We are starting a cult! Join us as we dive into the weird, mysterious, absurd, and the just plain bad.
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Categories: Comedy, True Crime, TV & Film
Tags: aliens, Comedy, cults, ghosts, interesting, paranormal, serial killers, strange, weird
A biweekly true crime podcast dedicated to the stories and mysteries that keep us all up at night!
Categories: Comedy, Society & Culture, True Crime
Tags: bigfoot, Crime, cryptids, cults, ghosts, horror, paranormal, show, talk, true
Marc Headley worked at Scientology’s secret desert compound, which houses all Scientology management, for 15 years. The 500-acre property is located deep in the California desert. The local townspeople were told lectures and films were made there. But is that all that was happening? It is the location of a multi-million dollar home for L. Ron Hubbard, built two decades after his death. It is the home of Scientology’s current leader, David Miscavige. So what really happens at the Int Base? Are the stories on the internet true? How does Scientology conduct management of its day-to-day operations? Could stories of armed guards, weapons, staff beatings, and razor wire fences be true? If so, how could a facility like this exist in modern-day America? Hundreds of staff tried to escape over the years. Some succeeded but were never seen or heard of again, and most failed. Why were people kept here? What really went on at the headquarters of Scientology? This is the story of what happened behind the Iron Curtain of Scientology.
Categories: Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, True Crime
Tags: abuse, cult, cults, David Miscavige, Leah Remini, Mike Rinder, Mind Control, NIXVM, Prisoners, Scientology, tom cruise, true-crime
A podcast about all things strange and unusual. Historical true crimes, paranormal and dark fairy tale origins. Hosted by Sarah.
Categories: Society & Culture, True Crime
Tags: Crime, cults, Disney, fairytaleshistory, female, Killers, murder, serial, true
Sent To Destroy Radio is a weekly podcast centered around obsessions that unify the initiated and mystify the masses, featuring conversations and interviews with guests and friends of the show on all our dark fascinations from horror and metal to serial killers and the occult…and everything dark and fun in between
Tags: blackmetal, celebrities, celebrity, Comedy, cults, dark, deathmetal, devil, edgy, fetish, goth, horror, Metal, occult, punk, rock, Satan, satanism, sciencefiction, serialkillers, Slasher, truecrime
We live in a day where the world is saturated with contradictory faiths and beliefs. Can they all be right? Are they all wrong? As Christians, it is imperative that we understand something of what these religions teach and believe, so that we can accurately discern right from wrong. “Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.” (Ephesians 5:11)
Categories: Religion & Spirituality
Tags: apologetics, christianity, cults, Expose, God, Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ, religion, Revealed Truth, truth seeker, uncovering, World Religions
Welcome to Strange Country, a podcast devoted to bizarre, surreal and extraordinary stories that make America the weird place it is. Co-hosts Kelly and Beth are former newspaper reporters turned school librarians who have always had a soft spot for a good story–the stranger the better. Discover the first woman to survive a barrel ride over Niagara Falls and the man who invented “complex marriage” in one of the most successful utopian experiments. Things get weird pretty quickly around here.
Tags: Americanhistory, Comedy, cults, eccentrics, ghosts, History, librarians, library, Podcast, storytelling, strange, supernatural, Surreal, truecrime, Unexplained, Unusual
Harry Robinson grabs his mic, spills his coffee, cleans up his coffee and then interviews real people with real stories. Cult members. KKK grand wizards. DEA agents hunting the world’s most wanted man. No stone is left unturned.
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Categories: Society & Culture
Tags: Comedy, cults, interviews, murder, Prison, SPorts, ufc
A weekly scripted podcast where we delve into some of the most blood curdling topics; true crime, dark history, the occult, and more. If it goes bump in the night, than it’s on the table.We wanna make the podcast even better, help us learn how we can: https://bit.ly/2EcYbu4 For advertising opportunities please email PodcastPartnerships@Studio71us.com Privacy Policy: https://www.studio71.com/us/terms-and-conditions-use/#Privacy%20Policy
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Categories: History, Society & Culture, True Crime
Tags: cults, darkhistory, folklore, History, occult, paranormal, serialkiller, serialkillers, truecrime
Alien abductions! Strange monsters! Paranormal encounters! Fringe Science! Myths and legends! Comedians Brian Frange and Phoebe Tyers explore the strangest, weirdest, and most unusual stories in our universe as well as the people behind them.
Categories: Comedy, Society & Culture, TV & Film
Tags: abductions, aliens, beliefs, Brian, Comedy, Conspiracy, cults, demons, dimensions, DMT, extreme, frange, fringe, ghosts, governme, leo, lizard, martin, occult, paranormal, people, pixies, shadow, The, theories, ufos, Universe, Vampires, werewolves, wormholes
Everything is bigger in Texas, and so is its true crime. Each season we will go back in time to a decade and highlight a male and female murderer for those years. Season 1 covers 2000-2009. Season 2 covers 1970-1979. Season 3 covers 1930-1939.
