Here is a weird one...

A strange creepy-pasta YouTube channel titled "Petscop" began uploading a series of Let's Play-style videos in the middle of 2017. However, the game being played on the channel does not actually exist.

The premise is that the narrator of the series is exploring an unfinished video game he found in his house called Petscop. As he begins playing, everything seems normal until he finds the deeper, hidden segment of the game via a cheat code.

The reason I am posting this here is what seems to be part of the story being told through this creepy-pasta series.

The creator of this fake game and YouTube channel seems to have used a disturbing real life account of child abuse as the basis of the story, the death of Candace Newmaker:

Candace was born in Lincolnton, North Carolina to Angela and Todd Elmore. At a young age, she and her younger brother Michael and sister Chelsea were removed from the home for neglect and separated by social services. When she was five, her parents' parental rights were terminated. Two years later she was adopted by Jeane Elizabeth Newmaker, a single woman and pediatric nurse practitioner in Durham, North Carolina.

Within months of the adoption, Jeane began taking Candace to a psychiatrist, complaining about her behavior and attitude at home. Though Candace was treated with medications, Jeane reported that Candace's behavior got worse during the ensuing two years, a period supposedly including her playing with matches and killing goldfish.

Candace and Jeane Newmaker traveled to Evergreen, Colorado in April 2000, for a $7,000 two-week "intensive" session of attachment therapy with Connell Watkins, upon a referral from William Goble, a licensed psychologist in North Carolina.

Candace died during the second week of the intensive sessions with Watkins during what has been called a "rebirthing" session. Participating in the fatal session as therapists were Watkins and Julie Ponder, along with Candace's "therapeutic foster parents", Brita St. Clair and Jack McDaniel, and Jeane Newmaker. (from wikipedia)

The details of the story are quite horrific. Essentially, they wrapped her in layers of flannel blankets and sat on her until she went brain-dead due to asphyxiation. The Wikipedia entry (link below) explains how the case was handled in court.

Exactly how all of this was brought to many's attention through a fictional Let's Play series is interesting. It is best explained through a video analysis of the Petscop series which I will include at the bottom of this post.

Candace Newman's story seems to include many elements often discussed here at v/Pizzagate - child abuse, CPS, strange behavior behavior from adoptive parents... I was curious to see what some of you might make of this.

Something tells me there could be more to this story, though this is maybe more of a gut feeling. As well, it could be worth looking further into this idea of Attatchment Therapy and those who administer it as it seems reminiscent of New Age, MK Ultra-styled ideas.

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candace_Newmaker

Video Analysis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oC88jsc-wpg

Petscop YT Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZKQv0ZFHpeIUkOtNjtq4KA