Understanding The Violent Acts of Shoko Asahara And His Following: Aum Shinrikyo

Shane and Ryan carried this channel to the brink holy

This channel died when Shane and Ryan left, let’s face it 🤷‍♂️

Thank you Ladies for doing your videos and the tough subjects, they include. Keep up the great reporting and inform the world of these horrors hidden in our world.

I watched someone else talk about this guy. But you guys went into more details. This guy is even scarier and more dangerous than I originally thought

I must say this was very interesting. I’ve never heard of this group before. Thank you for bringing it to attention. I’m going to dig further into it.

I did a speech class on the Aum Shinrikyo cult years ago as I found their activities both fascinating and chilling. I've lived in the Tokyo area for the past seven years and always felt safe riding the subways. I couldn't imagine the pain and fear of the sarin gas attacks on that terrible day.

love this series!

Finally yall uploaded been a while since you last uploaded

I hope they do an episode on that cult out in Oklahoma that poisoned salad bars with salmonella. I've never heard much info about them and I'd like to learn about them

Love this video! You two delved into incredible detail of the founder and the associated cult. I recommend reading Haruki Murakami’s book “Underground”, which demonstrates a variety of perspectives from ordinary folk to poignant people of power related to the cult. Though it can get very visceral, just reading this would help many understand how severe the gas attack was back in the day.

@Buzzfeed Unsolved Mysteries, when's the next episode? It's been a month!

Just heard the news about BuzzFeed, hope HuffPost picks you guys up ❤🌞😇👍

I suggested this cult when it was asked if there were other cults that should be covered. I still find it interesting that they're a vague reference in one of the Earthbound games as enemies (Happy Happyists).

OMFG I LOVE THIS CHANNEL. I DISCOVERED IT NOW AND THIS SCIENTIFIC BUT MYSTERIOUS APPROACH IS SOO COOL AND GOOD! OMFG THANKS GOD YOUTUBE EXIST SOO PEOPLE LIKE YOUI CAN HAVE FUN WITH US! :D

Welcome back, ladies: I missed you last night (Friday), when I was really hoping to come home to another episode. It is, however, intriguing to see the show beginning to travel outside the US (whether culturally or physically) and become a multicultural, exploratory series.

buzzfeed unsolved feels different since shane and ryan

Is Buzzfeed Video done? Most of the channels haven't uploaded in weeks or months

Buzzfeed, do you have sources? I am doing a paper on Aum Shinrikyo and would like to reference this.

This is so awful, I worry that Asahara might have also used the socital idea that you need to conform with what is normal in his social circle. Though, based on what happens in other cults, it seems the "norms" around cult leaders is something most of them try to push on their followers. Yikes. Also, for the history buffs in here... It was due to the Aum Shinrikyo attack on the Tokyo Subway, a major transportation infratstructure, that multiple world governments had to consider that nonstate actors could get their hands on WMDs and harm a great number of people and critical infratstructures!

Damn 8 years?!? That’s so long for a trial!