To sum up the cult's beliefs: "I don't want to live on this planet anymore"

@michielayers3692

Жыл бұрын

Can I sign up for that one?

@angelinaAGES

Жыл бұрын

@@michielayers3692 surprisingly enough there is still people who believe in HG so you're not the only one lol

@bugzy_brain

Жыл бұрын

tbh... fair

@SkepticalMantisCHANNEL10

Жыл бұрын

@@angelinaAGES there is a channel "3spm" that's run by ex Heaven's Gate member Sawyer. He still believes.

@PlutoPigeon

Жыл бұрын

Mood this planets fucked

I would be over the moon if you could do a deep dive of the Aum Shinrikyo cult that was behind the 1995 Sarin Attacks on the Tokyo Subway. They actually had some absolutely bonkers connections (same flight school as the 9/11 hijackers, were actually rather close to acquiring a nuke, owned a Russian military helicopter, etc.)

@soullesspinkamenapinkamena1747

Жыл бұрын

"over the moon" I think the heavens gate cult beat you to that xD

@PlazmaticBrony

Жыл бұрын

@@soullesspinkamenapinkamena1747 over the moon on their own LSD, only thing they were really good at XD

@soullesspinkamenapinkamena1747

Жыл бұрын

@@PlazmaticBrony x3

@BWalsh737

Жыл бұрын

This is a great idea @LoreLodge. Holla atcha boy.

@BWalsh737

Жыл бұрын

@@soullesspinkamenapinkamena1747 Ha. Well said.

In the early 2000s I had a ska band called "Marshall and The Applewhites"

@dbensdrawinvids8390

Жыл бұрын

Got any music left over?

@mrsflo580

Жыл бұрын

That's fantastic.😆

@marz5315

11 ай бұрын

@@dbensdrawinvids8390 No, sadly 😕

@Batwing20293

10 ай бұрын

Hell of a name, shame there ain't any music left

"Is THAT where this story is going?" *sigh* "EEYUP" Love these guys and everything they do!

@emperortrevornorton3119

Жыл бұрын

It is the funniest deer in the headlights sort of confused look as he said eeyup

@niceguynevermind999

6 ай бұрын

Lol

@ewrgaming

2 ай бұрын

“If your parents were around in the 90’s.” My parents were around in the 1950’s but I was born in 2001 lol

“And if you were thinking they got that name from Do Rae Me Fa So La Ti Do…” That is not at all what I was thinking but now I don’t know what else I could have been thinking.

@w1nterdays

Жыл бұрын

Do Re Mi Sol La Ti Do is actually what Solfège is(although So instead of Sol is also accepted)

I think that Count Dankula mentioned in his video, that the website is still up, because the only one who didn't commit suicide, was the web administrator, who was tasked with maintaining the site, as it documented their final journey, before ascending into higher existence, and without it there wouldn't be anything left to remind people of their existence.

@miscellaneousshadow7452

Жыл бұрын

That is true. He has a YT channel with music and Bible studies.

@FluffyJellyfishs

Жыл бұрын

genuine question. why the comma splices?

@franz.francisco

Жыл бұрын

good lord you need to learn how to use commas my friend

@Tom_Bee_

Жыл бұрын

I'm in a comma coma now. Thanks for that. The website is pretty interesting though. Weird to read how cogent completely insane people can sound. The page on PGP, for example, could be from any nerdy nineties website.

@MalloryKnox.

Жыл бұрын

Sue also spoke about it on one of her cooking videos once but just as a short reference

whoever did the graphic design work for them was good, that logo is iconic

@KaileyB616

7 ай бұрын

For real

@jumpingjeffflash9946

5 ай бұрын

their website is still up all these years later (2023)

@Somebodyelse141

Ай бұрын

They did their own graphic design. Idk if it was apple white or a member, but one way the cult earned money was through making it designing websites for companies. Source: another yt video on this cult

@KyaraPlays

Ай бұрын

​@@jumpingjeffflash9946whos maintaining it ? Didnt expect it to be allowed to still be up tbh

@jumpingjeffflash9946

Ай бұрын

@@KyaraPlays from what I understand some people of that cult were left behind to carry out their mission and spread their word etc. I"m told when I saw stuff on reddit that if you email them on that site they respond so someone is paying the ISP for that site, wild though...1997 they did their thing and it's 2024 now.

