Inside UFO doomsday cult ‘The Seekers’ that saw believers wa...
On December 24, 1954, around a dozen people gathered on the front lawn of a house to sing Christmas carols to UFOs coming to save them from the end of the world. The Seekers were formed in Chica...
Sex rituals and fine wines: Inside alleged Cali cult the Fel...
Cult leader Robert Earl Burton's organization, the Fellowship of Friends, used to produce world-class natural wine. Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: The male leader of a quasi-religious ...
The enduring power of Japan’s doomsday cults
It is now 26 years since the doomsday cult known as Aum Shinrikyu ‘supreme truth’ carried out the worst domestic terrorist attack in Japanese history. Led by their leader Shoko Asahara, Aum rel...
Dutch cult leader gets five years in prison in Germany
The Dutch cult leader Robert B. was sentenced on Thursday to five years in prison for sexually abusing a female member of the religious community. The court in Kleve, Germany, announced ...
In the last few years, books, documentaries and podcasts about cults have proliferated. From HBO's NXIVM-focused "The Vow" and Netflix's "Wild Wild Country" about the Rajneesh movement to podcast "T...
A little known cult is S.Korea's latest COVID-19 outbreak
SEOUL, Nov 24 Reuters - A little known sect led by a pastor who pokes eyes to heal is at the centre of a COVID-19 outbreak in South Korea, as the country reported a new daily record of 4,116 cases and...
My painful experience with “Lord God” cult
Liu Jiaguo, founder of the Lord God cult On the morning of October 12, 1999, with the sound of a gunshot in the suburbs of Xiangtan City, Hunan Province, Liu Jiaguo, the founder of Zhushenjiao L...
Inside the brutal world of the Jehovah’s Witnesses
Since the royal commission exposed thecrueltreatment of victims of child abuse within the Jehovah’s Witnesses, little has changed. But in a landmark civil case,former memberAmy Whitbyistaking on t...
Texas cult leader Yisrayl Hawkins, 87, dies
Yisrayl Hawkins, 87, died at his home Friday in Clyde, a community near Abilene, according to three different sources close to the family. Hawkins was the leader of a group calledThe House of ...
'Smallville' actress Allison Mack starts prison sentence in ...
TV actorAllison Mack,who played a key role in thecultlike group NXIVM,has surrendered to a California prison to serve her sentence in a New York case against the group’s spiritual leader. Mack...