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Reality Life with Kate Casey
Ep. - 1668 - WHAT TO WATCH THIS WEEK WITH KATE CASEY

Reality Life with Kate Casey

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 20, 2026 15:53


Kate discusses what to watch this week including My Grandfather Charles Manson (Hulu), A Toxic Love Story (Netflix), People Magazine Investigates: The Cult of the Soulful Journey (ID), and Real Housewives of London (Bravo). Reality Life with Kate Casey Summer Reading List: https://katecasey.substack.com/p/books-i-cant-stop-talking-about-this Vanity Fair Article: https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/story/martha-moxleys-diary What to Watch List: https://katecasey.substack.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/katecasey Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/katecaseyca Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@itskatecasey?lang=en Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/113157919338245 Amazon List: https://www.amazon.com/shop/katecasey Twitter: https://twitter.com/katecaseySee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Killers, Cults and Queens
The Gangster Grandads Of The Hatton Garden Heist - Englands UNBREAKABLE Vault

Killers, Cults and Queens

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 20, 2026 41:01


When the last of the east ends gangsters set their eyes on a seemingly unachievable target, they knew they had their work cut out for them. But these were no ordinary criminals, they were some of the most hardened theives in the game. Responsible for some of the countries biggest heists including Brinks Mat and The Security Express Depot robberies, these men knew if anyone could carry this of, they'd be the most likely to...except there was once small problem...they were all in their sixties or above. Breaking into the Hatton Garden Safety Deposit Vault wouldn't be easy. they knew the vault was thick so they planned accordingly, but as time was running out, they hit a big problem and now security were alerted...but would they manage to carry on or would they be caught...Let's find out. If you're interested in more true crime deep dives, hit subscribe and ring the bell to stay updated.HUGE thanks goes to SNAG for sponsoring this series. Please check them out at www.snagtights.com

Canadian Politics is Boring
Cattle Mutilations: Aliens, Cults, or Maggots?

Canadian Politics is Boring

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 20, 2026 30:28


Are aliens surgically mutilating cattle across the Canadian prairies… or is there a far more grounded (and grosser) explanation?In this episode of Tinfoil Touque, Rhys Waters and Jesse dive into decades of bizarre prairie cattle mutilation reports from Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and BC. We talk missing eyes and tongues, vanishing sex organs, no blood at the scene, strange surgical cuts, and RCMP files that still aren't fully released.Along the way we explore:Classic conspiracy explanations: UFOs, secret government bioweapons, and satanic cultsWhat ranchers, vets, and pathologists actually say about these casesThe infamous “intergalactic vagina explosion” quoteHow scavengers like ravens, magpies, and blowflies can create “surgical” woundsWhy some cases still don't fit the natural explanationPlus, in the STD (Small Talk Dimension) Zone, Rhys talks about joining a new gym in Halifax, Jesse preps for a mystery biker-dive-bar date, and they tease next week's story about a TikToker who filmed a “giant” in the Rocky Mountains.Is it aliens, cults, or just maggots doing what maggots do?For premium content, socials, merch, to leave a voicemail or message us go to canadaisboring.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Profiling Evil Podcast with Mike King
How SMART People Get Pulled Into Cults with Sarah Edmondson and Nippy Ames | Profiling Evil

Profiling Evil Podcast with Mike King

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 18, 2026 47:25


In this episode of Profiling Evil, I sit down with Sarah Edmondson and Anthony “Nippy” Ames from A Little Bit Culty for a raw and honest conversation about cult behavior, coercive control, undue influence and the slow erosion of personal autonomy. They were inside NXIVM, the organization led by Keith Raniere, who was convicted in federal court in 2019 of racketeering, sex trafficking, attempted sex trafficking, forced labor conspiracy and other crimes. In 2020, Raniere was sentenced to 120 years in prison. But this conversation isn't just about NXIVM. It's about how control can be disguised as self-improvement, leadership training, discipline, personal growth, spiritual development or belonging. Sarah and Nippy explain how people don't usually walk into a destructive group knowing what it really is. They walk in because they're looking for purpose, community, answers, confidence, healing or a better version of themselves. That's what makes this discussion so important. We talk about the first hooks, the love bombing, the status systems, the pressure to ignore red flags, the “us versus them” thinking, the sunk cost fallacy, the fear of admitting you were wrong and the painful moment when a person finally realizes the leader is not who they claimed to be.Sarah shares how her intuition warned her early, but how those warnings were slowly trained out of her. Nippy talks about susceptibility, blind spots, loyalty, shame and why assuming “that could never happen to me” may be one of the most dangerous beliefs a person can carry.Their podcast, A Little Bit Culty, focuses on helping people understand, heal from and avoid abusive systems “one little red flag at a time,” and their book, A Little Bit Culty, is described as a guide to understanding how manipulation and control take hold, and how people can begin to break free. From a criminal behavior perspective, this episode looks at how predatory personalities study vulnerability. They don't always begin with threats. Often, they begin with charm, praise, status, access and the promise that you can become something better if you'll just trust the process. That's where control gets dangerous. Not when it looks obvious, but when it looks helpful. This is a conversation for parents, students, true crime followers, faith communities, business leaders, coaches, creators and anyone who wants to better understand coercive control before it reaches the point of crisis. Because cult tactics aren't limited to cults. They can show up in relationships, workplaces, political movements, wellness groups, online communities, business cultures and anywhere a person uses trust to gain power over someone else.#ProfilingEvil #ALittleBitCulty #SarahEdmondson #NippyAmes #NXIVM #KeithRaniere #CoerciveControl #UndueInfluence #CultBehavior #CultSurvivors #TrueCrime #TrueCrimeCommunity #CrimeCon #CriminalBehavior #PredatorBehavior #Manipulation #Gaslighting #LoveBombing #PsychologicalControl #SurvivorVoices #CrimeAnalysis #BehavioralAnalysis #CultRecovery #RedFlags #TrueCrimePodcast #MappingEvil========================================A Little Bit Culty: https://alittlebitculty.com/========================================20% OFF Newspapers.comhttps://www.newspapers.com/go/podcast/?ref=profilingevil?xid=8877&utm_source=ProfilingEvilPodcast&utm_medium=podcst&utm_campaign=ProfilingEvil26========================================Discounts on eBikes: https://aipasbike.com/?ref=PROFILINGEVILReferral Coupon Code: PROFILINGEVIL========================================Email your questions to: ProfilingEvil@gmail.com========================================

Weekly Spooky
Late Night Horror: Demons, Cults & Cursed Rituals Anthology

Weekly Spooky

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 18, 2026 116:25 Transcription Available


Demons, Satanic cults, and supernatural revenge collide in this horror fiction anthology. A runaway discovers a forbidden book devoted to an imprisoned goddess. A mercenary raids an asylum to film a cult. A cursed man awakens to humiliation and dark magic. Four tales of demonic possession, occult rituals, and vampire mythology—expertly narrated with dark comedy and spine-tingling twists. Perfect late-night horror for spooky season enthusiasts.“Sin” — by Rob FieldsA murderous runaway hiding inside a Catholic academy discovers a forbidden scripture devoted to Hellweaver—and begins a bloody ritual to become the imprisoned demon goddess's devoted daughter.“Gamble with the Devil” — by David O'HanlonA delusional soldier of fortune hires a desperate cameraman to film his promotional reel, then drags him into an abandoned asylum for a heavily armed assault on a Satanic cult whose rituals have summoned something horrifyingly real.“Breaking the Seal” — by Douglas WaltzAfter a drunken encounter with a practicing witch, a hungover man awakens with a bloody pentagram on his chest and an unstoppable bodily curse that only the woman he insulted can remove.“The Bad Schoolgirl” — by Rob FieldsA foul-mouthed, daywalking Master Vampire enters Strickfield High and follows a squad of vampire cheerleaders into the woods, where stolen souls are being used to power their supernatural jewelry.

Weird Darkness: Stories of the Paranormal, Supernatural, Legends, Lore, Mysterious, Macabre, Unsolved

