Can anybody tell me about a purported Pink Room in the SLC Temple where the brethren sacrifice children? I just learned about it, and I'm kind of weirded out by it. Thanks.

Never heard of it. I'm going to vote for Urban legend.

ALL mormons are expected to sacrifice their children to the church.

Just sayin....

my parents sure did.

Where did you "just learn of it "? Did you hear of it, read it in a book or see it online? Post sources for this info, please.

It is mentioned in one of David Icke's books.

David Icke....So were the GAs that were sacrificing the children also of the Royal Reptilian Blood Line?

That explains why that veil worker was shape-shifting into a lizard form when I went through there. I thought I was just tired. It all make sense now...

Tired or Magical Mushrooms...you be the judge!!!

Steve, isn't it about time you traded in for the Royal Reptilian Bloodline yourself. You could be one of the ruling elite!! :-) Illuminati my a** they're Lizards.

Tales from the Crypt: The Secret Temple Beating of Ezra Taft Benson by Hooded Members of the Quorum of the Twelve and Other Amazing Stories

--Tantalizing, Mysterious Tales from the Secret "Reality Shows" of President Ezra Taft Benson

Over the years, I've had various rock-ribbed Mormons contact me, directly or by correspondence, claiming to have been privy to special inside information regarding certain alleged occurences in the life, times and prophesies of my grandfather, Ezra Taft Benson.

These stories have been described to me by their conveyors as either being true on their face, or at least being deserving of serious consideration.

One such inquiry about these supposedly awesome, real-time, latter-day, epic episodes has recently been posted here on the RfM board:

"Hey Steve,

"I've read in a couple of places that Hinckley and Monson supposedly put a pillow over your grandfather's head, and then hit him with a hammer repeatedly (the pillow was to make the blows less obvious), and this is what caused him to become incapacitated.

"Have you ever heard this, and do you think it could be true? Can you tell us what you know about it?

"Thanks!"

(For my answer to and observations about the above question, see: "Message to Steve Benson: Can you please verify some info about your Grandpa?," posted by "Rebel," on "Recovery from Mormonism" discussion board, 6 March 2013, at: http://exmormon.org/phorum/read.php?2,816624)


Hey, back.

OK, here we go.

Below are some of the tall tales that have been relayed to me in the dedicated Mormon spirit of faith and conviction--or if not that, at least in the spirit of wanting to believe.

They're offered here for the purpose of building up Zion in the last days by deepening faith in the wild and wondrous world of Mormon make-believe, as practiced by its desparately-devoted Saints.
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--President Benson Was Brutally Bludgeoned by Members of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles When He Wouldn't Go Along with Their Secret Plans, Resulting in Permanent Brain Damage

One Mormon breathlessly phoned me from the Northwest, asking me if the following story was true.

It seems that a so-called "Pink Room" had been clandestinely constructed in the upper reaches of the Salt Lake City Temple during the administration of Mormon Church President Wilford Woodruff.

There, in absolute secrecy, members of the Quorum of the Twelve would gather to perform dark and solemn rituals, dressed for the occasion in hooded cloaks.

President Ezra Taft Benson was supposedly brought into this "Pink Room," where it was demanded of him that he go along with certain evil designs of the Twelve. (The specifics of these pernicious plans were not spelled out to me, so your guess is as good as mine).

President Benson refused to go along, whereupon he was stuffed into a gunny sack by his hooded tormentors and mercilessly pummeled, resulting in permanent brain damage that kept him from leading the Mormon Church.

I told the inquiring Saint that Ezra Taft Benson had indeed suffered severe cerebral strokes, but that there was no evidence they were caused by him having been mugged by members of the Quorum of the Twelve.
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--President Benson Was Spotted in a Las Vegas Casino, Where He Held an Off-The-Record Meeting with a Young Mormon Boy, the Contents of Which Were Too Sacred to Reveal

According to this tale passed on to me by an incredulous Mormon, an LDS father and his son happened to be on the main floor of a Las Vegas casino, when they spied LDS Church President Benson, accompanied by his security detail, walking through the casino.

