Topic: Gary Stevenson

Michael Yon recounts his experiences tracking the Aghori cult in India, a subsect of Hinduism that practices ritual cannibalism. He describes their belief that because God created everything, nothing—including human remains—should be viewed with disgust. Yon details their use of human skulls for drinking and femur bones for trumpets, noting that similar practices exist in certain old forms of Tibetan Buddhism.

Michael Yon tells the story of Gary Stevenson, a wealthy Houston native who contracted polio in 1952 and eventually sought supernatural healing through extreme cults. Stevenson reportedly followed a similar path to Steve Jobs in the Hare Krishna movement before joining the Aghori cannibals in India. Yon tracked Stevenson across the world, documenting his ritualistic behaviors before Stevenson's eventual death.