Oh, honey. Vasectomy has been common in the US since 1971. They didn't get vasectomies. They really did get castrated, and they went to doctors after trying to do an at-home version that went very, very wrong.

@terrideleon6350

2 ай бұрын

OMG😮

I was in high school in 1997, and I think the comet was a big deal because of how *visible* it was in the night sky. For nearly a week, you could see it when you looked up, and it was beautiful. You've unlocked a memory I have of looking at the comet through a school bus window, thinking about the news that some crazy people had committed suicide because of it.

@dena81

3 ай бұрын

I couldn't even remember why it was so popular I just remember it was all over the news about the comet. And then bam we hear about this cult centered around it

@davinaz6885

Ай бұрын

Woa, that must have been intense! Thanks for sharing!

@creatrixZBD

Ай бұрын

Also because it comes past only once every 86 years, so most people only get one chance to see it in their lives.

@williamthompson5504

Ай бұрын

I was in 11th grade in 97-98 and I remember the comet very well. I also remember Heaven's Gate and thinking WTF.

Just a quick note: castration is the removal of the testicles which takes away testosterone from the body. vasectomy is just cutting the tube that carries sperm to the penis so the testosterone levels are not effected. Very different things

@TheKirkYates

5 ай бұрын

I was looking for someone to comment on this haha i was like hold up

Heavens gate made their money being one of the largest early web developers. Something like 40% of early 90s websites were developed by Heavens Gate.

@BlueBonnie764

4 ай бұрын

What a waste, to follow this madman into HELL. 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Oh my God the Waco/Ruby ridge rant in the middle. That was hilarious

@TheLoreLodge

Жыл бұрын

I got carried away 😂

@johnnycaldwell8281

Жыл бұрын

@@TheLoreLodge I would like to request a full video on those. The ATF hasn't killed my dog yet but I'm afraid they maybe thinking about it.

@johnnycaldwell8281

Жыл бұрын

It's pronounced App ah latch ah.

@KelgorothTheFinalShape

Жыл бұрын

@@johnnycaldwell8281 ATF doesn’t intentionally kill dogs

@bugzy_brain

Жыл бұрын

@@KelgorothTheFinalShapethats the joke 👍

I was a freshman in college that spring. I was taking an intro to astronomy class, and the professor offered a trip to a working observatory (Lick Observatory, on a mountain above San Jose, CA) to whoever could find the most creative way to tell them they wanted to go. My contribution was called The Astroloid with the tag "Who needs truth when there's a whole universe out there to exploit?" and the second issue had the headline "Aliens apologize for misleading cultists" complete with doctored picture of a UFO behind the comet. Good times, man, good times.

Have you listened to the Heaven's Gate podcast? They interviewed surviving members and family members of victims. And the writer/narrator was part of a different cult, and brings a real sensitivity to the topic.

There seem to be two versions, from two different surviving members, as to the money. One was that the $5 was for covering the cost of vagrancy laws and the quarters were for calling home from pay phones. The other was that it was a reference to a Mark Twain story which said $5.75 was "the cost to ride the tail of a comet to heaven."

Just stumbled across your channel, good job! As someone that's been heavily in to cults for the last 25 years, I can tell you the reason they thought there was a spaceship in the tail of the comet was because someone on Coast to Coast AM back then phoned in and said as much. After the suicides happened, Coast to Coast did everything they possibly could to erase that episode from history.

@TheLoreLodge

Жыл бұрын

Coast to Coast sounds like an absolutely wild show

@raisinbigdaddykane9723

Жыл бұрын

@@TheLoreLodge You’ve never listened to it? I find that hard to believe.. Segues are hard. You think Applewhite was kin to former U of Texas semi-bust QB Major Applewhite?

@thenowchurch6419

Жыл бұрын

@@raisinbigdaddykane9723 Coast to Coast was bonkers. The Lore Lodge is a lot younger than we are bro.

@michaelallen3304

Жыл бұрын

If you haven’t heard of Coast to Coast you haven’t lived. Best nights of my life riding around listening to Coast to Coast.

