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Cult Liter with Spencer Henry

North Shields Death Cult

Cult Liter with Spencer Henry

Spencer Henry | Morbid Network

True Crime, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.95.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Ello Cult Babes! This week we’re discussing a horrific moidah done at the hands of a UK-based sect known as The North Shields Death Cult back in 2016. Listen in to hear how cult leader Zahid Zaman catfished his way into the home of a future follower and wreaked havoc on a quiet suburban street.  Come see me on tour: obitchuarypodcast.com  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://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/north-shields-death-cult-how-13205619 https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-tyne-47150950 https://academic.oup.com/socrel/article-abstract/40/4/347/1612776?redirectedFrom=fulltext&login=false https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/story-jimmy-prout-dad-two-13206598 https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Jurors+told+women+were+%27controlled%27+by+accused-a0491124209 https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/may/03/cultish-neighbours-tortured-and-killed-tyneside-man-jury-told-jimmy-prout https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-tyne-47150950

Transcript

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0:06.6

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0:10.6

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0:12.8

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0:17.1

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0:20.6

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0:50.6

Hello and welcome back to Cult Leader.

0:57.8

I'm your Cult Leader Spencer Henry and this week we've got another international cult

1:02.2

on our hands.

1:03.7

This time we're hitting the UK, which I know a lot of you will be excited about, and I

1:08.9

got to be honest, it's pretty interesting to think about the geographical statistics of

1:14.4

cults.

1:15.4

I've talked about this a little bit last week in relation to the nepotism conversation,

1:20.9

but why the hell are there so many cults in the United States?

1:24.6

Whenever I'm looking into an international cult, it's pretty sparse, okay?

1:28.8

There's definitely a lot, but in comparison to the US, it's nothing.

1:33.2

Why are there so many cults in the United States?

1:36.0

Specifically California, California is like a breeding ground for cults.

1:41.0

I've listed a little digging around, a brief look into this showed that it's merely because

1:45.9

we're such a mountain pot.

1:47.4

There's so many different religions practiced here, and as we know, many, if not most,

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