Outreach International – Part 2
Laura left Outreach International when she was 32 years old, having been born into the sect in the late 1970s. Hear her story as she relates the experience of being a young woman in a highly patriarch...
20 Nov 20181h 22min
Outreach International – Part 1
In May 2017, a sect that started in Melbourne, Australia, 50 years ago, and has been highly secretive over the last few decades, decided to change its closed-doors policy and go public with a website....
13 Nov 20181h 5min
The Workers’ Institute of Marxism-Leninism-Mao Tsetung Thought
In October of 2013, the British organisation Freedom Charity received a call on their hotline. The woman on the other end said that her housemate had been held captive in South London for 30 years.At ...
16 Okt 201856min
Synanon
Synanon began as an addiction support group that gathered in a grimy Californian flat in the late 1950s. It would grow to become a well-funded utopian society throughout the late ’60s and early ’70s, ...
18 Sep 20181h 2min
Branch Davidians
2018 marks the 25-year anniversary of a 51-day siege that ended in tragedy, following a shootout between the U.S. government and members of a sect called the Branch Davidians. The gunfire exchange las...
17 Apr 20181h 26min
Interview Episode: Aum Shinrikyo update with Sarah Hightower
Over recent days, several of the 13 incarcerated Aum Shinrikyo members sentenced to death have been moved to new facilities, prompting speculation that their execution is imminent.In this bonus episod...
21 Mar 201846min
The Order of St Charbel
William Kamm has a 10pm curfew, and is not allowed to spend time with girls under the age of 17. He is prevented from entering the Shoalhaven district of New South Wales, and his movements and communi...
13 Mar 20181h 33min
Koreshanity
The Koreshans believed that the earth was hollow, and that humans lived on the concave inside surface of it. They theorised that the moon and stars, and indeed the rest of the universe, was contained ...
13 Feb 201842min
