These kinds of places are very much so still a thing. I was in a place like this in 2018 which is still running. No one gives a fuck about “problem children” being abused, and sadly, I think it will stay that way for some time.

@@sifagayev7793 that’s horrible, why is anything like that even allowed

@@sifagayev7793 NA Sadge

@@iDeker I think that really good programs exist, but the issue is when the kids parents don’t have the financial ability/interest in getting their kid into a decent facility. At that point, the county takes over and sends them to whatever place is cheapest. And, like he said in the video, those kinds of places are much more interested in making money off people than actually helping them. One of the more fucked up things was staff strongly feeding into the newer kids misbehaving. Like, if someone was starting a fight, they’d add fuel to the fire in any way they could. Verbally, sometimes even physically… until they got the person in a position shitty enough to be written up over. That way, they can document that the kid entered the program displaying behavioral issues and left without them. They use this to get more funding/ look better, even though it’s rarely ever true. One time a kid who was in there for sexual abuse/trauma was having a panic attack and started freaking out. The staff fucking hated the kid and one of them basically goaded her into trying to run away. At which point he, a 200lb + man, tackled her and was lying on top of her as she screamed and cried, begging him to get off her, that he was triggering her. We listened to her scream for hours. I was there for 8 months and we had shit like that happening pretty much on a daily basis. Right before I got there a kid ran away and killed himself by jumping off a highway overpass. They get away with everything because the word of a drug addicted or mentally ill minor means absolutely nothing. And, the public blindly believes that “professionals” know what they’re doing, have the training to handle troubled people when they really don’t. Society just pushes problematic people off a cliff and wonders why they’re so fucked up afterwards.

@@iDeker sorry I don’t know why I typed all that out, that video brought up some really ugly memories

jcs

@@Sqeedysjcs has a free pass

internet historian

@@Sqeedys i love jcs

@@KudosK42 baaaaaaaaaaat

I doubt the who is what she was thinking about in the moment. She just wanted someone to take her as far away from élan as she could

@@shap7296 At this point the best trucker mention that I've heard in a true crime thing like this was a trucker that got robbed and killed, most of other instances truckers being mentioned are just vile.

America is a wonderful place

Classic NA

@@shap7296 victim blaming smh

why do you think people like jeffrey epstein exist? rich love other rich people, and if they are good enough friends, they can just look the other way. fuck, sometimes they join the orgy too.

Wasnt that the movie Edit: i have commented on the wrong comment but now no one will understand my ways

america approving torture and violence?...not a surprise

"United" States of America OMEGALUL

"This is America"

this is fake story

Info didnt spread like that in the 70s, in poland of all places. People probably wouldnt be believed. Nvm its poland, MAINE. dunno why nexpo didnt say that the first time

This is why most rape victims (if not almost all) are murdered. So yes, your thinking is correct. With all the detailed and advanced torture methods they devised, it would have been very easy to make it so students don't "make" it out. They could have made up an Elan university that is accessible only to the highschool students. Parents would be told their child was exceptional and would go to university and potentially become an elite member of society. (Not a single parent would say no since these idiots said yes to their children getting kidnapped). 4 years of torture would turn into 9 years of torture ... easily expendable with the excuse that you failed your classes and had to take another year or two. After "graduating" you would go straight into a mental hospital. Keep in mind they had waiting lists from all over the country. They could have easily expended this program, added electric walls and what not. Turn it into a secret prison. All they needed was one smart and soulless businessman and God knows the US has no shortage of those nowadays. This could have been much much darker.

@@robusa718 and no, this is absolutely real.

@@ThatOneDude7 yeah

Classic LULW

@@ohboydiamonds it is. That episode was inspired by this event and other similar stories. Are you seriously that stupid you think he is comparing them in magnitude? Or are you just that desperate for validation you are pretending that is the point he's making so you can feel righteous? I'd love to know

@@ohboydiamonds dude chill, he just said that the episode might have been inspired by this.

@@ohboydiamonds Chill the fuck out.

@@ohboydiamonds ❄️

ARG PogU

reminds me of a book of alex rider, where problematic kids of rich parents get sent to a remote school where "dupes" of the principal immitate the kids and replace them

@@polycrylate brought back childhood memories, alex rider books were elite

BROO I WAS THINKING THE SAME THING

Prison is better. The is more comparable to an extreme basic training for military

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Chatting “monkaW”

MonkaW farming

Yknow I can never tell if these types of comments are meant to be ironic or not. But I like to think this is genuine.

For real man it’s crazy what people can do. Especially the part about the girl who escaped. That’s just messed up

@@GuitarBaron It's terrifying. And like that one guy who managed to escape the torture center only to be gunned down in the suburbs. What a horrible way to go.

