Aikmaniac;4504658 said:
There was a documentary/short story about the Manson family on History a year or so back which detailed that week leading up to the Tate murders.
The influence he had on those girls was absolutely chilling. It literally had me thinking about it for a couple days after.
Many of you may know this, but the house owned by Sharon Tate and Roman Polanski was previously owned by a record-label manager that was approached several times by Manson.
Evidently, the psycho played some music and thought he was pretty good. The manager blew him off. Apparently, some think he thought the house was cursed and had his family take out anyone that lived there.
Again...chilling.
Yeah, Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys introduced Manson to Rudy Altobelli and Terry Melcher. Melcher is Doris Day's son. Both had lived at that address and Manson had been there before. There was even a report of Sharon Tate having seen Manson when he came looking for Melcher one time.
Manson believed the Beatles White Album was talking to him and he needed to start a race war. He got these kids hopped up on LSD, told them his name was Charles Willis Manson, then split his middle name in Will Is, and his last name to Mans Son, so that his name said Charles Will is Mans Son. They literally believed he was the son of God.
They were so into his music, sermons, and philosophies that he could literally order them to do anything. He organized huge LSD induced orgies where he chose who was being partners with who during the sex and even had homosexual relations during these orgies to show them that nothing was wrong.
These lost, impressionable kids were being fed drugs and lies about him and they convinced themselves that this guy was a savior of sorts. Charlie is Love. They would do anything for him.
It absolutely is one of the most chilling episodes in our History. The weird thing is Charlie has a whole new generation of followers who weren't even alive when all of this was happening.
Basically he preyed upon people whose lives were in a type of turmoil and told them there was no right and wrong, and then he went out of his way to be everything to them and they followed, wanting even yearning for it all to be true so that they mattered.
Classic brainwashing.