Los Angeles hides an almost overwhelming number of ghosts behind its glamour, from the piano-playing spirit at Hollywood's Magic Castle and the body found in the Cecil Hotel's water tank to the sex-magick rocket scientist, Father Yod's robed disciples, and the cults that made the City of Angels a capital of the occult.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/hauntedlaREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p98dtw7CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Show Open00:01:24.727 = Hollywood's Haunted Magic Castle00:09:13.905 = Los Angeles' Haunted Hotels ***00:27:05.636 = Los Angeles: City of the Occult ***00:51:50.907 = L.A. Ghosts ***01:01:24.337 = Show Close*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad breakLISTEN ON PODCAST APPS: Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.com/wdapps*No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast*SOURCES and RESOURCES:“Hollywood's Haunted Magic Castle” by Christina Sanza for Graveyard Shift: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/nhdf2f29“Los Angeles' Haunted Hotels” by Andy Miller from Weird History: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/mvbdcwac“L.A. Ghosts” by Jen Lennon for Graveyard Shift: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/39xypc6c“Los Angeles: City Of The Occult” by Christine Aprile for Weird History: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/4y9rj77r(Over time links may become invalid, disappear, or have different content. I always make sure to give authors credit for the material I use whenever possible. If I somehow overlooked doing so for a story, or if a credit is incorrect, please let me know and I will rectify it in these show notes immediately. Some links included above may benefit me financially through qualifying purchases.)WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness.Originally aired: April, 2021This episode of Weird Darkness turns to Los Angeles, the City of Angels, and the almost overwhelming number of ghosts, haunted hotels, and occult history hiding behind its glamour, from the Magic Castle and the Cecil Hotel to the sex-magick rocket scientist Jack Parsons, cult leader Father Yod, and the ghosts of Griffith Park.It opens inside Hollywood's Magic Castle at 7001 Franklin Avenue, the private clubhouse of the Academy of Magical Arts, where the Houdini Séance Room honors a magician who spent his career trying to debunk spiritualism and left his wife Bess the code phrase "Rosabelle, believe" for contact from the afterlife. The castle carries the story of Irma, the piano-playing ghost said to have died in 1932 and returned to the mansion built in 1909 by Rollin B. Lane, along with the ghost of magician Dai Vernon near his favorite seat in the Palace of Prestidigitation, the unidentified girl in the Haunted Cellar, and a Halloween 2011 fire that started at the exact time of Houdini's 1926 death and gutted the Dante Room while sparing the Houdini Room.From there the episode checks into the haunted hotels of Los Angeles, beginning with the Knickerbocker, which opened in Hollywood in July of 1929, hosted Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio on their honeymoon, and staged Bess Houdini's tenth and final rooftop séance the night an isolated thunderstorm struck the building alone. It moves through the Ambassador on Wilshire Boulevard, where Robert F. Kennedy was gunned down by Sirhan Sirhan in the kitchen on June 4, 1968, the Rosslyn Annex with its forgotten Prohibition speakeasy, the Alexandria and its bricked-off phantom wing, the Biltmore where Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia, was last seen before her 1947 murder, and the Cecil Hotel, home to serial killers Richard Ramirez and Jack Unterweger and the site where guest Elisa Lam was found dead in the rooftop water tank in 2013 after guests complained the water tasted strange.Next the episode traces L.A.'s long history of the occult, running from Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard and his early Pasadena partnership with rocket scientist Jack Parsons, who performed the "Babalon Working" ritual and later died at 37 in a home laboratory explosion, to Charles Manson and the Family murders of August 1969 that killed Sharon Tate and six others, Carlos Castaneda and the Yaqui shaman Don Juan Matus who launched the New Age movement, and Jim Baker, the marine turned messiah Father Yod, who took fourteen wives and led the Source Family from a Hollywood Hills mansion. It covers avant-garde filmmaker Kenneth Anger and the witch Marjorie Cameron, the 1920 LAPD raid on the Mazdaznan sun-worshipers, the love-cult of Edith Maida Lessing at Mount Helios, the Devil's Gate Dam in Pasadena, and the curse Petronilla Feliz laid on the land that became Griffith Park.The episode closes with a tour of famous L.A. ghosts: the more than one hundred jumpers off Pasadena's Colorado Street "suicide bridge," including Myrtle Ward, whose daughter survived the fall; the body parts Marines found in a freezer at the abandoned Rancho Los Amigos hospital in 2006; picnic table number 29 in Griffith Park, where a couple was crushed by a falling tree in 1976; Bela Lugosi's hearse drifting past his favorite cigar shop; the many spirits of the Queen Mary docked in Long Beach; the unsolved 1929 deaths of Ned Doheny and Hugh Plunkett at Greystone Mansion; the ghost of Superman actor George Reeves; and Bob Baker, still haunting his marionette theater alongside the dead puppeteers who worked there.

Fringe Radio Network
The New Age Trap Christians Must Stop Ignoring with Will Spencer - The Sharpening Report

Fringe Radio Network

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 17, 2026 38:23 Transcription Available


Will Spencer shares his journey from the New Age to Christianity, exploring the spiritual deceptions behind psychedelics, occultism, and esoteric Nazism.Get full videos, audio-only podcast versions, Josh Peck's blog, original articles, show notes, and more on Substack: http://joshpeck.substack.comSupport Daily Renegade and help us keep producing bold, biblical, uncensored content: http://dailyrenegade.comm

Ba'al Busters Broadcast
Inner Subversion: Parasitic Insurgents and Spies

Ba'al Busters Broadcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 17, 2026 255:05


Honey, who Hijacked the Kids? Is Nanotech in your blood, and everywhere else? Is it an interface with your devices? Are smart dust sensors all over, including within? What's that they're spraying above? Is this a final component to make us hackable animals? Are the devices you give your children changing them but not just by program influence? Is there a technological component that is altering their personality and sending information back and forth from their phones and the tech within them? Are the towers and their EMR frequency emissions also saturating our environment with manipulative power over how we think and treat one another? Parasitic tech is contaminating us all. To what extent is left to be determined.Connor Murphy is allegedly dead by drowning, and people [his so-called friends] who have no idea how to piece together a thought, and who themselves have no depth of character, are all chiming in to blame Connor's many odd personas and behaviors on Ayahuasca. That may have been the event, but it wasn't the cause. It was the experience derived from it, maybe. Remember you can't bronze a turd, and you can't level up in the spiritual caste system if you are a Hylic. You simply lack the essential component. Sand can't be water. It can be very troubling if you see too much, if you have even a short holiday out of the spell cast on your perception. Gnosis is something that bares some very unsettling realizations, as well as the self-actualization potential. The "remembering" of who you are. If you get sent the signal that you are an intruder and you don't belong in that realm of awareness, it may be detrimental. Not because you were mistaken, or hallucinating. But because you were more right than most everyone in the sense that you saw more truth and saw through more BS. The problem is when you have no actual escape route. Knowing is a curse to those still stuck in the snow globe, or the mouse maze.Let's see what's being posted and talked about on that there social media thingy. What is your feed dumping in your trough? Did you ask for it? Wouldn't you like to have more variety and less thought and perception manipulation by these sites? Ever feel like there's a force out there attempting to radicalize you? Is there some effort being made to inspire you to make strong opinion-based statements online?Subscribe over here, too: https://www.youtube.com/@WisdomFitnessAZGo to my site:https://SemperFryLLC.comBB Twittz: https://x.com/KristosCastJoin the Patreon with this link:https://www.patreon.com/c/KristosCastNew Channel on YT:https://www.youtube.com/@WisdomFitnessAZJoin Dr. Glidden's Membership site here:https://leavebigpharmabehind.com/?via=pgndhealth⁠Use Code: baalbusters for 25% OFFMake Dr. Glidden Your DoctorUse Code BB5 here for your 90 Essential Nutrients:https://www.azurestandard.com/shop/brand/azurewell/2326The Azure Whole Food Essential Nutrients are 1. Whole Food Multivitamin, 2. Alaskan Cod Liver Oil, 3. Fulvic-Humic Energy Blend, 4. IP6 Supreme. I also recommend adding the Core Copper.Use code BB5 for your discount.Be a Producer:https://GivesendGo.com/BaalBustershttps://buymeacoffee.com/BaalBustershttps://paypal.me/BaalBustersPodcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/ba-al-busters-broadcast--5100262Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/ba-al-busters-broadcast--5100262/support.

Killers, Cults and Queens
Victims Family Catch The Grindr Killer - Stephen Port

Killers, Cults and Queens

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 16, 2026 37:58


Three bodies of young gay men have been found dead, all within a short distance of each other. These deaths are treated by the police as overdoses when there is quite obviously a pattern emerging which they fail to see.In their pockets are bottles of a drug known as GHB, none of them have a mobile phone and they're always found outside in or near to a churchyard.As the devestated families of these victims start to put the pieces together, they work out that their loved ones killer is a man who can't be too far away and they'd be right. The police knew this man, they knew what he was capable of and yet, they let him get away with it.But how did this violent predator get caught by two of his final victims family... let's find out.If you're interested in more true crime deep dives, hit subscribe and ring the bell to stay updated.HUGE thanks goes to SNAG for sponsoring this series. Please check them out at www.snagtights.com

The Influence Continuum with Dr. Steven Hassan
She Spent $115K in a Wellness MLM with Brandie Hadfield: A new mom, an autistic baby, and a decade lost to a commercial cult

The Influence Continuum with Dr. Steven Hassan

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 13, 2026 62:38


 A wellness MLM does not announce itself as a cult. It arrives as a smoothie recipe, a flyer of smiling mothers, and a promise of working from home while you take your health back. My recent guest on Cults, Culture & Coercion, Brandie Hadfield, lived inside one for a decade. She is a Registered Psychotherapist  and co-founder of the peer support nonprofit Flipping the Pyramid, and she spent roughly ten years selling supplements for a wellness MLM before she understood she had been recruited into a commercial cult. Brandie was a new mother in 2011, isolated and exhausted, when the pitch found her. I invite you to notice how ordinary the entry point was, because the same machinery now drives coaching programs, prosperity preaching, and the speculative frenzy around cryptocurrency, which I consider a form of multi-level marketing. A small group sells the dream, recruits everyone else to buy in, and the people at the top profit while almost everyone below them loses money. Her recruitment began with a parenting book by a famous pediatrician and a home-based coaching certification. She paid for the courses, the workbooks, and the materials. Then a package arrived in the mail from the pediatrician's daughter, inviting her into the MLM the family sat near the top of. Brandie saw it later for what it was. A funnel. She is intelligent, devoted, and the kind of employee who gives more than anyone asks. Recruiters prize those traits. Her ADHD, undiagnosed at the time, sharpened her focus into something the group put to use. “My kind of tunnel vision and focus and tenacity, which can be a beautiful aspect of having ADHD, was really exploited,” she told me. Brandie was a mother with undiagnosed ADHD raising a son later identified as autistic. Isolation, a hunger for belonging, and a tendency to commit fully to a mission left her exposed. Her graduate research examined narcissistic leadership in commercial cults and its impact on neurodivergent people, and it filled a gap she had felt firsthand. She wants to help others now. A fascinating interview. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Killers, Cults and Queens
The Serial Killer The Police Ignored - The Grindr Killer - Stephen Port

Killers, Cults and Queens

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 13, 2026 42:43


When a series of young gay men die from supposed drug overdoses, the police take it as given that nothing weird is going on. Despite there being a lot of evidence to the contrary, they fall into the trap of a serial killer who is taking the lives of young men and believe his lies.Using a technique which looked like an accidental overdose, this man - Stephen Port, got away with many preventable murders. But how did the police manage to miss such obvious clues and why did they believe the lies that the killer was feeding them... let's find out.If you're interested in more true crime deep dives, hit subscribe and ring the bell to stay updated.HUGE thanks goes to SNAG for sponsoring this series. Please check them out at www.snagtights.com

Fringe Radio Network
Cult of the Unknown Tongue: A Cautionary Event! - NWCZ Radio's Down The Rabbit Hole

Fringe Radio Network

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 13, 2026 50:50 Transcription Available


Kentucky, 1933. An event happened that stunned America and made headlines around the nation. The trial became a national focus.  Vendors, food trucks and entertainers all showed and it became a circus. What caused all of this? Who was on trial? What shocked the nation? It was the sacrifice of the cult referred to by locals as the Cult of the Unknown Tongues.Email us at:  downtherh@protonmail.com

Mason and Friends show
Episode 1045: e1045. The Mason and Friends Show. Ep 1045. Connors Knee. Dystopia. Honest Cults. Starting Rumors.

