Number five the skull and bone Society now I’m going to be honest this video might be the one to get the channel taken down I’ve made a lot of Bold videos I’ve made some very very heretical claims against the Catholic church and I’ve said some wild things
And claimed them as facts regarding the Megalodon but this might be the video to get the channel blacklisted as we start diving into and talking about some of the most secretive societies out there the skull and bone Society is one of the more well-known secret societies and
Yeah I guess that’s kind of an oxymoron it’s an undergraduate Society at Yale University founded in 1832 it’s renowned the world over for just how darn secretive it is and its practice of strange rituals and its secret membership partly why it’s so captivating to conspiracy theorist is
Its alumni or something to boast about many presidents have been members of the skull and bone Society both Bush senior and Junior speculation runs rampant when it comes to the Skull and Bones suggesting that powerful Elites from within influence politics and finance now membership as one could expect is
Very limited to a select few senior students at Yale who are chosen through mysterious ways okay you need to work on a lot more than just your GPA I don’t even know how to get in or or what the criteria is but it’s not just anybody these initiates are referred to as
Bonesmen the society’s rituals are kept to the utmost secrecy even after their time in society after you leave you can’t go around telling everybody about the Skull and Bones of society and all the stuff you got up to and clearly no one’s doing that because it was not easy
To find information for this some suggest the society acts as a breeding ground for Future Leaders wielding significant power in business politics and finance While others believe they’re part of a larger cabal of conspiracies with hidden agendas tied to the Masons and the Illuminati now there is precious little information regarding the Skull
And Bones out there we know it exists that much is true and many powerful people have claimed or have been claimed to be the members but as far as actual ual cold hard facts about what happens behind closed doors we don’t know a lot I am but a humble YouTuber I never went
To Yale uh if anyone wants to extend me an invite I think the top five scary DMS are open but for now we know precious little about the infamous secret society now we may not know a lot about the skull and bones but we have lots of
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But do that at the end of this video so I can tell you about all these other secret societies okay number four Freemasonry our next entry is the Freemasons a group I am sure you’ve probably heard of before the Freemasons are a fraternal organization that traces its Origins back to the medieval Guild
Of stonemasons makes sense now while its early history is rooted in the craft of stone masonry or blue collar work the modern day Freemasons have evolved into a global fraternity that promotes Brotherhood personal development philanthropy and if you believe the stories might secretly be running the world from behind the Shadows
Freemasonry has long been associated with conspiracies definitely because of its secretive nature its symbols and its historical prominence the group actually does have slight ties to the founding of the Illuminati with the group’s order serving as inspiration for Adam Weiss’s Group which we will talk about more
About at the end of the video Freemasons are sometimes spoken of like a synonym for the Illuminati like they’re interchangeable groups with the belief that Freemasons are involved in clandestine activity to the theorists Freemasons control governments Banks using their influence and pointing out that throughout history many notable
World leaders and key figures have been Freemasons or have had familial ties to Freemasonry there are some Wilder conspiracy theories out there too that suggest that Freemasonry is tied to Supernatural or occult practices claiming that Freemasons engage in esoteric rituals and possess hidden knowledge ancient Mysteries secret teachings H these beliefs make
Freemasonry out to be a real secrety secret kind of cult organization now Freemasonry is real nobody’s doubting that nobody’s disproving that the chances are actually pretty good that there’s probably a Freemason Lodge very close to where you live the Freemasons boast Brotherhood fraternity philanthropy personal development and
They’ve got all these lovely things on their website and I’m more than inclined to agree it really is just a place to hang out and rub elbows with other people or is that all just a very convenient cover story to cover over the truth coming in at number three we have
Children of the Corn children in horror movies are already creepy but put them in a cult a cult composed solely of children then you have a recipe for absolutely terrifying scares Children of the Corn based on the book of the same name by Stephen King is a supernatural
Folk horr sing Linda Hamilton and Peter haunton and is set in a fictitious rural town of Gatlin Nebraska the film tells the story of a malevolent entity referred to as He Who Walks Behind The Rose which entices the town’s children to ritually murder all the town’s adults
And a couple driving across the country to ensure a successful Corn Harvest as the couple arrive in the small seemingly abandoned town they discover the congregation of children led by a girl named Rachel with them performing a cultural birthday ritual for Amos by drinking his blood from a pentagram
Shaped cut on his body amosis 10:19 therefore is considered old enough for his passing joining their God in the cornfield now while the movie as a whole was a little disappointing it does deliver on the horrors of Cults not to mention there were seven sequels with the first being far superior the cult
Movie in turn gained a cult following with it being hit among movie lovers coming in at number two we have hereditary one of two arasa movies on our list hereditary was a surprise horror movie with the reveal of its cult being kept a secret for much of the movie making it incredibly unexpected
When it begins to unfold released in 2018 hereditary is aras’s directorial Debut with it starring Tony Clair and Alex Wolf as a family haunted by mysterious presence after the death of their secretive grandmother however what begins as a sober family drama very quickly descends into a crazy supernatural horror what begins as a
Slow burn quickly catapults into a disturbing horror after an incident involving the family’s son and daughter leaving viewers covering their mouths as a result of the incident the mother Annie is forced to turn to a support group member Joan for support learning way she can contact the realm of the
Supernatural however this has devastating consequences with her Awakening something that should never have been awoken viewers very quickly learn that a demon worshiping cult are the true causes of the family’s misery and pain where still arasta plants Easter eggs throughout the movie as a way of warning us of things to come
However saying that most of us may have missed these subliminal messages but what I can say is the war crawling demon was revealed long before the last 30 minutes of the movie moving with the cult being there all along watching the family and waiting for their moment the
Cult in hereditary are worshippers a payman one of Lucifer’s most obedient devotees who rules 200 Legions of angels and is connected to the tree of death hence why the treeh house in hereditary is so important the summoning and payment is gradual throughout the movie but when he finally arrives and seeks
Soless in the body of one of the characters well it’s enough to send shivers down anyone’s spine and finally coming in number one we have Midsummer there are a few things more terrifying than a cult in horror movies a group of people devoted to a dark high power who
Will do absolutely anything to appease the deity no movie displays this as effectively as aras’s Midsummer released in 2019 Midsummer is a folk horror film starring my Queen Florence Pew and follows a group of friends who traveled to Sweden for a festival that occurs once every 90 years only to find
Themselves in the clutches of a pagan cult now unlike Arias’s hereditary MS lays out its intentions from the very start of the movie the movie kicks off with Dany discovering the death of both her sister and parents with the instant putting a strain on Danny’s relationship with her already distant boyfriend
Christian not long after she learns that Christian has planned a trip to Sweden with his friends to atttend A Midsummer celebration at an ancestral commune so the group packs up and heads out things very quickly descend into madness with the group arriving and being met by a
Large group of white cult members in a very peculiar white outfit with Dany realized that something isn’t quite right here however her concerns are proven correct when two commune Elders die by senicide by a leaping from a clifftop when the male Elder survives the fall the cult mimics his whales of
Agony and crushes his skull with a mallet yeah things aren’t fun in Sweden right now now without ruining much more for those who haven’t watched it yet the cult does what is necessary to summon the dark higher power that they worship with the American Tourist being used as
A sacrifice for the demon now more interesting still while the this movie isn’t entirely based on a real cult director ariasa does describe it as a stew of sorts I quote we’re drawing from actual Swedish Traditions we’re drawing from Swedish folklore we’re drawing from Norse mythology all in all Midsummer
Successfully draws on the disturbing conventions of cultist horror to generate a sense of dread and an neede making it my favorite folk horror movie and cult horror movie of all time number five in this list is Happy science kind of a fun name that they have there for
