Crime, Conspiracy, Cults and Murder
Ep. 41 | DISTURBING Cults You've Never Heard Of
Wed, 26 Mar 2025
I don't think you're ready for today's episode... unbuckle your seatbelts, go Mach 5 down the highway, slam on your brakes, and bust through the windshield into these 3, very disturbing CULTS together.
Chapter 1: What is the main topic of this episode?
Throughout history, cults have risen and fallen, leaving behind dark stories of control, deception and tragedy. But some of the most disturbing cases remain largely unknown to the public. So we're going to dive deep into the rise and collapse of three such cults. Each led by figures who promised enlightenment, but delivered something far, far more sinister.
Verbrechen, Verbrechen, Verbrechen, Serialkiller und Mörder. Alle Dinge, die ich genießen liebe. Und ich weiß, dass du das auch tust, du krank, verdammt, wunderschöne, wunderschöne, intellektuell geistige Freak. Also heute sprechen wir über nur das. Verbrechen! Drei von ihnen. Drei von denen, die ich nicht denke, dass du gehört hast. Und wenn du es hast, dann, ich weiß nicht, hör nicht.
Chapter 2: How do cults manipulate their followers?
Ja, du sollst trotzdem hören. But without further ado, let's unbuckle our seatbelts, go Mach 5 down the highway, slam on the brakes and bust through this windshield into these three disturbing cults together. So, the first cult we're going to be talking about today is Angels Landing. Sounds nice, right? It's fucking not. It's not. It's the furthest thing from nice.
Chapter 3: Who was Daniel Perez and what was Angels Landing?
It should be called The Devil's Landing. It's probably my worst joke. The jokes will get up from here. Go up from here for sure. And the first joke I will mention is the man named Daniel Perez, the cult leader, if you will. And he was born in Aransas Pass, Texas in 1959. And he was somewhat of an enigmatic figure with early info on his life largely undisclosed.
It was difficult to find information. auf was er als Kleines war und was er als junger Junge war, welchen Job er hatte, hat er bei McDonalds gearbeitet? Ich weiß es nicht. Der Typ ist ein bisschen... Er ist ein bisschen ein Geheimnis, aber ich kümmere mich nicht wirklich um ihn, weil er ein riesiger Scheiß ist.
Aber in seiner Jugend arbeitete er in Texas-Prisen, Aviation und behandelte Flugzeuge in der Navy. Und von 1996 bis 1997 wurde er auch von sessuellen Verbrechen gegen zwei junge Mädchen verurteilt. Yeah, it gets bad right out the gate with this guy. This guy is like mega POS. And these girls were only 11 and 14. But these specific cases would be dismissed. Why? You ask?
Because he was reported dead. But he actually wasn't. In reality, he just changed his name to Lou Castro and moved out of state. You can't do that shit now. You can't do that shit. That's crazy. I wonder how many people did that. Just to like wipe their slate completely clean. It's just sick.
But this is when he would start to build somewhat of a following, not necessarily a cult at this point, but a bit of a following, a commune, if you will. So he allegedly traveled with members of his commune for several years across multiple states before finally settling into their home of Angel's Landing, Devil's Landing.
And the states they would move to was Texas, the Dakotas, Missouri, Kansas, and eventually Tennessee, but that was after Angel's Landing. So Perez, or Lou Castro, at this time claimed to be a seer, with the ability to see the future, you know, like That's So Raven. Und das ist ziemlich normal als Kultführer. Sie glauben alle, dass der Tod kommt. Sie wissen den Zukunft, weil sie Profit sind.
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Chapter 4: What were the financial schemes behind Angels Landing?
Bullshit, Bullshit, Bullshit. Aber er würde auch sagen, dass er junge Mädchen benötigen würde, um sein Leben zu bewältigen und regelmäßige Zugang zu seinen Followern wollte. Seine Follower seien viele junge Mädchen. Und durch Zugang kann man diese Schlussfolgerung ziehen. Einfach verrückt. Er ist einfach ein großer Verrückter.
And there are some just heartbreaking quotes from some of the girls that endured this fucking asshole after the fact, like after he got caught. And they were quoted saying, while other 10-year-old girls were riding bikes or playing with dolls, I was laying naked in bed with a pillow over my head, just waiting for it to be over.
And she would go on to say, while other 13 year old girls were getting boyfriends and holding hands, I was holding on to my secret and losing the people I loved one by one. When other 16 year olds were experiencing their freedom of learning how to drive and planning parties with their friends, I was planning my own death every day when I drove to school. Just heartbreaking, heartbreaking stuff.
Like, this guy is just a waste of oxygen. And on top of being able to see the future or claiming to be able to see the future and taking advantage of young girls, he also claimed to be a thousand-year-old angel himself.