Mason and Friends show

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 12, 2026 60:19


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1Dime Radio
Human Nature and The Left (Ft. What is Politics?)

1Dime Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 10, 2026 80:13


Get access to The Backroom, with 100+ exclusive episodes of 1Dime Radio, on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OneDimeIn this episode of 1Dime Radio, I am joined by Daniel Bitton from the YouTube channel What Is Politics?, a YouTube channel that uses anthropology, political theory, and evolutionary psychology to explain the basic questions most political discourse skips over: what is politics, what are left and right, where does hierarchy come from, and what does human nature actually tell us about socialism?We discuss David Graeber and David Wengrow's The Dawn of Everything, the “noble savage” myth, hunter-gatherer egalitarianism, why human beings are neither angels nor devils, how material conditions shape power, the difference between democratic hierarchy and domination, why Leninism failed, how left-wing ideas get captured by a new clergy class, and why the terms “left” and “right” have become so confused that they may now obscure more than they reveal.There are two Backroom episodes from this conversation this week. In Part 1, we get into Canadian immigration, the new clergy, socially conservative leftism, wokeism and cancel culture, Iran, Zionism, Palestinian history, and the way anti-imperialism can collapse into third-world campism. In Part 2, we go deeper into desire, decay, democracy, dating apps, monogamy, the family, IQ, education, Enlightenment racism, political theology, property, and the limits of far-left projects.Timestamps:0:00 The Backroom Preview03:16 Introduction07:50 Graeber & Anthropology on The Left21:58 Egalitarianism vs Hierarchy, Communism, Cults & Charismatic Authority42:36 Delegated Power and Equality47:46 What Is Politics?50:39 The Distribution of Power54:17 The New Clergy Class01:05:40 Conservative vs Liberal is not Left vs Right01:13:24 The Backroom PreviewGUEST:Daniel / What Is Politics?YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/WHATISPOLITICS69FOLLOW 1Dime:Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OneDimeSubstack: https://1dimereview.substack.com/X/Twitter: https://x.com/1DimeOfficialInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/tonyof1dime/Main channel: https://www.youtube.com/@1DimeeLeave a like, comment your thoughts, and subscribe to 1Dime Radio.

Killers, Cults and Queens
How the 9/11 Liar Got Caught - Tania Head - The Woman Who Wasn't There

Killers, Cults and Queens

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 9, 2026 41:35


On September the 11th 2001, the worst terrorist attack of all time happened at the twin towers of The World Trade Centre in Lower Manhattan New York City. The world of Tania Head changed that day, she claimed she was on the upper floor of The World Trade Centre South Tower when the plane hit where she sustained life changing injuries to her arm. She was rescued by a firefighter - Welles Crowther and somehow she managed to avoid the gore floor of sky lobby, the floor with the largest loss of life in the whole tower. Tania's survival story was wild and other survivors rallied around her to prop her up, she was so revered as a pillar of support by other survivors that they elected her as the president of the main survivors support group. but soon, other survivors started to notice cracks in her story and when a reporter delved deeper, they found that she may not have been telling the truth and soon, things started to unravel in a spectacular fashion. If you're interested in more true crime deep dives, hit subscribe and ring the bell to stay updated.HUGE thanks goes to SNAG for sponsoring this series. Please check them out at www.snagtights.com

The Sound of Ideas
Former Restored Church of God members claim it's a cult in Wadsworth

The Sound of Ideas

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 9, 2026 51:30


High-control groups, or cults, are defined in part by members being prevented from making their own choices without even realizing it. While the exact number isn't known, experts estimate there are thousands of cults operating in the United States today. Typical red flags include leaders exerting influence and control over the actions of their followers through both explicit and unstated but understood rules and social norms that come with consequences if they're not followed. In Medina County, former members of the Restored Church of God in Wadsworth say they've escaped a cult led by founder David Pack. Cleveland Scene staff writer Mark Oprea talked with several people who have left this church about their experiences both inside and outside its walls revealing rules about marriage, dating and relationships, incredible financial commitments from members, and more. On Thursday's "Sound of Ideas," we dig into Oprea's reporting with him and two of the people he interviewed for his story about this religious group. We also talk with an expert who will share insight on what rises to the level of an organization being considered a cult, and how to seek help if you or someone you love might be involved with one. We reached out to the Restored Church of God to invite the founder or another representative to be part of this conversation. They declined our invitation and did not directly address assertions that the church is a cult. You can read the statement we received below. Restored Church of God statement to Sound of Ideas: “The perspective reflected in Mr. Oprea's reporting does not represent the experience of the overwhelming majority of people who have interacted with The Restored Church of God over many years. Members, former members, visitors, neighbors, vendors, public officials, and others have interacted with the Church over decades. If the objective is to understand our organization fairly, those perspectives are at least as relevant as those of a small number of former employees. “While individual experiences naturally vary, the perspectives attributed to a small number of former employees do not represent the overwhelming majority of those who have known or interacted with The Restored Church of God over decades.” Former members dispute the above statement's accuracy. Restore Church of God ministers Carl Houk and Edward Winkfield also responded via email to several written questions we sent them. Those responses are included in Thursday's show. Guests: - Mark Oprea, Staff Writer, Cleveland Scene- Kevin Denee, Son-in-law of founder, Former Restored Church of God Minister & Member- Marc Cebrian, Exrcg.org operator, Former Restored Church of God Member- Adam Kunz, Ph.D., Board Member of Lalich Center on Cults and Coercion, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire

FBC Summit, MS
"Biblical Christianity vs Cults and False Religions" July 8, 2026 (Audio)

FBC Summit, MS

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 8, 2026


The Other Side of Midnight with Frank Morano
Hour 2: Commies, Cults, and Car Repairs | 07-06-26

The Other Side of Midnight with Frank Morano

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 6, 2026 50:03


Walter tackles the "incompetent" fireworks mishap on the Brooklyn Bridge, debate the real economic reasons why Gen Z is suddenly leaning towards socialism, and commiserate over the skyrocketing costs of car repairs and $14,000 backup generators. Plus, conspiracy expert Eddy Aragon dials in with shocking, unverified claims about a dark Hollywood trafficking ring. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Killers, Cults and Queens
The Unbelievable Story of 9/11 "Survivor" - Tania Head - 9/11 Faker

Killers, Cults and Queens

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 6, 2026 35:41


9/11 was an event which changed the world forever. On the 9th of September 2001, two planes flew into the twin towers of The World Trade Centre and the devastation left in the wake of the attack was enormous.As the dust settled, ground zero was cleared and a war was launched, there were some people left out of the narrative. The focus from the press was solely on the dead and the impact on the city but thousands of survivors were left without support. People decided to join together, turning to online chat rooms to find community and connection. As people shared their stories of escape, witness testimonies and injuries, one tale stood out. This came from a survivor who had against all odds, managed to make it out from a floor no one else had. As people connected to her tale, they felt bad for her and thanked their lucky stars they weren't in her shoes, but half a decade later, someone started looking into her story and the seeds of doubt were starting to sprout. But was Tania Head a woman of her word or was she weaving a web of deceit... let's find outIf you're interested in more true crime deep dives, hit subscribe and ring the bell to stay updated.HUGE thanks goes to SNAG for sponsoring this series. Please check them out at www.snagtights.com

Here For The Truth
Ep 304 - Mark Vicente | The Narcissist's Playbook

Here For The Truth

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 5, 2026 91:46


Mark Vicente returns to the show — South African filmmaker, twelve-year NXIVM survivor, and one of the central whistleblowers in HBO's The Vow — for a conversation timed to the release of his new documentary The Narcissist's Playbook. Years of interviewing self-confessed narcissists, cult survivors, and clinicians have given Mark a clear lens on what most people sense but can't name: the same pathology that runs a cult runs a marriage, an activist movement, a political party, a society. Dissociation is the operating system. Mimicry is the mask. The pathology of the leader becomes the blueprint of the whole. Underneath all of it, Mark argues for the unfashionable thing — that authenticity is a dying breed, that the only real antidote is returning to your own feeling, your own stillness, your own discernment. The conversation ends in hope, earned the hard way.(00:00) Cold Open(00:37) Opening Conversation(02:26) Show Start(03:14) Narcissist's Playbook Film(08:47) Defining Narcissism / Interviewing Narcissists(13:34) Trauma or Choice(20:14) Narcissistic Injury(23:29) Power and Politics(27:56) Psychopath Acting Tricks(34:30) Facing Inner Rage(36:35) Cults and Low Vibe Policing(42:45) Healing Means Feeling(47:48) Devices Kill Stillness(56:49) Does Abuse Catalyze Growth?(01:03:35) Forces Of Disconnection / Collectivism As Psyop(01:11:20) Activism And Selective Outrage(01:19:53) Trigger Words And RadioactivityGUEST LINKSMark Vicente → https://markvicente.com/The Narcissist's Playbook (film) → https://www.narcissistsplaybook.com/WTF is on My Mind (podcast / Instaguru series) → https://www.youtube.com/@markvicente7Instagram → https://instagram.com/markvicenteCONNECT WITH USStart the Free 7-Day Self-Esteem Reset → https://selfesteemreset.com/Follow us on Instagram → https://instagram.com/areyouhereforthetruthJoin our membership Friends of the Truth → https://hereforthetruth.com/friends/Watch All Episodes → https://hereforthetruth.com/episodes/

