William Lyon Mackenzie King served as the Prime Minister of Canada for over twenty-one years, guiding the nation through the Great Depression and the Second World War with a calm, ruthlessly pragmatic public demeanor.

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William Lyon Mackenzie King served as the Prime Minister of Canada for over twenty-one years, guiding the nation through the Great Depression and the Second World War with a calm, ruthlessly pragmatic public demeanor. Behind closed doors, however, the leader of the Canadian government was a deeply devoted mystic who regularly held seances to consult with the spirit world before making major geopolitical decisions. He actively sought political advice from his dead mother, his deceased dogs, and the ghosts of former world leaders, using mediums and Ouija boards to commune with the afterlife. The Canadian public had absolutely no idea about his intense spiritualism until decades after his death when his massive collection of private diaries was finally unsealed. It is somehow deeply comforting to know that one of the most successful politicians in North American history was actively running a country based on the ghostly advice of his dead Irish terrier