Three siblings grew up in a cult run by Tony Alamo, a notorious false prophet. But after an FBI raid dragged them into the ...

The second son of executed Aum Shinrikyo leader Chizuo Matsumoto has emerged as the “second-generation guru” and de facto ...

In HBO’s ‘Bring Me the Beauties,’ former supermodel Hoyt Richards reckons with decades inside a cult, and the millions he ...

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Neo-Nazi cult leader Michail Chkhikvishvili — whose propaganda inspired real-world bloodshed, including a deadly Nashville school shooting — was sentenced Wednesday to 15 years in prison by a New York ...

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Nathan Chasing Horse has been sentenced to life in prison for sexually assaulting Indigenous women and girls. A Nevada judge ...

With hit documentaries like “Love Has Won” and “Escaping Twin Flames” and podcasts like “Let’s Talk About Sects” and “Escaping NXIVM,” it’s clear the public fascination with all things cult is alive ...

The four-part series, Trust Me: The False Prophet, follows the harrowing journey of a survivor of cult-based human trafficking, Christine Marie, and her videographer husband, Tolga Katas, as they ...

The apparent head of a radical transgender cult linked to six killings, including a U.S. Border Patrol agent, told a Maryland judge last week, "I haven’t done anything wrong" while pleading for access ...

Netflix’s new psychological thriller Unchosen might be a fictional tale about a young woman caught up in a reclusive cult.