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Bonnie Lu Nettles and Marshall Herff Applewhite Jr. started a cult mostly centered around christian ideals, but with a sci-fi twist...they believed they and their followers would shed their "vehicles" and transform into aliens and board a spaceship to heaven. What started out as a mostly innocent albeit odd group, morphed into something dangerously bizarre. And, sadly the members let their delusions (and cult leader) lead them to their tragic ends.

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