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Mystery. Manipulation. Murder. Cults are associated with all of these. But what really goes on inside a cult? More specifically, what goes on inside the minds of people who join cults and le...
Nearly two decades after the Waco Siege, people are still wondering what transpired at the Branch Davidian compound. Though the government o...
On February 28th, 1993, ATF agents raided a compound in Waco, Texas, belonging to a religious group known as the Branch Davidians. A 51-day...
With more than 900 people dead, the Jonestown Massacre has sparked many theories over the past 40 years. Did the government have a hand in t...
At the command of Jim Jones, more than 900 followers of The Peoples Temple drank a beverage laced with cyanide in an act that Jones labeled...
This is the finale of our Serial Killers and Conspiracy Theories crossover: By 2011, the FBI was ready to reexamine the evidence. A theory e...
If you enjoyed part 1 last week, we’re back with part 2: If Roger Arnold wasn’t behind the murders, who was? Police turn their focus to a ne...
Listeners, we’re popping back into your feed this week to share a special crossover episode from Serial Killers and Conspiracy Theories. For...
When Sun Myung Moon decides to step down as the public face of the Unification Church, the ensuing succession drama embroils his family in m...
The ‘70s see Reverend Moon’s star on the rise in the U.S. His missionaries have spread around the globe, his businesses are raising millions...
Branded a heretic in the towns where he preaches, Moon moves his small following to Seoul. There, his ranks begin to swell. Whatever slander...
In South Korea, a young religious convert thinks he’s destined to become the second Christ. His mission is to unite every Christian and kick...
By the early ‘90s, local authorities had long suspected something was off about the small, religious Florida community. A harrowing incident...
Fifty years ago, Anna Young got away with murder. But the guilt ate at her. She leaned hard into her Pentecostal faith before moving her fam...
Once you’re in, there aren’t many ways to get out. At least, not alive. But that doesn’t mean people haven’t tried. When Alex Sanchez decide...
By cult standards, they aren’t one. But MS-13 does share a common language with even the most insidious fringe groups. Bound by loyalty, ide...
By 2008, Daniel Perez had collected millions in life insurance payouts. Fake identities and fraud had kept him untouchable. But a tip to the...
A man claiming to be a thousand-year-old angel moved his small commune from state to state, never staying too long. When money ran tight, th...
Jim Baker might’ve attracted famous diners to his hugely popular restaurants. But “Father Yod” gathered disciples. And they were going to us...
Ancient aliens. Biblical messages. The final chapter in our new book details how Applewhite created an alternate reality for his followers,...
Credonia Mwerinde leveraged the turmoil in 1980s Uganda to lead a movement that ended in death, destruction, and her own disappearance. Toda...
Before he led the celebrity sex trafficking cult NXIVM, Keith Raniere had dreams of starting his own MLM. But first, he needed to seem like...
The seventh chapter of Parcast’s new book features David Koresh, leader of the Branch Davidians. Enjoy this clip from our Cults podcast epis...
Parcasters, the CULTS book is officially on sale NOW! You can order it online at all major bookstores, or go to parcast.com/cults to see wha...
“Keep sweet” was the refrain of Warren Jeffs, the Prophet of a fundamentalist group that broke off from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter...
Chapter 5 of Parcast’s new book features the French sports writer who began communing with ancient aliens. Listen to this clip from our epis...
What was going on within Jonestown leading up to the tragic mass suicide event that claimed over 900 lives? Revisit this clip from our episo...
His cult coordinated a deadly bioterrorism attack in America. But their beginnings are rooted in a spiritual ashram in India. Revisit a clip...
The Narcosatanists performed ritual murders under the eye of Adolfo Constanzo. Today’s classic Cults clip features some of the tales that bu...
The very first episode of the Cults podcast features one of the most infamous cult leaders who ever lived. Now, Charles Manson is the sinist...
In the 1980s, David Koresh was a man with a divine mission. He spent the decade ingratiating himself with a religious sect in Waco, Texas, u...
In 1903 a traveling preacher put down roots in Benton Harbor, Michigan to prepare for the end times. Then he built a sprawling amusement par...
In Alabama, local Scottsboro man Glenn Summerford turned his back on a life of vice and became a regular church-goer who communed with God....
They came to the edge of extinction in Tennessee, then had a revival in Island Pond, Vermont. The group led by Elbert Spriggs had roots in t...
In 1945, the Agape Lodge welcomed a new resident, and Jack Parsons began his attempts to summon the goddess Babalon. Parcasters, we have exc...
A trailblazing rocket scientist led a double life as an Aleister Crowley acolyte, jumping headfirst into the OTO after reading one of the fa...
He was called the King of Depravity, Wickedest Man in the World, and — by his own mother — The Beast. Aleister Crowley was a notorious occul...
Denounced by local clergy, the Vatican, and even her own husband, Debra Geileskey was backed quickly into a corner. But Triple M was her emp...
In the early 1990s a devout Catholic and former school principal starts claiming she’s a divine prophet with a special connection to the Vir...
By 2015, Grace Road Church had planted itself in Fiji to prepare for the apocalypse. They start a corporation and several businesses, allege...
For much of her religious career, Okjoo Shin espoused mainstream Christian beliefs and stayed out of the spotlight – until she discovered a...
The Nitrous Mafia have been a fixture at Grateful Dead shows and other jam band concerts since the ‘90s. They deal nitrous oxide to fans who...
In the 1960s a counterculture revolution was upending traditional norms of life, and the Grateful Dead were providing the soundtrack… and th...
When teenage girls in the Order started getting pregnant in the early 2000s, Kamm claimed the babies were miraculously conceived from his “h...
In Australia, an Easter Sunday vision set William Karr on a God-given path to start a family and fight the anti-Christ. Two decades later, i...
As the days count down to Hale-Bopp’s arrival, 39 people prepare for ascension. They’d abandoned their old lives, embraced a new ideology, w...
The group’s belief system had never been infallible. There had been adjustments along the way; revisions meant to keep the wheels turning wh...
1976 was a turning point for Heaven’s Gate. The spaceship that was promised had not arrived. Members were defecting. Nettles and Applewhite...
When Bonnie Lu Nettles and Marshall Applewhite meet in Houston in 1972, it’s not for the first time — at least, not according to their birth...
In 1986, Alice Lakawena formed the Holy Spirit Mobile Force. Their goals were utopian and their tactics were nonviolent. But going up agains...
On February 26, 1980, three former members of Jim Jones’ Peoples Temple were shot and killed in their California home. Many believed it was...