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Heavens Gate

Description: Religions group that committed mass suicide in 1997
File Code: heavensgate   Class: ufo
Location: USA
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Affiliation: Marshall Applewhite·(leader)
Disassociation: Solar Temple·(1)

Footnotes for Above: (1) Often mentioned together as suicide cults. 

Topics Other index pages on this server  UFO Spiritual Aspects@ (29 links) - People and groups making religious claims related to UFOs. <#7> Alien Walk-Ins@ (10 links) - Group leaders claimed that aliens had stepped into their bodies. <#20> End of the Millennium@ - Theories and Controversies <#32> Related People <#33> Art Bell@ - Cult's Hale-Bopp beliefs were linked to claims made on Bell's radio show. Cult's web site had link to Bell's. <#33.1> Whitley Streiber@ - Made Hale-Bopp claims on Art Bell radio show. <#33.2> Courtney Brown@ - Made Hale-Bopp claims on Art Bell radio show. <#33.3> Ruth Norman@ - Recently deceased leader of the Unarius Society, another So. Calif. group that expects alien contact. <#33.4> Rael@ - (Claude Vorilhon) Leader of Raelian religious movement that expects alien contact. <#33.5>

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Books available through our catalog

• Ufo Cults and the New Millennium: Discussed at length, from Christian perspective.
• The Gods have Landed: New Religions from Other Worlds: Article: "Waiting for the Ships: Disillusionment and the Revitalization of Faith in Bo and Peep's UFO Cult" by Robert Balch, p.137-166. Providing a history of the Bo and Peep cult written several years before their suicide. (Highly recommended.) Photo of the group speaking on a stage, and a copy of their handwritten flyer.

• Yahoo Link Page for Heaven's Gate - Extensive links regarding all aspects of event. <3/29 #10>
• CNN on Suicides - Many articles and links. <3/27/97 #2>
  • Other Mass Suicides in Recent Years - Article <3/27/97 #2.1>
• Other things in the Hale-Bopp Comet's Tail - Things we might have missed the first time around (1 pages) - Humor - By Jim Campbell - Published: 6/2/97 - Source: The San Leon EMS Page <6/7/97 #4>
• San Diego Media - TV and Newspapers. May provide more detailed reports on local developments. - Source: CityNet <3/27/97 #5>
• Newsgroup Searches <3/27/97 #9>
  • Postings by "rep@heavensgate.com" - Apparently a member of the group. - Search <3/27/97 #9.1>
  • Postings by "(watcher)" - Including many false hits. Look at Christianity-related sites. "(watcher)" may be a group member. - Search <3/27/97 #9.2>
  • Postings by "lah@heavensgatetoo.com" - Search <3/27/97 #9.3>
• Cult UFO belief may stem from Nevada radio show - Article describes possible links between suicides and claims on Art Bell's radio show. (11 para) - Article - By Matt Crenson - Published: 3/28/97 - Source: Las Vegas Sun (AP) (Newspaper) <3/28/97 #11>
  • Radio network, talk show host disavow any responsibility - Reaction from Art Bell and Chancellor Broadcasting Co. to suicides and their role - News article - By Robert Macy - Published: 3/28/97 - Source: Las Vegas Sun (Newspaper) - NV, US <3/29 #11.1>
    Bell: "People will say that it is my fault, but is the book of Revelations responsible for what that guy did at Waco? If it was their contention they were going to get a ride on the UFO, we're off to zulu land now"
• Ambassador Merlyn Merlin II+ - (David Solomon) "Alien ambassador" who is preparing Nevada for alien arrival at Area 51. <3/28/97 #17>
• Chuck Shramek+ - Amature astronomer; took photo of Hale-Bopp and alleged companion. <3/28/97 #19>
• AUFORA Commentary on mass suicides - Reaction to Rancho Santa Fe suicides - Article - Dissenting - By David Watanabe - Published: 3/29/97 - Source: AUFORA (Web Site) <3/30/97 #21>
• San Diego Union Tribune - Index of past week stories; free registration required. <3/30/97 #22>
• Church of the Subgenius on Cult Suicides - (Humor) <3/30/97 #23>
• The Cult of the Two+ - A report on an appearance of the group in Dallas in 1994. They called themselves the "Overcomers" and always spoke in groups of two. (16 para) - Message - By Yellowrose - Published: 3/30/97 - Source: Area 51 (Mailing List) <3/31/97 #24>
  • Part II+ - Continuation of report. - Message <4/4/97 #24.1>
• Heaven's Gate Mirror Website - A mirror website sponsored by Phantom Bookshop, Ventura, CA <4/6/97 #26>
• New Age UFO Cult Suicide Results in Confusion and Conspiracy - Watcher website (not related to cult) take on the whole thing, plus conspiracies and strange links: Whitley, Art, cults, thought police etc. - Dissenting <4/7/97 #28>
• A Response To The Heaven's Gate Suicides - A UFO Journalist talks about the religious confusion of the cult - By Sean Casteel - Source: UFO Journalist web site (Web Site) <4/8/97 #29>
• News at ground Zero (Clyde Lewis) - Internet Audio News report about Suicides and New strange praralelles overlooked by the media - Report <4/16/97 #30>
• Heaven's Gate mass suicide in California - An essay from the Indian Skeptic, plus links - Opinion - Dissenting <8/23/98 #35>

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Reader Comments

Regarding "Heavens Gate" - Latest First

I see eye. In my dialogs with IE /chornobyl nuclear matrix,nuclear incident connected with comet Halley,26,april,1986/ there is the state of ICI /suICIde/ 1,100,1 102 halflight abra= 204 or "darkening" of "voice of blood". Copmets are the superintelligence ICE, so some connection with HB and halflighting, flippering state of mand exist.\oxo.ura -- ura (shvaidak@yahoo.com ) 7/1/99 (#20)

Low Self Esteem I think we can all accept the notion that these people had low self esteems and needed a reason to live. A lot of people start believing in weird stuff cause they have too much time on their hands. -- Diaper (Diaper@iper.com ) 2/23/99 (#19)

What kind of computers were they using? (humor) If they were using a Mac Performa 575 they have an excuse for going crazy and killing themselves! No one has ever mentioned what computers they were using... I'd make a bet they had one just like mine! -- Karla Thomas (karla@mindless.com ) 7/8/97 (#18)

I just don't know what's goin' on!! I just wnat to know what was really going through those peoples brains at the time. I believe in UFO's and Aliens, but thinking you can make yourself one, stop, think, that is why the beings are here. It's there job. (Unless they really were aliens) Oooh, Scary. -- Nedrick the Jester 4/17/97 (#17)

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