Anthony
Super Moderator
Twenty years ago this week, the world learned of a religious cult that committed a mass suicide in a home in Rancho Santa Fe mansion.
On March 26, 1997, police officers responded to an emergency call and found the bodies of thirty-nine members laying on mattresses. The members had committed mass suicide in order to reach what they really believed was an extraterrestrial spacecraft following Comet Hale–Bopp.
Officer Curtis was the first officer to the scene. “As they went in they kept finding more bodies and more bodies,” said Curtis. “It was an astonishing thing to them that they thought, ‘Is this ever going to end?’”
Heaven's Gate was an American UFO religious millenarian group based in San Diego, California. It was founded in 1974 and led by Marshall Applewhite and Bonnie Nettles.
Applewhite left a videotaped message in which he explained the self-sacrifice as a 'final exit' that would transport the members to a spacecraft tailing Comet Hale-Bopp. It would then pass by the Earth, to start the journey to heaven.
On March 26, 1997, police officers responded to an emergency call and found the bodies of thirty-nine members laying on mattresses. The members had committed mass suicide in order to reach what they really believed was an extraterrestrial spacecraft following Comet Hale–Bopp.
Officer Curtis was the first officer to the scene. “As they went in they kept finding more bodies and more bodies,” said Curtis. “It was an astonishing thing to them that they thought, ‘Is this ever going to end?’”
Heaven's Gate was an American UFO religious millenarian group based in San Diego, California. It was founded in 1974 and led by Marshall Applewhite and Bonnie Nettles.
Applewhite left a videotaped message in which he explained the self-sacrifice as a 'final exit' that would transport the members to a spacecraft tailing Comet Hale-Bopp. It would then pass by the Earth, to start the journey to heaven.