Cults, Rituals & Satanic Sects

Roch Theriault, a charismatic speaker known as Moses, was rejected by a church before he built his own wilderness religion in the Canadian bush. His followers surrendered their savings, their children and their bodies to a commune he called the ant hill, where he alone claimed the power to heal them. What investigators found there was darker than anything the complaints and welfare visits of the previous decade had prepared them for.Tired of ads? Listen to this podcast and 200+ more ad-free on OBOMEDIA.Try it free for 7 days, cancel anytime: https://obomedia.com/en/gratis?ref=desc-6ae3c6b2e57912cf6f65fca0© 2026 Created by an independent creator of the OBOMEDIA Network. All rights reserved.This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the property of their respective creator, who is solely responsible for them, and are distributed by the OBOMEDIA Network on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without the creator's prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: [email protected] episode was created with artificial intelligence: AI-assisted script and AI-generated (synthetic) voice.

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Alice Lenshina Mulenga told thousands of farming families in northern Rhodesia that her river baptism washed witchcraft away for good. But when her walled village of Sioni refused to bend to any party or any government, the new Zambian state answered with soldiers. What was found inside was darker than anyone expected.Tired of ads? Listen to this podcast and 200+ more ad-free on OBOMEDIA.Try it free for 7 days, cancel anytime: https://obomedia.com/en/gratis?ref=desc-6ae3c6b2e57912cf6f65fca0© 2026 Created by an independent creator of the OBOMEDIA Network. All rights reserved.This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the property of their respective creator, who is solely responsible for them, and are distributed by the OBOMEDIA Network on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without the creator's prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: [email protected] episode was created with artificial intelligence: AI-assisted script and AI-generated (synthetic) voice.

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Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, known as the Bhagwan, promised liberation through surrender and drew thousands to a sixty four thousand acre ranch in the Oregon desert. His followers gave up their savings and their outside lives to build a city from bare ground. But the woman who ran that city made a choice that poisoned an entire county, and what investigators found inside the commune was darker than anyone outside the gates had imagined.Tired of ads? Listen to this podcast and 200+ more ad-free on OBOMEDIA.Try it free for 7 days, cancel anytime: https://obomedia.com/en/gratis?ref=desc-6ae3c6b2e57912cf6f65fca0© 2026 Created by an independent creator of the OBOMEDIA Network. All rights reserved.This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the property of their respective creator, who is solely responsible for them, and are distributed by the OBOMEDIA Network on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without the creator's prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: [email protected] episode was created with artificial intelligence: AI-assisted script and AI-generated (synthetic) voice.

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Keith Raniere claimed to have built a rational system for freeing people from their self-limiting beliefs, and thousands of educated professionals paid to sit in his training rooms. But the same architecture that named a fear also named a body as territory. What was found inside went darker than the curriculum ever admitted.Tired of ads? Listen to this podcast and 200+ more ad-free on OBOMEDIA.Try it free for 7 days, cancel anytime: https://obomedia.com/en/gratis?ref=desc-6ae3c6b2e57912cf6f65fca0© 2026 Created by an independent creator of the OBOMEDIA Network. All rights reserved.This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the property of their respective creator, who is solely responsible for them, and are distributed by the OBOMEDIA Network on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without the creator's prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: [email protected] episode was created with artificial intelligence: AI-assisted script and AI-generated (synthetic) voice.

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Joseph Di Mambro, a former clockmaker with a fraud conviction, built the Order of the Solar Temple on promises of cosmic passage and Templar lineage. Members surrendered properties and lives to a doctrine he staged with hidden projectors and farewell letters mailed before the fires began. What authorities found across three countries was darker than the letters had claimed.Tired of ads? Listen to this podcast and 200+ more ad-free on OBOMEDIA.Try it free for 7 days, cancel anytime: https://obomedia.com/en/gratis?ref=desc-6ae3c6b2e57912cf6f65fca0© 2026 Created by an independent creator of the OBOMEDIA Network. All rights reserved.This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the property of their respective creator, who is solely responsible for them, and are distributed by the OBOMEDIA Network on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without the creator's prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: [email protected] episode was created with artificial intelligence: AI-assisted script and AI-generated (synthetic) voice.

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Hulon Mitchell Jr., known as Yahweh ben Yahweh, built a Black liberation movement in Miami in nineteen seventy nine around the promise that followers' true names and true land would be restored. But members surrendered their savings, their property and their daily hours to the Temple of Love. What federal investigators eventually found was darker than the community's soup kitchens and renovated houses had suggested.Tired of ads? Listen to this podcast and 200+ more ad-free on OBOMEDIA.Try it free for 7 days, cancel anytime: https://obomedia.com/en/gratis?ref=desc-6ae3c6b2e57912cf6f65fca0© 2026 Created by an independent creator of the OBOMEDIA Network. All rights reserved.This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the property of their respective creator, who is solely responsible for them, and are distributed by the OBOMEDIA Network on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without the creator's prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: [email protected] episode was created with artificial intelligence: AI-assisted script and AI-generated (synthetic) voice.

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