What motivates people to give up their lives, their wealth, and even their identities to a charismatic leader?

How do ordinary, everyday individuals become trapped in manipulative, often dangerous belief systems?

And when the illusion of a perfect world begins to break?

What then?

Throughout history, cults have risen and fallen,

leaving behind dark stories of control, deception, and tragedy.

But some of the most disturbing cases remain largely unknown to the public.

So we're going to dive deep into the rise and collapse of three such cults. Each led by figures who promised

enlightenment but delivered something far, far more sinister. Crime, conspiracy, cults, serial killers,

and murder, all things that I love to consume and I know you do too, you sick, twisted, lovely,

beautiful, intellectually-minded freak.

So today we are talking about just that.

Cults!

Three of them, three of which I don't think you've heard of.

And if you have, well, I don't know, don't listen.

Yeah, you should listen anyway.

But without further ado, let's unbuckle our seatbelts.

Go Mach 5 down the highway,

slam on the brakes, and bust through this windshield into these three disturbing cults together. So the first cult we're going to be talking about today is Angels Landing.

Sounds nice, right? It's fucking not. It's not. It's the furthest thing from Nice. It should be called the Devil's Landing. It's probably my worst joke. The jokes will get up, get up from here. Go up from here for sure.

And the first joke I will mention is the man named Daniel Perez, the cult leader, if you will.

And he was born in Oranzas, Pass, Texas in 1959.

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