Episode 131: Heaven's Gate Mass Suicide

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Following an anonymous tip in 1997, police entered a mansion in Rancho Santa Fe, an exclusive suburb of San Diego, California, and discover 39 victims of a mass suicide. Members of the cult known as “Heaven’s Gate” including their leader Marshall Herff Applewhite, left video diaries explaining their reasons for the mass suicide: Applewhite had convinced them in order to reach heaven, they must abandon their human forms and board an alien spacecraft that would trail behind the comet Hale-Boop, and they would then soar through space to a better place, known as “the Next Level.” So, how was another religious cult leader able to lead his flock to their deaths willingly.
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7 creepy things we learned about cult leader and former UA teacher Marshall Applewhite - al.com

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Heaven's Gate cult members found dead | March 26, 1997 | HISTORY

Marshall Applewhite, The Unhinged Heaven's Gate Cult Leader (allthatsinteresting.com)

Behind the Curtain of the Heaven's Gate Cult - JSTOR Daily

Heaven's Gate survivor reflects on the cult's mass suicide 25 years ago - ABC News

Marshall Applewhite - Bonnie Nettles, Death & Facts (biography.com)

What Drove Heaven's Gate Followers to Mass Suicide? | HISTORY

Heaven's Gate 20 Years Later: 10 Things You Didn't Know (rollingstone.com)

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