A chilling cult convinced 39 people to end their lives to “board an alien spaceship” for a new life among the stars.
The leader of Heaven’s Gate filled the minds of his followers with strange beliefs and, after an anonymous tip-off, police arrived at a mansion in a posh San Diego neighbourhood on this day (March 26) in 1997 to discover a horrifying scene.
Inside, they found the bodies of 39 men and women, all dressed identically.
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