Today we welcome special guest Allison Jornlin to the show. Allison is the founder of Milwaukee Ghosts Tours and has been researching strange events and paranormal occurrences for years. Today she brings us an interesting story from the entertainment world: That of Peaches Honeyblossom Geldof (1989 – 2014), daughter of Bob Geldof. Bob was front man for the Boomtown Rats (whose biggest hit, “I Don’t Like Mondays” was about a school shooting in 1979), star of Pink Floyd’s “The Wall”, social activist, organizer of Band Aid & Live Aid, and from the sounds of things, a pretty darn decent human being.
Bob’s daughter, Peaches Geldof, was a British “celebrity princess” who passed away at the young age of 25 due to a heroin overdose. During her short time on earth, she searched for meaning in life through various religions and mysticism. Her search led her to explore Scientology, Judaism, and eventually Aleister Crowley and the O.T.O. (Ordo Templi Orientis), an occult highly known for its involvement in magic and the paranormal.
Peaches had some frightening ghostly encounters, not the least of which a selfie she shared on Instagram (with hashtags #haunted #ghost) in which a “mystery ghost hand” can be seen. She believed the ghost was a woman who had previously occupied the house and had drowned herself after giving birth to a stillborn baby. Peaches had a premonition of her own death not long before the tragic drug overdose that took her life.
Welcome to See You on the Other Mike, where the world of
Speaker:the mysterious collides with the world of entertainment.
Speaker:A discussion of art, music, movies, spirituality, the
Speaker:Wendy, and self discovery. And now,
Speaker:your hosts, musicians and entertainers who have their
Speaker:own weakness for the weird, Mike and Wendy from the
Speaker:band, Sunspot. Hey, Mike. How's it
Speaker:going today? It is very good, Wen. How are you?
Speaker:I'm great. Thanks. I'm pretty excited because our new podcast,
Speaker:we're getting a little bit of feedback on it now. We've had some comments on
Speaker:the website, on the pages of the show notes, and we had we had
Speaker:our first iTunes review. Our first iTunes review.
Speaker:Hopefully, the first of many. I hope so too. But, so we wanna give a
Speaker:shout out to Duck and Decker. Thank you so much for leaving and Decker.
Speaker:A 5 star review. We got 5 stars, Mike. Those are those are
Speaker:my favorite kinds of reviews. So, if you do
Speaker:like the show, please consider leaving a review for us, and we'll give you a
Speaker:little shout out. And if you have any feedback for us,
Speaker:we'd love to hear from you as well. You can find our contact info at
Speaker:othersidepodcast.com/contact.
Speaker:Sweet. Alright. Well, today's gonna be fun because we have a
Speaker:special guest, another interview. Mike, why don't you tell us about our,
Speaker:guest today? Today,
Speaker:we'll be talking about classic English
Speaker:rock and debutantes
Speaker:in the story of Peaches Geldof who had a
Speaker:tragic short life but a very, very
Speaker:interesting one with a paranormal twist. And we'll be
Speaker:talking about Okay. I was wondering. Yeah. Oh, yeah. And we'll be talking about
Speaker:it with the head of milwaukeeghost.com
Speaker:and a paranormal expert who just happens to be
Speaker:my sister, Allison Jornland.
Speaker:I'm here with my sister, Allison
Speaker:Jornland from Milwaukee Ghosts. How are you doing
Speaker:Mike. How are you doing today, Allison? Oh, pretty good. Pretty
Speaker:good. Glad to hear from you. That's right. And and we're
Speaker:talking about weird stuff, which is one of our favorite things to talk
Speaker:about. Yes. Yes. It is. I think Brings back
Speaker:memories, Mike. That's right. Well, being weird is our family business.
Speaker:True. So it is our favorite thing to do. Do you wanna tell people a
Speaker:little bit about Milwaukee Ghosts and what you do? Yeah. Well,
Speaker:I started Milwaukee Ghosts back in, I think, it was 2,008.
Speaker:It's milwaukeeghost.com. And,
Speaker:just like, you know, Mike, you were saying, we we always been interested
Speaker:in the strange and unusual. And and so I decided,
Speaker:well, you know, we were reading about things that happen all over the
Speaker:world. What's been going on? You know, I've always been
Speaker:interested in what's been going on locally and just never
Speaker:knew a way to go about it, to do research and and find ghost
Speaker:stories and other unusual things, for Diana
Speaker:and, strange events that went
Speaker:on here in Milwaukee or in Wisconsin. And so that's kind
Speaker:of, my mission is is to seek out these
Speaker:these local stories that that connect to
Speaker:maybe other stories that you've heard of, on the
Speaker:national stage. Okay. I I I that's exciting.
Speaker:That's that's kinda my mission with Madison Ghost as well, and,
Speaker:it's just nice to talk to you and to be able to talk about
Speaker:other weird families in the world here.
Speaker:Yeah. And that's people like the Geldofs.
