Evidence Of Elvis' New Life For Sale

by Nicole
The owner of Elvis Is Alive Museum, Bill Beany from Wright City, Missouri, is selling its contents on Ebay. According to a statement on the site the "contents of the museum and the two affiliated websites are being sold because the owner is now 81."

Included in the sale is the ownership and rights to a DNA test on some liver biopsy tissue Beany acquired. The tissue sample, which was removed from the singer in a 1975 procedure, did not match a sample taken from Elvis' body during his autopsy.

"When I first got interested I thought all this talk about Elvis being alive was ridiculous," recalls Beany in a 1997 interview with Cleveland writer John Herrington. "But, then, I found so many inconsistencies during my studies of information that I came to the conclusion he did not die August 16, 1977, and that he is still living."

Beany amassed over 600 pages copied from FBI files, which he claims document the fact that Elvis worked with the FBI and DEA. According to Beany, Elvis was working with the government agencies on a sting operation involving the Mafia just before he died and had received numerous death threats. Beany, who wrote two books on the subject, theorizes that Elvis went into the Federal Witness Protection Program, faking his death with a surrogate body, which some have suggested may have belonged to Colonel Tom Parker's stepson, who died around the same time as Elvis.

Elvis did indeed meet with President Nixon at the White House on December 21st 1970, which was the incident that laid the foundations for many of the conspiracy theories. According to music critic Peter Guralnick, Elvis had a contemptuous view of the hippie drug culture, and wanted Nixon to appoint him as a Federal Agent at Large, coveting a Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs badge to add to his collection of law enforcement memorabilia.

Ironically Elvis was addicted to a cocktail of prescription drugs, which he disassociated with street junkie culture. Elvis died aged 42 on August 16th 1977. Traces of 14 different drugs were found in his system during post-mortem tests. His primary feel-good doctor, who had written 199 prescriptions in Elvis' name in the eight months of 1977 leading up to his death, was later stripped of his license after the untimely demise of subsequent patients. Elvis was buried next to his mother at Forest Hill Cemetery, Memphis. His remains were moved to Graceland after a plot to snatch the bodies of both Elvis and his mother was exposed on August 29th 1977.

So far the top bid for Beany's collection of evidence and memorabilia is $7,500. The lot, which includes a 1974 Cadillac Limousine "like the one Elvis rode in" and a real casket with a mannequin "dressed similar to Elvis," has yet to meet its reserve. The sale ends on November 2nd, but the legend - and the conspiracy theories - will live on.

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