose of this author.Finding the truth is that easy. It simply amazes me that I'd already seen this story exposed by Cornerstone around 15 years ago, the book was consequently dropped by her publisher, and she was able to go on to concoct yet another tale (again debunked by Cornerstone - see the link) AND get this old story republished!! She's a victim of a Satanic cult and NOW a holocaust victim as well! But the joke's on you, folks. You paid for it...
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Summary: Insightful Dream Imagery
Review: I appreciate the way this book embraced the intellect of the common evangelical and capitalized on it wholeheartedly. Truth may be compromised by books were nonetheless sold. Bob Larson was right to promote this book on his marvelously insightful radio show. Dave Hunt, Bono, and Constance Cumby would be proud.
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Summary: Excellent account of Satanic ritualistic abuse
Review: I first read Lauren's book over 10 years ago. At that time, I had never heard of the kinds of things she describes in her book. The book was very moving to me, and shocking. I was stunned to hear that some dispute her book as a hoax, because many other people have come forward and described similar types of incidents. I met the woman at a church, and I feel that it is her true story. She is obviously a woman who has suffered great pain in her life. She is very closed-off, mysterious, and private. I called her from time to time at an answering service number, but it got connected and I lost track of her. After having met her, it is easy to believe that she suffered the things she describes. She definitely has the signs of someone who has been through hell and triumphed. She has the personality of someone who has suffered immensely. I have to wonder if the people who say she is lying don't believe in Satan, but I do.
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Summary: SHOCKING, YET SKETCHY STORY.
Review: I noticed that some readers are anxious to discredit this story, pointing to an article from cornerstone magazine that "debunks." this story. Be wary of anyone who claims to debunk anything because 50% of the time, the debunkers are just trying to discredit. The pray on lazy researchers hoping that their half-baked attempts to obstruct the truth go unnoticed.
This is may or may not be a hoax. It's hard to tell. However. that doesn't mean that SRA does not exist. I fact, I think you have to be a bit of a fool to think all of these stories are made up. One reviewer cited that the FBI has determined that SRA is an urban legend. Could he have picked a less credible source? This is the same FBI that insists LHO acted alone and denied the existence of Organized crime until it became impossible to do so.
Back to the book. The stories in hear are shocking a disturbing. The problem is there is no means to verify any of it. The timeline is fuzzy and in the end, there's no proof that any of this happened. In short, this is most likely the work of an overactive imagination or planted disinformation.
Still I think it's foolhardy to believe that SRA doesn't not exist, unlike UFO and black helicopters, there's enough evidence documented evidence of cult murders floating around. The porn industry produces some unsavory characters. It's also proven that employees of large corporations like DynCorp are involved in the sex slave trade in other nations. I don't think for a second this couldn't happen in America. As for this book, the info unverifiable and leaves much room for doubt.
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Summary: This proven hoax has been reissued?!
Review: I would like nothing more than this book to be a work of fiction, but I believe it to be true. Lauren is one of the few survivors, and I admire her courage. It is a painful book to read. What can the average person do other than get depressed? I became aware of this type of abuse by reading the works of David Icke. He points out that no one wants to think about this type of extreme evil. But as he said, what do we say to the children who are now going through this? "Sorry too depressing and negative?" Her mother and the porno king were especially hard to read about. The smelly bum who laughed at Lauren for calling for her mom--"she's the one who brought me here." Brutal. My only reservation about this book is the Christian dogmatic viewpoint that Christianity is the only path to God. For example Lauren feels meditation can be dangerous, and I know that meditation is a valid way of communing with our Creator. I overlook that however, because Lauren needed her Christian faith to make it through the horror. She survived to tell her story, so I honor her path. What can we do? Be aware, speak when the opportunity is there, and pray to God. This must and will stop.
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Summary: troubling
Review: I would like nothing more than this book to be a work of fiction, but I believe it to be true. Lauren is one of the few survivors, and I admire her courage. It is a painful book to read. What can the average person do other than get depressed? I became aware of this type of abuse by reading the works of David Icke. He points out that no one wants to think about this type of extreme evil. But as he said, what do we say to the children who are now going through this? "Sorry too depressing and negative?" Her mother and the porno king were especially hard to read about. The smelly bum who laughed at Lauren for calling for her mom--"she's the one who brought me here." Brutal. My only reservation about this book is the Christian dogmatic viewpoint that Christianity is the only path to God. For example Lauren feels meditation can be dangerous, and I know that meditation is a valid way of communing with our Creator. I overlook that however, because Lauren needed her Christian faith to make it through the horror. She survived to tell her story, so I honor her path. What can we do? Be aware, speak when the opportunity is there, and pray to God. This must and will stop.
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Summary: zzzzzzzzzzzZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Review: One word: boring. This book was unbelievably boring. I am a Satanist who reads this kind of stuff for fun. I thought with a title like that it would be an interesting work of fiction (In case you don't know, SRA has been proven by the FBI to be a massive urban legend). It instead turned out to be one of the most unpleastant experiences of my life. Trying to finish it was like trying to walk on fire. Pure misery. Get Bob Larson's "Satanism: The Seduction of America's Youth" instead. Much Funnier.
By the way, for you Christians who believe this stuff, the author admits to killing a baby. Yet she is not in jail. Her admission alone would be enough to put her away if this were real.
