On episode 20 of Tru Crym Podcast, we discuss the wild case of The Heaven's Gate Cult. In 1997, the horrifying discovery in the upscale community of Rancho Santa Fe, California, stunned not only the community, but the world. The UFO sort of New Age Group had committed a mass suicide. They believed that a UFO was traveling behind the Hale-Bopp comet and so they decided to leave their physical bodies behind to find life in an extraterrestrial “Kingdom of Heaven.” 

Sources:

https://allthatsinteresting.com/heavens-gate-cult

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnie_Nettles

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven%27s_Gate_(religious_group)

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/1998/hgate.review/applewhite/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrdQNh6bNco&t=10s

https://youtu.be/zGeulqZ_6E4