Most Crazy Cults!

[Bob26003]

Here is my entry: Heaven's Gate

Heaven's Gate (40) The only "doomsday-cult-web-design-team" of the Archives. On March 26, 1997, 39 members of "Heaven's Gate" decided to "shed their containers" and get on a companion craft hiding in the tail of the Hale-Bopp comet. The resulting mass suicide of 21 women and 18 men, ages 26 to 72, all sporting buzzcuts, dressed alike in trendy black pants, oversized shirts, and brand new black Nikes, was unlike any other mass suicide in the Archives. The dead, discovered by two sheriff deputies after an anonymous tip, were found in an antiseptic multi-million dollar mansion in Rancho Santa Fe, an exclusive community north of San Diego. They were all lying on their backs on cots and bunkbeds throughout the mansion covered with triangular purple shrouds with their hands to their sides in a prone position. Officers at the scene said it appeared, "as if they had fallen asleep."

The Heaven Gaters died in three shifts over a three-day period after celebrating their last meal on earth at a Marie Callender's in Carlsbad. 15 cultist died the first day, 15 the second and the remaining nine the third day. As one set of cultist ingested the poison, a lethal dose of phenobarbital mixed in with pudding and/or applesauce and chased with a shot of vodka, they would lie down and another cultist would use a plastic bag to speed up the dying. A frighteningly anal-retentive mass suicide, the cultist would clean up after each round of killing. Before the last two killed themselves, they took out the trash leaving the rented mansion in perfect order. Wanting to be helpful even after dead, all bodies had some sort of identification. Strangely, though, they also had five-dollar bill and change in their pockets and small suitcases neatly tucked under the cots and beds.

In their own special blend of millennial prophecy, the Heaven Gaters -- after watching too many episodes of the "X-Files" -- decided that, after 20 years of waiting, a spaceship flying behind the Hale-Bopp comet was finally coming to pick them up. As the Heaven's Gate web site cryptically states, "The joy is that our Older Member in the Evolutionary Level above human has made it clear to us that Hale-Bopp's approach is the 'marker' we've been waiting for. ... Our 22 years of classroom here on planet Earth is finally coming to conclusion 'graduation' from the Human Evolutionary Level. We are happily prepared to leave 'this world' and go with Ti's crew."

Ti refers to Bonnie Lu Trusdale a cofounder of the cult who died of cancer in 1985. The cult first surfaced as the "UFO Cult" in 1975 when Marshall H. Applewhite, a sexually confused music teacher and opera singer, met Nettles who was working as a nurse in a psychiatric hospital where Applegate was looking for a cure for his homosexual impulses. Years later, together with seven other members of the cult, Applegate was surgically castrated leading one to believe that he finally took care of those "bothersome instincts."

At first Trusdale and Applewhite became known as "The Two." They survived nomadically under different -- yet colorful -- names: "The Him and the Her Cult," "Bo and Peep," "Ti and Do, "Human Individual Metamorphosis," "H.I.M.," "Total Overcomers Anonymous," "Computer Nomads" "Higher Source," and finally, "Heaven's Gate." At one point they managed to amass more than 200 members as they crisscrossed the country holding meetings in public places, promising followers celestial bliss and a ride in a UFO. There was even a TV movie made about them called The Mysterious Two, starring John Forsythe and Phyllis Pointer. Prophetically, in a 1979 book called "Messengers of Deception," Jacques Valee quoted a woman who had met "The Two" saying: "These two people are dangerous. It is not hypnosis. It is thought transplant." (Thanks to our friends at 60 Greatest Conspiracies for digging up this little tidbit)

Heaven's Gate, and it's business branch, Higher Source, existed as a new-age blend of Christianity and ufology. In their last incarnation they proudly supported themselves by making web sites at cut-rate prices. In their web site, dubbed by Time Magazine the most elaborate suicide note in history, they state that suicide was wrong for nonmembers but an acceptable way for cult members to ascend to a higher level of life. There are other references throughout the site to the sieges at Waco, Texas, Ruby Ridge, Idaho. Adding fuel to the millennial mix, a purpose statement the group obliquely links a philosophy of bodies moving on to other levels to the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Allegedly Do claimed to have been born in a different planet and that his mission on earth was the same as that of Jesus. In a bizarre recruiting tape with messianic overtones Applewhite -- looking very much like My Favorite Martian with bugged-out eyes -- states that, "the planet is about to be recycled. The last chance to survive or evacuate is to leave with us."

In the Higher Source Web site, the group proudly proclaims that they are a sophisticated web site design company that offers programming, systems analysis, and computer security services, as well as Java and VRML. "We at Higher Source not only cater to customizing Web sites that will enhance your company image, but strive to make your transition into the 'world of cyberspace' a very easy and fascinating experience." Tom Goodspeed, manager of the San Diego Polo Club, who had the group design their Web site thought the did "excellent work" and were "very talented. "They were some of the most pleasant people I've ever worked with." Others thought they were harmless "space cadets."