Sure but maybe not the funnest of Cults ranker says if you’re looking for a mashup of world religions New Age Hokum farri nationalism and infrastructure spending than Japanese cult happy science is for you it was founded in 1986 by rioo Okawa a former salary man who was en raptured by a group called
The godlight Association he soon formed his own Cult of Personality called science of happiness and changed its name to happy science a few years later aawa believes he is the human incarnation of a Supreme Being called eler who combines Christ Buddha Muhammad and every other prophetic deity to create a nine-dimensional heaven with
Him at the head he’s also created a massively complex mythology of new age nonsense while simultaneously founding a political Wing called the happiness realization party here’s where the strangeness goes into overdrive though as his party Advocates a vicious Japanese nationalism devoted to denying historical cruelties advocating conflict with China and North Korea and
Rebuilding Japan’s infrastructure the group claims to have 12 million members around the world has a multimedia arm and enjoys tax exempt status in the US so basically if it was up to this group Japan would be invading China and North Korea and probably well on its way to
Starting World War II so yeah definitely not one that you want to be a part of cuz that could obviously get very bad very quickly not to mention you need to worship this dude who believes that he’s the human incarnation of all these cool people I mean if he actually is the
Human Reincarnation of all of those people then that’s freaking awesome but come on guys I think the likelihood that this dude is Jesus as well as Buddha is pretty low number four on this list is the Brethren yeah so joining this cult really would just be the worst guys you
Just need to give up so much to do it ranker says also known as body of Christ and garbage eaters the Brethren are an apocalyptic offshoot of the’ 7s Jesus movement esing worldly possessions and Earthly Pleasures to purify themselves for the coming end of the world Brethren members essentially live as vagrants
Doing a jobs to survive eating trash avoiding bathing and medical treatment and giving whatever money they do make to the group they also forbid dancing and laughing until the return of Jesus bar members from communicating with family and forbid contact between binary genders group founder Jim Roberts passed
In December 2015 leaving the future of the secretive cult unclear you literally need to give up everything in your entire life to get ready for when Jesus returns I just don’t get this one guys like maybe it’s cuz I’m not part of this cult but I guess it isn’t clear to me
Why Jesus would be angry that you have Earthly possessions like what does he have against you having the knickknack you know also there’s the whole thing where you literally need to eat garbage I don’t think that they’re joking about that guys like you will be eating scraps
If you join this cult never having a warm meal again that’s about as terrifying as it can get coming in at number three congregation for the lights now the majority of this list are organizations that are happily out in the open that try and amass as many
Members as they can get under their leadership well these guys like to do things a little bit differently strangely enough though they like to be out in the open avoiding the Backwater compound synonymous with many other Cults and instead having their headquarters deep in the heart of Manhattan they’re controlled by one all
Powerful leader Tom bear a 73-year-old Ohio native who denies that the light is a cult he preaches bizarre racial theories regarding arens and Atlantis preps his people for a doomsday event speaks about complex mythology involving owls and squirrels and has an all powerful grip on the relationship and
Love lives of its members the congregation of the light is an incredibly small cult having only roughly 200 members but the scary thing is how secluded the group are with the majority of them being born into the light bringing us in at number two happy science happy science while its name
Definitely doesn’t reflect the tone of its actual nature in fact as far as terrifying modern Cults Go Happy SS is probably near the top of the list an absolute mish mash mashup of world religions from New Age hocus Pocus to farri nationalism the leader of happy science a man named ryuo aawa claims
That he’s a Supreme Being called el canant a combination of Jesus Christ the Buddha and the prophet Muhammad formed in 1986 by the former salary man aawa initially called the group The godl Association his Pursuit is to create a nine-dimensional heaven whatever that may be with himself at the head of the
Whole Cult of Personality Shenanigans here’s the kicker though the group claims to have over 12 million members worldwide and have also founded their own political Wing called the happiness realization party and here’s the crazy part this group Advocates violent Japanese nationalism denying historical atrocities and advocating for war
Between China and North Korea let’s hope they stay just a cult right and finally at our number one spot Nexium if you’re wanting to find a modern cult that is incredibly recent then look no further than Nexium according to their website Nexium is a company whose mission is to
Raise human awareness Foster an ethical humanitarian civilization and celebrate what it means to be human well apparently that translates to being at best an abusive pyramid scheme and at its disgustingly worse a human trafficking operation and sex cult subsidized by expensive brainwashing nexum and its owners have been indicted
On several federal charges including sex trafficking and have been accused of being a recruiting platform for a cult operating within it variously known as dos or The Vow where women members in particular were forced into sexual slavery and physical abuse it’s a disgusting monom of the abuse of power
Demonstrated at the expense of vulnerable individuals the cult was found in 1998 by Keith Ranier who through several decades of deception managed to cerse over 177,000 under the organization’s influence this has included a huge amount of celebrities actors actresses models and other public figures the lid
Was fully blown open in March 2018 when Ranier was arrested and federally indicted shortly followed by other important figures in the cult well they go to trial in October 2018 kicking off at number five we have the Church of Bible Understanding founded in 1971 by Stuart Trail this communal organization
Was originally known as the forever family at its home location of allent town in Pennsylvania it gathered steam in the late ’70s after moving its headquarters to New York where it developed a controversial network of churches and communes and amassed over 100,000 members at its peak bizarrely enough Trail’s motive was to encourage
Members to break off contact with their families forcing them into their communial lifestyle and working essentially as free labor for a number of businesses these included a carpet cleaning business and a used van Venture the group has been accused of being a cult on numerous occasions and it’s
Suspected that their leader Stuart Trail became a multi-millionaire from the exploitation of young vulnerable adults in later years after a string of controversies its members dwindle to a few hundred but recently in 2013 the church was accused of gross misconduct at a number of their orphanages in Haiti
Despite claiming to spend $2.5 million on their upkeep annually next up at number four realism one of the most notorious Cults in mod history realism began in 1974 after a Frenchman named Claude Von claimed he’d had a vision of an alien spacecraft descending over southern France he said that the craft
Was filled with strange beings that told him humans were the only hope for the future of the universe and then handed him a Bible apparently he was there for over 6 days and the head alien coincidentally named Yahweh explained that the Old Testament is actually a record of Humanity’s early days and that
He needed to construct an embassy ready ready for the aliens when they would eventually return to inhabit Earth sounds pretty kooky right while for the next three decades his teachings amassed a following of over 20,000 people where they essentially woried aliens opposed violence Champion science and participated in Mass ories whatever
Floats your boat I guess well things got even weirder in 2002 when the cult claimed to have done the impossible and cloned a human a baby girl named Eve of course everyone went nuts even the white house got involved lawsuits were filed but the realists stuck to their guns and
Still to this very day claim to be still producing human clones number three the knight’s Templar now perhaps you know this next group best as the villains of the Assassin’s Creed franchise or depending on your personal philosophies the unspoken hero of the Assassin’s Creed franchise but that’s another story
The Knights Templar were a medieval Christian military order formed in the 12th century to protect the pilgrims that were traveling to Jerusalem during the Crusades very very quickly the Templars grew in power wealth and influence and this band of Swordsmen quickly Rose to establish a network all
Across Europe now there have been a ton of conspiracies revolving around the Knights Templars over the years I’m sure partly because the Knights Templars is a very cool sounding name they also had a sudden and dramatic downfall didn’t have anything to do with any order of hey jumping Assassins but they did close
Their Gates pretty quickly in 1307 King Philip IV of France initiated a camp campaign against the Templars accusing them of many heinous crimes heresies idolatry corruption secret ceremonies now the order was officially disbanded after this and many of its members were arrested interrogated and executed and
Quick aside the Templars really did do a lot of these things and the Templars did unspeakable things during the Crusades and it’s not that far to say the Templars were a very very very malignant presence one prominent conspiracy theory suggest suggests that the Templars possessed hidden knowledges or relics
