Heaven's Gate

Marshall Applegate is pictured on video delivering a speech to his followers on why the time had come to "leave this earth". The cult, known as Heaven's Gate was told that the only way to leave this planet was to rendezvous with a spaceship that was trailing Halley's Comet, which was due to pass close to Earth in 1997.

On March 26, 1997, having gotten all of their personal affairs in order, his 39 followers calmly tidied up their compound and poisoned themselves in a massive suicide. Police found their shroud covered bodies all neatly laid out in their beds.