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Unexplained

S01 Episode 3 Extra: Heaven's Gate

Unexplained

iHeartPodcasts

History, Science, Society & Culture

4.49.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2016

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

In Unexplained Extra episodes we look at the stories that for one reason or other didn't make it onto our show.
For last week’s episode, Do You See What I See, we came across a story that demonstrates the sheer power of belief and how one man’s interpretation of the arrival of the Hale Bopp comet led to the death of 39 people.
Featuring the story of the Heaven's Gate group.
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Welcome to the first unexplained extra.

0:43.8

For the weeks in between episodes, we'll be taking a look at the stories that for some reason or other didn't make it into the show.

0:50.3

For last week's episode, do you see what I see? We came across a story that demonstrates the sheer power of belief and how one man's interpretation of the arrival of the Halebop comet led to the death of 39 people.

1:04.3

The story begins in 1972 with a Houston-born nurse named Bonnie Nettles. Nettles was in every way the typical suburban Texan, married to a local businessman with whom she shared four children. Some might say she had it all.

1:18.3

But things, as they often are, weren't quite as they seemed. The marriage had begun to deteriorate due in no small part to Bonnie's insistence that she had started receiving messages from a 19th century monk named Brother Francis.

1:32.3

Nettles began attending sayances in an attempt to converse with Brother Francis and it was at one such meeting that she was given a message that would change her life forever.

1:41.3

She was informed that she would meet a mysterious man with light hair and a fair complexion.

1:47.3

Despite the cliched nature of the message, Bonnie became convinced that there was a guiding hand at the play.

1:53.3

Sure enough, a few months later, Bonnie did indeed cross paths with a strange and mysterious man. His name was Marshal Apple White.

2:03.3

True to the message, Marshal was indeed told with fair hair and like Bonnie, he too had sensed a strange connection between them.

2:12.3

Convinced of their mutual destinies, the pair agreed to leave behind the lives they'd known and set off on a journey of self-discovery around the United States.

2:20.3

It was on this journey that the pair claimed to have experienced an extraordinary awakening. Suddenly, everything had become clear.

2:28.3

They had been sent to Earth by an unknown race of extraterrestrials with a special mission, to ascend to the level above human and to bring as many other people with them as possible.

2:41.3

The pair changed their names to tea and dough and started to refine their philosophy incorporating a fusion of new ageism, science fiction and Christianity.

2:55.3

In October 1975, a 19-year-old Californian named Daniel Moore and his girlfriend, Yana Prucher, came across a strange newspaper article.

3:05.3

The heading read UFOs, where do they come from and requested the attendance of all who were seeking meaning in their life.

3:12.3

The advert was enough to entice the pair to hitchhike all the way to San Francisco to attend the meeting. Unfortunately, they arrived too late, but were thankful when two members of the group offered to drive them home.

3:24.3

During the journey, David and Yana learnt a bit more about the group and in particular, their enigmatic leaders, tea and dough.

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