This is the story of the Heaven’s Gate cult, which operated on America’s West Coast for around 22 years until the members took part in the largest mass suicide in American history. The infamous alien-obsessed spiritual group would somehow lead…[Continue Reading...]
Last week, Santa Barbara Mayor Randy Rowse and enough members of the City Council to constitute a Brown Act violation assembled on the 500 block of State Street to celebrate the grand opening of a new boutique hotel — the Drift — located in…[Continue Reading...]
Linda Kasabian, the Manson Family's lookout during the cult's infamous murder spree, has died at the age of 73. Kasabian was the key witness in the Manson Family trials in 1970 and was granted immunity by prosecutors for her testimony,…[Continue Reading...]
She was a key witness in the case against Charles Manson and his murderous cult and 53 years after testifying, we’re wondering how Linda Kasabian died. Born Linda Darlene Drouin, Kasabian took her second husband’s last name when they wed…[Continue Reading...]
Linda Kasabian, a member of the Manson Family cult whose testimony helped send Charles Manson to prison, died last month in Washington state at the age of 73, her recently obtained death certificate shows. Kasabian, who had changed her last…[Continue Reading...]
An NBC Bay Area analysis of nearly 700 lawsuits filed against Catholic institutions across Northern California over the past three years suggests the church’s child sexual abuse scandal in the region is significantly worse than the public previously knew. More…[Continue Reading...]
You may be familiar with the infamous Heaven's Gate cult who orchestrated a mass suicide in 1997 in the hopes of hopping on a spaceship to embark on a new life. But before the traumatic event, some of the cult…[Continue Reading...]
Next month (March 26) marks the 26th anniversary of the Heaven's Gate cult mass suicide—when 39 people ingested poison in a Rancho Santa Fe Mansion, in the hopes of catching a ride on the Hale-Bopp comet. Inspired by cult leaders Bonnie…[Continue Reading...]
Reverend Peter Popoff, a lifelong evangelical preacher and faith healer whose infomercial-style revival services have been staples of late-night TV and the BET network for decades, has put his Los Angeles-area home on the market, asking just over $8.1 million.…[Continue Reading...]
The That '70s Show star faced charges of having raped and assaulted three women — all of whom, like Masterson, were then members of the Church of Scientology — between 2001 and 2003 in November. The jury could not agree…[Continue Reading...]
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