171 – Darkest Hour: The Paranormal Life of Winston Churchill
It’s getting near the end of the year, so that means it’s Oscar-bait time and one of the performances getting great reviews this season is Gary Oldman as Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour. Of course, Gary Oldman isn’t afraid of a radical transformation (just see his work as a computer-generated dwarf in the movie Tiptoes) and the skinny Oldman gets out the fat suit to play the more squat Sir Winston. The movie looks good and I’m a sucker for World War II flicks, especially set during the Blitz .
While we all know Churchill from his amazing speeches and his steadfastness in the face of the Nazi threat, he also had plenty of supernatural experiences as well.
In this episode we talk about
- Churchill and the demonic Black Dog of depression
- Churchill psychic escape from capture in the Second Boer War
- Seeing Abraham Lincoln’s ghost in the White House
- The astrologer Churchill used as propaganda against Hitler
- Did Churchill predict a bomb in the kitchen of 10 Downing Street?
- How Churchill’s intuition saved him and his driver’s life
- Who was Helen Duncan and why was she the last Briton to be charged with witchcraft?
- Churchill writing a short essay describing the ghost of his father
- Did Churchill and Eisenhower work together to cover up evidence of UFOs in the 1950s?
- Does Sir Winston and his famous cigars haunt the Queen Mary, moored in California ?
- Did someone take a picture of his ghost on the Tube in London?
So, there’s plenty of stories about the paranormal life of Winston Churchill, but as the “Last Lion” of the British Empire, he was a man very much of his time with an aura of greatness that proceeds him as almost no other leader of the Twentieth Century. He was a great author, orator, leader, and politician and helped shape our world.
We mention him in our song “No Place Like Home” because it’s that greatness that this song is looking for, the idea that you have to run away to find your purpose because you’ll never find it where you grew up. But we don’t always get to choose where we are most needed, where we are most valuable. Churchill was perfectly suited to his time and his place, but even when it doesn’t feel like it, aren’t we all exactly where we are supposed to be?
I’m still the puzzle that is missing lots of pieces,
but I’m not lonely anymore.
We’re all expatriates confused by our coordinates,
The cosmic refugees who washed up on this shore.
I left town like a prison break,
Anywhere was better than this place,
I thought I was a rolling stone,
When I went out to the Twilight Zone,
I left town like a prison break,
Anywhere was better than this place,
I thought I was a rolling stone,
When I went out to the Twilight Zone,
But in the end there’s no place like home.
No place like home.
No place like home.
No place like home.
P.S. – Here’s the awesome map of UFO sightings we talk about in the episode from our friend, John. UFO sightings in Wisconsin broken down by city!
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