Nike Employee That Sold To Heaven’s Gate Cult The Day Before Its Mass Suicide

Seeing a lot of Jordan/Alien talk thought I’d bring this back up. Enjoy!


One of the most controversial Nike sneakers in history is the Nike Decade, a running sneaker that was worn by 39 members of the Heaven’s Gate cult for its earth-shattering mass-suicide in 1997.



Nike has no hand in any of this and even went on to cancel a sneaker release in 2008 that was said to be inspired by the actual event (the “Heaven’s Gate” SB Dunks).

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You know the beginning, he sells the cult leader the shoes. He shows him the black Nike Cortez and the guy has an organized list of sizes he needs, etc… Nike dude asks him, “Oh, is this for a basketball team or something?” Cult guy’s actual reply, “Something… like that.” They have all the shoes there but one last size, and he calls another store and finds them for him because he’s so such a great employee, and even delivers them to his address. Cut to the next day and he sees the news and he sees that the address is the exact same address he delivered the shoes to.

Over the next however many months Nike dude obviously goes through a dark time and struggles with questions like- What should I have done? Should I have known? Should I have said something or asked more questions? Etc…. Through the chaos of all of this and the court stuff he actually comes into contact with 2 other people in similar situations:

The first person is the woman who worked at a restaurant and served the cult when they came in for their “final dinner.” I know, this is nuts. They all went to a restaurant, don’t remember the name, wore the same clothes, and were very polite. All ordered the exact same meal down to the iced tea and peach cobbler for dessert. The manager of the restaurant even shook their hands as they left because they were such pleasant guests. This waitress also struggled with questions like- Should I have recognized something was wrong? Should I have said something?

The other person Nike dude met and related to was the insurance salesman who the cult leader came to days before the suicide and purchased 42 alien abduction insurance policies. (Not positive 42 was the number. Whatever it was, it matched the number of Nikes.) Obviously this was very strange, but the guy did his job and sold the insurance. He too had a lot of struggles after the suicide, obviously, about what he could have done, should he have known, etc…

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