🛸 "Heaven's Gate: Mass Suicide for a UFO Paradise"

👥 39 bodies in matching Nike shoes—the largest mass suicide in US history. How did a UFO cult convince educated professionals to "exit their human vessels"? 🎭 Exclusive footage from inside the mansion, including their final "exit statements." 🌍 Never-aired recordings reveal their leader's descent from teacher to cosmic messiah. 💊 The methodical preparation, the poisoned pudding, and the eerie calm of their final hours. ⚠️ Warning: Contains disturbing suicide recordings and crime scene footage. 😱

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:16):
The mind of the fanatic. According to social philosopher Eric Hoffer,
in the true believer needs something to worship, even to
the point of annihilation, he will sacrifice everything for the
impossible dream. Many fanatical mass movements form in our society,
but only those that act in some dramatic manner, such
as announcing the world's end or committing mass suicide, seem

(00:39):
to get widespread attention. Heaven's Gait was among the most startling.
A peaceful and secretive group, they made occasional forays into recruitment,
but most of their time was spent in rigorous training
for reaching a higher plane of consciousness. While there's nothing
unusual about that, they are among the few cults who
went all the way to understand how they form the

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beliefs that led to their ultimate actions. We need to
look at cults as a whole that hold philosophies of
an approaching armageddon and as savior Messiah. All mass movements
offer wrote generate in their adherents a readiness to die
and a proclivity for united action. All of them, irrespective
of the doctrine they preach and the programme they project,

(01:22):
breed fanaticism, enthusiasm, fervent hope, hatred, and intolerance. All of
them are capable of releasing a powerful flow of energy
in certain departments of life. All of them demand blind
faith and a single hearted allegiance. Cults that promise a
higher order from such extreme discipline appeal to a certain
type of mind, frustrated with the way things are, hungry

(01:45):
for change, confident of the potential for human perfection, eager
to believe in a single truth, able to envision an
unprecedented society, and ready for action. Religious scholar Catherine Wessinger
calls the groups that form around these doctrines' millennialists, and
in How the Millennium comes Violently, she says that they're

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motivated by an ultimate concern, the belief in an imminent
transition to a collective condition consisting of total well being,
which may be earthly or heavenly. Salvation is for the
entire group, not just the individual, and it's generally ensured
through a charismatic leader who knows how to socialize converts,
reinforce beliefs, and keep the group organized and focused. Monastic discipline,

(02:31):
special diets, and social withdrawal cultivate dependence on the leaders
and encourage the loss of individuality on A and E's program, Cults.
Professor Charles Strozier at John Jay College of Criminal Justice
added that there's an important connection between what occurred in
the nineteenth century and the latter part of the twentieth
century in terms of movements of intense spirituality. There's been

(02:55):
a large expansion of the number of people joining these
groups and claiming they've received a message from beyond, in
particular that were not alone and can be helped to
evolve towards greater insight and godliness. Among them are the Millerites,
founded by William Miller during the nineteenth century, interpreted the
Bible to say that the world would end with the

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second Coming of Christ on October twenty second, eighteen forty four,
but it did not. They awaited the arrival of a
comet as a celestial sign of the world's end. Instead,
they ended up marking the day as the Great Disappointment.
They fixed on several more dates, but none played out
as predicted, which discouraged many members. Eventually, the lack of

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veracity in these predictions shriveled the group's numbers. However, some
former members then went on to form the Seventh Day
Adventists in the nineteen thirties. Victor T. Hutef initially led
the Davidians, an offshoot of the Seventh Day Adventists who
awaited the imminent final battle between good and evil. When
it occurred, only the chosen would witness the return of

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Jesus Christ and be saved. Budef purchased land for his
group outside Waco, Texas, calling it the Mount Carmel Center.
When he died in nineteen fifty five, his wife Florence
succeeded him and erroneously predicted that the world would end
four years later. When it did not, another group broke off,
forming the Branch Davidians, which was eventually taken over by

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David Koresh. He called himself the Messiah and selected girls
among his flock who would bear his soldiers. He insisted
that as God's seventh Messenger, it was he who had
set off the chain of events that would bring on
the apocalypse. When the group began to collect firearms, the
ATF tried to raid the place in nineteen ninety three,
and after a fifty one day stand off, Mount Carmel

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went up in flames, killing Koresh and approximately eighty of
his followers. In nineteen ninety four, during a police investigation,
fifty two members of the Solar Temple were found dead
in Quebec, Canada and Switzerland. Fifteen appeared to have been troopides,
while others were lure into ingesting tranquilizers and then were shot.

