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The Blackburn Cult, officially the Divine Order of the Royal Arms of the Great Eleven, or the Great Eleven Club, was a new religious movement started in 1922 by the American woman May Otis Blackburn. She started the group on Bunker Hill in Downtown Los Angeles , California , and later formed a retreat in the Southern California Simi Valley .
The Bohemian Grove is a restricted 2,700-acre (1,100-hectare) campground in Monte Rio, California.Founded in 1878, it belongs to a private gentlemen's club known as the Bohemian Club.
These lawsuits ultimately turned out to be a large part of Synanon's undoing, by giving journalists access to Synanon's own internal documents. The main thorn in the cult's side was the Point Reyes Light, a weekly newspaper published by David V. Mitchell. The newspaper was domiciled in a tiny town ten miles south of Marshall, where Synanon's ...
Known for its pioneering in California lifestyle staples like health food, yoga, psychedelic rock and hippie fashion, the group’s leader, Father Yod, née Jim Baker, “left the body” in 1975 ...
EDITOR’S NOTE — On Jan. 26, 1971, Charles Manson and three members of his California cult were convicted for the murders of seven people, including pregnant actress Sharon Tate. On Tuesday ...
A portrait of Krishna Venta taken in the mid-1950s. Krishna Venta (born Francis Herman Pencovic; March 29, 1911 – December 10, 1958) was an American occult leader. He was the leader of a Californian religious group in the 1940s and 1950s.
The Manson Family (known among its members as the Family) was a commune, gang, and cult led by criminal Charles Manson that was active in California in the late 1960s and early 1970s. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The group at its peak consisted of approximately 100 followers, who lived an unconventional lifestyle, frequently using psychoactive drugs ...
Mass suicide by cult members at direction of cult leader [27] [28] 21: Black Widow Murders: Los Angeles: 1999, 2005: 2: Two elderly women convicted of murdering two vagrants, the first in 1999 and the second in 2005 [10] 22: Glenn Helzer: Concord: 2000: 5: Former leader of the "Children of Thunder" cult murdered five people as part of an ...