Episode Details

What happens when a single, hyper-specific idea — a mountain that stores prayer energy, a star called Sirius, a diet of pure light — becomes the center of someone's entire existence? We explore ten of history's strangest cults, from the harmless to the deadly, and break down the psychology of how narrow beliefs create totalizing worldviews, bind followers together, and sometimes end in tragedy. It's a journey through the weirdest corners of human belief and the mechanisms that make them work.