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Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal

The Last Meal of Heaven’s Gate (GT Mini)

Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal

Jason Horton & Rebecca Leib

True Crime, Paranormal, Weird History, Social Sciences, History, Science

3.7928 Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

The final meal of a galactic cult in 1997.


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0:00.0

Ever wondered why people go on killing sprees?

0:05.0

Are you interested in exploring the paranormal?

0:07.0

Faffled by stories of previous lives.

0:10.0

Well so are we.

0:11.0

In each episode we'll be discussing the weird and wonderful stories of some truly confusing phenomena

0:17.0

and some horrific true crime cases.

0:19.0

Find us on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok

0:22.5

and join us every Tuesday,

0:24.6

wherever you listen to your podcasts.

0:26.9

And be prepared to be totally and utterly,

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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