Inside an idyllic 9,200-sq.-ft., seven-bedroom, hilltop mansion in one of the most affluent neighborhoods of the coastal city of San Diego, Calif., laid the bodies of 39 members of the religious group Heaven’s Gate.

Clad in all-black uniforms complete with patches identifying them as the “Heaven’s Gate Away Team” and their now-iconic black-and-white Nike sneakers, the mass suicide was a grand, orchestrated event. The members believed a spaceship was following Comet Hale-Bopp—and that this would be the vehicle that would chaperone their souls for an intergalactic journey to a physical and spiritual “level of existence above human.”

Using a judiciously planned brew of apple sauce and the sedative phenobarbital, the members chased it with vodka, followed by placing plastic bags over their heads and suffocating to death.

Fifteen members took their lives on March 24, 1997. Fifteen others on March 25, and the final nine on March 26. Group leader Marshall Applewhite was the third to last member to commit suicide. The remaining two members, both women, were the sole people discovered without plastic bags over their heads.

On March 26, 1997, San Diego police uncovered the bodies—and that’s when the tale of Heaven’s Gate really took off. The world began to learn about the teachings of Applewhite (AKA Do, a former convict with an interest in mysticism) and Bonnie Nettles (AKA Ti, a former nurse who passed away from liver cancer in 1985).

Now, over 18 years later, Reddit user fizzypickles realized that not only does heavensgate.com still exist, but the email address listed on the site is still answering queries.

While it’s easy to believe that heavensgate.com is a relic of a site abandoned years ago, the hosting bills are paid annually and the domain name is still registered under a Mark King under the TELAH Foundation based in Phoenix, Ariz.

TELAH stands for “The Evolutionary Level Above Human,” a term used for beings who had managed to travel “beyond human.”

Upvoted reached out—and whoever it is manning the account agreed to an email interview. Below are their answers.

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Hi! Who am I speaking with? What’s your name and age?

Telah, 61.

Are you a man or woman?

We are both.

Is Heaven’s Gate still based in San Diego, Calif.?

No. The Group visited many cities. It really wasn’t based just in San Diego. Most of our time was spent in Texas, if you were to ask where we were a majority of time.

When did you join Heaven’s Gate and how did you discover its existence?

We joined right after attending a meeting in Waldport, Oregon in 1975.

Why did you decide to join?

Ti and Do were clearly not of this planet.

What is your “role” within Heaven’s Gate? (If there are roles!)

No real roles. In the mid-’90s, we served as their communication center, which we still do today.