It’s mid-morning at Humble Chicken 3.0, the chef Angelo Sato’s 13-seat, two-Michelin-star restaurant in Soho, London. Sato, heavily tattooed and with a mohican, is wearing chef’s clogs and an apron over shorts and a vest. His team of four sous-chefs…[Continue Reading...]
A small Christian commune that aspired to create heaven on Earth grew to become a cult in which sexual and physical abuse was perpetuated in plain sight. The Jesus Army church recruited thousands of people to live in close-knit, puritanical…[Continue Reading...]
A woman leading a crackpot AI health cult has been banged up in Rome for killing someone after convincing them to stop cancer treatment based on the advice of a fake AI. Carla Stagno was slapped with a nine-year stretch for…[Continue Reading...]
IT’S A DAY of rest, and you may be in the mood for a quiet corner and a comfy chair. We’ve hand-picked some of the week’s best reads for you to savour. Philippa was only six when her parents joined…[Continue Reading...]
Investigators from at least four federal agencies raided a California home Friday linked to mysterious “TikTok” cult Pastor Robert Shinn, the founder of a so-called talent agency that allegedly exploited amateur dancers with promises of TikTok stardom. A handful of…[Continue Reading...]
Japanese authorities have warned that the son of a cult leader behind the deadly sarin nerve gas attack in Tokyo's subway network in 1995 is now the leader of a successor group. The cult, Aum Shinrikyo was disbanded and its…[Continue Reading...]
You expect to see a few clubs trying to recruit at uni O-week. Maybe it's a sport team, or an arts group. But what about a cult? Students across the country are experiencing "walk up evangelism", and it's not just…[Continue Reading...]
Cults are terrifying and creepy as hell, but I recently learned it's more common for people to join them than I had ever realized. Which brings me to this question: What was your experience in a cult like? Maybe a…[Continue Reading...]
While some celebrities’ followers feel like members of a cult (I’m looking at you dedicated Twitter accounts), these stars have been part of literal ones. Everyone knows the famous Scientologists: Tom Cruise, Elisabeth Moss, and John Travolta to name a…[Continue Reading...]
On the 25th, the special counsel investigating Kim Keon-hee requested an arrest warrant for Yoon, a former Deputy Minister of the Unification Church, who is suspected of soliciting complaints related to the Unification Church through Jeon Sung-bae. Yoon was reportedly…[Continue Reading...]
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