Lou used to tell us that he was a thousand years old and that he was an angel himself.
Lucastro hatte alle seine Follower, die glaubten, dass er Jahrhunderte alt war und dass sein Körper von Engeln entdeckt wurde.
Was? Wer? Hör auf. Ich weiß, dass jeder, nicht jeder, aber viele Leute, die in Kulte einsteigen, oft sehr verloren sind. Sie haben nirgendwo zu gehen. Sie haben keinen Sinn für sich selbst, keinen Sinn für den Wert. Aber wenn ein fucking... You know, little prick came up to me saying he could see the future, takes advantage of young girls and says he's a thousand year old angel.
I would punch him in the throat. So for future reference, do that, do that. If some guy comes up to you and says all this stuff, this is but it's like crazy. Just another prophet. He is a prophet of some sort. He is the middleman from whoever's up there to whoever's on Earth.
And on top of all that, he said he could make it rain and not money, which he could do money too, we'll get into that, but literally make it rain. He could heal people and he could use his future seeing powers to tell you, you are going to die. But because of him, you would come back after death.
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Chapter 5: How did law enforcement uncover the truth about Lou Castro?
But he basically made death feel like a very normal thing, regularly telling his followers that the goal in life was to be on the other side, and the other side being the afterlife.
Lou talked about death frequently and how going to the other side was the ultimate goal.
Und diese Gemeinde wurde von einer kleinen Gruppe von Menschen mit sehr diversen Hintergründen hergestellt. Alle vulnerable in irgendeiner Art und Weise, die Perez oder Lou Castro kümmern würde.
Er hat auch sichergestellt, dass alle Mitglieder von Angels Landing ihre Bedürfnisse erfüllt hatten. Die Mitglieder des Angels Landing-Kultes haben wirklich gut gelebt.
Aber es gab immer einen Preis dafür, diese Dinge zu bezahlen.
He would actually make sure that everyone on the compound's needs were met. And not just met, because they would live very extravagantly. And this is not like a lot of other cults. I mean, usually you find that the cult leader is the only one living extravagantly. But he made sure that everybody was kind of even keel, like everybody had stuff.
But there's a reason for that, and it's really fucked up. So the compound itself was located at North Oliver near the town of Ketchy, Kansas. What a fun name. And they would have two fairly large houses and a swimming pool. And all the members, like I said, and all the members had pretty expensive vehicles. And Perez himself reportedly drove a lot of Corvettes.
And Perez would make use of his different personas of angels inhabiting his body to control his followers. Those angels being Daniel, Arthur and Amber. And he would open life insurance policies for commune members and set up other commune members as the beneficiaries of Those policies. See where the money's coming from. You'll see. It gets bad.
So we would basically direct how the policies were to be written. He had a very specific way of writing these policies. And then he would convince his followers that those who died would come back. As we know, zombie apocalypse shit. Manipulieren sie, um seine Verletzungen rauszuholen. Weil er die Namen anderer Leute auf die Polizisten stellt.
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Chapter 6: How did the investigation lead to Perez's arrest?
Also, ein Feierabend würde in Südtexas stattfinden, und es wurde berichtet, dass Perez den Kommune-Mitgliedern erzählt hat, die das Feierabend beantragt haben, niemandem in Texas zu erzählen, dass er in Kansas war, weil er nicht existiert, er ist tot.
And then in March 2006, Brian Hughes, Patricia's husband, and also a member of the commune, would die in South Dakota while working underneath a vehicle.
Brian was a diesel mechanic. I remember Lou telling Brian, you will someday get your chance to go to the other side. Brian was so safety conscious that day, somehow, that Jack died.
Very suspicious. And then in 2008, Jennifer Hudson, not that Jennifer Hudson, different Jennifer Hudson, a real estate agent and a member of the commune would die when her vehicle crossed into oncoming traffic and would hit a truck head on. Again, very suspicious. Sarah Mcgarth, ihre Tochter und auch ein ehemaliger Teil der Kommune, würde 2008 über ihre Moms Tod erläutern.
Sie würde beurteilen, dass ihre Mutter an der Arbeit ging und sie versuchte, sie zu beurteilen, aber ihre Mutter antwortete nie.
Lou kommt runter und sagt, dass Jennifer in einem Unfall war. Ich sagte, sie ist tot, nicht wahr?
Aber Perez würde ihr nicht wirklich eine rechte Antwort geben und das machte die Tochter wirklich, wirklich wütend.
Sie würde mir nicht antworten. I mean, the people in the commune, you know, they're not stupid.
They know that, you know, these events that are happening might be caused by Perez because they're going to come back later. It doesn't matter if they die and we collect money because they're going to come back. Remember? Remember? But this started to lose its luster after so many people were dying. Because Trish and Brian had died.
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