Marshall Applewhite

So, a-and, and it, it traveled, um, you know, out or past our, our view or whatever and moved on through the solar system and all that sort of stuff.

Uh, but there were some, uh, s- some, some people, there was a guy that used to, um, produce these, these videos, the Ha- the Hale-Bopp comet guy, Marshall Applewhite.

He was the leader of Heaven's Gates.

Uh, it was a religious cult, and you can Google this and, and look at this.

Th-this is a wolf in sheep's clothing, and I don't make any, um, I, I don't hesitate in saying that at all.

But there's a weirdness to this as well, a weirdness.

Nowhere near Marshall Applewhite.

If you watch the videos, the guy looks like a lunatic talking to the camera.

Dude, I mean, like, who walks up to a guy who looks like that? That guy looks like-

... every dude that just never leaves the horse track.

Like, every day he's gambling and he's just losing.

Several weeks later, I realized who it was when the news story broke about this cult called Heaven's Gate.

where like 44 people killed themselves under the leadership of their cult leader, Marshall Applewhite.

And that was him, whose book we signed and inscribed.

PS, shortly thereafter, after the bodies came out of the house, CBS had a show at the time, I think it only ran for season and a half season, called 30 Minutes.

At their jungle compound in Jonestown, Guyana.

And then we remember the Heaven's Gate was founded in 1974 by Bonnie Nettles and Marshall Applewhite.

The pair met in 1972 after Applewhite suffered a serious mental breakdown that required intense psychiatric care at an inpatient facility.

Well, that tells you a lot right there.

You've got to take everything into consideration when you're looking into this stuff.

According to their literature, Jesus Christ and the Holy Father are otherworldly creatures, evolutionary advanced beings sent to earth to instruct their followers in obtaining the next level of existence.

Heaven's Gate most famously refers to an American UFO religious movement led by Marshall Applewhite and Bonnie Nettles.

In March of 1997, 39 members participated in a ritualistic mass suicide in Rancho Santa Fe, California, believing that it would allow their souls to board an alien spacecraft traveling the Hale-Bopp comet.

We associate Heaven's Gate with the 1997 mass suicide, but the organization was already attracting enormous attention in the mid-70s when this episode aired.

Created in 1974 by Marshall Applewhite and Bonnie Nettles, Known to followers as Doe and Tie, the two leaders Nettles and Applewhite met in 1972 and went on a journey of spiritual discovery calling themselves the two witnesses of the book of Revelations.

This heaven's gate is also attached to Christianity.

Attracting a following of several hundred people in the mid-70s, in 1976, Christ, A core group of 50 or so members stopped recruiting and instituted a monastic lifestyle.

On March 22, 1997... 39 members of the Heaven's Gate cult passed away in Rancho Santa Fe, California.

Like Joseph DiMambro and Luke Jure, cult leader Marshall Applewhite promised his followers that they would find salvation aboard a UFO.

He claimed that once they left their physical bodies, they would begin to transform into their true forms, advanced extraterrestrial beings.

Not only that, but they would be beamed up to space, where they would continue to live on for eternity.

I'm a Jim Jones to the Shedeur fans.

I'm a Marshall Applewhite to the Shedeur fans.

I'm a, uh, Charles Manson to the...

Okay, we got it.