David Shurter, an alleged Satanic ritual abuse survivor and author of the book Rabbit Hole, has been asking for donations to pay the back taxes he owed on his house for most of 2025.
He would often say he had only a few months to raise the money before his home was auctioned, and would direct YouTube viewers to his PayPal and Venmo accounts for donations. However, recently, he began telling his viewers he planned to start a GoFundMe.
His announcement of creating a GoFundMe sparked controversy because the alleged composer, Thomas Schoenberger, had paid Shurter donations in the past, and it was speculated that the reason behind his generosity was not out of concern for Shurter’s potential homelessness, but payment for Shurter to defame people with whom Schoenberger had personal disputes. Shurter’s former moderator, Sharilynn Shechta, confirmed that some of the speculation might be partly true.
“David told me that Thomas was sending him $500 a month,” said Shechta, during a Sewer Town YouTube stream.
Schoenberger has denied giving Shurter this amount each month and said he had made PayPal donations to Shurter only in times of need.
Schoenberger is currently in a lawsuit with Michigan State University over allegations that he disseminated QAnon propaganda via Twitter, stemming from linguistics professor Laura Dilley’s research paper titled “QAnon Propaganda on Twitter as Information Warfare: Infuencers, Networks, and Narratives.“
What was said in Sewer Town that night played out like a Coen Brothers dark comedy.
First, an ex-shurter follower, Smokey DaClown, joined the panel on Sewer Town’s stream. Smokey told host Jesse Davis that he had been a part of several gangs, which included MS13 and the Hellfire Club.
However, the Hellfire Club existed long before he was born and was an elite, exclusive 18th-century British and Irish high-society group that engaged in taboo and libertine activities, according to Wikipedia. The Hellfire Club is also referenced in the Netflix series Stranger Things.
But Smokey told the Sewer Town listeners that English occultist Aleister Crowley founded the Hellfire Club, and that when he was 18, he joined the cult. Later, he became disenchanted because he found out they were into pedophilia, and he hates pedos.
After finding Shurter’s YouTube channel, Smokey formed a Woodchipper Gang, a vigilante group against pedophiles.
Shurter would often laugh at the thought of the gang putting pedos in a woodchipper. He even joked about getting t-shirts that said “Woodchipper Gang” during one of his YouTube livestreams.
Shurter accuses people of being child trafficking pedophiles daily on his YouTube channel, without giving any police reports or evidence to back up his claims. Unfortunately, Davis, his wife, Pavana Davis, and I are a few of the people that Shurter accuses of being neo-Nazi Satanic pedophiles.
“Just to let you all know this, y’all were in deep threat,” said Smokey.
He said the gangs he had been associated with owed him four favors, and he could call them anytime to have someone disappear. Smokey then asked Shechta if it was okay for him to say what Shurter asked him to do. She gave him her blessings in the YouTube chat.
Smokey explained how Shurter had a three-way conference call with Shechta and Smokey about how much it would cost to have someone killed by the Woodchipper Gang.
Smokey said the price was $5,000.
Coincidentally, Shurter had previously admitted that Sarah R. Adams offered to pay him $5,000 to take me down during a livestream on his YouTube channel.
After Adams made the offer, Shurter began accusing her ex-business partner, Tajinder Gill, and me of blackmailing and extorting her.
Adams has a long-standing grievance with me for many years for exposing her as a fake psychic healer, and as of recent, I have done commentary on the Not My Rabbit Hole podcast about Adams’ near-fatal mushroom ritual that almost killed comedian Steve Harvey’s daughter-in-law.
Many of Shurter and Schoenberger’s online targets became alarmed when Shurter inquired how much it would cost to hire the Woodchipper gang to assassinate them, and they called the Harlan, Iowa, Sheriff’s department, where Shurter resides.
A deputy was assigned to investigate, but the case was closed due to insufficient evidence to convict Shurter of a crime.
While Shurter was under investigation by Harlan deputies, he launched a GoFundMe campaign titled, “Please Help Me Save My House So I Don’t Become Homeless.”
Shurter told his viewers that he needed to raise $2,300 before March or he would be on the streets.
He also vilified me and others, saying that we wished him homeless, and that we were child traffickers who murdered children.
As part of his GoFundMe ask and updates, he accused YouTubers Daniel Doud and Geo Farnsworth of murdering his friend Owen Wiekert.
During his initial crowdsourcing campaign, he gave updates about me with links to blogs and videos of Shurter insinuating repeatedly that I have child porn on my phone.
Several of us have reported Shurter’s GoFundMe campaign for libelous statements, but as of this date, Gofundme has taken no action on the matter.
After Shurter raised the funds to pay off the back taxes on his house, he gloated on YouTube, saying it was God who made his GoFundMe so successful.
Was it God who made two anonymous donations of $1,000 within a day of each other, or an interested party in harming one of us by slander or assassination?
Shurter made another video ask, and revamped his GoFundMe, and retitled his campaign to “Please Help Me Continue My Work Fighting Child Trafficking.”
In the video, Shurter tells his audience that he needs a laptop so he can write his second book, but the night his ex-moderator, Shechta, was on Sewer Town, she said she bought Shurter a laptop and had it shipped from the factory to him.
Shurter said he raised his GoFundMe goal to $4,500 and revamped his campaign because he needed a laptop. But if that’s not true, why does Shurter need another $2,500?
Could it be to hire a hitman?