Including the Holy Grail or Ark of the Covenant believing these sacred artifacts bestowed them incredible power and influence some people also theorize that the Templars knew they were going to be disbanded and they concealed these Treasures to pass them on to other secret societies this shows up very very
Prominently in Assassin’s Creed where the Templar order sort of splinters off into all these different little groups but holds on to these pieces of Eden these powerful relics that give them all these Powers but I got to stop talking about Assassin’s Creed another theory links the Templars to Freemasonry
Suggesting that the order’s Traditions symbolism and rituals were passed down and sort of given to the Freemasons which is why the Freemasons the Knights Templar and the Illuminati are so connected in conspiracy circles some conspiracists proposed that the Templars survived their dissolution and the disbandment was just a cover story and
They’re still operating their clinking swords together having secret meetings they went underground established new organizations and now they’re branding themselves some claiming that they played a role in shaping historical events such as the American Revolution or founding these modern banking systems and eventually sort of snake their way
Into every other General controlling the world Conspiracy Theory Big pause number two the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn wow coming up next is going to be the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn which was a mystical 19th century order emerging in England and one of the best
Names for a secret society like ever this sounds like the villains of a Final Fantasy game the order was famous for its esoteric tradition and practice of magic yep the order that sounds like it’s a bunch of wizards did practice magic the Golden Dawn sought to explore
The spiritual and occult aspects of the world through their rituals and symbolism now the order was founded by three key individuals that’s William Woodman William Wescott and Samuel little McGregor mothers who secretly resented the other two members for having a literate of w names and he felt
Deeply left out over the years the Golden Dawn would attract plenty of notable figures in including notorious occultist Alistair Crowley who did also Inspire one of the best black savath songs internally the Golden Dawn experienced a manner of conflict disagreement over leaderships initiation and the true nature of the order’s
Teachings and Mission were all things that cause Strife some people later on have suggested these internal conflicts were planned to maintain control and secrecy over the organization imagine that your organization is so secret you need to get rid of your own members keep them out of the loop they know too much
Conspiracists believe that the order Supernatural ties mean they are involved with some paranormal entities maybe we’re getting a little bit out there believing that they were able to manipulate and control individuals and situations they could control minds and influence summon demons of course it could also just be a giant load of Halo
And the Golden Dawn could have been nothing more than a bunch of old men roleplaying Wizards like a Dungeons and Dragons Club we’ll probably never know the truth though at number one we got the Illuminati proper they had to be the number one secret society right who else
Could it have been is there a more famous secret society there’s probably more secret societies but I wouldn’t know about them you certainly know the Illuminati as this shadowy organization of Puppet Masters pulling the strings and influencing the world behind their scenes using Jay-Z and Beyonce to
Further their goals somehow but what do you know of the group’s Origins to separate the fact through the fiction let me take you on a journey after a few minutes of Google searching the infamously secretive order’s Origins can actually be traced back kind of easy to a university Professor named Adam Weiss
How in 1776 he taught natural law at a university in Bavaria and was orphaned at an early age he was then raised by his erudite Uncle who fostered a love of knowledge in the boy Adam loved knowledge and thought that consuming knowledge was life’s greatest Pursuit he was very frustrated by countries and
States that were dominated by religion like his Catholic homeland of Bavaria he was very anti-catholic Church a position that was not particularly looked upon with favor at the time now Adam had envisioned a tight group of people who could challenge the church’s strangle hold on information and he saw a formal
Group in mind focused on illumination rather than suppression there is definitely some irony in a group that’s so famous now for secrecy and mystery that its original intention was to illuminate people initially wise helped sought out the order of Freemasons believing that the Freemasons were exactly the men he was looking for but
He was denied entry frustrated Adam chose to seek out his own people and dubbed his new group the order of the Illuminati but based his organization very strongly on the Freemasons he borrowed their hierarchy code names clandestine dealings a lot of their symbolism and this is largely why people
Sort of mistake the two groups and correlate them together lump them in with the same conspiracies Adam did also pluck several Freemasons from lodges to come join so undoubtedly there was crossover between both groups but they’re different things since then pretty much much every single conspiracy theory imaginable has been connected to
The Illuminati governments Banks entertainment B it’s all orchestrated by the Illuminati and we simply play out their script symbols such as the Eye of Providence are seen as proof you know it’s on the dollar bill or there’s symbology used in music videos and entertainment that’s proof of the
Group’s control anytime you see Jay-Z doing one of these that’s proof that he’s an aluminati agent so there was a real Illuminati definitely and there were a bunch of Bavarian nerds but is there still in Illuminati pulling all the strings kicking off at number five
We have the Oracle of Deli at the very center of the ancient Greek world is a strange hidden Chasm that has been thought as fuel for the Nether world for thousands of years on the slopes of mount panassus underneath the Colossal Temple of Apollo the seeds of the delic
Mystery cult came into fruition in essence the Oracle of dely was a fortune teller The High Priestess of the temple known as the Pia which in ancient Greek translates as the verb to rot in reference to the slain monstrous python at the center of their belief the Pia
Would sit above a huge Chasm deep in the bowels of the temple and breath in a concoction from the depths below thought to give her hallucinogenic properties that would induce prophecy so accurate were her predictions though that the Pia was thought to be the most influential woman in the classical World whoever
Held the title would go on to influence the decisions of Alexander the Great cus and King leonidis just to name a few coming in at number four we have mithraism or also known as the mithraic Mysteries this ancient Roman cult was centered on the god mithus an ancient
Persian God which is also tied to the Sanskrit Mitra a god of the sun now if we’re talking the stereotypical aspects of a cult then this is where it all started strange complex sets of initiations secret handshakes and bizarre ordained meetings in hidden underground temples you know the stuff a
Lot of them are still around today actually one of the best preserved being in London England of all places just just a few steps away from the bank of England is London’s mythra where ancient Roman soldiers would meet in secrecy and Whisper the name of their God but what’s
So scary about that you know sounds harmless enough well these guys were totally obsessed with mithus slaying the bull and ritualistically reenacted it whenever they got the chance with live animals and the consumption of Flesh gradually this got a little bit out of hand and people became part of the menu
Yep cannibalism also a little bit scary but many people believe that the mithraic cult is still around today just lurking somewhere in the shadows probably London number three realism realism is the teaching that Humanity was birthed by a hyper Advanced race of aliens called the Elohim who genetically
Engineered us as their children our most famous religious leaders over the years were Elohim human hybrids whose wondrous abilities and Powers were mislabeled as profets it’s said that by 2035 if realism’s followers have achieved the tenants correctly and and fulfilled the movement’s teaching by spreading its message and building an embassy to
Welcome its 39 prophets the group Rose to prominence in the 1970s when its leader Claude Varan who called himself REO claims he had an experience with a UFO where a spacecraft flying overhead was full of beings who told him about Humanity’s future and past and handed
Him a Bible and told him it was his mission to build that Embassy now all of this sounds like pretty standard called Stuff worshipping aliens who are secret genitors but where things get pretty interesting and worthy of note is that around 2002 a company called clone a
With direct ties to realism claimed to have done the impossible and cloned a baby girl appropriately named Eve immediately it spurned all kind of controversy led to several investigations discussions about the ethics and morality of the situation but despite all this no actual evidence of the Clone baby ever came up Eve isn’t
The only alleged baby birth this way through clone a with several claims of clone a brand clones being produced since the original story in 2002 all with dubious claims including controversial rapper Kid Buu who claims to have been born there so either Eve is still hiding somewhere or maybe it was a
