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The Occult Life of Charles Lindbergh 🧵⬇️

Lindbergh is most famous for accomplishing the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927, which made him an American hero in the eyes of the public. But…

What is less well known are some of the strange & mystical details about his life, his interest in eugenics/transhumanism, his admiration for the Nazis, his connections to the early US rocketry program & UFOs, & his possible involvement in the kidnapping of his own child.

Lindbergh was born in 1902, the only child of US Congressman Charles August Lindbergh & chemistry teacher Evangeline Lodge Land.

His grandfather was dentistry pioneer Charles H. Land, the inventor of porcelain & gold teeth crowns. He spent much time in his grandfather’s lab learning about science & philosophy.

“Even the laboratory, for all its wonders, carried some sinister connotations in Lindbergh’s memory. He ended up cutting from his manuscript a paragraph that attributed to his grandfather’s dental chair ‘the attributes of Satan.’” lol #dentistwatch

In the summer of 1921, Lindbergh attended ROTC training camp at Fort Knox in Kentucky. Fans of Penny Royal & Hellier might find it interesting that while staying in KY, Lindbergh visited Mammoth Cave, a popular area for occult & paranormal activity.

There he became acquainted with Floyd Collins, the discoverer of the Great Crystal Cave who was involved in the “Kentucky Cave Wars” of the early 20th century. Floyd became a local legend a few years later after he got stuck in Sand Cave and died.

In 1924, Lindbergh enlisted as a US Army Flying cadet in Texas, & in 1925 graduated 1st in his class from the US Air Service Flying School in San Antonio. A couple years later, he made his famous flight in his ‘Spirit of St. Louis’ airplane built by Ryan Airline Co. in San Diego.

In December 1926, months before his famous flight, he became a Freemason and completed his degrees at Keystone Lodge # 243, A.F. & A.M. of St. Louis while working as a mail pilot for Robertson Aircraft Corporation.

He briefly lived in apt. 201 at Palomar Apartments in San Diego, while Ryan Aircraft was building the Spirit of St. Louis. The Palomar area was allegedly a hotbed of occult activity.

According to James Shelby Downard, occult groups, such as OTO, later performed rituals involving the star Sirius at the Palomar Observatory. Sirius is also a significant star in Freemasonry.

A few years later in 1931, Lindy & his wife would fly in their custom built Lockheed “Sirius” on a trip to Asia which would be cut short when the plane was damaged in Hankou, China, which is now known as Wuhan.

Anyway, a strange thing happened during his 1927 Spirit of St. Louis flight. During the 22nd hour of the 33 1/2 hour flight, he described seeing & hearing numerous ghostly spirits in the plane with him.

“Did they board my plane, unseen as I flew between the temple’s pillars?” 👁️

After his famous flight, Lindbergh was practically deified by the media and much of the public.

Then he flew across the US for a publicity tour managed by retired Marine pilot Donald E. Keyhoe, who later published a book about the experience called ‘Flying with Lindbergh.’

Keyhoe would later achieve notoriety for his 1950 book, ‘The Flying Saucers are Real’ & for claiming the govt was covering up the truth about UFOs. He cofounded UFO research group NICAP w/ inventor & antigravity researcher T. Townsend Brown.

In 1928, Lindbergh had an epiphany in the Utah desert and realized he was tired of being an aviation hero. He wanted to pursue more scientific endeavors and return to his passion for biology and perhaps try to find the key to immortality.

He married Anne Morrow Lindbergh in 1929. Anne’s father, Dwight Morrow, was the US Ambassador to Mexico and close friend of OSS Director/future MKULTRA operative William “Wild Bill” Donovan.

In June 1930, Lindbergh’s first child, Charles Jr. was born. He reportedly had rickets and a minor toe deformity, but was otherwise healthy.

In Nov 1930, Lindbergh began working w/ Dr. Alexis Carrel to create a perfusion pump to keep organs alive outside of a body in order to facilitate organ transplants. Lindbergh saw the human body like a machine that could potentially live forever by changing out its faulty parts.

Carrel was the 1st scientist in the US to win a Nobel Prize. He was also a strange man w/ his own interests in mysticism, ESP, telepathy, social engineering & eugenics. His interest in mysticism began when he witnessed a miraculous healing at the shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes.

While working in his lab at Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, Carrel dressed in all black hooded robes and made all his assistants do the same. His operating room and equipment were completely covered in black.

He and Lindy developed a close, long-lasting friendship.

