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Shocking Mass Suicides That Will Send Chills Down Your Spine

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5. The Order of the Solar Temple

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In 1994, the little Religious Movement called The Order of the Solar Temple jumped to popularity after their appearance in Newspapers and on TV for the murder-suicide of 74 of its individuals.

The Solar Temple established in Geneva in 1984 by a New Age speaker, Joseph De Mambro, and Luc Jouret, a homeopathic doctor. Its home office was later moved to Zürich, and territorial hotels set up in Switzerland, Canada, and somewhere else. As indicated by the lessons of The Solar Temple, the Earth would confront an overall calamity in the mid-1990s. In expectation of this whole-world destroying occasion, individuals trusted that it was important to enter a higher otherworldly plane.

Between October 4 and 5, 1994, in excess of fifty individuals from The Solar Temple in Canada and Switzerland conferred kill suicide, and the structures in which they kicked the bucket were determined to flame. After a year another sixteen individuals slaughtered themselves, and five more  in March 1997.

 

6. Jonestown, Guyana, 1978

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On the night of November 18, 1978 in Jonestown, Guyana, 909 individuals from Peoples Temple executed themselves, including their pioneer Jim Jones and 276 youngsters.

This game changing night, Jones requested his assembly to drink a mixture of a cyanide-bound grape enhanced drink.  See a video telling about the incident here.

 

7. Rancho Santa Fe, California, 1997

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The Heaven’s Gate Cult trusted that an outsider spaceship. Following behind the Hale-Bopp Comet was en route to earth and by slaughtering themselves. They would save a spot on the shuttle and climb to a higher plane of presence.

 

8. Jauhar in Chittor

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Jauhar and Saka are two Indian Rajput Hindu customs of decent self-immolation amid Mughal times. As indicated by those customs, people could maintain a strategic distance from catch and disrespect on account of adversary intruders, alongside securing both genders’ respect. As it were, while the ladies and youngsters would perform self-immolation, the men (fathers, spouses and children) would charge against the aggressors, confronting unavoidable demise. In 1303 AD, Ala-ud-commotion Khilji, the Muslim Sultan of Delhi, blockaded Chittor Fort. So Rani Padmini drove all the imperial women (around 700 ladies).

 

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