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Podcast: QAA Podcast
Episode: Premium Episode 178: The Mankind United Cult with Ryan Serisu (Sample)
Description: A 1930s California cult that prefigured QAnon and posited a world-shattering battle between the "Secret Rulers" and "The Sponsors". Its leader, Arthur Bell, enlisted people in the "Universal Service Corporation" and made them participate in a multi-level-marketing scheme to sell books. Bell's vision also included "a race of little men with metallic heads who lived at the center of the earth" among many other oddities. The cult eventually morphed into a church after some unwanted attention by the FBI. Ryan Serisu of the Rumor Flies podcast has done in-depth research on the subject and guest wrote the episode.
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