The summer Hoyt Richards was 16, his family made their annual migration to Nantucket, where he spent long, unstructured days at Nobadeer Beach. It was there, on the pale sand, that Richards first encountered Frederick von Mierers: older, lean, striking,…[Continue Reading...]
Documentary film-maker Chris Smith made the seminal 1999 film American Movie, about an indie director’s struggle to complete a horror film, which he hopes will then finance the completion of his dream project. More recently, he’s profiled well-known subjects in…[Continue Reading...]
Before Hoyt Richards became known as the first male supermodel in the late 1980s and 1990s, a mysterious, captivating man from Manhattan laid a towel down next to him on a Nantucket beach. Richards was 16 years old, hailing from…[Continue Reading...]
The night Hoyt Richards escaped the Eternal Values cult, after nearly 15 years spent in what he now calls a “mental prison,” he crept past the German shepherds guarding the group’s North Carolina compound. Once he was out of earshot,…[Continue Reading...]
The shooting reflects how extremist violence evolved after Christchurch — from fringe ideology into a decentralized online culture of memes, edits and mythologized mass shooters. Listen to the article through the link below[Continue Reading...]
You’ve seen them in movies and on TV, but cults are more prevalent than you think—and they’re armed with strategies that can brainwash and persuade even the most unlikely of candidates.But how do individuals get involved with cults in the…[Continue Reading...]
WASHINGTON (TNND) — A new batch of declassified Pentagon UFO materials is fueling fresh public fascination — but officials and experts say the files still do not confirm extraterrestrial life. The documents, released through the Pentagon’s All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office…[Continue Reading...]
The Clearwater City Council hosted a special meeting Thursday evening to learn more details about the Church of Scientology’s downtown redevelopment plans along Cleveland Street. But the people behind the projects didn’t provide much information that isn’t already publicly available…[Continue Reading...]
Frederick von Mierers was an extraterrestrial reincarnated from the giant star Arcturus—or at least that’s what he told followers. The Manhattan socialite was the leader of Eternal Values, a doomsday UFO-centered cult composed of high-fashion models. Von Mierers, who founded…[Continue Reading...]
The Brief Hundreds attended a Clearwater City workshop focused on major redevelopment projects connected to properties tied to the Church of Scientology. About $350 million in proposed development is planned downtown, including renovations to dozens of storefronts and a large…[Continue Reading...]
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