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New HBO docuseries Heaven s Gate: The Cult of Cults explores the UFO-obsessed cult that committed mass suicide by drinking a lethally spiked apple sauce, in hopes to enter what they called the Next Level
39 people died and it was the largest mass suicide event in US history; cult was led by husband and wife leaders who went by Ti and Do - he was a former music professor and she was a nurse
The cult started in the 1970s and required people to take a vow of celibacy and leave behind their earthly possessions, personalities and bodies so they could become technically advanced beings in the Next Level
7 creepy things we learned about cult leader and former UA teacher Marshall Applewhite
Updated Dec 13, 2020;
Posted Dec 13, 2020
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.”