Dead but not Gone: Hollywood's Iconic Blonde comes back from the Grave

By Réal Laplaine

What would Marilyn tell us if she came back from the grave today - sixty years after her death?
Would she agree with the popular version that she committed suicide at the age of 36, one of the most successful and celebrated women of her time? Or would she tell us another story, the one about the Hollywood icon who had her foot inside the White House, who was on Hoover's FBI watch list because of suspected communist ties - someone he considered a threat?

In Dead but not Gone, the author takes license and presents us with a chance to hear Marilyn's side of what happened on that fateful night.
When a solar flare intercepts a passing cosmic anomaly, a powerful flash sweeps across Los Angeles directly over the spot where Marilyn lies since 1962. Her crypt suddenly shakes and rattles, and what emerges is certainly not the skeletal remains of the iconic blonde, but rather, Marilyn, just as beautiful and whole as the day she died. When she realizes that the Universe has given her a second chance, she sets herself on a mission to tell the world what really happened to her and at the hands of whom - and therein begins a thriller with a romantic edge. Dead but not Gone is a tribute to Marilyn - giving her the voice she never had after her tragic passing and letting her grace the world with a little more of her magic.

"I loved the premise of this book, I found the pace good, I liked the story. I think my only drawback would be for a bit more detail, but overall, I really enjoyed the story and the possibility of "WHAT IF". No one really knows what did happen, I liked how the author gave some plausible possibilities, that could be true of what happened to her." Francis L.

“Finally, a book that gives a different look at Marilyn, and a happy ending that she rightly deserves!!!!!! The only reason I did not give it 5 stars was the science part of the book, it drugged on a little too long. But in all a Great Book!!!! Marilyn fans if only this was true.” DJ

READER RADAR ALERT! Real Laplaine is THE most unique author I've ever read and thoroughly enjoyed.....a true wizard of words! In his subtle way he opens your mind and gives the reader an alternative way to see things. Yankeelin

With just the perfect amount of technical and scientific information you dive into a compelling story of what ifs. Funny, with drama and a touch of a love story this book had it all. Thank you Réal for this wonderful opportunity to see life from beyond the grave. April B.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Réal Laplaine
• Release date: Dec 8, 2012
• ISBN: 9781301423354

Réal Laplaine

I am a multi-genre author, writing in geopolitical and crime thrillers, speculative fiction and inspiring literary fiction novels.My themes are contemporary and while entertaining (according to my readers), also help to raise awareness on social and societal issues facing us all.Visit my author page to find information about recent and upcoming releases.Also find free short stories which you can download and read.On my site you can order and download my books in ePub format (most popular format in the world), or follow the links provided to take you to other book retailers such as Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Smashwords etc.Enjoy the cruise!Réal LaplaineAuthor of Break Out Bookswww.reallaplaine.comAbolishing nuclear weapons:In 2014 I published a book, Twilight Visitor, a geopolitical thriller about China invading Iran for its oil, wherein Iran retaliates by firing a nuclear warhead at Beijing. The book has garnered tremendous reviews, comparing it to the best of Dan Brown and other similar authors, but what is important is that the story impresses on the reader that nuclear war is just a button away. In several of my subsequent geopolitical thrillers this thread also weaves through the stories, to help raise awareness on this existential threat to the future of our kids.Please take a moment to visit the page entitled B.A.N. or Ban All Nukes at www.reallaplaine.com

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Dead but not Gone

Hollywood’s iconic blonde comes back from the grave

By Réal Laplaine

Dead but not Gone

Copyright © 2012 by Réal Laplaine

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping, or by any information storage retrieval system, without the written permission of the author.

2nd edition published 7 October 2014

3rd edition published 24 September 2015

Cover design by Cindy Anderson

Photos used in the cover design are copyrighted property of www.fotosearch.com  and are used with its permission.

Key words: Marilyn, Norma, Hollywood, Kennedy, JFK, fiction, thriller

Disclaimer

The characters in this book are fictional and any resemblance they may bear to actual people is purely a work of the author’s imagination.

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L.I.N.

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For more information, please visit www.reallaplaine.com

Dedication

To Hollywood’s iconic blonde.

She deserved better than what she got.

"Reality is merely an illusion,

albeit a very persistent one."

Albert Einstein

Foreword

Many people were unknown contributors to this story. I am forgetting some, but to name a few; Carl Sagan, Arthur C. Clarke, Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, Richard Bach, Ron Hubbard and of course, Albert Einstein.

Each played a role in poking holes in the fabric of my mind and thereby aggravating those annoying and troubling questions about the world we live in.

Sadly, I am a dedicated loser when it comes to being a loyal patriot of mediocrity.

