Cults are full of easy to brainwash weirdos, right? Actually, if you've ever joined a club because everyone else was doing it, or believed a conspiracy theory even for a moment, you're a candidate for cult membership. It's basically the same mechanisms at work. If they caught you at the right low point and offered a secret enough path to salvation, you'd be wearing a goofy ass robe right now. There's even a chance you'd be attached at the junk to a creepy weirdo who couldn't figure out a less shameless way to get laid. For instance ...

5 Goel Ratzon

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If you can't keep a girlfriend, you are not going to like the story of Goel Ratzon. After a decade of marriage to his devoted first wife, Ratzon decided to marry a second woman, somehow managing to keep his first wife in the process. After another 10 years, he found that there were still itches that two wives just couldn't scratch. So in 1991 he married another. At this point, Ratzon's pimping habit snowballed into what's known in the world of addiction as a full on bender.

He did not hide the wives from each other, like a self respecting bigamist. All the women lived together in a single apartment building. And yet, in under two decades, Goel "I'm the Jesus Pimp" Ratzon convinced 19 more women to marry him before screaming black jack and stopping at 21.



At that point, dehydration starts to become a major risk.

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Ratzon's was not your run of the mill, just here for the free drinks type of harem. The women live together, competing at things like cooking and cleaning for Ratzon. The winners are the ones who get to have sex with him once in a while. He gained complete control of his wives "desires, thoughts, emotions and actions" by convincing the women that he had the power to heal and cast curses. This only makes sense when you remember that he looked like Dumbledore's hipster kid brother.