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Hello and welcome back to Cult Leader. I'm your Cult Leader, Spencer Henry, coming to you live from my hotel room in Philadelphia.

What a life, what a dream, what a world. This is actually my first time in Philadelphia and I'm super excited to hopefully see a little bit of the city before our show. Hopefully see some cold babes.

By the time you hear this, I will be back at the cold compound. Hopefully, cuddled up in bed with hot dog, miss my girl.

The tour has been a lot of fun so far. You can check out the post on Instagram. I'll upload a post with our upcoming cities and see if I'm coming to a city near you.

What I'd love to see you guys there. Or you can always go to obituarypodcast.com. There is a little Cult Leader nist to the show. So, trust me, you don't want to miss it.

We had our first show in Boston, which Boston I love more and more every time I go. We had such a blast. The venue was also really cool. The crystal ballroom.

And everyone there was so nice. And then we went to New York, which I was very happy about. I hadn't been there in quite some time because of the pandemic.

I just missed the city so much. I missed seeing all of my New York friends. So it was so fun to see everyone. I also really liked the bellhouse in Brooklyn. That's honestly probably one of my favorite venues so far because it just seemed like a place where like a crest punk band would play.

There's just some irony in there. I love it. And then what else happened after that? We took the train from New York to Washington, DC. And I love Washington, DC because I think it's a very clean city. It's how I think of it.

If you live there, you might be like, I don't know, but trust me, in comparison, it's a very clean city. Our show was on a Monday. The venue, the Howard Theatre was really cool.

It has an amazing history. We were reading about and like all these fantastic people have performed there. And we were laughing because we're like, oh well, we're at us to the list. But it was a good time.

And then this morning we took the train to Philadelphia. And I was just laying in my hotel room, googling weird shit about the city. I never know what to do with my time when we have an off day.

And I was just looking into like weird things about Philadelphia. And I found this little story that I wanted to share. And I thought, hey, why not do it while I'm here while I'm sitting here.

So let's get to it. I'll link the full article obviously. And it also inspired an upcoming cult leader episode. But you'll have to wait for that.

I think it was an article. Who was it written by? Well, never know. It doesn't say, but I'll link it regardless. It says, Talk to way in a remote section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is the former meeting place of America's very first Doomsday cult.

I said, okay, I'm hooked. Tell me more. Named after the group's leader, Johann's Kelpius, this 40 square foot tabernacle is built into the side of a hill above Wissacan Creek.

And to possibly be an old spring house, legend has it that this stone framed hideaway was once a safe place for 40 monks as they awaited the end of days and the second coming.

So there's a picture of that, of course, I'll post. But basically it looks like a little doorway into a cave on this hillside.

It says in 1694, a group of German mystics and monks dubbed the Society of Women in the Wilderness, settled along the Wissacan Creek in the Fairmount Park section of the newly founded Philadelphia.

Their society was named after a woman in the Book of Revelations, who sought refuge in the wilderness during the apocalypse.

The monks chose this location of their cave, not only for easy access to the spring water, but because of its position on the 40th parallel. The group also created a 40 square foot tabernacle, including an observatory where the monks practiced astronomy.

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