HBO released its four-part documentary to examine the Heaven’s Gate cult, which is notorious and is one of the largest collective suicides in human history.

The new hit series includes new footage and first-person narratives from those who have survived the destruction caused by the UFO cult.

The legend of the Heaven’s Gate religious group inspired by Star Trek began in 1972, when former music professor Marshall Applewhite (Marshall Applewhite) was in a psychiatric hospital with a woman named Bonnie Nettles. The nurse becomes a friend.

Applewhite, the son of a nomadic Presbyterian pastor, was born in 1931 in a rural Texas town outside Lubbock.

According to his college roommate, he later studied at Austin College of the Presbyterian University of Arts in Sherman, Texas, where he was active in student groups and was considered a middle-class religion.

"He is religious, but he is not fanatical at all. He is an extrovert. He is very popular. He is very smart. He is not aggressive," John Alexander told the New York Times.

Applewhite graduated from the school in 1952 with a bachelor's degree in philosophy, and married Ann Pearce.

This thriving cult leader studied at Virginia Union Theological Seminary in Richmond, hoping to become a Presbyterian pastor.

However, Applewhite dropped out of the seminary and served as music director at the First Presbyterian Church in Gastonia, North Carolina, which ended when he was enlisted in the army in 1954.

Applewhite left the military in 1956 and went to the University of Colorado to study musical theatre, earning a master's degree in music.

Frustrated by trying to start his music career in Colorado, Apple White moved to New York City-but ultimately failed to make his career take off.

According to the research of sociologists Robert Balch and David Taylor, the leader of the cult subsequently taught at the University of Alabama. Male students were fired when they had sex.

Sociologist Susan Raine later revealed that Applewhite and his wife separated in 1965 after learning of his relationship with the student, and divorced him three years later.

After separating from his wife, Applewhite returned to Texas, where he taught at St Thomas University in Houston as the head of the music department.

According to research published by Oxford Scholarships, Apple White briefly lived as an openly gay man during his tenure in Houston, but he established a relationship with a young woman and her family forced her to leave him.

In 1970, Apple White was depressed and resigned from the university, fled to New Mexico, and returned to Texas in the same year.

According to Rolling Stone magazine, Apple White had a mental breakdown and was taken into custody, where he is said to have encountered nettles. However, exactly how the two met is still controversial, Applewhite himself wrote that they met when they went to the hospital.

Nettle was born into a Baptist family in Houston in 1927, and became an adult away from religion, and married a businessman in 1949.

According to the New York Times, Nettles and her husband Joseph Segal Nettles had four children, but their marriage began to fail because she believed that a 19th-century monk named Brother Francis often talked to her.

Nettle, which is increasingly interested in aliens and biblical prophecies, convinced Applewhite that they were all descendants of aliens.

According to research conducted by Ohio State University, Applewhite later had a vivid dream. He dreamed that a man in white clothes declared that he was a messianic leader. Nettles analyzed it as a prophecy.

Nettles abandoned her family and lost custody of the children and traveled across the country with Applewhite, philosophizing and reading the Bible and science fiction while outlining their new theology.

Apple White and Nettles, who call themselves "two men," wrote a pamphlet describing the reincarnation of Jesus as a Texan and implying that they were the two witnesses described in the book of Revelation to persuade the new man.

According to the "Daily Mail" report, the couple combined the nomenclature of "Star Trek" with the doomsday prophecy to finally determine their theology.

The pair are often affectionately called Bo and Peep, and they avoid labeling this cult as a religion that believes that theology is inferior to science.

"It's like saying that NASA is a religion," a former member told the media

By 1975, when 20 people had completely disappeared from a small town in Oregon and joined the organization to become new believers, the Heaven's Gate cult began to receive attention.

The members of Heaven's Gate vowed to be celibate and left their earthly possessions. It is said that some new employees have invested about 40,000 to 60,000 US dollars to become assistants to the organization through a journey called "process".

"Many people from a small town in Oregon are missing. Whether they were taken on the so-called eternal journey...or just taken away is a mystery," Walter Cronkite reported at the time.

A year later, the "New York Times" found and interviewed The Two, stating that "they don't have any characteristics of fanaticism."

"They talked about their earthly mission for hours, and a follower with glasses recorded their words on tape for accuracy. No one has left the earth yet," the New York Times reported.

The two people's doctrine stipulates that through their doctrine, the body of the recruits can be transformed into the body of an alien, allowing them to board a UFO and actually sail to heaven, which they call the "next level", in the circulation of the world.

But by 1976, the cult—now 200 people—announced that it would not accept any new members, and began to reduce its membership, reducing those whom it considered impure.

According to the New York Times, Nettle continued to serve as a mystic for the organization, which became reclusive due to cancer in 1983 when one of her eyes was removed.

The doctor told her that the cancer was spreading through her body, but she slammed the medical staff for ignorance and thought she would not die.

Nettle eventually died at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas in June 1985, where she was admitted to the hospital under the pseudonym Shirley West.

However, Nettles' daughter Terrie now reveals in the HBO documentary that her mother may want to escape the cult.

The founder of the cult once wrote to Terri, urging her daughter to lead a normal life.

"We spent a lot of time talking about spiritualism, psychics, and astrology," Terry said in the HBO series.

"We once dreamed of a UFO to pick us up and take us out of this world. We don't think we belong here."

The Heaven’s Gate cult began to believe in 1996 that an alien spacecraft following Comet Hale-Bop would rendezvous with them and transport them to the next level.

In 1997, the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department received an anonymous email about a mass suicide.

Officials found 39 corpses dressed in exactly the same black clothes. The corpses were carefully placed on bunk beds in a large house in California they called a "monastery."

According to the Associated Press, the cult has purchased a large-scale "alien kidnapping" insurance. If their deaths are caused by aliens, the insurance will pay 1 million for each of up to 50 members. Dollar.

When the body was found, his head was shaved and he was wearing a black tunic. Everyone is wearing brand new Nike sneakers with $5.75 in cash in their pockets and a travel bag on the floor.

According to reports, these deaths occurred within three days, and Apple White was one of the last to die-this was the largest mass suicide of American citizens since the Jonestown massacre in 1978.

A member of the cult under the pseudonym Sawyer also revealed new details about the internal operation of the cult and said that he still believes in the teachings of Nettle and Applewhite.

"People often tell me, you were cheated, do you know? Why don't you continue your life? Instead of continuing to think about this," Sawyer told HBO.

"But I still believe in all the teachings of Ti and Do. If I continue to grow, I may pass through the gate of heaven, the birth canal."

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