On March 1, 1932, Charles Jr. went missing. Anne & nursemaid Betty Gow both immediately suspected Charles Lindbergh had something to do with it, since just 2 months prior he had hidden the baby in a closet & pretended he had been kidnapped before finally admitting it was a joke.

Lindbergh was prone to playing cruel “jokes” on those around him, seemingly as a means of control, including poisoning a fellow pilot with kerosene.

Amelia Earhart was witness to some of his cruelty toward Anne.

Lindbergh’s behavior was strange and domineering during the investigation of his missing child.

He used his celebrity status to his advantage & took charge of the investigation. He repeatedly refused help from the FBI and many of his actions undermined the case.

In May 1932, the baby’s body was found near Lindbergh’s property. Lindbergh briefly examined the remains & immediately ordered to have them cremated.

Thus, an autopsy was never performed & any potential evidence was destroyed just hours after the body was discovered.

There was also the strange coincidence of a similar kidnapping threat to Anne’s sister Constance Morrow, just 1 month before Anne & Charles were married in 1929.

It was the Morrow family who paid the $50k ransom for the Lindbergh baby —the same amount demanded for Constance.

Anne Lindbergh later remarked in her diary that she never saw Charles shed a single tear for their firstborn child.

Strange things happened to several people involved in the case.

Carrel sent his condolences & encouraged him to quickly get back to work w/ him at Rockefeller lab

Back in 1929, Lindbergh met Robert Goddard, who was experimenting with rockets & fuel sources. Both men believed that a rocket could someday reach the moon. Lindbergh was also close friends with Buzz Aldrin’s father.

Lindbergh was an enthusiastic supporter of Goddard & was instrumental in helping him obtain funding from the Guggenheims.

The funding enabled Goddard to set up a lab in Roswell, NM in the 1930s, more than a decade before the area would become famously associated with UFOs.

A few years later, the Lindberghs moved to Europe & lived near Carrel’s home in France. While there, he also befriended Jim Newton, who would later write about their friendships w/ Carrel, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford & Harvey Firestone. Jim was head of dev. of Edison Park in FL.

Lindbergh & Jim Newton spent a lot of time together in Florida on Jim’s boat called “The Aldebaran”.

Aldebaran is a star in the constellation Taurus. It is significant in some esoteric Nazi lore and UFO lore.

Lindy was the best man at Jim’s wedding. He told Jim:
“I’ve found that when you make a deep commitment, unforeseen forces come to your aid…this reality is the force at the heart of the universe. That force becomes available to us in some measure, if our spirits are open to it.”

Also in Europe, Lindy became friends w/ former British army officer Sir Francis Younghusband, a famous explorer who surveyed the Himalayas & was president the of Royal Geographical Society. Younghusband had a mystical experience in Tibet that sparked his interest in Theosophy.

He believed in telepathy and claimed there were extraterrestrials living on a planet called Altair.

He encouraged Lindy’s interest in hypnosis and fire-walking. Lindbergh joined him at a world parliament of religions in Calcutta in honor of Hindu mystic Ramakrishna in 1937.

In Oct. 1938, Lindbergh received an achievement medal from Nazi air minister Hermann Göring at the behest of Hitler.

He also played a role in recruiting Nazi scientists & engineers from the German rocket program to bring them to the US before Project Paperclip officially ensued.

A few months before the alleged Roswell UFO crash and the so-called “flying saucer craze” began in 1947, Lindbergh test piloted the Flying Pancake.

In July 1959, Charles & Anne visited Carl Jung at his home in Bollingen and conversed about UFOs and Donald Keyhoe. Apparently Lindbergh & Jung did not agree on the subject.

Later in life, Lindbergh’s children and in-laws would describe him as controlling. They, along with Anne, would learn that he had secretly fathered other children in Germany.

In his last years, Lindbergh became involved in environmental conservation efforts with Kenneth Bechtel, the son of Warren Bechtel who was the founder of Bechtel Corporation.

Anyways, Lindbergh seems like he was a secretive and complicated man with lots of skeletons in his closet (pun intended). There were many strange and mystical threads and coincidences running through his life. I left a ton out because this has gotten ridiculously long.

As Dave McGowan points out in PTK, Lindbergh’s paternal grandfather, Ola Mansson, changed his last name to Lindbergh. Had he not changed it, Charles Lindbergh’s name would have been Charles Mansson.

“[God] apparently rewards the killer (like me)…”
—Charles Lindbergh

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