Charlotte Medlock spent four years at the Ra Ma Yoga Institute - and described how her life was turned upside down under the tyrannical leadership of Katie Griggs - better known as Guru Jagat. Wooed by her "charismatic" nature, Charlotte…[Continue Reading...]
A woman born into a religious cult has revealed how priests kept an iron grip on her life - telling her how to dress, think and even how to sit. Amber Powers, 47, was born into a cult based in Indiana in…[Continue Reading...]
Faith Bistline was born into a difficult life. Growing up as a girl in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, she faced the likelihood of being placed in an arranged, polygamous marriage from a young age. When…[Continue Reading...]
Survivors who endured decades of abuse and violence detailed their experience in a fundamentalist Mormon cult, headed by a polygamist nicknamed "The Mormon Manson," that is credited with dozens of assassinations. The Church of the First Born Lamb of God,…[Continue Reading...]
The last person Kazakh-Russian model Ruslana Korshunova called before she leaped to her death from her Manhattan apartment wasn't her family, best friend, or even her boyfriend. Minutes before her suicide on June 28, 2008, the 20-year-old called her 'life coach' who…[Continue Reading...]
This week's unsealing of court records relating to Jeffrey Epstein's alleged associates has brought about a new wave of conspiracy theories about the late, disgraced financier. Epstein, who died by suicide while awaiting trial on federal sex-trafficking charges, is a…[Continue Reading...]
What if one book had the power to plunge the world into a terrifying obsession with satanic cults? Michelle Remembers, a 1980 memoir by a young Canadian woman and her psychiatrist, Dr. Lawrence Pazder, did just that. Marketed as the…[Continue Reading...]
It was New Year’s Eve 2014 when the daughter of polygamist cult leader Warren Jeffs finally broke free. "When I stepped out, I remembered thinking, ‘Gosh, I should have left sooner,’" Rachel Blackmore recalled to Fox News Digital. "There’s just…[Continue Reading...]
The latest collaboration between ABC News and Hulu, Daughters of the Cult, cuts through all the true-crime documentary clutter of the last decade. Even if you're familiar with Mormon fundamentalism or watched FX's Under the Banner of Heaven (which was…[Continue Reading...]
I’ve been on a bit of a cult kick over my winter break, spending my free time engrossed in a few different cult documentaries. First, I watched Love Has Won: The Cult of Mother God on HBO with my family…[Continue Reading...]
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