Today's podcast will feature three stories about acts so strange and unsettling,

they blur the line between devotion and madness.

The audio from all three of these stories has been pulled from our main YouTube channel and has been remastered for today's episode.

The links to the original YouTube videos are in the description.

The first story you'll hear is called Exit Interviews, and it's about one of the most infamous cult cases in history. The second story you'll hear is called exit interviews, and it's about one of the most

infamous cult cases in history. The second story you'll hear is called a family ritual, and it's

about a sickening act of family performs together. Keep in mind for this story, listener discretion is

advised. And the third and final story you'll hear is called The Helping Hand. And in this story,

a literal hand washes up on a beach in Florida, after which a very mysterious case begins to unravel.

But before we get into today's stories, if you're a fan of the Strange, Dark, and Mysterious,

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Okay, let's get into our first story called Exit Interviews.

Okay. Okay, let's get into our first story called Exit Interviews. The In the early 1970s, a man named Marshall Applewhite was fired from his music teaching job for having an inappropriate relationship with a male student.

Shortly after, he admitted himself into a psychiatric institution

where he met a nurse who worked there named Bonnie Nettles. Both had a deep interest in biblical

prophecy, and Applewhite, after meeting Nettles, was convinced they had met in a previous life. Nettles agreed,

and took it a step further, saying extraterrestrials had come

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