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A few people who were regarded as traitors were summarily executed.
In nineteen ninety five, sixteen more members of this cult
were found dead in Grenoble, France, including three children. Fourteen
of the bodies were arranged in a star pattern and burned.
They left notes telling those who found them that they
were going now to another world. They believed they were

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the reincarnated Knights Templar, a medieval holy order founded by
nine French knights. Two years later, in nineteen ninety seven,
five additional members committed piede. These believers thought that death
was an illusion, and upon leaving the earth, they would
receive solar bodies on Sirius, the brightest star in the universe.
Cults have been part of American life since the Pilgrims

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landed at Plymouth Rock, said TV journalist Mike Wallace in
a documentary he made on the subject. Some are highly unorthodox,
he added, and among the most bizarre was Heaven's Gate.
Membership in this group had an ideology crafted by man
and women who believed they were aliens. For these two
people left families, jobs, and friends to devote their lives

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to whatever it would take to attain ultimate spiritual perfection,
whatever it would take. Marshall HURF. Applewhite was the overachieving
son of a Presbyterian minister. He was always a classic
leader who could easily persuade people to accept his ideas
and follow He had attended seminary, been a choir director,
and had numerous roles in the Houston Grand Opera, but

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was dismissed from his teaching position at the University of
Alabama School of Music over an affair he had with
a male student. His wife left him, taking their two
young sons, so he got another job and once again
got entangled with a student, this time a young woman.
In nineteen seventy two, he admitted himself in a psychiatric hospital,
according to some accounts, to cure his obsession with sexuality

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in his early forties. He viewed himself as being seriously ill.
There he met a nurse, Bonnie Lou Truesdale Nettles, a
member of the Theophilosophical Society who was four years older
than him. At the time, her own marriage was falling apart,
and she persuaded Applewhite that he could have a major
role in her work and her life. He listened and

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was soon involved in her activities. These two discovered a
mutual fascination with UFOs, astrology, and science fiction. Nettles urged
Applewhite to read the Secret Doctrine of Madame Blavatsky, and
they opened a center in Houston for the study of metaphysics.
They came to believe that they were the earthly incarnations
of aliens millions of years old. They were the two

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witnesses mentioned in chapter eleven of the Book of Revelation,
placed on this earth to harvest souls to help save
as many people as they could. Nettles persuaded Applewhite that
as the two, they should embark on an evangelical mission
to bring the truth to others. Nine months after they met,
they severed ties with family and friends. She left her

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four children and drove out to Houston together to spread
their message. What they told people was similar to what
many other End Times cult leaders preached that they would
be persecuted and put to death by their enemies, Their
bodies would lie in the open for three and a
half days, and they would prove their deity by rising
from the dead and disappearing into a cloud. From there

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they would ascend to a higher level to be with God.
Their interpretation of the biblical cloud was that it was
actually a spaceship, and they expected to be welcomed a board. Indeed,
this was their only means of salvation from the Luciferians,
who were evil aliens that enslaved humans through worldly concerns
like jobs, sex, and families. Those who believed in the

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message could join the two and be saved as well.
Before they could get much of a start, their invitation
to the media for a press conference got them into
real trouble in Brownsville, Texas. Applewhite told a reporter that
if he came to the press conference, they would give
him the most significant story of his career. Believing it
was about drugs, he brought the author. When the two

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spotted the police, they left, which aroused suspicions. Officers looked
up the license plate number of their rental car discovered
that it had been reported stolen and arrested them. They
were charged with credit card fraud, charges were dropped and
car theft. Applewhite served six months in jail awaiting trial,
and was convicted and sentenced to four more months. The

