In 1997, thirty-nine members of the Heaven’s Gate UFO cult took their own lives — believing that their astral bodies would join with a UFO trailing the Hale-Bopp comet.
JANJA LALICH has studied and written about cults for thirty years, appearing in many documentaries on cultic groups and cult leaders. MARK from Talk Beliefs welcomes Janja back to the channel to talk about her own involvement in the Heaven’s Gate incident, and reveals details not heard in the recent HBO Max documentary, Heaven’s Gate The Cult of Cults.
