Speaker 1: 0:06

Oh man, why is it that we get better at talking? But the greeting? You know what it is. It's because, socially, a greeting happens when you haven't just been sitting here for six hours, and we've been sitting here for quite an amount of hours. So it's weird for me to be like hi, courtney, because you're already here. One that sounds forced. Okay, hi, I'm Hannah and I'm Courtney. Join us as we delve into true crime, paranormal encounters and all things spooky. Grab your flashlight and get ready to wander into the darkness with us.

Speaker 1: 0:47

This is Wicked Wanderings. Hi, hannah. Hi, courtney, I hear that you have a cult-themed version of trivia to go along with your episode. So Hannah found this really cool quiz to do of infamous cults, and I have to admit that one you can't see the questions like until you answer the first one. So that's not a thing, but just looking at the first one, I'm like shit, I know. Great. So you can ask me the first one and this is good.

Speaker 1: 1:31

We're gonna go back and forth this time, so I don't feel so bad about myself, but we can both answer our own Because it has three multiple choice. I like the multiple choice. Multiple choice is a new thing we're trying here. Alright, here we go. You ready, courtney? I am sort of ready. What is the name of the cult that believes humans were created by aliens Called Elohim who pretended to be angels when they appeared in the past? I'm going to go with realism, go ahead. Yay, I was right, I said Heaven's Gate. Wow. So realism began in the 1970s and is often associated with claims that they can clone humans and an attitude of very liberal sexuality. Damn it All. Right, cora, go right, go ahead, okay.

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So question number two the brethren founded by jimmy t roberts disallows members from using modern conveniences and forbids children from speaking, looking at members of the opposite sex or playing playing correct. The brethren believe all celebration should be saved for the imminent return of jesus christ, which has been imminent since the 1970s. So the kids can't play. I see, and this is my problem, I'm like what constitutes as playing? Like what childhood activities constitutes as playing? That seems very vague. Yeah, I feel like how do you control something that isn't? It's the, it's the aba and me, the operational definition like playing includes or does not include. Oh yeah, because to me, reading a book doesn't count as playing, but it could. Watching television in today's age, I would not count as playing. I have a lot of questions. Okay, go ahead.

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Which cult is known for its mass weddings, with hundreds of couples married simultaneously in huge ceremonies? I was wrong. Let's go ahead. What'd you pick? I am gonna go with the unification church, which is correct. Members of the unification church are sometimes called moonies because of their association with founder sun myung moon. I did the sign of the moon, which I was wrong. That was an interesting one. I can honestly say I didn't know anything about that before reading that question.

Speaker 1: 3:44

Next, yes, what did the movement for the restoration of the Ten Commandments of God predict would happen on March 17, 2000? Hmm, let's see, because I just did an episode on this. Guys, the Virgin Mary would come to Earth and carry the cult's members to Heaven. Woo, if you listened to last week's episode, you would know. Make sure Rob does that, because that would help. Yes, when mary did not arrive, the cult leaders caused explosions and fires that kill hundreds of cult members. We learned about her guys just saying there's a quiz.

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After what is it called when the loved ones of a cult member arranged to have that person kidnapped away from the cult and retrained for cult free life? I know, this one got it deprogramming. Yep, that's what I got. Deprogramming is a controversial activity that isn't always successful and that is deprogramming them of what they've learned to believe in, what they were trained on. Which cult engaged in a practice of recruiting new members by sending women members out to have sex with them, something they called quote, and here I am quoting flirty fishing. Oh God, I got it wrong. I got it right. Okay, go ahead, girl. My guess was the Children of God, which was correct. The Children of God ran into trouble both because of sexually transmitted diseases and for their publications, which promoted child adult sexual activity. I said Evansgate, so I'm glad you got it right. Oh, gross.

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And the next one is the People's Temple Massacre. Occurred in what South American nation? I got that one right. Go ahead Guyana, guyana, guyana. I know right, the People's Temple commun. Ahead, guyana, guyana, guyana. I think that's right.

Speaker 1: 5:31

The People's Temple commune in Guyana, called Jonestown, was the site of the massacre. How many people died in the People's Temple Jonestown massacre? This is going to be a tricky one. All right, I got it. I got it wrong. All right, so I got it right 918 people died, the worst cult-based massacre in US history. To be fair, I guessed 1,212, which was also close, worst, but close, yeah.

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What cyanide-laced substance was given to the people's temple members to facilitate the Jonestown Massacre? Is that right? Obviously, grape Kool-Aid. The incident gave rise to the phrase. Drinking the kool-aid often used to mean believing in something because someone told you to, that's good. Leo ryan was shot by people's temple guards while attempting to investigate jonestown. What government position did he hold? Oh, I have to reread that one for myself. Hang on, I got it wrong, congressman. Congressman Ryan is the only member of the House of Representatives to be assassinated while in office. I had guessed US Ambassador of Guyana.