@TheLoreLodge

Жыл бұрын

@@raisinbigdaddykane9723 never heard about it till I was about 22

The Hale Bopp comet was a big deal because you could just look up and see it hanging there with a beautiful comet tail. It was a beautiful, once in a lifetime event. (Also, vasectomy is not the same as castration...)

@Caddoan

10 ай бұрын

glad i wasnt the only one who caught that. BIG difference lol

@jaynestrange

10 ай бұрын

I was very little at the time, but I remember being able to look up & see the comet! Every night I would make my parents take me outside to look at it. It's weird to think that while I was experiencing the comet beautiful amazing thing there was a group of people seeing it as a sign to take their own lives.

@bloodyneptune

7 ай бұрын

I couldn't tell if it meant that he thinks the Heavens Gate members all got vasectomies and got the terms mixed up, or if he thinks a vasectomy means getting your bits fully chopped off 😂

@Transilvanian90

6 ай бұрын

Yup, Hale-Bopp was gorgeous. I was 7 at the time and fondly remember walking with my parents in the evening and witnessing it every clear night. It was a good year :)

As a child I lived in Rancho Santa Fe and remember my dad pointing out that plot of land where the suicides took place (the mansion has been torn down since it happened) it's unreal to think that something so tragic could occur right where I grew up.

@andrewb9708

Жыл бұрын

I lived on El Camino Del Norte for eight years. It's such a beautiful area.

@butchmikey

Жыл бұрын

i’ve lived in san diego my whole life and it’s still a spot everyone always points out to each other when your near there. definitely a bit of a tourist spot to.

as someone who emailed the contact on their website in 2014, i was responded to fairly quickly. they said they had been in the group for 12 years, and that they would be taken care of in the future. so at least as of 2014, there was someone real at the email and responding. we exchanged a few responses, and even now reading them back it seems human enough, not some kind of bot responder. always meant to check what year that had been, thanks for giving me a real reason to check lol.

@Mlotshaw1

Жыл бұрын

if they where in group 12 years in 14 means they where still recruiting after the incident

@miglek9613

Жыл бұрын

@@Mlotshaw1 they're literally not recruiting, the website administrator just stayed behind in order to keep the memory of the cult. Only Applewhite was allowed to innitiate anyone as he was the only jesus incarnate. Wouldn't be surprised if someone brainwashed enough to still believe in this after this many years of no community also has severe memory issues

@conyeezy8027

7 ай бұрын

They answered me last year answered fast as well they didn't say much but still responding.

@settame1

5 ай бұрын

As Dankula mentioned in his video there were a husband and wife that were tasked with maintaining the website by Applegate. There are still believers around - some who just didn’t live in the compound and weren’t told about the suicide (they were actually upset about being excluded but stayed with the cult).

@jongreen5638

4 ай бұрын

I'm not finding it quickly, but I recall reading or hearing a claim within the last year or so that there are more members now than at the time of Applewhite and Co's death. Not sure if it's true or not, but don't seem that far fetched

As a European Catholic your explanation of St. Francis was the most American Protestant thing I have ever heard

@pollyparrot8759

10 ай бұрын

True but Aiden is a Catholic 😄

@mikeindiacharliehotelalpha2373

10 ай бұрын

​@@pollyparrot8759The Church has imposed the penalty of excommunication on Catholics who become Freemasons. The penalty of excommunication for joining the Masonic Lodge was explicit in the 1917 code of canon law (canon 2335), and it is implicit in the 1983 code (canon 1374). Because the revised code of canon law is not explicit on this point, some drew the mistaken conclusion that the Church’s prohibition of Freemasonry had been dropped. As a result of this confusion, shortly before the 1983 code was promulgated, the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith issued a statement indicating that the penalty was still in force. This statement was dated November 26, 1983 and may be found in Origins 13/27 (Nov. 15, 1983), 450.

@TheChristianNomad

9 ай бұрын

To be fair, as a European Catholic, you are probably barely Catholic in any meaningful sense of the words. There are so few of them that I thought they were a myth until I was twenty.

@ericlee8231

8 ай бұрын

It's ok

@locusfilms3455

2 ай бұрын

As American no one cares my boy

My sociology teacher in high school managed to get the sister of one of the members of Heaven's Gate to come speak to us, and take questions. I remember nothing of what was said, nor her name, but I do remember it happening. This was in the late '00s.

