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mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B0_%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B0_%D1%81%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%86%D1%8C_%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B0_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BA-%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%82%D0%BD%D1%96" title="Легенда пра смерць Пола Мак-Картні – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Легенда пра смерць Пола Мак-Картні" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%BB_%D0%B5_%D0%BC%D1%8A%D1%80%D1%82%D1%8A%D0%B2" title="Пол е мъртъв – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Пол е мъртъв" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca badge-Q70893996 mw-list-item" title=""><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_%C3%A9s_mort" title="Paul és mort – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Paul és mort" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konspira%C4%8Dn%C3%AD_teorie_o_smrti_Paula_McCartneyho" title="Konspirační teorie o smrti Paula McCartneyho – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Konspirační teorie o smrti Paula McCartneyho" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_is_Dead" title="Paul is Dead – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Paul is Dead" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_is_dead" title="Paul is dead – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Paul is dead" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_McCartney_surma_varjamine" title="Paul McCartney surma varjamine – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Paul McCartney surma varjamine" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_est%C3%A1_muerto" title="Paul está muerto – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Paul está muerto" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D9%84_%D9%85%D8%B1%D8%AF%D9%87%E2%80%8C%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA" title="پل مرده‌است – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="پل مرده‌است" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9gende_sur_la_mort_de_Paul_McCartney" title="Légende sur la mort de Paul McCartney – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Légende sur la mort de Paul McCartney" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%8F%B4_%EB%A7%A4%EC%B9%B4%ED%8A%B8%EB%8B%88_%EC%82%AC%EB%A7%9D%EC%84%A4" title="폴 매카트니 사망설 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="폴 매카트니 사망설" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%93%D5%B8%D5%AC_%D5%84%D5%A1%D6%84%D5%94%D5%A1%D6%80%D5%A9%D5%B6%D5%AB%D5%AB_%D5%B4%D5%A1%D5%B0%D5%BE%D5%A1%D5%B6_%D5%AC%D5%A5%D5%A3%D5%A5%D5%B6%D5%A4" title="Փոլ ՄաքՔարթնիի մահվան լեգենդ – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Փոլ ՄաքՔարթնիի մահվան լեգենդ" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_telah_mati" title="Paul telah mati – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Paul telah mati" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leggenda_della_morte_di_Paul_McCartney" title="Leggenda della morte di Paul McCartney – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Leggenda della morte di Paul McCartney" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%AA%D7%90%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%99%D7%AA_%D7%94%D7%A7%D7%A9%D7%A8_%D7%A2%D7%9C_%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%AA%D7%95_%D7%A9%D7%9C_%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%9C_%D7%9E%D7%A7%D7%A8%D7%98%D7%A0%D7%99" title="תאוריית הקשר על מותו של פול מקרטני – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="תאוריית הקשר על מותו של פול מקרטני" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%9E%E1%83%9D%E1%83%9A%E1%83%98_%E1%83%9B%E1%83%99%E1%83%95%E1%83%93%E1%83%90%E1%83%A0%E1%83%98%E1%83%90" title="პოლი მკვდარია – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="პოლი მკვდარია" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pols_ir_miris" title="Pols ir miris – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Pols ir miris" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polas_yra_mir%C4%99s" title="Polas yra miręs – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Polas yra miręs" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_halott" title="Paul halott – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Paul halott" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_is_dead" title="Paul is dead – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Paul is dead" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9D%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E6%AD%BB%E4%BA%A1%E8%AA%AC" title="ポール死亡説 – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="ポール死亡説" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_is_dead" title="Paul is dead – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Paul is dead" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_nie_%C5%BCyje" title="Paul nie żyje – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Paul nie żyje" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenda_da_morte_de_Paul_McCartney" title="Lenda da morte de Paul McCartney – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Lenda da morte de Paul McCartney" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru badge-Q17437796 badge-featuredarticle mw-list-item" title="featured article badge"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B0_%D0%BE_%D1%81%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%82%D0%B8_%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B0_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%82%D0%BD%D0%B8" title="Легенда о смерти Пола Маккартни – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Легенда о смерти Пола Маккартни" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_is_dead" title="Paul is dead – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Paul is dead" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%BB_%D1%98%D0%B5_%D0%BC%D1%80%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%B2" title="Пол је мртав – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Пол је мртав" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Српски / srpski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_on_kuollut" title="Paul on kuollut – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Paul on kuollut" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_is_dead" title="Paul is dead – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="Paul is dead" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Svenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-th mw-list-item"><a href="https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B8%9E%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%A5%E0%B8%95%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%A2%E0%B9%81%E0%B8%A5%E0%B9%89%E0%B8%A7" title="พอลตายแล้ว – Thai" lang="th" hreflang="th" data-title="พอลตายแล้ว" data-language-autonym="ไทย" data-language-local-name="Thai" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ไทย</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uk mw-list-item"><a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B0_%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%BE_%D1%81%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%82%D1%8C_%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B0_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%82%D0%BD%D1%96" title="Легенда про смерть Пола Маккартні – Ukrainian" lang="uk" hreflang="uk" 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<div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Urban legend and conspiracy theory about Paul McCartney</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">"Paul Is Dead" redirects here. For the graphic novel, see <a href="/wiki/Paul_Is_Dead_(comics)" title="Paul Is Dead (comics)">Paul Is Dead (comics)</a>. For the Miracles episode, see <a href="/wiki/Paul_is_Dead_(Miracles_episode)" class="mw-redirect" title="Paul is Dead (Miracles episode)">Paul is Dead (Miracles episode)</a>.</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">"William Shears" redirects here. For the industrialist, see <a href="/wiki/James_Shears_and_Sons" title="James Shears and Sons">James Shears and Sons</a>.</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Paul_McCartney_in_1966_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Paul_McCartney_in_1966_%28cropped%29.jpg/220px-Paul_McCartney_in_1966_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="303" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/ff/Paul_McCartney_in_1966_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="327" data-file-height="451" /></a><figcaption>McCartney in October 1966. The urban legend alleges that McCartney died in November 1966 and was replaced by a stand-in.</figcaption></figure> <p>"<b>Paul is dead</b>" is an <a href="/wiki/Urban_legend" title="Urban legend">urban legend</a> and <a href="/wiki/Conspiracy_theory" title="Conspiracy theory">conspiracy theory</a> alleging that English musician <a href="/wiki/Paul_McCartney" title="Paul McCartney">Paul McCartney</a> of <a href="/wiki/The_Beatles" title="The Beatles">the Beatles</a> died in 1966 and was secretly replaced by a <a href="/wiki/Look-alike" title="Look-alike">look-alike</a>. The rumour began circulating in 1966, gaining broad popularity in September 1969 following reports on American college campuses. </p><p>According to the theory, McCartney died in a car crash, and to spare the public from grief, the surviving Beatles, aided by Britain's <a href="/wiki/MI5" title="MI5">MI5</a>, replaced him with a McCartney look-alike, subsequently communicating this secret through subtle details of their albums. Proponents perceived clues among elements of Beatles songs and cover artwork; clue-hunting proved infectious, and by October 1969 had become an international phenomenon. Rumours declined after <a href="/wiki/Life_(magazine)" title="Life (magazine)"><i>Life</i></a> published an interview with McCartney in November 1969. </p><p>The phenomenon was the subject of analysis in the fields of <a href="/wiki/Sociology" title="Sociology">sociology</a>, <a href="/wiki/Psychology" title="Psychology">psychology</a> and <a href="/wiki/Communication_studies" title="Communication studies">communications</a> during the 1970s. McCartney parodied the hoax with the title and cover art of his 1993 live album, <i><a href="/wiki/Paul_Is_Live" title="Paul Is Live">Paul Is Live</a></i>. The legend was among ten of "the world's most enduring conspiracy theories" according to <a href="/wiki/Time_(magazine)" title="Time (magazine)"><i>Time</i></a> in 2009. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Beginnings">Beginnings</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Paul_is_dead&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Beginnings"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Although rumours that Paul McCartney's health was deteriorating existed since early 1966,<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> reports that McCartney had died only started circulating in September of that year. The Beatles' press officer, <a href="/wiki/Tony_Barrow" title="Tony Barrow">Tony Barrow</a>, recounted this in his book, <i>John, Paul, George, Ringo and Me.</i> <a href="/wiki/Fleet_Street" title="Fleet Street">Fleet Street</a> reporters started phoning Barrow one day early that month, to confirm rumours regarding the Beatle's health and even a possible death, to which he replied that he had recently spoken with McCartney.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>For the rest of 1966, the rumour was eclipsed by similar reports that Paul McCartney was working on a solo project and that the Beatles were splitting up,<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which were backed by their disappearance from the public eye and the postponement of their scheduled tours in late 1966.