A Japanese doomsday cult bought a million-acre Australian sheep ranch to test sarin gas

In April 1993, Aum Shinrikyo — the cult that would gas the Tokyo subway two years later — purchased Banjawarn Station, a remote sheep ranch covering 404,680 hectares (about a million acres) in Western Australia, 500 miles northeast of Perth. — Read the rest

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