Each week, Dan Cummins enthusiastically deep dives into everything from cults to killers to conspiracies, absurdly and sarcastically sharing the best of what he uncovers with you. Join the Cult of the Curious!
480 episodes transcribedIn Seoul, South Korea, in 1954, Sun Myung Moon founded the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity, a new religious institut...
On June 20th, 2001, former high school valedictorian, captain of the swim team, and registered nurse, Andrea Yates, coldly drowned all five of her chi...
Are wealthy elites like Bill Gates and George Soros using their money and power to sterilize and/or kill you through vaccines, chemtrails, and more in...
Kenneth McDuff killed three high school students the night of August 6th, 1966, repeatedly raping and sexually torturing one of them first. He'd be se...
What happens to your body when it is donated to science? Does it actually end up in front of some doctor or medical student? Not necessarily. Sometime...
Michael Jackson is the most successful solo act in the history of recorded music. Only the Beatles have sold more albums. He has the top selling album...
The Osage Reign of Terror - dramatized recently in the 2023 award winning Martin Scorsese film, Killers of the Flower Moon based on the 2017 book of t...
On Saturday night, April 11th, 1981, a young mother, her teenage son, and her son's teenage friend, were all violently murdered in the small, pictures...
Did you know that in 1902, August Engelhardt travelled from Germany to a small island in the South Pacific and tried to build a community based mostly...
Jim Bakker, and his wife, Tammy Faye, revolutionized tele-evangelism in the 1970s and 1980s. Their PTL Club, was, at it's height, pulling in millions...
Do you have a plan in mind for what you would do in a doomsday event like nuclear war, alien invasion, a deadly plague, some Terminator Skynet style "...
From 1977 to 1980, Joseph Paul Franklin went on a multi-state murder and mayhem spree, bombing a synagogue, shooting at people exiting another, and sh...
Ervil LeBaron was raised by a cult leader... would have several brothers who were cult leaders...and would father several more cult leaders. And out o...
Have you ever heard of disturbing serial killer Richard Byrd? He raped and strangled eight young women to death in Las Vegas between 1991 and 2001, bu...
Today we explore what life was really like for ancient Greece's feared warriors, the Spartans. How close was it to the Hollywood depiction in movies l...
On July 2nd, 2021, 22 year-old Gabby Petito and her fiancé, 23 year old Brian Laundrie, left the quaint hamlet of Blue Point, Long Island to embark up...
Very informative episode today! I learned so much and hope you do too. We explore the history of human psychedelic usage, and also dive into the origi...
Did you ever think that overeating, specifically, could send your soul to Hell? Or that not losing enough weight, fast enough, could jeopardize your s...
Jim Miller. Killin' Jim. Right before stepping off a wooden crate with a noose around his neck, in front of the members of the lynch mob that wanted h...
On the night of November 25th, 1996, Rick Wendorf, 49, and his partner Ruth Queen, 54, were beaten to death with a crowbar inside their home in Eustis...
