HEAVEN'S GATE: THE CULT THAT CONVINCED 39 PEOPLE TO DIE FOR A SPACESHIP

Episode 126 | Historical EventsIn this History episode we focus on Heaven's Gate — the California cult led by Marshall Applewhite that ended on March 26th, 1997, when 39 members dressed in matching black tracksuits and Nike sneakers drank a lethal mixture and died in a Rancho Santa Fe mansion, believing a spacecraft trailing the Hale-Bopp comet was coming to take them to the Next Level.This episode covers how Applewhite built the belief system from a 1972 hospital encounter with nurse Bonnie Nettles, how the group survived for 25 years by moving constantly and designing websites, how a misidentified photographic artifact near Hale-Bopp became the trigger, and why the Heaven's Gate website is still online and still maintained by surviving former members.The certainty was total. The certainty was wrong.#HistoryMystery #HeavensGate #Cult #TrueCrime #HistoryPodcast