What The hell Happened To Carrie C?
Update 04/08/2022- Carrie has returned and she now has full custody of the children. It’s miraculous.
When it comes to tragic stories about an active cult called The Body, Carrie C is top of mind. About a decade ago Carrie was living what appeared to be an idyllic life in Nikiski, Alaska. She was in her early 20’s, newly married, and living in a beautiful new home that her husband restored. Videos she recorded and uploaded to YouTube made for her family in the lower 48 indicate she was a happy, healthy person who was charming and loved her animals. Then her husband Chris got tangled up with a cult and her life went to hell.
It’s unclear what the steps were that led to her being indoctrinated in The Body then getting booted out of her home were, but not long after the videos of her christening her new house were recorded, she was living in an elders basement. Then there were rumors of a woman forced into a tiny apartment her husband built for her in a garage. Interestingly, Carrie’s name shows up on the industrial property of her father-in-law’s business in Soldotna.
Carrie was an outsider in The Body and she butted heads with the leader of the cult, Marc B because she didn’t like the direction the church was going in. Then Carrie got pregnant and was more or less hidden from the world as punishment for having a free mind. She gave birth and apparently was a good mother to her child, as ex-members recount. As time went on Marc decided he wanted Chris and the child she’d given birth to in his cult, but Carrie was disposable.
It’s difficult to put all the pieces of Carrie’s story together because there’s so much secrecy and bad information clouding the picture, but we know Carrie got pregnant again and that this time when she gave birth the baby went straight to the cult. She never even held her second child. It seems as though she was aware this would be the fate of her baby, though it’s unclear how they convinced her giving it up was the right thing to do. Certainly, it wasn’t her choice.
This is one of the last details we’re sure of when it comes to Carrie. She was still in Alaska for some time after giving up her children it seems. There was a court hearing a few years ago where she legally signed over the rights to her children to Chris C, who is still in the cult in 2021. A concerning detail about this part of the story is that Carrie never made it into court to make this official. Some document got her signature and the judge let that be enough to legally sign over her parental rights.
Shortly after this court hearing is when Carrie, who was no longer a member of The Body or under the thumb of Marc B, moved to Pennsylvania to be closer to her family. It appears she decided to rebuild her life in the small city of Quakertown.
Carrie’s life post-cult is extremely mysterious, and that mystery is concerning. The first detail that’s hard to make sense out of is that the newly divorced and childless version of Carrie made the decision to keep her ex-husbands last name. This would be a little odd for any woman to do, but it’s especially concerning considering Chris C choose The Body over her, abused her, and took her kids away. Keeping his name seems like a constant and unnecessary reminder of the trauma she went through in Alaska, but that’s what she did and apparently, she’s still using the name today.
One thing done with Carrie’s name did shorty after arriving in Quakertown was the registration of a fictitious name with the state of Pennsylvania. This is something people do to start a small business that’s not expected to make enough money to be much of a tax concern with the state. It’s really strange though, she named the business, which was supposed to create vinyl stickers, Eloah. Troubling, because Eloah is an ancient Hebrew word for God that Marc B is fond of and it’s not a word you see all that much in the world this century outside of The Body. It seems obvious that it’s a word she only would have learned from him.
So Carrie kept her ex-husbands last name even though he kept her hidden in a garage and then she named her sticker business after the guy who claimed God told him to take her kids away from her. These were decisions she made after her ties with The Body were severed. It doesn’t make sense.
In the video that introduced this article, Catie Q, who ended up marrying Carrie’s ex-husband Chris after the divorce and helped raise Carrie’s babies for a few years, posits that Carrie is still brainwashed by her experience and this is the reason she’s never come back for her kids. It’s kind of tough to buy that as a reasonable explanation.
The Body ruined Carrie’s life and she’s one of the members who Marc kicked out of the cult for insubordination. She was known to be a loving person who wanted nothing more than a family of her own. Why hasn’t she attempted to see the child she gave birth to that she’s never met?