When you said "Perhaps you were around in the 90s," my knees said ouch.

@komikbookgeek

3 ай бұрын

SO DID MINE. AND MY BACK

@jamisouthard9211

3 ай бұрын

Hilarious. I was just wondering if it's going to rain 🌧️ tomorrow 😏 what I couldn't get over with those people was the self castrations...I mean, Really!?!

@komikbookgeek

3 ай бұрын

​@@jamisouthard9211 I mean I think people assume we do it to livestock without an issue or doctor. They are wrong but.

16:39 That jump from "God gave him permission to use the car" to "He was jailed for six months" had me laughing for far longer than I had any right to.

Man, hearing something that happened my senior year of high school be described as a long ago event just makes me feel old....I'm only 43 damn it, that's not old!

... I haven't watched this yet... but I hope you mentioned that the Hale-Bopp comet appeared on the same night as the Phoenix Lights... which is why it was seen by so many people.

@godwarrior3403

11 ай бұрын

What's crazy is I scrolled past you at first at first and thought "He looks like a psychopath I once saw" and then I read your name.

I love how he went from 5 to 7 pages of notes to 20 to 30 pages of notes, now he does 50 to 80 pages or even more In His recent videos 😅 the lore lodge just KEEPS getting better

Art Bell on Coast to Coast AM was highlighting a conspiracy theory at the time that a UFO was following the comet, that's where Applewhite likely got the idea.

@watchdog8058

2 ай бұрын

yep, same thing i saw from a documentary i watched. cults fascinate me.

Super stoked about this one. The HG story has always intrigued me.

Soon as you mentioned Bonnie came from a Baptist family I knew I was in for a wild ride. I know it's a little extreme of an opinion but Baptists always felt like cultists to me. Growing up in the South it's hard to go far without running into them and they've always got the craziest takes I've ever heard.

@Starburst_Dreams

Жыл бұрын

I was raised baptist, I'm not anymore, but I can confirm this. It's horrifyingly similar to a cult. ESPECIALLY Freewill Baptists.

@leahdavis9434

Жыл бұрын

That's southern baptists, they're not quite the same thing as baptists, which I am

@vaporslash7920

Жыл бұрын

@@leahdavis9434 I mean agree to disagree. I'll admit southern Baptists are the worst of it but you've still got people like at the Westboro Baptist Church going batshit as well. And I mean hey maybe your church is fine, I'm not saying every baptist church is nuts, but as a whole? It's all very cult-like.

@J40JesusIsLord

Жыл бұрын

@@leahdavis9434 I'm Primitive Baptist, there was a big split in the 19th century where much of the Baptist Church began adding extra biblical offices and organizations and went off the deep end, the PB's wanted to keep things as they were and ended up having to separate (Black Rock Address).

@juneannbrusie2042

Жыл бұрын

@@leahdavis9434 you also believe in an invisible man who lives in the sky so sorry you are just as crazy as every other religious person. All religions are cults

Something I sincerely appreciate about this channel above all other channels I've seen that cover these kinds of topics and they just focus on on purely the facts pertaining directly to what happened; I like that lore lodge does this, but with a far more complete look at what the times were like back then and the other effecting factors that were going on in the world at that time, like in this one he brings up WACO and the hippie movement. It really genuinely helps to paint a greater more complete understanding of the topic in ways that I sincerely appreciate. As a long time true crime and mystery fan, this channel is awesome and I'm binging all your videos!

My dad nicknamed me after this comet because it appeared two months before I was born. Whenever I tell people this fact, they go “soooo the comet that crazy cult killed themselves to be on?” And I’m like “YEP, that one.”

I always appreciate people spreading the knowledge that the ATF will and have already slaughtered innocent people without a second thought, too many people think the government won't kill them in a heartbeat

@firefancy9928

7 ай бұрын

It's insane that we pay their taxes and make sons for them to send to the wars they like to have, but it's all for nothing.