Speaker:Yeah. Unfortunately, not not as not
Speaker:as lucky as we are. I mean, you would
Speaker:think to look at them. I mean, they have have fame, they
Speaker:have fortune, but they also have just tremendous
Speaker:tragedy, which we, you know, we don't have fame and fortune,
Speaker:but thankfully, we also Don't have heroin. Don't
Speaker:have heroin and and don't have these tremendous, tragedies that
Speaker:have unfolded over the years. So the Geldos, an unlucky
Speaker:family, but definitely an interesting one, especially when it
Speaker:comes to the weird stuff. Let's hear about it. Well, the most recent
Speaker:news, from this weekend actually is that, Bob
Speaker:Geldof is rerecording
Speaker:the band aid, song, do they know it's
Speaker:Christmas? But he's rewriting the lyrics,
Speaker:because this new effort, Band Aid 30, because it's been
Speaker:30 years if you can believe that. So the snow Oh,
Speaker:God. Yeah. Called Band Aid 30 is to,
Speaker:help with the with the, Ebola
Speaker:epidemic that's going on in Africa. Oh, so it it's do they
Speaker:know do they know they have Ebola? Well We should
Speaker:give we should give some a little background on Bob Geldof for a sec. Yeah.
Speaker:Because I think a lot of people don't I mean, a lot of Americans
Speaker:might not know who Bob Geldof is or or or what's the
Speaker:big deal about him? Well, I I'm no
Speaker:music historian. You would know more than than than I would know,
Speaker:but but I do know, that he was the the front man
Speaker:for, the Boomtown Rats, which was a
Speaker:very popular band. His his his
Speaker:biggest hit, I Don't Like Mondays.
Speaker:That's the Boomtown Rats' biggest hit. I mean, they were kind of a new wavy
Speaker:pop band, and and their biggest hit was I don't like Mondays,
Speaker:which was based around a school shooting in
Speaker:California in the 19 seventies. Yeah. 1979.
Speaker:It it was actually a school shooting
Speaker:by a girl. Which which is a little different,
Speaker:and I'd never even I'd know I heard I Don't Like Mondays before.
Speaker:Right. But I had no idea it was about a school shooting until I and
Speaker:which is weird because I usually follow-up on the history of a song. I'm like,
Speaker:oh, isn't isn't this interesting? Like, the first time I realized that
Speaker:Van Halen jump wasn't about jumping up and having a good Mike. It was
Speaker:about jumping off a building. Oh, I didn't know that. Yeah. But he's
Speaker:like, go ahead and jump. David Lee Roth said, there's always some jerk in the
Speaker:crowd who tells the guy to jump, and that's what the song's about.
Speaker:So Wendy Bob Geldof with I Don't Like Mondays is about a school shooting,
Speaker:that's that you know, I was just shocked by that. You know, we we can't
Speaker:write songs about that anymore. Well, you know, I
Speaker:think I think Favre Valdez does have a a social consciousness
Speaker:where he is, you know, he's looking for for things
Speaker:that that really speak to him on an emotional
Speaker:level. We didn't think of school shootings as a
Speaker:thing at that time. No. The only person who didn't like Mondays in the
Speaker:seventies was Garfield, and you didn't think he was gonna go around and shoot the
Speaker:place up. Right. But then, you know, for Odie. Maybe maybe
Speaker:Odie. Her response to why she did it is that she she didn't like
Speaker:Wendy, and then he took that and then made
Speaker:made that into that very famous song. But as
Speaker:as a warning to all of the rest of us or, you know, a
Speaker:social commentary, you look at how many
Speaker:school shootings that have proliferated, over the United
Speaker:States in in recent years. I mean, it's it's
Speaker:really telling to see how he he was able to
Speaker:touch on that and as something to watch
Speaker:out for. Well, we still back in the seventies. We still have Mondays.
Speaker:Like, we haven't gotten rid of Mondays, obviously. The problem still exists.
Speaker:Yes. To bring it back to Bob Geldof, you know, just to think of
Speaker:him as as, you know, somebody who identified
Speaker:that social issue so early on just speaks to
Speaker:his his, character and his perceptiveness as an
Speaker:artist. And then, he was also, of course, in the
Speaker:wall, which, which is very,
Speaker:very famous, rock movie. Wasn't he pink in the wall?
Speaker:Yes. Yes. He was the lead character. If you think you don't
Speaker:know Bob Geldof You do. You really do. You really do. You
Speaker:just need to look a little closer. And and then, of course,
Speaker:his involvement in in Band Aid 30 years ago which is to
Speaker:recognize, you know, that there are people starving around the
Speaker:world that, you know, you have to do something about it to make the world
Speaker:a better place. Well, I I just think it's interesting. You know, Bob Geldof,
Speaker:when we talk about the national conversation, through his art
Speaker:and through his charities and stuff, he is really
Speaker:contributing to the national con the international conversation when it
Speaker:comes to these different kind of events he's put on and the things that he's
Speaker:created, with Live Aid, with you know,
Speaker:by doing so he definitely has a social consciousness, and,
Speaker:that's probably why he's such a monster. So I mean, in England, he's a big
Speaker:star. You know? Right. And he's been knighted. He's sir Bob
Speaker:Geldof. Sir right. So he's right. He's a knight at, you know, like
Speaker:Right. Don't forget that. That's very important. Mike Gawain and
Speaker:Lancelot. That's right. Bob Geldorf. Sir Bob.
