He had no medical training. No degree, no license, not even a single completed course. But what he had was absolute belief in himself, and the idea that his own hands were the instruments of divine correction.

To the people who lived on his commune in rural Quebec, he wasn't just their leader. He was Moïse. A divine prophet and healer. And when illness or "impurity" struck one of his followers, he didn't call a doctor.

He became one.

With kitchen tools and whatever else was on hand, he performed surgeries no hospital would recognize. Teeth pulled without anesthetic. Limbs operated on in the name of purification. Bodies permanently altered by a man who told his followers that pain was proof of faith, and that questioning him was a sin only God could punish.

By the time authorities finally intervened, the damage was carved directly into the survivors themselves. All permanent, and impossible to explain away.

This is the story of Roch Thériault, and the commune known as the Ant Hill Kids.

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