50 True Stories Of People Who Fell Victim To Cults

Yes, my entire family is maga. And you magas reading on here can downvote all you want and be upset at what you’re reading, but you all have lost your minds. No one should gravitate toward political figures the way you all do. It is unhinged and it 100% mimics the same s**t that happened when Hitler came into power. Scoff all you want, but you people are on the wrong side of history. You will learn eventually, whether you like to admit it or not.

Half of my country joined a f*****g cult. We've descended into authoritarian populist neofascism and anyone who dissents is now deemed to be a domestic terrorist by the state. No idea how to escape.

Myself. I don't think people realize how cultish Mormons are.

Starting from a very young age, as a female we are immediately taught how we will obey our husbands and they know what's best for us. Once we hit 14, they start teaching us how to be mothers and wives (teaching us how to cook, clean, dress. ) while the boys get to go camping and have fun. I was told that I had to "give it" to my husband whenever he wanted because we keep our husbands happy. And we provide as many children as we can. Polygamy is frowned upon so any of those are myths.

Women in the Mormon religion are under such strict rules, while the men don't really get any punishment for anything. Example: if a woman in the Mormon church gets s****************d by a man from that church, it is the woman's fault for opening her legs. And she will be shunned. The man just gets a slap on the wrist and it's swept under the rug.

I no longer am Mormon. In fact it has ruined all religions for me except for spirituality. I'm just here. I believe there's a higher being. And I will still continue to have good morals. But I will not worry about what happens when I die until I get there.

I was born into a fundamentalist Christian cult. I lost my entire family getting out. It took years to get the church to stop harassing me about coming back. I still worry that someone will come by my house. I have a door camera, so I wouldn't answer.

It has taken me tremendous effort to build myself from that. I had to learn about boundaries, social skills, and life skills. Plus I have learned to live my adult life with very minimal support.

I married a guy who reinforced the same culty c**p. Not so much the religion, but the a***e and control. I'm divorcing him.

I'm getting better, but it's a long lonely journey.

Yes, 1/3rd of America is worshiping a game show host who brags about sexually assaulting women.

Me too. I left Berlin and have multiple mental illness es / diagnoses. I was told of this amazing farm for women with trauma experiences. This place was supposed to have everything: therapy, yoga, llamas, horses: that I would be able to do an Ausbildung and become my own independent person.

I was told that by the pick up (which was 2 hours away from the farm) that my SIM card had to be destroyed.i also wouldnt be allowed to speak with friends or family for a year.

I got there. There was nothing that was promised. The other women had multiple personality disorders, which I didn’t know about (but that was mainly due to miscommunication.)

There was no therapy / just lots of manual work. Most of the girls couldn’t do anything though because they were so ill.
You weren’t allowed to clap, no men, no face masks even if people had corona.

They had personal shortage, with 6 “severely ill” women even though this “therapeutic facility” was getting the highest amount financial support from the Eingliederungshilfe. The place was completely run down, dirty and bare. I believe the main woman who ran it that had spoken to me was keeping the money for herself

The whole 4 months I was there, no one would help me file for Bürgergeld due to too many crisis / personal shortage / etc. So I had NO money!

The facility did pay / buy for food, but that was it.

One girl slit her throat, while I was there. Every day and night there was crises and I often had to “jump in” to help the women.

From the first two weeks I said that I didn’t want to be there anymore. That this isn’t what I was told about and promised.

I would be reminded that I am deeply mentally ill and that I have no where else to go.

I was told that my Eingliederungshilfe wouldn’t pay for my support anymore anywhere else and that I would be homeless.

I was there only four months and managed to get out due to saying I was going to end my life / and was put in the hospital where I got help from a social worker to go back to Berlin.

Berlin hasn’t been easy since then either, but I’m trying really hard.

I really want a more normal life now and really struggle with fears. I’ve been very very isolated and some bad things happened when I first moved back to Berlin.

I am kind of using Reddit to rant. I can’t really talk about this to many people.

Best wishes and thanks if anyone read this!

