VHS copy of L’affaire Roch Theriault, a film based on the Ant Hill Kids cult. Please note that this tape features French audio and no subtitles.
Roch Thériault was a Canadian cult leader and convicted murderer. Thériault, a self-proclaimed prophet under the name Moïse, founded the Ant Hill Kids in 1977. They were a doomsday cult whose beliefs were based on Seventh-day Adventist Church beliefs.
Poster asking for citizens to report suspicious activity by Aum Shinrikyo.
Aum Shinrikyo (Oumu Shinrikyō, literally 'Supreme Truth'), is a Japanese new religious movement and doomsday cult founded by Shoko Asahara in 1987. It carried out the deadly Tokyo subway sarin attack in 1995 and was found to have been responsible for the Matsumoto sarin attack the previous year.
Original 1993 course guide for Osho Multiversity.
Rajneesh, also known as Acharya Rajneesh, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, and later as Osho, was an Indian Godman, philosopher, mystic, and founder of the Rajneesh movement. He was viewed as a controversial new religious movement leader during his life.
Remittance receipt from the General Office of the Davidian Seventh-Day Adventists.
This documents came from the archives of the Seventh-day Adventists, which were stored on the grounds of the Branch Davidians during the Waco siege.
In 1935, Victor Houteff formed his own offshoot of the Seventh-day Adventists. The General Association of Davidian Seventh-day Adventists - residing in Waco, Texas - would later go on to be ran by Benjamin Roden, and later David Koresh. Koresh would further divide the group to be ran under the name the Branch Davidians.
The Branch Davidians would go on to gain notoriety from the 1993 Waco siege, where the standoff with federal authorities would lead to many deaths on both side - and the subsequent burning of the Davidian compound.
Light and Blue is a small print vinyl record produced by Century Records custom recording in 1963. Recorded by the University Singers of the University of Alabama and recorded on the University of Alabama Campus on November 24, 1963 - this haunting album was notably directed and conducted by Marshall ‘Herff’ Applewhite.
Marshall ‘Herff’ Applewhite would later go on to meet Bonnie Lou Nettles and together found a new religious movement, or cult, in 1974.
Applewhite would notably continue leading the group after the death of Nettles in 1985 - taking them to their eventual end in 1997 under their final operating name ‘Heaven’s Gate.’
This album is in great condition with minimal play and scratching. Please note however there is some minor water damage on the sleeve.
Inventory document hand signed by Amy Carlson of the Love Has Won cult.
Love Has Won (LHW, also known as the Galactic Federation of Light and 5D Full Disclosure) is an American new religious movement which was led by Amy Carlson (November 30, 1975 – April 2021), referred to within the group as "Mother God", who described herself as, among other things, the creator of the universe. The group has been described as a cult by many, including ex-members and media outlets. The group had between twelve and twenty full-time members who lived with Carlson at the time of her death.
Handwritten letter and envelope from Manson girl Lynette Fromme. Envelope is signed “LF” but the letter is signed “Red”, the nickname given to her by Charles Manson. Dated 1983.
Lynette Alice "Squeaky" Fromme is an American woman who was a member of the Manson Family, a cult led by Charles Manson. Though not involved in the Tate–LaBianca murders for which the Manson family is best known, she attempted to assassinate President Gerald Ford in 1975. For that crime, she was sentenced to life in prison. She was paroled from prison on August 14, 2009, after serving approximately 34 years. She published a book about her life in 2018.
When American pre-med student Mark Kilroy mysteriously vanished during a spring break night in Matamoros, Mexico, with his college pals, even those who feared the worst never suspected the staggering magnitude of the horror that claimed him.
Original envelope sent out by the Peoples Temple in San Francisco to a member of the temple.
The Peoples Temple of the Disciples of Christ, originally Peoples Temple Full Gospel Church and commonly shortened to Peoples Temple, was an American new religious organization which existed between 1954 and 1978 and was affiliated with the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). Founded by Jim Jones in Indianapolis, Indiana, the Peoples Temple spread a message that combined elements of Christianity with communist and socialist ideology, with an emphasis on racial equality. After Jones moved the group to California in the 1960s and established several locations throughout the state, including its headquarters in San Francisco, the Temple forged ties with many left-wing political figures and claimed to have 20,000 members (though 3,000–5,000 is more likely).
