Hidden Cults is a documentary-style podcast that digs deep into the world’s most extreme, elusive, and explosive fringe groups.
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Hidden Cults is a documentary-style podcast that digs deep into the world’s most extreme, elusive, and explosive fringe groups.
Listen on all podcast apps:
Spotify:
open.spotify.com/show/4Q0kbg…
Apple Podcasts:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
Listener stories: [email protected]
Ep.26 The Shakahola Forest Cult
Paul Mackenzie’s Kenyan cult led followers to starve in Shakahola Forest. Mass graves in 2023 exposed deadly manipulation.
Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/4Q0kbg…
Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
Listener stories: [email protected]
Ep.25 The Covenant, the Sword, and the Arm of the Lord (CSA)
Small separatist community to one of the most feared militia-style cults of the 1980s.
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Apple Podcasts podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
Listener stories: [email protected]
Ep.24 The Chicago Rippers
Chicago was gripped by fear as women vanished and bodies were discovered mutilated in ways that suggested ritualistic violence.
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Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
Listener stories: [email protected]
HiddenCults:
If you’ve come across a new or little-known cult, one that’s barely made the news or operates quietly online
Drop it in the comments below.
We’re especially looking for modern, active, or recently uncovered groups that most people haven’t heard of yet.
Subsurface Scanning Detects Structures at World’s Oldest Cult Center archaeology.org/news/2025/10…
Police Arrest Five Suspects In Lagos Violent Cult Clash
tvcnews.tv/police-arrest-fiv…
New allegations of sexual and domestic abuse made against Jesus Army cult:
theguardian.com/uk-news/2025… #HiddenCults #Cult
Ep.23 The Great Eleven
In the 1920s, Los Angeles became home to a little-known but extraordinary cult led by May Otis Blackburn and her daughter Ruth.
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Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
Listener stories: [email protected]
Founders of OneTaste ‘orgasm cult’ guilty of grooming employees to have sex with clients
nypost.com/2025/06/09/us-new…
Leader of neo-Nazi “murder cult” extradited to the US from Moldova.
apnews.com/article/chkhikvis… #Cult #HiddenCults
Zizians: a fringe “rationalist” group linked to multiple killings.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zizian… #Cult #HiddenCults
Ex-priest who led ‘cult-like’ church group GUILTY of sexually abusing women he called ‘Lycra Nuns’.
the-sun.com/news/15011010/ex… #Cult #HiddenCults
Apocalypse, survivalism, occultism and esotericism communities on Brazilian Telegram.
arxiv.org/abs/2409.03130
Ep.22 The Brethren (The Road Ministry)
Founded in 1971 by Jimmie T. Roberts, The Brethren, also called The Road Ministry or the “Garbage Eaters”.
Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/4Q0kbg…
Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
Listener stories: [email protected]
Ep.21 The Way International
Founded in 1942 by Victor Paul Wierwille, The Way International began as a small evangelical ministry in Ohio.
Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/4Q0kbg…
Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
Listener stories: [email protected]
Ep.20 Ant Hill Kids
In the remote wilderness of Quebec during the late 1970s, a small group of seekers followed a man who promised salvation.
Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/4Q0kbg…
Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
Listener stories: [email protected]
Ep.19 Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God
over 700 members of the movement perished in what at first looked like a mass suicide.
Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/4Q0kbg…
Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
Listener stories: [email protected]
Ep.18 Synanon
What started as a lifeline for people desperate to break free from addiction soon grew into a powerful movement.
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Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
Listener stories: [email protected]
