Specific locations can hold a lot of spiritual weight, depending on what happened there. For example, more than 3 million people visit the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes in southern France each year looking for a miracle, per CBS…[Continue Reading...]
This week National Geographic is set to launch their chilling series Cult Massacre: One Day In Jonestown and we’ve got an exclusive clip featuring a survivor of the actual event at the center of the story. The three-part series tells…[Continue Reading...]
A fabled West Hills compound in rustic Box Canyon, once home to a cult leader and his barefooted followers in robes, is on the market for $4.8 million. Set on 16.5 acres, the property branded “Xanadu” and promoted for its…[Continue Reading...]
There's a moment Stephanie Kemmerer regrets so deeply that her voice cracks as she recalls it, though it happened 10 years ago. She was chatting with a homeless woman outside a local shop about the 2001 terrorist attacks in the…[Continue Reading...]
Acollective of far-right media figures have launched a militia—and like any serious militarized group of extremist quacks, they’re recruiting on Instagram, according to a new report from researchers at media watchdog Media Matters for America. Dubbed “North American Patriot and…[Continue Reading...]
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Many phrases associated with QAnon have largely disappeared from mainstream social media, mostly because of the platforms' "belated efforts" to crack down on the conspiracy theory, researchers at a U.S. think tank said on Wednesday. QAnon…[Continue Reading...]
On Netflix, the three-part docuseries Dancing for the Devil: The 7M TikTok Cult aired at the end of May. But in the real world, the series just keeps going. In the latest installment, Miranda Wilking Derrick, its apparently unwitting subject…[Continue Reading...]
An Oregon City couple whose baby suffered from jaundice and later died were arraigned Monday in Clackamas County Circuit Court on charges that they withheld basic medical care from the boy. Blair Edwards , 35, and Taylor Edwards, 30, are…[Continue Reading...]
Is New Zealand a little bit culty? That question will be asked at the International Cultic Studies Association conference in Barcelona, Spain, next month. That may not be how New Zealand likes to see itself on the world stage. Yet…[Continue Reading...]
BEIJING (Reuters) - China tried five members of a banned religious group on Thursday for the murder of a woman who was beaten to death at a McDonald's restaurant after she refused to give them her telephone number when they…[Continue Reading...]
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