Before we begin today's episode, let's hear from Dennis O'Hare and Alex Aldeha about our sponsor.

Dennis, I feel like I've been looking everywhere for the right sock and I can't find it.

Look, no further. I've got them for you. Have you ever heard of bombas?

No, what's this? What's this? Oh my god. It's an amazing sock and it an amazing company.

I mean, bombas, actually, they're really comfortable. They're really cute. I mean, the company is nice.

They donate socks. That's great. So, how many pairs are they donated?

Well, apparently socks are the most requested items at homeless shelters and what they do is they

donate one pair for every pair they sell and I think they've already donated like over 7 million

pairs. Oh my god. Yeah. Now, with all this great that they're doing, you know, I still need my

discount. No, they're going to donate to you. Well, they're going to donate to you in the form of a

discount. 20%. I think it's pretty awesome. Yeah. Yeah. Tell us what you do is you go to bombas.com

slash darkest. So, bombas.com slash d-a-r-k-e-s-t. That sounds great.

Agent Siggler, did you find anything on the cult? Nothing concrete. It reminded me a little

bit of the Church of Brindshall. That sounds eerily familiar. Who are they? Christopher Brindshall

was a radical pastor from Santa Cruz. After the church came to blows with the local community,

Brindshall moved his flock down to Ecuador to start a new colony named Brindstown. So, what's the

connection? No. Brindshall believed that a greater species of aliens had made contact with him.

At the alien's spirit animals were elephants to symbolize humility truth and everlasting life.

But that lead seems dead on arrival. Huh? Why are you really in the mouth so quickly?

Now, Brindshall is in Tyre following poison themselves in a mass suicide years ago to prepare for

the apocalypse. No followers survived. I haven't seen any signs of their existence in years.

Weird. Well, let's see what else we can find.

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