Bit of an exaggeration regardless clone Aid charges up to $200,000 for their services which might seem a bit expensive but hey you’re getting a great deal on a clone you’re going to make your money back on that so if anyone’s got a piggy bank just weighing them down
Please send me a message and then get back to me and introduce me to you and your clone number two the Church of Bible Understanding hey real quick for me what’s your favorite SciFi episode yeah I probably could have guessed it was the comeback or the contest and
Those are both great answers but what about the checks where George gets involved with that group of carpet cleaners who end up trying to recruit for a cult and and he’s all mad they want his boss but they don’t want him that’s the kind of shenanigan that could
Only happen to castanza turns out that episode was based on a real group called The Church of Bible Understanding although at the time they were going by Christian Brothers carpet cleaners no doubt where the idea came from this undertaking was one of the group’s many Noble business ventures including a used
Van business and a New York chain of used antique stores like most Cults the group was led by a charismatic figurehead one Stuart Trail who maintained to his followers that only he was capable of understanding the word of God and understanding how to annoy George castanza their leader was
Expelled from the Pentecostal church he worshiped at in the early 70s and after his EXP refused to give up the dream and formed his own church promising a communal lifestyle of Salvation And if reports from former members it to be believed hard work for below minimum wage members were isolated from their friends
Families and communities and encouraged to devote themselves wholly to the church besides a less than flattering appearance on Seinfeld the group most recently made headlines after an orphanage they built in Haiti had burned to the ground after several claims that orphanages the group had been producing in Haiti had been extremely substandard
Shoddy overcrowded and dirty the leader steuart Trail passed away in 2018 current estimates suggested the group has dwindled down from thousands of members in its Heyday to just dozens now and there’s no word if Larry David was ever a member or Associated number one the nobian nation Dwight York had a
Dream like many Americans he believed in simple things like amassing an army to help him fight Satan amongst the Stars let me back that up for you just a little bit and introduce you to the no abian Nation or the United no abian nation of Moors adding just a Twist of
Christianity African rituals and a heavy dose of Egyptian mythology mixed with aliens Dwight York had a perfect recipe for a wild cult story The Nation believed that they needed to prepare themselves for an inevitable Duel of the Fates Among the Stars and that the 144,000 chosen ones would accompany
Dwight into outer space for the fate of the Galaxy zooming away on a flying City to Orion to fight Satan now I have no comment about any of that maybe it was the cult of personality maybe it was the promise that you could potentially get
Involved in a star war but this was a surprisingly popular movement around rural Georgia where York built up a massive compound that looked a bit like a pavilion out of your favorite Egypt themed amusement park and bringing in members in droves as the numbers grew the mythology grew incorporating cloning
Racial Theory anti-government conspiracy and a whole lot more but the dreams of the star Pharos would be cut short when an investigation in 2002 revealed a horrifying truth that their leader Dwight York was involved in a massive human trafficking operation said to have been comprised of as many of a thousand
People on May 8 2002 the sheriff’s department of Georgia with the aid of the FBI shut the entire operation down York was arrested and sentenced to a life sentence where he’s still serving out his 135 years one Georgia Sheriff involved Sheriff Sills described the trafficking operation as the best kept
Secret in Georgia I’d seen in my 47 years as a police officer the compound was seized and swiftly destroyed despite all this though there are still members out there waiting coming in at number five Rosemary’s Baby Roman pansy’s Masterpiece Rosemary’s Baby set the standard for many cultist horror movies particularly
In the way it reveals the cult using a steady and slow build and paranoia confusing us as to what exact is even happening this 1968 horror Stars Mia pharaoh and Chronicles the story of a pregnant woman who suspects that an evil cult wants to take her baby for use
In their rituals however it is quickly revealed that her husband has made a deal with the devil for success in his acting career and the price is offering up his wife as a surrogate mother for something truly evil Satan’s son that’s right the cult uses Rosemary as a sacrificial lamb for Satan’s Grand
Return through his own Offspring and it is truly terrifying the general sense of unease throughout the movie is why Rosemary’s Baby is an absolute classic and perhaps one of the scarier movies in the horror genre the horrors depicted on and off the screen aided in the rumor
That the film was actually cursed by the cult and summoned demons with many incidents occurring offscreen to the cast and crew including the slaying of Roman pansy’s wife Sharon Tate at the hands of the Manson family coming in at number four vhs2 Safe Haven Safe Haven
Is one of four sections in the 2013 Anthology found footage sequel VHS 2 with the segment being directed by Timo Tanto and Gareth Hugh Evans and being the best section in the entirety of the movie The Plot follows a news crew composed of four members who infiltrate
An Indonesian cult in the hopes of shooting a documentary about their mysterious activities inside the building they find the walls adorned in bizarre symbols school children in classrooms and women dressed in white garments one of the crew Malik then overhears that his fianceé Lena is pregnant with another crew member’s
Child Adam things then descend into total Madness the deeper the crew go inside the building with Lena being abducted by several women with the cult hunting down the crew members for sacrificial reasons now with only 29 minutes to play with Evans and tajo don’t hold back not even for a second
With the segment being insanely action-packed in Garfield from start to finish not to mention it builds to an insane Goro climax that will shock the audience the cult are successful in their demon summoning with the beast making its Grand appearance towards the final moments of the movie and it does
Not disappoint number three on this list is the fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of latterday saints you guys might be familiar with this one right now as it’s currently very popular Netflix just released a documentary about this cult so if you want a more in-depth summary of what went down
Definitely go check that out ranker says that this cult was an offshoot of Mormonism that’s constantly in the news for unsavory reasons flds openly Embraces polygamy which the mainstream LDS outlawed a century ago the group has anywhere from 6,000 to 10,000 members in rural Utah and Arizona with the group
Having almost total control of two small linked border towns in two states while Mormon Splinter groups had been around long before the flds was incorporated in 1991 by a group of men who had been excommunicated by the church they went through a range of leaders who all declared themselves profits until being
Taken over by rouan Jeffs in 2002 he passed shortly thereafter and his son Warren took over it was under Warren Jeffs that the flds practices of child marriage bigamy inest racism abandonment of teenage boys all became public knowledge Jeffs was sent to prison in 2007 but continues to be the de facto
Head of the church while his successor squabble for power this cult certainly isn’t as powerful as it once was and you have to imagine IM that as time goes on and more people are educated on what this cult did in the past that will continue on a downward trajectory but
For now they still aren’t totally finished and if you wanted to then you could join this group absolutely do not do that though because these people get up to some very weird and often illegal things like the leader was literally sent to jail and is still there rotting
Away I would not want to get myself into a situation where I’m anywhere close to the people that support that guy number two on this list is the new Obi Nation this one is absolutely nuts guys so strap in ranker says formerly known as the United new Waban nation of Moors
This is a cult of personality based around founder Dwight York combining Christianity ancient Egyptian iconography African rituals and a belief that aliens are coming the nation believes that 144,000 chosen people will be taken away in a flying City spirited to Orion to prepare for the final fight against Satan shockingly York’s mishmash
Of new age Concepts black power militancy and ancient Egyptian religion caught on in both the hipop community and in rural Georgia where York built a massive compound made with donated funds York’s mythology grew incorporating cloning racial Theory cosmology anti-government conspiracies and Linguistics even as the cult grew York
Was under investigation and he was finally detained in 2002 for running a massive trafficking ring comprising as many as 1,000 individuals he was sent to prison for life and his compound was seized and demolished the group still exists though in much smaller numbers if we just ignore all of the human rights
Violations for a second which we shouldn’t by the way but let’s just do it anyways for one moment then at the best possible case scenario you join this cult and then dedicate your life preparing for a battle with Satan that you may not ever have because not only
Is that crazy crazy but you might not even be in the 140,000 people who gets picked to have said battle with Satan like this just doesn’t make any sense at all guys then we add back on all of those human rights violations and all the other stuff that York was sent to
