For this list, we've defined a cult as a movement or group that follows a set of beliefs that others find strange or fail to understand, and that praises their leader as a God-like figure. Some, but not all, have negative connotations. Crazy beliefs and practices, crimes, mass suicides and even murder are all things that have been associated with cults due to a few bad groups. In memory of the mass suicide by members of Jim Jones' Peoples Temple on November 18th, 1978, http://www.WatchMojo.com counts down ten of the world's most well known cults. read more...
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VOICE OVER: Rebecca Brayton
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