TOP 5 Worst CULTS to Ever Exist

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a cult is defined as a group of people with religious beliefs and practices deemed as sinister or strange whenever we hear about them we automatically think they are evil they're members nothing more than gullible people regardless of what we feel their existence is a reality the following 5 cults made headlines not just because of their strange beliefs but because they shocked outsiders and caused death to thousands of people directly involved with them these are 5 of the worst cults to ever exist number 5 movement for the restoration of the ten commandments of God the cult origins can be traced back to the 60s when Paulo Kashi Ken a Ugandan and his daughter credo Nia Marin day reported seeing visions by 1989 kasia can't ask ray dona to spread their message across uganda the same year she met joseph kid would tear joseph was also a zealot claiming to have had visions of the Virgin Mary as well credo nee and Joseph bonded and created the movement for the restoration of the ten commandments of God to defrocked priest Joseph and Dominic soon joined them the latter was a well-respected man who brought many new followers to the sect during the 90s the cult thrived members lived in banana and pineapple plantations and most sold their properties to join the group by 1997 MRTC was reported to have 5000 members with the promised apocalypse approaching the leaders worked the group to a frenzy members sold possessions for cheap and scampered to spread the message however January 1st 2000 came and went pressured for results the leaders predicted a new date for the end march 17 mm we'd enough to the faded doomsday the group threw a huge celebration were three bulls and more than 70 crates of soft drinks were consumed by 10:30 a.m. the morning of March 17th 530 members including children started to arrive at church to sing and pray shortly after a large explosion was heard and the entire church was engulfed in flames every person inside was burned alive authorities soon discovered that the doors and windows of the church had been sealed shut making it likely they were murdered because of the questionable circumstances of the fire the authorities searched the properties of MTR see what they found horrified them in the latrine of one compound six bodies were found buried in concrete all of them were half-naked and murdered a mass grave containing 153 people was then discovered in the adjacent compound shortly after an additional 155 bodies thrown into to mass graves and another 94 bodies throughout the property were uncovered forensics learned that these people were killed a few days before the church fire and they were either poisoned or stabbed to death the death toll from the cult reached more than 900 people but some of the bodies and victims may have never been found as for the leaders despite initially being believed to have died in the fire the Ugandan government now believes Joseph and credo NIA are still alive an international warrant for their arrest is out for them today number 4 Grail movement cult originally started in the late 40s the Grail movement was established by the followers of Oskar Ernst Bernhardt also known as a brooch in their core beliefs follow the principles outlined in his book in the light the grail message and currently there are over 10,000 members one of these is Czech native Klara OVA born in 1975 Clare would often proclaim that she was going to fulfill God's mission her sister Katarina also indulged in her fantasies Klara bought two sons Andrej and Jacob and her sister moved in with her as her partner moved out driven away by her delusions that's around the time Bar Boris clova arrived into their lives vibora was no ordinary woman she had a glandular problem and a history of psychiatric issues despite a criminal past she was never charged because she always posed as a minor Klara legally adopted while before opposed as a 13 year old girl named Anna even though she was actually 33 once the three joined the Grail movement this is when our two sons started their horrifying journey but Bora lobbied against Andre and Jacob and soon Clara and Katharina began torturing them the boys were starved beaten and humiliated they were burned with cigarettes subjected to electric shocks nearly drowned abused sexually annum bound and gagged every time visitors came over like the witch in Hansel and Gretel the three women started feeding and fattening the boys then boo Bora and Katarina held down Andre as his mother skinned his leg and he lay there screaming they ate his flesh right in front of him after a month they did the same thing to Jacobs arm at the same time they also forced the boys to eat their own flesh by 2007 the boys were forced to live in cages in order to monitor them from their kitchen the women purchased a CCTV camera around the same time and neighbor who also bought a camera to monitor his baby's room was shocked when his monitor picked up the signal from Clara's house showing the boys tied gagged and caged in May 2007 the boys were finally rescued and Clara and Katarina were arrested but Bora fled the scene but was captured a year later while in foster care all three women were convicted and sent to jail Clare received nine years in prison her sister Catarina 10 and Barbara only got five years number three children of God founded by David Berg during the 1960's the children of God set up their first colony in Huntington Beach California those who joined were required to drop all their worldly items and then cut off their personal ties from their families once a person has been adopted into the colony they would take up a name from the Bible with their legal names kept secret from one another David Berg the founder referred to himself as Moses David Berg primarily communicated with his followers through writing letters in literary most of these were used for evangelizing and espousing that groups beliefs one of the things that plaits the children of God as part of this list is their controversial form of evangelism called flirty fishing the flirty fishes were women in the colony assigned to evangelize and win converts for Christ by using sex and random hookups the children produce during these encounters were called Jesus babies and there were more than 300 of them the children of God believed in free love encouraging members and couples to change partners regular beatings and punishment were also dolled out to those who were resistant to the teachings reports began to