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In early 1967, the rumour resurfaced in London, this time claiming that Paul McCartney had been killed in a traffic accident while driving along the <a href="/wiki/M1_motorway" title="M1 motorway">M1 motorway</a> on the 7th of January of that year.<sup id="cite_ref-Yoakum/Gadfly_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Yoakum/Gadfly-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The rumour was acknowledged and rebutted in the February issue of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Beatles_Book" title="The Beatles Book">The Beatles Book</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-Yoakum/Gadfly_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Yoakum/Gadfly-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> McCartney then alluded to the rumour during a press conference held around the release of <i><a href="/wiki/Sgt._Pepper%27s_Lonely_Hearts_Club_Band" title="Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band">Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band</a></i> in May.<sup id="cite_ref-moriarty_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-moriarty-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template noprint noexcerpt Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOTRS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOTRS"><span title="This claim needs references to better sources. (November 2019)">better source needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>The Beatles' producer <a href="/wiki/George_Martin" title="George Martin">George Martin</a> once claimed that, during the Beatles’ visit to <a href="/wiki/Denver" title="Denver">Denver, Colorado</a>, "a number of people pretending to be Beatles" were employed by the promoters of the band's concerts in order to distract the crowds of fans from the real Beatles, while they were exiting a hotel.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to journalist Maureen O'Grady, who wrote about it in the May 1966 issue of <i>RAVE Magazine</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> such a tactic was used when the Beatles first played in <a href="/wiki/Baltimore" title="Baltimore">Baltimore</a>, in 1964. As a result, stories began to circulate that the Beatles had sent four lookalikes to perform on stage on one of their American tours.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Both Paul McCartney and <a href="/wiki/George_Harrison" title="George Harrison">George Harrison</a> later refuted these claims. </p><p>Despite the Beatles dismissing such accusations, they soon began accompanying the notion that McCartney had died. By late 1967, it was further stated that the Beatles covered up his death by employing a Paul McCartney impersonator to stand in for him.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For example, journalist <a href="/wiki/Jamake_Highwater" title="Jamake Highwater">Jay Marks</a> was attending McCartney's engagement party in 1967 when a friend of the band told him that McCartney had been replaced. </p><p>By the mid-1960s, the Beatles were known for sometimes including <a href="/wiki/Backmasking" title="Backmasking">backmasking</a> in their music.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMacDonald199816,_273–75_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMacDonald199816,_273–75-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Analysing their lyrics for hidden meaning had also become a popular trend in the US.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESchaffner1978115_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchaffner1978115-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In November 1968, their <a href="/wiki/The_Beatles_(album)" title="The Beatles (album)">self-titled double LP</a> (also known as the "White Album") was released containing the track "<a href="/wiki/Glass_Onion_(song)" title="Glass Onion (song)">Glass Onion</a>". <a href="/wiki/John_Lennon" title="John Lennon">John Lennon</a> wrote the song in response to "gobbledygook" said about <i>Sgt. Pepper</i>. 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codecs="vorbis"" data-width="0" data-height="0" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/transcoded/9/9d/Revolution-9-forward.ogg/Revolution-9-forward.ogg.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" data-transcodekey="mp3" data-width="0" data-height="0" /><track src="/w/api.php?action=timedtext&title=File%3ARevolution-9-forward.ogg&lang=en&trackformat=vtt" kind="subtitles" type="text/vtt" srclang="en" label="English ‪(en)‬" data-dir="ltr" /><track src="/w/api.php?action=timedtext&title=File%3ARevolution-9-forward.ogg&lang=es&trackformat=vtt" kind="subtitles" type="text/vtt" srclang="es" label="español ‪(es)‬" data-dir="ltr" /></audio></span></span></div> <div class="description">The allegedly backmasked section of "Revolution 9"</div></div><hr /><div class="haudio"> <div class="listen-file-header"><a href="/wiki/File:Revolution-9-reversed.ogg" title="File:Revolution-9-reversed.ogg">"Revolution 9" (section) (reversed)</a></div> <div><span typeof="mw:File"><span><audio id="mwe_player_1" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="232" style="width:232px;" data-durationhint="11" data-mwtitle="Revolution-9-reversed.ogg" data-mwprovider="local"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e6/Revolution-9-reversed.ogg" type="audio/ogg; codecs="vorbis"" data-width="0" data-height="0" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/transcoded/e/e6/Revolution-9-reversed.ogg/Revolution-9-reversed.ogg.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" data-transcodekey="mp3" data-width="0" data-height="0" /><track src="/w/api.php?action=timedtext&title=File%3ARevolution-9-reversed.ogg&lang=en&trackformat=vtt" kind="subtitles" type="text/vtt" srclang="en" label="English ‪(en)‬" data-dir="ltr" /></audio></span></span></div> <div class="description">The same section reversed, which some believe sounds like "turn me on, dead man"</div></div></div></div> <div class="side-box-abovebelow"><hr /><i class="selfreference">Problems playing these files? See <a href="/wiki/Help:Media" title="Help:Media">media help</a>.</i></div> </div> <p>On 17 September 1969, Tim Harper, an editor of the <i>Drake Times-Delphic</i>, the student newspaper of <a href="/wiki/Drake_University" title="Drake University">Drake University</a> in <a href="/wiki/Des_Moines,_Iowa" title="Des Moines, Iowa">Des Moines, Iowa</a>, published an article titled "Is Beatle Paul McCartney Dead?" The article addressed a rumour being circulated on campus that cited clues from recent Beatles albums, including a message interpreted as "Turn me on, dead man", heard when the White Album track "<a href="/wiki/Revolution_9" title="Revolution 9">Revolution 9</a>" is played backwards. Also referenced was the back cover of <i>Sgt. Pepper</i>, where every Beatle except McCartney is photographed facing the viewer. He is wearing a black badge "OPD" (Officially Pronounced Dead). On the front cover, Starr in a suit looks at the flowered grave, mourning, and McCartney (in a suit) puts his hand on his shoulder. Starr looks sadly down at a tomb shaped like a P, with 4 strings looking like a bass. The front cover of <i>Magical Mystery Tour</i> depicts one unidentified band member in a differently coloured suit from the other three.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to music journalist Merrell Noden, Harper's <i>Drake Times-Delphic</i> was the first to publish an article on the "Paul is dead" theory.<sup id="cite_ref-Noden/MojoSpecial_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Noden/MojoSpecial-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>nb 1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Harper later said that it had become the subject of discussion among students at the start of the new academic year, and he added: "A lot of us, because of <a href="/wiki/Vietnam_War" title="Vietnam War">Vietnam</a> and the so-called <a href="/wiki/The_Establishment" title="The Establishment">Establishment</a>, were ready, willing and able to believe just about any sort of conspiracy."<sup id="cite_ref-Noden/MojoSpecial_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Noden/MojoSpecial-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In late September 1969, the Beatles released the album <i><a href="/wiki/Abbey_Road" title="Abbey Road">Abbey Road</a></i> while they were in the process of disbanding.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMiles2001353,_354_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMiles2001353,_354-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 10 October, the Beatles' press officer, <a href="/wiki/Derek_Taylor" title="Derek Taylor">Derek Taylor</a>, responded to the rumour stating: </p> <blockquote> <p>Recently we've been getting a flood of inquiries asking about reports that Paul is dead. We've been getting questions like that for years, of course, but in the past few weeks we've been getting them at the office and home night and day. I'm even getting telephone calls from disc jockeys and others in the United States.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> </blockquote> <p>Throughout this period, McCartney felt isolated from his bandmates in his opposition to their choice of business manager, <a href="/wiki/Allen_Klein" title="Allen Klein">Allen Klein</a>, and distraught at Lennon's private announcement that he was leaving the group.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESounes2010261,_263–64_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESounes2010261,_263–64-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERodriguez20101,_396,_398_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERodriguez20101,_396,_398-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> With the birth of his daughter <a href="/wiki/Mary_McCartney" title="Mary McCartney">Mary</a> in late August, McCartney had withdrawn to focus on his family life.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMiles1997559_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMiles1997559-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 22 October, the day that the "Paul is dead" rumour became an international news story,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWinn2009332_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWinn2009332-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> McCartney, his wife <a href="/wiki/Linda_McCartney" title="Linda McCartney">Linda</a> and their two daughters travelled to Scotland to spend time at his farm near <a href="/wiki/Campbeltown" title="Campbeltown">Campbeltown</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMiles2001358_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMiles2001358-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Growth">Growth</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Paul_is_dead&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Growth"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 12 October 1969, a caller to <a href="/wiki/Detroit" title="Detroit">Detroit</a> radio station <a href="/wiki/WNIC" title="WNIC">WKNR-FM</a> told disc jockey <a href="/wiki/Russ_Gibb" title="Russ Gibb">Russ Gibb</a> about the rumour and its clues.<sup id="cite_ref-Noden/MojoSpecial_16-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Noden/MojoSpecial-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Gibb and other callers then discussed the rumour on air for the next hour,<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> during which Gibb offered further potential clues.