Speaker:Sir Bob. He's, trying to raise money to,
Speaker:to wipe out Ebola in our Mike. And so
Speaker:he's gathered, like, one direction, for example, that that's
Speaker:one of, the artists participate, you know, of the
Speaker:groups participating and also,
Speaker:Chris Martin is involved. Just lots of lots of different
Speaker:people. Bono. Well, Chris Chris Martin has to do something to
Speaker:cheer himself up after his conscious uncoupling from Gwyneth.
Speaker:Aw. So he yeah. So he's gotta he's he's like, I should probably do
Speaker:this thing with Bob because I'm sad. That's right.
Speaker:But, anyway so and and, again, he's watching the
Speaker:news because, this, I'm looking at
Speaker:the Daily Mail. You gotta take that with a grain of salt. Right. The Daily
Speaker:Mail. That's where I get all of my news. Well, you
Speaker:you you don't wanna get all your news from that, but it's interesting they
Speaker:have in here some of the specific,
Speaker:lyrics about, you know, the rewriting of the
Speaker:song. Sure. Mike, the blood coming out of your eyes and stuff like that. Well,
Speaker:I don't know if that's in there. I just think it's wonderful that, you know,
Speaker:he has enough money that he doesn't really need to do anything,
Speaker:for the rest of his life. He could just, you know, veg out and
Speaker:watch TV. You could say you could say that he could step behind a wall.
Speaker:Yes. You could also say that. So, yeah,
Speaker:Bob does a lot of nice things, and Live Aid,
Speaker:is great, and he's doing it again to help with Ebola. We'll put that in
Speaker:the show notes, in case you'd like to buy a copy and you'd like to
Speaker:help out as well. But we really want to talk
Speaker:today about his daughter, Peaches.
Speaker:His daughter with Paula Yates who And? Yeah. Who
Speaker:I mean, Paula had her own issues and stuff like that.
Speaker:When when you look at the life of Paula Yates, it seems like she has
Speaker:a a a touch of the crazy, in her
Speaker:as well. She was a so she was a UK TV presenter. So think about
Speaker:the MTV presenters back in the eighties, like Downtown Julie Brown or just
Speaker:a regular Julie Brown. She's a VJ in England or the
Speaker:UK back in the back in the 19 eighties, and that's kinda how they got
Speaker:got together. They had 3
Speaker:children, little Pixie,
Speaker:Fifi, and Peaches Honey Blossom.
Speaker:Yeah. Are the 3 kids they had. And,
Speaker:the thing about the thing about, Paula Yates is that,
Speaker:she left Bob Geldof to be with Michael Hutchins of
Speaker:INXS. After after they they had their 3 kids
Speaker:together, she left to be with I mean, Michael Hutchens from INXS was
Speaker:pretty sexy. I mean, remember the video for the devil inside there? I mean, that
Speaker:was a good looking guy, you know? And he's Australian, so he had that kind
Speaker:of bad boy crocodile Dundee thing going on in
Speaker:the chick's frickin'. Yeah. Good day.
Speaker:But then Michael Hutchens, obviously, had some issues of
Speaker:his own, killed himself in 1997,
Speaker:had a daughter with Paul Yates named Tiger Lily.
Speaker:Oh, I did not know all of this. Yes. So Michael Hutchens and Paul Yates
Speaker:had their daughter named Tiger Lily. So she continues to have the fun
Speaker:names go, you know, Peaches Honey Blossom, Little Pixie,
Speaker:Fifi. You name the dog Fifi. You don't name your daughter Fifi.
Speaker:Oh, yeah. Okay. But the thing is so Paula Yates had issues
Speaker:of her own. She died of a heroin overdose in
Speaker:2000. So she liked to party
Speaker:and killed herself with an overdose. I mean, not a suicide, but she killed
Speaker:herself by doing too much heroin in 2000. Here's
Speaker:what a good guy Bob Geldof is. He raises
Speaker:Tiger Lily. He he takes Tiger Lily, her
Speaker:daughter with Michael Hutches, as his
Speaker:own daughter, after they both pass away.
Speaker:Yeah. Well, I don't know. He just seem he just seems like a guy with
Speaker:a big heart. He's kept a pretty even keel throughout the years. And
Speaker:having to deal with Paula Yates, who sounds like, you know,
Speaker:she was she was a load of fun. Yeah. Well,
Speaker:you know, and and in rock music, you know, that that
Speaker:is a component. That is something that that
Speaker:has been, you know, part of rock and roll since the beginning,
Speaker:is is drugs. And, it it's
Speaker:just sad that, you know, along with with all these, you know,
Speaker:great great creations that these artists come up
Speaker:with, that they always see, you know, most mostly
Speaker:seem dogged by problems with addictions with controlled substances. Well, absolutely. I
Speaker:mean, that was the the origin of the
Speaker:phrase cool was jazz musicians talking to each other
Speaker:about, whether they smoked marijuana or not. That was the thing. Are you
Speaker:cool? Are you, you know, are you so every time the
Speaker:Fonzie talks about something's cool, he's really telling kids to smoke dope.