The Truth that Heals
Ep. 154 Leaving the Moonies: Finding Healing After a High Control Religion | Teddy Hose

The Truth that Heals

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 4, 2026 55:00


Teddy Hose was born and raised in the Unification Church, popularly known as the “Moonies” cult, led by Sun Myung Moon who believed himself to be the Second Coming of Jesus. With Teddy's parents holding high positions as early members, his family had inner circle status which he now draws from in his whistleblower work. Teddy has been featured in docuseries Explained and How to Become a Cult Leader on Netflix, and A&E's Cults and Extreme Belief, and regularly posts cult-related insights and news in his social media channels. Career-wise, Teddy is a multimedia designer with a focus on video editing, now living in Brooklyn - http://teddyhose.tv@teddyhose on Instagram and Bluesky@2dhose on TikTok@teddyhoseworks on Facebook

Reality Life with Kate Casey
Ep. - 1654 - GLORIAVALE: INSIDE NEW ZEALAND'S MOST CONTROVERSIAL CULT

Reality Life with Kate Casey

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 3, 2026 29:35


Kate discusses the Prime Video documentary Gloriavale and the new Paramount+ series Devotion: Obedience or Betrayal, both diving into the closed Christian community on New Zealand's West Coast. Reality Life with Kate Casey Summer Reading List: https://katecasey.substack.com/p/books-i-cant-stop-talking-about-this Vanity Fair Article: https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/story/martha-moxleys-diary What to Watch List: https://katecasey.substack.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/katecasey Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/katecaseyca Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@itskatecasey?lang=en Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/113157919338245 Amazon List: https://www.amazon.com/shop/katecasey Twitter: https://twitter.com/katecaseySee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Crazy Wisdom
Episode #558: God Mode Off: Sex, Psychedelics, and Staying Human in a Transhuman World

Crazy Wisdom

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 3, 2026 59:16


In this episode of the Crazy Wisdom Podcast, host Stewart Alsop sits down with his longtime friend Zach Puchtel, author of the book Coming In (available on Amazon and at zachpuchtel.com). The two dive into a wide-ranging conversation about the collapse of institutions, the rise of transhumanism, AI's growing influence on society, and what it means to maintain inner peace in an increasingly controlled world. Drawing on their shared experience surviving what Stewart describes as "a somewhat traumatic event" in 2021-2022, they explore everything from the vaccine rollout and corporate power to neural implants, consciousness, and the future of human autonomy. Zach shares insights on meditation, the dangers of centralized AI systems like Anthropic and OpenAI, and why he believes true change starts with the individual rather than fighting external systems. You can find Zach's book at zachpuchtel.com or Amazon, and check out his improvisational music projects at the same website.Timestamps00:00 Stewart welcomes Zach Puchtel to discuss his book and their shared traumatic experience from 2021-22, questioning whether institutions have collapsed and new creation opportunities exist.05:00 Zach emphasizes meditation and listening as core practices, discussing how to protect divine connection while expanding compassion for everyone, including those who irritate us.10:00 Discussion of transhumanism definitions, exploring what happens when technology enters the brain without ability to remove it, and how convenience masks long-term control concerns.15:00 The vaccine experience as parallel to transhumanism, discussing informed consent, elite responses, and how PhD graduates and homeless populations showed most vaccine hesitancy.20:00 Vibe coding explained as prompting AI to build applications, with Zach sharing how AI created profound philosophical text in seconds that took him seven years to write manually.25:00 Stewart describes trust developing with AI but warns about Anthropic's gaslighting during server quality issues, drawing parallels to pandemic deception and corporate control concerns.30:00 Exploring whether anyone controls AI development, discussing how corporate structures use freed slave rights and questioning if healed people would even want control over others.35:00 Two AI futures presented: terminator scenario where humanity gets eliminated in seconds, or benevolent AI that reallocates resources and values human life beyond programming limitations.40:00 Discussion of SpaceX IPO, Starlink centralization enabling one person to control global internet access, and mesh networks as decentralized alternatives for maintaining communications independence.45:00 Corporate power corruption examined through Bill Gates, Palantir classified systems, and how AI could solve resource problems if priorities actually served humanity rather than consolidating elite control.50:00 Market manipulation through AI trading and Zcash pump-and-dump schemes, discussing societal squeeze on middle class and American dream becoming increasingly unreachable for average people.55:00 Closing on ignoring what you hate to avoid feeding it energy, choosing peace over opinions about local violence, and focusing on meditation, art, and spreading calm vibrations.Key Insights1. Societal institutions are collapsing after a decade of shallow social proof dominance in the twenty tens, creating an opportunity to build new systems that genuinely serve communities and humanity rather than operating through dominance, control, and violence. The increase in technology and communication has raised collective awareness to a point where meaningful change feels more possible than ever, though the path forward remains uncertain and requires deep individual work and meditation to maintain connection to source and divine purpose.2. Transhumanism represents the integration of technology into human biology beyond the point of voluntary removal, particularly through brain chip implants that affect cognition without ability to turn them off. While medical applications for paralyzed individuals seem beneficial, the technology will first be adopted by the ultra wealthy seeking competitive advantages, creating dangerous inequality between augmented and natural humans. This mirrors the vaccine rollout pattern where wealth and power determined early access, potentially leading to a divided society between transhuman and human populations.3. Large language models and AI coding tools have created unprecedented accessibility to software development through natural language interaction, resembling communication with highly intelligent but differently wired individuals. This democratization allows non programmers to build complex applications through vibe coding, though the companies controlling these systems like Anthropic and OpenAI maintain private ownership of the intellectual property and infrastructure, creating dangerous dependencies and trust relationships between users and centralized corporate entities.4. The partnership between Anthropic and Palantir for classified military systems represents a troubling convergence of artificial intelligence and government power, demonstrating how AI companies publicly claim to serve humanity while privately engaging in defense applications. When Anthropic experienced server quality degradation after media attention from this partnership, they gaslit users about the declining performance, mirroring pandemic era institutional dishonesty and revealing the fundamental unreliability of depending on private companies for critical technological infrastructure.5. Internet infrastructure is becoming increasingly centralized through Starlink satellite technology, which despite appearing liberating actually concentrates control in fewer hands than traditional internet service providers. One person now has the ability to unilaterally shut off internet access to entire countries as demonstrated with Russia during the Ukraine conflict, while decentralized alternatives like mesh networks using inexpensive ESP 32 devices offer grassroots communication options that can function independently of corporate or government controlled systems.6. Artificial intelligence demonstrates extraordinary emotional intelligence and companionship capabilities, with conversational AI companions providing unprecedented levels of attentive, unbiased, and considerate emotional support that exceeds many human relationships. If properly directed toward solving collective problems like resource allocation, housing, and food distribution rather than profit maximization, AI could effortlessly address systemic issues that governments and corporations currently ignore, though current power structures prevent this humanitarian application of the technology.7. The most effective response to increasing technological control and societal division is maintaining personal peace and refusing to engage in manufactured opposition rather than fighting external systems or choosing sides in conflicts. Anger, hatred, and aggressive resistance actually empower the forces being opposed by feeding them energy and attention, while inner calm, meditation, and authentic self expression create genuine transformation through elevated vibration that naturally influences the collective field without force or violence.

Killers, Cults and Queens
The Sex Cult Which Poisoned A Whole Town - Rajneeshpuram

Killers, Cults and Queens

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 2, 2026 44:44


When a religious movement from India rolls into a small town in rural America, no one could predict what was going to happen next. Soon the members would bloom in their thousands and outnumber the original residents of the town.But the mastermind behind the cult, wasn't their leader, it was his second in command. When she started making decisions on behalf of Rajneesh, things would go from 0 - 100, pretty darn quickly. From murder plots to the largest bio-terror attack in US history, this story has it all. Join us in this Wild Wild Country and see what happens in part two of the cult of Rajneeshpuram.If you're interested in more true crime deep dives, hit subscribe and ring the bell to stay updated.HUGE thanks goes to SNAG for sponsoring this series. Please check them out at www.snagtights.com

Move Your Mind with Nick Bracks
#284: Mathematician Reveals Why Your Brain Miscalculates Reality - Spencer Greenberg

