Someone recently asked me, "why does it matter if Paul McCartney is actually dead and was secretly replaced?" I responded by first asking if she believed the Beatles had a profound impact upon our culture, which was a rhetorical question.
You don't have to have been alive when the Beatles were still around to recognize their influence upon the major cultures of the world. There is plenty of documented history illustrating this fact for anyone to see who chooses to look into it.
They had us singing "all you need is love", while encouraging us the experience [L]ucy in the [S]ky with [D]iamonds. John Lennon got the press comparing the Beatle's popularity with that of Jesus Christ. George Harrison got people chanting "Hari Krisna" who had never even heard of Hinduism. Songs like "Revolution 9," "Imagine," and "Give Peace a Chance" convinced the listening audience that they could change the world. Then there was Charles Manson, who's "Manson Murders" were often associated with his decidedly unhealthy intepretation of Beatles lyrics.
I suppose you can't blame fans for experiencing a bit of cognative dissonance when unexpectedly confronted with the possibility that the "peace, love, and freedom" they thought was integral to it all was actually a deliberate form of covert mass mind control. It's understandable that the knee jerk reaction to information like this is typically, "yeah I don't buy all that, I just like the music." But as I told my friend - you can't make an INFORMED decision about something you haven't taken a sincere look into.
We're not talking about the existence of Alien grays from outer space here - or whether George Bush Sr was a shape shifting reptilian being. We're talking about a mountain of evidence suggesting that Paul is Dead. So I guess my answer to the original question is that if the individuals producing massive cultural phenomenons such as Beatlemania are willing to kill one of their own in an elaborate sacrificial manner, replace him, then tell us all about it in code - shouldn't they be investigated for their exceedingly depraved criminal acts, rather than being worshipped and rewarded continuously for their occult art? Shouldn't we maybe re-evaluate our own participation in this cultural phemoninon?
Don't get me wrong, I love the music of the Beatles, maybe even more than the average fan. But it is possible to appreciate the music while also acknowledging the fact that most of the popular media we consume and assimilate into our lives is largely propaganda on some level. It doesn't mean that real people with real feelings weren't involved, but it does complicate the once blissfully simple state of being "just a fan." All I am ultimately suggesting here is for people to think about this stuff for a minute and consider the implications.
WHERE IS PAUL BURIED?
In PART 2 I get into Sharon Clemon's incredible book "Forbidden Fruit," which appears to crack many mysteries surrounding Biological Paul's death in 1966. She traces it to America's Pacific Northwest, of all places. Even designating Seattle as a major location in this elaborate puzzle.
Why don't we do it in the road? No one will be watching us
The Beatle's song "Why don't we do it in the Road" is a "Paul is Dead" [PID] song, according to "The Memoires of Billy Shears" [TMOBS]. Sharon Clemons believes that the song itself is describing the STAGED car accident regarding Paul's death, done out in the open [he blew his mind out in a car]. This happened of course on the "long and winding road" mentioned in the previous blog, CR 9205, just East of Seattle.
Paul, [is] really dead, I really want it out!
The above message can be heard during the song "Why don't we do it in the Road" when played backwards, at the 0:49 second mark.
Another song with encoded PID messages is of course "Strawberry Fields Foerever." Ever wonder what those strange noises at the end of the song are? According to Clemons, sounds of a moving train can be heard while John says "I Buried Paul" [masked with the phrase "cranberry sauce," which is a bit creepy when you consider the color and consistency of cranberry sauce]. The "train" sounds may not be as obvious as the the bus drive-by in "Magical Mystery Tour," but I'd say it's at least plausible. And if so, where is the train going and what is the significance?
During the very strange video for "Strawberry Fields Forever," we see the Beatles preparing a piano to be hung from a tree, it's "internal organs" [inner strings] torn out, and eventually used to hang itself. This is similar in concept to the video for "Blue Jay Way," where a Cello is more or less "sacrificed" and set on fire. The videos are quite odd, and don't seem to make much sense. Until you assume that the instruments being "sacrificed" are actually metaphors for biological Paul, and what happened to him.
You might recall a somewhat Monty Python-esque scene from the "Blue Jay Way" video, where 3 of the Beatles come out of nowhere and start tossing a ball around as if it's a hot potato. Meanwhile, John is off in the backround madly fiddling a cello, almost like he's trying to cut it in half with the bow.
If the cello represents a body, what does the ball represent?
During the video for "Strawberry Fields" we get a few close-up shots of the members of the band. According to Sharon Clemons, Biological Paul's eyes were brown and William Shepard's are green. Here you can clearly see, his eyes appear to be hazel blue-green.
If you spend some time looking around on the internet, you will see some images of pre-1966 Paul with dark brown eyes, but also some with a similar color to William's. Sharon Clemons believes many old pictures of Paul have been "doctored up" to match William's.
