Rachel Brown
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1,264 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 5 Aug
Rachel Brown’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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People around the US and the world were suddenly recovering memories about being abused in satanic rituals.
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But it turns out, many of these memories were implanted by social workers or psychologists.
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They weren't repressed.
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They were made up.
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Today, the scientific community is divided about the idea of repressed memories.
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So, were Ruth's memories imagined?
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Gene Stone, who spent extensive time with both Ruth and Dr. Pickens, doesn't think so.
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What is it that makes you land on the side of this being the truth or this being close to the truth?
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There's of course no way for us to fact-check Ruth's accounts of what happened to her as a kid.
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And there's another big piece of this story we'll never be able to verify, the branding that happened to her in Fort Scott.
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Police officers at the time doubted her, and some of the Wichita police investigating the poet did too.
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Was that real?
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Or was it another memory manufactured by her dissociative disorder?
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Dr. Pickens believes that, in the end, it might not matter.
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Dr. Pickens says the Fort Scott incident could have been what he calls a screen memory and not something that directly gave rise to the poet in 1977.
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I'm not here to litigate whether or not the Fort Scott event or any of Ruth's childhood abuse really happened.
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What's clear is that something very traumatic occurred in Ruth's childhood, which somehow led to the poet emerging later in life.
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We also know that through Dr. Pickens diagnosing Ruth with a dissociative disorder and treating it as such, Ruth was able to overcome the poet.
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But even though Ruth had confronted her trauma and gotten rid of the poet, Wichita had neither forgiven nor forgotten what she did.
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Emma Dillinger moved to Wichita in the early 1980s from Scotland.
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