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWinn2009241_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWinn2009241-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Two days later, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Michigan_Daily" title="The Michigan Daily">The Michigan Daily</a></i> published a satirical review of <i>Abbey Road</i> by <a href="/wiki/University_of_Michigan" title="University of Michigan">University of Michigan</a> student <a href="/wiki/Fred_LaBour" title="Fred LaBour">Fred LaBour</a>, who had listened to the exchange on Gibb's show,<sup id="cite_ref-Noden/MojoSpecial_16-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Noden/MojoSpecial-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> under the headline "McCartney Dead; New Evidence Brought to Light".<sup id="cite_ref-labour_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-labour-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGould2007593–94_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGould2007593–94-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It identified various clues to McCartney's alleged death on Beatles album covers, particularly on the <i>Abbey Road</i> sleeve. LaBour later said he had invented many of the clues and was astonished when the story was picked up by newspapers across the United States.<sup id="cite_ref-Allen_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Allen-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Noden writes that "Very soon, every college campus, every radio station, had a resident expert."<sup id="cite_ref-Noden/MojoSpecial_16-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Noden/MojoSpecial-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> WKNR fuelled the rumour further with its two-hour programme <i>The Beatle Plot</i>, which first aired on 19 October. The show – which has been called "infamous", a "fraud" and a "mockumentary" – brought enormous worldwide publicity to Gibb and WKNR.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The story was soon taken up by more mainstream radio stations in the New York area, <a href="/wiki/WMCA_(AM)" title="WMCA (AM)">WMCA</a> and <a href="/wiki/WABC_(AM)" title="WABC (AM)">WABC</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESchaffner1978127_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchaffner1978127-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the early hours of 21 October, WABC disc jockey <a href="/wiki/Roby_Yonge" title="Roby Yonge">Roby Yonge</a> discussed the rumour on-air for over an hour before being pulled off the air for breaking format. At that time of night, WABC's signal covered a wide listening area and could be heard in 38 US states and, at times, in other countries.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Although the Beatles' press office denied the rumour, McCartney's atypical withdrawal from public life contributed to its escalation.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESounes2010262_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESounes2010262-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Vin_Scelsa" title="Vin Scelsa">Vin Scelsa</a>, a student broadcaster in 1969, later said that the escalation was indicative of the <a href="/wiki/1960s_counterculture" class="mw-redirect" title="1960s counterculture">countercultural</a> influence of <a href="/wiki/Bob_Dylan" title="Bob Dylan">Bob Dylan</a>, the Beatles and <a href="/wiki/The_Rolling_Stones" title="The Rolling Stones">the Rolling Stones</a>, since: "Every song from them – starting about late 1966 – became a personal message, worthy of endless scrutiny ... they were guidelines on how to live your life."<sup id="cite_ref-Noden/MojoSpecial_16-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Noden/MojoSpecial-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>WMCA dispatched <a href="/wiki/Alex_Bennett_(broadcaster)" title="Alex Bennett (broadcaster)">Alex Bennett</a> to the Beatles' <a href="/wiki/Apple_Corps" title="Apple Corps">Apple Corps</a> headquarters in London on 23 October,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWinn2009333_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWinn2009333-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> to further his extended coverage of the "Paul is dead" theory.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESchaffner1978127_34-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchaffner1978127-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcKinney2003291_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcKinney2003291-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There, <a href="/wiki/Ringo_Starr" title="Ringo Starr">Ringo Starr</a> told Bennett: "If people are gonna believe it, they're gonna believe it. I can only say it's not true."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWinn2009333_37-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWinn2009333-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In a radio interview with John Small of WKNR, Lennon said that the rumour was "insane" but good publicity for <i>Abbey Road</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWinn2009332–33_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWinn2009332–33-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>nb 2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On <a href="/wiki/Halloween" title="Halloween">Halloween</a> night 1969, <a href="/wiki/WWKB" title="WWKB">WKBW</a> in <a href="/wiki/Buffalo,_New_York" title="Buffalo, New York">Buffalo, New York</a>, broadcast a program titled <i>Paul McCartney Is Alive and Well – Maybe</i>, which analysed Beatles lyrics and other clues. The WKBW DJs concluded that the "Paul is dead" hoax was fabricated by Lennon.<sup id="cite_ref-Bisco/ReelRadio_42-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bisco/ReelRadio-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Before the end of October 1969, several record releases had exploited the phenomenon of McCartney's alleged demise.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESchaffner1978127_34-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchaffner1978127-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These included "The Ballad of Paul" by the Mystery Tour;<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECastlemanPodrazik1976281_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECastlemanPodrazik1976281-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "Brother Paul" by Billy Shears and the All Americans; "So Long Paul" by Werbley Finster, a pseudonym for <a href="/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Feliciano" title="José Feliciano">José Feliciano</a>;<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcKinney2003292_44-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcKinney2003292-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Zacharias and His Tree People's "We're All Paul Bearers (Parts One and Two)".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEClayson2003118_45-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEClayson2003118-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Another song was <a href="/wiki/Terry_Knight" title="Terry Knight">Terry Knight</a>'s "Saint Paul",<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESchaffner1978127_34-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchaffner1978127-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which had been a minor hit in June that year and was subsequently adopted by radio stations as a tribute to "the late Paul McCartney".<sup id="cite_ref-Knight_46-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Knight-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>nb 3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A cover version of "Saint Paul" by New Zealand singer <a href="/wiki/Shane_(New_Zealand_singer)" title="Shane (New Zealand singer)">Shane</a> reached the top of that nation's singles charts.<sup id="cite_ref-Shane_49-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Shane-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to a report in <i><a href="/wiki/Billboard_(magazine)" title="Billboard (magazine)">Billboard</a></i> magazine in early November, <a href="/wiki/Shelby_Singleton" title="Shelby Singleton">Shelby Singleton Productions</a> planned to issue a documentary LP of radio segments discussing the phenomenon.<sup id="cite_ref-BB/DiskCoverage_50-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BB/DiskCoverage-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In Canada, <a href="/wiki/Polydor_Records" title="Polydor Records">Polydor Records</a> exploited the rumour in their artwork for <i><a href="/wiki/Very_Together" title="Very Together">Very Together</a></i>, a repackaging of the Beatles' pre-fame recordings with <a href="/wiki/Tony_Sheridan" title="Tony Sheridan">Tony Sheridan</a>, using a cover that showed four candles, one of which had just been snuffed out.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESchaffner1978130_51-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchaffner1978130-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Premise">Premise</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Paul_is_dead&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Premise"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Beatles_-_Abbey_Road.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="The Abbey Road album cover" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/42/Beatles_-_Abbey_Road.jpg/220px-Beatles_-_Abbey_Road.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/42/Beatles_-_Abbey_Road.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="316" data-file-height="316" /></a><figcaption>The "funeral procession" on the cover of <i>Abbey Road</i></figcaption></figure> <p>Many versions of this theory have arisen since its initial exposure to the public, but most proponents of the theory maintain that, on 9 November 1966 (alternatively, the 11th of September of the same year),<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template noprint noexcerpt Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOTRS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOTRS"><span title="This claim needs references to better sources. (April 2023)">better source needed</span></a></i>]</sup> McCartney had an argument with his bandmates during a <i>Sgt. Pepper</i> recording session and drove off angrily in his car, distracted by a meter maid ("<a href="/wiki/Lovely_Rita" title="Lovely Rita">Lovely Rita</a>"), not noticing that the traffic lights had changed ("<a href="/wiki/A_Day_In_The_Life" class="mw-redirect" title="A Day In The Life">A Day In The Life</a>"), crashed, and was decapitated ("<a href="/wiki/Don%27t_Pass_Me_By" title="Don't Pass Me By">Don't Pass Me By</a>").<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESchaffner1978127_34-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchaffner1978127-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHoffmannBailey1990165–66_53-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHoffmannBailey1990165–66-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A funeral service for McCartney was held, with eulogies by Harrison ("<a href="/wiki/Blue_Jay_Way" title="Blue Jay Way">Blue Jay Way</a>") and Starr ("Don't Pass Me By"), followed by a procession (<i>Abbey Road</i><span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'</span>s front cover), with Lennon as the priest officiating his funeral and burying him (the alleged "I Buried Paul" statement in "<a href="/wiki/Strawberry_Fields_Forever" title="Strawberry Fields Forever">Strawberry Fields Forever</a>"). To spare the public from grief, or simply as a joke, the surviving Beatles replaced him with the winner of a McCartney look-alike contest.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESchaffner1978127_34-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchaffner1978127-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This scenario was facilitated by the Beatles' recent retirement from live performance and by their choosing to present themselves with a new image for their next album, <i>Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band</i> (which began recording later that month).