I question the type of person who would sit and listen to 44 minutes of a massacre. I think I would do my best to avoid them.
If you would listen to it, you could hear, that most of the recording is just Jones preaching about various things, and the deaths happen during the last couple of minutes. Nothing you can hear, just silence, but you know why everyone is silent. It’s not a soundtrack of a zombie movie.
So actually if you wouldn’t know the context, it wouldn’t be that creepy and frightening.
It’s not a massacre. It’s people talking about the events in jonestown that day and whether suicide was the right option.
The tape itself is creepy, to be sure, but not particularly insightful or interesting without context. The whole story is a fascinating insight into the time, the human condition, and cults generally.
It’s definitely a story that weighs on your thoughts for a few weeks.
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I think the most shocking part about Jonestown is that Rev Jim Jones was actually a stand-up guy before all the cult BS. He was a civil rights hero and a humanitarian.
I gifted my girlfriend a custom tape some time ago where side A is a sermon from Jones, and B is this. I didn’t make it, just found it. I also have a copy of Charlie Mason’s Lie. Not the most true gruesome things in my collection, just some neat one.
