S4 Ep 7. Heavens Gate - The Cult of Cults - AHS Cult
Blue Murder Club · Carol Whiffen, Lauren Strutt
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Show Notes
Hello and welcome to this weeks show, and we have taken inspiration from American Horror Story Season 7, Cult.
Lozza and Cazza delve into the world of the 'cult of cults', Heavens Gate. This was an American cult that had began in the 1970's with co-founders Bonnie Lu Nettles and Marshall Applewhite. The two of them were very open minded to the New Age wave that had swept the US, and also had strong beliefs about extra terrestrial life. In fact the basis of the Heavens Gate cult was that once you had completed the Class and reached the Next Level you would board a spaceship and be carried off to heaven, which they believed was a physical place and that it was possible to see it if only there was a telescope powerful enough.
As the years went by and no spaceship arrived, the narrative of Heavens Gate evolves, especially after Bonnie Lu dies of cancer and then in the mid-90's the Hale Bopp comet arrives in the night sky and for the members of Heavens Gate this can only mean one possible thing, the spaceship has finally arrived to take them off planet Earth and away to the promised land.
They all believed that to reach the spaceship they had to leave their human 'vessels' behind and one by one they recorded goodbye messages and then committed mass suicide.
Your girls try to figure out why this seemingly harmless cult ended in such tragedy and take a look at the cult phenomenon in general.
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