I Am JESUS: People Who Claimed to Be Christ Reborn

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🗓️ 26 May 2026

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Today we explore the fascinating and often disturbing phenomenon of individuals who have genuinely believed themselves to be the reincarnation of Jesus Christ. From modern-day cult leaders to historical figures who amassed thousands of followers, these messianic claimants share striking similarities in their psychological profiles and methods of persuasion. Watch the ⁠⁠⁠⁠podcast⁠⁠⁠⁠ Fight me at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠war of the barons⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Travel to Estonia with me here Travel to China with me here Check out other trips with me here Check out my merch here Check out our sister podcast the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Mystery of Everything⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Coffee Collab With The Lore Lodge ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠COFFEE⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Bonus episodes as well as ad-free episodes on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Find us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Join us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Discord⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Submit your relatives on our ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠website Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:28.7	Exactly, how many people have claimed to be Jesus in their life? If the answer is more than one,
0:35.5	it might surprise you, but no, that's actually completely real.
0:39.9	Over the course of our research on various different historical subjects, we hear that the channel have come across a number of different stories of people who have claimed to be the Messiah or the second coming of Christ.
0:49.8	Now, some of them were a little bit more convincing than others, and some of them managed
0:54.4	to fool hundreds of thousands of people into following a false prophet of their faith.
0:59.3	So, my friends, that is exactly what we were going to be talking about here today.
1:03.6	Join us as we discussed the very real world of very fake Jesuses, from just making others feel
1:09.9	foolish to straight up kidnapping their children.
1:13.0	No matter who these charlatans were, they definitely did impact the lives of a lot of their
1:17.4	followers in many profound ways, especially when they managed to end them.
1:21.7	To begin, we're going to be starting our story here today with that of Ernest Norman,
1:25.4	a guy who was born the fifth of eight children in
1:28.5	Logan, Utah in the year 1904. After moving to California when he was just 17, he would go and
1:34.8	marry young and began to spend his free time learning about, you know, typical Christian things like
1:40.3	clairvoyance and palmistry and fortune-telling.
1:44.5	You can probably tell why this is not something that would be a standard accepted practice.
1:49.5	He would then go and lead a spiritualist church for 15 years, and in 1954, he would meet
1:55.2	Ruth Norman and immediately fall in love, which was a bit of a problem considering
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