The Devil's Business | The Story of Charles Manson 

Wow, Wendigoon and Aiden committed suicide at the same time, in the same day, killing each others in a suicide pact despite being found thousands of miles from one another, both tied with their hands behind their backs and shot in the back of their heads, and with hundreds of gigabytes of CP stashed in old Windows 98 computers in their basements despite neither of their houses having a basement.

Crazy how Aiden shot himself 10 times in the head, stabbed himself 12 times in the chest, and mutilated himself beyond recognition and he left his tea on which started a fire and burned down his house and his corpse walked itself to the lake which is where it was found, R.I.P. brother

RIP Aiden, He died by shooting himself in the back in the head with a shotgun while having his hands tied behind his back. Such a tragic death

RIP in peace, Aiden. Flew too close to the feds

"What happens when the cia feeds LSD to a career criminal..." man that's just how California works.

Albert Hofmann wasn't a Nazi; he was a Swiss based chemist who tested LSD on himself and his friend Ernst Junger (who twice declined a seat in the Reichstag when offered to him by the Nazi party, and was later implicated in a plot to kill Hitler). I think there is some confusion between Hofmann, a Nazi member who shared the same name with a different spelling (Albert Hoffman), and the testing of mescaline by Kurt Plotner on people imprisoned in concentration camps . Plotner was later recruited by US intelligence to work with them on MK Ultra. (Apologies if people are seeing this and another similar comment from me - my original comment disappeared, but some people say they can see it).

I just subscribed to this guy like today, been watching him for a few days now, and the second he said the Beatles were overrated was the second I realized ima be watching these videos for years to come

Charles Manson and vampires, who knew the CIA was so good at making monsters

The C!A are like cartoon villians, their commitment to terror is impressive.

albert hofmann, the discoverer of lsd, was not a nazi

I was just starting school when all this Manson stuff was happening. Hearing about Helter Skelter and how crazy these people were, it was really a scary time. They were in the news, their faces on tv all the time, and then later they made that movie "Helter Skelter"! It's always been a creepy story!

Charles Mansion’s life was literally the ultimate crossover event

after getting trapped in a cave wendigoon commited suicide with aiden off a nearby bridge after shooting themselves in the chest multiple times.

What I hate about the Manson story is that they were so close to (accidentally) killing a rapist but instead killed an innocent, by most accounts a genuine and generous person.

RIP Aiden, its shocking to belive that he committed suicide by shooting himself in the head and then stabbing himself 13 times in the chest, finally walking 50 miles to the nearby forest where he finally died. It is truly saddening that we lost such a great man so soon 😞

The guy how invented lsd was not a Nazi, he was swiss, not German. Curious where you got that idea from

Helter Skelter is actually what kids in Britain called a spiral slide on the playground lol "I get to the bottom and go back to the top of the ride" Paul McCartney explained it in an interview, it's ok if you don't like the Beatles we just have different tastes 💕 much love

Manson : I need to go get groceries Manson : steals car to get thare

Really enjoying this video so far! Didn’t know the CIA was involved with him 😅 veryyyy interesting!

Please do a video on the MK Ultra. I love your information you compile on everything!

The “I’m the devil, and I’m here to do the Devils work” in Devils rejects sounds so much better tbh

Manson was born with a +500 modifier on charisma

LSD and criminals is oddly a major factor in the history of my hometowns area. I grew up in Midland Ontario (Canada). The next town over, Penetang, was home to Oakridge Asylum (the asylum was later changed in name but not function). From the 60-70s they worked with the US CIA and used criminally insane (or legally labelled such, many were young men simply arrested while stoned or drunk and mislabeled as unstable when merely intoxicated) to test LSD and cruel "therapies". The goal was to make perfect trained killers for the army. Instead they just turned a bunch of minor delinquents into legit psychopaths. It was bad enough that our Federal Government found the facility guilty of gross abuse of rights and closed it down after a major class action suit that reached out Supreme Courts

Babe wake up, theres a new lore Lodge video.

I know if I were born in Ohio, I'd have absolutely no choice but to break from reality just to no longer be in Ohio.

As interesting as this is, I still need to know how many cars Manson stole.

Linda Kassabian drove the car because she was the only one who had a valid drivers license. She stayed with the car and did not kill anyone. This is why she was offered a plea deal if she testified against the others.

I think this is the most in-depth video essay of Manson I've ever seen.

Bravo! Loved it! Just found this channel and I’m already a fan. Learned so much about the Manson story than I knew and your angle about MK-U (normally not a focus in the documentaries) is entirely plausible. Keep it up!

For the first minute, you literally describe my own beginnings... I never realized how sad my early existence was, until someone said it in such a tone. Lol

i brought up a book i'd got in DVNP called 'desert shadows' by bob murphy to my grandparents who live near DVNP, and they dropped the bombshell that one of their family friends was involved in the barker ranch raid. (also apparently a few of the women stopped by my grandparents' church for baby supplies before manson's arrest) so this case has another level of wild to me lmao

Pigs meant fat cats, rich people, bourgeois.

