Konspirationsteorier og sensationshungrende sladderblade

Elvis Aaron Presley var The King of Rock and Roll. Hans død i 1977 chokerede fans verden over, og der er siden opstået utallige konspirationsteorier om, hvad der egentlig skete med Elvis Presley. 

Hvert år omk. Elvis fødselsdag, d. 8. Januar & Elvis dødsdag bliver der lanceret en række nye konspirations teorier omk. Elvis' død. Det er ganske underholdende, jeg trækker på smilebåndet og en sjælden gang hæver jeg øjenbrynet.. 

Denne sektion er mest lavet for underholdningens skyld, men den er dog også blevet en vigtig del af historien om Elvis. 

The Sun & The Weekly World News* er rigtige slemme... Og det er ikke kun om Elvis, det svare lidt til et magasinet Believe it or not.  

 *) The Weekly World News var en overvejende fiktions avis (1979-2007). Avisen fortalte en masse fantastiske og til tider underholdende historier af paranormal & overnaturlig karakter. 

En Elvis fan 😎

Af Jack, 23.04.14. (Redigeret) 

It’s a simple fact of life: everyone knows an Elvis fan. But only a select few of us are lucky enough to know an individual who believes that Elvis is still alive. Especially these days, when The King would be nearly 80 years old. Lucky for you, faithful readers, that you know me because I believe all kinds of crazy shit. I believe in chemtrails and aliens and fake moon landings, but I especially believe the idea that the King of Rock and Roll is not only alive and well, but laughing his old ass off at all of the idiots that believe that he is dead. Here are the top 10 totally not true but possibly somewhat plausible, completely for entertainment and enjoyment, reasons why…

1.

Elvis’ legal name was Elvis Aron Presley – notice that the middle name only has one “A”. It is spelled this way on his birth certificate (se bil. herunder) and his death certificate. But on his tombstone (and suspiciously enough his Wikipedia page) his middle name is spelled Aaron.  

2.

 Now hear me out. Supposedly, Presley’s coffin weighed 900 pounds (450 kg) and the air around it was cool (as opposed to the balmy August temperatures in Memphis), because there was an air conditioner in the coffin. Also, supposedly, people who attended the funeral who had known Elvis for years noticed inconsistencies on the body in the coffin. Elvis’s hands were smooth, not calloused like every other 8th degree martial arts black belt in the world. And his eye brows appeared to be fake. And one of his sideburns fell off of his face during the viewing. Again, supposedly.

Oh yeah, and Elvis isn’t buried next to his mother as he had requested. Instead he’s buried next to his father and grandmother.

3.

A lot of this speculation is fueled by the numerous reports of a helicopter landing on the Graceland property on the day of Elvis’s death. Numerous people have said this, and a lot of them say it was a black helicopter, which means that it was a scary secret government helicopter. The belief is that Elvis (who, by the way, reportedly always said that he would “Look better in his coffin”) faked his death either to avoid a mob hit (and enter witness protection as a mob informant) or to continue his life as an anti-drug crusader, which, as ironic as it sounds considering what we think we know about his death, he most certainly was. Elvis may have been a drug addict, but he was a wealthy and experienced drug user and the idea that he died of an unintentional drug overdose is silly, I mean, come on this isn’t Sid Vicious we’re talking about.

4.

Well, now it’s time to blow your mind. Excuse me, I mean BLOW YOUR MIND! Consider this, if Elvis really died on August 16, 1977… then how was he spotted as an extra in Home Alone, the 1990 American Christmas comedy that not only introduced the world to Macauly Culkin, but showed us all the comedic side of Joe Pesci? Watch this scene with Catherine O’Hara… see that tall guy with the facial hair? A lot of people (well, not a lot, but a surprisingly not zero number of people) believe that this man is Elvis Presley. Se følgende en lille klip, hvor vi kan se Elvis(?!!) vente tålmodigt i køen. 

 https://youtu.be/uXKafsX4foA

5.

That guy in the background that looks like he’s about to nod off into a drug induced coma? That’s Elvis, right? Looks exactly like him. The problem? The last one was take in 1984, seven years after Presley’s death. Supposedly, when Ali was asked to identify the man in the photo he said “That’s my friend Elvis”.

6.

Allegedly, there is a one million dollar life insurance policy, in Elvis’s name, that has yet to be cashed. It’s just sitting there and hasn’t been cashed because doing so would be illegal. Now, there’s no proof of this (that I’ve seen), and I wish I could show you a photo of it… but it probably doesn’t exist. But that’s not the point is it? I mean, the whole Elvis is alive thing is just a fun little piece of weirdo Americana, right? Something for housewives to dream about....

En af de nyer forsider fra Weekly World News.

To believe or not to belive...the  question is blowing in the wind.