News reports in the late 90s focused on their matching sneakers, androgynous hair, and their conviction that a UFO was following Hale-Bopp comet to pick them up and take them to live with Jesus somewhere far out in the galaxy. But behind the Heaven's Gate cult were a pair of Texans - a nurse and a choir teacher.

Resources //

• Eyes on Glory: Pied Pipers of Heaven's Gate

• Heaven's Gate: The Cult of Cults

• How Oregon shaped Heaven's Gate, one of the oddest fringe religions of our time

• Applewhite: From young overachiever to cult leader

• Heaven's Gate, 25 Years Later: Remembering 38 People Who Died with Cult Leader

• Which UA professor started a cult?

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