The art critic who died surrounded by pills and a liquor bottle in a Brazilian hotel room was traumatized from her time in a hellish boarding school where she was forced to eat her own vomit during stomach-churning humiliation rituals.…[Continue Reading...]
There is a delicacy and there is a purpose to making a movie that tells the story of a cult, especially when telling the story of Heaven’s Gate, the cult that is responsible for the highest casualty rate by mass…[Continue Reading...]
When Catherine McDougall visited her daughter for the last time, she knew something was wrong. In 2007, Chantelle McDougall, 27, and her six-year-old daughter Leela were living in an isolated farmhouse in Nannup, a three-hour drive south of Perth, with…[Continue Reading...]
THE police in Lagos State have recorded a major success in the fight against the rising wave of violent killings and attacks by rival cult members in Ishashi, Shibiri, Ajangbadi and Ilogbo, all in the Ojo area of the state.…[Continue Reading...]
Cult leader Samuel Bateman is serving 50 years behind bars after acquiring 20 "wives" – some as young as nine years old. Despite the depravity of his crimes, he continues to wield his sinister influence from his prison cell. Indeed,…[Continue Reading...]
Located in a remote part of New Zealand, the Gloriavale Christian Community has been compared to Gilead from The Handmaid's Tale. The secretive religious cult was founded in 1969 by Neville Cooper, who later changed his name to Hopeful Christian.…[Continue Reading...]
Investigators on Thursday questioned the founder of the Shincheonji Church of Jesus, a nonmainstream religious sect, over suspicions he forced church members to join the main opposition People Power Party (PPP) ahead of elections in 2021 and 2024. Lee Man-hee…[Continue Reading...]
Catherine Cheng went to Yogaville for a month long retreat and never came back. What happened to her? Famous Cult Deprogrammer and Archivist Rick Alan Ross worked with Catherine and her family over 20 years ago. He visited the show…[Continue Reading...]
New Zealand’s most notorious fundamentalist cult, Gloriavale Christian Community, has a long history of abuse and manipulation. For nearly 60 years, the isolated religious group has been governed by strict rules, with leaders demanding obedience and exerting control over every…[Continue Reading...]
When director Chris Smith first heard Hoyt Richards tell his story, he almost couldn't believe what he was hearing. "The mix of this world of fashion and modeling, and this other life that he was leading — it seemed hard…[Continue Reading...]
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