In the days following Min Hee Jin's press conference, rumors about Bang Si Hyuk and HYBE's involvement in an organization believed to be a cult have been making their way through online communities in Korea. The organization in question, called 'Dahn World,' was…[Continue Reading...]
A cult leader in Kenya was charged with murder after the discovery last year of more than 400 bodies in a remote forest. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to journalist Carey Baraka about the case. Listen to the broadcast.[Continue Reading...]
The Synanon was a community founded by Charles E. “Chuck” Dederich in 1958. After being a member of Alcoholics Anonymous, a rehabilitation group for people suffering from alcohol abuse, Charles decided to start a community of his own for people…[Continue Reading...]
A court in Kenya’s coastal city of Mombasa has allowed cult leader Paul Mackenzie to meet his wife, Rhodah Mumbua, in prison under strict supervision from the authorities. Mackenzie pleaded with the court to order the authorities at Shimo La…[Continue Reading...]
Trans woman Yaya DeCloud, 42, spent the first 19 years of her life living in a commune ruled by religious extremism and cut off from society by her cult leader father. Living in the compound of 30 people known as the 'DeCloud…[Continue Reading...]
REELING from 150 blows with a wooden paddle, 10-year-old Justin Miller felt blood trickle down his leg and turned to his mum with pleading eyes. But mum Carol returned his pleas with an ice cold stare, telling him he deserved…[Continue Reading...]
Netflix has brought out another documentary film concerning a devilish cult, this time from Chile, covering the bizarre incidents that shocked the Latin American country back in 2012. The Doomsday Cult of Antares de la Luz follows the rise and…[Continue Reading...]
The Vermont Conversation with David Goodman is a VTDigger podcast that features in-depth interviews on local and national issues with politicians, activists, artists, changemakers and citizens who are making a difference. Listen below, and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts or Spotify to hear more. In…[Continue Reading...]
Brandon Boudreaux, ex-husband of Lori Vallow's niece, testified on Tuesday about how the radical beliefs of Vallow and Chad Daybell started to take shape. Daybell is on trial for the murders of Tyle Ryan and JJ Vallow plus the 2019…[Continue Reading...]
BOISE, Idaho (KIFI)—On Monday, Lori Vallow's son Colby Ryan testified in the Chad Daybell trial. Ryan was one of five witnesses who took the stand, along with an FBI agent, a school principal, a JJ babysitter, and a friend of…[Continue Reading...]
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