A South American tour group is turning Jonestown, Guyana, into a travel destination over four decades after it was the scene of the most notorious mass suicide and murder in modern history.

It was in May this year that Wanderlust Tours first announced its intention of mounting overnight tours to the Jonestown site. At the time the report slid by largely unremarked, but in the ...

But the history in question is macabre: the mass death of more than 900 people at the remote Jonestown settlement in Guyana nearly 50 years ago. And plans to bring tourists to the former cultist ...

SAN MATEO, Calif. - It's a dark chapter in history. The Jonestown massacre in 1978 left more than 900 dead in Guyana, a country in South America. Now, that country is considering turning that site ...

So former US Congresswoman, Jackie Speier, who survived the 1978 Jonestown attack that killed Congressman Leo Ryan, prior to the mass cyanide suicide of over 900 Americans, disagree with the plan ...

Twenty studio albums into their career, the ever-evolving psychedelic rock band The Brian Jonestown Massacre have embarked on a massive North American tour and are set to headline the Varsity Theater ...

“I just missed dying by one day,” she recalled. Vilchez, 67, said Guyana has every right to profit from any plans related to Jonestown. “Then on the other hand, I just feel like any ...

The group suicide at Jonestown in 1978 remains one of the most shocking mass death events of the past century. Now, those with a morbid curiosity to learn more about the infamous cult will have ...

It was the site of the 1978 Jonestown Massacre, in which more than 900 people, including hundreds of children, died after Jones ordered them to drink cyanide mixed with a fruit-flavored beverage.

A tour operator is planning to turn Jonestown, a remote area in Guyana surrounded by jungle where more than 900 people died under the direction of cult leader Jim Jones, into a tourist destination.

Marking the most devastating mass suicide-murder in recent history, the government there is now contemplating whether to make the Jonestown commune—a site difficult to access and engulfed in ...