01Roch ThériaultHe amputated a follower's arm with a hunting knife, then ate her rib raw. Roch Thériault ran a Quebec commune from 1977–1989. His followers called him Moses. Some survivors defended him at trial.Wikipedia ↗g86000%
02Marshall ApplewhiteMarshall Applewhite convinced 38 members to voluntarily castrate themselves, then drink phenobarbital-laced pudding to 'shed their containers' and board a spacecraft trailing Comet Hale-Bopp. Five had already been surgically castrated.Wikipedia ↗g85700%Card
03Jim JonesJim Jones rehearsed mass suicide with fake poison for years before making it real. On November 18, 1978, 918 died — 276 of them children. A gun was found in Jones's hand.Wikipedia ↗g851000%Card
04Jonestown276 children died at Jonestown. The vat of Flavor Aid — not Kool-Aid — was found still full. Cyanide reached the bloodstream in under five minutes. Aerial photos showed bodies arranged in concentric rings.Wikipedia ↗g83800%Card
05Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of GodLeaders of this Ugandan cult banned all speech to prevent lying; then in March 2000, they locked 530 followers inside a church and set it ablaze. Mass graves revealed hundreds more murdered earlier.Wikipedia ↗g83000%
06David KoreshDavid Koresh declared himself the 'Final Sinful Messiah' and took 'spiritual wives' as young as twelve. He stockpiled 300 weapons inside Mount Carmel. The 51-day ATF siege ended in fire: 76 dead.Wikipedia ↗g82710%Card
07Order of the Solar TempleIn October 1994, 53 Solar Temple members died across Switzerland, Quebec, and France in synchronized rituals — stabbed, suffocated, shot, then burned. More followed in 1995 and 1997. Leaders claimed transit to Sirius.Wikipedia ↗g821200%Card
08Dwight YorkDwight York built a full-scale Egyptian pyramid on a Georgia compound, declared himself an extraterrestrial, and was convicted in 2004 of molesting over 100 children — some as young as four years old.Wikipedia ↗g82600%Card
09Shoko AsaharaBefore releasing sarin on the Tokyo subway in 1995, Shoko Asahara sold his bathwater to followers for $800 a cup. He convinced a physician to murder members who tried to leave. He was hanged in 2018.Wikipedia ↗g811000%Card
101984 Rajneeshee bioterror attackTo swing a 1984 county election in Oregon, Rajneeshees poured salmonella cultures onto ten restaurant salad bars, sickening 751 people — the first bioterror attack on U.S. soil. The plot was conceived by Ma Anand Sheela.Wikipedia ↗g805020%Card