Cults are fertile ground for endless documentaries, movies, TV shows, books, so much so that there seems to be a new Netflix show about one every month. But why? Our fascination with cults comes from the same place as our…[Continue Reading...]
What you need to know: Another of the world's worst cult-related massacres took place in southwestern Uganda's Kanungu district in 2000 where some 700 members from the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God burned to death.…[Continue Reading...]
This is the story of the Heaven’s Gate cult, which operated on America’s West Coast for around 22 years until the members took part in the largest mass suicide in American history. The infamous alien-obsessed spiritual group would somehow lead…[Continue Reading...]
You may be familiar with the infamous Heaven's Gate cult who orchestrated a mass suicide in 1997 in the hopes of hopping on a spaceship to embark on a new life. But before the traumatic event, some of the cult…[Continue Reading...]
Next month (March 26) marks the 26th anniversary of the Heaven's Gate cult mass suicide—when 39 people ingested poison in a Rancho Santa Fe Mansion, in the hopes of catching a ride on the Hale-Bopp comet. Inspired by cult leaders Bonnie…[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...]
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