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judge ordered a psychiatric exam, which Applewhite passed, but which
he later admitted made him doubt his sanity, humiliated, and
even more paranoid. When he left jail in nineteen seventy five,
Ian Nettles went to southern California to start spreading the word.
They called their group HIM for Human Individual Metamorphosis and
picked up twenty five disciples. Then they started their formal

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campaign in earnest. The first official public meeting was scheduled
in the seaside town of Waldport, Oregon, in nineteen seventy five.
For months beforehand, they had posted flyers on telephone polls
urging people to attend the meeting to discover the truth
about Reas. Two hundred people arrived at the Bayshore Inn
to find out what the flyers were about. The two

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insisted that to be saved, spiritual minded individuals must recognize
that the appearance that most humans have souls is merely
an illusion. Only those who truly had souls and were
ready to be harvested by God would recognize the truth
of the message. Once they did, they would give up
their worldly clutter at once and follow a strict regimen,

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using biblical notations about sexless angels and the praise Christ
gave to those who sacrificed family life to follow him.
They insisted that spiritual perfection came only at a price.
One had to first see the truth about the evils
around them and want desperately to free oneself. Apple White
and Nettles didn't convince as many people as they had hoped,

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Yet their strong belief in what they said, along with
their intensity and delivering the message, proved compelling. They were
a team act, said one former member about these gurus.
They played off each other. They were everyone's mum and dad,
said another. They made people feel protected and reassured. The
two gave several televised interviews about their beliefs and the

(11:07):
miracles they would perform, which brought them nationwide attention. We're
going to stage so that it can be witnessed, said
apple White on a news broadcast. That when a human
has overcome his human level activities, a chemical change takes place,
and he goes through metamorphosis, just exactly as a caterpillar
does when he quits being a caterpillar and he goes

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into a chrysalis and becomes a butterfly. That did not
mean that they would leave their bodies behind in graves.
He insisted, we are going to be murdered, and when
we are after three and a half days, we're going
to walk up, just get right up, and you're going
to watch us. Twenty people from Oregon joined them. Some
came home from the meetings believing they would soon acquire

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the Kingdom of Heaven, and they made dramatic changes right away.
One man and his wife actually left their ten year
old daughter, certain she would get whatever she needed. Once
the believers were gathered together, they were told to get
ready Heaven awaited. The time was approaching. The world would
soon see that it was foolish to ignore the message

(12:09):
of the two. In that same eventful year, Apple White
and Nettles gave a date for their departure into outer space.
The Eager Disciples were in a campground at the time,
and they learned that a spaceship was arriving to pick
them all up. They congregated on the specified night to
await its approach. It didn't come at the expected time,
so they sat up through the night and continued to wait.

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Hours went by and nothing happened. Finally, apple White apologized
for his mistake and invited anyone who desired it to
go ahead and leave. A few returned to their families,
but others remained, opting to await the next opportunity. This
was home now. There was nowhere else to go. They
had sacrificed too much to just walk away, and they

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wanted their higher destiny. Even when the two reinterpreted their
approaching resurrection to be metaphorical rather than actual, the media
had assassinated them, so they didn't really need to lie
dead in the street for three days. Many people still
stayed and waited for the next set of instructions. Apple
White and Nettles instructed those who remained to cut their hair,
wear androgynous clothing, a uniform that would set them apart

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and also remove temptations of the flesh, and adhere to
a strict regimen of training and preparation. The idea was
that their physical bodies had to be trained toward eventual
perfection as genderless, eternal beings. They needed these bodies to
get into heaven. The demands for members were daunting, which
curtailed the cult's early success, but the two believed that

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purging earthly ways was the only means for rediscovering the
alien beings they truly were, all of them. There was
to be no more sexual contact and no personal privacy.
The members soon formed into an insulated community, sharing the
same thoughts and repeatedly affirming the dogma and prophecies. They
developed crewe mindedness, as apple White called it, working together

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in one mind, the way they might have to function
on a spaceship. During all this activity, two sociologists who
heard about the group on the news, infiltrated it and
pretended to be potential recruits. After a few months, they left,
having learned very little. They did not see the kind
of indoctrination and coherence among members that would insure endurance.