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What did the AM Shinrikyo cult use to attack the Tokyo subway system in 1995? Oh my god. Oh my God. I knew this one. Go for it. Syringas. And that attack killed 13 people. What does om syringo mean when translated into English? I got it. I got it wrong. Oh, I got it. I got it wrong. I got Supreme Truth. Translation is tricky, since the cult's founder combined since Crete and Japanese to create the name, but Supreme Truth is a generally accepted translation. Okay, cults preoccupied with preparing for the end of the world are often known as I knew this one, go for it. Doomsday cultists sometimes believe only they will be spared in the coming apocalypse, but cults have also committed mass suicide when they thought the world would end.

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What federal agency conducted the final assault on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, texas, in 1983? I don't know this one, I have to guess. Oh my gosh, I would not have expected that. I got it wrong, me too, surprisingly. So can I say yeah, so it was the FBI. I guessed Homeland Security. Although the initial ran the Branch of Indian, was conducted by the Bureau of Alcohol, tobacco, firearms, explosives, the final assault, which set the compound on fire, was conducted by the FBI. See, that's why I was looking for the ATF. Okay, that makes sense. Who was the leader of the Branch Davidian cult? I don't know this one Really. I guessed it correctly, though. David Koresh man, who was born Vernon Howell, took over the cult in the 1980s.

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I didn't think I would ever get that one right with you. I thought you knew which terrorist attack was conducted in the anniversary of and inspired by the branch davidian waco raid. Got it, I was between two and it was the second one, not the one I chose. Was it wrong? Oklahoma city bombing, which I didn't know what you do call mine. Yeah, yeah, I knew it wasn't the world Trade Center bombing, no, so Oklahoma City bombing was the correct answer. And the Oklahoma City bombing targeted a building that housed federal agencies as revenge for the Waco incident. I didn't know that. I didn't know that at all either. Actually Interesting.

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Okay, what doomsday cult believed they were descended from the Knights Templar and died in a series of mass murder slash suicides in the 1990s? Got it? I'm guessing? Okay, did you guess blindly on this one? I did, but I got it right. I didn't get it right. Okay, you're going to go. Yeah, go ahead. Order of the Solar Temple. The Solar Temple's members believed their leader was Christ, that they go to another planet when they died. What'd you guess? By the way, I guessed Order of the Solar Temple. Oh, no, it has to be Faithists. Okay, you're like. Then you guessed right. You guessed right. All right, go ahead.

Speaker 1: 9:46

What phrase did Charles Manson use to describe the apocalyptic race war he foresaw? You got this girl. Helter Skelter. Manson took the phrase from the beatles song. Helter skelter, one of the cultists, wrote it in blood at one of the murder scenes. Poor beatles, I know how they got roped into that.

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I'll never understand what actress was among those murdered by the manson family. Duh, it's sharon tate. I would have known that without the three. Tate was nine months pregnant at the time that she was killed. I said grace kelly, why did I do that? I'm not really sure. All right, well, the heavens gate cult committed suicide, believing they'd be transported onto a spaceship traveling behind what comet in 1997? I got that one wrong. I did too. So I had guessed hayley's comet. I did too. And then the answer is the hail bop. Okay, the astronomers that hail bop is named after probably wish the comet had become famous for some other reason, probably.

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What notable footwear were the heavenscape cultists all wearing when they killed themselves? I got that one wrong. I got the wrong too. What did you guess? The birkenstocks. Me too. I just seemed really culty. But the answer was brand new nike sneakers. The nike sneakers were a strange detail of the mass suicide scene that the media focused on at the time. Well, well, it should have been birkenstocks. It should have been birkenstocks, just see. You know, the jesus sandals. Right, that's what had me. Oh my god.

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What did the rajneesh firm cool do in oregon in 1985? Oh my gosh, some of these answers are. The answers here are they sent letter bombs to county committee members, they poisoned salad bars with salmonella and they tried to build a nuclear fission reactor. Oh my gosh, I would have never guessed that. What'd you get? I put they sent letter bombs to county committee members Because they tried to build a nuclear fission reactor. The answer was they poisoned salad bars with salmonella. The salmonella poisoning was part of a bizarre scheme to gain control of county government. Wah, wah.

