The Heaven's Gate Cult (1997)

I recently watched some of the old videos and they're a strange mix of being unintentionally funny, creepy and sad. How people could follow this obvious loony and commit suicide is beyond me. None the less kind of interesting, so I thought you might enjoy it. ;)

Some background info:

Heaven's Gate was an American UFO religious millenarian cult based in San Diego, California, founded in 1974 and led by Marshall Applewhite (1931-1997) and Bonnie Nettles (1927-1985). On March 26, 1997, police discovered the bodies of 39 members of the group, who had participated in a mass suicide in order to reach what they believed was an extraterrestrial spacecraft following Comet Hale-Bopp.