In 1881, a dentist named John Ballou Newbrough wrote a new bible called Oahspe. According to Newbrough, the text was dictated to him by angels who visited him every morning for fifty weeks. This text was the foundation o...

Cults , totalitarian governments, abusive marriages: wha...  ...washing. Alexandra Stein was a member of one such cult , and later wrote about the process of brainwashin...  ...dissertation examined the tactics of a political cult called the Newman Tendency, which was run by Fre...

Okay, what's going on here? These guys have hairst...  ...players are from the Israelite House of David, a cult founded in 1903 in Benton Harbor, Michigan. Membe...

In the early 1980s, Baghwan Shree Rajneesh brought...  ...e early 1980s, Baghwan Shree Rajneesh brought his cult Osho from India to Wasco County, Oregon, and bega...

Ernest and Ruth Norman founded the Unarius Academy of Science in 1954. It’s a philosophy that includes reincarnation, extraterrestrials, and visions of utopia. From Ernest’s death in 1971 to her own passing i...

August Engelhardt was a German nudist who came to...  ...hings didn’t end well for the other coconut cult members, either. Jesus said, "Man shall not live...

The following is an article from Uncle John's Full...  ...wers and formed them into one of the earliest UFO cults , which she called “The Seekers.” The...

A British TV station was beginning its local newsc...  ...one in particular. But there were a couple of UFO cults gaining followers in the 1970s, and the word Asht...  ...liefs. Read about the broadcast incident, and the cults

Between the towns on Castellane and St. Andr&eacut...  ...d the Aumism religion (considered by some to be a cult ), which collages together the highlights of the w...

Given an odd sentence out of context, can you dete...  ..._floss if you play video games or have read up on cults . I figured I would fail, as I have read very litt...