"When I joined a prayer group in the fall of 2007, we were just five college friends with a shared interest in fantasy novels and Harry Potter. We'd go to the movies together and meet up once a day to pray -- pretty unexceptional stuff for a group of religious kids going to college in Texas."
Christopher Futcher/iStock/Getty Images "O Heavenly Father, please smite the heathen who yelled, "Snape kills Dumbledore" at lunch. Avada kedavra, amen."
Within five years, that mild-mannered prayer group had relocated to Kansas City and grown from five members to 20. They cut off contact with their families and lived together in two gender-segregated houses. To fill out their crazy-cult bingo card, they started identifying themselves as God's "final army" and dedicated their free time to training for the apocalypse.
easy." width="350" height="246" class="lazy" data-src="https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/personalexperience/6/8/8/329688_v2.jpg" />YekoPhotoStudio/iStock/Getty Images"Please be zombies. That shit's easy."