298 - Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh: The Cult Leader Who Built a City in Oregon

In the early 1980s, a sex cult from India tried to take over a county in rural Oregon. And they almost did it. They did take over the town of Antelope, and they built an entirely new city of roughly 7,000 people before being run out of the country.

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