Charles was a main character and was doing an evil playthrough

25:21 the beatles I guess could be considered overrated by today's standards but in the 60s they were ahead of their time and that's the main reason they are still relevant

Another great video. Keep up the great work!

Loving your channel & your commentary 👏 ❤🎉

Love the video! Idk if you’ve read the book Chaos by Tom O Neil but if you’re interested in this you should definitely read it it’s an even more in depth story of the Charles Manson story and I mean IN DEPTH. Highly recommend

I worked with a woman who was obsessed with Manson & would argue you blue that he was an innocent man, she also thinks O.J. Simpson was innocent 😂

I love the lore lodge. Good job man keep it up

Great video guys, top tier ✨✨✨

I love the way you tell your stories lol. This one is outrageous

Small correction: Lynette Fromme attempted to kill Gerald Ford, not Jimmy Carter 😉 AFAIK her gun wasn't even loaded, so it's debated whether she really just wanted to cause a scene or if she was just too stupid to check lmao

A suspended sentence is basically just a sentence in wait , say you get 10 years suspended , next time you’re in a court for fucking up you’re getting that 10 rammed right up yer…😮

dude, this was soooo good. 10/10 minty fresh

Whitey Bulger, the basis for the movies The Departed and Black Mass, Boston's biggest Irish gangster who turned an FBI agent to work for him....also in the Acid tests and would later say he suffered constant headaches and only seemed at peace after killing.

Manson: hey I'm gunna start a drug cult kay? Parole officer, not looking up from paper: sure Chuck, whatever

my grandfather was also a victim of MK Ultra. he accidentally blew off his own leg at the knee while hunting and while he was hospitalized at Balboa, he claimed he would lie there and watch the crews loading and unloading the ships at the docks. the ocean is 7 miles away from the medical center, he was just hallucinating his ass off

One note about Manson’s 1967 release: Manson was scheduled for release on March 21, 1967, following completion of a ten-year sentence for forging a Treasury check. Manson begged prison officials to allow him to stay--prison, he told them, was his home. Unable to comply, the State of California released Charles Manson.

I suspect, that Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, was Tarantino's homage/love-letter to Sharon Tate

Great job, small correction. Gerald Ford was the president that Lynette Squeaky Fromme attempted to assassinate. And Spahn really is pronounced spawn (like what salmon do). I grew up in that area so have a bit of an edge in that respect. Anyway, love your channel and work. Always look forward to it. Respect

I agree, Beatles are overrated! BTW, love this channel! Have learned so much!

12:23 appreciate your use of the word “heroic”

Great video!

22:12 And that's wikipedia! They change their information frequently to cover for more recent politics

I really enjoy your vids man, super informative and entertaining fr. Also you look like the other RU-vidr “goblin” if he never did drugs in a difrent reality😂 in a good way tho. Keep up the work🎉

Aiden tragically committed suicide in mysterious circumstances. RIP. 😔

Oh my goodness! LOL! “Don’t do *anything* with charming attractive steel guitar playing gurus from L.A.” Yes. Correct. Wise words. And this is why I like your channel. LOL!

I had no idea Manson was in Indiana for awhile!!! There was a Mason-like murder back in the 1970's that had everyone upset and scared and armed (in Indiana) Some guys tripping on acid broke into a home. They had the mom and her sons(I can't remember if their were 3 or 4) lay face down on the floor and hold hands and shot each one in the head. The mom ended up living through it because she wore a wig and the bullet just grazed her skull. This guy was on the run for awhile. He was caught and arrested and eventually died in prison. Drollinger was his name.

I keep thinking of Bonnie and clyde. Not Bonnie so much, but Clyde’s story was like Mansons. When you have them being punished for survival and then abused because they were weaker…..didn’t society create the monsters we then claimed to hate?

A Helter Skelter is a British fair ride. Its shaped like a lighthouse You climb inside stairs up to the top, step out onto a slide that coils around the outside. You slide down to the bottom, then of course climb to the top and slide down again over and over.

Fun fact: Paul McCartney wrote Helter Skelter about a slide. Lol

Helter skelter is a giant slide , the song is about riding a slide

It was common in Appalachia at one time to name your sons after famous military figures. I had an uncle named "General Sherman"(whose daughter married a guy named "General Jackson"), and another uncle named "Admiral Dewey". 😮

Definitely more of fan after your statement about the beetles and bob dylan. Thank you!! Im not alone anymore lol. Segway, the beetles might be a good topic. Also, aleister crowley and his music connections.

I had a " Indian" Runner duck named after the guy named Colonel mentioned in this video. Keep up the good work and stay safe.

Great video, very informative. Just one little criticism, though; a 22LR wound can absolutely kill you haha. Like any bullet, it depends on where it goes.

This is a informative video.

