# I just saw a celebrity! Phred is in town

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [April 3, 2009, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-saw-a-celebrity-phred-is-in-town/491879 "2009-04-03T16:34:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2009, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-saw-a-celebrity-phred-is-in-town/491879/21 "2009-04-06T16:40:45Z")

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Here’s the first part of a great docu with BBC guy Louis Theroux spending some time with the family. All 7 parts can be found on youtube. It’s up on gogglevideo aswell IIRC.

Well worth a look

[![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2ZFR4DbC5o)

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**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2009, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-saw-a-celebrity-phred-is-in-town/491879/22 "2009-04-06T17:07:52Z")

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> [@TruCelt](#):
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> Wow! i’d never heard of him before so I wiki’d him. He looks just like the crazy preacher ghost from Poltergeist!
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> Fred Phelps:
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> [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/39/Fred\_Phelps\_on\_his\_pulpit.jpg](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/39/Fred_Phelps_on_his_pulpit.jpg)

That’s a damn snazzy suit for a heterosexual.

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**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2009, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-saw-a-celebrity-phred-is-in-town/491879/23 "2009-04-12T06:42:16Z")

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I’m pretty sure it was the Phelps clan… Does anyone remember a story about a guy that was doing a documentary of them then got sucked in, had his whole family join and everything? Google hates me at the moment (or I just suck at googling), but I’m almost 100% sure that was the cultish group of that story (I’ve read up on several groups but this seems to be the only one that would fit that description I recall).

on edit… did a search for threads I’d posted in to see if any further conversation had happened and mistook this as a recent thread by accident. Sorry for the zombie from last week.

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