In late March 1997, a cult group called Heaven’s Gate, which was led by Marshal Applewhite, committed a mass suicide.
It was all clear when the San Diego police received a disturbing call from someone who had just discovered 39 dead bodies in a mansion located in a luxurious gated community in California.
The leader of the Heaven’s Gate cult had rented a luxurious mansion of $7,000 a month for their gatherings. This was the same place where the mass suicide had taken place. 39 members, including their leader Marshal Applewhite, wore black tracksuits and sneakers, ate apple sauce laced with barbiturates, and washed it down with vodka.
They then put bags over their heads, purple shrouds over their bodies, and laid down on the beds to leave their earthly wealth behind. To them, they weren’t committing suicide.
They thought they were freeing their souls from their bodies so they could ascend to a spacecraft flying in the wake of the Hale-Bopp comet, which was passing by Earth then. Applewhite had convinced them that a UFO trailing the comet would take them to the next level of life.
The police found the bodies of the 39 members on March 26th, and the incident can’t seem to be forgotten. Could there have been other members who didn’t commit suicide? Could Heaven’s Gate cult still exist? We are yet to hear such news.
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