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Edited December 21, 2007 by Bob26003

[sage0409]

Joshua Creffield in Oregon was a crazy one too.

[courage_now]

This is great reading.

I heard, and pleas correct me if I am wrong, they before (or after) the suicide that female cult members had their breasts cut off?

Also that there were also a few other cells in Cananda that topped themselves?

[~Cheese~]

Nice read but bizzare

[Walter Sullivan]

Here is my entry: Heaven's Gate

Heaven's Gate (40) The only "doomsday-cult-web-design-team" of the Archives. On March 26, 1997, 39 members of "Heaven's Gate" decided to "shed their containers" and get on a companion craft hiding in the tail of the Hale-Bopp comet. The resulting mass suicide of 21 women and 18 men, ages 26 to 72, all sporting buzzcuts, dressed alike in trendy black pants, oversized shirts, and brand new black Nikes, was unlike any other mass suicide in the Archives. The dead, discovered by two sheriff deputies after an anonymous tip, were found in an antiseptic multi-million dollar mansion in Rancho Santa Fe, an exclusive community north of San Diego. They were all lying on their backs on cots and bunkbeds throughout the mansion covered with triangular purple shrouds with their hands to their sides in a prone position. Officers at the scene said it appeared, "as if they had fallen asleep."

The Heaven Gaters died in three shifts over a three-day period after celebrating their last meal on earth at a Marie Callender's in Carlsbad. 15 cultist died the first day, 15 the second and the remaining nine the third day. As one set of cultist ingested the poison, a lethal dose of phenobarbital mixed in with pudding and/or applesauce and chased with a shot of vodka, they would lie down and another cultist would use a plastic bag to speed up the dying. A frighteningly anal-retentive mass suicide, the cultist would clean up after each round of killing. Before the last two killed themselves, they took out the trash leaving the rented mansion in perfect order. Wanting to be helpful even after dead, all bodies had some sort of identification. Strangely, though, they also had five-dollar bill and change in their pockets and small suitcases neatly tucked under the cots and beds.

In their own special blend of millennial prophecy, the Heaven Gaters -- after watching too many episodes of the "X-Files" -- decided that, after 20 years of waiting, a spaceship flying behind the Hale-Bopp comet was finally coming to pick them up. As the Heaven's Gate web site cryptically states, "The joy is that our Older Member in the Evolutionary Level above human has made it clear to us that Hale-Bopp's approach is the 'marker' we've been waiting for. ... Our 22 years of classroom here on planet Earth is finally coming to conclusion 'graduation' from the Human Evolutionary Level. We are happily prepared to leave 'this world' and go with Ti's crew."

Ti refers to Bonnie Lu Trusdale a cofounder of the cult who died of cancer in 1985. The cult first surfaced as the "UFO Cult" in 1975 when Marshall H. Applewhite, a sexually confused music teacher and opera singer, met Nettles who was working as a nurse in a psychiatric hospital where Applegate was looking for a cure for his homosexual impulses. Years later, together with seven other members of the cult, Applegate was surgically castrated leading one to believe that he finally took care of those "bothersome instincts."

At first Trusdale and Applewhite became known as "The Two." They survived nomadically under different -- yet colorful -- names: "The Him and the Her Cult," "Bo and Peep," "Ti and Do, "Human Individual Metamorphosis," "H.I.M.," "Total Overcomers Anonymous," "Computer Nomads" "Higher Source," and finally, "Heaven's Gate." At one point they managed to amass more than 200 members as they crisscrossed the country holding meetings in public places, promising followers celestial bliss and a ride in a UFO. There was even a TV movie made about them called The Mysterious Two, starring John Forsythe and Phyllis Pointer. Prophetically, in a 1979 book called "Messengers of Deception," Jacques Valee quoted a woman who had met "The Two" saying: "These two people are dangerous. It is not hypnosis. It is thought transplant." (Thanks to our friends at 60 Greatest Conspiracies for digging up this little tidbit)

Heaven's Gate, and it's business branch, Higher Source, existed as a new-age blend of Christianity and ufology. In their last incarnation they proudly supported themselves by making web sites at cut-rate prices. In their web site, dubbed by Time Magazine the most elaborate suicide note in history, they state that suicide was wrong for nonmembers but an acceptable way for cult members to ascend to a higher level of life. There are other references throughout the site to the sieges at Waco, Texas, Ruby Ridge, Idaho. Adding fuel to the millennial mix, a purpose statement the group obliquely links a philosophy of bodies moving on to other levels to the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Allegedly Do claimed to have been born in a different planet and that his mission on earth was the same as that of Jesus. In a bizarre recruiting tape with messianic overtones Applewhite -- looking very much like My Favorite Martian with bugged-out eyes -- states that, "the planet is about to be recycled. The last chance to survive or evacuate is to leave with us."

