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Episode 21 Sunday Service Liar's Communion
Transmissions From Jonestown - August 15, 2021 04:16 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 253 ratingsJim Jones had a gift for recognizing and cultivating a person’s capacity for magical thinking or the belief that unrelated events are connected by invisible, supernatural threads. Those who followed Jim Jones surrendered their will, believing that, whatever Father was planning, he had the power ...
Episode 20 Sunday Service Leave Room for the Holy Ghost
Transmissions From Jonestown - August 15, 2021 04:10 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 253 ratingsThe paranormal healing ministry drew new members into the movement with Jim Jones’ promises of supernatural support for the cause. The divine gifts physically drained him, he could feel people’s sickness and pain as he healed them. He began using sleight of hand when removing cancers, this seeme...
Episode 19 Sunday Service Hands Clasped
Transmissions From Jonestown - August 15, 2021 04:01 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 253 ratingsWelcome to the Sunday Service, a 3-part immersive experience exploring Jim Jones’ paranormal ministry and the mystery of the nine gifts of the holy spirit. Your first visit to Peoples Temple will involve a profound, life changing, spiritual experience of the paranormal variety. The blind shall s...
Episode 18 Where there's smoke
Transmissions From Jonestown - May 21, 2021 23:08 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 253 ratingsDenise was three years old when her family first joined the Peoples Temple. Like so many early childhood memories, obscured by the lenses of time or augmented by repeated viewings of the family photo album, Denise’s early recollections of her time in the temple are vivid snapshots of experiences...
Episode 17 He's Able
Transmissions From Jonestown - March 05, 2021 05:39 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 253 ratingsMusic was often peoples first, and last impression of Peoples Temple. From the moment you walked into a temple service, the music created a certain atmosphere. The voices of the choir lifted the spirits of the congregants, electrifying the audience. In 1973 the temple recorded the gospel funk al...
Episode 16 MK United
Transmissions From Jonestown - January 02, 2021 05:07 - 2 hours ★★★★ - 253 ratingsHistory will remember Jim Jones as a notorious cult leader who betrayed his followers trust and orchestrated their deaths. Join us as we examine the fabric of his ideals and beliefs stained by the blood of his flock in search of his true motives and spiritual beliefs. We fought for the future, d...
Episode 16 MK United
Transmissions From Jonestown - January 02, 2021 05:07 - 2 hours ★★★★ - 253 ratingsJim Jones will be remembered as the notorious cult leader who betrayed his followers trust and orchestrated their deaths. Join us as we examine the fabric of his ideals and beliefs stained by the blood of his flock in search of his true motives and spiritual beliefs.
Episode 15 The Nuclear Family
Transmissions From Jonestown - December 16, 2020 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 253 ratingsIrrational fear opens the floodgates of our imaginations unleashing upon ourselves the monsters and demons we let live in our subconscious. In 1962 Jim Jones leaves his church in Indiana behind to travel to Belo Horizonte Brazil under the guise of missionary work. Join us as former members of Pe...
Episode 14 Evangelical Profit
Transmissions From Jonestown - December 02, 2020 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 253 ratingsI believe in Jim Jones. Many of you have seen the photograph. An elderly woman dressed in her Sunday best with a resolute, if not revolutionary sparkle in her eye. But what did Jim Jones believe? Jim Jones, the pied piper of lies, will forever be remembered as the self-proclaimed prophet who led...
Episode 13 God's Highway
Transmissions From Jonestown - November 18, 2020 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 253 ratingsWelcome back. All this time I was searching for the truth, I ignored the psychedelic elephant in the room. Former members of the temple, the survivors, have as many questions about what happened in Jonestown as I do. I invite you to forget everything you think you know about Jim Jones and the Pe...
Episode 12 Hill Of Dreamers
Transmissions From Jonestown - November 19, 2019 01:11 - 44 minutes ★★★★ - 253 ratings41 years ago today the Jonestown massacre claimed the lives of 918 Americans. When the people of Jonestown died, their bodies remained where they fell for 4 days. Sprayed with pesticides and crowded into military body bags, the remains of Jonestown’s dead were shipped to Dover Air Force Base in ...
Episode 11 Ockham's Razor, Solving The Mystery Of Q875
Transmissions From Jonestown - November 18, 2018 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 253 ratingsQ875, known as the November 19 mystery tape, with its static filled audio and found footage type origins, perplex and mystify those who choose to analyze it. A Jonestown survivor claims to hear the voice of Jim Jones hours after the settlement had been poisoned. Others believe the CIA made the t...
