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Sinisterhood

Episode 342: The Bergholz Beard-Cutting Attacks

Sinisterhood

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True Crime, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.86K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2025

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

A quaint, religiously conservative community in central Ohio turned into a violent gang after a power-hungry bishop declared himself the forever leader. He twisted scripture to encourage attacks and then the feds came knocking. This week’s episode is The Bergholz Beard-Cutting Attacks.

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0:00.0

Another one is that Jones is at 27 now. New porcelain paving. Looks like Taralis Nordic. Everyone's going Nordic these days. Is the same fella doing it again? Ooh, Dark Baff. He's using Dark Baff seek a jointing compound. Betty's got a trade account at you, son. Terralis porcelain paving from £22 per square metre and seek a fast-fit jointing compound at 2999 each. Plus, get 10%

0:22.7

off if you buy two tubs. All trade prices XVAT at 20%. So now you can keep up with the Joneses.

0:28.8

And the Evanses. A quaint religiously conservative community in central Ohio turned into a violent

0:34.4

gang after a power-hungry bishop declared himself the forever leader.

0:38.8

He twisted scripture to encourage attacks, and then the feds came knocking.

0:43.6

This week's episode is the Bergholz's beard-cutting attacks.

0:52.1

Up in the nights, your heart fills with dread, probably a murder of who wants you dead,

1:00.6

it could be a ghost, a demon or worse, perhaps you're the victim of a witch's curse,

1:07.7

it's hopeless, you're doomed, you'd call a priest if you could. You'd rather just listen to

1:13.6

who. Sinisterhood.

1:22.6

I'm gonna kill you. Well, this is one we saw on How I Escape My Colt.

1:28.9

What a show that is.

1:32.8

First of all the episodes, but it was like, there's some, there's got to be more to this.

1:34.9

And there's just more of what's in the show.

1:35.5

Yeah, for sure.

1:37.2

It was a fascinating episode.

1:39.5

I don't know much about the Amish.

1:48.3

And I didn't know that their beards and the women's hair are, I mean, they are sacred.

1:54.7

So attacking someone and cutting it off is essentially worse than murder for them.

1:55.4

Right.

1:59.9

And the religion, the religious tie of it makes it worse. Like it's like, this isn't just a physical

2:01.5

change in me. This has a spiritual ramification. And that's the, that episode centers around

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