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Little did they know the program was evolving. Apple White
and Nettles taught their disciples that they were all related.
Apple White was their father, and Nettles, who was an
older alien that had inhabited an older human form, was
their grandfather. The two renamed themselves variously as Guinea and
Pig Bow and Peep, and finally Dough and Tea. After

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they perceived that the media was distorting their message, they
went underground. They had a plan to fulfill, yet by
the end of nineteen seventy six, the group had diminished
from around two hundred adherents to only eighty. A legacy
of three hundred thousand dollars bequeathed to them allowed them
to keep going. To attract more people, They've promised spaceship
rides for four hundred and thirty three dollars, and they

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had dozens of takers. Cult expert Stephen Hassan says that
the people involved in cults like these are typically intelligent
and educated, but that a loving, charismatic leader who presents
beliefs for which there can be no reality testing manipulates them.
A new identity takes over that is dependent on how
the leader defines it. The mind can learn, he adds,

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and it can learn things that are abusive to the self. Then,
in nineteen eighty five, Tea died of cancer and was
not physically resurrected as promised. Such a mundane death seemed
out of keeping with the sacred doctrines of the two witnesses,
and it was clear that she was not going to
get into heaven with a perfected body. Apple White had
to repair the damage. So he continued to emphasize the

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discomfort that true believers have with mainstream American society, and
he said that Tea had gone on before them to
get things ready. It wasn't difficult to use social alienation
to create what Messenger called a context in which it
seemed reasonable for believers to exit planet Earth while devaluing
life around them. Apple White revised his philosophy to interpret

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their fiscal bodies as mere vehicles for the soul that
had to be shed before they could board the spaceship.
In fact, apple White now claimed that Tea herself would
be piloting the mothership that would carry them to a
better place. That made the idea even more familiar and inviting.
In nineteen ninety three, apple White launched another campaign for
advancing into something more than human, calling the group Total

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Overcomers Anonymous. He placed a large ad in USA Today
to allok the American populace to the fact that the
Earth would soon be spaded under and they would have
one last chance to escape. He went so far as
to say that he was the alien that had been
inside the body of Jesus Christ, but two thousand years earlier,
the souls had not been ready. He had returned in

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the form of Applewhite to take those who were prepared,
but he was still will the very same alien with
the very same mission. He got a few more people
aboard and then had to decide what to do next.
In the secret world of cults, Sarah Moran says that
after the travesty at Waco, Texas in the spring of
nineteen ninety four, Applewhite spoke about Koresh, began to collect guns,

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and hinted at a similar form of persecution to achieve
peace and avoid the Earth's destruction, says religious scholar William Henry.
In the Keepers of Heaven's Gate, it was mandatory that
they leave the planet soon. In nineteen ninety four, several
members told a reporter for the La Weekly that they
would all be departing. They were going to walk out

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to the Santa Monica Peer and catch a ride into space,
but that did not take place, and in October of
nineteen ninety six they went to southern California, renting a large,
seven bedroom house in the wealthy community of Rancho Santa Fe,
north of San Diego at eighteen two forty one Collina Norte.
There they developed a computer business as web page design.

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They called the place the Monastery and their business Higher Source.
They also used the internet's worldwide communication capabilities to promote
their beliefs and gather more disciples. They renamed themselves Heaven's Gate.
At this time, according to Wesseinger, they had only about
twenty five adherents left in the group. On the web page,

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Applewhite posted six key points paraphrased as I and my
partner are from an evolutionary level above human, and we
took over two human bodies in their forties which had
been tagged at birth as vehicles for our use. We
brought a crew of students to Earth with us from
the Kingdom of Heaven. Many of us arrived in staged
crashes of spaceships, and authorities confiscated some of our bodies.

