Billy Zane is set to star in a new original movie for Lifetime that’s based on the true story of an ex-con who moved in with his daughter at Sarah Lawrence College and created a cult-like influence over her friends.…[Continue Reading...]
A woman who was raised in the Independent Fundamentalist Baptist cult has described her difficult childhood and the impact it had on her as an adult. From the age of nine to 18, she lived by the cult's strict rules…[Continue Reading...]
A good documentary is a window into the human condition; following real-life communities and events and featuring interviews and archival footage, they give viewers an in-depth look into worlds and people they may never get to know. While some documentaries…[Continue Reading...]
The trailer for The Program: Cons, Cults, and Kidnapping previews the upcoming Netflix docuseries, which focuses on a woman haunted by her experience in a disciplinary school. “No talking. No smiling. No going outside. The Academy at Ivy Ridge claimed…[Continue Reading...]
Claude Vorilhon, a man known to thousands as Raël, has a story. It goes like this: One morning in December 1973, Vaurilhon went for a walk on a volcanic stretch of highland in his native France. There, Vorilhon claims he…[Continue Reading...]
The phrase “not an obvious cult” doesn’t really get thrown around too much. Something either is a cult, or isn’t. And yet .. .there always seems to be some sort of grey area, especially when it comes to the self-help…[Continue Reading...]
TB Joshua, the Oprah of evangelism, was a mega prophet who inspired thousands of followers from across the world to visit his church in Lagos, Nigeria, in the hope of salvation. Before his death in 2021, the celebrated pastor was…[Continue Reading...]
Amy Carlson's followers would say she ascended. But in no uncertain terms, the 45-year-old mother of three was dead. And she had been dead for 13 days when sheriff's deputies found her body on April 29, 2021, at the residence that served…[Continue Reading...]
A former member of the Love Has Won cult has spoken out after the mummified body of its leader was found in a Colorado home. Love Has Won is an American new religious group, which was led by Amy Carlson…[Continue Reading...]
As children, they were part of one of the most dangerous polygamous cult movements in history, with members committing a mass killing at the behest of its late leader. And now two sisters who grew up in the LeBaron Cult…[Continue Reading...]
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