Home of Truth (but also mistruths)

Cult Liter with Spencer Henry

Spencer Henry | Morbid Network

Society & Culture, Comedy, True Crime

4.9 • 5.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Happy Tuesday Cult Babes! This week’s story was actually a request from one of you and the second I started looking into this ghost town known as the Home of Truth, I uncovered some frightening tales from its heyday where it once served as the compound for cult leader Marie Ogden. Write me: spencer@cultliter.com Spencer Henry PO Box 18149 Long Beach CA 90807 Follow along online: instagram.com/cultliterpodcast Join our patreon: Patreon.com/cultliter Check out my other show OBITCHUARY wherever you’re listening now! Sources: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_of_Truth,_Utah https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Dudley_Pelley https://www.canyoncountryzephyr.com/2022/09/04/the-home-of-truth-by-lloyd-pierson-for-marie-ogdens-followers-in-the-1930s-the-vortex-of-the-universe-was-at-photograph-gap-zx24/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/738508247/?terms=marie%20ogden&match=1 https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/home-of-truth https://www.newspapers.com/image/599275461/?terms=marie%20ogden&match=1 https://www.idahistory.com/failure-to-raise-the-dead-marie-ogden-and-the-strange-afterlife-of-boise-s-edith-peshak https://www.newspapers.com/image/544516622/?terms=marie%20ogden&match=5 https://utahadvjournal.com/index.php/marie-ogden-and-the-home-of-truth https://www.health.harvard.edu/mind-and-mood/easing-grief-through-religion-and-spirituality https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/meet-screenwriting-mystic-who-wanted-be-american-fuhrer-180970449/

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0:17.1	On Cult Leader I strive for telling stories in a truthful matter, though press media and
0:20.6	other resources cannot always be verified, sources can be found in the show notes.
0:50.6	Hello and welcome back to Cult Leader.
0:56.1	I'm your Cult Leader Spencer Henry and this week's episode came to me from one of you.
1:01.2	I got a DM on Instagram the other day that was like, episode request, home of truth cult,
1:06.2	Utah.
1:07.2	And this sounded vaguely familiar to me, but once I started looking into it I was like,
1:11.5	oh no, I would definitely remember this story because there's something pretty wacky
1:15.7	that happens, which we'll get to later on.
1:18.6	But alas, here we are talking about home of truth.
1:21.7	Home of truth was a group that was founded by a woman named Marie Ogden in the 1930s
1:27.0	and something about her story really drew me in, but the issue that I was running into
1:31.9	was an issue that I have all the time when we're talking about cases from the 1930s, it's
1:36.2	a lack of information.
1:37.9	There's a few articles about her, a few thesises that I came across, one in Atlas Obscura
1:43.5	that I pulled information from, all the sources are in the notes, but nothing too in-depth.
1:48.5	Luckily, I was able to find plenty of news articles in the archives that filled in some
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