Speaker:I did not know that. The Fonz. Yeah. And then you think about how
Speaker:ubiquitous the that phrase is Yeah. Today. So, I mean,
Speaker:these things really do have a have a, you know, such an impact
Speaker:on, you know, the larger society. And, you know, you
Speaker:really get the, you know, the creativity of
Speaker:it, but you also get all this this baggage, this
Speaker:toxic baggage along with it. And, you know, so let's talk
Speaker:about peaches then because Peach is honey blossom. Yeah. She came
Speaker:she came into this family. She, you know, had all the the
Speaker:benefits, but also all the temptations of a
Speaker:life of fame and fortune. And, she
Speaker:didn't fare too well. Well, she I mean, the thing is I mean
Speaker:so to the Americans listening to the podcast, I mean, they didn't
Speaker:know who Peaches Geldof was. No. But you gotta think of her like she
Speaker:was Paris Hilton in the UK. She was more like Nicole Richie,
Speaker:because Nicole Richie was the daughter of, a singer.
Speaker:So you know, like so Nicole Richie is famous,
Speaker:been famous since she was a kid, famous parents, and lived that
Speaker:kind of socialite debutante life. Right. Absolutely.
Speaker:And, so it it said that, you know, last
Speaker:year or actually this year this year, it's almost,
Speaker:the year is almost up, but in in April,
Speaker:she she died of a heroin overdose as well.
Speaker:And and to be only 25 and and to
Speaker:die of something like that, you know, have your whole life ahead of you.
Speaker:You know, it's just and it's it's just a sad thing to
Speaker:think of, you know, someone that young, dying because of
Speaker:an addiction. Well, an addict yeah. Exactly. And it's even more tragic
Speaker:when they have affluence, and then they
Speaker:have, they have a life of leisure
Speaker:and pleasure themselves. You know? We see it happen with people who are
Speaker:wealthy all the time. And and Peach's Honey Blossom Geldof,
Speaker:unfortunately, was was no different. But why we're talking about her on the
Speaker:show is that imagine if Paris Hilton had,
Speaker:like, a whole bunch of ghost stories. Imagine if imagine if Nicole
Speaker:Richie had gone off and tried a bunch of different mystical
Speaker:religions. Right. You know? And such was
Speaker:Peaches Geldof. You know, she really had a quite a legacy
Speaker:of trying to find religion. And and that that what
Speaker:makes makes her interesting is that, you know, she had a search for meaning
Speaker:and the mystical in her own life. I mean, she
Speaker:was a party girl, obviously, and we'll talk about that, But, it's
Speaker:also the fact that she was searching for for meaning in mysticism
Speaker:in her life and had some ghostly encounters and things like
Speaker:that that that makes it interesting and extra tragic. The UK,
Speaker:their celebrities, even even their celebrity garbage. I mean,
Speaker:not saying a human is ever garbage. You know what I mean? And speaking of
Speaker:the dead, but even talking about their even their debutantes are
Speaker:more interesting than ours. You know what I mean? Like, Peaches
Speaker:more more substance. Right. Peaches was at least looking for something.
Speaker:And she was reading. In a way, she was reading.
Speaker:Some people question, you know, her choice of reading, you know, Aleister
Speaker:Crowley, for example, but at least she was she was reading and it's it's sad
Speaker:that, you know, that that couldn't have informed her choices more,
Speaker:you know, to be able to say no to the the drug that ultimately claimed
Speaker:her life. Well right. And, you know, she
Speaker:she was trying to be an artist in her own right. She was working on
Speaker:a debut album in 2010. Everybody's got you know, eve everybody has
Speaker:an album, because all you gotta do is talk or sing a little bit and
Speaker:then a DJ can put something behind it. So she had you know, she was
Speaker:trying to be an artist. She dated she
Speaker:dated the director of Hostel. Oh, I didn't know that.
Speaker:Eli Roth. Yeah. She dated the director of Hostel, and he's also the bare
Speaker:Jew from Inglourious Basterds. So he acted he
Speaker:acted something in with Brad Pitt as well. So she was
Speaker:hanging out with the celebrity scene.
Speaker:Probably the most humiliating thing that happened to her was,
Speaker:she had a heroin fueled 1 night stand, and the guy
Speaker:talked about it on Reddit. Oh, man. So, like,
Speaker:had, like, you know, a picture of her in his bed and stuff like that,
Speaker:and he talked to me, and he's like and then he put it up on
Speaker:Reddit, you know, to try to get his own little, fame
Speaker:about it. And that's that was, you know, a
Speaker:very sad, pathetic kinda thing. But then
Speaker:she became a Scientologist. That's why she met with Katie Holmes.
Speaker:Yeah. Which is kind of has a interesting connection to, you know, where we're
Speaker:we're going with this destruct, this, discussion.