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGould2007593_54-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGould2007593-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In LaBour's telling, the stand-in was an "orphan from Edinburgh named William Campbell" whom the Beatles then trained to impersonate McCartney.<sup id="cite_ref-Noden/MojoSpecial_16-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Noden/MojoSpecial-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Others contended that the man's name was Bill Shepherd,<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> later abbreviated to Billy Shears,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETurner2016368_56-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETurner2016368-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the replacement was instigated by Britain's <a href="/wiki/MI5" title="MI5">MI5</a> out of concern for the severe distress McCartney's death would cause the Beatles' audience.<sup id="cite_ref-Shivani/Dawn_57-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Shivani/Dawn-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In this latter telling, the surviving Beatles were said to be wracked with guilt over their actions, and therefore left messages in their music and album artwork to communicate the truth to their fans.<sup id="cite_ref-Shivani/Dawn_57-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Shivani/Dawn-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Time_58-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Time-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1224211176">.mw-parser-output .quotebox{background-color:#F9F9F9;border:1px solid #aaa;box-sizing:border-box;padding:10px;font-size:88%;max-width:100%}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatleft{margin:.5em 1.4em .8em 0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatright{margin:.5em 0 .8em 1.4em}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.centered{overflow:hidden;position:relative;margin:.5em auto .8em auto}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatleft span,.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatright span{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .quotebox>blockquote{margin:0;padding:0;border-left:0;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-title{text-align:center;font-size:110%;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote>:first-child{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote:last-child>:last-child{margin-bottom:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote.quoted:before{font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-weight:bold;font-size:large;color:gray;content:" “ ";vertical-align:-45%;line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote.quoted:after{font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-weight:bold;font-size:large;color:gray;content:" ” ";line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .left-aligned{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .right-aligned{text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .center-aligned{text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .quote-title,.mw-parser-output .quotebox .quotebox-quote{display:block}.mw-parser-output .quotebox cite{display:block;font-style:normal}@media screen and (max-width:640px){.mw-parser-output .quotebox{width:100%!important;margin:0 0 .8em!important;float:none!important}}</style><div class="quotebox pullquote floatright" style="width:22%; ;"> <blockquote class="quotebox-quote left-aligned" style=""> <p>A DJ put all those signs together: Paul with no shoes [on the cover of <i>Abbey Road</i>] ... and the Volkswagen Beetle. Then there was <i><a href="/wiki/Magical_Mystery_Tour_(film)" title="Magical Mystery Tour (film)">Magical Mystery Tour</a></i>, where we three had red roses and he had a black one. It was just madness ... There was no way we could <i>prove</i> he was alive.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEThe_Beatles2000342_40-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEThe_Beatles2000342-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> </blockquote> <p style="padding-bottom: 0;"><cite class="left-aligned" style="">—<a href="/wiki/Ringo_Starr" title="Ringo Starr">Ringo Starr</a></cite></p> </div> <p>Dozens of supposed clues to McCartney's death have been identified by fans and followers of the legend. These include messages perceived when listening to songs being <a href="/wiki/Backmasking" title="Backmasking">played backwards</a> and symbolic interpretations of both lyrics and album cover imagery.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPatterson1998193–97_59-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatterson1998193–97-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEClayson2003117–18_60-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEClayson2003117–18-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Two frequently cited examples are the suggestions that the words "I buried Paul" are spoken by Lennon in the final section of the song "Strawberry Fields Forever", which the Beatles recorded in November and December 1966 (Lennon later said that the words were actually "Cranberry sauce"), and that the words "number nine, number nine" in "<a href="/wiki/Revolution_9" title="Revolution 9">Revolution 9</a>" (from the "<a href="/wiki/The_Beatles_(album)" title="The Beatles (album)">White Album</a>") became "turn me on, dead man, turn me on, dead man" when played backwards. A similar reversal at the end of "<a href="/wiki/I%27m_So_Tired" title="I'm So Tired">I'm So Tired</a>" (another "White Album" track) yielded "Paul is dead man, miss him, miss him, miss him…".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMacDonald1998273fn_61-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMacDonald1998273fn-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Another example is the interpretation of the <i>Abbey Road</i> album cover as depicting a <a href="/wiki/Funeral_procession" title="Funeral procession">funeral procession</a>: Lennon, dressed in white, is said to symbolise the <a href="/wiki/Deity" title="Deity">heavenly figure</a>; Starr, dressed in black, symbolises the <a href="/wiki/Undertaker" class="mw-redirect" title="Undertaker">undertaker</a>; <a href="/wiki/George_Harrison" title="George Harrison">George Harrison</a>, in denim, represents the <a href="/wiki/Gravedigger" title="Gravedigger">gravedigger</a>; and McCartney, barefoot and out of step with the others, symbolises the <a href="/wiki/Cadaver" title="Cadaver">corpse</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-labour_30-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-labour-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The number plate of the white <a href="/wiki/Volkswagen_Beetle" title="Volkswagen Beetle">Volkswagen Beetle</a> in the photo – containing the characters LMW 281F (mistakenly read as "28IF") – was identified as further "evidence".<sup id="cite_ref-Noden/MojoSpecial_16-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Noden/MojoSpecial-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEThe_Beatles2000341,_342_63-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEThe_Beatles2000341,_342-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "28IF" represented McCartney's age "if" he had still been alive (although McCartney was 27 when the album was recorded and released)<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESounes2010262_36-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESounes2010262-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> while "LMW" stood for "Linda McCartney weeps" or "Linda McCartney, widow" (although McCartney and the then-Linda Eastman had not yet met in 1966, the year of his alleged death).<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDraper200876_65-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDraper200876-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>nb 4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> That the left-handed McCartney held a cigarette in his right hand was also said to support the idea that he was an impostor.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESchaffner1978127_34-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchaffner1978127-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Rebuttal">Rebuttal</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Paul_is_dead&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Rebuttal"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Life_magazine_nov_69.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="The cover of an edition of Life magazine showing Paul McCartney and family in Scotland'" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a6/Life_magazine_nov_69.jpg/220px-Life_magazine_nov_69.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a6/Life_magazine_nov_69.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="250" data-file-height="333" /></a><figcaption>The magazine report that rebutted the rumour</figcaption></figure> <p>On 21 October 1969, the Beatles' press office again issued statements denying the rumour, deeming it "a load of old rubbish"<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and saying that "the story has been circulating for about two years – we get letters from all sorts of nuts but Paul is still very much with us".<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 24 October, <a href="/wiki/BBC_Radio" title="BBC Radio">BBC Radio</a> reporter Chris Drake was granted an interview with McCartney at his farm.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMiles2001358_27-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMiles2001358-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> McCartney said that the speculation was understandable, given that he normally did "an interview a week" to ensure he remained in the news.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWinn2009334_69-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWinn2009334-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Part of the interview was first broadcast on <a href="/wiki/BBC_Radio_4" title="BBC Radio 4">Radio 4</a>, on 26 October,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMiles2001359_70-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMiles2001359-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and subsequently on WMCA in the US.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWinn2009334_69-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWinn2009334-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to author John Winn, McCartney had conceded to the interview "in hopes that people hearing his voice would see the light", but the ploy failed.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWinn2009334_69-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWinn2009334-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>nb 5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>McCartney was secretly filmed by a <a href="/wiki/CBS_News" title="CBS News">CBS News</a> crew as he worked on his farm. As in his and Linda's segment in the Beatles' promotional clip for "<a href="/wiki/Something_(Beatles_song)" title="Something (Beatles song)">Something</a>", which the couple filmed privately around this time, McCartney was unshaven and unusually scruffy-looking in his appearance.