Jail for and you get one sick and twisted cocktail that is this cult number one on this list is church Universal and triumphant yet another Cult of Personality in New Age clothes the cut was founded in 1975 as an offshoot of a different movement Summit Lighthouse founder Elizabeth Clare
Profit pitched herself and her husband as messengers of the ascended masters a set of spiritually awakened ancient beings Central to the phiosophy belief system they also threw in elements of Christian Science the the I am movement and Mormon style doomsday prepping the prophets grew wealthy enough to buy
Large spreads in the Santa Monica Mountains and Montana while members drove themselves into debt building Fallout shelters and paying hug huge sums of money to reserve a spot in the postnuclear conflict Society the church was also accused of making illicit straw purchases and of using sleep deprivation against members who attempted to leave
In ill health the prophet retired in 1999 and passed 10 years later since then the church has gone through legal problems and succession squabbles but members still meet on a regular basis so yeah just join this cult if you want to potentially get tortured from sleep deprivation oh and while we’re torturing
You we’re also going to take all your money and invest it into some underground bunker that you’ll probably never use if that doesn’t sound like an excellent use of time and money to you which it probably shouldn’t then I really wouldn’t recommend joining this cult number five the Brethren do you
Feel like the modern world has got you down got you running around feeling overwhelmed perhaps you need a break from it all and you want to get away I want to go back to a simpler time well then perhaps the Brethren is the movement you’ve been looking for founded
By Jim T Roberts the movement seeks to shed all of the convenience and accommodations of modern living with its members instead choosing to live as vagrants drifting on the edge of society away from the prying eye of the modern world their leader believes that in order to be guaranteed a spot in heaven
One must purify themselves and to the Brethren this means purifying themselves of just about every facet of modern living as part of their renouncement of all modern living Brethren must forsake all of their family friends their jobs their livelihoods all in favor of their new brothers you aren’t allowed to
Partake in any material Goods of any kind sew your own clothing and eat what you can scavenge this particularly Grizzly habit is what gave the cult its enduring nickname of garbage eaters for their tendency to dumpster dive you’re not even allowed to laugh celebrate or play as all celebrations must be saved
For the return of the Savior at the end of the world although giving those conditions I’m not sure what you’d have to laugh about it goes as far to his members is being barred from receiving treatment or medicine even for common curable illnesses because members are forced to cut themselves off from their
Families often times members disappear without their family members ever even getting to know what happened as such groups have sprung up to try and reconnect Brethren to their families and hopefully get them a dinner that didn’t come out of a dumpster why not toss to subscribe our way and join our group
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Japanese New Age religion that’s sort of a loot bag for as many religious Concepts as you can think of in happy science all gods that have been worshiped throughout history across various religions were actually all the same God named elcare roughly translating to the singer the group’s
Founder rioo Okawa just happens to be the Incarnation of all these holy deities manifested as one man he also claims to have the energies of various celebrities inside him including Freddy Mercury and former US presidents the group preaches happiness obviously following the group’s Mantra in order to obtain happiness one must practice the
Principles of Happiness known as the fourfold path love that gives wisdom self-reflection and progress now happy science isn’t just some Fringe group in a tent in the Backwoods rough estimates suggests that the group pulls inwards of $45 million a year sounds like there’s some kind of profit happening here
That’s a that’s a little pun for you happy science is a full-on media division producing several animated and liveaction films and Publishing books numbering close to the thousands mostly being transcriptions of okawa’s lectures about happiness spirituality and occasionally aliens is a major part of the group’s belief revolve around UFOs
Aliens and other Cosmic entities the group is fairly widespread boasting temples across the world and in various continents the group statistics claim that there are 11 million members worldwide although more conservative estimates put it around 30,000 worldwide regardless happy science is something that’s clearly making a lot of people
Happy and next up number three The Cult of Isis popping over to ancient Egypt the phrase death cult doesn’t get more death e than the cult of Isis incredibly popular with ancient Grecian and Roman society the Goddess Isis was Central in the old Kingdom’s Osiris myth where her
Husband the Divine King Osiris was slain and resurrected by her hand the mysteries of Isis were strangely popular in the ancient world where initiates to the cult would undergo elaborate ritual purification before being brought into the innermost part of Isis Temple the catch though was that they had to pledge
Their mortal soul to the goddess of rebirth sounds innocent enough a but this often meant that somewhere someone along the line was getting ritualistically sacrificed never good swinging in at number two Asher ISM we’ve covered these guys quite regularly in our demon series but if you didn’t
Know Asher ism is pretty gnarly business known as the national Cult of the Assyrian people where the majority of ancient Assyria chose to worship a polyic religion with thousands of different gods similar to that of ancient Babylonia they shared many creation Miss to that of Judaism and
Christianity such as the great flood and the Tower of Babel but what separates Asher ism is its fascination with demonism and their willingness to worship for example the tale of Lilith Adam’s first wife who went on to become the demonic Queen of the succubi although you could argue that this is
Just in essence a collection of smaller Cults Asher ISM didn’t come into written fruition until after the fall of the Assyrian Empire where these Cults were continued to be worshiped in the surviving city of assur this became a Melting Pot for Asher ISM with the Cults
Of sin nikal Bell Nabu and tamuz being Twisted into a fervent blend of godhood and demonism mass ritualistic sacrifice stake burnings cannibalism it all went down here and it’s not good and finally at number one the night Templar this wouldn’t be an ancient cult list without everybody’s favorite shadowy secret
Society the Knight Templar also known as the poor fellow Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon that’s a mouthful the Knights Templar were a Catholic military order recognized in 1139 by the pap Bull of the Holy CA although records state that the Templar were active until about 13312 the
Order’s main functionality was prominence in Christian Finance they managed a large economic infrastructure throughout the Christian world veloping Financial techniques that would later become an early form of banking in essence they were the world’s first multinational corporation which you know has led many people to believe that
They’re still around to this very day just in another form Q conspiracy music their initiation rights are still shrouded in secrecy where Outsiders were discouraged from attending the ceremony over fear of its sensitive nature this led to the suspicion of medieval inquisitors and eventually the acquisition and execution of over 90% of
The order’s members who were burned at the stake well what did they discover well no one really knows but it constituted a pretty harsh response from the church number five Scientology I figured it was the easiest to kick off today you know what the most obvious cult and personally for me the scariest
Scientology is a set of beliefs and practices invented by the American author elron hubard who developed a series of ideas that he called dianic which he represented as a form of therapy okay yeah that’s great therapy an organization that he established in 1950 to promote it went bankrupt and he
Lost the rights to his book in 1952 he then recharacterized his ideas as a religion for tax purposes and renamed them Scientology by 1954 he had regained the rights to dianic and founded the Church of Scientology which Remains the largest organization promoting Scientology today there are practitioners independent of the church
In what is called the free zone and estimates put the number of scientologists at just under 40,000 people worldwide so you know not a lot of people at all just a small town Scientology beliefs include reincarnation and that traumatic events cause problematic ingrams in the mind they claim that an activity called
Auditing can remove the bad engrams a fee is charged though for each session of auditing once an auditor deems an individual free of engrams typically after several years they are given the status of clear after being deemed clear adherence can take part in further activities called operating feton levels
Which require further payments the operating thaten texts are kept secret for most followers and are revealed only after adherents have typically given hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Scientology organization if you don’t have ridiculous amounts of money to burn don’t worry they’re freely available online on sites such as Wikileaks and if
