Hey true weirdos, at the end of this episode, stick around if you want for a little bonus content and

conversation. What's more fun than a kitchy roadside attraction? Slow down now, because up ahead,

we've got one that's offering more than just food and gas. This place has an observatory and a dance hall, an ice cream,

and even peep show machines. Wow, you can't miss it. Just look for the nine giant statues

of Santa Claus lining the entrance. Welcome to Holy City. Are you here for the laughs or for the white supremacy love cold? And they got a small beam of light against the air. Oh, real, wild. Oh, no, no. No. Oh. Yeah. Oh! Oh, ha ha! Oh! Oh, ho, ho, ho, ha ha. True weird stuff.

It's really easy to judge people who belong or have belonged to a cult.

I would never, you say.

Those people are like lost sheep, you say.

Gullable, stupid, desperate people join cults, you say.

But nobody really joins a cult, do they?

No, that's not how it happens.

It happens more like a discovery, encountering someone who has the answers

about god or the government or just life and those answers make sense to you this person this leader

knows the way and damn if that isn't soothing in a world that feels so chaotic and

destructive and maybe even doomed. Look at Heaven's Gate. You think those people all had mass

suicide on their bucket lists? No. They were searching for meaning, for something beyond their own

mortality, for a higher spiritual

truth.

Maybe you found that at Sunday school.

These folks founded in a religion that offered them ascension to heaven via a UFO, provided

it they were faithful enough to willingly shed their human bodies so that their consciousness could be

transferred to a new container, a next level body. And on March 26, 1997, law enforcement officers

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