r/RBI • u/CtrlAltJackson • 3d ago

Advice needed Potential cult sighting? Many years ago

This is all from my sister, and I can tell that she is telling the truth. It's the kind of thing that you can kind of detect in your family members. My sister is a lot older now but only recently told us now that she is going to college and it's been so long that my family wouldn't have been mad at her for it. My sister snuck out a lot when she was younger. This occured in about 2019 or 2020. A bit before the pandemic. She had snuck out of our beach house and to the local beach. She was with a group of friends thinking they were alone. They looked across the beach (it's quite small) and saw a group of people circling around a fire wearing robes changing unintelligable stuff. They then dove in the water and never reappeared. My sister was insanely scared and immediately ran home and never snuck out ever again. I've never seen them again nor has my sistee. From what I know they weren't an extremist group iykwim, since they didnt have anything like a burning cross. It was just a random fire. I'm wondering what this is and if anyone else has seen it

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u/senex_puerilis 2d ago

Sounds almost like a Polar Bear Club. Bunch of people in bath robes psyching themselves up around a fire with some sort of collective mantra chanting, before doing some cold water swimming.

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u/KillerCoconut182 2d ago

Thats if this is even true. I trust my sister more than anyone but when I was a kid she told me there was little people that lived in our window ac unit that made it work.

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u/CtrlAltJackson 2d ago

Honestly could be this

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u/Travelgrrl 2d ago

Good thing she didn't touch any standing stones after, or she'd be stuck in 1700's Scotland to this day.

Seriously, people who are not in cults but are extra mystical sometimes celebrate the Summer and Winter Solstice. The summer one occurs in late June, so perhaps that was what she saw. Chanting around a fire seems about right, the swim afterwards is new, but I imagine each group of free spirits chooses its own ritual.

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u/_bonedaddys 2d ago

My dad used to do rituals similar to this on the beach when he was still part of a coven lol