HERE are seven chilling details about the Heaven's Gate cult who believed they were "graduating" from Earth before a mass suicide. A new, two-hour documentary special, The Cult Next Door ...

The Heaven's Gate followers believed that God was an extraterrestrial ... Applewhite taught that "The Earth's present 'civilization' is about to be recycled -- 'spaded under.' ...

After three years of regimented life within the Heaven’s Gate cult, Rio DiAngelo walked away in 1997 because of a “disturbing” feeling that he needed to escape. One month later, he received ...

In the confusing rhetoric that surrounds this mystery, the victims spoke of themselves as being among the chosen, angelic presences who would escape the gritty bonds of Earth and rise to a ...

We see a video of an older man who calls himself “Do” talking about how it’s time for the followers of his Heaven’s Gate cult to leave the earth. The Gist: The first part of Heaven’s ...

Marshall Applewhite, the wacky leader of the Heaven’s Gate cult. “It doesn’t appear ... The group’s site describes their desire to leave Earth and rendezvous with a spaceship behind ...

"A fart was a "POOFOOFUS" (that we needed to only release in the "BATH CHAMBER," writes Sawyer, a former member of the Heaven's Gate UFO cult who chose not to, um, "ascend" from Earth in 1997 ...

“We know whatever happens to us after we leave our bodies is a step forward” — videotaped message by Marshall Applewhite, leader of Heaven’s Gate. Driven by the belief that the comet Hale-Bopp was ...

In an interview with Complex, two surviving members of Heaven's Gate alleged that Vert had taken ... with an animated earth seemingly in the foreground. There is a small message alongside the ...

SAN DIEGO (CBS 8) - It's been 20 years since 39 members of the Heaven's Gate cult were found dead ... it would be 'Last Chance to Evacuate Planet Earth Before it is Recycled,'" said ...