Speaker:But but yeah. So Scientology tried that,
Speaker:which, you know, is of interest just because of, you know,
Speaker:the the biofeedback element. If
Speaker:you you take away all the thetans and all the the crazier
Speaker:elements of Scientology, You know, the idea of being able
Speaker:to monitor your brain activity and and try
Speaker:to, control your emotions. I mean, that just seems
Speaker:like a good idea. The only problem is,
Speaker:you know, when you get that with Scientology,
Speaker:you also, you know, get this, You also get jumping on couches,
Speaker:Tom Cruise. Yes. Well, you know, jump on couches. I don't have a problem
Speaker:with that, but I I do have a problem with, this legacy
Speaker:of control, which they seem to exert over their followers and
Speaker:their even their followers' children. Well, I I so yeah. Well, I
Speaker:mean, like any church, they have their they have their skeletons in the
Speaker:closet. Yeah. They have their their thetans in the closet, I should
Speaker:say. Quite quite a lot. And, you know, I think a lot of people and
Speaker:I rip and make fun of Scientology just like anybody else does,
Speaker:but, I've read Dianetics. You
Speaker:know? So I think if people read Dianetics, The book by L.
Speaker:Ron Hubbard, we should say. The founder of of Scientology.
Speaker:And Dianetics is Mike the first book of Scientology.
Speaker:And when you read it, Mike I mean, Dianetics doesn't seem crazy at all.
Speaker:Dianetics is really an interesting, well thought, put
Speaker:together book about making changes in your life. And I can see why a lot
Speaker:of people who struggle with addiction and stuff like Mike, are interested in Scientology
Speaker:because Dianetics kind of finds a way for that. It talks about,
Speaker:you know, defeating and making changes in your Mike, and
Speaker:it does it in a way that doesn't have that, the 12
Speaker:step process. You know? So it talks about making
Speaker:positive changes in a non religious way
Speaker:so far, right? And, in a common sense
Speaker:kind of way. So I can see why people are attracted to Dianetics, and that
Speaker:can lead them further and further to get closer to the operating
Speaker:thetan level that we all aspire to.
Speaker:Oh, yeah. It's only it's only a $100,000, and
Speaker:you too can be an operating thetan. Yeah. Could you explain a
Speaker:thetan, Mike? Well, a a a thetan is
Speaker:your is your soul, basically. It's the it's the,
Speaker:it's the Scientologist version of of the soul. And
Speaker:so we are trying to get
Speaker:towards that. You know, I think of it like you know, I almost think
Speaker:of it in in Roger's psychology.
Speaker:And so there was a certain branch of psychology that
Speaker:talks about, you know, your idealized self and your
Speaker:actual self. And the incongruence between those two
Speaker:things is what makes you feel anxiety. What what's
Speaker:upsetting you in your Mike. Oh, cognitive dissonance. Yes. Thank
Speaker:you. I was looking for that, but it's been a while since I thought, you
Speaker:know, Wendy into the realms of psychology into the realms of
Speaker:psychology and my my mind.
Speaker:But so that kind of Rogers philosophy. And and that's kind of what the what
Speaker:the thetans are, except you get that through different,
Speaker:scientol you get different, you know, scientological rituals and discussion, like you're talking
Speaker:about the biofeedback and things like that. And you get further
Speaker:and further into Scientology, you get closer to that
Speaker:idealized self, you're operating thetan.
Speaker:Ah, I see. But but doesn't this have to do something with aliens
Speaker:as well, or am I just just kind of,
Speaker:kind of getting that mixed up with Battlefield Earth? No.
Speaker:That's I'll run Harvard's, other famous work
Speaker:that became an infamous film. Yes. And and,
Speaker:no. The thing is is there's also the whole idea that our souls
Speaker:are all from another planet, and they're all trapped inside this volcano,
Speaker:and that's what you get at the highest level of Scientology is you get the
Speaker:you get the sci you you get the sci fi treatment. We're
Speaker:trapped inside a volcano? Yeah. I mean, I don't we can we'll we'll be
Speaker:discussing Scientology. Alright. Well, I think We'll get into that more
Speaker:later. That's a good one. But there is a whole sci fi aspect to it
Speaker:too. You know, which I guess Wendy you talk about,
Speaker:theologians debating angels dancing on the head of a pin
Speaker:or, you know, people talking about the war in
Speaker:heaven that happened untold eons
Speaker:ago between Lucifer and
Speaker:God. Right. What what's that
Speaker:different than Zeno and or Zenu and his, operating, you
Speaker:know, army of thetans Yes. That that But then
Speaker:religious mythology could be, you know, viewed in
Speaker:that same same light. Right. Except, I mean, Joseph Smith lived a
Speaker:150 years ago, and L. Ron Hubbard was
Speaker:alive, you know, in in our parents' lifetime and in our part of our
Speaker:lifetime. And, the people who worked on the
Speaker:the books of the Bible and the Old Testament weren't. I mean, that's the big
Speaker:difference. So that that's why I say, like, we make fun of Scientologists,
Speaker:but, you you know, like religion, can get you closer
Speaker:to, a spirituality and can help you out.
Speaker:Scientology can do the same thing, and I think that Peaches Geldof was was looking
Speaker:for that. Right. To to find, you know, some meaning,
Speaker:as you were saying, and and to, you know, maybe use
Speaker:what she finds to, you know, make herself a better person.
Speaker:And once she got over all of the, you know, once she she
Speaker:got a lot of her partying out of her system, she did get married
Speaker:and then be and then converted to Judaism.
Speaker:She married a singer named Thomas Cohen, who sang in
Speaker:a band called SCUM. Yes. Very inspirational.
