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Heaven's Gate, the comet cult
1997
Rancho Santa Fe, San Diego County, California
Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Thirty-nine people in matching tracksuits and new Nikes died together in a rented mansion, believing a craft behind the Hale-Bopp comet was coming for them. They had paid for the house with money earned building websites, which is the detail that has kept the story lodged in the internet's memory of itself.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
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