In the Higher Source Web site, the group proudly proclaims that they are a sophisticated web site design company that offers programming, systems analysis, and computer security services, as well as Java and VRML. "We at Higher Source not only cater to customizing Web sites that will enhance your company image, but strive to make your transition into the 'world of cyberspace' a very easy and fascinating experience." Tom Goodspeed, manager of the San Diego Polo Club, who had the group design their Web site thought the did "excellent work" and were "very talented. "They were some of the most pleasant people I've ever worked with." Others thought they were harmless "space cadets."

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Interesting. I have never heard of Heaven's Gate until I read about them in "Weird California". It's creepy that while I was watching the Hale-Bopp comet in the sky that night, these people were offing themselves.

[Mademoiselle]

Nice read but bizzare

You bet !!

[Melvinator]

jonestown was a pretty bad one. Well actually the biggest mass suicide ever.

[Atheist God]

All cults are just as crazy as the next whether it be the kool aid drinkers, christians or mormons.

[Veni Vidi Vici]

The most crazy cult is where complete nuts get married and have children, and when the children are born they ruin their brains so they all become schizophrenics like their parents. Like their parents were done by their own parents previously. When they do that they think that they become more powerful than normal people. They are some sort of antichrist - satanist cult.

The most damge they managed to create was in 1917, in Russia, where Lenin was a member of this cult, and started his revolution against the whole normla human race. He destroyed such fundamnts of human society as private propriety and monetary system. Not happy, he also prohibited using words and names created by Greeks and Latins, Making become Russia the desert land pof fools where poeple become completely out o ftheir mind.

Russia is even today ruled by the children of the members of this sect. It is unbelievable to know that exist real people that are able to commit anything horrible against human logic. They still ruin the brains of their children. They even have the major number of prostitutes, as girls in russia have all damaged brains becouse of their parent.

[Atheist God]

The most crazy cult is where complete nuts get married and have children, and when the children are born they ruin their brains so they all become schizophrenics like their parents. Like their parents were done by their own parents previously. When they do that they think that they become more powerful than normal people. They are some sort of antichrist - satanist cult.

The most damge they managed to create was in 1917, in Russia, where Lenin was a member of this cult, and started his revolution against the whole normla human race. He destroyed such fundamnts of human society as private propriety and monetary system. Not happy, he also prohibited using words and names created by Greeks and Latins, Making become Russia the desert land pof fools where poeple become completely out o ftheir mind.

Russia is even today ruled by the children of the members of this sect. It is unbelievable to know that exist real people that are able to commit anything horrible against human logic. They still ruin the brains of their children. They even have the major number of prostitutes, as girls in russia have all damaged brains becouse of their parent.

What country are you from?

Yeah people from all cults brainwash their children and so on even the big ones which we call 'religions' do this. Also I highly suggest you do some research on schizophrenia as well...

Even non-religious parents brainwash their kids, not always in a bad way parents instill their values into their children and so on. You don't need to be in some sort of obscure satanic cult to brainwash children.

Also I would like to see a source for the cult you mention and maybe some info on it and it's members.

[Shalott]

jonestown was a pretty bad one. Well actually the biggest mass suicide ever.

That one always comes to mind when I hear "cult." I watched a doco on it and it wasn't quite suicide, more bordering on homicide (least that's what survivors claim). Another that comes to mind is that Children of God/ The Family cult. Members children are made to have sex, under the age of 10 (even toddlers from what I recall reading ages ago), with other children and adults, even members of their own family. How any person can believe that's acceptable in the eyes of the god they worship is completely beyond me.

[HammeroftheGods]

The "Church" of $cientology comes to mind.

Read more here:

Operation Clambake

[Bob26003]

Should young Earth creationists be viewed as a cult?

Edited January 5, 2008 by Bob26003

[Marda]

Not sure if this has been posted

http://www.fox6.com/news/local/story.aspx?...0D&gsa=true

footage of the "leader" lecturing his followers

[MissMelsWell]

Another that comes to mind is that Children of God/ The Family cult. Members children are made to have sex, under the age of 10 (even toddlers from what I recall reading ages ago), with other children and adults, even members of their own family. How any person can believe that's acceptable in the eyes of the god they worship is completely beyond me.

Ya, those are the "Flirty Fishing" people. They're still around actually. All the Phoenix kids (River, Joaquin, etc...) were born in that cult, as was actress Rose McGowan. Apparently, their folks left the cult when they were quite young though. The group's been busted for pedophila (which they claim doesn't happen now), prostitution, kidnapping and a whole host of other repulsive activities. Supposedly, they're just crazed evangelizers now but it's debatable.