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According to a YouTube video by two members, Carlson had asked to be taken to the hospital, but they had refused. [7] She died in the room at Callahan's Mountain Lodge on an unknown date very soon after the move. The group moved Carlson's body a few days after her death to the Mount Hood National Forest when the hotel staff became suspicious ...
In 2021, a 22-year-old member of CVLT, Kaleb Christopher Merritt of Spring, Texas, kidnapped and raped a 12-year-old girl in Virginia, USA. He was convicted and sentenced to 350 years in prison. [28] [20] [14] Cadenhead's splinter group also leveraged animal torture, incest, rape, self-harm, and bestiality from their victims. [1] [12] [13]
Most NRMs will tend to only have a few members while some of them have thousands of members, and a few of them have more than a million members. The word cult in current usage is a term often used to describe a new religious movement (NRM) or any group whose beliefs, practices, or organizational structures are viewed as abnormal, eccentric, or ...
Jim Jones and his wife, Marceline, in an image taken from a pink photo album left behind in the village of the dead in Jonestown, Guyana. Jones led more than 900 members of his cult to a painful ...
Cult is a term often applied to new religious movements and other social groups which have unusual, and often extreme, religious, spiritual, or philosophical beliefs and rituals.
Adolfo de Jesús Constanzo (November 1, 1962 – May 6, 1989) was a Cuban-American serial killer, drug dealer and cult leader who led an infamous drug-trafficking and occult gang in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico, that was dubbed the Narcosatanists (Spanish: Los Narcosatánicos) by the media. [1] His cult members nicknamed him The Godfather (El ...
All members of Thailand's royal family, past and present, are officially venerated in a personality cult, especially beginning with King Bhumibol Adulyadej's ascension to the throne. [195] Huge portraits of Bhumibol and his son and successor King Maha Vajiralongkorn , and other members of the royal family are disseminated throughout the country.
The only rule was there were no rules. Outreach programs were established, families were reunited after 30 years and members were welcomed back. At this time the name was changed to Mountaintop Ministries in an attempt to rebrand and alienate the cult-like rules that were in the organization's history.