Marshall Herff Applewhite, founder and co-leader of the religious cult Heaven's Gate, speaks to his followers via television. Brooks Kraft LLC/Sygma via Getty Images ...

The tragedy has been dubbed the Shakahola massacre ... Eight men volunteered to be surgically castrated." The Heaven's Gate cult reached its deadly end in 1997, when Applewhite and 38 of his ...

Inside lay the corpses of 39 people — all dressed in identical tracksuits and shoes — who died in a mass suicide, owing to the teachings of the infamous Heaven's Gate cult. Learn more about ...

Inside lay the corpses of 39 people — all dressed in identical tracksuits and shoes — who died in a mass suicide, owing to the teachings of the infamous Heaven's Gate cult. Learn more about the ...