Jim Jones led his followers to the remote jungle commune at Jonestown, Guyana, isolated from any other society. However, this false utopia turned into a living hell. California’s Rep. Leo Ryan, reporters and others concerned for the well-being of those…[Continue Reading...]
Specific locations can hold a lot of spiritual weight, depending on what happened there. For example, more than 3 million people visit the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes in southern France each year looking for a miracle, per CBS…[Continue Reading...]
From the outside looking in, we oftentimes wonder, “How do people find themselves involved in a cult?” Whether it’s the teachings of Marshall Applewhite in Heaven’s Gate or Charles Manson’s wild ramblings to the Family, there has to be something…[Continue Reading...]
Revisit the tragic and infamous Jonestown massacre in the new trailer for an upcoming docuseries that examines the final hours of Jim Jones’ cult in Guyana. Cult Massacre: One Day in Jonestown — the latest installment in Nat Geo and…[Continue Reading...]
Joseph Gordon-Levitt is attached to star in a new film titled White Night, which will recount the famed 1978 Jonestown massacre in Guyana. Gordon-Levitt, 40, will embody cult leader Jim Jones, who as the head of the Peoples Temple led…[Continue Reading...]
The radio crackled to life with static, and a voice emerged from the jungle. “We choose as our model not those who marched submissively into gas ovens but the valiant heroes who resisted in the Warsaw Ghetto. Patrick Henry captured…[Continue Reading...]
TAMPA, Fla. - Nov. 18 is always a dark day on Olga Booker's calendar. "Nov. 18, 1978, they all committed suicide with the Kool-Aid lacing," recalled Booker. They, meaning the 900 followers of the People's Temple, led by the smooth-talking…[Continue Reading...]
On November 18, 1978, an inexplicable act of evil occurred in the remote Jungles of Guyana, South America, resulting in the deaths of 913 people; including 276 children, 40 of them infants. It is never too late in life or…[Continue Reading...]
On a fall day in 1978, the world woke up to learn that more than 900 people in Guyana had died in a mass “suicide,” ostensibly at the command of the Peoples Temple cult leader Jim Jones. In the weeks…[Continue Reading...]
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