¡Gracias! 21:30 it rememberme when Argentina goverment give radioactive milk in social programs in early 90'

Thanks!

How is this band not more popular?! Insanely good.

11:40 Me as a super villain: WRITE THAT DOWN! WRITE THAT DOWN!

I was a young child when the murders occurred. We lived in Simi Valley near (sounds like) SPAWN ranch and rode my bicycle past it many times.. They were already arrested... All my friends stated he would steal food in their houses in Simi... In addition, Beatles were creating backwards masking on their records which is why Manson took it a step further and thought Helter Skelter had subliminal messages. This was popular with records of that time. For example, one of the Beatles song, Revolution, you can hear when playing the record in the opposite directoon.Turn me on, dead man. Also, other groups used backward masking like ELo etc. As a young kid I was aware of this, about10 or 11 years old. This was long after Manson was in jail. I guess it was what made the rock music more exciting and controversial at the time. Manson was talking about the subliminal messages, and of course, he heard something different than the rest of us. I don't know if this helped. It was hard to explain, but it was the culture of the 70s. Great research. I watch you all the time. Very intelligent and gutsy. I like that you deliver strong views and at the same time both view points... keep it going..

That being said now we know what happens to people on a bunch of LSD

I agree with you wholeheartedly about the Beatles and Dylan, and I add The Rolling Stones to that list.

10 year suspended sentence means that the prison time is suspended unless you're convicted of another crime or parole/probation violation.

Leslie Van Houten was released July 11, 2023. She’s 73 and is fully rehabilitated. Patricia Krenwinkel is up once again for parole this Nov. 2023. She is also fully rehabilitated. Charles Watson doesn’t come up for parole again until Oct. 2026. I’m certain he will die in prison. And maybe Patricia Krenwinkel as well, although she has been recommended for parole a few times. She’s basically a political prisoner at this point. It’s very clear she has done a ton of work to rehabilitate. The 3 renounced Charles Manson and their beliefs in him long ago.

Beatles and Bob Dylan. Yup I agree with you Aiden 😁

I appreciate that youth can unearth better history than many elders. Apparently you got the lsd scientist mixed with a real n azi, however im sure technology can be used to edit such. Keep up the amazing revelations.

“Dont see how he thought black people werent competent to rule themselves. What about Africa.” I lost it right there 🤣

Another fun fact about Danny Trejo. He came and spoke at my high school (wayyy back in 200...5? 6?) as part of an anti-drug campaign and it ended up being just him telling ridiculous stories about his substance fueled shenanigans (peppered with plenty of colorful language of course) to an entire gymnasium of high schoolers sitting at rapt attention while the adults looked on in horror. I come from a pretty small farming town in Indiana. Think Bibles, shotguns, corn and racism. Needless to say that was by far the best assembly I ever witnessed in my academic career. 10/10. Trejo is a legend.

So many things to think about

Dave McGowan's book Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon puts Manson and the whole Hippie scene in a very interesting light.

I'm much less familiar with the "revenge killings" in the seventies, with the exception of the political assassination attempt. Would LOVE to see a vid on this. Thanks. I've watched a bunch of docs on this subject, you guys did your research. Bravo.

How is every part of this video the most insane one

You should look into the Unabomber too. He was involved with Mk Ultra when he was at Berkeley

I read the book exploring the link. There was weird stuff going on but so many records had been destroyed it is impossible to be definitive. I felt like the book kept promising amazing revelations but didn't really deliver. It was an interesting take. It's also possible that the parole officer was just into drugs, wouldn't be the first person in law enforcement who wasn't law abiding. Manson's final interview... Didn't he say it was mostly money problems? He debunked a lot of the conspiracies but was it his final manipulation? Low key feel like he was on holiday from his real life in prison, he did ask not to be released, then messed around until he never got out. Who knows, a perfect storm of personalities and circumstances

Apparently Steve McQueen was supposed to be there that night and had he been there I think he would’ve changed the outcome as he was known to carry a gun and was a proficient martial artist

you've got the coolest job ever

Rewatching❤

I've heard about that study did not know Manson was part of it that's really sad

I’ll never forget the day when aiden threw a slim Jim into his own planes engine causing catastrophic engine failure thus resulting in his plane crashing into the Atlantic Ocean, where his entire production crew, plane crew, and family were lost at sea. (Bodies weren’t recovered the government made me eat them to see if they could control my mind)

I would really be interested in a sequel video that goes over what went down after masons arrest.

It would be great to see a new updated version of this video with the current deep investigation techniques. And sources cited as well

You would think that after getting caught for so many crimes you would get better at doing crimes.

Also Reagan was NOT innocent

Man I love these. Thanks Wendigoon

We share the same feelings about the ‘60s. People were so gross in that decade.

Video seems to be based on the research of Tom O’Neil and his book Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties

Helter-skelter is about going down a slide, like it's namesake. In Britbong land helter skelter is a popular amusement park slide.

Look at your game girl, is a banger song though.