Brentwood Residents Say Phillip Garrido’s Black God Box Didn’t Work

This has been such a powerful case for the city of Brentwood and Antioch. It’s because the story is local and unthinkable that makes it so shocking. It’s like a sick twisted scene from a Law and Order SVU episode, except this case is real. Since our cities are so small many residents lived within a few miles of the site where Jaycee Dugard was held captive for 18 years. The Brentwood Grove’s headquarters where within a mile of the house. It’s shocking to think that things like this can take place, even in one’s own backyard.

“One of the more bizarre claims involving Phillip Garrido, the man accused of kidnapping and holding Jaycee Dugard for 18 years, is that he had invented a device that allowed him to control sounds with his mind. KRON 4′s Mark Jones talked with some of the people who tried out Garrido’s contraption with mostly negative results.

Many said Garrido would hand them a bottle of water and then ask them to put on headphones connected to a box. “They’d have headphones and he’d say can you hear me…and he would stop talking, and say ‘Can you hear me over the headphone?’” Jim Malino told Mark. “All kinds of people heard it. Looks like it worked to me. He had cards that said ‘Voices are Us.’” (Kron 4)

“Phillip Garrido has a business called God’s Desire, based out of his home in Antioch. He referred to God’s Desire as a church in a telephone interview. “What’s kept me busy the last several years is I’ve completely turned my life around,” Garrido told KCRA 3. “And you’re going to find the most powerful story coming from the witness, the victim — you wait. If you take this a step at a time, you’re going to fall over backwards and in the end, you’re going to find the most powerful heart-warming story.” People who knew Garrido said he became increasingly fanatic about his religious beliefs in recent years, sometimes breaking out into song and claiming that God spoke to him through a box.” (KCRA 3)

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