Speaker:S c u Mike, scum. So
Speaker:then she tried out I mean, Judaism has its own kind of mysticism,
Speaker:and that's been popular in Hollywood too. Remember Madonna had
Speaker:went to the Kabbalah Center? Right. Kabbalah.
Speaker:Yeah. That's, You gave me a book on the Kabbalah, didn't you? Oh, I
Speaker:did. Oh, maybe. You did give me a book on the Kabbalah. So she got
Speaker:involved in all this kind of mysticism. And,
Speaker:then eventually, last year, she got involved
Speaker:in the OTO. What's that about, Allison? Yeah. So
Speaker:that's, the order Templi Orientis
Speaker:or, the Order of Oriental Templars,
Speaker:and this is an organization that that started in Germany
Speaker:but, was soon brought to the UK
Speaker:by none other than Uncle
Speaker:Al. The the wickedest man in the whole of the
Speaker:world. Yes. Aleister Crowley. Holy moly. It's
Speaker:Aleister Crowley. He he was
Speaker:a one of a kind individual. I mean,
Speaker:there he called themselves the the great beast,
Speaker:and and there's just so many stories about him.
Speaker:You know, he wasn't a cultist to be sure,
Speaker:and had questionable,
Speaker:morals, I guess you would say. Or but Or or not quite just lack
Speaker:of. Just no morals. Let's just say that. He had a different set of ethics.
Speaker:You know? Yes. Kinda like we talk about Satanists and stuff. Yes. And
Speaker:and he was also very into drugs,
Speaker:unfortunately. But, you know, there he's
Speaker:was an interesting character, quite a a learned individual.
Speaker:And, you know, some some people, there's whole books about him. There's
Speaker:there's one book that, posits that
Speaker:he was actually a spy, during World War 2
Speaker:or that he participated in,
Speaker:bringing down the Nazis with, with
Speaker:rival occult knowledge. So and and which really Mike
Speaker:sense to because as we know, the Nazis were
Speaker:were occultists as well. And and so,
Speaker:Alistair wanting to defend, the UK. UK The empire. But,
Speaker:yes, would, of course, use use, any weaponry
Speaker:he had in his arsenal, which, of course, was a cult
Speaker:weaponry. So, you know, his knowledge of
Speaker:occultism, you know, may have been used by
Speaker:UK's government to, you know, try to at least,
Speaker:bring the morale down, among the Nazis. So I'd like to believe
Speaker:I'd like to believe that they that the allies used Alastair's
Speaker:power Yeah. To bring down the
Speaker:fearsome force of the Third Reich. Well, it's something
Speaker:that you should look into and maybe do a whole episode about that. But,
Speaker:anyway, he he, again, was, you know,
Speaker:very learned person, but
Speaker:that led him to the occult and also to drugs.
Speaker:And, unfortunately, you know, many people
Speaker:think it was it was, Peach's
Speaker:interest in the OTO, which would lead her down
Speaker:the road that would eventually claim her life. Now what does The
Speaker:OTO, just to let people know, so they do kind of I mean, that
Speaker:it's not like satanism where they use
Speaker:these rituals as just symbolism.
Speaker:The LTO straight up believes in magic. That's right. That is
Speaker:spells and rituals in order to bring some kind
Speaker:of some kind of Wendy, accomplish something through
Speaker:actual magic. Like, you know, if you were doing something Mike if you you
Speaker:put an eye of a newt. Well, I mean, I don't know if they
Speaker:did eye of newt, but You put an eye of a newt and, like, a
Speaker:a couple of herbs and something like that into a pot, mix it up, and
Speaker:drink it, and the next day, that something magical happens to you. But these
Speaker:guys do they have different kinds of rituals. Some of them some of
Speaker:them sexual in nature and all these kinda, all this kind of stuff the
Speaker:OTO does. Anything you might imagine They're
Speaker:they're into. As black black magic, they did it. They love it.
Speaker:So it was very concerning, for people when
Speaker:when, Peaches began sporting an OTO
Speaker:tattoo. She got an OTO,
Speaker:tattoo on her right arm, heart, and
Speaker:then inside the heart were were the letters OTO.
Speaker:So this this might have been, you know, this is probably her her
Speaker:next was probably her next step in her
Speaker:religious search. And and how long after the I
Speaker:mean, it wasn't long after she got that OTO tattoo that she
Speaker:saw a ghost in her selfie. Yeah. So that
Speaker:that's another, interesting
Speaker:aspect of of the whole Peaches Galuf story.
Speaker:So, she was interested in the OTO, which,
Speaker:of course, is interested in, you know, all things,
Speaker:magic and paranormal. Oh. And and then and
Speaker:then, in December of 2013,
Speaker:she took a selfie of herself
Speaker:and, you know, one of her little children
Speaker:and, she had her, daughter in the bath
Speaker:and, just took a a selfie, of the both of
Speaker:them, and posted it to Twitter and
Speaker:for some reason, there was an extra hand in the
Speaker:photo. Yep. A ghostly hand right next to her head.
