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🗓️ 4 April 2025
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The final meal of a galactic cult in 1997.
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0:29.7 | perplexed. The Last Supper. I'm Jason Horton. |
0:50.7 | I'm Rebecca Lebe. |
0:52.0 | And this is Ghost Town. |
1:08.5 | The I'm Rebecca Leib. And this is Ghost Town. We've done a lot of food restaurant chain content on Ghost Town, but this one might be the most disturbing. |
1:16.2 | Centred around a restaurant, I know we haven't covered. |
1:19.3 | The 152 outlet chain known as Marie Callender's. |
1:23.9 | While Calendar's reputation is mostly as a sprawling, family-friendly establishment, where you can get an assortment of delicious pies, in the late 90s, this local Orange California-based chain, with just a couple restaurants in Utah, landed some national attention, including being featured on the television shows Jenny Jones and Extra. |
1:46.4 | Why did Marie Calendors get this level of national recognition? |
1:51.0 | Marie Calendors became the restaurant where the members of a notorious cult enjoyed a meal, |
1:56.8 | their last meal, in fact. Today on Ghost Town, the last meal of the Heavens Gate cult. |
2:03.5 | The Heavens Gate cult is such a specific tragedy of the 90s and the burgeoning internet era. |
2:09.8 | Formed in the 70s by Marshall Applewhite and Bonnie Nettles, a Texas music teacher and nurse that he met during a stay in a psychiatric institution, |
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