I do not accept statements and utterances as fact – not unless I can see for myself that they hold water.

I am a terrible soldier as I refuse to march to anyone’s drum unless it makes sense to me to do so.

My questioning mind is always searching for holes in the fence which forms the parameters of our society, and this has led me to look down some dark and empty corridors which had signs posted along the way - ones which said, NO ENTRY ALLOWED.

Dead but not Gone is a book weaved with that same very thread.

When I saw a documentary by Morgan Freeman about the universe and quantum mechanics and theories put forth by very creditable people, and then happened upon a book about the life of Marilyn (she-who-shall-not-be-named herein for fear that copyright sharks who own her name post-mortem would promptly descend upon me) and a comment by Marlon Brando, who knew her, suggesting that her suicide was just fabrication – my recalcitrant juices were stirred up.

This book may seem like sci-fi at first, but it is not, because Quantum Physics, and the ideas suggested therein, are the result of the same brilliant minds that have brought us all the advances we have seen in the last century, including, nuclear energy, the field of electronics and all its attendant technology which makes it possible for our smart phone and GPS and other devices to work, and so much more. It is because of our understanding of the subject of quantum mechanics that any of this is happening in our day and age. And yet, there is much we still do not know about this domain.

Quantum Physics, as you may know, deals with those exceedingly small and imperceptible sub-atomic quantities called Quanta - energy particulates which our senses cannot detect, and yet which form the very world around us. Those same particulates of energy are postulated by some as being capable of coexistence in other universes which parallel our own, but which are invisible to us.

Crazy uh?

Maybe not.

Stretch the imagination for a moment.

If you take two identical wooden rulers and place them side by side, that would be a picture of the world as we see it with our eyes. Now, slide one of those rulers up or down by several increments, but keep it parallel to the other, and suddenly you have two identical rulers on slightly different tangents or paths. Imagine now, if one of those rulers was formed of sub-atomic particulates which we cannot perceive, and yet, which coexisted in polarity with the perceptible world, the ruler which we could see?

In other words, two more or less, identical singularities (the rulers) polarized by sub-atomic Quanta to one another.

To prove this argument, here is an actual case in point; today there are BILLIONS of electro-magnetic frequencies tearing through the space around our heads, in fact, through our bodies. We are besieged every second of the day in a literal storm of electronic vibrations and signals which we never sense nor feel because their wavelengths are so tiny. And yet our mobile phones, our car keys, our computers, GPS devices, ad infinitum, can detect these infinitesimal wavelengths. Science knows that these dynamics exist, and we leverage them to our advantage, but do we see or feel them except through the devices we use – no!

That is the very argument which makes it possible for other parallels of energy, operating on planes (or dimensions) undetectable to our human senses.

The question is, if there are parallel universes to our own, are they polar-opposites or just replicas, or are they entirely parallel universes with entirely different characters and different worlds? And moreover, is it possible that parallel time-streams exist? In other words, as you sit there reading this book in the comfort of your home, is there a quantum duplicate of yourself in the past, or the future, somehow connected to the time stream in which you exist at this time? And is it conceivable that there might be a way to open a window to those parallel universes or time-streams?

Quantum mechanics suggests that it is possible.

Whether it is feasible – that is another entirely different question.

Dead but Not Gone is a story, allegorically speaking, about a famous blond who rose to stardom in Hollywood back in the 1950s and the early 60s.

Authoring a fictional story about her, without ever using her full name would seem rather futile – but I trust that her image has been so well imprinted upon the cultural mindset that the reader will know within seconds to whom this story alludes.

Is it possible that the Hollywood studios whom she challenged at the time, executed a form of character assassination against one of the most popular female actresses of that era – making her appear mentally dysfunctional to cover up their own shortcomings?

Is it possible that her friendship to John F. Kennedy was turned into allegations of clandestine sexual affairs to discredit her, all because she knew things about J. Edgar Hoover (then head of the FBI and an avowed enemy of the Kennedy’s) which he was terrified would be revealed?

And her strange death – allegedly suicide – could that have been arranged to remove her as a threat?

Marilyn was and still is considered one of the most iconic figures of her time – and no doubt she had issues, like most of us do, but was she suicidal?

Was this woman who fought her way up from being a factory worker to a world-famous actress and sex symbol within a matter of years, someone who would just give up the ghost by suddenly overdosing herself at the age of thirty-six?

To accept such a conclusion outright, one must assume that highly driven and successful people have a self-destruct button just waiting to be pressed. Maybe that is true in some cases, but was it the case with Marilyn?

