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Origin of Everything
Why Are We Obsessed with Cults?
Season 2
Episode 16
What is it about cults that captures the public imagination? Why are we so interested in the stories of Jonestown, Charles Manson, and Patty Hearst? Today Danielle explores how these groups entered the public consciousness and why we find it so hard to look away.
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