Why can’t we look away from stories about cults? The real story may not be about those who fall prey, but about realizing that we’re all vulnerable to manipulation. From streaming documentaries to ...
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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Reverend Jim Jones at an anti-eviction protest in front of the International Hotel, 848 Kearny Street in San Francisco, California ...
In HBO’s ‘Bring Me the Beauties,’ former supermodel Hoyt Richards reckons with two decades inside a cult, and the $4.5 million he handed its leader, who claimed to be an alien from Arcturus. A new HBO ...
In 2017, a gaunt, bespectacled, 71-year-old woman wearing a crisp white uniform with two stars on the shoulder was arrested in New Mexico. This was Deborah Green, nee Lila Carter, the leader and ...
“We all have an idea of what constitutes a cult,” writes author Jane Borden in “Cults Like Us – Why Doomsday Thinking Drives America” (One Signal Publishers). “The word cult conjures a mental picture: ...
America has always been a land of wanderers and dreamers, but some dreams take strange turns. Among the country’s most haunting mysteries are the cults that appeared out of nowhere, gathered followers ...