7. Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God

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This little-known cult was founded in the African country on Uganda in the late 1980s. The two founders wanted their members to strictly follow the Ten Commandments. The group was specifically concerned with the end of the world.

In 2000, hundreds of members of the cult were killed when their compound went up in flames. Investigators discovered that while some members died in the, most had been poisoned.

8. True Russian Orthodox Church

The True Russian Orthodox Church were led by Pyotr Kuznetsov, a religious zealot who held strange beliefs. The group opposed processed foods and believed bar codes were Satanic symbols.

About 35 members of the cult lived in caves in Russia and threatened mass suicide. Eventually, members left the caves because two of their believers died over the course of a winter.

9. Order of the Solar Temple

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The Order of the Solar Temple was founded in 1984 in Switzerland and fashioned their group after the Knights Templar. Unlike other cults, this group was spread out across the glove, and had members in France, Switzerland, and Canada.

The cult gained notoriety for a series of mass suicides and murders in the mid-1990s. One particularly gruesome death was that of a three-month-old child who was believed to be the Antichrist.