A welcome sign at the jungle entrance to Jonestown, Guyana, as seen in 2022. Little remains today from the settlement, the infamous site of a cult's mass poisoning in 1978.

Picture of a welcome sign at the entrance of Jonestown, Guyana, taken on September 21, 2022. - Deep in the Guyanese jungle, only a signpost and a nondescript plaque serve as memories of a cult ...

A South American tour group is turning Jonestown, Guyana, ... The welcome sign at the entrance of Jonestown, Guyana, in 2022. Patrick Fort / AFP - Getty Images file.

Guyana is revisiting a dark history nearly half a century after U.S. Rev. Jim Jones and more than 900 of his followers died in the rural interior of the South American country.

Guyana is revisiting a dark history nearly half a century after U.S. Rev. Jim Jones and more than 900 of his followers died in the rural interior of the South American country.

Congressman Leo Ryan went to Guyana in 1978 to investigate reports of American cult leader Jim Jones holding hundreds of his followers captive. Ryan didn't make it out of Jonestown alive.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- Guyana is ... Temple compound, after the bodies of the U.S. Rev. Jim Jones and more than 900 of his followers were removed, in Jonestown, Guyana, November 1978.

Guyana wants to turn site of Jonestown massacre that killed over 900 into tourist attraction: ‘Ghoulish and bizarre’ By . Associated Press. Published Dec. 8, 2024, 4:58 p.m. ET.

The Peoples Temple compound in Jonestown, Guyana, in November 1978, where more than 900 followers of the Rev. Jim Jones died. (Associated Press) By Bert Wilkinson and Dánica Coto.

Some of the first people to touch down in Guyana in November 1978 remember what they saw at the scene where over 900 people died. After the deaths of more than 900 people in Jonestown, Guyana, a U ...

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.