I could easily fill this entire blog with PID information limited to the one album, "Abbey Road." But as it applies here, we need only look at the cover. John represents the priest for a funeral. Ringo is the undertaker. Paul is the corpse, which is why he is the only one with no shoes. He's also got his right foot forward, as opposed to all the other members. George is the gravedigger.
Abbey Road is the street that EMI records' main studio was on. That is where the Beatles were "born," and so I guess they are leaving to go bury Paul and "die" in this picture?
My baby says she's trav'ling on the one after 909
I said move over honey I'm travelling on that line
I said move over once, move over twice
Come on baby don't be cold as ice.
The song "One after 909" seems to be another reference to a train and Paul's death. The "woman" refered to in the song is actually a thinly veiled reference to Paul, who'd be dead and "cold as ice" at this point. According to Clemons [and Wikipedia], the Northern Pacific Railroad line ran ALCO diesel-electric locomotives between Spokane and Seattle, marked with numbers 900-917.
So we sailed on to the sun
'Til we found a sea of green
And we lived beneath the waves
In our yellow submarine
[Hood Canal, just West of Seattle]
Hood Canal is a body of water which is part of the "Salish Sea." The canal's green color is due to the presence of photoplankton, which shrouds itself in round, shiny plates of calcite. When they are plentiful and the sun shines upon them, the water appears a brilliant green or greenish-blue.
The US Naval Submarine Base-Bangor was also located along Hood Canal at the time "Yellow Submarine" was written. We also find a place called "Octopus Hole" in this same location.
THE OCTOPUS GARDEN
[Screenshot from the Beatle's 1988 Rock and Roll hall of fame induction ceremony]
In person The Beatles had a way of striking the perfect balance between humor, sincerity, intelligence, and sarcasm. This trend continues in their 1988 Hall of Fame induction speech, despite the lack of John and Paul's presence. During the ceremony, George and Ringo have a particularly interesting exchange, relavant to the topic at hand.
Early during George's speech he jokes "it's unfortunate that Paul's not here because he was the one who had the speech in his pocket." While the audience is laughing at that, Ringo asks "and why didn't we play "Octopus' Garden?" To which George responds "we'll talk about that later." George then takes a more somber tone and states "we all know why John can't be here...it's hard really to stand here supposedly representing the Beatles. It's what's left I'm afraid...we all loved him [John] so much and we all love Paul very much"
The song "Octopus's Garden" plays a strong role in Sharon Clemon's book on the topic of PID, but for the moment let's just take note of the cryptic reference to the song just after George states that Paul is not present.
After acknowledging the fact that John is dead, George refers to the individuals in attendance when he says "it's what's left I'm afraid." Now think about that statement for a second...If Paul was indeed still alive in 1988, why is George referring to himself and Ringo as "what's left" of the Beatles? George said Paul couldn't make it, he didn't say he was DEAD! But of course, if Paul WAS in fact dead, George's statement would make perfect sense! He then states that "we all loved him [John] so much" [past tense] "and we all love Paul" [present tense]. Now, the fact that George said "we all love Paul" in the present tense, doesn't necesarilly assume Paul was still living at the time. I'm sure many of us still "love" [present tense] people who are no longer alive. Many people "love" Jimi Hendrix [present tense], for example, even though he's been dead since 1970. Was George spilling the beans right in our faces while we were completely oblivious?
We would be warm below the storm
In our little hideaway beneath the waves
Resting our head on the seabed
In an octopus's garden near a cave
[Apparently, Octopus build "gardens" out of stones for protection. I'm not sure if the image above depicts Octopus' clinging to stones or their huge eggs, but it gives a good visual concerning the concept of an "octopus garden" and how it got it's name.]
Hood Canal is where Octopus Hole is. Octopus Hole is in Mason county [hmm, Mason?] This is where a “Octopus Garden” can be found, as described in the song of the same name. Octopus’ like to gather stones on a lake bed. Given all of the refences in the PID conspiracy to Paul being decapitated, Sharon Clemons seems to think Paul's head might have ended up down in this place. Is this the cryptic reference Ringo and George are making in their 1988 induction speech? With this in mind, consider the line "resting our head on the seabed" from the song "Octopus' Garden"...
In the video for "Yellow Submarine," taken from the film of the same name, there is an odd moment where we see 2 Pauls. One which is in the submarine with the rest of the band, and the HEAD of Paul seen through a window with a GREEN background. Is this symbolising that Paul's head is outside the submarine, within the "sea of green?" The presence of "2 Pauls" simply indicates that William is playing the role of Paul inside the submarine.
