In 1997, 39 Heaven’s Gate members died in a mass suicide, dressed in black with $5.75 in their pockets, believing they’d board a spaceship trailing the Hale-Bopp comet.
Thursday, 13 Mar 2025
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I believe their website is still up and running. Some members “stayed behind” to maintain everything
Turns out the toll alone was $5.76 so they weren’t allowed in.
Two decades ago, on a quiet Sunday in southern California, an emergency call came in so bizarre it barely registered as credible. The dispatcher who answered treated it with the seriousness of a petty nuisance.
The anonymous caller, using a payphone, claimed that dozens of people had died by suicide in a sprawling Mediterranean-style mansion nestled in Rancho Santa Fe, an affluent suburb of San Diego.
Hours later, sheriff’s Deputy Robert Brunk cautiously stepped inside the home, only to confront an unnerving tableau of orchestrated death.
Source:
https://thartribune.com/heavens-gate-the-cult-that-left-earth-for-the-stars-and-never-returned/
People are weird
Weird Nike add.
Fresh to death in them nikes😎
I’ll only charge 5.70 for a trip in my spaceship. Send me a fax.
Sincerely
Skeletor 💜
When the ticket price is too good to be true…well it is too good to be true.
Fun fact: Heaven’s Gate went out with no debts, caught up on rent and utilities and even paid their library fees.
They cut their nuts off too. Let’s not forget the desacking.
I picture a reseller digging up graves to get to those crispy ‘Heavens Gates’ Nikes 😅
“Applewhite and a handful of male followers even underwent castration to demonstrate devotion.”
One of the best combinations of extremely funny and incredibly poor taste was the SNL sketch with Will Ferrell as the Heaven’s Gate leader Marshall Applewhite broadcasting live from the spaceship.
“I gotta tell you, when I set down that glass of phenabarbatol, I had a moment of “Marshall! Not good!” But I knew then it was go-time, so I said, “What the hell?” and rolled the dice, and guess what? We came out on top, and it feels pretty darn good, right gang?”
Wonder if they said oops afterwards when the spaceship didn’t show.
Poor delusional bastards.
Their website is still operating and still has the final warning sign flashing up too to let the others in different states know it was time
Curtain people were selected to stay behind and spread the knowledge of when the next boarding would be
I’ve contacted them before and it’s an older couple who still sell the literature and VHS tapes for those looking for knowledge
One of the creeper holes I dug into as a teenager was pretend to be interested and gained their trust
Are those shoes new.
I never could understand how anyone could see a picture or video of Marshall Applewhite and follow this guy across the street much less die for his babbling BS. The dude had bat-shit crazy beaming from his eyes.
What if it worked? Would we know??
I used to live in Del Mar right around the corner from this place, and now the fire department uses the buildings to do practice. There’s no form of barrier around the building, so my stupid friends & I decided to check it out after a long halloween night in the city. Everything is still in there, bunk beds & all; the power was shut off, and the pool in the center was drained and we were smoking weed sitting at the bottom. We hoped to find a pair of shoes, but the place was functionally cleaned out aside from furniture & random stuff. A bird/bat thing flew out of a corner of the bunk bed barracks & everyone jumped, and my buddy that ran track that was outside the building was over the fence & off the property before the rest of us even knew where he went. We looked for him for a few minutes stoned, and until we saw his phone light by the road we thought he’d vanished into thin air. He called us after about 5 minutes while we were looking for him and my friend answered with, “So what’s it like up there?” and we broke down laughing. The pool has lots of little scribbles clearly done by people who have done the same thing. Looks like it would’ve been a really beautiful place back in the day, and it stands out now as some kind of haunted dilapidated mansion in an otherwise extremely high end area about a mile or so from the ocean surrounded by yoga studios & golf courses.
What would aliens do with US currency
Tickets were supposed to be $5.75??? They were left behind because ticket price was raised to $5.99.
I remember that following morning at work. We were discussing if the cult members were right. Also the Phoenix lights happened the same year, 1997.
Joke is on us. These folks are traveling the galaxy on a cruise, having the time of their eternal lives!
Who the hell is up on Christmas morning posting about cults?
What kind of weirdo is commenting!?
….wait
They existed for a long time as a harmless pseudo-christian UFO cult, and only transitioned into a >!suicide!< cult after the death of Bonnie Nettles, aka ‘Ti’.
Their most successful membership drive was the one in which they said, in no uncertain terms, exactly how they planned to leave the planet. Do with that knowledge what you will.
Just Do It.
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People are gullible and stupid. The end.
The spaceship ticket price went up to $6.00 so nobody got to board, so it ended up being mere suicide.