If the school still stands abandoned today I would be scared of going there because of the feeling you would get from knowing its past while you were inside, just standing inside of an abandoned "classroom" where torture happened would send a shiver down my spine. And to make it worse this was probably not even the worst that happened in that shithole.

It took us to make those creepy monsters up, took us to build what would become abandoned and haunting, took us to act out any kind of disturbing event. We are the monsters, the horrors our mind fills with is only because we alone are the sole beings capable of acting out what we project as a "monster" but in reality, it doesn't take a vampire to drink blood or a zombie to eat flesh.

And it happens every day even right this second.

Mental asylums in the 1900's were very similar to this video and there were thousands of them back then in America because people oppressed and discriminated against people with disabilities. This stuff was very common from maybe 1880's to late 1900's and luckily none of it exists today because of civil rights and legislation progression.

@@Hi-db8ip I can assure you a lot of mental asylums are still like this.

@@SwitchbIade yeah, i guess i worded it poorly, but it def still happens today

@@z0x 10 days in a madhouse. S reporter in the early 1900's purposely got herself in an asylum just to see the conditions. Not surprising, awful.

@@Medahlian Boo hoo

lemmino nexpo and JCS

@@Medahlian cry about it

Lemmino has great visuals, Nexpo with awesome story telling. A great duo. But I'd be happy if there's also Disrupt in the list. The dark part of technology is expressed really well in their vids.

@@Medahlian bad take

Yeah 90% of the time it's a bunch of Goblins in the chat, glad it showed that even the toughes of hides could be cracked with emotion.

Some of them have already done that

Ah that is nice and unexpected from chat lol I just wish the europeans wouldn't use that opportunity to shit on america as well

Damn...

ON GOD , i literally was like... I found where i wouldve been. hes mentally strong

He’s such a chad. His clothes fold itself

👽

Most of the staff were also victims and didn’t have any choices

Weeb

@@lil_cunni "victims" yea as if they couldn't just team up with the other staff and the students to run away

@@unknwn3846 just run away

Fr I'd just kill my parents when I got home after that shit this is worse than jail

@@MegamanTheSecond facts

@@MegamanTheSecond yeah being tortured there almost certainly creates hatred towards the parents

@@MegamanTheSecond I don't get why previous "students" didn't go back to that place and kill them and free the kids

@@dangoodwin8476 Because real life isnt a video game or a movie.

*teen returns home broken* Parent: "Oh thats right, I have a child."

Parents who send away their children to a correctional facility will probably not care that much most of the time, or atleast not blame themselves. You gotta remember that in most if not all these instances the parents are the issue in the first place.

@@trevor245 It's also a huge problem if your parents are wealthy and have many friends, you can be sent anywhere at anytime and you seem crazy regardless of what you've actually done.

They would not care

This sounds so bad out of context. lol. I agree though.

they are isolated none of them are even allow to talk "normally" to other people so planning a escape would need an iron steel mind.

Nah his dead was easy way out. He only suffered like 6 months and that's not enough, aadly.

The easiest way is breaking the glass and cutting throats of unsuspecting "staff"

I would went postal in the first week there. I'd probably get rekt but still.

Absolutely brilliant innit mate

@@CynicalGrey59 proper fucking brilliant that like

Nope

@@dakdak3331 ik his content is hard to understand by the lower fellows on the social scale that only know about 21st century humor

3Head

For real, when the video timeskipped to talking about 2000 I was shocked and like "It was still going?!" And then it ended up going till 2011, literally horrifying Thought at first this vid was going to be about students making a cult in a boarding school that lasted a couple years. I only wish it was just as bad as that

It's remote location is probably a big factor, Maine is rural and very sparsely populated, I'm sure almost no outsiders ever visited this school when they weren't supposed to.

@@aj897 I was sent to 3 CEDU programs, the wilderness was literally in the back country of North Idaho. No one would have found my body if any accident were to happen. One of the kids that I went to at the CEDU Running Springs program is still missing. His name is Daniel Yuen, you can find it on Google.

yeah R.I.P

I also feel bad for the guy who got shot after escaping. Both are terrible, its even worse when one of the people inside was someone he knew, just the homeowner (most likely the parent,) didn't know him, so they shot him. Honestly stupid how the school lasted until 2011.

Honestly, I can't even imagine it. Saddest thing ever, probably, this world treats some people so bad

and that no one ended up in prison or was held responsible

@@Hmmm0101 i mean, ricci died

Welcome to America. The disgusting shi*hole that it is.

