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Speaker 1: Welcome to the first Unexplained Extra. For the weeks in
Speaker 1: between episodes, we'll be taking a look at the stories
Speaker 1: that for some reason or other didn't make it into
Speaker 1: the show. For last week's episode, do you See what
Speaker 1: I See? We came across a story that demonstrates the
Speaker 1: sheer power of belief and how one man's interpretation of
Speaker 1: the arrival of the hail Bob comment led to the
Speaker 1: death of thirty nine people. The story begins in nineteen
Speaker 1: seventy two with a Houston born nurse named Bonnie Nettles.
Speaker 1: Nettles was in every way the typical suburban Texan, married
Speaker 1: to a local businessman with whom she shared four children.
Speaker 1: Some might say she had it all, but things, as
Speaker 1: they often are, weren't quiet as they seemed. The marriage
Speaker 1: had begun to deteriorate, during no small part to Bonnie's
Speaker 1: insistence that she had started receiving messages from a nineteenth
Speaker 1: century monk named Brother Francis. Nettles began attending seances in
Speaker 1: an attempt to converse with Brother Francis, and it was
Speaker 1: at one such meeting that she was given a message
Speaker 1: that would change her life forever. She was informed that
Speaker 1: she would meet a mysterious man with light hair and
Speaker 1: a fair complexion. Despite the cliched nature of the message,
Speaker 1: Bonnie became convinced that there was a guiding hand at play.
Speaker 1: Sure Enough, a few months later, Bonnie did indeed cross
Speaker 1: paths with a strange and mysterious man. His name was
Speaker 1: Marshal Applewhite. True to the message, Marsha was indeed tool
Speaker 1: with fair hair, and like Bonnie, he too had sensed
Speaker 1: a strange connection between them. Convinced of their mutual destinies,
Speaker 1: the pair agreed to leave behind the lives they'd known
Speaker 1: and set off on a journey of self discovery around
Speaker 1: the United States. It was on this journey that the
Speaker 1: pair claimed to have experienced an extraordinary awakening. Suddenly everything
Speaker 1: had become clear. They had been sent to Earth by
Speaker 1: an unknown race of extraterrestrials with a special mission to
Speaker 1: ascend to the level above human and to bring as
Speaker 1: many other people with them as possible. The pair changed
Speaker 1: their names to Tea and Doe and started to refine
Speaker 1: their philosophy, incorporating a fusion of new Agism, science fiction,
Speaker 1: and Christianity. In October nineteen seventy five, a nineteen year
Speaker 1: old California named Nuel Moore and his girlfriend Yanna Prucher
Speaker 1: came across a strange newspaper article. The heading read UFOs
Speaker 1: Where did they come from? And requested the attendance of
Speaker 1: all who were seeking meaning in their life. The advert
Speaker 1: was enough to entice the pair to hitchhike all the
Speaker 1: way to San Francisco to attend the meeting. Unfortunately, they
Speaker 1: arrived too late, but were thankful when two members of
Speaker 1: the group offered to drive them home. During the journey,
Speaker 1: David and Yanna learnt a bit more about the group,
Speaker 1: and in particular their enigmatic leaders T and Doe, Daniel,
Speaker 1: and Yanna had stumbled upon what would become known as
Speaker 1: the Heaven's Gate Cult. Yanna and Daniel returned the following week,
Speaker 1: and impressed by the magnetism and message that T and
Speaker 1: Doe were preaching, they agreed to join them, and many
Speaker 1: others followed, all seduced by T and Doe's ultimate promise,
Speaker 1: the granting of entry into the Kingdom of Heaven. Before long,
Speaker 1: the group had begun to attract considerable attention in the
Speaker 1: local press, and not much of it good. Fearing the
Speaker 1: negative attention, T and Doe decided that in order for
Speaker 1: the group to survive, they would have to cut off
Speaker 1: all ties with the familiar human world and take the
Speaker 1: operation underground. For the group members, this meant a strict
Speaker 1: adherence to a number of rules and regulations. They were
Speaker 1: ordered to cease all contact with family and friends. They
Speaker 1: were to keep to a rigorous program promoting their distinctly
Speaker 1: separate way of life, with every action regimented, from the
Speaker 1: way meals would be cooked to how a man was
Speaker 1: to shave himself. They would be given new names and
Speaker 1: would henceforth be collectively known as the Class. As an
Speaker 1: ex member of the group remarked the strict regime was
Speaker 1: designed to brainwash individuals in order to enable them to
Speaker 1: commit completely and absolutely to t and Doe's vision. In principle,
Speaker 1: they believed the body was nothing more than a vehicle
Speaker 1: for the soul, that the human experience was a temporary
Speaker 1: existence that ultimately holds us back from our true potential.
