At an asking price of up to $1.65 million, the listing for the property in Victoria’s Dandenong Ranges boasts about three hectares of land, exotic European trees and “so many possibilities” – but there’s an unspoken catch. At one time,…[Continue Reading...]
The Ferny Creek property includes a hall formerly owned by a cult named The Family. Children in the religious group had their hair dyed blonde, as detailed in the ABC documentary series titled The Cult Of The Family. Right picture:…[Continue Reading...]
Anne Hamilton-Byrne was a charismatic and dangerous cult leader who convinced followers she was Jesus Christ reincarnated. She had an obsession with raising children as her own, isolated from the outside world. The group dubbed The Family lived in a…[Continue Reading...]
Julian Assange and his family had a weird brush with the sinister Australian doomsday cult "The Family" in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The group's leader took members' children (above) as her own. The Cult of the Family When…[Continue Reading...]
An Australian has shared a heartbreaking plea after revealing they were “one of the last Anne Hamilton-Byrne child survivors” — a reference to the notorious doomsday cult that operated outside Melbourne between 1963 and 1989. The survivor posted anonymously in…[Continue Reading...]
How do you know if your surroundings are ordinary? For some, ordinary is a city life – living by the flash of a New York minute or being immersed in the cacophony of Lagos’ streets. Whereas for others, it’s a…[Continue Reading...]
If your nightmares involve a group of pale children dressed like Veruca Salt in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and wearing Sia wigs, I’m sorry to say that Hulu’s new series, The Clearing (premiering on Hulu May 24), is not…[Continue Reading...]
As soon as he put down the script, Jeffrey Walker knew he wanted to work on the Disney+ series The Clearing. “It was one of those reads that you just couldn’t stop thinking about,” the show’s co-director says. “It affected…[Continue Reading...]
In 1987, the world learnt the disturbing story of Australian cult, The Family. On a remote lakeside compound on the outskirts of Melbourne, lived 28 children, raised in virtual isolation, away from the rest of the world. Groomed and abused,…[Continue Reading...]
They were once a family. They lived in a mansion. They prayed together. They cooked and ate and did chores together. They worked side by side and shared their earnings and expenses. They cared for one another’s children and vacationed…[Continue Reading...]
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