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"Nature Boy" and the "cult" called "Carbonation"

By Joan Jones

I became aware of the man known as Nature Boy nearly a year ago. I was following a YouTube channel whose objective was exposing an impostor pretending to be a psychologist. Periodically, I would receive a recommendation for videos featuring someone... More

Recent Additions

• 'Sex cult' led by a 77-year-old man known only as The Doctor who 'tortured and sexually abused female slaves including young girls for 30 years' is uncovered in Italy
• 'Cult leader' charged after student, 25, starved to death while doing 70-day fast
• NXIVM cult leader Keith Raniere's bid for a new trial in his sex-trafficking case is denied after he claimed that witnesses lied on the stand when they said they had no plans to sue him
• Mother loses custody of daughter, nine, after failing to abandon 'harmful and sinister' cult that claims you can burp out bad spirits and disabled children were evil in a past life
• White heritage religious group takes root in Minnesota
• Neo-Nazi group led by 13-year-old boy to be banned
• Leader of Brooklyn federal jail dances acknowledges ties to Nxivm sex cult
• Benjamin Keough, Lisa Marie Presley's adored son, had 'been struggling' before death
• Member of cult with operations in Ayrshire, Derek Lincoln, admits sexual abuse of children
• Former leader of neo-Nazi group pleads guilty to 'swatting'

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