With hit documentaries like “Love Has Won” and “Escaping Twin Flames” and podcasts like “Let’s Talk About Sects” and “Escaping NXIVM,” it’s clear the public fascination with all things cult is alive ...

A look at how Mona Fastvold's "The Testament of Ann Lee" defies typical cinematic presentations of cult leaders, especially women.

One of the questions that students often ask me about criminology and psychology: How do you know when a cult leader is “evil” or “bad”? These, of course, are vague descriptors to some extent, but I ...

Jamie Campbell Bower sought inspiration from cult leaders for his performance in Stranger Things. The 37-year-old actor admitted Jim Jones, the leader of the Peoples Temple who led more than 900 of ...

From Joe Obukata Ogbodu, WarriThe operatives of the CP-Special Assignment Team (CP-SAT) of the Delta State Police Command have recorded significant operational successes with the arrest of suspected ...

Millions of Iranians demanding freedom struggle today to escape a regime that has come to resemble a suicidal, homicidal and ...

Most serial killers, male and female, work alone. However, there are those who religious beliefs and murderous proclivities are intertwined, resulting in a systematic system for serial murder. Let's ...

13 Going on 30 star Christa B. Allen is opening up about a past relationship with an alleged "cult leader" who she says "burned" her life "to the ground." The 33-year-old actress made the shocking ...

Kelsey Grammer has never played a character quite like this. The Frasier alum, 71, stars in the latest episode of NBC's The Hunting Party as a cult leader and serial killer whose plans are spoiled by ...

“Cult leaders are notable for the enormous amount of power they have over their group,” Ashlen Hilliard, a cult intervention specialist and founder of People Leave Cults, told HuffPost. “This power is ...