MEDIA
WATCH
(Investigator 39, 1994
November)
Numerous
tabloid
reports of Elvis Presley
still alive are false. After reviewing autopsy and medical reports the
Tennesee Health Department concluded:
"There is no basis to conclude that any person…made
false statements on the death certificate of Elvis Presley." (The
Advertiser,
October 1)
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Genetic tests
show
that Anna Anderson (1902-1984)
who for over 50 years claimed to be the daughter of Tsar Nicholas II,
was
an imposter. DNA from a tissue sample kept when Mrs Anderson had
surgery
in Virginia has been compared with DNA from skeletal remains of Tsar
Nicholas
and with a blood sample from Prince Philip a descendant. (The
Advertiser
1994, August 20, p23)
Anna Anderson
failed
to prove her claim to
royalty in European courts but continued her lies until she died. This
provided the plot for the film Anastasia (1956) starring
Ingrid
Bergman.
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We haven't heard much
about the Greenland
monster reported in 1954:
Very
Scaly
Monster
A sea
monster bigger
than Scotland's Loch
Ness Monster (said to be 50 ft. long) is terrorising fishermen near
Lake
Natsilik, Greenland.
The main fin
on the
monster's back is as
big as the mainsail of a fair-sized yacht.
The monster
lives in
the lake, but sometimes
roars out to sea through a narrow 20-mile channel.
Fishermen
say it
goes through the water with
such force that rocks are thrown up on both sides of the channel…
(Sunday
Mail
1954, August 21, p19)
Of hundreds of
monsters worldwide a few,
such as the Yeti and Loch Ness, become famous. Whether famous or not,
either
way their existence is never confirmed.
Reasonable conclusions from the evidence, on this website:
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