Heaven's Gate Cult On March 26, 1997, I was taking an intensive math test when a shocking event occurred in Rancho Santa Fe. It was around 1:30 p.m. when a call came into the San Diego County sheriff’s office. The office did not think anything of it, so they put the call on last priority. A few hours later the sheriff sent his deputy, Robert Brunk, to check out the scene. Upon his arrival into the mansion full of a deadly odor, he counted ten bodies and then ran back out for fresh air. He then called in more officers for assistance. In the mansion called Monastery mansion, they discovered thirty-nine dea