In 1966, according to his first wife Cynthia, Lennon received a letter from a psychic warning him that he would be shot whilst living in the United States. From that time onwards, he developed an interest in spiritualism and attended numerous seances. It is rumoured that during one seance, the spirit of his manager Brian Epstein warned him that he would be shot and to take care. In 1969, while holidaying in Greece, Lennon was warned that he would be killed on an island. Believing that the astrologer was referring to a Greek island, the musician returned home. Years later, his wife Yoko Ono realised that the astrologer was, in fact, referring to the island of Manhattan. It seemed that John Lennon lived his whole life in the public eye in fear of assassination. Despite the warnings of psychics, astrologers, mystics and his own sense that he would die young, he could do nothing to avoid what ultimately was his fate, a lone assassin with a gun, Mark Chapman.