Scary Mysteries, Twisted Two's, Om Shenrykyo and Cecil Hotel Los Angeles.

Tales of haunting, murder, and scary mysteries.

Every week twisted twos dives into a pair of uniquely terrifying true stories that are worthy of a more in-depth look.

For this week we focus on a subversive and dangerous cult,

as well as an infamous and haunted hotel in Los Angeles.

Get ready for scary mysteries twisted twos.

Number one, Am on Amshinricio

orchestrating one of the deadliest chemical warfare attacks in recent history

has made an unknown group called Amshinriquio, a well-known

doomsday cult.

Founded by half-blind leader, Shoko Asahara, whose real name is Chizal Matsumoto.

The group launched a coordinated Tokyo subway attack using the chemical agent Soren in 1995. This caused 13 deaths, thousands of injuries, and many painful

after effects. The group first started when Asahara claimed to have had a religious awakening and decided to form his own cult because of it.

He appropriated parts of Buddhism, Christianity, yoga, Hinduism, and even the works of Nostradamus into his teachings

and convinced members he was actually Christ.

Furthermore, he convinced his followers that he could save them from impending doom simply

by extending his supreme powers onto them.

Asahara proclaimed a doomsday prophecy to go along with his teachings.

He justified violence as a form of bringing about the apocalypse and cleansing the earth

so that it could be restored.

Some psychiatrists have likened this to the Buddhist concept of Mapo or Shoho, while others see it as a reference to the Book of Revelations during the end times, which Asahara said will culminate in a nuclear Armageddon.

According to Asahara, these end times would happen sometime between 1996 and 2003. Hence, they decided to attack the subway in 1995 as a precursor to the supposed end of days.

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