Episode 232 : Meg Appelgate

Episode 232

Trigger Warnings : This episode talks about child abuse, kidnapping and CSA. Please use discretion when listening.

When she was just 15, Meg Appelgate was abducted by two strangers in the middle of the night from her home in California. Over the course of the next 6 months Meg would enter a behavioral modification program called Chrysalis in northern Montana where she would spend the next 3 years. These programs go by the names "youth residential treatment centers", "wilderness programs", "boot camps", or "therapeutic boarding schools" among others, but they are what we now know as the Troubled Teen Industry, a vile abusive system of control that Meg is fighting to end.

Show Notes

Unsilenced

Unsilenced TikTok

Troubled Teen Industry

Synanon

Meg's Book! - Becoming Unsilenced

This Is Paris

WWASP Survivors

Former Campers Speak Out on Trails Carolina

Project SPEAK

Out of MLM

The BITE Model