The Mormon father pointed out President Benson to his young son, whereupon the boy said he wanted to meet him. His father took his son and they followed tPresident Benson's entourage up the elevator to a hotel room.

After President Benson and company entered the room and shut the door, the father knocked on the door and asked if his son could meet the LDS Church President. The father was told to wait outside, while the young boy was allowed to enter President Benson's hotel room.

The door closed and the young boy was in President Benson's hotel room for two hours, as the father remained outside in the hallway.

When the boy finally emerged from the hotel room, his father asked him what had transpired. His son told him that President Benson had spent the whole time talking to him and that President Benson had told the child that it was good to be able to talk, since he (meaning President Benson) was not allowed to do so.

However, the boy wouldn't tell his father any more about his behind-closed-doors encounter with the Lord's anointed prophet.

The purveyor of this story asked me if it was true. I replied that I had never heard of any episode involving Ezra Taft Benson being spotted visiting, or staying in, a Las Vegas casino.

I must add, however, that he did play a mean game of shuffleboard.
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--President Benson Issued an Inside-the-Temple Elevator Warning That It's Too Late to Start Storing a Year's Supply of Food

According to this faith-promoting tale, President Benson was encountered in an elevator in the South Jordan, Utah, temple.

There, a member of the Church told him that he was accumulating his food storage. President Benson reportedly replied that it was too late to begin that task, given that the end of the world was at hand and that time had run out.

This was several years ago and we're still here. Next.
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--President Benson Ordered Christmas Gifts from Deseret Book, Proving He Really Wasn't Mentally and Physically Incapacitated

The faithful Mormon relaying this story told me that they knew a fellow Latter-day Saint who worked in one of Salt Lake City's Deseret Bookstores. The employee was said to have answered the phone at work one day, only to hear the voice of President Benson, who identified himself and who then proceeded to order books as Christmas presents for family and friends.

My response to this story was that, based on my direct observation of my grandfather's severely deteriorated state of physical and mental health at the time that this phone conversation allegedly took place, he would not have been able to find the phone in his apartment, much less have been able to have used it.
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--President Benson's Private Apartment Nursing Staff Witnessed Him Performing His Prophetic Role but, Given The Sacred Nature of These Acts, Has Chosen Not to Talk About What They Beheld

I was told by a devout Mormon that, based on inside information relayed to this believing Saint, one of President Benson's attending domestic nurses saw President Benson do things in his apartment as she cared for him that definitely testified to his calling as God's prophet.

What those things were, however, were never explained.

Personally, I saw my grandfather's nurses patiently feed him by spoon as he sat, stooped over and silent, at the kitchen table in his Mormon Church apartment. He ate like a horse, but uttered nothing prophetic in the process.

I also saw his assigned caregivers take President Benson-- dressed in a sweatsuit and diapers and wrapped in a blanket-- and prop him in a reclining chair so that he could stare out, unspeaking, through the window of his upper-story Eagle Gate apartment toward Temple Square.

I saw his nurses plant him in a soft recliner next to a radio in his aparment studio, so that he could listen to sessions of General Conference he was too weak to attend, as I sat by his side.

I never saw my grandfather do anything remotely prophetic in his apartment.
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--President Benson Appeared in a Dream to a Faithful Latter-day Saint in Order to Pressure Me to Rejoin the Mormon Church

After I left Mormonism in 1993, a Mormon anonymously called me from somewhere in California and left two voice messages on my office phone, informing me that my grandfather had appeared to him in a dream, instructing him to tell me that my grandfather wanted me to return to the Mormon fold. The anonymous caller hung up each time after having delivered the message.

I figured that if my grandfather wished for me to be re-baptized a Mormon, he could have appeared in a dream to me--or better yet, in spirit-person form--rather than to a complete stranger. That way, he could have told me directly, to my face, what he wanted me to do and, in the process, cut out the middleman.

That has yet to happen.
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--Conclusion: What Can I Say?

Other than the time is far spent, so get off your backsliding behinds and repent! These stories have just GOT to be true.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOsiXRXhL00



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This crazy tall tale was floating around on this site recently and it appears that, like a zombie, it just won't die.