The Temple is best known for the events of November 18, 1978, in Guyana, when 909 people died in a mass suicide and mass murder at its remote settlement, named "Jonestown", as well as the murders of U.S. Congressman Leo Ryan and members of his visiting delegation at the nearby Port Kaituma airstrip. The incident at Jonestown resulted in the greatest single loss of American civilian life in a deliberate act prior to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Because of the killings in Guyana, the Temple is regarded by scholars and by popular view as a destructive cult.
Extremely rare booklet published by the Peoples Temple, discussing the current state of Jonestown in 1977. This was written two years before the Jonestown suicides in 1979.
The Peoples Temple Agricultural Project, better known by its informal name "Jonestown", was a remote settlement in Guyana established by the Peoples Temple, an American cult under the leadership of Jim Jones. Jonestown became internationally infamous when, on November 18, 1978, a total of 918 people died at the settlement, at the nearby airstrip in Port Kaituma, and at a Temple-run building in Georgetown, Guyana's capital city. The name of the settlement became synonymous with the incidents at those locations.
Religious tract and business card sent to a pen-pal by Charles Tex Watson.
Charles Denton "Tex" Watson is an American mass murderer who was a central member of the "Manson Family" led by Charles Manson. Watson is often described as the tactical ringleader of the Tate-LaBianca murders on August 9–10, 1969, when Watson, Patricia Krenwinkel, and Susan Atkins murdered pregnant actress Sharon Tate, Jay Sebring, Wojciech Frykowski, Abigail Folger, and Steven Parent at 10050 Cielo Drive in Benedict Canyon, Los Angeles. The next night, Watson traveled to Los Feliz, Los Angeles, and participated in the murders of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca. Watson was convicted of murder in 1971 and sentenced to death. As a result of a 1972 California Supreme Court decision on the constitutionality in the state of the death penalty, he avoided execution but has remained incarcerated ever since. Watson has been denied parole 18 times since he became eligible for parole in 1976 after his death sentence was commuted.
Original school photo of Manson girl Susan Atkins.
Susan Denise Atkins was an American convicted murderer who was a member of Charles Manson's "Family". Manson's followers committed a series of nine murders at four locations in California over a period of five weeks in the summer of 1969.
Time magazine from 1997 with a cover story on Marshall Applewhite and the Heaven’s Gate suicides.
Heaven's Gate was an American new religious movement known primarily for the mass suicides committed by its members in 1997. Commonly designated a cult, it was founded in 1974 and led by Marshall Applewhite (1931–1997) and Bonnie Nettles (1927–1985), known within the movement as Do and Ti. Nettles and Applewhite first met in 1972 and went on a journey of spiritual discovery, identifying themselves as the two witnesses of Revelation, attracting a following of several hundred people in the mid-1970s. In 1976, a core group of a few dozen members stopped recruiting and instituted a monastic lifestyle.
One page handwritten letter from Richard Ramirez.
Ricardo "Richard" Leyva Muñoz Ramirez, dubbed the Night Stalker, the Walk-In Killer and the Valley Intruder, was an American serial killer and sex offender whose crime spree took place in California from June 1984 until his capture in August 1985.
Original publicity booklet with lobby cards and articles for the Laurence Merrick film MANSON.
Charles Milles Manson was an American criminal, cult leader and musician who led the Manson Family, a cult based in California, in the late 1960s. Some of the members committed a series of at least nine murders at four locations in July and August 1969.
1975 issue of The Village Voice with a title story on Heaven’s Gate in the 70’s.
Heaven's Gate was an American new religious movement known primarily for the mass suicides committed by its members in 1997. Commonly designated a cult, it was founded in 1974 and led by Bonnie Nettles and Marshall Applewhite, known within the movement as Ti and Do, respectively.
Terry Lynn Nichols (born April 1, 1955) is an American domestic terrorist who was convicted for conspiring with Timothy McVeigh in the Oklahoma City bombing plot. Prior to his incarceration, he held a variety of short-term jobs, working as a farmer, grain elevator manager, real estate salesman, and ranch hand. He met Timothy McVeigh, during a brief stint in the U.S. Army, which ended in 1989 when he requested a hardship discharge after less than one year of service. In 1994 and 1995, he conspired with McVeigh in the planning and preparation of the truck bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, on April 19, 1995. The bombing killed 168 people.
Document from the DoC with handwritten notes from Dennis Rader.
Dennis Lynn Rader is an American serial killer known as BTK, the BTK Strangler or the BTK Killer. Between 1974 and 1991, he killed ten people in Wichita and Park City, Kansas, and sent taunting letters to police and media outlets describing the details of his crimes.