@komikbookgeek

3 ай бұрын

I know right? I joke that these statements are why my background checks are taking longer but I'm not really joking

Just a small critique not really part of the story, but the hippie movement had died before the mid-70's. The phrase "the 60's ended in 1973" is a reference to that. The 70's definitely were a decade of weird and often hilariously awkward new-age things, and some of those definitely were repositories for former hippies, or people still holding on, but to say that the mid-70's was the central point of the hippie movement is categorically false and just widly untrue. The hippie movement didn't even really last a decade. It began somewhere in the early-mid 60's, and petered out probably after the deaths of Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Jim Morrison in '71. So, the aforementioned phrase about the 60's ending in 1973 is probably apt. In some ways I think Woodstock was actually probably the peak, although that might be more for the movement as a whole with factions like Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters living their heyday a few years or so before that along with the Grateful Dead and the Haight-Ashbury scene. Ray Manzarek of the Doors commented before that in the 60's taking drugs was all about mind-EXPANSION and exploring different philosophies whereas in the 70's it was just about getting loaded. Totally different mindset. Although there was some real beauty that came from the hippie movement of the 60's, it lasted probably about as long as it should have and has gotten more credit and positive publicity than is really deserved.

i’ve been wanting to watch this since it dropped. been CHILLIN in “watch later”. finally clicked today and was NOT disappointed. great video man

Out of all the bonkers ideas Marshall had, "heaven is actually when you become a project manager for God" is one of the weirdest because... Who would want that? You die, and your reward for living a good life (and following whatever religious teachings you are supposed to) is to become a middle manager???

@r-pupz7032

Жыл бұрын

I know that isn't the most outrageous or insane, but that really stuck out to me because it's so banal and unappealing lmao

@shanntastical4968

4 ай бұрын

Seriously, heaven apparently is all work and no play. Sounded awful.

I know this is a year old so it doesn't matter what I write, but I will anyway. The part you said right at the end is interesting (and important) ...because what does "be careful" look like? I've known cult survivors, and they are extremely disillusioned to the point where they trust no-one. Just like with Bonnie's family, those that break out of cults often have left (and are forced to leave) a huge amount of pain and damage behind, because at some stage you have to challenge both groups: fundamental beliefs about the world in your previous life when you join, and then your cult life when you leave. There aren't really... tips for how to know who the right or wrong people are, and if your friendship group is entirely the "wrong" people, and you realise that... who do you turn to? Are you going to step out, all on your own? That's one of the reasons extremist groups are so solid, and why they tend to be built up of those without much capital. I think the answer to a lot of questions around Heaven's Gate is the sunk-cost fallacy. Marshall experienced that too- he felt he had no way to continue except to double down. In terms of followers, these people left college, probably with student debt, and threw a lot away. Just as they had nothing tying them down, they had no future, so they had to believe the lies even as they got more convoluted. It's how gambling works- you can have $1 left from $1mil and still spend it because you never know, that million might just reappear.

I remember hearing about this as a kid. Appreciate all the research you put into these.

Born in 97. Man I am getting old. Looks like a cool channel subbed and look forward to going through these. I was 11 and I remember this because I grew up in Texas.

my favorite part of the entire experience that is watching this youtube channel is clicking on the video knowing that im going to be struck in the face by the most mind boggling string of words that can be formed. i also learn stuff so thats nice too

By the way, surgical castration is astronomically different from a vasectomy. A vasectomy is just surgical male sterilization. You keep all your parts and they still function, but your vas deferens is no longer connected. With surgical castration, they are literally becoming eunuchs, which does sterilize them, but they also no longer have their testes and suffer extreme hormonal changes. They may have even taken it further than that and had their members removed, but I can't find details online.

@flomojo2u

Жыл бұрын

Exactly! I was yelling at the screen when he said that, VERY different operations.

@alexandralamberton5615

Жыл бұрын

A vasectomy basically makes your testicles wireless

@MarvinHartmann452

Жыл бұрын

I wouldn't like my doctor to confuse the 2.

When I heard about Heaven's Gate as a kid and I heard that that cult thought aliens were coming to pick them up or something, I immediately thought that Jesus was an alien himself and I kinda went with that idea as a story writing thing. I mean granted it sounds kinda like a wierd ass hyped up conspiracy theory one might make up when doing a lot of drugs or something but at the same time it kinda sounds like a cool sci fi metaphor for religion like what CS Lewis did with the Narnia series :)

@stevencooper3202

Жыл бұрын

Anyone who is versed in theology and ancient religious texts knows that the link between aliens and divine beings is there. Look into the Sumerian religion. There religious beliefs are very ufo cult.