You don’t want to waste your time these texts say past lives took place in extraterrestrial cultures look I don’t agree with Scientology but I do agree with aliens visiting Earth but these involve an alien called zenu described as a planetary ruler that existed 70 million years ago who brought billions
Of aliens to Earth and killed them with thermonuclear weapons yeah I totally believe that despite being kept secret for most followers this forms the central mythological framework of scientology’s crazy logic question mark from soon after the formation these groups have generated considerable opposition and controversy in several instances because
Of their illegal activities in 1967 Howard established a new Elite group The SE organization or C Org the membership of which was drawn from the most committed members of the church by 1981 the 21-year-old David movage who had been one of you know his closest AIDS in
The sea org Rose to prominence H died at his Ranch in Creston California on January 24th of 1986 and movich succeeded hubard as the head of the church a position he holds till this day if you really want a mystery to solve try and find David’s wife in 2013
Actress Leah reminy a former Scientologist and vocal critic of the organization filed a missing person’s Report with the Los Angeles Police Department concerned about her disappearance the LPD allegedly contacted Shelly and closed the case within hours despite assurances from church of Scientology spokespeople that Shelley misovich is Alive and Well many
Continue to express skepticism in 2022 after hearing about an investigation into now retired LAPD Captain Cory Pala about alerting others of confidential police investigations Remy revealed photographs of pela accepting a $2,000 check from Scientology for LAPD Charities and one of a Scientology information kiosk located in the LAPD Hollywood division while speaking with
Pela in his office Remy noticed a letter of thanks to him from Scientology with an invitation to lunch at their celebrity center so bribery as of 2023 Shelley mich’s whereabouts remain unknown and who knows if we’ll ever know in the 1970s hub’s followers engaged in a program of criminal infiltration of
The US government resulting in several Executives of the organization being convicted and imprisoned for multiple offenses by a US federal court now Hubbert himself was convicted in absenti of fraud by a French Court in 1978 and sentenced to four years in prison and in 1992 a court here in Canada convicted
The Scientology organization in Toronto a spying on law enforcement and government agencies and criminal breach of trust later upheld by the Ontario Court of Appeal the Church of Scientology was convicted abroad by a French Court in 2009 a judgment upheld by the Supreme Court of cassation in
2013 the Church of Scientology has been described by government inquiries International parliamentary bodies Scholars lawls and numerous Superior Court judgments as both a dangerous cult and a manipulative profit making business I could talk about them for hours and just how awful they are so let
Me know in the comments of that you know something y would be interested number four Family International initially called teens for Christ children of God or cogg it was founded in 1968 by Rog preacher David Berg in Huntington Beach California attracting young runaways and hippies David preached a kind of worship
That combined the ways of Jesus Christ with the free love movement of the 1960s group living zealous converting and isolated communes were all pillars of this church members who mounted to around 15,000 people across the world at its peak didn’t go to work or go to school and they also didn’t believe in
The nuclear family so younglings were grouped together and lived separately from their parents in the late 1970s cogg became notorious for the sexual practices that one of the founders own daughters later described as religious sexual coercion David coined the term flirty fishing which was a sexual practice in which women would allegedly
Have sex with men to bring them into the cult and if that wasn’t scummy enough he also promoted and encouraged the sexualization of young Lings within the Cog Community as David manipulated the cogg family with his sadistic practices members started leaving the community including the families of actors Wen
Phoenix and Rose McGowen who both grew up in the communes former Cog members began coming forward in the early 1990s describing an environment that permitted and encouraged the physical and sexual taking advantage of younglings Ricky dup appeared on a talk show in 1993 and revealed that he’d been ordered by the
Group to forcibly fornicate with someone barely in the double digits of age Ricky later took his own life sadly like many other members of the group including the Founder’s son Ricky Rodriguez who was sexually taken advantage of throughout his life by his father and the group although David died in 1994 while under
FBI investigation the cult continues to exist and now goes by the name Family International although the group claims that the horrific practices are a thing of the past why do I not believe them number three the independent order of Odd Fellows oh the independent order of Odd Fellows well finally a secret
Society that’s right for me how do I gain entrance to this well while I figure that out I’ll mull over the history with you it’s unknown when the independent order of Odd Fellows was founded for sure but the first reference of it ever written comes in 1812 and
References George VV before he was named Prince Regent of the United Kingdom George 4th had been a member of the Freemasons for a while he wanted a member of his family to come join the Freemasons with him and was hoping that his Royal connections and purse strings
Would be able to bypass the lengthy complicated initiation process unfortunately no one is given such freedoms to bypass Masonic initiation rights come on you should have known that so George bittered by an order that wouldn’t have him splintered off to form a rival Club the independent order of
Odd Fellows love the name although the website for the order claims that it was started all the way back in 1066 although there aren’t as many sources to cite this much like the knights their guiding principles are the principles of friendship love and truth and its members strive to live by these
Principles in their daily lives the organization is non-political and non-sectarian welcoming individuals from all walks of life and Creeds are you also getting a bit disappointed that a lot of secret societies on this have mainly said that they just do like charity work and like helping out around
Town and and getting people the help they deserve no come on where’s the secret soldiers where’s the the lizard people living under the White House I none of this is showing up yet the order of odd fellas places an emphasis on community service its members engage in various charitable activities they
Provide relief to the needy they assist the sick and disabled they offer scholarships and educational opportunities do you guys not conceal any martians or any UFOs or anything you just go around giving homes to the elderly and orphans gosh are there any secret societies that are trying to
Control the world still now regardless of how the order got its start the order is strong and still going today the club has counted several British prime ministers among its rank Winston Churchill and Stanley Baldwin to name a few number two the Patriotic order sons of America imagine a time when
Patriotism was at its peak and everyone wanted to celebrate their love for their country in a unique way how fitting that I’m filming this on the 4th of July happy Joey Chestnut day Americans andent the Patriotic order sons of America the posa this organization founded in 1847 aimed to promote American values apple
Pie American history and strengthen the bonds of Brotherhood among its members so it’s kind of like the America fan club you know Americans love America by and large but these guys really loved America picnics parades all manner of social congregation so long as that social congregation was about
Celebrating Uncle Sam’s land of the free and home of the bra now I am making it sound like it’s a patriotic summer camp and it kind of is but it was also about education and the preservation of American culture they upheld the importance of American History by building historical societies museums
And libraries to collect and document artifacts and stories from the past like a time machine to the days of old now like any other secret society obviously they have to have some rituals and ceremonies as far as we know nothing to outright Sinister mostly just initiation rights if you ask the organization
They’ll tell you they’re one of the most Progressive patriotic institutions in the United States now how Progressive they actually are definitely up for a little bit of debate in the 1890s they were only open for white Americans today the order opens its membership to all Native born or naturalized American male
Citizens who believe in their country so it’s not super Progressive but as far as secret societies go it seems like they’re pretty benevolent and do just want to celebrate the country and not rule it in secret or maybe they do I don’t know and number one the Molly
Magui in the 1870s 24 foremen and supervisors in the coal mines of Pennsylvania were assassinated now who was behind the plot the leading suspect was the secret society the Molly magui now that’s a secret society name the Molly maggu were an organization of Irish militants who it’s thought got
Their names because they frequently used women’s clothing as a disguise while carrying out acts this sounds a lot more like it’s just a gang than it does the secret society I’m pretty sure these guys were the bad guys at Red Dead Redemption 2o operating primarily in the
Mid 1860s to 1870s the group was named after a legendary folk tale of Molly Maguire an Irish nun who was evicted from her home as such the Maguire acted as a sort of Big Brother for Irish immigrants in America aiming to address harsh working conditions and mistreatment by whatever means necessary
