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🗓️ 20 October 2025
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NEW True Crime Series from Gamut Podcast Network.
Gardens of Evil: Inside the Zion Society Cult begins November 13th.
It was just another quiet neighborhood in small town America. At least, that's how it looked. But the immaculately groomed yards, trimmed hedges, and brightly colored flower gardens hid an insidious secret.
More than a hundred residents were members of a cult called The Zion Society. Hiding in plain sight, they hoarded guns and ammunition. They created, sold, and modeled sexy lingerie. They took children away from parents and groomed them for sexual abuse.
Their beliefs were centered around satisfying the perverted desires of one man - their leader: an unassuming, soft-spoken landscaper. Neighbors knew something was amiss, but it wasn't until a brave young woman broke away from the secretive group and confessed to authorities that everything began to unravel for this dangerous cult. This is the story of that unraveling told by the people who lived it.
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| 0:00.0 | Megan here to introduce you to an all-new true crime series from the Gamut Podcast Network. |
| 0:05.8 | It's called Gardens of Evil. It's one of the most shocking and disturbing stories that we've told. |
| 0:11.4 | Gardens of Evil takes you inside the Zion Society, a seemingly idyllic religious commune that hid |
| 0:17.7 | unimaginable horrors behind its carefully constructed facade. |
| 0:22.2 | The series goes beyond the headlines and takes you deep inside the investigation, told by those |
| 0:28.0 | that lived it. Gardens of Evil inside the Zion Society cult launches November 13th, wherever |
| 0:34.8 | you get your podcasts. Follow or subscribe today so you're ready when the first episode drops. |
| 0:40.4 | We'll be back on Tuesday with an all-new episode of 22 hours, a second look. |
| 0:44.9 | But for now, here's the official trailer for Gardens of Evil inside the Zion Society cult. |
| 0:51.1 | In a quiet little neighborhood called Northwood lived a man named Arvin Shreve. |
| 0:56.4 | Northwood was immaculate. |
| 0:58.2 | Such perfection that it's hard to even describe. |
| 1:02.0 | These homes look like they had their grass clipped with scissors. |
| 1:06.4 | And Arvin, a retired award-winning landscaper, was its caretaker. |
| 1:10.5 | For many residents of Northwood, the warm and charismatic Arvin was a father figure. |
| 1:15.2 | I didn't have a dad, and here's this older man, and he would tell me, you can be part of our family, and we want to be part of yours. |
| 1:22.4 | But beneath the lush foliage and smiling faces, a great evil had taken root. |
| 1:28.3 | The horror that happened inside those homes with such a pretty facade. |
| 1:32.3 | It just didn't make sense. |
| 1:34.3 | Such ugliness covered by such a beauty. |
| 1:38.3 | In July 1991, a young woman walked into a police station and introduced herself to Detective Mike King. |
| 1:47.6 | Then, very matter-of-factly, almost as if she was commenting on the weather, she said, |
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