I knew a girl named Helter Skelter.
I shit you not, it was her legal name.
And not a joke name, picked out as an adult.
And it certainly wasn’t a stage name, like actors pick out when their legal name is already registered with the union.
Or their birth name is something boring or strange, like John Wayne being Marion and Norma Jean becoming Marilyn Monroe.
Was it her birth name?
No. She was born Helter Smith.
When her parents died in a car wreck, she was adopted by the Skelter family.
And that’s when she became Helter Skelter.