125: Cults: Heaven's Gate

Corpus Delicti

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4.5 • 608 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

One of the most well known cults is Heaven's Gate. Two leaders bonded over a mutual love of science fiction and theosophy, and felt they had been picked for a higher purpose. Leading others to the "Next Level", Heaven's Gate believed they would be taken by spaceship to their final resting place. But it ended in a sad and tragic way...

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Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven%27s_Gate_(religious_group)
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/heavens-gate-20-years-later-10-things-you-didnt-know-114563/
http://www.heavensgate.com/
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/heavens-gate-cult-members-found-dead
https://allthatsinteresting.com/heavens-gate-cult

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0:00.0	Hey, everyone is Jen.
0:25.3	And this is Lindsay.
0:26.8	And welcome back to Corpus Delicta the podcast.
0:29.6	We have a brand new episode and series for you guys.
0:34.2	And I know I can't speak for Lindsay, but I am super excited. Yeah. So as you all know,
0:40.6	we are starting the cult series. I know that this is a topic that a lot of people cover,
0:47.6	but it's just something that we're interested in and wanted to see how it goes. So that is what we're
0:53.7	doing. Before we start, we did want to tell you guys
0:57.3	that coming up in, I think what, two weeks from the day this releases, I'm confused because of
1:04.3	we don't record on the day it releases, but on Tuesday, May 5th, we are planning on doing an Instagram live.
1:12.5	It is on Instagram because apparently that's the only one where two people can do it.
1:16.6	So it won't be on Facebook.
1:18.2	Make sure you're following us on Instagram.
1:20.7	So let's just plan Cinco de Mayo 7 Central.
1:25.2	Yeah, 7 Central.
1:26.5	That's perfect.
1:27.2	I didn't even realize it was Cinco de Mayo when we said that.
1:30.0	That's perfect.
1:31.1	It'll be like a little Cinco de Mayo party since nobody can do anything.
1:35.3	Yeah.
1:35.9	Oh, we could have a corpus to look at a Cinco de Maya party and I will bring my margaritas.
1:41.0	Yeah, we totally plan that is what I meant to say.
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