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Summary: Nightmare of a different sort
Review: Since its 1988 publication, this book has twice been revealed as false. In late 1989, Gretchen and Bob Passantino and Jon Trott exposed Lauren Stratford as Laurel Willson in an article in Cornerstone, still available on the web.
By 1998, Willson had morphed into a "Holocaust survivor." Some time earlier, she presented herself as Laura Grabowski to a group of child Holocaust survivors, who accepted her claim to be a Polish Jew, a survivor of Auschwitz-Birkenau and a victim of Dr. Joseph Mengele. She pretended to have been liberated to a Krakow orphanage in 1945 and brought to the United States, where a Gentile couple adopted her at nine or ten. In 1998, her poem "We Are One" appeared on the web. But like the story here, this appears to have been completely untrue.
In 1997, Willson/Stratford contacted Binjamin Wilkomirski with her story. He had published Fragments: Memories of a Wartime Childhood in Europe in 1995. Schocken Books translated and published his story in the U.S. In 1997. Then in 1999, 60 Minutes broadcast a segment on Wilkomirski: He seemed to have been born in Switzerland as Bruno Grosjean, and later adopted and renamed Bruno Dossekker. Also in 1999, Philip Gourevitch wrote on Wilkomirski in The New Yorker, as did Elena Lappin in Granta. All three outfits believed Dossekker/Wilkomirski's story to be false.
Unfortunately for Willson/Stratford, she had already wound herself tightly to the Dossekker/Wilkomirski story: She claimed to be Lauren Grabowski, whom she said had known him in a Krakow orphanage. He, in turn, used Grabowski to corroborate his story. But the respective publications in 2001 and 2002 of The Wilkomirski Affair (Stefan Maechler) and A Life in Pieces: The Making and Unmaking of Binjamin Wilkomirski (Blake Eskin) blew her cover as well.
Gretchen and Bob Passantino and Jon Trott revisited the Willson/Stratford story laid out in this book in Cornerstone in October 1999 (also still on the web). This time, they discussed her apparent fakery as Grabowski, and suggested that Grabowski was actually an American Christian who since her youth had fabricated stories about her alleged victimhood, the most well-publicized case being in this book.
Alas, Dossekker/Wilkomirski's unraveling also involved that of Stratford, whose Social Security number, according to Maechler, is one and the same as that of Grabowski, the claimed survivor. He also suggested that Satan's Underground and Fragments contain startling similarities.
Unfortunately, this book obscures an ongoing and real-world problem of child abuse. But I, for one, don't believe that Stratford was a victim of anything but her own fantasies.
--Alyssa A. Lappen
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Summary: A Story That We Cannot & Must Not Ignore.
Review: The only criticism I have of this book is that of the title, which can be misleading or misinterpreted and subsequently attract the wrong sort of potential reader to this item. With the title of 'Satans Underground', regretfully the book and the reviews are likely to attract those seeking books dealing with Satanism and therefore potentially likely to downgrade or ridicule reviews in keeping with their hatred of Christianity, upon which the book is founded. The way in which active pornography and Satanic ritual abuse is hidden throughout our modern day society is revealed in this extremely moving account of one woman's personal experience from the tender age of a child right through to adult-hood. It is one of the devil's prime desires that his very existence, agenda and modus-operandi amongst the human and spiritual realm ALL be denied and likewise ignored. For such revelations as those portrayed by the author in this book, the reactions amongst many reviewers and the public at large are consistent with such an intent and influence so prevalent in today's society. To ignore the heart-rending experiences, suffering and the wholesale evil so profoundly described throughout a lifetime's personal experience only serves to condemn other such innocents to similar traumas and to ultimately encourage those responsible to continue their activities. We owe it to ourselves, our children and our futures to become aware of what is going on behind the scenes and to stand up in the name of Jesus Christ against the evil portrayed here. The victims need to be shown that there is a very real and Personal answer to their torment, as the author discovered. Although the author's personal experiences are the foundation and basis of this book, she takes care to emphasise the many thousands of others who have shared in her suffering. Many such cases are mentioned in detail. The child sacrifices, sexual abuse and mutilation at the hands of many Satanic organisations in pursuit of devil worship are truly sickening. A noteable Pscyhologist mentioned in the book, following his interview with a known senior Satanic cult member, estimated the number of such human sacrifices in the USA alone as between 40 to 60 thousand. Even if this number is grossly exaggerated, the fact that such even occur is to be ignored at everyones' peril. As the author states, with tens of thousands of children reported missing in the USA every year, how can anyone be complacent, especially with the rise of Satanism increasing at an alarming rate not only in the USA but worldwide. Indeed, the viscious backlash aimed at discrediting both her and her book is not surprising. Anyone with an eye to see will be aware that her story is only too credible. Disbelief, fear and ignorance and outright rejection of cases such as Lauren Stratford's are the air that many of those involved in the described ritualistic abuse breath. Highly recommended.
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Summary: A Serial Hoaxer who Hurts True Victims by Helping Deniers
Review: This book is a hoax. Moreover, Lauren Willson/Stratford also has claimed to be a Jewish girl, Lauren "Grabowski", who knew Bruno Grosjean Dossekker/"Binjamin Wilkomirski" in a children's home in Krakow as a fellow Holocaust victim, corroborating his book "Fragments". The Holocaust, of course, did happen, but when "Fragments" was exposed as complete fraud, Lauren's story fell apart, too. It appears that she makes a life of falsely portraying herself as the victim of atrocities, with the result, after her inevitable eventual exposure, of damaging those others who truly ARE such victims.
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