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWinn2009335_72-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWinn2009335-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His next visitors were a reporter and photographer from <i><a href="/wiki/Life_(magazine)" title="Life (magazine)">Life</a></i> magazine. Irate at the intrusion, he swore at the pair, threw a bucket of water over them and was captured on film attempting to hit the photographer. Fearing that the photos would damage his image, McCartney then approached the pair and agreed to pose for a photo with his family and answer the reporter's questions, in exchange for the roll of film containing the offending pictures.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESounes2010262–63_73-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESounes2010262–63-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In Winn's description, the family portrait used for <i>Life</i><span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'</span>s cover shows McCartney no longer "shabbily attired", but "clean-shaven and casually but smartly dressed".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWinn2009335_72-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWinn2009335-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Following the publication of the article and the photo, in the issue dated 7 November,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWinn2009335_72-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWinn2009335-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the rumour started to decline.<sup id="cite_ref-Noden/MojoSpecial_16-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Noden/MojoSpecial-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the interview, McCartney said the rumour was "bloody stupid" and went on to say: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Perhaps the rumour started because I haven't been much in the press lately. I have done enough press for a lifetime, and I don't have anything to say these days. I am happy to be with my family and I will work when I work. I was switched on for ten years and I never switched off. Now I am switching off whenever I can. I would rather be a little less famous these days.<sup id="cite_ref-neary_74-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-neary-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Aftermath">Aftermath</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Paul_is_dead&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Aftermath"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In November 1969, <a href="/wiki/Capitol_Records" title="Capitol Records">Capitol Records</a> sales managers reported a significant increase in sales of Beatles catalogue albums, attributed to the rumour.<sup id="cite_ref-Burks/RS_75-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Burks/RS-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Rocco Catena, Capitol's vice-president of national merchandising, estimated that "this is going to be the biggest month in history in terms of Beatles sales".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESchaffner1978127_34-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchaffner1978127-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Burks/RS_75-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Burks/RS-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The rumour benefited the commercial performance of <i>Abbey Road</i> in the US, where it comfortably outsold all of the band's previous albums.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESchaffner1978126–27_76-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchaffner1978126–27-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Sgt. Pepper</i> and <i>Magical Mystery Tour</i>, both of which had been off the charts since February, re-entered the <i>Billboard</i> <a href="/wiki/Billboard_200" title="Billboard 200">Top LPs</a> chart,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESchaffner1978127_34-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchaffner1978127-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> peaking at number 101 and number 109, respectively.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECastlemanPodrazik1976361_77-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECastlemanPodrazik1976361-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A television special dedicated to "Paul is dead" was broadcast on <a href="/wiki/WWOR-TV" title="WWOR-TV">WOR</a> in New York on 30 November.<sup id="cite_ref-Allen_32-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Allen-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Titled <i>Paul McCartney: The Complete Story, Told for the First and Last Time</i>, it was set in a courtroom and hosted by celebrity lawyer <a href="/wiki/F._Lee_Bailey" title="F. Lee Bailey">F. Lee Bailey</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcKinney2003292_44-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcKinney2003292-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> who <a href="/wiki/Cross-examination" title="Cross-examination">cross-examined</a> LaBour,<sup id="cite_ref-Allen_32-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Allen-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Gibb and other proponents of the theory, and heard opposing views from "witnesses" such as McCartney's friend <a href="/wiki/Peter_Asher" title="Peter Asher">Peter Asher</a>, brother <a href="/wiki/Mike_McCartney" title="Mike McCartney">Mike McCartney</a> and <a href="/wiki/Allen_Klein" title="Allen Klein">Allen Klein</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESchaffner1978127_34-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchaffner1978127-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Bailey left it to the viewer to determine a conclusion.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESchaffner1978127_34-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchaffner1978127-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Before the recording, LaBour told Bailey that his article had been intended as a joke, to which Bailey sighed and replied, "Well, we have an hour of television to do; you're going to have to go along with this."<sup id="cite_ref-Allen_32-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Allen-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1224211176"><div class="quotebox pullquote floatright" style="width:22%; ;"> <blockquote class="quotebox-quote left-aligned" style=""> <p>It was a bit weird meeting people shortly after that, because they'd be looking at the back of my ears, looking a bit through me. And it was weird doing the "I really <i>am</i> him" stuff.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEThe_Beatles2000342_40-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEThe_Beatles2000342-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> </blockquote> <p style="padding-bottom: 0;"><cite class="left-aligned" style="">—Paul McCartney</cite></p> </div> <p>McCartney returned to London in December. Bolstered by Linda's support, he began recording his debut solo album at his home in <a href="/wiki/St_John%27s_Wood" title="St John's Wood">St John's Wood</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESounes2010264_78-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESounes2010264-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Titled <i><a href="/wiki/McCartney_(album)" title="McCartney (album)">McCartney</a></i>, and recorded without his bandmates' knowledge,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDoggett2011111,_121_79-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDoggett2011111,_121-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERodriguez20102_80-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERodriguez20102-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> it was "one of the best-kept secrets in rock history" until shortly before its release in April 1970, according to author <a href="/wiki/Nicholas_Schaffner" title="Nicholas Schaffner">Nicholas Schaffner</a>, and led to the announcement of the <a href="/wiki/Break-up_of_the_Beatles" title="Break-up of the Beatles">Beatles' break-up</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESchaffner1978135_81-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchaffner1978135-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In his 1971 song "<a href="/wiki/How_Do_You_Sleep%3F_(John_Lennon_song)" title="How Do You Sleep? (John Lennon song)">How Do You Sleep?</a>", in which he attacked McCartney's character,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERodriguez2010399_82-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERodriguez2010399-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Lennon described the theorists as "freaks" who “was right when they said you was dead".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESounes2010290_83-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESounes2010290-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The rumour was also cited in the hoax surrounding the Canadian band <a href="/wiki/Klaatu_(band)" title="Klaatu (band)">Klaatu</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Raymond/Vulture_84-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Raymond/Vulture-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> after a January 1977 review of their debut album <i><a href="/wiki/3:47_EST" title="3:47 EST">3:47 EST</a></i> sparked rumours that the group were in fact the Beatles.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESchaffner1978189–90_85-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchaffner1978189–90-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In one telling, this theory contended that the album had been recorded in late 1966 but then mislaid until 1975, at which point Lennon, Harrison and Starr elected to issue it in McCartney's memory.<sup id="cite_ref-Raymond/Vulture_84-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Raymond/Vulture-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>LaBour later became notable as the bassist for the <a href="/wiki/Western_swing" title="Western swing">western swing</a> group <a href="/wiki/Riders_in_the_Sky_(band)" title="Riders in the Sky (band)">Riders in the Sky</a>, which he co-founded in 1977. In 2008, he joked that his success as a musician had extended his <a href="/wiki/Fifteen_minutes_of_fame" class="mw-redirect" title="Fifteen minutes of fame">fifteen minutes of fame</a> for his part in the rumour to "seventeen minutes".<sup id="cite_ref-86" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2015, he told <i><a href="/wiki/The_Detroit_News" title="The Detroit News">The Detroit News</a></i> that he is still periodically contacted by conspiracy theorists who have attempted to present him with supposed new developments on the McCartney rumours.<sup id="cite_ref-87" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Analysis_and_legacy">Analysis and legacy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Paul_is_dead&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Analysis and legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Author <a href="/wiki/Peter_Doggett" title="Peter Doggett">Peter Doggett</a> writes that, while he thinks the theory behind "Paul is dead" defied logic, its popularity was understandable in a climate where citizens were faced with conspiracy theories insisting that the <a href="/wiki/Assassination_of_John_F._Kennedy" title="Assassination of John F. Kennedy">assassination of President John F. Kennedy</a> in 1963 was in fact a <a href="/wiki/Coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="Coup d'état">coup d'état</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDoggett2011107_88-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDoggett2011107-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Schaffner said that, given its origins as an item of gossip and intrigue generated by a select group in the "Beatles cult", "Paul is dead" serves as "a genuine folk tale of the <a href="/wiki/Mass_communication" title="Mass communication">mass communications</a> era".