At first glance, the man once known as Simon Kadwell might have seemed to have a relatively normal life. He lived in a modest home in the small town of Nannup, Australia, along with his girlfriend Chantelle McDougall, their 6-year-old daughter Leela, and their friend Tony Popic, who lived in a caravan parked outside the house. On first appearances, the family seemed happy, and Kadwell was described as friendly and charming, but there were strange things going on behind their façade of normalcy. This would lead down a dark road of weird cultists and a mysterious vanishing of a whole family that would never be solved.
When it comes to weird cults, you could do a lot worse than the Stella Maris Gnostic Church. Based in South America, specifically Cartagena, Colombia, it was founded in 1989 by a man named Rodolfo Perez, who brought over several members of the Universal Christian Gnostic Movement to help him kickstart his project. Shortly after. Read more »