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121: Los Angeles' Bizarre "Blackburn Cult" w/ Samuel Fort - A True Crime History Podcast
121: Los Angeles' Bizarre "Blackburn Cult" w/ Samuel Fort - A True Crime History Podcast
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Length:
84 minutes
Released:
Jun 26, 2019
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Podcast episode
Description
Cults are certainly not a new phenomenon - in fact one of the strangest ones existed in Los Angeles in the 1920s. The "Blackburn Cult", also known as the "Divine Order of the Royal Arms of the Great Eleven", was the brainchild of a grifter named May Otis Blackburn. She, along with her daughter Ruth, in need of money, suddenly claimed that the archangel Gabriel had visited them with orders to write books that revealed the mysteries of life, death, and a post-apocalyptic world that would be ruled by eleven Queens . My guest is Samuel Fort, author of "Cult of the Great Eleven". He discusses some of the cult's bizarre rituals and behavior, and more ominously, the mysterious deaths and disappearances it was involved in - grim events that would eventually be exposed to the country in a sensational trial. Become a Most Notorious patron at: www.patreon.com/mostnotoriousLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Released:
Jun 26, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
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