Like other quirky TV shows that explore coercively controlling groups, Sirens leans into the “wackiness” of cult life. Set on a remote island, an affluent community exists under extravagant rule of ...

The newly-elected Pope has promised that he would ensure there is proper accountability for widespread child abuse by ...

Cult leaders are often skilled at exploiting these desires by promising a higher purpose, whether it's spiritual ...

In the mid-1960s, Australian yoga teacher Anne Hamilton-Byrne founded the Family Cult and convinced her followers she was the ...

A CULT victim has described how brain-washed members donated all their money and were subjected to bizarre ‘teaching’ videos of the sect’s leaders in hot tubs. Richard Turner was ironically w… ...

In short, the seams of a cult are held together by the leader’s gaslighting tactics in the extreme. Simply, “cult” is a name for a system that emerges between a gaslighter and "gaslightee(s)".

The leader of a doomsday cult in Kenya went on trial on Monday on charges of terrorism over the deaths of more than 400 of his followers in a macabre case that shocked the world. Self-proclaimed ...

The leader of a radical transgender group connected to six murders, including that of a U.S. Border Patrol agent, told a Maryland judge last week, "I haven’t done anything wrong." ...

Inside a packed courtroom on Kenya’s coast, the picture emerging of Paul Nthege Mackenzie is that of a man who twisted ...

How did a German math genius get drawn into a 'cult' accused in coast-to-coast killings? Ophelia Bauckholt was killed in a shootout with U.S. Border Patrol agents in northern Vermont — an ...

The plot thickened when Leanne Battersby, played by Jane Danson, was drawn into the cult, causing alarm for her fiance Nick Tilsley (Ben Price) and sister Toyah Habeeb (Georgia Taylor).