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b'Episode 234: On March 26, 1997, police found the bodies of 39 members of a religious UFO cult known as Heaven\\u2019s Gate in an 830 square-metre (9,000 square foot) home in Rancho Santa Fe, California, a San Diego suburb. All, including the group\\u2019s leader, Marshall Applewhite Jr., had died in a ritualistic act of mass suicide. The headline on the cult\\u2019s website, which remains online today, stated, \\u201cHale-Bopp brings closure to Heaven\\u2019s Gate.\\u201d Over the following weeks, as investigators probed what happened in the home, the story of the Heaven\\u2019s Gate cult emerged, each detail weirder than the next.\\xa0\\nI wrote about this story in my\\xa0first book, Murder Madness and Mayhem. I have always wanted to cover this on Dark Poutine. I have expanded on what I wrote, especially toward the end of the story, I get into more detail about the victims. The medium of a podcast also allows for other content, including audio clips from individuals involved in the case and other details I was otherwise unable to convey in the book involving Canadian connections which includes one of the victims, Erika Ernst, 40, who was from Calgary, Alberta. That\\u2019s right, this is not an away game.\\xa0\\nSources:\\nGet Help | Talk Suicide Canada\\nHeaven\\u2019s Gate \\u2014 How and When It May Be Entered\\nYouTube \\u2014 Heaven\\u2019s Gate Cult Initiation Tape Part 1\\nHeaven\\u2019s Gate : Federal Bureau of Investigation \\u2014 Internet Archive\\nVideo Anonymous Heaven\\u2019s Gate caller who directed police to mansion, 25 years after tragedy - ABC News\\nHeaven\\u2019s Gate, 25 Years Later: Remembering Lives Lost in Cult\\nCNN - Some members of suicide cult castrated - Mar. 28, 1997\\nHeaven\\u2019s Gate Survivor Lost His Soulmate to Suicide Cult\\nFacilitating You! \\u2013 You are the love you have been looking for.\\nErika Ernst (1956-1997) - Find a Grave Memorial\\nCult Test | Cult Escape | Are you In A Religious Cult?\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'