Ray William Johnson
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Like she tells him that she had a vision and that his name isn't really James anymore.
It's actually Michael.
James is like, all right, I guess my parents were wrong.
And he changes his name.
So now James is Michael.
Then Suzanne tells Michael that she had another vision, saying that they both need to change their last name to Bear.
And once again, Michael's like, all right.
and he changes his name to Michael Bear.
So this relationship dynamic keeps going.
She tells Michael Bear what to do, and he does it.
And over time, her visions and the things her God is supposedly telling her to do become more and more insane.
Like one day, Suzanne claims that she and Michael Bear have been given a new mission, that they're supposed to become Muslims, but not just any type of Muslim, specifically vegetarian Muslims for some reason.
And in their new vegetarian Muslim religion, of course they're not allowed to eat meat, but they are allowed to use all the drugs they want, of course.
But, most importantly, they believe that the world is secretly run by evil witches.
And their main purpose is to kill these witches.
And Michael Bayer hears all this and he's like, kill witches.
All right.
And they both actually take all of this very seriously.
Like they want to evangelize and recruit more people into their weird hippie cult religion.
And so in 1978, they travel to Europe because they're going to try and spread their beliefs there.