As Robert Balch stepped ... at the top of Mount Diablo.” Balch tells the story of his unlikely undercover operation in the HBO Max docuseries “Heaven’s Gate: The Cult of Cults.” ...

Heaven’s Gate is one of those rare national tragedies that’s never treated as such. Shortly after the UFO cult first made headlines, it was mocked. Even when that same cult led to the deaths ...

Yes, certainly to outsiders such as myself and (presumably) most readers of this book ... why the events in Heaven’s Gate ended as they did. The opinions of Robert W. Balch and David Taylor ...

The video below walks through these factors with examples. Heaven's Gate heavily features commentary from sociologist Robert Balch, who infiltrated the group in the 1970s to study them.

HBO has released its four-part documentary examining the Heaven’s Gate cult which infamously ... according to research by sociologists Robert Balch and David Taylor. Sociologist Susan Raine ...

Robert L Nichols, 58-year-old man found dead in his trailer home in Yuba County, Calif, left behind suicide note suggesting that he hoped to join members of Heaven's Gate cult on space ship in ...

The bizarre-but-true story of the Heaven’s Gate cult, a group that came to a tragic end when members took their lives in a mass suicide event in 1997, is again explored in “The Cult Next Door ...

The video below walks through these factors with examples. Heaven's Gate heavily features commentary from sociologist Robert Balch, who infiltrated the group in the 1970s to study them.