We would sing and dance around
Because we know, we can't be found
We would shout and swim about
The coral that lies beneath the waves (lies beneath the ocean waves)
Oh, what joy for every girl and boy
Knowing they're happy, and they're safe (happy, and they're safe)
Sharon Clemons further suggests that the lyrics to "Octopus's Garden" references the "hiding place" of Paul's decapitated head. But why would his head be buried seperate from his body? Perhaps if his body had been found in the Stawberry Fields, the head would be missing and so it'd be harder to identify? The head would be "safe" and "can't be found" beneath the waves.
My question regarding the above is that if they didn't want the body or the head being found, why didn't they just burn them? Perhaps that wouldn't be as easy of a task as one would think in 1966, but I'd think that destroying the evidence would have been a consideration? Of course, it's easy to forget that we are dealing with very sick and evil minds, so the symbolic/ritualistic aspect of all of this would surely be a factor in all respects. Logic and reasoning only goes so far when trying to understand the actions of twisted individuals.
SHOOT ME
Shoot me
Right!
Come, come, come, come, come
He roller-coaster, he got early warnin'
He got muddy water, he one mojo filter
He say, "One and one and one is three"
Got to be good-lookin' 'cause he's so hard to see
We took a look at the lyrics to the first song on Abbey Road, "Come Together," from the PID perspective in part 2, but there are many more clues I didn't point out that are more relavant here.
The title itself indicates that we "come together" over Paul. In order to do that, he'd have to be on or in the ground. Dead and lying down at a funeral perhaps, as the album cover hints?
I still can't believe I never noticed that they say "shoot me" at the beginning of this song! I just thought it was some funny noise they were making, like "shush!" [Using voice to create sound effects was common in 60s psychedelic music after all] This in itself shows that there is something very odd about this song! When does someone say "shoot me?" This is something someone who wants to die would say. Why would John or Paul or any other Beatle want to die? Was something WORSE than death happening?
Water down at the bottom of an Octopus Garden would be thick with sediment, where silt stays a long time before settling, with little to no current. If you were down there people would say you "got muddy water."
"mojo filter" plays off of a similar line we examined in part 2, "ju-ju eyeball." These both can be considered voodoo or black magic terminology. If Paul is a "mojo filter" I guess that means the voodoo is absorbed through him at some point?
"Early Warnin" might indicate what William states in TMOBS, which is that Paul knew his death was coming ahead of time.
"one and one and one is 3," the number of Beatles left after Paul is dead.
"Got to be good lookin cause he so hard to see" is not a line I feel I've confidentally cracked, but the "good lookin" could reference Paul's face. Paul was known early on as "the cute Beatle." Murky muddy water could account for him being "so hard to see."
THE P.I.D. MOSAIC
It would be nice, paradise
In an octopus' garden in the shade
-early rehearsal version of "Octopus' Garden"
According to Clemons' book, Skagit and Whatcom county produce the most strawberries in Washington State. The town of Ferndale [Whatcom County] was mostly farmland in the 1960s, and probably had [and still has] lots of Strawberry Fields. Ferndale also has a cemetary, located at the cross of Paradise Rd and Abbey Road. Now you might be thinking, "who cares, lots of places have streets/roads with those names!" Sure, but do they also have a record of land ownership by someone named William Campbell?
When I first started reading TMOBS, I mentioned it to a friend who also happens to be a Beatles fan. Like most Beatles fans, he'd heard of the "myth," and even the name "William Campbell." Now, I don't recall hearing the name William Campbell until my friend mentioned it. But it turns out this was the name originally rumored to be that of Paul's replacement back in October of 1969. This rumor can be traced back to an article written by a Fred LaBour, who later claimed he made the name up. But was all of this a ruse consistent with the "car accident" narrative?
Like a large detailed mosaic, the PID picture must be viewed from a distance to fully appreciate. And while I find much of this compelling, there is a fatigue that kicks in when I spend too much time on it, and that's when I must step back for a bit. It is when I come back from such a break that the picture is most clear and perhaps less tainted by the mesmerizing fascination that can come with this type of research.
You might think that I prescribe to most of the theories I've outlined here, but that is not necesarilly true. While I find much of it very compelling and endlessly entertaining, I am fully aware that there might be an elaborate game being played with my mind and many others. The extent and detail put into this "game" by William, the Beatles, or whoever, is proof enough that SOMETHING very odd is going on, and has been going on with the Beatles for many years. It is this GAME, this riddle itself I am most curious about. While much of this cannot be proven, I believe the riddle itself has been revealed to exist, and this begs a whole other set of questions, due to the massive scale of it all.
Put aside your beliefs about whether Paul is dead or not, and just ask yourself who in the hell was able to plant all of this information within the Beatles' music, album art, videos, and other media? And who could possibly reveal it all in such a detailed manner, and so many years later, but a person directly involved? I don't know if I even believe it is possible for anyone to have come up with the material in Billy's book, Clemon's book, and possibly even Mike Williams' videos - without the designer of this great riddle having helped them out. I think this riddle was intended to be revealed many years AFTER. In other words, now. But why? Why why why???
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