And Ereio's Original.

I was born with a special gift.

The ability to mentally transform any situation

into the worst case scenario.

In my... into the worst case scenario in my own brain.

My therapist calls my gift catastrophizing.

And that's why I'm uniquely qualified to scrutinize and analyze history's greatest

disasters and find out who's to blame. They say history repeats itself. Not on my watch. My name is Rebecca

Delgado Smith and I am the Alarmist. Hey everyone, thanks for turning into the Alarmist.

A comedy podcast where we talk about history's greatest tragedies and figure out who's to blame.

Today we'll be discussing Heaven's Gate. Here's what you need to know.

On March 26, 1997, now.

On March 26, 1997, the bodies of 39 members of an obscure cult were found by San Diego police

in an apparent mass suicide.

The deceased, 21 women and 18 men of varying ages were lying seemingly peacefully in matching

black sweatpants, black buttoned down shirts with homemade patches that read Heavens Gate

Away Team, and black and white Nike sneakers.

Draped on top of their bodies was a purple cloth. It was later revealed that the victims

were members of an obscure cult which had existed since the 1970s called

Heaven's Gate. The members believed that suicide would allow their bodies or

containers to board a UFO hidden behind the Hale Bob Comet as it made its

4,000-year orbit around the sun and passed near Earth, one of the major

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