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Man, 2020 and 2019 have been big years for cults in the modern media landscape.

But we were diving into this stuff back in what, 2014?

Oh, yeah.

Way before the cult renaissance that we're in the midst of right now.

Well, at least, yeah, it like Ben said, in the spotlight before NXM was a big deal.

I hesitate to say the S word, but that was around and we were talking about it too.

You're going to find a lot of stuff that you didn't know in this episode.

And stuff that they, these particular cults probably don't want you to know.

Oh, definitely.

Yeah, that's why we call this classic episode cults you've never heard of.

You'll hear versions of us navigating the difference between a cult and a religion

and some of the strangest cults in history, along with secret cults of what was the modern day.

From UFOs to ghosts and government cover-ups, history is riddled with unexplained events.

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