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Heaven's Gate: The suicide cult that shocked the world | How to watch on CBS8+
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It happened more than 25 years ago inside a Rancho Santa Fe mansion and is still the largest mass suicide on U.S. soil. Thirty-nine members of a cult called Heaven's Gate were found dead after overdosing on anti-depressants mixed with pudding.
We would later learn that they killed themselves believing their souls would board a spaceship following a comet, taking them to another level of existence above human.
We dug deep in our CBS 8 archives and found stories from our original coverage of this bizarre case. This is about 30 minutes of footage and we put it all together in a special you can watch on CBS8+ free on Roku and Amazon Fire.
Here's how to watch: https://www.cbs8.com/article/news/local/heavens-gate-special-cbs8plus/509-da4f1911-5421-421d-a1d1-73f83bfa34ea