The website is maintained by two members that were left behind with the mission of maintaining it in order to keep the information available to anyone interested in their religion.

@CathysouthwesternColors

Жыл бұрын

That is actually not true. The two individuals that took over the website were kicked out of the group in 1987. The website was left to another member who was out of the group at the time they left. His name was Rkkody, he maintained the website until he too left in 1998 then the two people who now run it sued Rkkody's daughter and lied to the Judge to highjack the website from her. They were NOT left behind to do anything. Like I said, they both got kicked out of the group back in 1987.

@katinvestor

7 ай бұрын

Yep. This is true.

Try the Tablow "Mt. Pocono" coffee, folks. SO good! Regarding the HG cult, it was such a tragic waste of life. I remember being stunned when the news of the suicides first came out. These megalomaniacs gained power over (and control of) people who, for whatever reason, were swayed into believing in the snake oil they were selling. I know members are still alive and well. It is my hope that they evaluate and reconsider their belief system. Thanks for video, Aidans. Hugs

@mariawhite7337

Жыл бұрын

Oh yeah. It's hard to remember that there are members still living. They are the ones that keep the website up and running in fact. And keep it as it is in all of its 90's glory.

@LadyValkyri

Жыл бұрын

@@crlody3045 I bought it, I liked it. I don't get any compensation or make any money for saying that. I suggested people try it. Jeez. I've got no marbles in the game, so I'm not peddling anything, friend.

The reason I love your channel so much is you go so on depth in everything then occasionally trail off on something random, and it always very interesting to me simply because it was random.

I knew an organist who work with him in a church in Houston. Applewhite was told by the minister he must see a therapist to keep his job. He refused. This was shortly after he left St Thomas.

@corning1

Жыл бұрын

See a therapist why?

@firefancy9928

7 ай бұрын

@@corning1 I have no facts, but i would imagine it could have been conversion therapy, seeing as it was the 70s.

Medievalist here! I don’t mix up Francis and Bernard, but I do mix up Constantine and Charlemagne. Just their names though, not what they did.

I heard that they found another suicide victim a few days later, he was under the sink behind the comet

@treydelaspades3543

Жыл бұрын

*ba dum tss*

@zillybeth

9 ай бұрын

Ha ha ha

O. M. G. I literally thought you said they studied the works of Artie Lange. Who would have known they were Stern Fans?... Wow, that was hilarious 🤣

@kiwik2951

Жыл бұрын

I was surprised too!! Didn’t even know Artie was that old!!

@marz5315

Жыл бұрын

I'm so glad I'm not the only one that caught that 🤣

After listening to The Last Podcast on the Left’s multi-part series on Heaven’s Gate, I can’t help but hear Henry’s impression of Bonnie every time she is mentioned or shown.

The videos just keep getting better and better man. keep up the good work!

If your anti-heirarchy group has a leader, that's a bad sign.

This was really good. Heaven's Gate is fascinating and mad even by cult standards and I knew quite a lot about how it all went south, but the closer look you gave to the origins and background were great.

If any of you are ever in Savannah, GA, the Graveface Museum has some artifacts from Heaven's Gate. As well as a bunch of other things related to cults and serial killer. There's some graphic crime scene photos in parts of the museum, so if that's not your jam, maybe skip the upstairs displays.

@watchdog8058

2 ай бұрын

thanks! would love to check out the museum…

l grew up two streets over from the house in The Ranch when this went down and I had moved up to LA to work in a prop house. I first heard it on the radio (yeah, I'm That Guy who drives around listening to the news station). I have never called my mother so fast in my life! She was losing her mind over how many Rollers were up and THEN came EVERY coroner's van in the county -- and I know where the county morgue is, they are not equipped to handle that many "no longer with us" people in the history of San Diego County. I showed up on the weekend and they were STILL going through that house! Rancho Santa Fe is the Beverly Hills of North County. It truly is full of Rich Weirdos and Upper-Middle class (yeah, that was us, I admit it) yahoos and 'who did what to who' ricochets around there in about 20 minutes. Also, always good to know the local LEOs, The Ranch is in the County and does not have a local PD, the sheriffs handle it. My buddies were both retired, showed up anyway, and we had front row seats from the "Yep, we just walked right in, you are NEVER going to believe this!" retired Rollers of SD County. (who then showed up at our place after they left the scene and drank a bunch of coffee.) It was nuts from start to finish. We STILL have no idea how they managed to scrape up the dough (okay, I made an unintended joke there, sorry) to rent that place. Those houses go for a mint. (we basically lived in the very tame, very not rich section of RSF) But I assure you, EVERYONE knows EVERYBODY else's business there. THIS was a Blockbuster!

