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This photo was taken right after a cult of 39 people committed mass sucide on March 26th, 1997. The cult was known as "Heaven's Gate" they believed that a spaceship following the "
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Stony Brook Undergraduate History Journal | Chocolate Pudding and Space Aliens: How the Heaven's Gate Cult Propagated
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