#252 The Heaven's Gate Cult

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🗓️ 5 September 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Heaven's Gate was an American UFO religious cult based out of San Diego, California, founded in 1974 and led by Marshall Applewhite and Bonnie Nettles. On March 26, 1997, police discovered the bodies of 39 members of the group, who had participated in a mass suicide in order to reach what they believed was an extraterrestrial spacecraft following the Hale–Bopp comet. Just before the suicide, the group's website was updated with the message: "Hale-Bopp brings closure to Heaven's Gate ... Our 22 years of classroom here on planet Earth is finally coming to conclusion – 'graduation' from the Human Evolutionary Level." Check out our other shows!: Cryptic Soup w/ Thena & Kylee Strange & Unexplained True Crime Guys YouTube EVERYTHING TRUE CRIME GUYS: https://linktr.ee/Truecrimeguysproductions True Crime Guys Music: True Crime Guys Music on Spotify OhMyGaia.com Code: Creeper Patreon.com/truecrimeguys Patreon.com/sandupodcast Merch: truecrimeguys.threadless.com Sources: https://www.heavensgate.com/ https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/heavens-gate-cult-members-found-dead https://academic.oup.com/jcmc/article/3/3/JCMC334/4584381 https://www.sdsheriff.gov/bureaus/media-relations/common-questions/heaven-s-gate-case https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven%27s_Gate_(religious_group) Heaven's Gate Cult Initiation Tape Part 1

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to True Crime Guys Podcast. I'm your host Michael
0:08.6	and of course I have the other leader of my cult Andy here with me.
0:11.5	Co-leader co-leader co-leader oh we're giving you the co-leader title. leader of my cult Andy here with me. Co leader.
0:12.7	Co leader.
0:13.7	We're giving you the co leader title.
0:14.7	Co leader.
0:15.7	I was going to give the assistant to the leader.
0:17.7	Oh yes, there we got, assistant to the leader of the cult.
0:20.3	Yes.
0:21.3	Yes. We're doing some cult shit today on the free platform. We are we're also doing something that we have we done this before have we've redone an episode before I think we like I have done yes when I first came on I think we have done one.
0:33.0	When I first came on, I think we did a redo.
0:35.0	We did a redo. When you and Lauren had done one, and then we did a redo.
0:38.0	I can't remember which one it was, though, at the top of my head.
0:40.0	Me either. But I feel like we have. But we have not redone a cult.
0:44.0	No.
0:44.6	Especially not one of my favorite, can you say favorite cults?
0:48.8	I don't know.
0:49.4	One of my favorite cults to study, let's put it that way.
0:51.8	What are the more interesting cults to you?
0:53.0	Very interesting.
0:54.0	Yes.
0:55.0	Very interesting.
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