Faced with low wages long hours and unsafe working conditions the magui sought to protect the rights and interests of their family through resistance sabotage and violence the organization operated covertly with members swearing o of loyalty and secrecy their tactics included cotion intimidation and you better believe just a little bit of political assassination
They targeted mine operators foremen and individuals they perceived as oppressors within the mining industry BS murders all of this stuff pretty Common Place the rise of the Molly magui attracted attention from mining companies and the government the notorious Pinkerton detective agency the actual bad guys from Red Dead Redemption 2 was hired to
Infiltrate and gather evidence against the group high-profile trials followed resulting in the conviction and execution of several Molly magui the trials were marked by controversy and allegations of false testimony leading to debates about the fairness of the proceedings but if you know anything about the Pinkerton said they don’t
Really play fair today the Molly MC chirs are still sort of a subject of historical interest serving as a reminder of the complex Dynamics between Labor Management and immigrant communities in the United States during the 19th century I don’t really have a joke to end that on I didn’t I didn’t I
Didn’t think that far ahead number five the Bilderberg meeting starting us off today we are going to be talking about the Uber secretive Bilderberg meeting now this one is a little bit of a cheat because technically it’s not really a society but it refers to an annual Gathering that definitely happens
Without any of us knowing in secrecy and involves a lot of key profile VIPs so I’d say it qualifies the first Bilderberg meeting dates all the way back to 1954 and was held at the hotel to Bilderberg in the Netherlands which is where the group has taken its name
Since convened by Prince burnhard the Gathering was a collection of power ful politicians from North America and Europe designed to Foster warmer relations between the two continents among fear of growing anti-American sentiment in Europe in layman’s terms the Bilderberg meeting is an annual meeting where high-ranking politicians
Agree to not start World War 3 just yet you know just not not just yet they’ll they’ll do it eventually but keep things cool for now now because of this the Bilderberg meeting has quite the guest list it’s a veritable who’s who Bill Clinton Margaret Thatcher Angela Merkel
Tony Blair Henry Kissinger Pete Davidson to name a few now what happens in these meetings is anyone’s guess as they’re wrapped in complete and utter secrecy the minutes are never released and journalists are barred from reporting on it at all in fact I would not be surprised if this video was the first
Time you’ve ever even heard of this the secrecy definitely paves the way for rumors with the belief that the Bilderberg meeting is an extension of the Illuminati with the members being part of the New World Order conspiring to control the World Behind the Scenes now the official website for the
Bilderberg meeting maintains thanks to the private nature of the meeting the participants take part as individuals rather than in any official capacity and hence are not bound by the conventions of their office or by positions which definitely makes things more suspicious we’ll get to the bottom of this I’m sure
But if you’re looking for more conspiracies while top five scary has all of that and then some we’ve got loads of things on secret societies ghosts ghouls goblins aliens UFOs if it’s freaking you out we’ you got a video or two on it I promise you that so
Hit subscribe please do me a little favor and ring that little bell as well so you don’t miss a single one of our videos but do that at the end of this one cuz I got four more secret societies that I’d love to tell you all about
Number four the Knights of pus coming up next is going to be the very mythical sounding Knights of pus oh we love when a secret society is an order of knights oh I love when something sounds like that you know they sound like I got to go bring them an ancient Crystal the
Knights of pus was founded by jusus H wrath bone a government employee in Washington DC in 1864 who historically has one of the coolest names I’ve ever heard jusus H wrab my God that just rolls off the tongue he felt there was an absolute moral need for an organization that practiced brotherly
Love he loved Philadelphia City of Brotherly Love he was all about that around the same time the country was involved in a bit of a punch up bit of a brother against brother a bit of a a civil war you might call it so Brotherly Love was needed President Lincoln upon
Learning of this group expressed his approval of its Mission and values and the Knights became the first fraternal organization in the states to be chartered through an act of Congress now the name is a reference to the Greek Legend of Damon and pus the Pythagorean ideal of friendship which I I guess
Means that this secret society in Washington DC is the Knights of friendship that’s a that’s that’s adorable all of its founding members worked for the government and the Knights colors are blue yellow and red blue signifying friendship yellow charity and red benevolence the Knights of pus are still operating to this day
And are a partner of the Boy Scouts of America that’s hilarious the second organization to receive its Charter from the US Congress that’s the official hierarchy in America it’s Knights and then Boy Scouts those now interestingly the Knights of pus despite their very very cool name may very well be one of
The only secret societies no one is writing any conspiracy theories about I was looking I really was but the people in the tinf foil hats are not interested in the Knights of pus maybe it’s because unlike most other secret groups the knights really boldly announc that they’re just just all about friendship
And maybe people suspect they’re not hiding anything and maybe they’re just totally genuine and all about friendship that won’t do for me I think the whole friendship thing is a complete angle I think the Knights of pus are doing something subliminal something they’re hacking the air wav somehow we’ll look
Into that we’re going to get back to this coming in at three the shelter cycle by Peter Rock inspired by true events the shelter cycle written by Peter Rock tells a story of two children Francine and cville who grew up in the church Universal and triumphant a religion that predicts the world would
Come to an end in the late 1980s while their parents built underground shelters to withstand the impending Soviet missile strike Francine and Coville played in the Montana Wilderness where invisible Spirits watched over them however when the apocalypse does not occur the sex members are forced to
Resurface and grow up in a world they believed might no longer exist now the depiction of the cult is harrowing but what makes the book more unsettling is the depiction of someone who has survived it someone who having lost his rder might be capable of absolutely anything now as Outsiders we believe
That when people escape a cult they are safe right however Peter Rock turns this on its head and examines how Cults continue to live inside of us evolving and changing over time coming in to the girls by Emma kleene the girls is a 2016 debut novel by Emma Klein and is Loosely
Inspired by the Manson family and the murder of actress Sharon Tate the novel itself is set in 1969 and focuses on 14-year-old Eevee Boyd who feels isolated and unloved and ends up spending the majority of that summer with a group of teenage girls on a ranch
Who are all devoted to a man named Russell now the novel never explicitly states that it’s talking about the mans and murders but it’s obvious to almost everyone who reads it kleene also gives intimate insight into adolescent desire and the grotesque length some are willing to go in order to feel like they
Belong now for those who don’t know the Manson family was a desert commune and cult led by Charles Manson that was active in California in the late 1960s and early ’70s the group consisted of 100 of his followers who lived an unconventional lifestyle with habitual use of hallucinogenic drugs now on the
Evening of August 8th 1969 four members of the Manson family invaded the home of actress Sharon Tate and movie director Roman palansky and murder Tate who was almost 9 months pregnant at the time along with three friends who were visiting and an 18-year-old visitor who
Was slain as he was leaving the home the Manson family were brutal and absolutely Habor so if you want to read a fictional depiction of the group check out the girls and finally coming in at number one Jonestown and other Madness by Pat Parker now back story before we get into
The meat of the book by Pat Parker on November 18th 1978 a total of nearly 98 people died in a settlement at the nearby air strip in Port Kuma and at a Temple Run building in Georgetown now the people’s Temple agricultural project better known by its informal name Jonestown was a remote settlement
Established by The People’s Temple a cult under the leadership of Jim Jones in total around 909 individuals died in Jonestown all but two from apparent cyanide poisoning in an event that has been referred to as a revolutionary suicide by Jones and some of his cult now let’s track back Jones had founded
What became the people’s temple in Indiana in 1950s then relocated his congregation to California in the 60s in the70s however following negative media attention the preacher moved with around 1,000 of his followers to the guines jungle where he promised a Utopian community that is not what they received
Because as AFA mentioned on the day of November 18th 1978 US Representative Leo Ryan who had gone to Jonestown to investigate claims of abuse was murdered along with four members of his delegation by Jonestown gunmen that very same day Jones ordered his followers to ingest poison laced punch while armed