Speaker 1: To this end, every human habit and construction to be
Speaker 1: completely stripped away. All understanding of gender, emotion, and sexuality
Speaker 1: was rejected and egos obliterated in preparation for ascension to
Speaker 1: the next level. The eradication of sexual desire proved particularly difficult,
Speaker 1: with many of the men committing voluntary castration to overcome
Speaker 1: their natural urges, and so the group remained for a
Speaker 1: number of years until tragedy struck In nineteen eighty two.
Speaker 1: Bonnie Nettles was diagnosed with cancer after losing an eye
Speaker 1: to the disease. She later died in January nineteen eighty
Speaker 1: five at the age of fifty eight. For Marshall, it
Speaker 1: was a horrific blow, but somehow he had found an
Speaker 1: extraordinary way to rationalize it. Are you always taking care
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Speaker 1: had come to believe that t had not died at all,
Speaker 1: but had instead, in the process of passing over, picked
Speaker 1: up an angelic body with which to continue her life.
Speaker 1: He knew this, he told the group because although her
Speaker 1: body had died, she had continued to remain in contact
Speaker 1: with him, and that only he alone could interpret her messages.
Speaker 1: One such message was that T was planning to one
Speaker 1: day returned to Earth to pick up the rest of
Speaker 1: the group. It was an idea that became the basis
Speaker 1: for Marshall's ultimate plan. In the mid nineties, the group
Speaker 1: relocated to one eight two three nine Perseo Victoria in
Speaker 1: Rancho Santa Fe. They became self sufficient through a number
Speaker 1: of small businesses, including intriguingly website design. At some point,
Speaker 1: Doe's health had also begun to deteriorate, and after witnessing
Speaker 1: what had happened to T, he became convinced that he
Speaker 1: was also dying of cancer. And it was at this
Speaker 1: point that something changed. After years of social conditioning, all
Speaker 1: the members had come to accept that Doe was their
Speaker 1: literal savior. He had become nothing less than a god,
Speaker 1: someone they were prepared to do anything for. But more pertinently,
Speaker 1: Doe was the only man who had the power to
Speaker 1: grant them access to the next level and ascension into
Speaker 1: the Kingdom of Heaven. It became clear that time was
Speaker 1: running out, and things took a sinister turn in March
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety seven, as the hail Bop comet reached peak brightness,
Speaker 1: Doe approached the group with an extraordinary claim. Flying just
Speaker 1: behind the comet, unbeknownst to the rest of the world,
Speaker 1: was a UFO. It was t finally returning to collect
Speaker 1: them all. The class knew immediately this was their last
Speaker 1: chance to evacuate Earth before it was too late. In
Speaker 1: a remarkable series of videos still available online, you can
Speaker 1: watch the final messages recorded by the group, one after
Speaker 1: the other. They talked to the camera, smiling, relaxed, and
Speaker 1: even ecstatic at the thought of what awaited them. On
Speaker 1: March twenty fourth, the group visited a local restaurant for
Speaker 1: an all American dinner of iced tea, turkey, and blueberry cheesecape.
Speaker 1: It was to be their last outing together. Two days later,
Speaker 1: the San Diego Police Department received an anonymous phone call.
Speaker 1: It had been placed by a member of the group
Speaker 1: called Rio D'Angelo, formerly known as Richard Ford. He requested
Speaker 1: the assistance of police officers at a location that was
Speaker 1: well known to the San Diego Police Department, number one
Speaker 1: eight two three nine, Perseo Victoria. When the first officers arrived,
Speaker 1: they found a surreal and haunting scene. Laid out on
Speaker 1: beds and mattresses throughout the mansion were the bodies of
Speaker 1: all thirty nine members of Heaven's Gate. Each member wore
Speaker 1: black Nike trainers and was dressed head to toe in
Speaker 1: the same black uniform. On each of their left arms
Speaker 1: a small triangular patch with the notation Heaven's Gate Away
Speaker 1: Team written on it, and all had been found with
Speaker 1: five dollars and seventy five cents in cash on their person,
Speaker 1: an old habit they had adopted in case they were
Speaker 1: ever to get stranded anywhere and needed a bus home.
Speaker 1: Included amongst the bodies was that of a forty year
Speaker 1: old David Moore. After postmortem, it was found that all
Speaker 1: thirty nine members had died after voluntarily ingesting a concoction
Speaker 1: of alcohol, venobarabatol, and hydrocodone. It was the largest group
Speaker 1: suicide to ever have occurred in the United States of America.
Speaker 1: After all the others had been accounted for, Martial apple
Speaker 1: White's body was found in the master bedroom, seated at
Speaker 1: the end of his bed. After examination, it was found
Speaker 1: that he had not been suffering from cancer after all.
Speaker 1: All elements of Unexplained are produced by me Richard McClain smith.
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