The Heaven’s Gate Tragedy

Morbid

Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart

True Crime, Comedy, Paranormal, Dark History

4.4 • 100.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2026

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

On the afternoon of March 26, 1997, the San Diego County Sherrif’s Department received an anonymous call through 911 reporting a mass suicide at an address in Rancho Santa Fe, California. A single sheriff’s deputy was dispatched to the address and knocked on the front door, but got no response. Finding a side door to the home unlocked, the deputy entered the house and was horrified to discover nearly forty bodies of adults, all of whom appeared to have taken their own lives in what appeared to be some kind of ritual. Not since the terrible mass deaths at Jonestown decades earlier had Americans seen such a bizarre and ultimately tragic occurrence and few were able to understand how such a thing could have happened in the modern age. What could have caused so many people to willingly give up their lives, and who was he enigmatic man who’d convinced them to do it?

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0:00.0	Hey, weirdos, I'm Ash. And I did a foot mask? Oh, yes. And then I said I was like afraid that my feet weren't an appeal, but then I was afraid that they weren't going to peel. I'm going to be really vulnerable again. Why are my feet still peeling? Yeah, they're going to go for a while. I also did one a few days ago because you inspired me.
0:41.8	I inspired you? Oh my God, I'm an influencer. And mine have also started and it's great.
0:52.4	Mikey did one too. Debbie. Peel your feet. Peel them off right now. Peel her feet. It's so good, Deb. It is. It's the best.
1:30.0	My feet are peeling so much that I almost... God, this is horrible. Sorry for eating. But like, I'm like, do I do one again to, like, soften the parts that, like, aren't peeling as easily? Probably not. I would... I was met with a series of head shakes from across the room. Yeah. You don't want to overdo. You always go hard. You have to pull this one back. One thing about me, one thing about me is that I go hard. Yeah, you don't want to start giving your feet problems. That would suck, you know? Well, yeah, it's fun, though. It is. I suggest you do it. Do it. You'll feel brand new. It's true. What's up with you, Red? What's up with me? You can pre-order my book, The Butcher Legacy. Let's go. It's coming out August 11th and you can pre-ordered on the Butcher Legacy.com. Or wherever books are sold. Exactly. You can get it anywhere. I'm excited. I'm actually pre-order it. I'm going to start the series from the top. Hell yeah. Start it from the top. Because I haven't read. Well, she, I should say, she's read them. Yeah. You know, I'm, you're like, I'm going to start reading them. You're like, I'm like, I've actually just decided you're doing really good at this whole thing, so I should give it a shot. No, I've read all of them. And I was actually just about to say, I'm restarting them to get ready for the third one because I have the third one,
2:03.8	ha ha.
2:04.3	And then a boo-boo. So I should give it a shot. No, I've read all of them. And I was actually just about to say, I'm restarting them to get ready for the third one because I have the third one,
2:03.8	ha-ha, nana boo-boo. But I haven't read Butcher and the Wren in a long time. I don't even know how many years because it was so long ago at this point. You just keep writing books. It's nuts. Right in books out here.
2:15.5	I'm restarting and I'm going to read them back to back to back.
2:18.0	Yeah.
2:18.4	And I'm really excited.
2:19.1	I love that.
2:20.0	The next to back to back.
2:18.0	Yeah.
2:18.4	And I'm really excited.
2:19.1	I love that.
2:20.0	The next to our thickies. I'm excited. They are. They get exponentially thicker. It's funny because this book is released but I was with you yesterday and I saw you typing something. I was typing something. I saw you typing something. I'll just type a little something.
2:32.3	Where you type it?
2:33.0	I don't know.
2:33.5	Maybe just a little something.
2:34.4	Oh my God.
2:34.5	Oh my God.
2:35.3	Maybe.
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