Idk what specific title but Heaven’s Gate were some top notch cultists
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Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
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*The Man-Leopard Murders: History and Society in Colonial Nigeria* by David Pratten.
Beginning in 1945 and for three years afterwards, the British “Imperial gaze of police, press, and politicians was focused on Calabar Province in southeastern Nigeria. At the time the police investigation was reported as the ‘biggest, strangest, murder hunt in the world,’ and it would become the last major investigation in Africa into killings linked to a shape shifting cult. Three years later, when the police wound up their enquiries in early 1948, they calculated that 196 men, women, and children had been victims of the man-leopard murders, though they also conceded that there was almost certainly more murders that were never brought to light” (p. 1).
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Idk what specific title but Heaven’s Gate were some top notch cultists
Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
*The Man-Leopard Murders: History and Society in Colonial Nigeria* by David Pratten.
Beginning in 1945 and for three years afterwards, the British “Imperial gaze of police, press, and politicians was focused on Calabar Province in southeastern Nigeria. At the time the police investigation was reported as the ‘biggest, strangest, murder hunt in the world,’ and it would become the last major investigation in Africa into killings linked to a shape shifting cult. Three years later, when the police wound up their enquiries in early 1948, they calculated that 196 men, women, and children had been victims of the man-leopard murders, though they also conceded that there was almost certainly more murders that were never brought to light” (p. 1).