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A promotional image for director-executive producer Clay Tweel’s HBO Max original docuseries, ‘Heaven’s Gate: The Cult of Cults.’
The occurrence of seemingly unbelievable events often captures the world’s attention, but the reason why and how they happened often specifically engage both casual and serious conspiracy theorists alike. That need to take a comprehensive delve into a shocking event drove seasoned documentarian, Clay Tweel to explore the journey of the titular cult from its inception to it’s tragic end in his latest project, ‘Heaven’s Gate: The Cult of Cults.’
The director-executive producer brings viewers into a previously inaccessible world through archival footage and interviews with ex-members and their families in his latest project, which is currently streaming on HBO Max as one of the platform’s original crime documentary series. ‘Heaven’s Gate features four episodes, the first of which is now available to stream for free on HBO Max’s off
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Marshall Applewhite, leader of the Heaven s Gate cult, is shown in an undated image. Applewhite and 38 followers died in a mass suicide in 1997. They believed they would abandon their “human containers” and their souls would be transported via comet Hale-Bopp, soaring through space to a better and more enlightened place.(AP Photo/APTV)
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The story of the Heaven’s Gate cult is bizarre, fascinating and ultimately, extremely sad.
Thirty-nine people, including cult leader Marshall Herff Applewhite, participated in a mass suicide in 1997, convinced that their souls would leave their “human containers” and be transformed into enlightened alien beings. Hitching a ride on comet Hale-Bopp, they would soar through space to a better place, known as “the Next Level.”