didn't a bunch of them commit suicide a few years ago i think in california & was about 28 people that did it??
more info here, http://www.answers.com/main/ntq-tname-raelism-fts_start- Raëlian Movement, quote Claude Vorilhon (born 1946), also known as Raël, was an aspiring entertainer and performer who had produced a short-lived automobile racing magazine entitled Auto Pop, before he allegedly received a vision from the celestial Elohim on December 13, 1973 in the crater of a volcano near Clermont-Ferrand in central France. quote According to Vorilhon a message of the human origin was dictated to him in December 1973 in personal meetings with a 25,000-year-old extraterrestrial who came in a UFO.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Do (né Marshall Herff Applewhite) (May 17, 1931 - c. March 26, 1997) was the leader of the Heaven's Gate cult. He died in the cult's suicide in 1997. Applewhite was born in 1931, the son of a Presbyterian minister who started new churches and moved from place to place in Texas about every three years. As a kid, Applewhite wanted to preach like his father did. read it all here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Applewhite Suicide in San Diego Were cultists recruited on the Web? http://www.rickross.com/reference/heavensgate/gate28.html
