People have long been fascinated with cults. Long before humans spent countless hours on TikTok and Instagram, there were bold headlines that captured our attention. (Remember newspapers?) Back in the late 1960s, cult figure Charles Manson emerged. In the 1970s, there was psyched-out Father Yod and slippery Jim Jones. In the 1990s, Joseph Di Mambro and Luc Jouret raised eyebrows with their doomsday cult, and Marshall Applewhite single-handedly orchestrated a mass suicide in conjunction with a comet.
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