Speaker 1: Eddie Dragon as he returned. Is he back? I'm here, Walter. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I was talking about Hayden Panetary dying at the
Speaker 1: age of thirty six, and she, of course was known
Speaker 1: for Nashville as well as Scream and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: And I was talking about forty nine years ago today
Speaker 1: or actually the same day that Hayden Panetary passes away.
Speaker 1: Forty nine years ago, was one Elvis Presley and that
Speaker 1: used to dominate things. As you remember, Walter, you'd go
Speaker 1: to the shopping market line you see, Elvis is alive.
Speaker 1: There's been another Elvis sighting, and ladies and gentlemen tonight,
Speaker 1: we're not discussing whether or not he is alive, because
Speaker 1: if you've spent any time over the last forty nine
Speaker 1: years that he's been gone, you already know the answer.
Speaker 1: According to the rest of the country, he has never left.
Speaker 1: The building is basically just changed exits. And he isn't
Speaker 1: the only one that I'm going to talk about, because
Speaker 1: he died in Graceland August sixteenth, and that's the historical record,
Speaker 1: of course. But the Elvis is a live industry, lasted
Speaker 1: for generations. He would be ninety one years old today
Speaker 1: and it was a very entertaining plane that all of
Speaker 1: the stuff really operated on. It was something that you know,
Speaker 1: stated that the king never died, right, he just went underground.
Speaker 1: He grew a beard. You know, you might have seen
Speaker 1: him on a plane, or maybe he started you know,
Speaker 1: ordering whoppers, of course, because it was that famous Burger
Speaker 1: King sighting that didn't go away. But the original theory,
Speaker 1: Walter is pretty simple that he faked his death because
Speaker 1: he needed to get away from fans, from the irs,
Speaker 1: from fame, away from the tabloids, away from all the pressure,
Speaker 1: away from you know, those hangars on the doctors. Remember
Speaker 1: of course his famous manager of course, and you know
Speaker 1: many of the people who went Toaceland and you know
Speaker 1: the same state as Nashville there in Memphis, like it was,
Speaker 1: you know, the White House with you know, some sort
Speaker 1: of rhinestones. People would just be going to Graceland. And
Speaker 1: once you kind of look in on all of this,
Speaker 1: you know, you accept this for what it is. The
Speaker 1: clues come flying in just like they did at the
Speaker 1: very beginning. And let's you know, start with his funeral.
Speaker 1: Of course, some believers, you know, claim that the you know,
Speaker 1: the casket looked very heavy. You know, oh, the team
Speaker 1: it was giant. Look at what they had to build
Speaker 1: bury him in, right, And as as the theory went,
Speaker 1: because it contained a wax figure which was heavier than
Speaker 1: a body. Elvis, it's a dummy that's in that casket.
Speaker 1: The king, according to the lore that came out after that,
Speaker 1: he had slipped away while the world mourned a convincing
Speaker 1: stand in. Something else was in that casket. And it's
Speaker 1: a theory. So, you know, crazy and so cinematic that Hollywood,
Speaker 1: you know, rejected it, you know, all two and especially
Speaker 1: in the last movie that came out, they rejected that
Speaker 1: as well. Then then of course there's the tombstone. You know,
Speaker 1: Elvis was born a twin. His his twin actually passed away.
Speaker 1: He was born before and of course you know Elvis
Speaker 1: progeny actually has twins as granddaughters. He has no surviving sons.
Speaker 1: He only has three surviving granddaughters. But if you you
Speaker 1: look at his tombstone, his middle name was spelled both
Speaker 1: a Ron a R O N and Aaron and and
Speaker 1: in different records and his own usage during his lifetime.
