Home of Truth (but also mistruths)

Happy Tuesday Cult Babes! This week’s story was actually a request from one of you and the second I started looking into this ghost town known as the Home of Truth, I uncovered some frightening tales from its heyday where it once served as the compound for cult leader Marie Ogden.

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Sources:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_of_Truth,_Utah

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Dudley_Pelley

https://www.canyoncountryzephyr.com/2022/09/04/the-home-of-truth-by-lloyd-pierson-for-marie-ogdens-followers-in-the-1930s-the-vortex-of-the-universe-was-at-photograph-gap-zx24/

https://www.newspapers.com/image/738508247/?terms=marie%20ogden&match=1

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/home-of-truth

https://www.newspapers.com/image/599275461/?terms=marie%20ogden&match=1

https://www.idahistory.com/failure-to-raise-the-dead-marie-ogden-and-the-strange-afterlife-of-boise-s-edith-peshak

https://www.newspapers.com/image/544516622/?terms=marie%20ogden&match=5

https://utahadvjournal.com/index.php/marie-ogden-and-the-home-of-truth

https://www.health.harvard.edu/mind-and-mood/easing-grief-through-religion-and-spirituality

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/meet-screenwriting-mystic-who-wanted-be-american-fuhrer-180970449/

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