S1E4: Doomsday Cults

In the fourth episode of Season 1, your host JD Horror brings you tales of Doomsday Cults led by religious madmen.

Case #1: Entering Heaven's Gate - The faith in an apocalypse brought on by the Hale Bopp Comet and an Alien Jesus inspire Marshall Applewhite to lead 39 members of the Heaven's Gate cult to commit mass suicide. (Marshall Applewhite/Heaven Gate's Cult, Rancho Santa Fe, CA)

Case #2: King of the Hill - A spiritual guru's search for God leads to cruelty, the torture of his followers, and an attempted necromantic ceremony that would shock the world. (Roch Theriault, Burnt River, Ontario, Canada)

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In the fourth episode of Season 1, your host JD Horror brings you tales of Doomsday Cults led by religious madmen. Case #1: Entering Heaven's Gate - The faith in an apocalypse brought on by the Hale Bopp Comet and an Alien Jesus inspire Marshall Applewhite to lead 39 members of the Heaven's Gate cult to commit mass suicide.

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