Jonestown Massacre | The Toxic Origin of Poisoned Kool-Aid

I have seen in holy piety, series and documentaries about sects of enlightened people and their hairy, skullcapped leaders.


The Order of the Solar Temple, the Kingdom of the Triple Goddess, Rael and his duvet, systemic explorations assisted by The Escapethe ultra-Christian dancers of TikTok or the Strava app recruits (joke!), it’s posed, checked, balanced. At the Casa Dumas, the guru is consumed like a Guru: quickly, cool and with a few bitter whiffs.

In this plethora of titles about fanatics living in isolated communities, there stands out a terrifying and devilishly well-constructed one, namely Cult Massacre: One Day in Jonestown (Jonestown Massacre: A Day in History), available in English with French subtitles on the Disney+ platform.

The three one-hour episodes of Jonestown Massacreproduced by National Geographic, burst onto our screens like a Hollywood thriller, embellished with a ton of blood-curdling archive footage.

As its title suggests, the miniseries does not stray too far and focuses on the fateful day before and after November 18, 1978, when more than 900 followers of the Peoples Temple, led by Reverend Jim Jones, perished in a mass suicide that actually covered up a staggering number of murders.

The gruesome videos from the time, shot by an NBC cameraman, show hundreds of bodies lying outside near the main lodge of the sect, which has been based since 1974 in the equatorial jungle of Guyana, a small country in northeastern South America.

American soldiers hold their noses as they count the number of corpses rotting in the sun, mostly women and children. It is extremely difficult to watch.


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