Categories: History, News, True Crime
Tags: Crime, cults, decade, murder, Texas, Texas history, Texas true crime, true-crime
Saints Preserve Us is an irreverent but informative show that chronicles the bizarre lives, often equally bizarre deaths, and posthumous mythologies of Catholic Saints. It’s a glorious mash-up of true-life crime documentaries, shocking but true historical exposés, reassuring spiritual feel-goodery, and gory examinations of mankind’s exaltations and depravations.
Each episode will showcase specific saints examining their lives, the art they’ve inspired, and the legacies they’ve left behind. Through the lens of these misfits, martyrs, and messiahs we will also explore themes and topics that are relevant to the culture today including political division, apocalyptic fixation, quests for revenge, women’s rights, racial inequality, life, death, and the debate over free will versus determinism. We’ll interview members of the clergy, art historians, religious studies professors, theologians, and luminaries from the world of literature and pop culture who can offer insight into the pantheon of Saints, their meaning, their significance, their impact on our society and how they can help us understand our current moment.
Every week the show will also feature our in-house Saints experts and award-winning authors of the book Saints Preserve Us, Sean Kelly and Rosemary Rogers. Sean Kelly was the editor of National Lampoon from 1971 to 1978 during which he “broke his own record for obscurantism, reach an apotheosis with a dense parody of Finnegan’s Wake.” In 1975 he was a founding editor of Heavy Metal, the adult fantasy magazine, and as a freelance writer, he has been published in Bazaar, Benneton’s Colors, Interview, Irish America Magazine, The Old Farmer’s Almanac, Playboy, SPY, The Village Voice, & the Quarterly of Joyce Studies. He reviewed a great many children’s books for the New York Times and created material for John Candy, George Carlin, Jane Curtin, Robert Klein, Steve Martin, Martin Mull, Gilda Radner, & Jonathan Winters.
Rosemary Rogers is an author, humorist, and former music producer whose eight books have been published by Random House, Villard, St. Martin’s Press, Hearst, Barnes & Noble, and City Lights. She collaborated with Sean Kelly on the bestseller Saints Preserve Us, currently in its 18th international printing. Her articles have appeared in The New York Times, O. The Oprah Magazine, Oprah: Live Your Best Life, and Irish America, where she contributed to the magazine, website, and podcast and has been running her ongoing series “Wild Women.” She also frequently collaborates with her husband, Robert Downey, Sr.
Sean and Rosemary are joined each week by their producer and co-host Christian O’Toole, former Director of Video and Podcast Producer for Men’s Journal and story producer and editor of two documentary featureson psilocybin assisted therapy, Focus on Clinical Research: Part One – The Johns Hopkins Stoy and Focus on Clinical Research: Part 2 – Death, Dying and Psychedelics.
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In this episode we recognize the End of Ordinary Time and the end of Season One of Saints Preserve Us. Along the way we acknowledge The Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe and discuss a little celebration that happens around his birth, which was overshadowed this year by our grander celebration of Michaelmas. We also highlight some other December Saints, most notably Jolly Old Saint Nick and learn how New York City invented Christmas as we know it today to stop the Irish from getting drunk and running wild in the streets. We recount the horrific details of the tragic death of teen martyr Saint Eulalia and wonder why so many stories of Saints from December involve people being put in barrels. And finally Sean shares a memory from his childhood of a special feast that used to be celebrated on January first but now must never be spoken of under penalty of excommunication.
It’s been a wild and wonderful first season of Saints Preserve Us and we want to thank all of our listeners and our esteemed guests. Stay tuned for Saintly Stories in 2022!
Until then check out the book that started it all at:
https://www.amazon.com/Saints-Preserve-Us-Everything-About/dp/067975038X/ref=sr_1_2?crid=2X4P0XHMQJ8VB&keywords=saints+preserve+us&qid=1641343677&sprefix=saints%2520preserve%2520u%2Caps%2C157&sr=8-2
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Categories: Religion & Spirituality
Tags: buddhism, catholic, catholic saints, christianity, Comedy, cults, Determinism, free will, historial comedy, History, Judaism, Literature, Movies, music, national lampoon, pop culture, prayer, religion, saints, spirituality, the catholic church
Have you ever been in a difficult situation that left you felling unsure if anyone would understand. Have you ever felt trapped at home, in a relationship, with religion or even with your identity? During each episode we will be doing a dive into various topics that can relate to the phrase “Finally Out”. Hosts Rye and Bea will be exploring cults, religions, abusive relationships, sexuality and more. Our hope is to bring on guests, and present stories that are relatable in Finally being out among friends. This is a safe place, and all are welcome. Get bonus content on Patreon
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Categories: Health & Fitness, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture
Tags: cults, lgbtq, mental-health, pansexual, Rye N Bea, transgender
Underworld exposes the secret world of transnational criminal networks that have flourished since there were banks to bust, drugs to smuggle, and scams to run. Journalists Danny Gold and Sean Williams bring their experience reporting on dangerous people and organizations to take listeners on a global tour of mobsters, warlords and crooks – from Brooklyn to Beijing, from the streets to the boardrooms – and everywhere in between. Underworld is a show about heroes, villains, and the barely visible mafias that affect all our lives, whether we know it or not.