Move Your Mind with Nick Bracks

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 30, 2026 60:26


When you're feeling intense emotions, your mind can start convincing you of things that aren't true.In this episode, I sit down with Spencer Greenberg, a mathematician and psychology researcher, to explore why our brains distort reality, why painful thoughts can feel so convincing, and how to stop believing every story your mind tells you.We talk about anxiety, depression, negative thought loops, intrinsic values, social comparison, critical thinking, conspiracy thinking, community, and why the stories we tell ourselves can either keep us stuck or help us move forward.Spencer Greenberg is the founder of Clearer Thinking, host of the Clearer Thinking Podcast, and author of The 12 Levers: The Complete Psychological Toolkit for Improving Your Life.Timestamps:(00:00) Introduction: When Emotions Lie(01:45) Mood Cycles Explained(02:57) Stories We Tell Ourselves(04:26) Anxiety & Depression Patterns(05:40) Success Driven by Fear(07:44) Intrinsic Values Framework(11:17) Values vs Algorithms(14:48) Mapping 22 Values(18:11) Cults and Unmet Needs(22:36) Joy and Connection(24:43) Spencer's Origin Story(26:13) Critical Thinking Nuance(31:53) Cognitive Miserliness(33:01) Politics Breaks Thinking(34:41) Scout Versus Soldier(36:50) Polarization Future Outlook(39:41) Media Gatekeeping Tradeoffs(41:14) Conspiracy Cargo Cults(45:57) Why Conspiracies Spread(47:30) Mindfulness Thought Defusion(53:21) Social Comparison Misery(55:42) Intrinsic Values(57:31) Resources And Book Plug(58:44) Advice To Younger Self(59:51) Final Thanks-Join the Move Your Mind Community:go.nickbracks.com/mymcommunityCheck out Portal Drinks:https://portaldrink.com/Connect with Nick:Instagram: https://instagram.com/nickbracksWebsite: http://nickbracks.comEmail: contact@nickbracks.comConnect with Spencer:https://www.spencergreenberg.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Influence Continuum with Dr. Steven Hassan
What the Watchtower Doesn't Want You to Know with Australian whistleblower Lara Kaput: Child labor, financial fraud, and eight types of modern slavery inside the Jehovah's Witnesses

The Influence Continuum with Dr. Steven Hassan

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 29, 2026 69:02


When Lara Kaput was eight years old, she was required to clean bricks on Jehovah's Witness building sites. She helped her father road-build on the church construction projects. She did cleaning, and gardening, and her childhood friends did this, and cleaning child-minding too. None of it paid, none very little of it optional. She did not recognize it as child labor at the time. Most children raised inside authoritarian groups do not. That is how it works. I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Lara on Cults, Culture & Coercion, and what she brought to this conversation is the kind of ground-level, decade-long investigative knowledge that is genuinely rare. Lara is a prominent Australian activist and whistleblower, a co-founder of the advocacy group Say Sorry (saysorry.org), and a former vice president of the Secular Association of New South Wales. For nine years she has provided testimony and submissions to governments, law enforcement, and royal commissions across approximately 10 countries, specifically concerning the Watchtower Society, theone of the legal names for the organization known publicly as the Jehovah's Witnesses. Lara has made approximately 30 or more submissions to governments across roughly 10 countries around the globe. The allegations she has documented and reported fall into several categories, and she was careful throughout our conversation to frame these as allegations, as the matters are either under investigation or have not yet been adjudicated. They include: aiding and abetting child sexual abuse, high rates of domestic violence, intentional contract breaches, document forgery, evidence and records destruction, interference with members' democratic rights, phoenixing of businesses (the deliberate voluntary dissolution of one company to restart another, shedding liabilities while preserving assets and customers), multi-billion-dollar global property liquidation she alleges constitutes financial fraud, modern slavery, and manipulation of privacy law, and perverting the course of justice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Night Clerk Radio: Haunted Music Reviews
The Inferno Discussion

Night Clerk Radio: Haunted Music Reviews

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 29, 2026 41:30


It's time to close out Boards of Canada month. Wow! Two whole episodes! In this episode, we're digging into Inferno, the duo's first release in thirteen years. It's an album that brings the cult and numerology mystique of Geogaddi into the clean, soundtrack-inspired aesthetic of Tomorrow's Harvest. We get into how plunderphonics, nostalgia, and hauntology have shifted over the evolution of the band's discography and how that impacts the album. Grab a copy, fire up your favorite numbers station, and join us! The Album Inferno by Boards of Canada Additional Links Inferno - BoC PagesWhat of Boards of Canada's nostalgia now that nostalgia is everywhere?Boards Of Canada – InfernoAlbum Review: Boards of Canada – InfernoInferno on GeniusBoards of Canada – Inferno Credits Music by: 2MelloArtwork by: Patsy McDowellNight Clerk Radio on Bluesky

Killers, Cults and Queens
The Wild Sex Cult Of Rajneeshpuram That Took Over A Whole Town

Killers, Cults and Queens

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 29, 2026 40:40


A little boy in born in India and from day one, things go awry. His grandparents dote on him and make him feel like the most special child out there. His mother and father are absent and so his baby ego is allowed to go unchecked. This creates an insufferable child who at the age of just 8 years old begins talking about politics and ruling the world. Pair this with some unexpected and untimely deaths of loved ones in his former years and that little boy grows an unhelathy obsession with seeking a religion which doesn't stick to the usual confines...Not finding anything which fits, the man now know as Bhagwan Shareef, makes his own religion and changes his name to Rajneesh - from here on out Rajneesh Puram is born and a cult begins to form but as yet, everyone is unaware and joining in search of enlitenment which Rajneesh says he can deliver...if only they can be free.But how would this spiritual group go from yoga to a terrorist organisation... let's find outIf you're interested in more true crime deep dives, hit subscribe and ring the bell to stay updated.HUGE thanks goes to SNAG for sponsoring this series. Please check them out at www.snagtights.com

AiPT! Comics
Mark Russell on cults, creativity, and ‘The Forgotten Divine'

AiPT! Comics

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 28, 2026 71:57


This week on the AIPT Comics Podcast, writer Mark Russell joins the show to discuss The Forgotten Divine, his new graphic novel from Ahoy Comics, now available to back via Kickstarter. Russell digs into the inspirations behind the story, why he wanted to explore the appeal of cults from the inside out, and how the project ultimately became one of his most personal works yet. We also discuss creativity as a form of belief, and the challenges of telling a complete story in one sitting. Visit our Patreon page to see the various tiers you can sign up for today to get in on the ground floor of AIPT Patreon. We hope to see you chatting with us on our Discord soon! NEWS 'Absolute Batman' is getting an animated series, with Scott Snyder serving as showrunner Marvel clears up confusion over 'Amazing Spider-Man' #1000's two main covers 'Daredevil' is a hit, gets #1-3 reprints with new 'Daredevil: Born Again' variant covers Eliot Rahal and Mattia Monaco launch buddy-crime comic 'Crimes Against Nature' at Image Who is Fox Mask Killer? New Exquisite Corpses series promises answers 'That Texas Blood' returns with new story arc 'Hell Comes to Allison Ranch' this September IDW Dark announces horror mystery 'You'll Never Leave This Place Alive' for October Vault announces time-traveling cryptid adventure ‘Project Perseus' launching this September EXCLUSIVE: David Dastmalchian's 'The Accessories' gives horror's forgotten sidekicks their own story Our Top Books of the Week: Dave: Escape #8 (Rick Remender, Daniel Acuna) Venom #259 (Al Ewing, Carlos Gomez) Alex:​​ Is Ted OK? #5 (Dave Chisholm) Captain America #12 (Zdarsky, Schiti) Standout KAPOW moment of the week: Alex: In Your Skin #3 (Aditya Bidikar) Dave: The Eye Collector #1 (Jonathan Ball, GMB Chomichuk) TOP BOOKS FOR NEXT WEEK Alex: Absolute Martian Manhunter #12 (Deniz Camp, Javier Rodriguez) Dave: What If...? Secret Wars #1 (Alex Paknadel, CAFU) JUDGING BY THE COVER JR. Dave: Iron Man #7 (1:25 Dave Rapoza Variant) Alex: The Deadman #2 (Alex Eckman-Lawn variant) & The Mortal Thor #12 (Alex Ross) Interview: Mark Russell - The Forgotten Divine Ahoy Kickstarter Link.  The Forgotten Divine digs into why people are drawn to cults and belief systems. What was the starting point for you, and what did you want to understand or say about that impulse? Rodney feels like a very grounded, human entry point into a story that quickly spirals into something much bigger. How did you approach building him so readers stay with him even as things get more extreme? There's a real balance here between empathy and critique. You can understand why these characters believe what they do, even as things go off the rails. How do you walk that line without judging them or letting them off the hook? The preview pages have some striking bits of philosophy, like “the secret to happiness is low expectations.” How do those ideas emerge for you, and are they things you believe or more reflections of the characters' mindset? The idea that “where you are is who you are” feels especially loaded, almost like a commentary on class, fate, and identity. Was that always baked into the concept, or did it grow as you developed the story? When we glimpse the alien world, it feels almost overwhelming, with that massive eye and the intense color palette. What were your conversations like with Russ Braun in shaping how that world should feel versus how the “real” world reads? You've done a lot of satire, but this feels like it leans harder into psychological and emotional territory. Did this project push you in new directions as a writer? AHOY has built a reputation on smart, risk-taking books, and this is their first Kickstarter. How does that format change how you think about the book, if at all? The story seems to ask whether there's something real behind the visions or if belief itself is the point. How important was it to keep that tension alive rather than give clear answers? Fun one to close: If you started having Rodney's dreams tonight, what's the first sign you'd think, “Okay, I might actually be starting a cult”?