Excellent video, watched it last night. Well presented and engaging, find heavens gate a fascinating subject.

@zillybeth

9 ай бұрын

Me too amazing

I hope your account blows up way more so that a decade from now some iPad kid sees this video and their parents weren't even around in the 90's

Great video as always gentlemen

@TheLoreLodge

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

That thumbnail is sick, love it

Just found this channel, great presentation! Liked the analysis showing the similarities between HG and older heresies. Btw the King James Version that is used today is the 1769 revision from the original 1611.

I drove back a lane to watch.Hale- Book. I've now lived at the end of that lane for 10 years.

Great vid lads ❤ that closing statement was really good.

Marshall Applewhite's son was my 8th grade science teacher.

@shanntastical4968

4 ай бұрын

Was he weird? Did he mention his father? I need to know deets! Like he was straight up completely abandoned by his father so I can assume there’s some resentment there.

@seanwilson6690

4 ай бұрын

⁠@@shanntastical4968he was your average man. He was very religious and wasn’t shy about it. He never talked about his father, but it was 8th grade. It would have been weird if he talked about that stuff with 12/13yr olds.

@watchdog8058

2 ай бұрын

poor family! they were victims too. hope they are ok.

I came here for a documentary.. This is way more amusing and entertaining also informative. I'm happy I found this channel.

🇰🇷 I just stumbled onto your channel yesterday evening, and I've been binge watching your uploads ever since. Your ability in narrative teaching is quite impeccable, and is perfection in balancing and in utilizing knowledge, intellect, and just enough dry humor (which has become a sort of an anomaly in itself) to keep your viewers tuning in and staying engaged, being able to learn things we may/may not have known already (commendable either way, nonetheless) take something away from your videos long after clicking off, and coming back for more, is such a refreshing and respectable rarity. To say a simple cliche "great work" would be doing your work injustice, but for lack of better words, just know I'm only saying "great work" cuz I'm in a hurry to continue watching this video above its comment section. I would ❤️ to see you do one on *Ruben (The Hurricane) Carter* and *The Russian 💤 Experiment* ☺️

Cool video. You got a few things a bit wrong. But 95% spot on. Well done!!!

Someone is updating the Heavens Gate. There were 2 people left specifically to update the website.

@CathysouthwesternColors

Жыл бұрын

Not true, those two people were kicked out of the group in 1987. They want people to think they were tasked with it but they were out of the group for 10 years. I know all this because those two yokels are suing my partner and I right now in federal court. Soon all their lies will be exposed and all the information the group left behind will be made public!

@katinvestor

7 ай бұрын

Yes, they like to sue and keep others quiet

They didn’t get castrated in Mexico. They put a “Mexico” sign on a building so they could tell authorities the procedure’s happened in Mexico. Excellent video and very captivating.

@Rick_Cleland

Ай бұрын

😦😮😮

You are so funny. That opening line..... I laughed out loud. Thanks.

I remember when this happened, I was a junior in college. I was a freshman in college when Waco happened and starting my junior year of high school when Ruby Ridge happened. The cabin the Weavers lived in was home to six people: parents Randy and Vickie, and children Sara, Samuel, Rachel and Elishaba. Elishaba was a baby and in her mother’s arms when Vickie was murdered. Randy and his three daughters survived.

Aaaaaay we’re the same age, I was born in 97 as well!! Wow you’re doing cool things with your life like making an insanely cool podcast, and I’m…unemployed and depressed ha ha ha

Your mention that Applegate taught at the University of Alabama made me chuckle, I’m currently a biochemistry student at UA (roll tide!!!) and my dad studied and then worked there for 11 years too!! I finally get a bit of UA lore to tell him about and not the other way around. Too bad my dad didn’t start there until the 80’s, so they would never have crossed paths

Such a good video, subscribed

“Or, perhaps, *you* were around in the 90s” Ow

This cult has a lot of similarities with Love Has Won. Not the same by any means, but enough in common to make you think.