As I previously noted, one wacky Mormon phoned me from the Northwest, asking if I had heard about the nefarious "Pink Room" (supposedly constructed in the Salt Lake temple during the reign of Wilford Woodruff)--where, this caller said, my grandfather Ezra Taft Benson had been secretly taken, placed inside a gunny sack by hood-wearing members of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and then beaten about the head, causing permanent brain damage. (The gunny sack was allegedly used to protect him from bruising from the hammer blows, as if that makes sense).

Why was this supposedy done? Because ETB is said to have refused to go along with the Quorum's devious plans, whatever those might have been (unspecified to me by the kooky caller).

Someone needs to knock some sense into these rattle-headed rumor worshipers. What apparently is causing their brain damage is Mormonism.



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so now you are a defender of the brethren? how can you dismiss this out of hand? The story is out there, and it couldn't hurt to look into it.

. .. with these allegedly sacrificed children being murdered in Salt Lake City's Temple Square temple by modern-day Mormonism's High Command, vanishing without a trace and with no missing-child reports filed with regard to their identity and disappearance?

You shouldn't linger here long, "lost pioneer." You'll miss your spacetrain to Kolob.

(By the way, there are lots of stories "out there." Bigfoot, for one--which the Mormon Church taught was Cain roaming around, cursed, black and hairy. Check it out since, you know, the story's out there).



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> how can you dismiss this out of hand?

Because such unsubstantiated garbage undermines the REAL harm the church is doing?

Because Mormons use these types of stories as straw men to knock down and pretend all criticism of Mormonism is as crazy and inane?

With all of the actual, factual and substantiated garbage associated with the church, there is no need to entertain ridiculous ideas such as your pink room.

Instead, lets talk about The Book of Abraham. Lets discuss Joseph Smiths 34 wives, his 14 year old brides and his 11 wives who already had living husbands.

How about the plagiarized Book of Mormon? How about the completely fictitious account of millions of pre-columbian Jews living in the America's with their steel swords, chariots, wheels and elephants?

Mormonism is rife with easy targets that can be picked apart by anyone with a positive IQ.

There is no need to even mention the silly ideas and speculations.

You have to wonder how many of these crazy stories come from situations of untreated mental illness mixed with religion. It's a crazy toxic mix.

As I asked in another thread... is BYU out on holiday?

That would explain a lot, wouldn't it?

As one of the fish, I am not biting today. Pulled the big Cult hook out of my mouth long ago.

Yep, it is there. They do the sacrifice and an underground pipe system drains the blood into Great Salt Lake - proof is visible in the lake as the diluted blood colors it red - and you can see it around Smithson's land sculpture The Spiral Jetta at Rozelle Point in Great Salt Lake.

The word got out from one of the English converts who was kidnapped and held in the Salt Lake Temple in the early 1900's. She escaped, climbing on the roof and jumping into Great Salt Lake where she swam to safety.

You can see the documentary movie about it if you search. Trapped by the Mormons is the movie.

After that, Thomas S. Monson will invite you to go on a visit with him to some widow ladies who bake cookies.

I heard about this a lot on my mission. Anyone that can jump from the temple to the great salt lake is a hero of mine, that takes some talent.

Trapped by the Mormons, aka The Mormon Peril, is a 1922 silent film from Great Britain. It does not seem to be a documentary. More of a thriller or sensationalist film, highly fictionalized from suspect or undocumented & unsupported events.

I read about the pink room in Trance-Formation Of America by Cathy O'Brien. There are also a lot of Mormon Fundamentalists who claim this is true, and some ladies that said they were raped on the altar in a Mormon temple in the middle of the night.

This is hearsay, but the most recent story I heard similar to this was about a hot tub repairman, a TBM, who was allowed below the Church Office Building who entered a room guarded by men with guns to repair/maintain dozens of hot tubs in a large room. His brother was a fundamentalist which is where I heard the story from last summer.

http://exmormon.org/phorum/read.php?2,822936



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Has Martha Beck's account of sexual abuse by her dad been refuted on this forum for being too crazy? I don't post much and only found RfM last year so don't know if this has already been discussed.



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