On March 26, 1997; police received an anonymous tip that they needed to go to a mansion in Rancho Santa Fe, which was an upperclass suburb in San Diego, California in the United States.  When they walked in, they were shocked to see thirty nine people dead from what appeared to be a mass suicide.  They soon discovered that these men and women were members of a religious cult, whose leader told them suicide would allow them to leave their mortal coil behind, and allow them to enter an alien spaceship hidden behind a comet.

So buckle up my spooky friends…you are about to hear the dark tale of the Heaven’s Gate cult - but be forewarned.  Today we will be talking about mind control, and suicide.  Listener discretion is advised.

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