I was dating a guy when COVID hit. The first two weeks he was all alone in his apartment with nothing but the internet to occupy him and went from a weird but generally harmless Bernie Bro crunchy granola "Maybe Atlantis was aliens???" guy to full Q-Anon cult guy. In less than a month he went from agreeing that Trump was an idiot ruining our country to being pretty sure Trump is a hero leading the charge against the deep state pedos eating children. It was wild. We broke up.

We lost a branch of my family to People of Praise in the 90s.  Same cult as Amy Coney-Barrett.  My aunt and uncle pulled my cousins out of public schools because "the devil lived there". They were supposedly homeschooled, but that didn't really happen.  They just went to a batshit crazy evangelical church just about every day.  They were not allowed to join clubs, sports, music, etc. that were not tied to the church.  All other churches were satanic in their minds.  


Fast forward to today, my cousins are in their 30s.  Can barely read, can't do basic math, know nothing of the world, have zero social skills, are all morbidly obese, and they live off welfare.  They are mean, are scared of everything, hate everyone, and feel they are experts on any topic you bring up even though they are clueless.  They are absolutely worthless to society.  .

Millions upon millions and we ended up with a grifting, pedophile rapist, convicted felon, straight up lunatic who is a domestic enemy to our nation, as POTUS, TWICE!

Yes, I had a friend/coworker get sucked into Scientology. He started going to all these classes, of course met a girl who sucked him in deeper and he stopped showing up for work so he got fired. Then he just disappeared from the city.

I have more than two family members that have fallen to the MAGA cult, but the two that always come to mind are my uncle and cousin. All my life, up until a few years ago, they were the friendliest people I knew; life of the party types that were always joking around. I never heard either of them once say anything negative about others. However, the p****n of rightwing media has completely changed their personalities. Both have become people that can’t even have a basic conversation about any topic, like the weather, without foaming in anger. It is really sad to see someone go from lighting up a room to raging about inconsequential things and lusting to hurt others.

Not me but I went to school with 2 boys whose aunt and uncle were in The People's temple in Jonestown Guyana in 1978. The aunt was k****d on the tarmac as they were trying to leave. The uncle, 2 cousins, grandma, and a boyfriend of one of the cousins escaped into the jungle. We were in the 8th grade. The woman that was k****d, her name was Patty Parks. She is buried in our hometown. Springfield, Ohio.

My aunt and uncle left their church because it was 'too liberal' (embraced Bible jesus vs Republican Jesus).

She will now cry if you ever explain that it's not persecution if someone chooses to believe something other than what she does.

My parents. I was born into it so I didn't have a choice. I had a husband picked up for me and everything. S**t sucked so I ran away during covid, got a therapist, and changed my name.

Does Lyndon LaRouche stuff count?

Anyway, I was asked by a friend who was into that to make pasta for the whole... idk, cell? political committee? whatever they call it.

So I did that. The problem is that they have something like struggle sessions, during which they put someone in a circle and more or less yell at them.

They did that to my friend and there I was with a metal ladle and a large metal pot. Turns out an Italian with cookware is louder than twenty Americans without.

I took her home and her mom convinced her to stay away.

So that was nice.

Yes. And I hope I don't across as belligerent, but yeah. They worshiped a creepy guy, pathological liar, obviously mentally challenged, but very arrogant and evil.

They ended up giving him their whole country and now he's about to destroy the world's most powerful democracy in the last century.

My father in law bought into Q-Anon so wholeheartedly that we eventually had to stop talking to him.

I have relatives who fell into The Way International.

In the 1990s, I was subjected to a couple "Sunday teaching services" tapes. One tape suggested any homosexual who would appear on the cult compound grounds would be chained and dragged behind a truck down a gravel road.

I asked that relative never to bring that religion or belief system up around me again.

I now speak to those relatives only when it's impolite not to.

I have a friend who has fallen for quite a few. In 1997, she was convinced that the spaceship was coming for her. She became so out of control that she had to be institutionalized. She followed a few others like Stefan Molyneux and of course is now super MAGA with the orange idiot. The only thing I can say is, she's mentally ill.

Well my sister fell into the MAGA Cult and just got crazier. She recently attended Charlie Kirks funeral.. .