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MMM: The Rise of Russia’s Largest Pyramid Scheme

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A pyramid scheme so big, it outlived its creator. Discover the shocking story of MMM, one of history's most notorious pyramid schemes, and its mastermind, S...

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God Complex: the story of how one woman built a cult | A religious cult documentary

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In the early 1990s in Ukraine, a new religious cult popped up and began attracting all kinds of people.

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The Strange World of Breatharianism

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In 2013, a YouTuber named Naveena Shine documented her attempt to become a breatharian—a person who claims to nourish themselves on air and light, rather tha...

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The Enlightenment Fraud of Zen Master Rama

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Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, a college professor and self-proclaimed Zen master accumulated a loyal following of meditation students, taking them across t...

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It's Embarrassing to Die: The Immortalist Story

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A group of loosely interconnected people who call themselves the Immortalists attempt to live forever by various means.

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