The Brides of Christ of Corvallis Oregon

What Happens in the Woods

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We’ve had some time to recharge and regroup and we are ready to get back into true crime cases from the PNW.
This episode takes us back to the early 1900s in Oregon, where a charismatic religious man was able to start a Holy Roller sect in the small community of Corvallis. Franz Edmund Creffield believed he was the new messiah and it was his job, his responsibility, to find the one lucky lady who would be the mother to the second Christ. His antics caused many issues with the men of the area and the local law enforcement.
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Some information from this episode:
A deep dive into Creffield and the newspaper reports of his activity at the turn of the 1900s with news articles included (this is also a review of the book written by T. McCracken and Robert B. Blodgett https://mchumor.com/edmundcreffield.com/index.html
Edmund Creffield and the Brides of Christ Church by Theresa McCracken https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/creffield_edmund_and_the_brides_of_christ_church/#.Y_QxQXbMKUl
An Examination of Franz Edmund Creffield and the Holy Rollers, 1900-1907 by Sophie Koh https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/younghistorians/2017/oralpres/24/
The definition of “Holy Roller” according to Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Roller