Speaker:Yeah. And and she couldn't account for it. You
Speaker:can see these pictures online. I'm sure you'll put them in the show notes
Speaker:Mhmm. Or a link to it in the show notes, Mike. But,
Speaker:she, posted to Instagram saying that she got a
Speaker:close-up shot of a mystery ghost hand,
Speaker:in the the picture she just took. And she's Mike, no. It's not
Speaker:my hand. One of mine was around,
Speaker:oh, I said daughter was was her her young son. But,
Speaker:the name, the name of the child is
Speaker:Asthala, though, in the in Asthala. I thought it was a girl. Sorry. And so
Speaker:here's here's an example, though, of the mirror not
Speaker:completely doing their work. So it says her daughter's a stala,
Speaker:but her response to it is, no. That isn't my hand. 1 of mine
Speaker:was around his waist to hold him during the photo. Yes. So obviously
Speaker:Somebody didn't check somebody didn't check their sources. Yes. So,
Speaker:yeah, this is what we're talking about. You have to watch out with the tabloids
Speaker:in the UK. The grain of salt. Yes.
Speaker:Anyway, so the important part is the picture and that she
Speaker:posted it to Instagram and she she tweeted about it
Speaker:later. But the gist is that
Speaker:that she was saying, no. That's that's not my hand because one hand was
Speaker:around his waist to hold them up, and the other was holding
Speaker:the camera to take the photo.
Speaker:And she she was quite
Speaker:alarmed by that, and it's not his hand either.
Speaker:You can tell, you know, where his shoulder is. Right. If that's his
Speaker:if that's his hand, then there's something wrong with that baby. Yeah. That that
Speaker:can't be his hand either. He doesn't know it's Christmas. Yeah.
Speaker:Because, yeah. Because you see his shoulder right there and and his other
Speaker:hand wouldn't go all the way around the back of his head. That would be
Speaker:That'd be too weird. That would be really weird. But, anyway, so
Speaker:we don't know whose hand that is. And then, you know, she was quite frightened
Speaker:by that and left left the
Speaker:door open, to to just let some light in,
Speaker:because she was afraid that the ghost might come back. But,
Speaker:but She said she said she was literally pooping herself She did say that.
Speaker:In her actual she's Mike in in the Instagram thing. And and
Speaker:she hashtags it haunted, hashtag ghost.
Speaker:Right. So she's like, I am using you know, I am pooping Mike,
Speaker:hashtag haunted, hashtag ghost. So she's still on the
Speaker:phone. Anyway, she she said that she did some
Speaker:historical research and found that there had
Speaker:been a wealthy man and his wife that that had owned,
Speaker:the building in the 19 twenties And,
Speaker:she became pregnant, this woman, and
Speaker:unfortunately, she gave birth to a stillborn baby
Speaker:and just, you know, of course, couldn't get over that and,
Speaker:ended up drowning herself in the bathtub. So,
Speaker:definitely, Peaches thought that
Speaker:was a connection, that that was the the the
Speaker:hand of this, mother, just
Speaker:wanting to wanting to maybe touch the baby, wanting
Speaker:to to be a
Speaker:mother again. She said maybe maybe she's making her presence known because she
Speaker:loves having the babies around. I hope so. She said
Speaker:that on her, her social media. Yeah. And
Speaker:maybe, you know, because she was getting into the OTO at the
Speaker:time, and, she even carried around Alastair Crowley's
Speaker:book, The Diary of a Drug Fiend. And she she would take you know,
Speaker:she was taking Instagram pictures of his books while she while she was
Speaker:traveling. And, you know, maybe the ghost reached
Speaker:out to her because she was closer to the, you
Speaker:know, closer to the dark side there by head messing and becoming part
Speaker:of the OTO and and getting really into it. Well, you
Speaker:know, it's just just so sad to think of the title of that
Speaker:book, you know, Diary of a Drug Fiend, and then how she
Speaker:she had been clean for a while. And then in April
Speaker:of this year, you know, had gotten back
Speaker:into heroin, even with the
Speaker:kids in the house. And then that that's what eventually
Speaker:would claim her life. So, I mean, that's
Speaker:I mean, it's fine to read Aleister Crowley for esoteric
Speaker:ideas, but It's not a good
Speaker:idea to, emulate the man's life because follow in his
Speaker:footsteps, because he he would, you know,
Speaker:dry die an impoverished drug addict and, you
Speaker:know, that's that's not the way that we wanna go in life. Well, if if
Speaker:you think of maybe right. And think about someone, you know, closer to
Speaker:even to Madison, someone like Chris Farley, who
Speaker:his idol was, John Belushi.
Speaker:Right. So we gotta be careful who we idolize. Right. Because he went
Speaker:out like John Belushi. Like, so he he wanted to be him so bad that
Speaker:he died like him. Yeah. We might, become more like
Speaker:them than we thought possible and more than we would want in
Speaker:our in our saner moments. But then, you know, after after
Speaker:her death, it's funny just watching
Speaker:watching the, bulletin boards for, like, above top
Speaker:secret or, David Mike
Speaker:websites. Oh, we talked we talked a lot about David Mike, David Ick.