Speaker 1: 11:54

Next, what other method did the rashi sperm cult use to try to win county elections? God, I don't think this cult and I were aligned mentally because I didn't get that one right either. All right, so the answer I didn't do it yet. I'm giving them the options. Oh, okay, the answer options are they threatened county election officials who counted the ballots. They registered to vote dozens of times each using fake identities, and they invented thousands of homeless people to move to their city. Okay, go ahead. What did you guess? To vote dozens of times each using fake identities. Same, it just felt like it checked out. But the correct answer was they invited thousands of homeless people to move to their city. Seems kind of like humanitarian of them, which is why I was not expecting that one. The cult hoped the homeless people would pack ballot boxes in their favor. Did we mention that it was a bizarre scheme?

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All right, jay-z knight, founder of the ramtha school, claims to channel the thoughts of a being. Who is how old? I guessed 100 years, because 35 000 just seemed too far-fetched for me. But apparently 35 000 years. I didn't get that. So night channels, a 35 000 year old ascended being named ramtha seems a little far-fetched for me, but okay, I agree.

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The town of yerba buena in northern mexico was home to a cult in the 1960s, led by a former prostitute. Go for her. Who did what to those who tried to leave the cult? Okay, killed them and drained their blood in a ritual, had sex with them to convince them their life in the cult would be better, or cut out their tongues so they couldn't tell anyone about the cult. I feel like this is a trick. It really is.

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I got it wrong me too. What one did you guess cut out their tongues? I said, had sex with them? Okay, the answer was killed them and drank their blood in a ritual. Magdalena solis possibly suffered from delusions that she was a reincarnated inkin goddess and needed to drink blood to maintain her immort may go for her. Okay, thelema was a cult created by what notorious English occultist? I got that one wrong. Get out of town. No, you did not. Courtney, I sure did. Okay, well, I got Alistair Crowley. Please tell me it was Margaret at least. No, I guessed Ozzie. No, you did not. Poor Ozzie, I was poor. You haven't fed me all day. True, this is a cult. Crowley was once described as the weakest man in the world.

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The establishment of a caliphate and an apocalyptic battle in the Middle East are the goals of the terrorist group known as ISIS. Wrong, no, isis is correct. No, I said Hamas, I'm sorry. While other Islamic terrorist groups have political goals alongside their religious aims, isis cult-like goals are primarily based on a religious prophecy my turn or your turn. It's your turn, okay.

Speaker 1: 14:48

A far right cult active in the US in the 1970s and 80s that advocated white supremacy was called the Covenant, covenant, the sword and the blank. I got it wrong, me too. What did you guess? A flame. I guessed righteous path. It apparently was arm of the lord and the covenant. The sword and the arm of the lord fell apart after a peaceful fbi standoff ended with the leaders being arrested. Well, sounds like such a lame name. It is Adolfo Constanzo. That's a great name. Leader of a cult in Mexico in the 1980s that was popular with drug cartels, kidnapped and murdered 15 people. For what purpose? I got it right, me too. He used various body parts to cast dark magic spells. Constanzo's reputation as a black magician and spellcaster was reinforced by the grisly body parts, including brains and spines, that he extracted from his victims. I like him Interesting. I like the idea of him. I like it.

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The Church of Satan, here we go, people found in 1966 has a notable relationship with Satan. What is it? And here we go. They believe each member of the cult is a child of Satan. They believe their high priest is Satan born in human form, or they don't actually believe the supernatural being called Satan exists? I know the answer. Okay, go ahead. They don't actually believe that a supernatural being called satan exists.

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The church of satan doesn't worship a literal demonic entity called satan, which I think is really important to understand, because a lot of people, I feel like, have the wrong idea that the house of god is worshiping a god and the house of satan worships. You know satan as this demonic. What'd you get? Oh, I didn't look at the score at the bottom. Is there a score? Yeah, please hold 14 out of 30, me too. We tied, we both got 14 out of 30.

Speaker 1: 16:42

We didn't do too bad then. That's kind of. I mean to be fair, we've only ever covered one cult, yeah. So really we've only done one call in the time of wicked wanderings, and I think when we've talked about cults before, we've only done one call in the time of wicked wanderings, and I think when we've talked about cults before, we really only knew, like charles manson, I mean, come on, that one's kind of obvious. And then we learned about one today who sadly didn't make an appearance. Really that much one, one but one.

Speaker 1: 17:06

I was surprised by the one but 30 questions. I mean, how many cults exist? That's a great. We should look like mother God wasn't in there. Mother God, I thought, was a cult. I feel like we might need to find more cult-like questions. The Davidians, obviously, the Waco there were a lot in there. I mean they did comprehensively cover a lot. It wasn't like some of the other trivia that I've seen, where they pick like one thing and then they ask you 16 or 17 questions about just one where you're like okay, come on, that was a good one, hannah. Thanks, court. I feel like we took a pre-quiz, for if we're going to learn a little bit and then take a post-quiz, I love that. Just a little bit of ABA strategy for everybody else. I love that.