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Others came before us to tag our bodies with special chips.
Before our human incarceration, we were briefed by older beings
with details about how to take over the human vehicle.
The Kingdom of God is genderless, multiplying through metamorphosis and
its inhabitants have free will. There were more messages regarding
Erth's impending demise, and once again a few people left

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everything to grab their last chance and join the cult. Then,
in November and December of nineteen ninety six, a comet
called Hail Bob made a big splash, not just for
Heaven's Gate, but for the entire New Age community and beyond.
Its last visit had been in twenty two hundred BC,
which was viewed then as a harbinger for the arrival
of a great teacher or peacemaker who would visit many

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different civilizations around the world to deliver a sacred doctrine.
He would bring purification and save true believers from the
tribulations of the end times. It's no wonder that many
who knew about this viewed the approach of the comet
as a sign of great change. One amateur astronomer said
that a ringed object was following the comet, which was

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four times the size of Earth, and which had thrown
the comet off its course several times. It was even
said that the Vatican was looking for some sign in
the heavens, since this this would be the last comet
of the millennium. It supposedly signaled the final three years
of Satan's reign on Earth and would usher in a
more enlightened age. Doe told the group that Tea had
communicated telepathically to him that it was time and that

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hail Bob was the sign. On their web page, they
excitedly announced hail Bob's approach. Doctor Courtney Brown, claiming to
be adept at remote viewing or seeing things that occurred
far away, told radio host Art Bell that he was
in possession of photographs of the comet. They clearly showed
an object in its wake, and this object had the
appearance of an alien craft. In fact, Brown said he'd

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looked inside and had seen alien life forms. This claim
drew many expectant listeners who wanted to see the photos,
including members of Heaven's Gate. Sensing the arrival of the
most significant event in their short history, the crew minded
group went together to watch Star Wars. They also attended
a UFO conference, bought insurance against alien abductions and impregnation,

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and purchased a high powered telescope. They were looking for
the companion to Hail Bob. They told the store manager,
which they described as a small shape near the comet
that was their mothership. When they failed to find it,
they returned the telescope. The manager found their ideas puzzling. Then,
in January nineteen ninety seven, the promised photographs were finally

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posted on Artbell's website and then were quickly exposed as
a hoax. Yet the Heaven's Gate Crew was not deterred.
On their website, they wrote, whether Hale Bob has a
companion or not is irrelevant from our perspective. Its approach
alone was significant, as the marker we've been waiting for,
visible or not, the spaceship would be there, ready to

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take them home. They were about to graduate from human
to more than human. Those who were reading the message
might even want to get their own boarding passes by
the end of that month. On January twenty third, a
remarkable celestial event occurred. The outer planets of our solar
system aligned themselves in in what many people said was
a six pointed star that was the Jewish star, the

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symbol of Jesus. The last time this alignment had occurred
had been just before the Renaissance. There was every reason
to believe that something of universal significance was about to occur.
On Friday night, March twenty first, nineteen ninety seven, the
members of Heaven's Gate went to a chain restaurant called
Marie Calendars, where they ordered thirty nine identical meals of

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salad and pot pies and finished off with cheesecake. This
was to be their final earthly meal, because the next
day the comet would be in its closest proximity to Earth,
it was time to begin their departure. On Saturday, they
started the process. Everyone dressed identically in black long sleeved
shirts and black sweatpants, with new black and white Nike

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tennis shoes. On their left shirt sleeves were armband patches
on which the words Heaven's Gate Away Team were stitched,
possibly a reference to the television program Star Trek the
Next Generation, on which a sa small crew called the
Away Team went off on planetary ventures. The members of
Heaven's Gate each packed a small overnight bag with clothing,

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lip bomb, and spiral notebooks, and they placed these bags
at the foot end of their beds. They also put
three quarters and a five dollars bill in their shirt pockets,
a habit they had developed whenever they went out so
they would always have cab fare and change for the phone.
The Nike slogan at the time was just do It,
which could explain why they all wore Nike shoes. They

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worked in three teams. The first team of fifteen received
the barbituate phenobarbitol mixed into pudding or apple sauce. Then
they drank vodka to wash it down, a lethal dose
with some fifty to one hundred pills. It surmised that
after consuming this toxic mix, they lay on their beds
with plastic bags over their heads until they passed out.

