A chilling cult convinced 39 people to end their lives to "board an alien spaceship" for a new life among the stars. The leader of Heaven's Gate filled the minds of his followers with strange beliefs and, after an anonymous…[Continue Reading...]
Today is Tuesday, March 26, the 86th day of 2024. There are 280 days left in the year. In 1997, the bodies of 39 members of the Heaven’s Gate techno-religious cult who committed suicide were found inside a rented mansion…[Continue Reading...]
Kenyan authorities on Tuesday began releasing the bodies of victims of a doomsday starvation cult, almost a year since the discovery of mass graves in a grisly case that shocked the world. One family received four bodies that were loaded…[Continue Reading...]
A New York judge has ruled that Reddit and YouTube must confront lawsuits accusing them of contributing to the radicalization of an 18-year-old who perpetrated a racially motivated mass shooting in Buffalo, New York. The tragic incident, which resulted in the loss of…[Continue Reading...]
The teenager who seriously wounded an Orthodox Jewish man in an antisemitic stabbing attack in Zurich earlier this month was radicalized on the internet while living in Tunisia, Swiss police announced on Monday. The 50-year-old victim, who has not been…[Continue Reading...]
Kody Brown is the bane of Sister Wives existence due to his seemingly narcissistic ways. During Season 1, the patriarch bragged about how great it was to be a practicing polygamist, but his children never seemed enamored by the practice.…[Continue Reading...]
When it comes to The Church of Scientology, you’ve most likely heard about both its celebrity followers and its wacky ideas about space battles (for example, Lord Xenu, the intergalactic warrior you can only get the full scoop on once…[Continue Reading...]
Whether you’re a first time watcher or a veteran, there’s no denying it: cult documentaries are wildly fascinating. That’s probably why the genre — much like the meteoric rise of its cousin, true crime — has grown so rapidly in…[Continue Reading...]
Before there were organizations in place to help people with drug addiction, the landscape for people with these problems was harsh and unforgiving. In the late 1950s, Charles "Chuck" Dederich wanted to change that. Dederich — who was open about…[Continue Reading...]
In his final years, Hosoda was accused of sexually harassing reporters and criticized for his links with the Unification Church, now formally called the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, which has come under fire for unscrupulous fund-raising practices.[Continue Reading...]
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