Helter skelter (ride)

[2] However, the ride's development began around the turn of the 20th century, when a helter skelter was built on Great Yarmouth's new Britannia Pier.

[4] Fairground rides like the helter skelter appeared not only in amusement parks during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, but were also popular on seafronts, piers and other convenient spots of land.

Instead of climbing up a flight of stairs to reach the top of the slide, some helter skelters included an escalator-like lift that fairgoers were loaded onto, and this updated mechanism maintained technical consistency amongst the amusement park rides.

Yet, the familiarity of these mechanisms was understood by fairgoers as modern in an amusement park context, which added to the novelty factor of the ride.

"[11] Upon listening to the album, American criminal Charles Manson interpreted Helter Skelter as a call to violence, and so the song came to embody his Family's internal belief system, leading to their goal to incite an apocalyptic race war.

At this second crime scene, a misspelling of the term "helter-skelter" was found written in blood, which stopped McCartney from performing the song live for many years to come.