Mathura: Around Monday afternoon, 32-year-old Seema told her father she would come home and take her ailing mother to the doctor. She never did. Now, 60-year-old Brijender is unable to tell his paralysed wife why. In Hathras’s Mandnai village, he…[Continue Reading...]
Chad Franke, the eldest son of Ruby Franke from the Evil Influencer Netflix Documentary, has shared journal entries from when he was still in contact with his mum, and they’re so dark. Ruby Franke and Jodi Hildebrandt were the main…[Continue Reading...]
After learning she was of Lakota descent around 1996, Melissa Leone, who was adopted, hungered to connect to her Native American tribe. “I was grabbing a hold of any and all connections that felt good or safe,” she said. Leone…[Continue Reading...]
We tend to associate “brainwashing” with cults and hostages, but author and science historian Rebecca Lemov says it can happen to anyone. Her new book “The Instability of Truth" explores the history and science of brainwashing and what it can…[Continue Reading...]
TOKYO -- Police have found a document analyzing a woman's personality and upbringing on the computer of a man claiming to practice "polygamy" arrested with two other women for allegedly secretly filming and then selling videos of sexual intercourse with…[Continue Reading...]
Inside the four walls of therapists’ offices, patients are supposed to feel safe and at ease as they open up about their innermost feelings. Anne Craig wasn’t exactly a therapist, yet she still gained her clients’ trust and allegedly “brainwashed”…[Continue Reading...]
Most of us think we’d never fall for a cult. We imagine the followers of Jim Jones as naïve, brainwashed, or broken people who “drank the Kool-Aid.” But what if that’s not the truth at all? In this eye-opening episode,…[Continue Reading...]
In August 1953, in the aftermath of the Korean War, Robert Jay Lifton’s wife called to tell him about the repatriation of some US soldiers from a Chinese prison. There were reports that the freed soldiers were returning muted and…[Continue Reading...]
The full details of a 70-year-old female shaman’s brutal murder of her niece by exposing her to prolonged charcoal heat have been revealed. The shaman is believed to have manipulated her niece and other family members through long-term brainwashing, making…[Continue Reading...]
Robert Jay Lifton, a psychiatrist who peered into some of the darkest corners of contemporary history, including Hiroshima, the Holocaust and the Vietnam War, in search of lessons about individual and collective consciousness, died on Thursday at his home in…[Continue Reading...]
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