The 27 Club

Is there more going on around you than you realize? Are there mysterious forces at work, operating on levels which you can’t even begin to comprehend? Here’s what I’m getting at. Sometimes strange things occur and, of course, we can’t help but notice these occurrences. This is what I’d call the “what” factor. We then go on to wonder about the “why” and “how” factors. However, those parts of the equation sometimes escape us. For instance, the 27 club.

• Here’s a brief explanation of the 27 club: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/27_Club

Kurt Cobain and The 27 Club

A brief, unreleased interview with Nirvana's Kurt Cobain…

In 1994 Kurt Cobain, the lead singer of Nirvana, was found dead at his home in Seattle, Washington. According to the police report, he had committed suicide by shooting himself in the head with a long barrel shotgun. Some have doubted the official story and, rather than believing that he committed suicide, they see the possibility that Kurt Cobain was instead murdered. In fact, in “Love and Death: The Murder of Kurt Cobain,” Ian Halperin and Max Wallace attempt to prove that he was. The book is compelling, but it doesn’t necessarily prove anything. The truth remains a mystery, though there is more to the story than that. Kurt Cobain had joined the infamous 27 Club, an imaginary club for famous people who have died at the age of 27. Is it imaginary, though, and is it just a coincidence that so many famous people have died at the age of twenty-seven? Maybe there is more to it than that.

Roots of the Conspiracy Theory

Alexandra

Jim Morrison

The idea of the 27 Club began in 1969 when three famous 27-year-old’s died of unfortunate incidents within a year. They were: Dickie Pride, a British rock singer; Brian Jones, another British rocker; and Doris Nefedov (aka Alexandra), a German vocalist. Pride overdosed on sleeping pills, Jones drowned, while Alexandra was killed in a car accident. Then, just a month and a half later Jimi Hendrix died at 27, and a couple of weeks later, 27-year-old Janis Joplin too. Less than a year went by and 27-year-old Jim Morrison died too. These three people were all very famous American musicians. People were noticing a pattern, and it was creepy.

Now, add in the idea that maybe some of these deaths, maybe all of them, were not accidental. We already know that Kurt Cobain may have been murdered. Some have speculated that Alexandra’s death was not an accident either. Apparently, she’d just seen a mechanic before her car accident, and her lover at the time was actually an American secret agent and they’d had a falling out. Yes, those two pieces of the puzzle are certainly a bit suspicious. If you were to look at the deaths of all the people in the 27 Club (see the Wikipedia link posted near the top of this article for such a list) I’m sure you’d find that there are others whose “accidental” deaths were questionable as well.

So, what’s going on here? Why are all these famous 27-year-old’s dying mysterious, “accidental”, perhaps even suspicious deaths? Nobody really knows. That’s the thing with this one: we have the what factor, and we think we have the how, but really, nobody can pin down the why. One thing is for sure, if you’re famous, twenty-seven might be a bit of a tense year for you.

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