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In the early Nineties Colombia had one of the world’s best soccer teams. Some even tipped them for 1994’s World Cup in the USA. But the country’s narco mayhem would come crashing down on the squad long before the tournament began. And for the nation’s captain, a tall, stoic defender from Medellin they called ‘The Gentleman’, one on-field mistake would have fatal consequences back home. Featuring gunned-down referees, a deadly cross-country rivalry, Pepes, Pablo and a kidnap-mediating, scorpion-kicking goalkeeper. Get Surfshark VPN at https://surfshark.deals/UNDWRLD – Enter promo code UNDWRLD for 83% off and 3 extra months free!
Categories: History, Society & Culture, True Crime
Tags: ConMan, cults, drug cartel, gangs, mafia, organized crime, police, scams, war
Larissa, former E! True Hollywood Stories & Howard Stern Show Producer, and Carrie, a very unscholarly amateur historian, team up to discuss true crime, wealthy people scandals, cults, royal families, and trending headlines. Explore MisdeedsandIntrigue.comfor more articles relating to history, true crime, and mysteries.
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Categories: News, Society & Culture
Tags: cults, pop culture, royals, scandals, true-crime
Join hosts Alex and Anna as they dive into the homeschooling culture surrounding Fundamentalist Christianity, and the roles and expectations placed on women within it. From Quiverfull families, to Keepers of the Home, and Mother’s Helpers- we’re going to talk about it all!
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Categories: Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture
Tags: cults, discussion, documentaries, feminism, fundamental christianity, religion
A podcast where I talk to creatives and creative thinkers who have passed the point of no return with their ideas and endeavours. Theme song by Kodiak Kid.
Tags: aliens, art, Comedy, conspiracy theory, contemporary art, cults, interviews, jack rowland, music, psychedelics, spirituality, visual art
Andrew Pledger, a queer cult survivor, hosts “Speaking Up: Surviving Religions and Cults”, a monthly podcast that allows people to share their stories of abuse and religious trauma in various high-control groups. Some guests discuss specific topics to educate and bring awareness. *TRIGGER WARNING Discussions range from purity culture, mental health, religious trauma, Christian culture, deconstruction, and much more. Influencers like the Naked Pastor, Brandan Robertson, Phil Drysdale, and Jegaysus have appeared on the show. – Exvangelical Podcasts, Cult Podcasts, Deconstruction Podcasts Support this podcast: https://www.patreon.com/4ndrewpledger – Linktree: https://andrewpledger.mypixieset.com/links
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Categories: Religion & Spirituality
Tags: cult, cults, cults podcasts, Deconstruction, deconstruction podcasts, ex-christian podcasts, Exvangelical, exvangelical podcasts
An ex-Christian and an ex-Christian adjancent’s accounting of religion and its surrouding silliness, toxicity, and media.
Categories: Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture
Tags: atheism, Bible, christianity, cults, Judaism, Philosophy, religion, skepticism, spirituality
A daughter’s call to police about memories of her mother’s alleged crime triggers a year-long investigation into a cult, the disappearance of a child and a murder. THE FOLLOWERS: HOUSE OF PRAYER is hosted by journalist Leila Day and former prosecutor and investigative journalist Beth Karas (“Unspeakable Crime: The Killing of Jessica Chambers”) reports on the story. New episodes of the podcast from UCP Audio will drop weekly beginning March 3rd.
Credits:
Jessica Grimshaw- For USG Audio
Jennifer Sears- For USG Audio
Leila Day- Executive Producer, Host, Producer
Kathleen Goldhar- Executive Producer, Producer
Beth Karas- Executive Producer, Producer, Reporter
Stuart Coxe- Executive Producer
Joy Fluker- Consulting Producer
Max Miller- Producer, additional reporting
Alexis Green- Associate Producer
Laura Isabel Gonzales- Reporter
Daemon Fairless – Reporter
Mitchell Stuart- Editor & Sound Design
Synch Stories- Theme song composition
Arik Martin- Transcriber
Categories: History, Society & Culture, True Crime
Tags: cults, Investigative journalism, investigative reporting, Missing person, religion, true-crime, unsolved crime