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESchaffner1978128_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchaffner1978128-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also described it as "the most monumental hoax since <a href="/wiki/Orson_Welles" title="Orson Welles">Orson Welles</a>' <a href="/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds_(1938_radio_drama)" title="The War of the Worlds (1938 radio drama)"><i>War of the Worlds</i> broadcast</a> persuaded thousands of panicky New Jerseyites that Martian invaders were in the vicinity".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESchaffner1978128_17-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchaffner1978128-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In his book <i><a href="/wiki/Revolution_in_the_Head" class="mw-redirect" title="Revolution in the Head">Revolution in the Head</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/Ian_MacDonald" title="Ian MacDonald">Ian MacDonald</a> says that the Beatles were partly responsible for the phenomenon due to their incorporation of "random lyrics and effects", particularly in the White Album track "Glass Onion" in which Lennon invited clue-hunting by including references to other Beatles songs.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMacDonald199816,_273–75_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMacDonald199816,_273–75-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> MacDonald groups it with the "psychic epidemics" that were encouraged by the rock audience's use of hallucinogenic drugs and which escalated with <a href="/wiki/Charles_Manson" title="Charles Manson">Charles Manson</a>'s homicidal interpretation of the White Album and <a href="/wiki/Mark_David_Chapman" title="Mark David Chapman">Mark David Chapman</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Murder_of_John_Lennon" title="Murder of John Lennon">murder of Lennon in 1980</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMacDonald1998273–75_89-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMacDonald1998273–75-89"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the 1970s, the phenomenon became a subject of academic study in America in the fields of <a href="/wiki/Sociology" title="Sociology">sociology</a>, <a href="/wiki/Psychology" title="Psychology">psychology</a> and <a href="/wiki/Communication_studies" title="Communication studies">communications</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESchaffner1978128–29_90-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchaffner1978128–29-90"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Among sociological studies, Barbara Suczek recognised it as, in Schaffner's description, a contemporary reading of the "archetypal myth wherein the beautiful youth dies and is resurrected as a god".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESchaffner1978128_17-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchaffner1978128-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Psychologists Ralph Rosnow and <a href="/wiki/Gary_Fine" class="mw-redirect" title="Gary Fine">Gary Fine</a> attributed its popularity partly to the shared, vicarious experience of searching for clues without consequence for the participants. They also said that for a generation distrustful of the media following the <a href="/wiki/Warren_Commission" title="Warren Commission">Warren Commission</a>'s report, it was able to thrive amid a climate informed by "The credibility gap of <a href="/wiki/Lyndon_Johnson" class="mw-redirect" title="Lyndon Johnson">Lyndon Johnson</a>'s presidency, the widely circulated rumors after the <a href="/wiki/Assassination_of_Martin_Luther_King_Jr." title="Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.">Martin Luther King Jr.</a> and <a href="/wiki/Assassination_of_Robert_F._Kennedy" title="Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy">Robert F. Kennedy assassinations</a>, as well as attacks on the leading media sources by the <a href="/wiki/Yippies" class="mw-redirect" title="Yippies">yippies</a> and <a href="/wiki/Spiro_Agnew" title="Spiro Agnew">Spiro Agnew</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESchaffner1978128_17-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchaffner1978128-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>American social critic <a href="/wiki/Camille_Paglia" title="Camille Paglia">Camille Paglia</a> locates the "Paul is dead" phenomenon to the <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greece" title="Ancient Greece">Ancient Greek</a> tradition symbolised by <a href="/wiki/Adonis" title="Adonis">Adonis</a> and <a href="/wiki/Antinous" title="Antinous">Antinous</a>, as represented in the cult of rock music's "pretty, long-haired boys who mesmerize both sexes", and she adds: "It's no coincidence that it was Paul McCartney, the 'cutest' and most girlish of the Beatles, who inspired a false rumor that swept the world in 1969 that he was dead."<sup id="cite_ref-91" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-91"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>"Paul is dead" has continued to inspire analysis into the 21st century, with published studies by Andru J. Reeve, <a href="/wiki/Nick_Kollerstrom" class="mw-redirect" title="Nick Kollerstrom">Nick Kollerstrom</a> and Brian Moriarty, among others, and exploitative works in the mediums of <a href="/wiki/Mockumentary" title="Mockumentary">mockumentary</a> and documentary film.<sup id="cite_ref-Shivani/Dawn_57-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Shivani/Dawn-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Writing in 2016, Beatles biographer <a href="/wiki/Steve_Turner_(writer)" title="Steve Turner (writer)">Steve Turner</a> said, "the theory still has the power to flare back into life."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETurner2016368_56-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETurner2016368-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He cited a 2009 <i><a href="/wiki/Wired_Italia" class="mw-redirect" title="Wired Italia">Wired Italia</a></i> magazine article that featured an analysis by two forensic research consultants who compared selected photographs of McCartney taken before and after his alleged death by measuring features of the skull.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETurner2016368_56-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETurner2016368-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to the scientists' findings, the man shown in the post-November 1966 images was not the same.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETurner2016368_56-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETurner2016368-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-92" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-92"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-93" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-93"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>nb 6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Similar rumours concerning other celebrities have been circulated, including the unsubstantiated allegation that Canadian singer <a href="/wiki/Avril_Lavigne" title="Avril Lavigne">Avril Lavigne</a> died in 2003 and <a href="/wiki/Avril_Lavigne_replacement_conspiracy_theory" title="Avril Lavigne replacement conspiracy theory">was replaced by a person named Melissa Vandella</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Cresci/Guardian_94-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cresci/Guardian-94"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-95" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-95"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In an article on the latter phenomenon, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a></i> described the 1969 McCartney hoax as "Possibly the best known example" of a celebrity being the focus of "a (completely unverified) cloning conspiracy theory".<sup id="cite_ref-Cresci/Guardian_94-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cresci/Guardian-94"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2009, <i><a href="/wiki/Time_(magazine)" title="Time (magazine)">Time</a></i> magazine included "Paul is dead" in its feature on ten of "the world's most enduring conspiracy theories".<sup id="cite_ref-Time_58-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Time-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="In_popular_culture">In popular culture</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Paul_is_dead&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: In popular culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>There have been many references to the legend in popular culture, including the following examples. </p> <ul><li>The June 1970 issue of the <a href="/wiki/DC_Comics" title="DC Comics">DC Comics</a> title <i><a href="/wiki/Batman_(comic_book)" title="Batman (comic book)">Batman</a></i> (#222) had a story titled "Dead ... Till Proven Alive" in which it was rumoured that Saul from the band the Oliver Twists was deceased and replaced with a double. On the cover of the comic book, <a href="/wiki/Robin_(character)" title="Robin (character)">Robin</a> is holding an album that mimics the back of <i>Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-96" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-96"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-97" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-97"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The 1972 <a href="/wiki/National_Lampoon_(magazine)" title="National Lampoon (magazine)">National Lampoon</a> comedy album <i><a href="/wiki/Radio_Dinner" title="Radio Dinner">Radio Dinner</a></i> has several announced "clues" placed throughout, including backmasked segments and notes in the album's gatefold, all parodying the hoax.<sup id="cite_ref-Radio_Dinner_98-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Radio_Dinner-98"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-99" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-99"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>In <a href="/wiki/The_Rutles" title="The Rutles">the Rutles</a>' 1978 television film satirising the Beatles' history, <i><a href="/wiki/All_You_Need_Is_Cash" title="All You Need Is Cash">All You Need Is Cash</a></i>, the identity of the alleged dead band member was transferred to the George Harrison character, Stig O'Hara, who was supposed to have died "in a flash fire at a water bed shop" and been replaced by a <a href="/wiki/Madame_Tussauds" title="Madame Tussauds">Madame Tussauds</a> wax model. Building on Harrison's reputation as the "Quiet Beatle", the "Stig is dead" theory was supported by his lack of dialogue in the film<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERodriguez2010308_100-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERodriguez2010308-100"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and clues such as his trouser-less appearance on the cover of the Rutles' <i>Shabby Road</i> album.<sup id="cite_ref-101" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-101"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>On the February 13, 1993, episode of <i><a href="/wiki/Saturday_Night_Live" title="Saturday Night Live">Saturday Night Live</a></i>, Paul McCartney was interviewed on <a href="/wiki/The_Chris_Farley_Show" title="The Chris Farley Show">The Chris Farley Show</a>, a recurring sketch where <a href="/wiki/Chris_Farley" title="Chris Farley">Chris Farley</a> nervously asked questions of his guests, usually on if they remembered parts of their career. Regarding the "Paul Is Dead" rumours, Farley outlined the urban legend, then asked "That was, um, a hoax, right?" McCartney responded by saying "Yeah. I wasn't really dead."