service the members regularly engaged in pedophilia and investigations of child abuse were conducted a judicial investigation discovered the cult created a sexualized environment for children many former members of the group also testified to being once abused or having witnessed it by 1978 with child abuse cases looming the cult dropped the name children of God and changed it to family of love later on they were just referred to as the family along with the name change the group claimed that they let go of those who committed the misconduct and banned child and adult sex however without blatantly proclaiming it their beliefs had remained the same since 2004 they've been known as the family International and they have currently over 10,000 members worldwide number 2 Heaven's Gate in 1997 acting on an anonymous tip police entered a hilltop mansion in California and found 39 dead people inside this was the case that shaped people's notion of modern-day doomsday cults the Heaven's Gate led by charismatic former music professor Marshall Applewhite he joined the cult after suffering from a near-death experience in 1972 Bonnie Lou nettles his former nurse hired him to join Heaven's Gate members believed that our physical bodies were just containers which could be abandoned to reach a higher exists by 1985 nettles died an Applewhite didn't become active again until the 90s when he started recruiting after the discovery of the hale-bopp comet in 1995 the cult members believed a spaceship was hiding behind the comet to come and collect them on the night of March 22nd and 23rd 1997 39 active members of Heaven's Gate killed themselves by ingesting a mix of alcohol and barbiturates as their breath slowed down they then asphyxiated from the plastic bags they had wrapped around their heads they wore black shirts sweatpants and brand new Nike Decade shoes each one had an armband that read Heaven's Gate away team and all but three of the members that died out of purple shroud over them comparatively to other cults the death toll for Heaven's Gate is minimal however all these people died out of their own free will nobody forced them to drink the deadly cocktail but instead they willingly killed themselves believing the teachings of Applewhite and the spaceship to be real Applewhite believed in his teaching so much so that he got himself castrated to help minimize distractions to date the Heaven's Gate cult is non-existent according to former members Mark and Sarah King who are tasked to maintain the website and answer emails for the cult there have been no new members since 1996 number one Jones down the People's Temple it was a promised utopia for members of the People's Temple but instead their commune in Jonestown became such a living hell for its members it's hard to comprehend headed by notorious cult figure Jim Jones he was the self-proclaimed Messiah of People's Temple born May 13th 1931 Jones was a communist before becoming a pastor in 1952 a year later he rose to popularity as a faith healer and evangelist he soon put up his own wings of deliverance Church later changing the name to Peoples Temple by the 60s Jones moved his group to California continuing to expand his reach by preaching and opening branch in San Francisco where he became a prominent figure backed by officials he donated money and even lobbied votes for politicians by 1977 the group had grown in size reaching up to 20,000 this time unfavorable reports of father Jones's moniker from his members began to surface previous members complained that they were forced to give up their belongings their child's custody and their homes some were even beaten Jones discouraged romantic relationships and sex while he himself was a philanderer and engaged in numerous adulterous relationships with bad press and investigations mounting Jones's paranoid persona got to him he invited his followers to join him in Guiana where he promised they would live in Paradise by 1977 Jones with more than a thousand followers left the United States and flew to Guiana to build their paradise it was here that everything began to crumble instead of paradise the followers ended up being labourers as they were tasked to work the field and punishments were doled out to those who resisted their passports and medications were confiscated everyone was forced to attend late-night meetings where Jones would rant his ideologies armed Patrol was present in the area and family members were separated and encouraged to tattle on one another no phone calls or letters were allowed Jones but his time was increasingly becoming addicted to drugs and mentally unwinding as a final task he would even force mock suicide drills in the middle of the night thinking that the government was out to get them with pressures mounting and increasing reports of people held against their will US representatives Leo Ryan along with reporters and camera crews visited Jonestown in November 1978 to check on the situation to their surprise Jones welcome them with a party and even allowed members who wanted to leave to go back with Ryan the next day Ryan and his contingents including several des factors from Peoples Temple attempted to leave but were ambushed and killed in an airstrip by gunmen hired by Jones Jones then gathered his followers and told them soldiers would soon take over and or to them he ordered each person to stay at the pavilion and commit what he called a revolutionary act the nurses and parents then added cyanide valium and fruit juice powder to a vat of water and made the children and youngest members of the cult drink it first forming a single line each one of the remaining adults then took a drink of the poison laced concoction those who refused were force-fed the drink by the time the guineas officials arrived more than 900 dead bodies on the field greeted them and 276 of those were children as for Jones he was found in the camp's main ground surrounded by his wife and leading group members with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head so those are the five worst cults to ever exist those of us watching from afar might wonder why people would ever fall for or join a cult however the fact is a majority of those who join are simply looking for a new way of life and have no idea what they're getting into until it's far too late to get out if you enjoyed this video please remember to subscribe to our Channel as every Sunday 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Published: Sun Jun 19 2016

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