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HEAVEN'S GATE KILLED THEMSELVES TO CATCH HALE-BOPP
Heaven's Gate, led by Marshall Applewhite, combined Christian evangelicalism with New Age beliefs and an obsession with astronomy, particularly the Hale-Bopp comet. In 1997, 39 members committed mass suicide, consuming poison to "graduate" to an alien spacecraft supposedly hidden behind the comet, avoiding Earth's apocalypse.
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HEAVEN'S GATE KILLED THEMSELVES TO CATCH HALE-BOPP
Heaven's Gate, led by Marshall Applewhite, combined Christian evangelicalism with New Age beliefs and an obsession with astronomy, particularly the Hale-Bopp comet. In 1997, 39 members committed mass suicide, consuming poison to "graduate" to an alien spacecraft supposedly hidden behind the comet, avoiding Earth's apocalypse.