The Jonestown Death Tape

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 10:23 pm

44 mins - fucking creepy.

http://www.archive.org/details/ptc1978-11-18.flac16

Post by **jester!** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 10:32 pm

Looked it up on wikipedia, weird shit.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 11:18 pm

The little kids are the first to go...hearing them cry and plead while their parents feed them the drink is probably the most disturbing thing I've heard in awhile.

and Jone's voice saying to the adults to stop "the nonsense of exciting their children" - probably the parents crying and hugging them while they die.

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 11:21 pm

i'd listen to this if kids weren't involved.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 11:24 pm

The last 1:45 or so is just silence...no more cries or voices, just gospel music being played at the wrong speed.

Post by **BlueGene** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 11:40 pm

It's quite interesting haven't heard about this before. I just read that some of the members were shot to death, others forcefully injected and some ran out into the woods.

Post by **eepberries** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 12:22 am

Obligatory FUCK OFF STRANGLER

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 12:50 am

eepberries wrote:Obligatory FUCK OFF STRANGLER

eh? I'm not Strangler. The whole Jonestown is pretty interesting, disturbing and depressing though.
I would argue with the person that says that it's surprising how much power he commanded, but all of his followers were fucking morons, I just feel bad for the kids born into it. To prove my point, listen to the woman in the beginning talking about life having hope and not to die - just for disagreeing with Jones (or they call him "father"/"dad"), it sparks an almost Jerry Springer like argument within the audience.
Whatever, curiosity got the best of me when I heard about the tape so I downloaded it and gave it a listen, I kind of regret it now but it's interesting none the less.
If you've seen the pictures and read about the incident in articles and are curious to know what was being said to make these people do it, then give it a listen.

Also, yeah, a lot of the bodies were shot and forcefully injected, not everyone was willing to do it...although you don't hear much resistence in the tape. Also, Jones himself wasn't posioned, but shot in the head..it's unclear whether it was suicide (why not just drink the kool-aid?) or murder.

Post by **Transient** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 1:22 am

+JuggerNaut+ wrote:i'd listen to this if kids weren't involved.

I still wouldn't listen, but the fact that it does involve kids makes the rest of you people really twisted...