"A fart was a "POOFOOFUS" (that we needed to only release in the "BATH CHAMBER," writes Sawyer, a former member of the Heaven's Gate UFO cult who chose not to, um, "ascend" from Earth in 1997 aboard the spacecraft they believed was trailing Comet Hale–Bopp.
Created in the 1970s by Marshall Applewhite ("Do") and Bonnie Nettles ("Ti"), the group believed t…
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