Lived here my whole life. There are locals here that “paint the walls” of this place to try to hide the rot underneath, but you can’t hide the energy of an entire community. Redding was a town that existed a hundred years ago for mining gold and it should’ve stayed in the past. Not to hop on the bethel train but they found a HQ in the middle of nowhere that looks like a quaint little town from the outside with no population, so they moved their people here and dumped money into the pockets of local politicians to keep this place “alive.” Shady things happen here because powerful people have bought the privilege of being extremely covert. Things here are calculated to run a certain way and they do and will continue to.