15 Creepy Cult Leaders Who Had Us All Fooled

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Looking back at how cults operate, it doesn’t seem as surprising how they ended, because from the beginning, the leaders showed unusual behavior and questionable practices.

Although cults don’t always act the same way, there’s definitely a pattern among the people who lead them, they’re charming and charismatic, enough to wash people’s minds and manipulate them as they please.

Their followers were just looking for a place to belong and a sense of security that they were made to believe was real. Leaders had them all fooled until it was too late, and then the worst happened.

1 David Koresh

Leader of the Branch Davidian religious group, and responsible for the Waco Siege in 1993, where there was a shootout between the ATF and the religious group that ended in a fire taking many lives.

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