People who are brainwashed do sometimes have psychological symptoms that can last years, but this is usually the case in instances for individuals who were forcibly removed from a cult or those for whom their cult dissolved. It’s not usually the case when someone is trying to get away from a cult for keeps or someone who’s tossed out of church. Those people recover pretty quickly, and it’s easier for them to understand how they were duped, as evidence by the other individuals with children who were kicked out of The Body. Carrie’s not the only one who faced a custody battle after exiting The Body, she’s just the only one who didn’t put up a fight. The mystery is why she hasn’t done anything to get her family back years later, knowing how destructive The Body really is.
I don’t buy Catie’s explanation that Carrie is stuck “in the cult mindset.” That’s just not how this stuff works. Maybe in the first few months after getting the boot she wouldn’t understand how she was victimized, but years down the line, living with her own non-brainwashed family? That’s unique to the point that I don’t believe it to be the case. The Carrie narrating those YouTube videos shot shortly before her experience with The Body does not seem like the kind of person who would abandon her children and leave them in the care of a destructive cult. From everything I’ve gathered in my search for Carrie, I get the impression that she was a genuinely good person who fell into something awful. So why is it that she doesn’t seem to care about her kids?
One explanation is that the Carrie C in Quakertown who’s still using her ex-husbands last name isn’t the real Carrie C. This might sound like a crazy theory, but this is a crazy story involving a conniving psychopath, so it’s not out of the question. I’ve found some bizarre results in the fruitless search for Carrie that make me posit hypotheticals like these.
Using a few people searching websites I found a shared Facebook account for Carrie and a mystery partner but the person in the photos was too old to be Carrie C. After sending that account a message requesting we have a chat, I heard nothing for a few days, so I went to see if the message had been read. To my befuddlement, the account had been deleted completely.
Another search on a finder site revealed a woman with Carrie’s exact name in the area she was supposed to be, but this woman was much older than the Carrie I was looking for. It could be an error in the search, but this older Carrie would probably be about the same age as the woman from the Facebook profile, which doesn’t sit well.
Then there’s the issue of Carrie’s phone. I’ve been trying to find Carrie’s phone number or the phone number a relative with no success for some time. I’ve purchased a few reports on her that gave me some hope and one had a number that looked legit, as it was tied to the address she’s supposed to be living at with her family. When I rang that number, a man with a thick accent picked up and told me I had the wrong number. After that I ran a report on Carrie’s mother and also found a number I was hopeful was hers. When I called that number it rang to the man with the accent again and he told me the same thing he had the first time. This time the man complained about all the phone calls he was getting and I asked him if this was something that had happened before the day I rang him. He said that it had, and that he was thinking of changing his number because he got so many calls for Carrie. I wondered if this number was maybe an out-of-date line that Carrie used to have and that if this was the reason he was getting all these calls, but the man with the accent told me he’d had the same number for a decade. Also of note, it seemed like the calls he was getting started occurring around the time Carrie left Alaska. It really makes me wonder who else is searching for Carrie and reaching this dude.
There is some evidence Carrie is indeed living in Pennsylvania, but it’s not so reassuring. Last year someone who fit Carrie’s description and had her name was pulled over for blowing a stop sign, and the birthday on that ticket seems to fit with Carrie’s age. This ticket was given on the other side of the state from where Carrie’s supposed to live, but the information lined up. I hoped to find a court record on the case, but it looked like Carrie took care of everything by mail.
In another request I made with the police in Quakertown, I was told the Carrie C I was looking for must be a resident because she’d registered a gun sometime in the last few years. I trust that these pieces of information came from the state and that there is a Carrie C in PA, but there’s so much off about Carrie’s story they do little to assure me that everything is ok in her world.
In 2021 it’s relatively easy to find out about people on the internet. They leave information all over the place in the form of records and taxes. There’s a record when someone registers to vote or gets a job, and there are, of course, records people leave of themselves online. I’ve dug deeper into Carrie than anyone else I’ve ever looked into and all I’ve found are the records indicating she’s still using her ex-husband’s last name, the Eloah thing, and the purchase of a gun. The records are so scant it seems like the Carrie C in Quakertown simply doesn’t want to be found. You also have to wonder if Marc doesn’t want Carrie unearthed.
