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18.2: Aum Shinrikyo
Season 18 Episode 2
Panic struck the Tokyo subway on 20 March 1995. Men boarded subway cars with plastic bags and umbrellas, removed the newspaper covering the bags, and…
3 years, 8 months ago
18.1: Cult Brainwashing
Season 18 Episode 1
Brainwashing has long been used to account for why otherwise reasonable people join religious groups deemed strange or aberrant from the standpoint o…
3 years, 8 months ago
17.7: Pagan Saints of Mexico
Season 17 Episode 7
For centuries, there was one primary saint Mexicans turned to for protection: the Virgin of Guadalupe. Then, beginning in the 1990s, the popularity o…
3 years, 9 months ago
17.6: Tituba in Salem
Season 17 Episode 6
In January 1692, Village minister Samuel Parris's Indian slave, Tituba, reported seeing his nine-year-old daughter, Betty, and eleven-year-old niece,…
3 years, 9 months ago
17.5: The Tainos and Columbus
Season 17 Episode 5
The celebration of Columbus day had started among Italian Americans in San Francisco and became a national holiday in 1937. Recently, indigenous peop…
3 years, 10 months ago
17.4: The Great Witch Hunt
Season 17 Episode 4
The legend of the witch that spread during the three centuries of witch hunting and lasted through the Renaissance began with the devil. A woman or m…
3 years, 10 months ago
17.3: The Baltic Crusades
Season 17 Episode 3
When we think of crusades, images of the Knights Templar riding into battle against their Islamic foes in the Holy Land spring to mind. But there was…
3 years, 10 months ago
17.2: The Pope and the Barbarians
Season 17 Episode 2
In the first millennium, Pope Gregory the Great understood humanity to be blind, cold, and lost since the fall of Adam, drawn to materialism and fals…
3 years, 11 months ago
Dungeons, Dragons, and Discord
Season 17 Episode 2
Join us on Discord starting Sunday, April 24 at 5:30pm EST (US) for Dungeon and Dragons with the Alchemical Actors. https://discord.com/invite/awza2N…
3 years, 11 months ago
17.1: Constantine
Season 17 Episode 1
Constantine was the first Christian emperor of Rome and established Christianity as a state religion for the first time. Constantine certainly knew a…
3 years, 11 months ago