Paul Is Still Not Dead
After 35 years, you wouldn't think there would still be anything to say about the "Paul Is Dead" urban legend, Paul being Paul McCartney of that pre-Wings band. But here's a very interesting article by Michael Shermer of The Skeptic magazine, by way of Scientific American, on the whole episode, with observations on related phenomena of more recent vintage.
Turn Me On, Dead Man
What do the Beatles, the Virgin Mary, Jesus, Patricia Arquette and Michael Keaton all have in common?
by Michael Shermer
In September 1969, as I began ninth grade, a rumor circulated that the Beatles' Paul McCartney was dead, killed in a 1966 automobile accident and replaced by a look-alike. The clues were there in the albums, if you knew where to look. ...
Read the whole article.
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Turn Me On, Dead Man
What do the Beatles, the Virgin Mary, Jesus, Patricia Arquette and Michael Keaton all have in common?
by Michael Shermer
In September 1969, as I began ninth grade, a rumor circulated that the Beatles' Paul McCartney was dead, killed in a 1966 automobile accident and replaced by a look-alike. The clues were there in the albums, if you knew where to look. ...
Read the whole article.
Technorati Tags:
Beatles, Paul McCartney, music, pop, 1960s, sixties, history, urban legends, visions, rumors, Virgin Mary, apparitions, skepticism, skeptics, magazines, backward masking, mystery, mysteries, weird, strange
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