In February 1987, a concerned citizen in Tallahassee, Florida called 911 after seeing something deeply unsettling at a local playground: six small children wandering barefoot and dirty under the supervision of two strange men in suits beside a blue van with out-of-state plates.

What police discovered that afternoon would open the door to one of the strangest and most controversial investigations of the Satanic Panic era.

The men claimed they were teachers traveling with the children to start a school in Mexico. But inside their van were cryptic documents, strange communications equipment, and clues that led investigators to a secretive Washington D.C. organization known as The Finders.

In this episode of The Ritual Rewind, we explore the bizarre story of The Fin ...