Episode 10 - Thank You For Letting Me Be Myself
Transmissions From Jonestown - November 18, 2018 05:30 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 253 ratings40 years ago, 918 Americans died in the largest mass murder/suicide in modern history. Defined by the last day of their lives, the people of Jonestown became a part of true crime lore, overshadowed by their charismatic leader Jim Jones. We all know how the Peoples Temple died, but how did they ...
Episode 10 Thank You For Letting Me Be Myself
Transmissions From Jonestown - November 18, 2018 05:30 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 253 ratings40 years ago, 918 Americans died in the largest mass murder/suicide in modern history. Defined by the last day of their lives, the people of Jonestown became a part of true crime lore, overshadowed by their charismatic leader Jim Jones. We all know how the Peoples Temple died, but how did they ...
Episode 9 Q875, Is It Too Late For Russia?
Transmissions From Jonestown - December 09, 2017 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 253 ratingsWhat if everything you thought you knew about Jonestown was a lie? This is the final episode of Transmissions From Jonestown. Join us as we examine new evidence that not only challenges popular theory, but history itself.
Episode 8 The Psychodelic Elephant
Transmissions From Jonestown - December 09, 2017 05:30 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 253 ratingsTruth often requires those who search for it to accept coincidence as a form of nature. How are Jim Jones, Patty Hearst, Jack Ruby, and Sirhan Sirhan all connected? Find out as we go further down the rabbit hole.
Episode 7 The Electric Koolaid Acid Tests
Transmissions From Jonestown - December 02, 2017 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 253 ratingsAfter world war two German scientists were recruited by the American military into intelligence programs. MKULTRA, a behavior modification program, used American citizens for its experiments after the war until 1974 when the program went underground. As society attempted to understand how a mass...
Episode 6 Apostolic Socialism
Transmissions From Jonestown - December 01, 2017 17:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 253 ratingsGuyana has a strange and fascinating history. Once believed to hide the lost city of El Dorado, the northwest territory of Guyana is home to a violent mythology predating the Jonestown massacre by hundreds of years. Mined for its gold and known for its mysterious mountains, mid century Guyana em...
Episode 5 The Consequences Of Apathy
Transmissions From Jonestown - November 25, 2017 05:30 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 253 ratingsLeo Ryan wasn’t the only publicly elected official assassinated the week of November 18. In the weeks following the mass tragedy in Jonestown, rumors of a Peoples Temple hit squad terrified the concerned relatives and survivors. In the wake of false news reports, the world struggled to understan...
Episode 4 The Death Tape
Transmissions From Jonestown - November 24, 2017 17:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★ - 253 ratingsOf all the evidence collected in Jonestown a single audio recording proved to the world that over 900 American citizens chose to drink cyanide laced Kool-aid on the command of their cult leader Jim Jones. But what if the tape was edited? Or spliced together from earlier white nights and planning...
Episode 3 Revolutionary Suicide
Transmissions From Jonestown - November 18, 2017 05:30 - 48 minutes ★★★★ - 253 ratingsUnable to delay Leo Ryan's congressional inquiry any longer, Jim Jones readied the settlement for what he believed to be an attempt to destroy the Peoples Temple by defectors. An elaborate show was performed in the pavilion and fried chicken was served. To the visitors the people seemed happy an...
Episode 2 Life In The Promised Land
Transmissions From Jonestown - November 17, 2017 17:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★ - 253 ratingsAfter the New West article, Jim Jones fled to his jungle compound bringing several hundred Peoples Temple members with him. The population of Jonestown exploded from about 50 to over 900 residents. Resources and food were scarce and Jim Jones rambled over the loudspeakers warning the community o...
Episode 1 Peoples Temple
Transmissions From Jonestown - November 07, 2017 04:33 - 44 minutes ★★★★ - 253 ratingsOn November 18 1978, an entire community of United States Citizens died deep in the jungle of Guyana. At the command of their charismatic leader Rev. Jim Jones 909 members of the peoples temple agricultural project lost their lives, some believed they were committing a revolutionary act of suic...
Episode 1 The Peoples Temple
Transmissions From Jonestown - November 07, 2017 04:33 - 44 minutes ★★★★ - 253 ratingsOn November 18 1978, an entire community of United States Citizens died deep in the jungle of Guyana. At the command of their charismatic leader Rev. Jim Jones 909 members of the peoples temple agricultural project lost their lives, some believed they were committing a revolutionary act of suic...
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