@@isla2202 you act like America is the only one who does this

@@isla2202 The entire world's a shithole kid. Only difference is America is heavily televised.

Facts

Thank you Shrek

W fact

Exactly, had it on vhs be the american flag despite living in Ireland. Piracy I guess.

Thank you, master 🙏

And you didn't know about it back then either. Think about all the things we don't know about today that are out there happening right now

He’s finally getting the juice again

Where did you go too?

Me too, i was sent to west ridge academy; and red rock canyon school, i was just an overweight insecure teenage girl.

If my parents ever did this to me I would of hate them for the rust of my life

oh that's a scary thought

I mean 3 reported escapists is not a lot considering what they were put through and the fact it was over the spend of 40 odd years

that legit happened in "joe vs. elan school" during one of the parent meetings where they go to a dinner, joe pepper sprays his "big brother", and then at attempting to even explain his situation to his parents, all they do is talk over him and say he's just disrespecting them, even doing their best to go to the nearest phone and call the elan number almost immediately

@@airischan1516 shuush

While death penalty sounds satisfying to us outsiders, I think that's way too forgiving. Put them in prison and have them feel even a fraction of what they put all these young and helpless people through. On top of that, they're useless as dead people. Alive, they can still offer insight and information as to why and how they conducted such acts for so long. Intricate details as to how they manipulate and organize everything down to its core. Because that may be able to help uncover other crazy cults and facilities just like this as well as establish new laws that enforce checks and regulations for new organizations and facilities to prevent this from ever happening again.

>nobody tried to murder the teachers That why its a cult

I wonder the same thing sometimes, especially in such a situation

i think its already explained in the video. remember when he said the students were robbed of everything including their own privacy? thatd make you feel alot more powerless. thats how they manipulate their students and survived for 40+ years

This reads like some horror shit, what is goosebumps for a channel?

damn i never seen the episode but i think i read that book as a kid

I kinda remember that episode actually I think goosebumps is still on netflix or something

Wait holy shit! Except time you got everything right! Its 2.15am for me, literal degen hours 🤣

anxiety ✔️

3 50 am here degens time

Afternoon gang

In my chair It's too hot for that Same bro 9:55PM Kinda cozy

ok

You’re smart

11 year and alot of bragging money but still ...............

if knives were easily accessible then there would’ve been way more suicides inside the school

You are so naive lol

Years of psychological breakdowns can do that to you. Standing up for yourself is a sign of a very healthy individual but under so much psychological torture and no one to look for, for support, you feel helpless. It's called "learned helplessness".

@@Moreoverover yeah but i think he is talking about the newer students who havent been broken yet

xqc already mentioned, by the time you got there a ton of students would have already been brainwashed so any attempt at an uprising would just be reported. This aint a movie.

just watched it as well... fuck

Lol it be like that

I mean that is not a bad thing just means your actually supporting nexpo (the person who made the video)

@@izac112 yeah he makes such good content, I hope xQc reacts more to Nexpo and other creators like LEMMiNO and Disrupt

S A M E OMGGG

nexpo is top tier content imo

monkaW

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@@dorara9654 true

@@dorara9654 xQc Always used to watch NEXPO videoes when they came out. Idk why he stopped.

Yep I'd go on hunger strike and just constantly try to leave. Fuck it, let me die then

Sadly theres many places like this still going on today like turn about ranch the ranch dr phil would send trouble teens too it was actually full of abuse and sexual assault. Sadly other places as well. I've seen this one documentary about a boarding school but it wasnt one at all it was a testing facility they'd test on kids it was horrible.

Its sad because they make so much money from it too and thats what drives them more its insane and it starts with one person that some how finds people just like them which is even scarier to think about.

sounds like hell you deserved better , hope you recover fully one day from that traumatic experience and live on in peace

Wtf? Dude, if you’re being serious you should tell authorities about that, that’s severe child abuse.

I'm so sorry for you, you didn't deserver that I promise whole-heartedly! And I agree with the guy above me

You can hold something even better gachiHYPER

of course people don't talk about it, they are ashamed that not only did this exist, but that parents would pay good money for their children to be tortured, and that it went on for 40 years before it closed

The only thing that gives me peace is that two of the three co-founders of the school died considerably bad deaths.

That's why fucking kids today are lucky and better fucking fix their attitude and be grateful.

@@requiem4741 That shouldn't give you peace, that means they didn't pay for what they did.

Cool bro

True

S a mee

BatChest Chills!

NaM bing chilling

kids and/or stupid people

God Bless the United States lmao

NA OMEGALUL. My country sadge

sheee interesting, i will remember this comment if a movie comes out.