There is a delicacy and there is a purpose to making a movie that tells the story of a cult, especially when telling the story of Heaven’s Gate, the cult that is responsible for the highest casualty rate by mass…[Continue Reading...]
It's been 29 years since 39 cult members killed themselves in the largest mass suicide ever in the United States. The Heaven's Gate cult suicide came as a result of years of systemic brainwashing and remains shrouded in mystery, all…[Continue Reading...]
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) — On this day in 1997, authorities discovered 39 members of the Heaven’s Gate cult dead inside a Rancho Santa Fe mansion in what investigators said was a carefully planned mass suicide. The group, led by Marshall…[Continue Reading...]
Dateline Rancho Santa Fe. March 26, 1997. A 911 call came into the San Diego Sheriff’s Communications Center. It was treated as a prank call at first. From what turned out to be a nearby payphone, the caller said something…[Continue Reading...]
Why do people believe in provably false ideas? They’re in a cult. Why do people give their lives to rich dickheads who hate their guts? They’ve found a cult leader. Why does the failure of these people and their causes…[Continue Reading...]
(Waldport, Oregon) – In the middle of September, an unusual, even other-worldly anniversary will occur for the Oregon coastline. September 14, 1975 was the date of an infamous lecture in Waldport, where an oddball group held an event talking about…[Continue Reading...]
Nichelle Nichols made history as one of the first black women featured in a popular TV series with her role as Lieutenant Uhura on Star Trek. Sadly, she went on to face a personal tragedy related to the 'final frontier'…[Continue Reading...]
Dateline Rancho Santa Fe. March 26, 1997. A 911 call came into the San Diego Sheriff’s Communications Center. It was treated as a prank call at first. From what turned out to be a nearby payphone, the caller said something…[Continue Reading...]
On March 26, 1997, San Diego police followed up on an anonymous tip and entered a home in one of the city's wealthy suburban neighborhoods, according to History.com. When the officers arrived, the stench of decomposing human bodies greeted them.…[Continue Reading...]
In March 1997, 39 members of the Heaven’s Gate cult, led by a man named Marshall Applewhite, committed mass suicide in Rancho Santa Fe, California. The event sent a shockwave through the media, with many people questioning the history of…[Continue Reading...]
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