Speaker 1: But all the believers there seized on that spelling of
Speaker 1: Aaron a R o N on the grave marker as
Speaker 1: a signal that he was not dead, because the stone
Speaker 1: does not use the same that they believe was his
Speaker 1: real name, Elvis A with one R. Then the graven
Speaker 1: must be real either, so that must not have really
Speaker 1: be then, So that's one small extra. A sort of
Speaker 1: became the you know, rose out of stone, if you will,
Speaker 1: of the Elvis conspiracy culture that was out there. Then
Speaker 1: the sightings, okay, never ending all the time. I mean
Speaker 1: when I was growing up, it seemed like they were
Speaker 1: there for decades. Walter. I mean, the Inquirer would have
Speaker 1: every other issue and it was always something with Elvis.
Speaker 1: It s feels like he was still selling all those
Speaker 1: tabloids in the eighties and nineties. Elvis in an airport,
Speaker 1: I've at a diner, Elvis in a convenience store, Burger King,
Speaker 1: Elvis supposedly living in Arkansas and then disguising himself as
Speaker 1: an old man. There was a lot of that Elvis
Speaker 1: reported in places. You know, in a jumpsuit, the best
Speaker 1: camouflage is old constans. I mean they usually followed the
Speaker 1: same type of formula, by the way, and the people
Speaker 1: would just kind of come up with this stuff and
Speaker 1: they say they see a man with dark hair and
Speaker 1: sunglasses and you know, chops there in that jawline. And
Speaker 1: suddenly the conclusion as if you resembled Elvis, that was Elvis.
Speaker 1: But never has the king actually been encountered after August sixteenth,
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy seven. Now, the conspiracy also grew into this
Speaker 1: escape story to a full blown, you know, thriller. Really
Speaker 1: a version claimed that he had somehow helped federal authorities
Speaker 1: investigate organized crimes, and he was trying to escape the mafia.
Speaker 1: Of course, those come up. You might remember the Frank
Speaker 1: Sinatra actually plugged him to mafia, and that the mafia
Speaker 1: wanted revenge on Elphas, so he had to take himself out.
Speaker 1: So the theory went that the government staged his death,
Speaker 1: you know, put him in witness protection and then tucked
Speaker 1: him and tucked him away, and the open casket funeral,
Speaker 1: according to this version, was not a farewell with a
Speaker 1: federal operation with that wax decoy singer movie star, you know,
Speaker 1: enthusiast of Karate of course, and then became the greatest
Speaker 1: undercover agent in US history. And then finally those phone calls,
Speaker 1: the insurance policy audity, the photographs, the family remark. All
Speaker 1: that stuff was dropping signals to real believers of Elvis
Speaker 1: who followed him for years and years, and once that
Speaker 1: got going, every you know thread, you know, coincidence becomes
Speaker 1: a clue and everybody who every guy thought and sunglasses
Speaker 1: becomes a resident of Graceland's secret basement. So all the
Speaker 1: skeptics have found evidence that any post nineteen seventy seven
Speaker 1: sighting on that was actually Elvis, or that he staged
Speaker 1: his that's inconclusive. But you know this, Walter is precisely
Speaker 1: while all this stuff matters. You know, this is a
Speaker 1: conjuring of you know, a pop culture icon in Elvis Presley,
Speaker 1: and I have to say, you know that isn't the
Speaker 1: only guy. Paul McCartney. Right, This is the same thing,
Speaker 1: but only in reverse. They stated that Paul McCartney, he
Speaker 1: died in nineteen sixty six in that car crash, and
Speaker 1: they would go through the lyrics inside Sargent Pepper's Lonely
Speaker 1: Hearts Club band and you know, everything from Strawberry to
Speaker 1: Revolution to a Day in the Life, you know, all
Speaker 1: was referencing, you know, Paul McCartney. So this is one
Speaker 1: of those things that the public gets a hold of.
Speaker 1: They don't want to believe that that name is rock
Speaker 1: star person is dead. And then there you go the phenomenon,
Speaker 1: will you go? There you go, Eddie Dragon, The mystery
Speaker 1: of Elvis Presley's death. How many years ago today? Forty nine,
Speaker 1: sir long year, forty nine long years ago today. Thank
Speaker 1: you very much for being on the other side of midnight.