Space is the Place

Doctor York and the United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors

The strange transformation of a Qu'ran study group into a UFO doomsday cult with a quick break in the middle for disco fever.

Categories: Eccentrics & Prophecies, People & Places, Series 13

Tags: Ahmadiyya Movement civil law crime cult Egypt Georgia Islam Messiah Native Americans New York State New York, NY Presented by #13 racism religion

Published: April 24, 2023

The Best Exotic Marigold Gospel

for one messiah, this is just the beginning of an exotic adventure

Where did Jesus get his ideas? Some people think he learned them in India. And some of those people have even ginned up fake evidence for that theory...

Categories: Hoaxes, Frauds & Forgeries, Series 10, Wild Card

Tags: Ahmadiyya Movement Christianity fakelore folklore Islam Jesus Christ Messiah Mirzā Ghulām Ahmad Presented by #13 racial memory skepticism Theosophy

Published: April 18, 2022

Marching to Shibboleth

a sordid story of faith healing, financial fraud, flat Eartherism, and figs

Forty miles north of Chicago lies Zion, IL, a sleepy city with a sordid history of faith healing, financial fraud, flat Eartherism... and figs?

Categories: Eccentrics & Prophecies, People & Places, Series 6

Tags: "Doctor" John Alexander Dowie, "First Apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ" 1893 Chicago World's Fair and Columbian Exposition Ahmadiyya Movement Australia Chicago, IL Christianity cult faith healing Illinois Melbourne Mirzā Ghulām Ahmad New York, NY Presented by #13 Protestantism quackery Sydney, NSW United Kingdom United States of America VIC

Published: February 8, 2021