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What happened to Catherine Cheng at Yogaville — featuring Rick Ross

Published June 3, 2026 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged cult leader, cults, survivor stories, Swami Satchidananda, Yogaville

Catherine Cheng went to Yogaville for a month long retreat and never came back. What happened to her? Famous Cult Deprogrammer and Archivist Rick Alan Ross worked with Catherine and her family over 20 years ago. He visited the show…[Continue Reading...]

What to Know About the Gloriavale Cult from Devotion: Obedience or Betrayal

Published June 3, 2026 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged cult leader, cults, Gloriavale, Neville Cooper, New Zealand

New Zealand’s most notorious fundamentalist cult, Gloriavale Christian Community, has a long history of abuse and manipulation. For nearly 60 years, the isolated religious group has been governed by strict rules, with leaders demanding obedience and exerting control over every…[Continue Reading...]

‘Bring Me the Beauties’ star Hoyt Richards on surviving a cult — and how Fabio helped him escape: ‘It’s like meeting Thor’

Published June 2, 2026 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged cult leader, cults, Eternal Values, Frederick von Mierers, survivor story

When director Chris Smith first heard Hoyt Richards tell his story, he almost couldn't believe what he was hearing. "The mix of this world of fashion and modeling, and this other life that he was leading — it seemed hard…[Continue Reading...]

The True Story Behind Bring Me the Beauties and the Eternal Values Cult

Published June 2, 2026 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged cult leader, cults, Eternal Values, Frederick von Mierers, survivor story

The summer Hoyt Richards was 16, his family made their annual migration to Nantucket, where he spent long, unstructured days at Nobadeer Beach. It was there, on the pale sand, that Richards first encountered Frederick von Mierers: older, lean, striking,…[Continue Reading...]

Notre Dame Students Abused by Priest in ‘Weighing Scheme,’ Report Finds

Published June 1, 2026 By admin

Categorized as Clergy Abuse Tagged Notre Dame, Rev. Thomas King, Roman Catholic priest, sexual abuse allegations

A blistering report issued last week accuses the University of Notre Dame of failing to take action against a former priest despite years of alleged sexual misconduct against students while he was a dorm rector and while he worked at…[Continue Reading...]

‘We can all be susceptible’: how did a group of models get taken in by a cult?

Published June 1, 2026 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged cult leader, cults, Eternal Values, Frederick von Mierers, survivor story

Documentary film-maker Chris Smith made the seminal 1999 film American Movie, about an indie director’s struggle to complete a horror film, which he hopes will then finance the completion of his dream project. More recently, he’s profiled well-known subjects in…[Continue Reading...]

How a Male Supermodel Escaped a Manhattan Socialite’s Cult

Published June 1, 2026 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged cult leader, cults, Eternal Values, Frederick von Mierers, survivor story

Before Hoyt Richards became known as the first male supermodel in the late 1980s and 1990s, a mysterious, captivating man from Manhattan laid a towel down next to him on a Nantucket beach. Richards was 16 years old, hailing from…[Continue Reading...]

Hoyt Richards on How to Escape a Cult

Published June 1, 2026 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged cult leader, cults, Ethernal Values, Frederick von Mierers, survivor story

The night Hoyt Richards escaped the Eternal Values cult, after nearly 15 years spent in what he now calls a “mental prison,” he crept past the German shepherds guarding the group’s North Carolina compound. Once he was out of earshot,…[Continue Reading...]

Inside the extremist online culture that shaped the San Diego mosque shooters

Published May 31, 2026 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Hate crimes, online radicalizaton, radicalization

The shooting reflects how extremist violence evolved after Christchurch — from fringe ideology into a decentralized online culture of memes, edits and mythologized mass shooters. Listen to the article through the link below[Continue Reading...]

Cults Inside out How People Get In and Can Get Out

Published May 31, 2026 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged cult intervention, cults, deprogramming

You’ve seen them in movies and on TV, but cults are more prevalent than you think—and they’re armed with strategies that can brainwash and persuade even the most unlikely of candidates.But how do individuals get involved with cults in the…[Continue Reading...]