Speaker:Yeah. And how and how they just kind
Speaker:of descended on this and as
Speaker:as, you know, kind of the the the OTO claimed
Speaker:her or it it was because of the OTO that she
Speaker:died. And it it's just
Speaker:you know, so so we have just the people on the
Speaker:fringe on on on a couple of different sides of it. The idea that, you
Speaker:know, she was somehow an Illuminati princess
Speaker:and, you know, she got too close to the flame,
Speaker:and or or that the OTO killed her. That was
Speaker:also something that that, online
Speaker:people, were talking about
Speaker:quite a lot. So, I I mean, these things don't
Speaker:seem to have a basis in reality in in my mind, but it's quite
Speaker:interesting to see people's reaction. Well, you know, in her final
Speaker:interview, she did have a premonition that she would die like her mother.
Speaker:Oh. So she did talk about that. She's that,
Speaker:she would go out, she would die in the same way as her mother.
Speaker:So, whether that could be she just had, you know,
Speaker:re realizing she was having heroin problems, and that once that she
Speaker:played once she played with the fire and she could no longer handle it.
Speaker:But she admitted herself that, she had a a final
Speaker:premonition. Wow. And one one wonders if she just
Speaker:would've stayed with Scientology, if she would've been
Speaker:alright. Because it it's interesting, to note that,
Speaker:before, El Ron Hubbard,
Speaker:started his own thing, he was part of the OTO as well,
Speaker:and then left the OTO to,
Speaker:begin his own religion. That's right. So maybe if she were
Speaker:just stuck with Scientology, then Peaches would have been Yeah.
Speaker:Still here today. You know, the interesting thing about, the
Speaker:OTO that we didn't mention is that L. Ron Hubbard, the founder
Speaker:of Scientology, was once a member of the OTO as
Speaker:well. Then he, you know, had a
Speaker:a very definitive break with them, let's say. You'll you'll have to you'll
Speaker:have to talk about that on a future show. Oh, yes. L
Speaker:Ron L Ron Hubbard involves with the OT. I mean,
Speaker:that's L Ron Hubbard, Aleister Crowley, Scientology. The
Speaker:one good thing you can say about Scientology is they've always
Speaker:been very antidrug. They seem to have this,
Speaker:antidrug stance. So, you know, one wishes
Speaker:that, you know, Peaches Geldof would have just, you know, found some meaning
Speaker:there. And, you know, it just pains me. If you look online, you can even
Speaker:see a picture of her her coffin. And on her
Speaker:coffin is is, an
Speaker:image of her and her husband
Speaker:and their 2 dogs and a cat and their 2 children. And just
Speaker:to, you know, see that on the
Speaker:coffin and to think, you know, of of the life
Speaker:that they were having and they could have continued. And so, obviously,
Speaker:she loved her children, but to, you know, the the
Speaker:the pull of that drug was just so much that, you know,
Speaker:she did it in the house when they were there with her. And, you know,
Speaker:they could have gotten hurt too because, you know, she she died and
Speaker:they were left alone for many hours. She knew she was going to die. I
Speaker:mean, the fact that she knew she was going to die. Right. And she had
Speaker:that premonition which which could have you know, if you have a
Speaker:premonition, you can do something about it. You know, it doesn't have to
Speaker:be, self fulfilling prophecy, but that
Speaker:she didn't. She just went into it. You could have a a beautiful life
Speaker:like Peaches had and just, you know, have that end
Speaker:just way too quickly. So the, absolutely. So
Speaker:so she knew she was gonna Mike, and she had ghostly
Speaker:encounters in her home And, then then she went
Speaker:on April 1st this year. And it was no joke. You know, no April Fools'
Speaker:Day for her. And so that's the short life and tragic
Speaker:death of Peaches Geldof, a woman who was looking for answers and
Speaker:unfortunately Wendy up with the wrong ones. Well,
Speaker:Allison, it's been a delight to talk to you today. Thank you for stopping by.
Speaker:See you on the other side. I always love talking to you. I'm like, you
Speaker:know that. And you're welcome anytime. And so for people that
Speaker:wanna find you online, where can they find you and more information about your
Speaker:paranormal adventures? Okay. Well, please visit me
Speaker:at milwaukeeghost.com or you can
Speaker:also, find me on facebook@facebook.com/paranormamke.
Speaker:Fantastic. Thanks a lot, Allison, and we'll talk to you soon. Bye, Mike.
Speaker:Well, that was great. And if you're interested in the link to Allison's
Speaker:website and a little more information about what Mike and Alison
Speaker:talked about today, it's on othersidepodcast.com/8,
Speaker:where we'll also have the lyrics in an MP 3 for today's song, which,
Speaker:Mike, can you tell us about it? You bet. Well, this is just a song
Speaker:dedicated to people like Peaches, dedicated
Speaker:to, like, people, Kim Kardashian
Speaker:or Paris Hilton
Speaker:or Nicole Richie. This is Sunspot doing
Speaker:who cries for the rich girl.
Speaker:Wait. Human
Speaker:trash does not recycle.
Speaker:You're as good as your
Speaker:new cycle.
Speaker:Thank you for listening to today's episode. You can find
Speaker:us online at othersidepodcast.com. Until
Speaker:next Mike. See you on the other side.