Cults

Long before the internet invaded every aspect of culture, a pair of friends who first bonded over their love of…

Greetings from the Afterlife (with Archie). I am now deceased after watching the latest episode of Riverdale. It may…

Satan? So out. Creepy cults? So in.

So you know, like, slightly less scuzzy businessmen and tents, slightly more...animal sacrifice?

In Hereditary director Ari Aster’s latest film Midsommar, a vacationing couple find themselves transported to a…

What do you do when not facing mutant marvels and battling in wild mental planescapes in Legion? If you’re Dan…

Shoko Asahara—the leader of the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult behind the 1995 sarin gas attack in Tokyo’s subway that…

The Rajneesshee cult started building their utopian city of the future in rural Oregon during the early 1980s. And…

American Horror Story’s latest venture is Cult, looking at what happens when an enigmatic personality goes a step…

We’ve looked at a number of different cults and cult leaders here at Paleofuture, and they usually have pretty hefty…

In September of 1984, at least 751 people got violently sick in The Dalles, Oregon. At first, no one in the town…

We’ve been eagerly following the rise of Satanic TV, thanks to new shows like Lucifer and Damien. But it turns out…

I think Rob Rhinehart is trying to turn himself into some sort of creepy nerd messiah. Today he posted a giant essay…

Pinterest—the mason jar lobby’s most effective propaganda apparatus—is an aggressively wholesome social platform.…

The Blackburn Cult, also known by the far more mystically delicious moniker “Divine Order of the Royal Arms of the…

Paul Morantz knew Synanon would try to kill him. He just didn’t know how or when.

Every month, the bills get paid on time. The emails get answered, and any orders filled. Which, for HeavensGate.com,…

In the past, we've examined some hilarious forms of body armor for both human and hound.But in terms of sheer…

This week sees the big-screen debut of Sound of My Voice, the indie sensation centered around a mysterious cult…