Dead but Not Gone is a sassy quasi-thriller, intended to capture and portray another perspective about the beloved blond who mesmerized the world.

With an open mind and with respect to the scientific rendering I mentioned above, take a spin through the life of this charismatic and amazing woman – and what she encounters when she tries to tell her story fifty years after she died.

Réal Laplaine

September 2015 - Sweden

1962

Following her death on August 5th, 1962, the iconic blond-haired actress and Hollywood legend, Marilyn (aka Marilyn), was laid to rest in Los Angeles, California, at the Westwood Memorial Park Cemetery.

At just thirty-six years of age, she had already achieved world-wide fame as a movie star and a timeless icon.

Several mysteries were left unanswered in the wake of Marilyn’s sudden demise, mysteries which would continue to fill tabloids, and which would be the subject of discussion for decades to follow.

Mysteries which the world would never know the truth about – or would it?

Fifty Years Later

For generations, scientists have been studying the sun – starting with small handheld optical devices, eventually leading to massive telescopes, as well as through satellites which have been sent to a closer proximity, undisturbed by the Earth’s atmosphere, where man could study the behemoth.

Solar flares and solar eruptions have been a critical part of this study – and for good reason.

In 1859, the United States had been struck by the "perfect storm"; a solar flare which had projected outwards at such speed and with such intensity that it melted telegraph wires and caused other significant damages too. As a result of that and numerous other incidents which followed over the years, scientists had set themselves on a course to study the glowing giant. Man needed to understand the source of life on earth because in some ways it also posed the greatest threat.

It was anticipated that another "perfect storm" could bring about untold damage, far worse than anything experienced back in 1859; in fact, crippling our society for weeks, even months, by frying sensitive equipment and computers which keep our satellites in orbit; or even destroying other communication systems which are based on sub-atomic wavelengths which could be disrupted or eviscerated by a strong enough solar eruption.

Fortunately, the solar flare which erupted from the sun’s surface on this day was not the "perfect storm," but it would certainly prove to be something unlike anything ever seen before.

The intensely powerful burst of radioactive energy, easily the width of Earth itself, plummeted outward from the surface of the sun at a speed of millions of miles per hour. Comparatively speaking, it would take an earth satellite over a year to traverse the distance from the Earth to the sun, whereas this flare would cover the same distance in less than sixteen hours.

In its path, just barely a discernible speck, like a grain of sand in an immense ocean – stood Earth; a mere satellite and one million times smaller than the sun which nurtured it.

The solar surge passed through the Earth’s atmosphere at precisely 3:55 a.m. on a Friday morning, cutting an invisible path across Baja, Mexico and up through the west coast of California, in fact, right across Los Angeles and San Bernardino County. Like a huge pane of glass, it sliced a track across the land and then disappeared out into the vast Pacific Ocean.

Its arrival and disappearance were marked by a massive power-outage and the loss of radio, television, and electronic transmissions.

It was a phenomenon which would spark months, even years of investigation to establish what had occurred.

In total, the noticeable effect did not last more than twenty-six seconds, but one would have thought that Los Angeles had been struck by the Big One, an apocalyptic earthquake, at least judging by the thousands of phone calls received by emergency services.

When it was over, life in Los Angeles resumed, as usual - that is, in all areas except for one.

The Crypt

The crypt, located at Westwood Memorial Park Cemetery, in west Los Angeles, appeared normal as ever.

It was a serene night with a full moon and a few stars managing to sparkle through the layer of smog which perennially afflicted the town.

Had someone been standing there, they would have been utterly and completely consumed with overwhelming consternation, if not experiencing a minor heart attack at the sound of pounding which suddenly erupted from within the crypt.

The noise escalated and intensified with a ghoulish and morbid dissonance which filled the air.

The banging pitched higher and higher as if something, or someone, were kicking frantically from inside.

This was followed by a rocking sound, as if the coffin itself was moving within the sealed tomb.

Suddenly the door to the crypt snapped from its hinges and dropped to the ground with a heavy thud.

Propelled by a thumping sound within, the brass paneled coffin creeped forward, inch by inch.

Finally, the lid to the casket creaked open and two small delicate white hands clasped its edges.

That of course would have been the coup d’état which would have undoubtedly sent any normal person screaming away in stark terror.

The figure which emerged gasped as fresh air rushed into her lungs.

Slowly she crawled from the box and then dropped to the ground with an ungainly thump.

Naturally, one would have been justified in conjuring up a grotesque image of some skeletal remains, with rotting flesh, gaping cavities where the wind and air traversed without the hindrance of skin or bodily organs. But on that count, one would have been entirely wrong because the form which materialized was as whole and complete as any human being walking the Earth.

She sat