The Timesuck podcast did an episode on this a while back, and covered the meaning behind the cash left behind and contacted the members that are still alive.

Not meaning to sound like I’m fact checking, but the vasectomy procedure was being done in the US from the mid 70’s. By the late 80’s, it was being done in the doctor’s office as opposed to tubal ligation being done in the operating room. By the early 90’s, both procedures could be reversed with an outpatient procedure. Also, sterilization and castration are the same thing.

This video is top tier, for a bunch of reasons Thank you

I will never understand how people fell for Applewhite. Not that I don't understand how people fall for cults in general; that's natural, if pitiable and unfortunate. But looking at Marshall Applewhite's face, good God, it would make a child scream!

I had a math teacher in high school who spent my freshmen year all the way up through most of my sophomore year going on and on about Heaven's Gate and Hale Bopp comet, and how we should not write off what they said about a UFO following the comet. Once he got started he would just keep going and going, some of the kids in class used it as a way to avoid doing actual math work, he got suspended for I believe it was a week my freshmen year because a few parents complained. It came to a head a few weeks before the news that the cult had killed themselves and the school final had to let him go because not only was he spending more time talking about the cult and the whole UFO behind the comet then teaching but he was also making some students just plain uncomfortable and parents where not happy at all.

I"ve...watched this video a few times. I dunno why I like listening to this while I'm at work.

Hey dude. There is a youtuber called Count Dankula. He has a vid on these guys too. He actually managed to make contact with the woman running the site..

Fun Fact: St. Francis of Assisi is also the patron saint of home repair. (I found this out christmas eve when our pipes burst and we were trying to get it fixed.)

"Or your parents were around in the 90's, or perhaps you were around in the 90's"... Ouch! Reminder of how old I am there 🤣

You mean earlier. Waco was '93. HG was '97. So, yeah, he did have reason to believe they might be coming for him.

Simon Whistler did a good deep dive on the cult I think on Into the Shadows or Decoding the Unknown, they each had 5 dollars in either nickels or quarters in their pockets and wore a certain style of Nike shoes etc. it’s pretty interesting to hear the odd small details and the speculation behind those minor odd details. Dankula has a video on it too that’s pretty interesting.

I have been obsessed with this cult for a good few years

I sat in my back yard and watched the Hale-Boo comet, very cool!!

You know, if you believe in the word of a book that is so convoluted that you have to reccomend that people don't even try to interpret it.... you should probably think twice about why you believe it.

I'm friends with Sawyer a 19 year member of the Heavens Gate Cult. He has a KZread channel called 3spm. - If your wanting more information

It's a pleasure to have found a group that not only does what thorough research they can, but are educated enough to use terms correctly, like orwellian, and properly says Revalation(non-plural).

I love your channel ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Wild how you can hold someone against their will without them really realizing they can’t leave

You just dragged up a childhood worth of memories where we lost TV because it stormed 😂😅

I grew up in the 90’s, the fear of Stranger Danger had somewhat subsided. We were post Cold War but pre 9/11…it truly was a magical time to be a teenager!

@shanntastical4968

4 ай бұрын

I feel like stranger danger was huge, at least for me. America’s Most Wanted was “family night” haha I always was afraid of being kidnapped.

“Buckle up buttercup, we’re going hard.” ( 1:21 )

Gross ever simplification ox Ruby Ridge and Waco. No one tried to murder the cult members except for Koresh. Love your content! Thorough.

The fact that there’s estimated to be around 4 members still alive who still believe in it.

@13:09 *In my head* “The Seagulls, the poke ed my head, not fun”

Hale-Bopp was a big deal because it was clearly visible in the night sky to the naked eye for a year and a half, even in urban areas, where light pollution may be a problem. It was kind of a "once in a lifetime" situation

@alexandralamberton5615

Жыл бұрын

I was 3 but I still have vague memories of watching it on the roof with my parents

Grew up 15 minutes from the the house and it was in my aunts neighborhood. It horrified me as a child but it also intrigued me as I also listened to coast to coast going to sleep. Like why and what if you know?