As you may have heard, notorious cult leader Charles Manson - the man responsible for leading the infamous Manson Family on a crime and murder spree in 1969 - died on Sunday, but it's now come to light that actor Bryan Cranston had a brush with him the previous year.

Cranston, who was 12 at the time, took to Twitter to share his experience, revealing that he and his cousin had gone horse riding at the Spahn Ranch in California when they encountered "the little man with crazy eyes whom the other hippies called Charlie."

The Spahn Ranch was a movie ranch in Los Angeles that was used for filming mainly Westerns, and was the Manson Family's primary residence for much of 1968 and 1969. In 1969, acting under the instruction of Charles Manson, the cult killed five people in August 1969, including actress Sharon Tate - who was 8.5 months pregnant with director Roman Polanski's child.

Cranston had previously regaled this story on the Nerdist podcast and in other interviews.