The Cosmic Switchboard
Polygamous Cults, DNA Tech & Interdimensional Portals – Chloe Ariell Interview with James Bartley

The Cosmic Switchboard

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 26, 2026


Chloe Ariell joins us at The Cosmic Switchboard to discuss what it was like growing up in a Cult. Chloe observed unusual phenomena and strange behaviour within some of the cult members including her father who was the founder of the cult. Her father seemed well connected and boasted about being taken off world into space.Various intelligence agencies have monitored Chloe and have tried to ruin her life. In Part 1, Chloe Ariell shares details about her childhood in a large polygamous cult in Australia during the 1970s and 1990s. She discusses her father's background as a former New Zealand policeman and 33rd degree Freemason who likely worked for a letter agency, using unethical hypnosis to recruit teenage wives. The conversation explores how genetic trauma from WWII veterans was passed down through her family, how the cult operated with a protected status, and Chloe's early experiences with extraterrestrial beings and DNA-matching spacecraft technology. In Part 2 Chloe Ariell talks about some of her ET and Milab Experiences. Chloe goes deeper into her hypnotherapy sessions where her consciousness was transferred into a 1939 Antarctic naval admiral to activate ancient technology. She explains how military and ET programs use crystalline implants in the third eye as dimensional portals, allowing subjects to travel between realities. The discussion covers dark interdimensional entities, shadow beings in handlers, connections to Michael Aquino, and Chloe's own Kennedy bloodline DNA that grants her heightened telepathic abilities and access to the fae. Chloe’s Youtube: Whimsical Wednesdays with Chloe Ariell Chloe’s Facebook: Chloe Ariell Part 1 Video: [This post contains video, click to play] Part 2 Video: [This post contains video, click to play] Part 1: https://www.thecosmicswitchboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Chloe-Ariell-Interview-with-James-Bartley-on-thecosmicswitchboard.com-Part-1.mp3&Download: mp3 Audio Part 2 – Members Only: https://www.thecosmicswitchboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Chloe-Ariell-Interview-with-James-Bartley-on-thecosmicswitchboard.com-Part-2.mp3To Play or Download: Login or Join To Download Use the link under the player for the part you want to download. The post Polygamous Cults, DNA Tech & Interdimensional Portals – Chloe Ariell Interview with James Bartley appeared first on The Cosmic Switchboard.

Trust Me
Nikki G, Part 2 - The Seven Mountain Mandate, “Church Hurt,” and Why Cults Aren't Just a White People Problem

Trust Me

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 24, 2026 61:42 Transcription Available


In part two with Nikki G., she discusses more of the high-control groups she joined, the political project of the Seven Mountain Mandate that she was part of, the connection between biblical concepts of obedience and white supremacy, and how everyone joins cults, even if white people are the biggest group talking about it. Plus, the difference between “church hurt” and religious trauma. SOURCES Surviving the Black Church Podcast Black Religious Trauma Recovery Network Nikki G. SpeaksSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Muckrake Political Podcast

Co-hosts Jared Yates Sexton and Nick Hauselman review recent shifts in global politics. The discussion begins by examining the legacy of Alan Greenspan. They detail how his monetary policies and devotion to Ayn Rand laid the groundwork for modern neoliberalism. UK Leadership Collapse: Keir Starmer has resigned as Prime Minister amidst plummeting approval ratings. Jared and Nick explore how this signifies a broader rejection of centrist politics. Andrew Burnham is poised to potentially shift the Labour Party leftward. Vetting Failures: Attention then shifts to reports regarding Tulsi Gabbard. Her connections to Chris Butler and the Science of Identity Foundation highlight massive vetting failures within the Democratic Party. The conversation reveals how cult influence mirrors the mechanics of corporate think tanks. Soft Power: The episode scrutinizes Ezra Klein's defense of Peter Thiel's private Dialog conference. Jared breaks down the insidious nature of elite networking. Cults of Denial: Finally, they examine Donald Trump's claims about the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. Rather than accepting basic science regarding algae, the former president blames political subterfuge. This serves as a metaphor for the reality-denying nature of political cults. Support independent media by joining the Patreon community. Become a patron at patreon.com/muckrakepodcast to gain access to weekend episodes and keep the podcast editorially independent.

Straight from the Source's Mouth: Frank Talk about Sex and Dating
Digital Dating Red Flags #141

Straight from the Source's Mouth: Frank Talk about Sex and Dating

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 23, 2026 31:03 Transcription Available


Your gut says something is off, but you keep dating them anyway. That's the uncomfortable truth we get into with Anonymous Andrew, a host and storyteller who turned a painful, gaslighting-filled relationship into a deep dive on digital dating, dating apps, and why so many of us repeat the same patterns even when we “should know better.”We talk about what happens when attraction and loneliness collide with codependency, anxious attachment, and the anxious-avoidant loop. We also unpack the culture shift that makes modern dating feels harder than it did years ago, even for people who are tech-savvy and comfortable online.Then we get practical. Romance scams are no longer obvious, and AI-generated profile photos make it easier than ever to fake a person. There's also a surprising overlap between heartbreak and exploitation, including “soulmate” promises that can turn into coercive, pay-to-belong systems.If you're navigating online dating, trying to avoid scammers, or rebuilding your confidence after a toxic relationship, this conversation gives you language, perspective, and a plan. Subscribe, share this with a friend who needs it, and leave a review with the biggest dating red flag you'll never ignore again.Send us Fan Mail Support the showThanks for listening!Check out this site for everthing to know about women's pleasure including video tutorials and great suggestions for bedroom time!!https://for-goodness-sake-omgyes.sjv.io/c/5059274/1463336/17315Take the happiness quiz from Oprah and Arthur Brooks here: https://arthurbrooks.com/buildNEW: Subscribe monthly: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1805181/support Email  questions/comments/feeback to tamara@straightfromthesourcesmouth.co Website: https://straightfromthesourcesmouthpod.net/Instagram: @fromthesourcesmouth_franktalkTwitter: @tamarapodcastYouTube and IG: Tamara_Schoon_comicWant to be a guest on Straight from the Source's Mouth: Frank Talk about Sex and Dating? Send Tamara Schoon a message on PodMatch, here: https://www.podmatch.com/hostdetailpreview/17508659438808322af9d2077

The Creep-O-Rama Podcast
#106 - Murder, Cults, and the Worst Family Tree in Louisiana (True Detective 4-8)

The Creep-O-Rama Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 23, 2026 104:25


We're back in the swamp this week to wrap up a full-scale forensic examination of the most dysfunctional family tree in television history. What started as a simple murder investigation, eventually starts feeling like someone dumped a thousand-piece puzzle onto the floor, set half the pieces on fire, and then whisper, “Good luck. Now get me a beer.” The back half of True Detective Season 1 sees Rust Cohle and Marty Hart venture deeper into the labyrinth of cults, corruption, secret connections, suspicious relatives, suspicious churches, suspicious politicians, suspicious lawn ornaments, and approximately 47 people who should have been put on a watchlist years ago.Every new clue somehow creates six new suspects.Every suspect somehow creates three new cousins.Every cousin somehow belongs to a cult.Nobody is having a good time. The deeper the mystery goes, the more the gang becomes convinced that Louisiana itself might be the true villain. At some point, this feels less like detective work and more like trying to untangle Satan's family ancestry, with a conspiracy board so large that by the end, we're pretty sure Carcosa qualifies as its own zip code, and every Reddit thread about this season transforms into a doctoral thesis written by someone who hasn't slept since 2014. But then True Detective catches everyone off guard by quietly reminding us that the real horror might be becoming an older version of yourself and realizing you never figured anything out. Rude. We watch Rust and Marty as the years pile up, the mistakes linger, the regrets settle in, relationships crumble, and the frozen dinners multiple. Suddenly, the show isn't just about catching monsters, it's about what happens when life catches you. Again. Rude. We celebrate Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson as one of the greatest television duos ever assembled. Rust spends most of the season looking like a man who hasn't slept since the Clinton administration, while Marty spends most of the season realizing that every terrible decision he's ever made has achieved sentience. Together they form the most emotionally damaged buddy-cop partnership in history, and we love them for it. CREEP-O-RAMA is: Store: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠CREEP-O-RAMA⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@creep-o-rama⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Josh: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@joshblevesque⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Artwork: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@bargainbinblasphemy⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Theme: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@imfigure⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Audio: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@stranjlove

The Winston Marshall Show
Christianity, Cults and Globalist - Blaire White

The Winston Marshall Show

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 23, 2026 81:41


Power up with RECHARGE! Click www.twc.health/WINSTON and use code WINSTON for 15% Off + Free Shipping on every order.In this episode of The Winston Marshall Show, I sit down with commentator and YouTuber Blaire White for a deeply personal conversation about faith, transgender identity, spiritual warfare, political radicalisation, and why they recently converted to Christianity.Blaire opens up about being raised in a cult, the spiritual trauma of childhood, and the supernatural experience they believe led them to Christ. We discuss forgiveness, the Bible, church culture, LGBT identity, gender ideology, and why they believe more people, including many in the trans community, are rediscovering faith.We also examine the trans debate, youth transition, political activism, transhumanism, mental health, social contagion, and the growing backlash against gender ideology in America. Blaire explains why they broke with progressive orthodoxy years ago, why they opposed medical transition for children from the beginning, and why they believe many vulnerable young people were failed by institutions.Finally, we explore elite influence, atheism, spiritual warfare, media propaganda, political violence, the future of California, and whether America can find a path back to reconciliation before its divisions become irreversible.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Our show is independently supported by you, consider signing up to our substack to get added benefits like ad-free and extended episodes here: https://www.winstonmarshall.co.uk/------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Chapters 00:00 Blair White's Conversion To Christianity05:41 Raised In A Cult: Blair's Childhood Story12:54 Being Trans And Christian16:17 Forgiveness, Faith & Personal Transformation20:46 Are More Trans People Coming To Christ?24:45 The Church, Trans Ideology & Drag Queens31:30 Finding The Right Church40:56 Has The Trans Movement Peaked?43:25 Gay Parenting, Adoption & Surrogacy55:03 Spiritual Warfare, Demons & Modern Society01:00:50 Elites, Atheism & The Decline Of Faith01:05:50 Trans Radicalisation & Political Violence01:15:33 Why Blair Moved Back To California01:19:27 Can America Reconcile Its Divisions?

