{"id":87683,"date":"2026-10-21T09:15:59","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T13:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=87683"},"modified":"2026-10-21T09:16:36","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T13:16:36","slug":"david-bowies-possessed-swimming-pool-and-black-magic-witches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/david-bowies-possessed-swimming-pool-and-black-magic-witches\/","title":{"rendered":"David Bowie\u2019s Possessed Swimming Pool and Black Magic Witches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>WCSX<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/wcsx.com\/uploads\/2026\/10\/GettyImages-1300573439.jpg?format=auto&amp;optimize=high&amp;width=1440\" alt=\"English singer, songwriter and actor David Bowie (1947 - 2017) arrives at King's Cross Station in London, en route to Aberdeen in Scotland for the next leg of his Ziggy Stardust tour, UK, 15th May 1973. The photo is part of an article on David Bowie's possessed swimming pool and black magic\" width=\"230\" height=\"153\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-paragraph paragraph css-1mo1qb0\" data-og-block-area=\"article-blocks\" data-og-block-nth=\"1\" data-og-block-type=\"core\/paragraph\" data-rawhtml=\"1\">\n<p>From witches and protective spells to an allegedly possessed swimming pool, David Bowie&#8217;s darkest period was stranger than anything he created onstage. David Bowie created some of rock&#8217;s most fascinating characters, from Ziggy Stardust to the Thin White Duke. But in 1975, Bowie became consumed by something far stranger than his stage personas. The singer developed an obsession with black magic, witchcraft, and the occult. He even believed supernatural forces were trying to destroy him&#8230; including David Bowie&#8217;s possessed swimming pool.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-paragraph paragraph css-1mo1qb0\" data-og-block-area=\"article-blocks\" data-og-block-nth=\"2\" data-og-block-type=\"core\/paragraph\" data-rawhtml=\"1\">\n<p>The story of David Bowie&#8217;s occult obsession involves witches, satanic rituals, protective spells, and a supposedly possessed swimming pool. It sounds like the plot of a horror movie. Unfortunately, for Bowie, the fear was very real.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From WCSX: From witches and protective spells to an allegedly possessed swimming pool, David Bowie&#8217;s darkest period was stranger than.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87683"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87685,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87683\/revisions\/87685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}