This is another one of those, “cautionary tales”, about how cult leaders use time-tested techniques to manipulate and coerce vulnerable and impressionable minds, not only to enrich themselves and gain power over others, but to fulfill some deep-seeded, narcissistic need, to be revered as a god. And all at the expense of their blindly devoted.
Tag: documentary

|Magical Mystery Media 98| Cryptids, Kooks, & Conspiracies: DISCOVERING BIGFOOT
Like some cryptozoological version of Grizzly Man, which chronicles Timothy Treadwell’s exploits with grizzly bears in Alaska, Standing ventures out into the Canadian wilderness, often alone, in search of Sasquatch.

|Magical Mystery Media 87| JFK, 9/11, New World Order, Shadow Government, Deep State, Whistleblowers: THE CONSPIRACY “THEORY” CONSPIRACY
The term, “conspiracy theory”, was first used in a 1909 article published by The American Historical Review, but it really wasn’t until the 1960’s that it became part of the American lexicon.

|Magical Mystery Media 79| Exclusive Interview with Francis Richard Conolly, New “Everything is a Rich Man’s Trick” Funding Campaign
In this, our first exclusive interview for Magical Mystery Radio, we talk to Mr. Conolly about his plans for a Part 2 and, specifically, the difficulty he’s having in raising funds for the new film. Are the intelligence agencies colluding with tech companies to hamper his fundraising efforts? What is it that they don’t want you to know?

|Magical Mystery Media 60| CURSE OF THE MAN WHO SEES UFOS
Or… if you’ve seen the trailer, you might be thinking, shouldn’t it be called Curse Of The Man Who CURSES and POOPS When He Sees UFOs?

|Magical Mystery Media 56| We ARE the Center of the Universe? THE PRINCIPLE
Forget everything you thought you knew about cosmology. This film posits that our world actually IS the center of the universe, and that everything we’ve been taught these last 500 years is flat wrong. Yes, there is actual evidence for this theory. Is it conclusive? Of course not! But it…

|Magical Mystery Media 54| CONTACT? The Strange Case of Eduard “Billy” Meier
Do they really fly? That’s the question UFO researchers have been trying to definitively answer for years with regards to the Billy Meier contactee case. And, though several photos associated with the case have been later proven to be fraudulent, the final answer as to whether or not this indicates the WHOLE CASE is a hoax, has yet to be fully answered.

|Magical Mystery Media 51| CROPSEY
What if the bogeyman turns out to be real? That’s the premise of 2009 documentary CROPSEY, written and directed by Joshua Zeman and Barbara Brancaccio. The filmmakers explore the origins of the urban legend they heard about as children, only to discover that there may, in fact, be some truth behind the tale.
And the truth, as they say, is… terrifying.

|Magical Mystery Media 50| HOSTAGE TO THE DEVIL
Hostage to the Devil chronicles Malachi Martin’s life in America as an exile priest. Disillusioned with the reforms of the Second Vatican Council, he broke from the Jesuit order and moved to New York City. There, he embarked on a second career as a writer and exorcist.
This film presents a portrait of a complex man who struggled with his own demons as he battled the dark forces afflicting others.

|Magical Mystery Media 19| The COLLAPSE of Civilization and the Rise & Fall of Mike Ruppert
Collapse is a 2009 documentary by filmmaker Chris Smith that chronicles the theories and work of prolific doomsayer Michael C. Ruppert, former L.A. police officer turned investigative journalist and cigarette-smoking man conspiracy theorist.