Eligio Bishop rose to fame as a spiritual influencer in 2016, promoting a “return to nature” and the idea of a “Black utopia” to recruit people to join his group Carbon Nation. But what started as an off-the-grid community soon…[Continue Reading...]
If you think the influencer-to-cult-leader pipeline is something out of a movie, Hulu’s latest docuseries is about to shake you to your core. The Cult of NatureBoy is streaming now, and it is one of those series you simply cannot…[Continue Reading...]
Documentary director Chantelle Coleman discusses the downfall of cult leader "Nature Boy" (aka Eligio Bishop). Criminally convicted at trial in Atlanta Bishop is now serving a life sentence in prison. Watch the video https://abcnews.com/video/132454846/[Continue Reading...]
True crime has become such a dominant genre that it has started to eat itself — another grisly murder, another trafficker brought to justice, another case you've already heard about. The Cult of NatureBoy sidesteps that fatigue almost entirely. The…[Continue Reading...]
They called him their god, but behind that charismatic facade, he was a master manipulator. In "The Cult of NatureBoy," ABC News Studios takes audiences into the case of Eligio Bishop, aka "NatureBoy," who used social media to recruit followers…[Continue Reading...]
HBO Documentary Films is in production on a multi-part series exploring the controversial group of young technologists known as Zizians. The cult-like group garnered national attention in 2025 after law enforcement linked members of the group to a series of…[Continue Reading...]
Netflix‘s Trust Me: The False Prophet (2026) is a four-part documentary series that captured the rise of Samuel Bateman, the self-proclaimed heir to convicted child abuser Warren Jeffs’ Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS). If you thought…[Continue Reading...]
From shocking real-life cults to disturbing leaders, here are the best documentaries on Netflix to watch after Trust Me: The False Prophet. With the release of Trust Me: The False Prophet on Netflix, interest in cult stories and psychological deep-dives…[Continue Reading...]
Warren Jeffs claimed to be a prophet, but he was, in fact, the head of a polygamist "cult" and a serial sexual abuser. Under the guise of the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints (FLDS) — an offshoot of Mormonism…[Continue Reading...]
Trust Me: The False Prophet drops today on Netflix, exposing a shocking investigation into a polygamist cult leader. A cult expert and videographer risked everything to bring down Samuel Bateman, who claimed to be Warren Jeffs’s successor and controlled over…[Continue Reading...]
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