‘The Cult of NatureBoy’: Inside the modern-day cult led by ‘the ultimate influencer’
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They called him their god, but behind that charismatic facade, he was a master manipulator.
In “The Cult of NatureBoy,” ABC News Studios takes audiences into the case of Eligio Bishop, aka “NatureBoy,” who used social media to recruit followers to join what he described as a real-life utopia.
Eventually, it all turned into something more sinister.
On The Red Carpet spoke with director Benjamin Zand and investigator Chantelle Coleman about the four-part docuseries.
In 2016, Bishop began using his social media platforms to preach about an idyllic lifestyle, specifically, “he was kind of preaching an answer to kind of many of the problems that kind of young Americans, specifically young Black Americans are facing at that point, with a kind of simple message of kind of return to nature,” Zand explains.
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