Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Professional cult deprogrammer Rick Alan Ross joins WIRED to answer the internet’s burning questions about cults. What makes a ...

Cult deprogramming expert Rick Alan Ross has helped people escape cults since 1982. Watch as he reviews cult scenes from films and television including 'The Vow,' 'Midsommar,' 'Once Upon a Time... in ...

When Midsommar dropped in 2019, it terrified audiences everywhere with its creepy depiction of a Swedish cult. Two months later, the director Ari Aster dropped an even scarier extended chapter that ...

A Pennsylvania man who admitted to assaulting police officers during the U.S. Capitol riot purportedly worked with a "cult deprogramming" expert to rid him of the false belief that the 2020 ...

I don’t want my name in this,” says Grace*, a 40-something mother from central California. “Or Zak’s*. Actually, even the cult, can you change that too? Because they have their bots. They’ll come ...

WASHINGTON — In the 1980s, Virginia “Ginni” Thomas had a moment of clarity: She realized she had fallen in with a group she considered “a cult” and sought to be “deprogrammed” from it, she said in ...

Over nearly a decade Larry Ray used sexual, physical and psychological abuse to brainwash his daughter's college roommates. How easy is it to get trapped in a cult? Cult deprogrammer says it can ...

*In the 70s, if your kid somehow got caught up in a cult and needed to be deprogrammed, Ted Patrick was your guy. Today, he’s the guy for Orlando Jones. The “Sleepy Hollow” actor and his Drive-By ...