Guards watched on now in the book Jonestown another Madness by Pat Parker she examines the rise and fall of the charismatic turned murder murderous preacher Jim Jones as a celebrated lesbian feminist poet Pat Parker’s collection is a gripping reflection on the way race class and gender played into Jim Jones’s sadistic Slaughter of
His congregation throughout the book she challenges us to reflect on how easily we accept answers given to us in the wake of a tragedy I quote if 900 white people had gone to a country with a black Minister and committed suicide would we have accepted the answer we
Would given so easily the book is fantastic and Incredibly moving not just that but it’s also the perfect insight to one of the most notorious Cults and Infamous massacres coming in at number five gather the daughters by Jenny meled Jenny melamed’s debut novel gather the daughters transports readers to a
Post-apocalyptic Colony ruled by tyrannical men the futuristic Community is shaped by sexism censorship and government-mandated procreation the book has been compared to the handmaid’s tale due to its depiction of female servitude now as the novel’s heroins come of age they are confronted with depravity of the colony’s traditions and thanks to
Specific specific occurrences a rebellion is sparked now unlike the handmaid’s tale we’re given very little information about life beyond the island the cult is residing on with melamed keeping us in the dark and just as frustrated as her characters is a captivating novel that inspires but it
Times sickens but is mostly a meditation on the dangers of misogyny and fear in at number four underground the Tokyo gas attack and the Japanese psyche by Haruki murakami published between 1997 and 1998 underground is a book by Japanese novelist Haruki murakami about the 1995 AUM shrio sarin gas attack on the Tokyo
Subway the attack was an act of domestic terrorism perpetrated on 20th of March 1995 by members of The Cult movement AUM shinri in five coordinated attacks the cult members released sarin on three lines of the Tokyo Metro during rush hour killing 13 people severely injuring 50 and causing temporary vision problems
For nearly 1,000 others the cult which was led by shoko asahara had already carried out several other assassinations and Terror attacks using sarin and it also produced several other nerve agents including VX and attempted to produce bolum toxin in the raid that followed the attack police arrested many senior
Members of The Cult with over 2 200 members being arrested to this day the attack Remains the deadliest terror attack in Japan now murakami’s novel is made up of a series of interviews with individuals who were affected by the attacks and the English translation also includes interviews with members of AUM
The religious cult responsible for the attacks in the novel he attempts to make sense of the horrific attacks and in turn it’s a true Testament to the resilience of the human Spirit number three the fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saint known as flds for short time to focus on the
Fundamentalist sexs that split off when the core religion opted to renounce the practice of polygamy technically speaking polygamy is the practice or custom of having more than one wife or a husband at the same time and while I’m not judging multiple partners or open relationships when when they’re
Consensual or of age there’s a lot of EG to unpack here it is estimated that 6,000 to 10,000 members reside within the congregate sister sites of hildale Utah Colorado City Arizona El Dorado Texas West Cliff Colorado Manos Colorado creson and bountiful British Columbia and Pringle South Dakota those who wish
To continue the practice remained Mormon but on their own terms pamy remains you know illegal and in 1953 an entire flds Community was arrested in short Creek Arizona otherwise known as modern-day Colorado City and most had their little ones taken from them for safety a compound in Texas was rid in 2008 after
Child protective services was made aware of allegations of poor living situations over 400 younglings were taken from the compound and placed in CPS custody so I remember hearing about the raid while watching the Oprah Winfrey Show with my mom of all things if my brain serves me
Right it was about 10 months after the raid when all the young LS were returned to the yearning for Zion Ranch and it was such huge news that she was being granted access to this top secret compound leader of the flds Warren Jeffs remains in his position you know despite
Being in prison for life after acts against miners number two am shrio founded by shoko asahara in 1984 Amin Rio is a Japanese new religious movement and doomsday called who first made headlines in the late 80s amid accusations that asahara was forcing members to donate money to the group and
Holding them against their will pardon me I’ll backtrack for a moment although Al was you know from the beginning considered controversial in Japan it was not initially associated with serious crimes Al’s public relations activities included publishing comics and animated cartoons that attempted to tie its religious ideas to popular anime and
Manga themes including space missions powerful weapons World conspiracies and the Quest for ultimate truth like many cult leaders asahara believed in an imminent doomsday this time it was caused by a World War started by the United States and of course you know according to him only his followers
Would survive in 1991 am began using wiretapping to get NTT uniforms and equipment and created a manual for wiretapping in July of 199 93 cult members sprayed large amounts of liquid containing basilis anthracis spores from a cooling tower on the roof of omin Rio’s Tokyo headquarters however their
Plan to cause an Anthrax epidemic failed the attack resulted in a large number of complaints about bad ERS but no infections thank goodness but by the end of 1993 the cult started secretly manufacturing the nerve agent sarin and later VX Al tested at sarin on sheep at bahor station a remote pastal property
In Western Australia killing 29 sheep so both and VX were then used in several assassinations and attempts between 1994 to ’95 in 1995 the group executed a sarin gas attack in the Tokyo subway which caused the deaths of 12 people and injured 50 more the group says that
Those who carried out attacks did so secretly without being known to other Executives and ordinary Believers after that attack Japanese authorities learned that the group had also been responsible for the death of lawyer tsumi Sakamoto who was working on a class action lawsuit against al Shin Rio at the time
Of his death oh uh almost forgot the group also killed his wife and descendant yes independent people on July 6th of 2018 after exhausting all appeals asahara and six followers on death row were executed as punishment for the 1995 attacks and other crimes so I’m glad that unlike you know some of
The other folks I’ve discussed today some justice was actually served in the situation six additional followers were executed on the 26th of the same month and at 12:10 a.m. on New Year’s Day of 2019 at least nine people were injured when a car was deliberately driven into crowds celebrating the new year on
Takashi Street in Tokyo local police reported the arrest of kazuhiro kusakabe the suspected driver who allegedly admitted to intentionally ramming his vehicle into crowds to protest his opposition to the death penalty specifically in retaliation for the execution of the uh befor mentioned um cult members number one Good News
International Church The Good News International Ministries GN IM for short or Good News International Church was founded by Paul McKenzie and his first wife in 2003 so this group attracted International attention in April of this year year it was revealed that Mackenzie had allegedly instructed members to starve themselves to meet Jesus before
The end of the world which has resulted in the deaths of over 400 people and when you consider more than 600 people have been reported missing it’s just a yike situation about 65 rescued followers were charged with attempted self- ending of life after they refused to eat during their stay at a rescue
Center the Doomsday cult is adamantly anti-western and with amenities such as health care education and sports being dismissed as evils of Western life and with MacKenzie condemning the United States the United Nations and the Catholic Church as tools of Satan look I’m all for condemning the Catholic
Church but calling it a tool of Satan feels like an oxymoron the group devotes much of its teachings to the end times Ergo have been dubbed a doomsday cult the definition of which is a cult that believes in apocalypsis and millennialism including both these you know that predict disasters and those
That attempt to destroy the entire universe McKenzie founded the gnim in 2003 and accumulated a sizable following largely due to convincing his followers that he could speak directly with God beginning in the late 2010s McKenzie’s Church began to receive reive A Renewed wave of scrutiny regarding the internal practices of the organization
Particularly in 2017 when McKenzie and his wife faced several charges relating to the church he was chastised for inciting students to abandon their education after denouncing it as ungodly as well as radicalizing and denying Medical Care to them afterwards several students died as a result and in 2017 93
Students were rescued by government authorities from the group after another arrest in 2019 he departed melind and headed to the shakah hola Forest where the mass starvation occurred earlier this year now Mackenzie did not join his followers in the M starvation in fact a dietary menu was found on the wall in
One of the special houses in the forest believed to be his resting room he’s currently under police custody as the process of exhuming the bodies continues police authorities claimed that some bodies were missing organs and believed they were being harvested and Sold
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