The cult known as The Family, based in Melbourne, was led by Anne Hamilton-Byrne, a charismatic yet dangerous yoga teacher who claimed to be Jesus Christ reincarnated. Instead of serving wine and bread, she fed her followers LSD—adopted children raised as her own during the 1960s and 1970s. She dressed them in identical clothing and haircuts; their resemblance to pipsqueaks from "Village of the Damned" was striking.
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