If you go back in time to before The Body showed up in Carrie’s life, she did leave behind some social media evidence in different corners of the internet. There’s an empty blog, a cheerful music playlist, and the aforementioned YouTube videos. Those were made when Carrie was in an isolated town in Alaska where an internet connection is a luxury. Now that she’s back in the real world and presumably closer to WiFi, she’s a ghost online just like the people who are currently in The Body. Carrie has been so difficult to find the closest thing I’ve ever turned up to an image of her is a split second freeze frame in one of her videos as she walked by a bathroom mirror.
After searching in Pennsylvania for a while and getting nowhere, I turned back to Alaska. One night in December of 2020 I called the troopers and voiced my concern. After that call, I was transferred to a trooper in Soldotna, the town where Carrie lived in a garage. I said my peace, we got off the phone, and I waited a short time before the trooper called me back. He said he’d spoken with Carrie and Chris both in the span of about 20 minutes and that everything was fine. I asked for some piece of information to convince me this was the case and he told me that he’d given Carrie my number and that she said she’d be calling me. Then he told me something I found quite difficult to believe. The trooper said that Carrie and Chris are good friends and talk to each other often.
Carrie and the man that has her children, one of whom she’s never held, are friends. That’s not how relationships work in my experience. Have you ever heard of a pair of divorcees in a situation where one parent lost custody of their children being buddies? Is the thing with the kids water under the bridge?
It’s worth repeating, Carrie kept her ex-husband’s name, even after he married her old friend Catie and in spite of the fact that he has her kids inside of a cult. And they’re friends.
It's possible this is true and Catie is right about Carrie being brainwashed to this day, but by whom is Carrie brainwashed? Not by Marc, they definitely don’t communicate. How is Carrie brainwashed now after what she went through and all this time apart from The Body? I find it astonishing. Another word I’d use for this situation is Unbelievable.
Carrie didn’t end up calling me, by the way. She had my number and didn’t pick up the phone, not even after I sent the police to her house in the middle of the night a week later. If the real Carrie C is out there, she is well aware of who I am and why I’m looking for her. And from what the guy with the accent told me, I’m not the only one looking for her. Still, she’s incommunicado.
This is all to say that I am more than a little concerned about Carrie these days. There’s so much wrong with this story and so many details that don’t add up to a cogent narrative. It seems impossible that all these years later Carrie is just a private person, free to roam, and she hasn’t come back for her kids because she simply doesn’t want them.
Whatever the truth is about Carrie C, I’m certain it’s bad news. She was a victim when she was in the cult and she’s a tragic figure outside of it, if she’s truly outside of it.
There’s nothing I would put past Marc B as far as whatever he did to Carrie to make things the way they are. He is 100% a psychopath and has proven over and over again he has no regard for human life. Even if Carrie is doing fine and just wants nothing to do with her old life, there’s still the problem that her very young children are close to Marc, who is a child molester in addition to being a cult leader.
If you don’t find Carrie’s story concerning, there are all kinds of reasons to be concerned about children growing up in a cult like The Body.
This is just one story of one of the victims of The Body. There are other stories like it, but Carrie’s is the one that keeps me up at night because her fate is so obscure. So much of her story in unknown or unknowable without her own account of what happened. There are loose strands of whatever happened to her in Alaska and a couple pieces of unreliable data on what happened to her after.
I’ve been collecting details about Carrie since I first heard about her, but it’s only a slight glimpse of the real story and I’m confident some of my information is misinformation.
I can say from my experience talking to members of The Body that I get the impression they don’t want me or anyone else to hear Carrie’s story. That’s reason enough to keep digging.
If you’d like to join the search for the truth about Carrie C, please email syran@thebodyintl.com
