patches reading "Heaven's Gate Away Team" and black-and-white Nike Decade sneakers. Occasionally, the Decade will show up on eBay. They're expensive. One recent listing—no doubt pegged to the ...

The Nike Decade in its black and white colorway is one of those shoes, and is tied to a particularly morbid moment in American history. The shoes were worn by members of the Heaven's Gate cult ...

in black shirts and sweatpants and with armband patches which read "Heaven's Gate Away Team.” Most infamously, though, they were all wearing those black-and-white Nike shoes, which was a model called ...

“The Heaven’s Gate incident was a tragedy. It had nothing to do with Nike.” But two decades later, the tragedy and the sneaker company remained inexorably linked. If only that Nike logo wasn ...

All 39 members wore black shirts and sweatpants, black and white Nikes, and armband patches that read: “Heaven’s Gate Away Team.” Nike Decades will never be the same Nike had nothing to ...

offers insight into how tragedies like Heaven's Gate occur On March 26, 1997, 39 people dressed in matching black shirts, black sweatpants and Nike Decades prepared themselves to board a ...

Marshall Applewhite, the wacky leader of the Heaven’s Gate cult ... black button-down tunics and out-of-the-box Nike Decade jogging shoes. Each torso and shorn head was enshrouded by a ...

Clay Tweel's four-part HBO Max docuseries explores the Heaven's Gate cult beyond the 'Star ... to the matching death uniforms including Nike Decades to the associations with the Hale-Bopp comet ...

Clay Tweel's docuseries dives deep into the alien-worshipping cult that made headlines in 1997 when 39 members participated in a mass suicide. From the 1975 disappearance of 20 people in small ...