The Life and Afterlife of John Lennon Redux

History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind

Diane Student

Travel, History, Places & Travel, Paranormal, Haunted, Society & Culture, Ghosts

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Our original Life and Afterlife episode featuring John Lennon was one of the first episodes we produced, all the way back in December of 2014. We were intrigued, not only by his life and death, but by the many ghost stories featuring him that popped up after his death. He has been gone for 44 years and was assassinated when we were both under the age of 10. We didn't realize at the time that we had lost a musical legend in an unexpected way outside of a hotel in New York City near Central Park. This was The Dakota and we paid it a visit in 2020 when we visited New York City. Stories of it and the area around it being haunted by Lennon have been told for decades. Did Lennon sell his soul so The Beatles would attain their fame? Why was he gunned down? And is he still hanging around in the afterlife? Join us for the life and afterlife of John Lennon.

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Outro Music: Happy Fun Punk by Muse Music with Groove Studios

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0:00.0	History tells the story of the world and of our lives.
0:21.4	Sometimes that history goes bump in the night.
0:32.4	Broadcasting from the center of oddity and the supernatural in central Florida.
0:39.2	It's the History Goes Bump podcast.
0:47.5	Hello, you sputacular people.
0:49.7	Welcome to History Goes Bump Redux.
0:51.9	I am your host, Diane.
0:53.0	And this is Kelly.
1:03.8	Kelly, we're winding back to one of the first episodes we did all the way back to episode 16 in 2014, The Life and Afterlife of John Lennon.
1:07.9	That's quite the rewind. Are you ready to go back? I'm ready. I'm ready.
1:27.4	Our original life and afterlife episode featuring John Lennon was one of the first episodes we produced all the way back in December of 2014. We were intrigued not only by
1:30.3	his life and death, but by the many ghost stories featuring him that popped up after his death.
1:35.9	He has been gone for 44 years and was assassinated when we were both under the age of 10.
1:41.4	We didn't realize at the time that we had lost a musical legend in an unexpected
1:46.1	way outside of a hotel in New York City near Central Park. This was the Dakota, and we paid it a
1:52.6	visit in 2020 when we visited New York City. Stories of it and the area around it being haunted by
1:58.9	Lenin have been told for decades. Did Lennon sell his soul
2:02.8	so the Beatles could attain their fame? Why was he gunned down? And is he still hanging around
2:08.3	in the afterlife? Join us for the life and afterlife of John Lennon. I'm This redux isn't going to be exactly the way we had planned it. As I was looking back over stuff,
2:43.9	I was like, eventually we're going to get to do in the life and afterlife of John Lennon,
2:47.2	and I was going to have Jerry Polly join us because Lennon meant a great deal to him.
2:52.3	Obviously, that's not going to happen now, but we do suppose that the two have finally gotten to meet.
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