The most surreal theories about Elvis Presley: hidden in Argentina or protected by the FBI
This Friday 42 years of the death of Elvis Presley, although there are still thousands of people who question him.The musician, who was currently 84 years old, was always subject to all kinds of unusual theories that say he is still alive and cooling.
Elvis Presley escaped Argentina
It is a classic of conspiracy theories.A few days after being buried next to his mother on August 18, 1977 in the Cemetery of Forest Hill (it would not be until October of that same year that both would be transferred to Graceland after someone tried to steal their body without success),A man who had a certain resemblance to him bought a plane ticket to Buenos Aires at Memphis airport.
The mysterious character in question was called John Burrows, one of the aka that the artist used recurringly to register in the hotels.The legend tells that in Argentine soil it was received by a limousine that transferred him to the neighborhood of Parque Leloir, where he lived the rest of his days.Elvis moved in a convair 880 as a private jet baptized simply and plainly as Lisa Marie, although we assume that having used her own aircraft the escape would not have been discreet.
No one, curiously, claimed even a penny of his life insurance
There is no document that can demonstrate it, but there are those who claim that in March 1977, just five months before his death, he signed a life insurance from his handwriting that amounted to several million dollars.Absolutely anyone, or his daughter Lisa Marie, or Ginger Alden (his partner at that time, as well as the person who found his body), nor any more or less close relative claimed a single penny.Because?You cannot falsify a death and, above, charge for it.
What is known is that a year before the sad event, Elvis left his firm embodied in another life insurance that amounted to 3.6 million dollars.This role included their plans to act for the first time in the United Kingdom and in Japan.His first concerts outside American territory, finally, never materialized because his representative could not travel outside the country since he was Dutch and was "lazy papers".Nor did it help much that two formerguardespaldas wrote at that time the book Elvis: What Happened?, Where his descent to the world of drugs was narrated with great detail.
The FBI protects it for being an exemplary patriot
For all it is known that Elvis was a patriot.Between 1958 and 1960, being a star, he had no qualms about putting on the military uniform and serving his country in Germany, where he precisely met Priscilla, who would become 1967 in his first and only wife.However, there are those who, like Gail Brewer-Giorgio, bet on the theory that the musician was obliged to invent his death for a reason for force majeure: after helping the FBI to uncover an organization linked to the mafia called The Fraternal,became a protected witness of the US Department of Justice.Giorgio theorized above all this in the book Is Elvis Alive?edited in 1988.
After meeting with President Nixon in December 1970, the artist wanted to meet with the ultraconservator director of the Federal Police Edgard Hoover to point out all the celebrities who, according to him, were "perverting the young Americans".The Beatles, Jane Fonda or The Smother Brothers were in the sights of this particular witch hunt that would keep parallels with macartism that in the fifties repudiated a long list of Hollywood celebrities that sympathized with communism.The encounter between Elvis and Hoover never occurred.Or, at least, that is what FBI's declassified files tell.
The National Enquirer showed that his body could be a wax figure
At the moment it would be morally unthinkable, but Billy Mann, one of his cousins, did not think about it when they offered him 18.000 dollars in exchange for taking a picture of Elvis's body during the wake in Graceland.The snapshot was published on the cover of the National En -quire.
On the day of his death, Elvis weighed 113 kilos, but the image at all reflects that overweight.Several of those present, even let them know that they did not recognize him because, among other observations, one of his pins seemed false and his hands looked smooth.It never hurts to remember that Marie Tussauds made her first wax figures at the end of the 18th century, so the technique was more than developed at the time.
It continues to appear incognito when it gets bored of your retirement
From a photo taken in Graceland herself on December 31, 1977 in which she can see her bell through the door of her house in the pool, passing through another of 1984 in which the interpreter of "Love me will tend"Accompany activist Jessie Jackson and Muhammad Ali leaving a hospital in New York.The boxer, questioned by this issue, did not hesitate to answer: "He is my friend Elvis".
But the most surreal was what happened on January 8, 2017, the day in Graceland the 82th anniversary of his birth was commemorated.The Facebook page evidence Elvis Presley Is Alive burned when he shared an image in which he could see a corpulent man with white beard and sunglasses that, according to those present, went to the act accompanied by several bodyguards.The simple idea that Elvis wants to verify with his own eyes how fans pay tribute decades after his "supposed" death seems fascinating.