</li> <li>McCartney titled his 1993 live album <i><a href="/wiki/Paul_Is_Live" title="Paul Is Live">Paul Is Live</a></i> in reference to the hoax.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEClayson2003228_102-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEClayson2003228-102"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also presented it in a sleeve that parodied the <i>Abbey Road</i> cover and its clues.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDoggett2011339_103-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDoggett2011339-103"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>97<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The 1995 video for "<a href="/wiki/Free_as_a_Bird" title="Free as a Bird">Free as a Bird</a>" – a song recorded by Lennon in the late 1970s and completed by McCartney, Harrison and Starr for the band's <i><a href="/wiki/The_Beatles_Anthology" title="The Beatles Anthology">Anthology</a></i> project – references "Paul is dead", among other myths relating to the Beatles' impact during the 1960s. According to author Gary Burns, the video indulges in the same "semiological excess" as the 1969 hoax and thereby "spoof[s]" obsessive clue-hunting.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurns2000180–81_104-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBurns2000180–81-104"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>98<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>In the 1995 episode of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Simpsons" title="The Simpsons">The Simpsons</a></i>, "<a href="/wiki/Lisa_the_Vegetarian" title="Lisa the Vegetarian">Lisa the Vegetarian</a>", Paul McCartney guest stars and mentions that if his song "Maybe I'm Amazed" is played backwards, it contains a recipe for <a href="/wiki/Lentil_soup" title="Lentil soup">lentil soup</a>. The song plays over the end credits, and, if played backwards, it not only contains the aforementioned recipe, but also McCartney himself saying "oh, and by the way, I'm alive".<sup id="cite_ref-105" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-105"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>99<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>"Paul Is Dead", a track on the 1995 <a href="/wiki/Yo_La_Tengo" title="Yo La Tengo">Yo La Tengo</a> album <a href="/wiki/Electr-O-Pura" title="Electr-O-Pura">Electr-O-Pura</a></li> <li>In 2010, American author <a href="/wiki/Alan_Goldsher" title="Alan Goldsher">Alan Goldsher</a> published the <a href="/wiki/Mashup_novels" class="mw-redirect" title="Mashup novels">mashup novel</a> <i>Paul Is Undead: The British Zombie Invasion</i>, which depicts all of the Beatles as <a href="/wiki/Zombie" title="Zombie">zombies</a> except Ringo Starr.<sup id="cite_ref-106" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-106"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>100<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Joel_Gilbert#Paul_McCartney_Really_Is_Dead:_The_Last_Testament_of_George_Harrison" title="Joel Gilbert">Paul McCartney Really Is Dead: The Last Testament of George Harrison</a></i> is a 2010 <a href="/wiki/Mockumentary" title="Mockumentary">mockumentary</a> directed by <a href="/wiki/Joel_Gilbert" title="Joel Gilbert">Joel Gilbert</a> that purports to tell the story of George Harrison, believing himself to be on his deathbed after being stabbed on December 30, 1999,<sup id="cite_ref-107" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-107"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>101<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> revealing that McCartney had died in a car crash with a girl named Rita and that <a href="/wiki/British_intelligence_agencies" title="British intelligence agencies">British intelligence agencies</a> had orchestrated a coverup through which he was replaced by a lookalike. The film is narrated by a voice actor purporting to be George Harrison, describing over archival footage and reenactment the clues left behind in songs and album art that McCartney was dead.<sup id="cite_ref-108" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-108"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>102<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>In 2015, the indie rock band <a href="/wiki/EL_VY" title="EL VY">EL VY</a> released a song called "Paul Is Alive", which contains lyrics referencing <a href="/wiki/Beatlemania" title="Beatlemania">Beatlemania</a><sup id="cite_ref-109" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-109"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>103<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and partly addresses the 1969 rumour.<sup id="cite_ref-110" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-110"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>104<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>A 2018 comedy short film, <i>Paul Is Dead</i>, depicts a version of events where McCartney dies during a musical retreat and is replaced by a look-alike named Billy Shears.<sup id="cite_ref-111" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-111"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>105<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>A graphic novel co-created by Paolo Baron and Ernesto Carbonetti called <i><a href="/wiki/Paul_Is_Dead_(comics)" title="Paul Is Dead (comics)">Paul Is Dead</a></i> was published in English by <a href="/wiki/Image_Comics" title="Image Comics">Image Comics</a> in 2020.</li> <li>In 2023, the American supergroup <a href="/wiki/Boygenius" title="Boygenius">Boygenius</a> released the song called "Revolution 0" which was originally going to be called "Paul is Dead".<sup id="cite_ref-112" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-112"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>106<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Paul_is_dead&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Outline_of_the_Beatles" title="Outline of the Beatles">Outline of the Beatles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Beatles_timeline" title="The Beatles timeline">The Beatles timeline</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Paul_is_dead&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Writing in 1977, author <a href="/wiki/Nicholas_Schaffner" title="Nicholas Schaffner">Nicholas Schaffner</a> said the theory has been traced to a student thesis at <a href="/wiki/Ohio_Wesleyan_University" title="Ohio Wesleyan University">Ohio Wesleyan University</a> and to a prank article published in the student newspaper for <a href="/wiki/Northern_Illinois_University" title="Northern Illinois University">Northern Illinois University</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESchaffner1978128_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchaffner1978128-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The university eventually retracted the article in 2023 due to the false and plagiarized nature of its content, writing an apology to McCartney for their role in propagating the hoax.<sup id="cite_ref-CBS_2023_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CBS_2023-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-41"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-41">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Estranged from McCartney, Lennon said: "Paul McCartney couldn't die without the world knowing it. The same as he couldn't get married ... [or] go on holiday without the world knowing it. It's just insanity – but it's a great plug for <i>Abbey Road</i>."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEThe_Beatles2000342_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEThe_Beatles2000342-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-48"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-48">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">A <a href="/wiki/Capitol_Records" title="Capitol Records">Capitol Records</a> recording artist, Knight had been present during the White Album session when Starr temporarily left the band,<sup id="cite_ref-Knight_46-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Knight-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in August 1968.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMacDonald1998271_47-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMacDonald1998271-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the song, the singer conveys his fears that the Beatles were about to disband.<sup id="cite_ref-Knight_46-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Knight-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-66"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-66">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The fact that he would have been 27 in late 1969, rather than 28, was dismissed with the rationale that, in the <a href="/wiki/Hinduism" title="Hinduism">Hindu</a> tradition, infants were one year old at birth.<sup id="cite_ref-Noden/MojoSpecial_16-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Noden/MojoSpecial-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-71"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-71">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">In the 2000 book <i><a href="/wiki/The_Beatles_Anthology_(book)" title="The Beatles Anthology (book)">The Beatles Anthology</a></i>, McCartney says that his reaction to the rumour's growth had been: "Well, we'd better play it for all it's worth. It's publicity, isn't it?"<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEThe_Beatles2000342_40-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEThe_Beatles2000342-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-93"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-93">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">In his article on the legacy of "Paul is dead", for <i><a href="/wiki/Dawn_(newspaper)" title="Dawn (newspaper)">Dawn</a></i> in January 2017, Anis Shivani wrote that the narrative has grown, in the manner of JFK's assassination, to incorporate related conspiracy theories. In this expanded narrative, Lennon's murder in 1980, Harrison's near-fatal stabbing in 1999, and the death of Beatles associate <a href="/wiki/Mal_Evans" title="Mal Evans">Mal Evans</a> in 1976 are all credited to forces protecting the "truth" behind "Paul is dead".