Today, we know more than we did thirty years ago thanks to popular TV documentaries and miniseries but that is fantasy for us. For some, the inner workings of a cult is their their living nightmare. We've all heard the…[Continue Reading...]
DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. — An alleged cult leader accused of raping and abusing women is asking a DeKalb County judge to reconsider his bond. At the moment, Eligio Bishop, who goes by his moniker "Nature Boy," is being held behind bars…[Continue Reading...]
PHOENIX (AP) — The trial date for a polygamous sect leader charged with kidnapping and tampering with evidence in a federal investigation into his community on the Utah-Arizona border has been pushed back. Samuel Bateman has pleaded not guilty to…[Continue Reading...]
Serafina Tane was born into a religious cult on New Zealand's South Island. The leader was the charismatic but abusive Douglas Metcalf, who claimed to be the reincarnation of Jesus. For Serafina, the cult was her family. But leaving Camp David for…[Continue Reading...]
Disgraced Smallville actress Allison Mack claimed she had joined Keith Raniere's Nxivm sex cult because he had promised to make her a star again. Mack, 40, who is serving a three-year sentence after pleading guilty to manipulating women to become…[Continue Reading...]
“Smallville” actress Allison Mack first got involved in the infamous cult NXIVM because she thought co-founder Keith Raniere could help her “become a great actress again.” “I moved to Albany (NXIVM headquarters) to fill that emptiness and find the soul…[Continue Reading...]
Lori Vallow, the mother accused of killing her two children and ex-husband and then disappearing to a tropical Hawaiian vacation, will be tried in Idaho alongside her husband in April. The bizarre case of Vallow and apocalyptic novelist Chad Daybell…[Continue Reading...]
Paul Schafer raised his weapon, exhaled evenly, and waited for Santa Claus’ rotund, crimson body to float into his crosshairs. Then he pulled the trigger. Conservative pundits and Evangelical figureheads notoriously spend December keening over “The War on Christmas,” penning…[Continue Reading...]
Over the holiday season, many tune in to fuzzy Hallmark romances or Christmas classics. I watch documentaries about cults. The Heaven’s Gate “UFO Cult” became famous in the 1990s after 39 members quietly overdosed themselves in a California mansion, believing…[Continue Reading...]
SALT LAKE CITY — The leader of a polygamist sect stands accused of helping arrange the disappearance of eight girls from Arizona group homes, a couple of months after federal agents raided his homes on the Utah/Arizona border and removed…[Continue Reading...]
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