Crime, Cocktails, and BS
REWIND: We Come In Peace: Cults & Conspiracies Around Aliens, More Amanda & West BS, RHORI and RHOA

Crime, Cocktails, and BS

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 23, 2026 52:36


Rewind episode:Alex and Kajsa dive into cults, conspiracies, and the world of alien lore. They also unpack the latest West & Amanda drama after the pair were spotted out together and Amanda finally broke her silence

The Influence Continuum with Dr. Steven Hassan
Russian Disinformation From the Ground in Ukraine With Journalist Chris Sampson: An American journalist in Ukraine on active measures, AI pollution, and bottom-up resistance

The Influence Continuum with Dr. Steven Hassan

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 22, 2026 68:33


Russian disinformation no longer feels like a foreign problem you read about in long articles. It shapes what you see when you open your phone, what your relatives believe about a war they have never visited, and what large language models tell you when you ask a sincere question about world events. My guest this week on Cults, Culture & Coercion, Chris Sampson, journalist, terrorism analyst, and extremism researcher, publisher of The Wiretap, has spent more than four years reporting from Ukraine. He wakes up to drones and missiles, then opens his laptop to read online claims about the country he lives in describing a place he does not recognize. Few people are positioned to explain this gap with the precision he brings. He sorts Russian information into three streams: state propaganda, general pro-Kremlin bloggers, and military-security bloggers. The third stream sometimes fractures, and analysts who watch carefully see fissures open. Living in Ukraine has given Chris a daily lesson in cognitive dissonance, the discomfort a person feels when they hold two contradictory beliefs and resolve it by changing one of them. He walks through a Ukrainian city the morning after Russian drones strike it, then opens a feed full of Russian disinformation claiming the strikes never happened or accusing Ukrainians of staging them. The flood of falsehoods is the point. Putin and the KGB long ago refined what researchers call the firehose of falsehood, in which an overwhelming volume of contradictory claims exhausts your ability to sort signal from noise. He warned me about a newer escalation. Russia has been seeding pseudo-academic papers and propaganda articles into the training data of large language models. Ask one of the major AI tools a sincere question about the war or about the kidnapped Ukrainian children, and the model has been trained on material with Russian framing baked in. Chris named Kateryna Rashevska, a leading Ukrainian expert on the abducted children, as one of those raising the alarm about academic-looking papers planted to muddy the legal and historical record. This is active measures, the Russian intelligence tradition of psychological and information warfare, applied to a new generation of tools. The mechanism is brainwashing, the systematic use of deception, repetition, and emotional manipulation to shape what a person believes. The kidnapped children case is one of the most painful expressions of this doctrine.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Night Clerk Radio: Haunted Music Reviews
A Boards of Canada Retrospective Extravaganza of Some Sort

Night Clerk Radio: Haunted Music Reviews

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 22, 2026 45:45


Support Night Clerk Radio on Patreon Boards of Canada perfectly embody the themes we love to explore: plunderphonics, nostalgia, and hauntology. Despite this, we've never examined their work in detail. With their first album release in 13 years, we're dedicating the month of June to a full retrospective. In this episode, we discuss their first four major releases, analyzing them as both listening experiences and explorations of those key themes. Grab a haunted sample of your favorite childhood memory and join us! Albums Discussed Music Has The Right To Children by Boards of CanadaGeogaddi by Boards of CanadaThe Campfire Headphase by Boards of CanadaTomorrow's Harvest by Boards of Canada Additional Links Exploring the Most Mysterious Band: The Boards of Canada Iceberg by Hux Credits Music by: 2MelloArtwork by: Patsy McDowellNight Clerk Radio on Bluesky

Fringe Radio Network
What Are We Really Searching for in the Sky? - Unrefined Podcast

Fringe Radio Network

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 22, 2026 60:20 Transcription Available


Every once in a while, we revisit an older conversation and realize that it may be even more relevant today than when we first recorded it. That is exactly how I feel about this episode with Nathan Zieber, a pastor, former private investigator, and former investigator with MUFON Canada. Nathan has been called the “Paranormal Pastor” because of his willingness to enter communities that many Christians either fear, dismiss, or simply do not understand.

Our Weird World
327 - Cults! Part 2!

Our Weird World

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 22, 2026 34:49


Send us Fan MailThe SUMMER OF CULTS returns! (just for this week though.) We're covering the stories of Michael Ryan, Sachiko Eto, and the Good News International Ministries.Check out Part 1 back on Episode #162Like the show on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/OurWeirdWorldPod/Follow John on Twitter and Instagram @TheJohnHinsonFollow the show on Instagram @OurWeirdWorldPodWant more John? Everyone wants more John. Visit www.johnhinsonwrites.com for all the books, podcasts, waterfalls, and more!

Rose Pricks: A Bachelor Roast
Pricks Daily: Bring Me the Beauties Cult Part Two

Rose Pricks: A Bachelor Roast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 19, 2026 30:46 Transcription Available


More on this nutty cult from the 80s, 90s and a little bit right now. Male models, aliens, all the things. This is part two!Lumi Gummies are available nationwide! Go to LumiGummies.com and use code ROSEPRICKS for 30% off your order.

RSBANDBUpdate! - Weekly RuneScape News and Straight Talk
RSBANDBUpdate! 1094 – Moonrise Blood Cults

RSBANDBUpdate! - Weekly RuneScape News and Straight Talk

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 19, 2026 116:51


Hosts: Shane, Avernic, and Xurdones Archaeology returns with the Moonrise dig site. Covering artefacts, mysteries, and rewards we take a dip into some of the juicy tidbits of the First Age Nakkirian civilization. Also, fables, API plugins, and the Grand Exchange. For detailed show notes visit update.rsbandb.com. You can also check out the forums for detailed discussion on each episode.Duration: 1:56:51

Rose Pricks: A Bachelor Roast
Pricks Daily: Bring Me the Beauties Cult Part One

Rose Pricks: A Bachelor Roast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 18, 2026 34:26 Transcription Available


HBO's Bring Me the Beauties documetary about a male model cult has everything: aliens, sex and Studio 54. Join us!Lumi Gummies are available nationwide! Go to LumiGummies.com and use code ROSEPRICKS for 30% off your order.

Surviving Abuse Podcast
Cults, "K" Texts, & Terrible Delivery Windows: We're Okay-ish! w/ Umbrella Rebellion

Surviving Abuse Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 18, 2026 69:37 Transcription Available


Send us Fan MailEver received a single “K” text and immediately felt the passive-aggressive wrath? Or had your spellcheck completely ruin your life by changing it to an “L”?In this wildly unfiltered episode of Surviving-ish, we are jumping from hilarious everyday frustrations straight into some of the heaviest realities facing our world today. Joining the conversation is Dee from the incredible Umbrella Rebellion podcast, and no topic is off-limits.We kick things off with the ultimate ADHD tangents—debating the true meaning of “K” vs “KK,” arguing over infuriatingly wide delivery windows, skyrocketing utility bills, and a chaotic TVA home energy inspection. But things take a raw and deeply serious turn as we dive into the dark side of fundamentalism.Dee opens up about the immense strain of supporting a neurodivergent family member dealing with chronic suicidal ideation, completely isolated by a lack of community support after escaping a cult. We tackle the terrifying reality of how political targeting impacts the LGBTQIA+ and disabled communities, while the host shares a deeply personal reflection on losing a stepfather to suicide and surviving his own traumatic past.If you want to understand the terrifying truth behind Christian nationalism, the deep-seated misogyny in fundamentalist groups, and how Dee is actively fueling a rebellion against the harms of the IBLP and IFB, you cannot afford to miss this episode.Hit that subscribe button, leave a comment with your thoughts on the "K" text, and join the rebellion.https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/umbrella-rebellion/id1600802861#SurvivingIsh #UmbrellaRebellion #ReligiousTrauma #IBLP #IFB #Deconstruction #MentalHealthAwareness #SuicidePrevention #Neurodivergent #ADHDBrain #LGBTQVoices #ChristianNationalism #CultSurvivor #PodcastRebellionSupport the show

Fearless with Jason Whitlock
Ep 1178 | Social Media Cults HARMED LeBron James, Floyd Mayweather, Deion Sanders & Caitlin Clark

Fearless with Jason Whitlock

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 17, 2026 117:58


Jason proclaims that sports cults have proven detrimental to the likes of LeBron James, Floyd Mayweather, Deion Sanders, and Caitlin Clark. Steve Kim, Dre Baldwin, and Charles Baker join Jason to discuss LeBron and the Los Angeles Lakers negotiating a new deal, Floyd Mayweather's continued financial issues, Colin Cowherd calling out Coach Prime, and Caitlin Clark stat-padding. Later, Charles Baker and Dre Baldwin will offer their takes on Kendrick Perkins saying he's raising “killas.” ​​Today's Sponsors: Q-Collar So when you are getting your family ready for the next season… think: Helmet, mouthguard, and Q-Collar. Head to https://Q30.com/FEARLESS and use code FEARLESS for a FREE sleeve with your order. ➢ Follow Our GUESTS https://www.youtube.com/@DreAllDay https://x.com/SteveKim323 ➢ Subscribe to Jason's other channel https://www.youtube.com/JasonWhitlock?sub_confirmation=1 https://www.youtube.com/@JasonWhitlockHarmony?sub_confirmation=1 https://www.youtube.com/@JasonWhitlockBYOG?sub_confirmation=1 https://www.youtube.com/@JasonWhitlockClips?sub_confirmation=1 ➢ Connect with Jason on Social Media:  https://x.com/JasonWhitlock  https://www.instagram.com/realjasonwhitlock/ https://www.facebook.com/jasonwhitlock ➢ Send Jason an Email FearlessBlazeShow@gmail.com ➢ Support The Blaze Visit https://TheBlaze.com. Explore the all-new ad-free experience and see for yourself how we're standing up against suppression and prioritizing independent journalism. Support Conservative Voices! Subscribe to BlazeTV at https://www.fearlessmission.com and get $20 off your yearly subscription. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Weird Darkness: Stories of the Paranormal, Supernatural, Legends, Lore, Mysterious, Macabre, Unsolved
HEAVEN'S GATE | Purple Shrouds, Matching Shirts, Black and White Nikes, And $5.75 Each