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Those who still lived removed the bags and covered their
bodies with purple shrouds. The following day, Sunday, the next
team of fifteen followed. Finally there were seven on mine
and then only two. The final two people, both women,
were not shrouded, but they had placed plastic bags over
their heads to assist them in dying. Two videotapes were

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sent by Federal Express to former members, who realized what
had occurred and alerted police. Deputy Sheriff Robert Bunk went
over to the mansion on the afternoon of Wednesday, March
twenty sixth an overpowering stench indicated the presence of corpses,
so we called for backup. Together, the two officers entered
the home. Now they knew for sure there were bodies,

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and remembering Jonestown, they wondered about some kind of mass murder.
Yet they soon realized that the deaths there had been peaceful, voluntary,
and surprisingly uniform. There were thirty nine bodies lying on
ordinary cots or bunks. Because they were all dressed alike
with their hair cropped short, the investigators assumed they were
all male and reported that to headquarters. The news media

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spread this as well. However, it turned out that among
the victims were twenty one women and eighteen men, all
white from ages twenty six to seventy two. Most had
joined during the seventies, but eight had joined more recently
during the nineties. It was the largest mass site to
date to occur within the United States. The place was
eerily quiet as the San Diego County Corner went from

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one room to another videotaping the scene. Twenty white plastic
trash bags were found piled in the trash, along with
elastic straps. On computer screens throughout the mansion were images
of alien human hybrids, along with one screen flashing a
red alert from the Heaven's Gate website. Hundreds of videotapes
found there featured cult members speaking to people they had

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left behind about how excited they were to be joining
Tea on a higher plane. Clearly, each person had died
of his or her own free will and had wanted
very badly to do so. Then San Diego County Medical
Examiner Brian Blackbourne announced another shocking find. Seven members of
the cult had been castrated, including Applewhite. Former cult members

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admitted to reporters that yes, Doe had done that, and
others had followed his example. It was all part of
crue mindedness and the battle against the Luciferian influence. Professor
Strozier at John Jay College said that apple White clearly
had issues with sexuality, and other members who strongly identified
with them would feel that they had to do whatever

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he did. It was all part of losing their individual identities.
The bodies were finally released to grieving and perplexed next
of kin. Some openly said that their relative had done
what seemed best, while others thought the cult member had
been brainwashed and would never otherwise have committed such an act.
Then there was another shock. On Easter Sunday, March thirtieth,

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writer Lee Shargle told David Brinkley on a television talk
show that Apple White had cancer. People who heard this
wondered if he had led thirty eight other people into
taking their lives simply because he had nothing to lose
and didn't want to go alone. Yet autopsy reports showed
no sign of cancer in his body. Chargyll was a
fiction writer. Had he just made that up? No one knew.

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Wayne Cook fifty six, a former cult member known as Justin,
appeared on Sixty Minutes with Leslie Stall to talk about
his experience with Heaven's Gate and his feelings about missing
the graduation. There were tears in his eyes as he
described what the departure meant and how much he wished
he'd gone to In fact, his wife had been one
of the thirty nine. Five weeks later, on May sixth,

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he and another former member, Chuck Humphrey fifty five, both
dressed in dark clothes, packed a bag, pocketed five dollars
in three quarters, and used the same drugs to take
their lives in a hotel room in Ensinita's Cook succeeded
but Humphrey survived. In a videotape, Cook told his surviving
daughter he had to follow his wife. I'm just really happy,

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he said. Humphrey decided that he'd been held back to
continue to proselytize, so he created a web page to
dispense Vin's Gate theology. He did as much as he
thought he could to get the word out, and then
in February nineteen ninety eight, he ended his life in
the Arizona Desert. He placed a plastic bag over his
head and used his car's exhaust to fill it with

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carbon monoxide. Dressed in black with the requisite fair he
left a purple shroud on the seat next to him
with a note that said, do not revive. He called
it an opportunity for me to demonstrate my loyalty, commitment, love, trust,
and faith in T and do and the next level.
It's unlikely that the full story will ever be known

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and the mystery of the thirty nine sides will become
a permanent part of Weird Americana. Yet one thing about
Heaven's Gate does stand out. Unlike many cults who are
criticized for warping young minds, no one who graduated to
the next level took children along for this ride, only
adults they believed could make such a decision. They did

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not leave to escape persecution or hardship, and in fact
had a luxurious home and a thriving business. It seems
they simply wanted to catch a ride while they still
could and move on to another truth. The nickname at

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this day