The three-part docuseries explores the fascinating story of doomsday cult Eternal Values and its leader, Frederick von ...

A new HBO documentary is drawing renewed attention to one of New York's strangest and most disturbing cult scandals, tracing ...

In the late 1980s, Hoyt Richards was one of the world’s most famous male models – indeed, he was talked about as being the ...

Once the world’s highest-paid male model, Hoyt Richards gave his last penny to a socialite conman who claimed to be an alien ...

Cardinal Robert McElroy, archbishop of Washington, said recent statements by the exorcist “undermine the Church’s very ...

Archdiocese of Washington ended all affiliation with the priest and church exorcist. He had been working in DC area.

Von Mierers extracted millions of dollars from his followers in the name of "God's higher cocktail party on Earth." ...

Science fiction stories about “alien” invaders are often political allegories for anxieties around immigration. Now, a ...

In this edition, Opinion Editor Alex Olson examines Trump’s latest xenophobia. The webpage whitehouse.gov/aliens, operated by ...

John Burroughs, whose account of the Rendlesham Forest incident helped make it one of the world's most famous UFO cases, is ...

How Night Skies Became E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial will tell the story of Steven Spielberg’s abandoned alien horror movie, a film that eventually morphed into E.T.

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