Inside the 1970s Era Mid-Michigan Cult No One Will Talk About

Talk about local and secretive cults are just the thing that perks someone's ears up. They're the stuff of urban legends and conspiracy. Cults are often draped in religious iconography with followers dedicated to a singular goal or person.

Did a cult exist in Mid-Michigan in the 1970s? One person has raised the question.

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The discussion came up on Reddit recently in the subreddit dedicated to Saginaw. The question revolved around a cult that operated in the Bridgeport area in the 1970s. Bridgeport is a southern suburb of Saginaw:

a friend of mine's mom was in a cult, in the Saginaw area, during the 70's & early 80's and I want to know more about it

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One commentor thought the story may be related to the Ferris Family and the Ferris House in Bridgewater. The family owned furriers in Saginaw and Flint and subject of a 20 year old Dateline NBC episode about a convicted murderer in the family.

Later the home 

was eventually found to be operating a sex ring - swingers type adult service in the early 2000's.

Another commenter speculated the "cult" was a reference to The Way, or officially The Way International.

My wife’s dad was a member of The Way in the 70s. Not sure if it was in Bridgeport but I know he lived on that side of Saginaw around that time.

A researcher at Cornell draws connections between The Way and Jehovah's Witnesses and talks about their founding in the 1970s, the same era as the Bridgeport question.

A Grosse Pointe newspaper from 1981 ran a front page story about The Way labeling them a controversial cult and openly questioned if they were seeking teen members from the Grosse Pointes.

That's abotu the point where the trail runs dry. Was there a secretive cult in the Saginaw area in the 1970s? If there was no one is talking much about it even 50 years on.