Real Talk with Mary Contrary and Starfish

Real Talk with Mary Contrary and Starfish


#17. Amy Carlson - Crestone Cult Corpse

June 01, 2021

Hear the story of the Amy Carlson, the Crestone Cult Corpse. Carlson was the leader of a cult called Love Has Won, and authorities recently found her corpse in a mobile home after her followers, who believed she was ‘God’ kept her mummified long after she passed.


An eye-less mummified corpse wrapped in a sleeping bag with Christmas lights decorations is not exactly how you’d picture ‘God’ even if it was your first time hearing of God. But about a dozen members of the ‘Love Has Won’ cult from Crestone, Colorado had an unbelievable story to tell Saguache County Sheriff’s deputies about the Crestone cult corpse lying in one of the bedrooms of the house they were staying in.


These law enforcers raided a mobile home in the Casita Park subdivision on April 28 2021 after a man notified them about the presence of a dead body in the house. The man, also a member of the cult, had allowed these people to stay at his house because they needed a place to stay. He told Saguache County sheriff that he knew about the dead body after returning to his home from a trip to Denver on Wednesday April 28. Captain Ken Wilson of the sheriff’s office said Amy appeared to have been deceased for several weeks to a month. Police investigations following that raid have revealed the bizarre ins and outs of the ‘Love Has Won’ cult.