It is often said that some people have the gift of seeing someone’s past and future. Astrology is not widely accepted by scientists, who argue that it fails to explain how the universe works. However, it has historical roots dating back to Babylon between 700 BC and 450 BC, when our ancestors created the 12 zodiac signs. These signs were primarily used for predicting events in the population. Surprisingly, one in four Americans claim to believe in astrology, a sentiment echoed by John Lennon.
In 1969, while on vacation in Greece with his wife Yoko Ono, the legendary musician and member of the iconic rock band Beatles, John Lennon, was told by a local astrologer that he would be ‘shot on an island.’ This prediction came true 11 years later when Mark Chapman killed him in December 1980.
According to the Times, this prophecy terrified the couple and they immediately canceled a planned yachting trip around the Greek Islands with the singer Donovan. The untold story came out as a short film of John and Yoko walking in Athens. They did this before meeting a psychic. Filmmaker Nico Mastorakis found this film while cleaning his house. He said, “John and Yoko assumed the shooting would be on a Greek Island.”
“I totally believe that some people are psychic and the message comes through some people,” Yoko told Mastorakis in a 2000 interview. “In our case, she told us that, but we were not careful in the way we should have been. We were careful, but in the wrong way as we did not go to the Greek Islands.”
Among the most famous myths is that of the relationship between rock, blues, and the Devil, as many musicians claim to have sold their souls to the Dark Lord to get the fame they were looking for. One of the bands that have given the most to talk about concerning these mystical themes is undoubtedly The Beatles.”
Since 1966, there has been a rumor that Paul McCartney died in a car accident. “Paul is dead” is an urban legend and conspiracy theory alleging that English pop musician Paul McCartney of the Beatles died in 1966 and was secretly replaced by a look-alike. The rumor began circulating in 1966, gaining broad popularity in September 1969 following reports on American college campuses.
This rumor made people think strange things about the Beatles. When Yoko Ono came into John Lennon’s life, the strangeness around the band got even stronger. Both John and his wife were assiduous followers of esotericism and the ancestral techniques of divination. Once, they went to Athens and met an astrologer who told John something scary: he said John would get shot on an island.
Hearing this, John and Yoko decided not to go to any Greek islands, not even on their boat, to keep John safe. But like in the story, John thought he could cheat fate and went back to his apartment in New York City.
In 1966, according to his first wife Cynthia, Lennon received a letter from a psychic warning him that he would be shot whilst living in the United States. From that time onwards, he developed an interest in spiritualism and attended numerous seances. It is rumoured that during one seance, the spirit of his manager Brian Epstein warned him that he would be shot and to take care. In 1969, while holidaying in Greece, Lennon was warned that he would be killed on an island. Believing that the astrologer was referring to a Greek island, the musician returned home. Years later, his wife Yoko Ono realised that the astrologer was, in fact, referring to the island of Manhattan. It seemed that John Lennon lived his whole life in the public eye in fear of assassination. Despite the warnings of psychics, astrologers, mystics and his own sense that he would die young, he could do nothing to avoid what ultimately was his fate, a lone assassin with a gun, Mark Chapman. (Source)
On December 8, 1980, John Lennon started his day like usual. He released a new album with his wife, and they were promoting it. They met with a famous photographer, Annie Leibovitz, to take some pictures. John decided to pose nude while his wife stayed clothed. They liked the photo Leibovitz took. Later, John did an interview with RKO Radio. He talked about getting older and how he felt better than when he was younger. He also talked about his music, saying he wouldn’t stop until he died. Sadly, John died later that same day.
Before leaving his apartment, John briefly met the man who would later kill him, Mark David Chapman. Chapman had a copy of Double Fantasy, which John signed.
Chapman had flown from Hawaii to New York intending to murder John. He disliked John, especially after John’s controversial statement about The Beatles being more popular than Jesus. Chapman, working his last day as a security guard, signed out as “John Lennon.” He then flew to New York. Before attacking John, Chapman asked for his autograph. After John signed, Chapman waited for him to leave before committing the murder.
John was walking home when Chapman shot him five times. Four bullets hit John in the back. John went into the building, shouting that he was shot. Yoko, ran to him when she realized what happened.
Chapman explained later that he stood with the gun by his side. The doorman, Jose, came and took the gun away from him bravely. Chapman didn’t resist and waited for the police to arrest him. He was reading “The Catcher in the Rye,” a book he was very interested in. Chapman was later sentenced to 20 years to life in prison for killing John Lennon.
Reports say John died almost immediately after being shot. He was bleeding a lot, so they put him in a police car to take him to the hospital, but it was too late.
When they reached the hospital, John was declared dead. Dr. Stephen Lynn, who spoke to the media, officially announced John’s death. Doctors tried hard to save Lennon, but they couldn’t.
John Lennon was pronounced dead at 11:07 p.m. on December 8, 1980. Dr. Lynn said he most likely died from the gunshot wounds.
In the latest Apple documentary “John Lennon: Murder Without a Trial,” John Lennon’s last words have been revealed by the concierge working on the front desk of the building where the Beatles star was shot and killed. It discusses various conspiracy theories about John Lennon’s death and includes recordings of Mark Chapman, talking to his lawyers about getting out of jail. The title comes from the fact that Chapman admitted to killing Lennon just before his trial, and then he got a 20-year prison sentence.
According to a new three-part docuseries, Jay Hastings was working on the front desk of the Dakota building in New York, where John lived with his wife, Yoko Ono, and their young son, Sean Ono Lennon, on that fateful day.
“He runs past me. He goes, ‘I’m shot,’” he recalled in the documentary. “He had blood coming out of his mouth. He just collapsed on the floor. I half rolled him to his back and took his glasses off, put them on the desk. And Yoko was screaming, ‘Get an ambulance, get an ambulance, get an ambulance.’”
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The taxi driver, Richard Peterson, said he saw the shooting happen while he was in his parked car near the Dakota building.
He said, “Lennon was walking in and this kid says, John Lennon…He was a chunky guy. I’m looking at him through the front window of my cab. I’m looking at him shoot him. This guy just shot John Lennon. I thought they were making a movie, but I didn’t see no lights or cameras or anything so I realized, ‘Hey, this ain’t no movie.’”
The documentary makes note of a variety of conspiracy theories that emerged in the wake of John Lennon’s shooting, including the theory that Chapman had been mind-controlled by government operatives who had John on a watch list as a result of his outspoken condemnation of the war in Vietnam.
“This whole thing about the CIA being involved, when people mentioned it to me afterwards, I didn’t even know it was a thing,” says David Suggs, one of Chapman’s defense attorneys who appears in the documentary.
Documentary British director, Nick Holt said that his efforts to get a range of people who were involved at the time on the record should “dispel some of those crazier theories, and allow you to hopefully just weigh for yourself if this was an act spurred by mental health or pure evil.”
During his parole hearing in August 2022, Chapman said: “I am not going to blame anything else or anybody else for bringing me there. I knew what I was doing, and I knew it was evil, I knew it was wrong, but I wanted the fame so much that I was willing to give everything and take a human life.”
Chapman added: “I hurt a lot of people all over the place, and if somebody wants to hate me, that’s OK, I get it.”
Back in 2020, Chapman told the board: “I assassinated him […] because he was very, very, very famous, and that’s the only reason. And I was very, very, very, very much seeking self-glory.” At his 2020 hearing, he apologized to Yoko, calling the shooting a “despicable” and “extremely selfish” act.