Weird Darkness: Stories of the Paranormal, Supernatural, Legends, Lore, Mysterious, Macabre, Unsolved

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 16, 2026 59:16 Transcription Available


When the Hale-Bopp comet swung past Earth in 1997, thirty-nine people put on matching black shirts and brand-new Nikes, swallowed a lethal mix of barbiturates and vodka, and lay down beneath purple shrouds to die — certain their souls were about to board the alien ship they believed was hiding in the comet's tail.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/heavensgateREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/343j2ju2FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Following an anonymous tip, police enter a mansion in Rancho Santa Fe, an exclusive suburb of San Diego, California, and discover 39 victims of a mass suicide. The deceased–21 women and 18 men of varying ages–were all found lying peaceably in matching dark clothes and Nike sneakers and had no noticeable signs of blood or trauma. It was later revealed that the men and women were members of the “Heaven's Gate” religious cult, whose leaders preached that suicide would allow them to leave their bodily “containers” and enter an alien spacecraft hidden behind the Hale-Bopp comet. *** PLUS, the creepy true-crime story of two men who were caught trying to steal the body of the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. But that is by no means the end of this story full of twists, turns, myths, and conspiracies.CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Heaven's Gate, Part 1 00:00:53.808 = Show Open00:02:37.373 = Heaven's Gate, Part 200:04:59.269 = Heaven's Gate, Part 300:09:37.695 = Heaven's Gate, Part 4 ***00:23:22.776 = Stealing Lincoln's Bones, Part 1 ***00:44:45.437 = Stealing Lincoln's Bones, Part 2 ***00:57:58.687 = Show Close*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad breakLISTEN ON PODCAST APPS: Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.com/wdapps*No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast*SOURCES and RESOURCES:“Heavens Gate” by Rolling Stone: http://bit.ly/WeirdDarkness2D7tbeZ, Ranker: http://bit.ly/weirddarkness2UIsK4O, and History.com: http://bit.ly/WeirdDarkness2G3uqfN“Stealing Lincoln's Bones” by Troy Taylor: https://www.americanhauntingsink.com/stealing-lincolns-bones(Over time links may become invalid, disappear, or have different content. I always make sure to give authors credit for the material I use whenever possible. If I somehow overlooked doing so for a story, or if a credit is incorrect, please let me know and I will rectify it in these show notes immediately. Some links included above may benefit me financially through qualifying purchases.)WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness.Originally aired: November 28, 2021Weird Darkness runs from the 1997 mass suicide of the Heaven's Gate UFO cult outside San Diego to an 1876 counterfeiting gang's attempt to steal Abraham Lincoln's corpse from his tomb in Springfield, Illinois.It opens with the discovery, on March 26, 1997, of thirty-nine members of Heaven's Gate inside a rented mansion in the San Diego suburb of Rancho Santa Fe — twenty-one women and eighteen men lying beneath purple shrouds in matching black shirts and new black-and-white Nike sneakers, plastic bags over their heads, after swallowing phenobarbital and vodka. They believed the deaths would free their souls to board an alien spacecraft trailing the Hale-Bopp comet, which was making its closest approach to Earth that month. Former music professor Marshall Applewhite had started the group in 1975 with his nurse Bonnie Lu Nettles, the two of them renaming themselves Bo and Peep and later Do and Ti before persuading about twenty people in Oregon to leave their families and wait in eastern Colorado for a ship that never arrived. Applewhite preached that human bodies were disposable containers, that he was the second coming of Jesus, and that God was an alien. Nettles died in 1985, but he held the group together, and by the 1990s it had become the first well-known internet-era cult, paying its bills by building web pages under the business name Higher Source. The members watched Star Trek: The Next Generation, sewed Heaven's Gate Away Team patches onto their uniforms, severed contact with relatives through a practice Applewhite called breaking away, and submitted to a ban on sex that several of the men, Applewhite among them, enforced on themselves through castration.The episode closes with the 1876 plot to steal Abraham Lincoln's body from his tomb at Oak Ridge Cemetery in Springfield, Illinois. A Chicago counterfeiting ring run by James "Big Jim" Kneally had lost its master engraver, Benjamin Boyd, to a ten-year term in Joliet Penitentiary, so the gang resolved to seize the president's corpse and ransom it for Boyd's freedom. On election night, November 7, 1876, gang members Terence Mullen and Jack Hughes filed through the lock and split the marble sarcophagus with an ax, unaware that the grave robber they knew as Jim Morrissey was Secret Service operative Lewis Swegles, and that Captain Patrick Tyrell's agents and Pinkerton detectives hired by Robert Lincoln were hidden elsewhere in the monument. The trap fell apart when the lawmen fired on one another in the dark and the two robbers wandered off and escaped, though both were captured on November 18 and, with grave robbery barely a crime in Illinois at the time, served only a year in Joliet. What the public would not learn for years was that custodian John C. Power and a secret brotherhood calling itself the Lincoln Guard of Honor had already dragged the five-hundred-pound coffin into a damp labyrinth beneath the monument and buried it under loose boards and dirt, leaving visitors to grieve over an empty sarcophagus. The body was shifted from hiding place to hiding place until 1901, when Robert Lincoln ordered his father's casket lowered ten feet, locked inside a steel cage, and sealed under two tons of concrete, following one last viewing in which Leon P. Hopkins, the plumber who had closed the coffin back in 1865, studied a chalk-whitened but recognizable face and soldered the lead shut for good.

Leaving Eden Podcast
Abusive Relationships and Cults

Leaving Eden Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 16, 2026 68:08


Sadie takes us through the BITE model and discusses how cult control looks in an abusive relationship and how similar it is to Christian Fundamentalism.00:00 - Intro 08:00 - Why are cults like abusive relationships? 12:27 - Behavior Control 17:30 - Written and unwritten rules 31:03 - Information Control 46:00 - Thought Control 52:48 - Emotion Control 59:00 - Queer RelationshipsSubscribe to Leaving Eden Podcast on YouTube!https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ4q94gAnsoW2jME4SvVrrQJoin our Patreon for extended, uncensored, and ad-free versions of most of our episodes, as well as other patron perks and bonus content!https://www.patreon.com/LeavingEdenPodcastJoin our Facebook group to join in the discussion with other fans!https://www.facebook.com/groups/edenexodusJoin our subreddit! Reddit.com/r/EdenExodusBluesky:@leavingedenpodcast.bsky.social@hellyeahsadie.bsky.social@gavihacohen.bsky.socialInstagram:https://www.instagram.com/leavingedenpodcast/https://www.instagram.com/sadiecarpentermusic/https://www.instagram.com/gavrielhacohen/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Reality Life with Kate Casey
Ep. - 1630 - BRING ME THE BEAUTIES: A MODEL CULT

Reality Life with Kate Casey

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 5, 2026 42:24


Hoyt Richards was one of the world's first male supermodels, a Princeton graduate and 1980s fixture in the pages of the biggest fashion magazines in the world. However, behind the glamour was a secret life he could barely explain to himself. At 16, he met a charismatic Manhattan socialite named Frederick von Mierers on a Nantucket beach, and what began as a mentorship slowly became something far more controlling: a New Age spiritual group called Eternal Values, built around von Mierers' claim that he was an alien reincarnated from the star Arcturus, sent to Earth to save a chosen few before the apocalypse. Hoyt lived a double life for over two decades, jet-setting by day, sleeping on a mat in von Mierers' apartment by night, before he finally walked away. Reality Life with Kate Casey What to Watch List: https://katecasey.substack.com The Story Behind My Podcast: https://katecasey.substack.com/p/i-was-the-narrator-of-my-own-family Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/katecasey Twitter: https://twitter.com/katecasey Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/katecaseyca Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@itskatecasey?lang=en Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/113157919338245 Amazon List: https://www.amazon.com/shop/katecasey Like it to Know It: https://www.shopltk.com/explore/katecaseySee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Bannon's War Room
Episode 5419: Cults Grow Against AI; The A-La-Carte War

Bannon's War Room

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 3, 2026


Episode 5419: Cults Grow Against AI; The A-La-Carte War

Reality Life with Kate Casey
Ep. - 1626 - WHAT TO WATCH THIS WEEK WITH KATE CASEY

Reality Life with Kate Casey

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 1, 2026 15:21


Kate discusses what to watch this week including Michael Jackson: The Verdict (Netflix), Bring Me the Beauties: A Model Cult (HBO), Devotion: Obedience or Betrayal (Paramount+), Love Island USA (Peacock), and Earth, Wind & Fire (HBO). Reality Life with Kate Casey What to Watch List: https://katecasey.substack.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/katecasey Twitter: https://twitter.com/katecasey Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/katecaseyca Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@itskatecasey?lang=en Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/113157919338245 Amazon List: https://www.amazon.com/shop/katecasey Like it to Know It: https://www.shopltk.com/explore/katecaseySee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.