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Revisiting Unholy City: The Cult Leader Who Built His Own Town

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Today's True Weird Stuff - Revisiting Unholy City: The Cult Leader Who Built His Own Town

His followers called him a prophet. Everyone else called him dangerous. In the hills of California, cult leader William E. Riker built a community known as Holy City...a town founded on racial segregation, strict control, and his own twisted interpretation of Christianity. What began as a religious movement grew into one of the strangest cult compounds in American history.

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