Speaker 1: 17:49

Now we need to take pictures of the books I've used before so we can have from our Instagram, which has been revamped Because Courtney's worked hard on it. It's up and alive. Interact with us. Tag us in posts. You know, come on, don't make me sound like a clingy ex-girlfriend here again, please.

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It's like week 672 of me sitting here begging for someone to interact with me. Just a hi, hello, what's up? Because we know people like us. That's the thing. I know people like our content. I thought I need them to like us publicly yes, please. Or share us to your story, anything. I'd love to see a share notification that isn't just Hannah's bookcase For real Not that I don't appreciate Hannahannah's bookcase no, for real and all of its sharing as well. But if there's content that you'd like to see that we're not putting out there I know we've said it a bunch of times, but we really are feedback driven people, we're used to it we can take it. If there's something we do that you're like, oh, gag me, stop doing that um, let us know. We want to know. We want to make it what feels good for everybody and I am going to do a, pick a card, any card.

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I can't do a card in a while. So let's see who we pick. Do the hot fingers? Hot fingers, hot fingers. I am going to let Kenzie Do. You want to pick a card? She picked one, she did, she did, she nudged this one. Okay, so Kenzie's card is a 10 of hearts. Jamel Williams.

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On December 12th 2014, the victim was picked up by associates in Dorchester and traveled, for an unknown reason, to Randolph. The victim was shot outside on Canavan Drive in Randolph. If you have any information about this case, please call 1-855-MASOLVE. December 12th 2014. I want to know what the date range on these cards is, because I feel like some are so far ago and then some, like this, are really. I mean, I'm dating myself when I say 2014 was recently. Oh, 11. Oh, my god, don't do that. You just broke my soul. Oh, my god, that's disgusting that no one solved it. I know, I mean, dorchester is kind of a rough Dorchester. Dorchester, I don't know, doesn't sound like anybody we know. No, we want to do those cards, but it's so depressing it is, it is. I mean, maybe there's some other type of card we can look into. But I do hope that at this point, you know, maybe people will know something or at the very least they'll spread the card around. I will post it to social media.

Speaker 1: 20:36

On our story, I wonder if Rob at the end of the year should do like a blooper reel of us, like one whole episode. That's just us verbally stimming our brains out, like I sharted my pants. Oh, don't put that in. I don't think anybody's ever said that on the podcast, but I do think it would be funny to hear all of the things he clips out of like random ass stuff, like when you're in the bathroom and I'm singing the bathroom song just at the top of my lungs. She doesn't allow me to listen to her in the bathroom, so let's do other shit.

Speaker 1: 21:04

I mean, sometimes you got to do what you got to do, but I do think that looking up the cards and figuring out, kind of, where these people are and thinking about them, because I have to believe in my heart that something, something gets updated, that the cards being out there, and especially for the cases that aren't the top media cases there's several in our area. I won't mention them for respect to the families, but they get tons of media coverage because they're in your face and because they have connections or whatever, and that doesn doesn't make those family members any more valued than the other family members. Really, honestly, race comes into mind, it does, and the member that I'm holding here in my hand is an African-American male, yeah, and so I'm sure that his case has been based off of where he lived and his race pushed to the side, but I do want to start posting pictures of the cars. I love it. The more coverage the better. That's kind of the way that I'm looking at it. So yeah, wanderers, that was an interesting trivia.

Speaker 1: 22:06

I feel like Hannah and I are getting a little better at trivia. I mean, maybe not, but we try. We tied, which makes me feel a little bit. I don't know if that should be a good benchmark for Hannah, but I feel really good about the fact that we tied, because I've been really bad the last few times we've done it. I know Mark has been yelling at me. I know Lynn from Springfield has been yelling at me answers. So hopefully this time we did a little better. We did a little better. All right, thank you, wanderers, thanks Hannah. That was a really great follow-up to your cult episode, I'm glad. Bye, wanderers, bye. Thanks for listening today.

Speaker 1: 22:40

Wicked Wanderings is hosted by me, hannah, and co-hosted by me, courtney, and it's produced by Rob Fitzpatrick Music by Sasha N. If you enjoyed today's episode, don't forget to leave a rating and review and be sure to follow on all socials. You can find the links down in the show notes. If you're looking for some really cozy t-shirts or hoodies, head over to the merch store. Thank you for being a part of the Wicked Wanderings community. We appreciate every one of you. Stay curious, keep exploring and always remember to keep on wandering.