The Cult Next Door | Heaven's Gate

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In 1997, the discovery of a grisly scene in Rancho Santa Fe, California, shocked the nation. Thirty-nine members of the Heaven's Gate cult - a New Age religious group with its basis in Christian heresies and pseudoscience - had taken their own lives. They left behind literature, a website, several videos, and eerie "Exit Statements" from several members. But why? What could inspire nearly forty people to commit such an act? More importantly, what kind of person could lead them to this? This is the story, not only of the Heaven's Gate tragedy, but of the man who created this dark path: Marshall Applewhite. Welcome back to The Lore Lodge...

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To sum up the cult's beliefs: "I don't want to live on this planet anymore"

labrynianrebel
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I would be over the moon if you could do a deep dive of the Aum Shinrikyo cult that was behind the 1995 Sarin Attacks on the Tokyo Subway. They actually had some absolutely bonkers connections (same flight school as the 9/11 hijackers, were actually rather close to acquiring a nuke, owned a Russian military helicopter, etc.)

PlazmaticBrony
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Heavens gate made their money being one of the largest early web developers. Something like 40% of early 90s websites were developed by Heavens Gate.

settame
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"Is THAT where this story is going?"
*sigh* "EEYUP"

Love these guys and everything they do!

NFaltz
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I think that Count Dankula mentioned in his video, that the website is still up, because the only one who didn't commit suicide, was the web administrator, who was tasked with maintaining the site, as it documented their final journey, before ascending into higher existence, and without it there wouldn't be anything left to remind people of their existence.

vintageshed
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In the early 2000s I had a ska band called "Marshall and The Applewhites"

marz-
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whoever did the graphic design work for them was good, that logo is iconic

keithmichael
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“And if you were thinking they got that name from Do Rae Me Fa So La Ti Do…”

That is not at all what I was thinking but now I don’t know what else I could have been thinking.

saltybob
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16:39 That jump from "God gave him permission to use the car" to "He was jailed for six months" had me laughing for far longer than I had any right to.

TheSlammurai
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I was in high school in 1997, and I think the comet was a big deal because of how *visible* it was in the night sky. For nearly a week, you could see it when you looked up, and it was beautiful. You've unlocked a memory I have of looking at the comet through a school bus window, thinking about the news that some crazy people had committed suicide because of it.

rhapsody
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Oh, honey. Vasectomy has been common in the US since 1971. They didn't get vasectomies. They really did get castrated, and they went to doctors after trying to do an at-home version that went very, very wrong.

PercyNah
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My dad nicknamed me after this comet because it appeared two months before I was born.

Whenever I tell people this fact, they go “soooo the comet that crazy cult killed themselves to be on?” And I’m like “YEP, that one.”

KirbyKips
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I was a freshman in college that spring. I was taking an intro to astronomy class, and the professor offered a trip to a working observatory (Lick Observatory, on a mountain above San Jose, CA) to whoever could find the most creative way to tell them they wanted to go. My contribution was called The Astroloid with the tag "Who needs truth when there's a whole universe out there to exploit?" and the second issue had the headline "Aliens apologize for misleading cultists" complete with doctored picture of a UFO behind the comet.

Good times, man, good times.

retstak
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There seem to be two versions, from two different surviving members, as to the money. One was that the $5 was for covering the cost of vagrancy laws and the quarters were for calling home from pay phones. The other was that it was a reference to a Mark Twain story which said $5.75 was "the cost to ride the tail of a comet to heaven."

amandap
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Just stumbled across your channel, good job! As someone that's been heavily in to cults for the last 25 years, I can tell you the reason they thought there was a spaceship in the tail of the comet was because someone on Coast to Coast AM back then phoned in and said as much. After the suicides happened, Coast to Coast did everything they possibly could to erase that episode from history.

MonkDave
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Have you listened to the Heaven's Gate podcast? They interviewed surviving members and family members of victims. And the writer/narrator was part of a different cult, and brings a real sensitivity to the topic.

SM-BSW
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i’ve been wanting to watch this since it dropped. been CHILLIN in “watch later”. finally clicked today and was NOT disappointed. great video man

maxitrillion
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When you said "Perhaps you were around in the 90s, " my knees said ouch.

SOGOnic
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Oh my God the Waco/Ruby ridge rant in the middle. That was hilarious

wills
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As a child I lived in Rancho Santa Fe and remember my dad pointing out that plot of land where the suicides took place (the mansion has been torn down since it happened) it's unreal to think that something so tragic could occur right where I grew up.

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