<sup id="cite_ref-Shivani/Dawn_57-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Shivani/Dawn-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Paul_is_dead&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.the-paulmccartney-project.com/interview/my-broken-tooth-by-paul-mccartney/">"My Broken Tooth - by Paul McCartney"</a>. <i>The Paul McCartney project</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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McIntosh">Robbie McIntosh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chris_Whitten" title="Chris Whitten">Chris Whitten</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blair_Cunningham" title="Blair Cunningham">Blair Cunningham</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Studio albums</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks vcard navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/McCartney_(album)" title="McCartney (album)">McCartney</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ram_(album)" title="Ram (album)">Ram</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Thrillington" title="Thrillington">Thrillington</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/McCartney_II" title="McCartney II">McCartney II</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Tug_of_War_(Paul_McCartney_album)" title="Tug of War (Paul McCartney album)">Tug of War</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Pipes_of_Peace" title="Pipes of Peace">Pipes of Peace</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Give_My_Regards_to_Broad_Street" title="Give My Regards to Broad Street">Give My Regards to Broad Street</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Press_to_Play" title="Press to Play">Press to Play</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/CHOBA_B_CCCP" title="CHOBA B CCCP">Снова в СССР</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Flowers_in_the_Dirt" title="Flowers in the Dirt">Flowers in the Dirt</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Off_the_Ground" title="Off the Ground">Off the Ground</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Flaming_Pie" title="Flaming Pie">Flaming Pie</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Run_Devil_Run_(album)" title="Run Devil Run (album)">Run Devil Run</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Driving_Rain" title="Driving Rain">Driving Rain</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Chaos_and_Creation_in_the_Backyard" title="Chaos and Creation in the Backyard">Chaos and Creation in the Backyard</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Memory_Almost_Full" title="Memory Almost Full">Memory Almost Full</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Kisses_on_the_Bottom" title="Kisses on the Bottom">Kisses on the Bottom</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/New_(album)" title="New (album)">New</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Egypt_Station" title="Egypt Station">Egypt Station</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/McCartney_III" title="McCartney III">McCartney III</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">with <a href="/wiki/Paul_McCartney_and_Wings" title="Paul McCartney and Wings">Wings</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Wild_Life_(Wings_album)" title="Wild Life (Wings album)">Wild Life</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Red_Rose_Speedway" title="Red Rose Speedway">Red Rose Speedway</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Band_on_the_Run" title="Band on the Run">Band on the Run</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Venus_and_Mars_(Wings_album)" title="Venus and Mars (Wings album)">Venus and Mars</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Wings_at_the_Speed_of_Sound" title="Wings at the Speed of Sound">Wings at the Speed of Sound</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/London_Town_(Wings_album)" title="London Town (Wings album)">London Town</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Back_to_the_Egg" title="Back to the Egg">Back to the Egg</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/The_Fireman_(band)" title="The Fireman (band)">The Fireman</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Strawberries_Oceans_Ships_Forest" title="Strawberries Oceans Ships Forest">Strawberries Oceans Ships Forest</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Rushes_(album)" title="Rushes (album)">Rushes</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Electric_Arguments" title="Electric Arguments">Electric Arguments</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Classical</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Paul_McCartney%27s_Liverpool_Oratorio" title="Paul McCartney's Liverpool Oratorio">Paul McCartney's Liverpool Oratorio</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Standing_Stone_(album)" title="Standing Stone (album)">Standing Stone</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Working_Classical" title="Working Classical">Working Classical</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ecce_Cor_Meum" title="Ecce Cor Meum">Ecce Cor Meum</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ocean%27s_Kingdom" title="Ocean's Kingdom">Ocean's Kingdom</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Live albums</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Wings_over_America" title="Wings over America">Wings over America</a></i> (with Wings)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Tripping_the_Live_Fantastic" title="Tripping the Live Fantastic">Tripping the Live Fantastic</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Unplugged_(The_Official_Bootleg)" title="Unplugged (The Official Bootleg)">Unplugged (The Official Bootleg)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Paul_Is_Live" title="Paul Is Live">Paul Is Live</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Back_in_the_U.S." title="Back in the U.S.">Back in the U.S.</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Back_in_the_World_Live" title="Back in the World Live">Back in the World Live</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Amoeba%27s_Secret" title="Amoeba's Secret">Amoeba's Secret</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Good_Evening_New_York_City" title="Good Evening New York City">Good Evening New York City</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Live_in_Los_Angeles_(Paul_McCartney_album)" title="Live in Los Angeles (Paul McCartney album)">Live in Los Angeles</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Amoeba_Gig" title="Amoeba Gig">Amoeba Gig</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/One_Hand_Clapping_(Paul_McCartney_and_Wings_album)" title="One Hand Clapping (Paul McCartney and Wings album)">One Hand Clapping</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Remix albums</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Liverpool_Sound_Collage" title="Liverpool Sound Collage">Liverpool Sound Collage</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Twin_Freaks" title="Twin Freaks">Twin Freaks</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/McCartney_III_Imagined" title="McCartney III Imagined">McCartney III Imagined</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Compilations</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Wings_Greatest" title="Wings Greatest">Wings Greatest</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/All_the_Best!" title="All the Best!">All the Best!</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Paul_McCartney_Collection" title="The Paul McCartney Collection">The Paul McCartney Collection</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Wingspan:_Hits_and_History" title="Wingspan: Hits and History">Wingspan: Hits and History</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Never_Stop_Doing_What_You_Love" title="Never Stop Doing What You Love">Never Stop Doing What You Love</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Pure_McCartney_(Paul_McCartney_album)" title="Pure McCartney (Paul McCartney album)">Pure McCartney</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/McCartney_I_II_III" title="McCartney I II III">McCartney I II III</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_7%E2%80%B3_Singles_Box" title="The 7″ Singles Box">The 7″ Singles Box</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Books</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/High_in_the_Clouds" title="High in the Clouds">High in the Clouds</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hey_Grandude!" title="Hey Grandude!">Hey Grandude!</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Lyrics:_1956_to_the_Present" title="The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present">The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/1964:_Eyes_of_the_Storm" title="1964: Eyes of the Storm">1964: Eyes of the Storm</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Filmography</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Hard_Day%27s_Night_(film)" title="A Hard Day's Night (film)">A Hard Day's Night</a></i> (1964)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Help!_(film)" title="Help! (film)">Help!</a></i> (1965)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Magical_Mystery_Tour_(film)" title="Magical Mystery Tour (film)">Magical Mystery Tour</a></i> (1967)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Yellow_Submarine_(film)" title="Yellow Submarine (film)">Yellow Submarine</a></i> (1968)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Let_It_Be_(1970_film)" title="Let It Be (1970 film)">Let It Be</a></i> (1970)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/James_Paul_McCartney_(TV_programme)" title="James Paul McCartney (TV programme)">James Paul McCartney</a></i> (1973)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Wings_Over_the_World" title="Wings Over the World">Wings Over the World</a></i> (1979)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Back_to_the_Egg_(TV_programme)" title="Back to the Egg (TV programme)">Back to the Egg</a></i> (1979)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Concert_for_Kampuchea" title="Concert for Kampuchea">Concert for Kampuchea</a></i> (1980)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Rockshow" title="Rockshow">Rockshow</a></i> (1980)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Rupert_and_the_Frog_Song" title="Rupert and the Frog Song">Rupert and the Frog Song</a></i> (1984)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Give_My_Regards_to_Broad_Street_(film)" title="Give My Regards to Broad Street (film)">Give My Regards to Broad Street</a></i> (1984)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Flowers_in_the_Dirt#2017_remaster" title="Flowers in the Dirt">Put It There</a></i> (1989)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Unplugged_(The_Official_Bootleg)" title="Unplugged (The Official Bootleg)">MTV Unplugged</a></i> (1991)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Get_Back_(film)" title="Get Back (film)">Get Back</a></i> (1991)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Paul_McCartney%27s_Liverpool_Oratorio" title="Paul McCartney's Liverpool Oratorio">Liverpool Oratorio</a></i> (1991)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Paul_Is_Live" title="Paul Is Live">Paul Is Live</a></i> (1993)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/In_the_World_Tonight" title="In the World Tonight">In the World Tonight</a></i> (1997)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Standing_Stone_(album)" title="Standing Stone (album)">Standing Stone</a></i> (1997)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Tropic_Island_Hum" title="Tropic Island Hum">Tropic Island Hum</a></i> (1997)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Live_at_the_Cavern_Club" title="Live at the Cavern Club">Live at the Cavern Club</a></i> (1999)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Working_Classical" title="Working Classical">Working Classical</a></i> (2000)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Wingspan_(film)" title="Wingspan (film)">Wingspan</a></i> (2001)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Concert_for_New_York_City" title="The Concert for New York City">The Concert for New York City</a></i> (2001)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Back_in_the_U.S." title="Back in the U.S.">Back in the U.S.</a></i> (2002)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Paul_McCartney_in_Red_Square" title="Paul McCartney in Red Square">Paul McCartney in Red Square</a></i> (2003)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Paul_McCartney:_Music_%26_Animation" title="Paul McCartney: Music & Animation">The Music and Animation Collection</a></i> (2004)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Chaos_and_Creation_in_the_Backyard#Special_Edition_DVD" title="Chaos and Creation in the Backyard">Between Chaos and Creation</a></i> (2005)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Space_Within_US" title="The Space Within US">The Space Within US</a></i> (2006)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Memory_Almost_Full" title="Memory Almost Full">Memory Almost Full – Deluxe Edition</a></i> (2007)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_McCartney_Years" title="The McCartney Years">The McCartney Years</a></i> (2007)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ecce_Cor_Meum" title="Ecce Cor Meum">Ecce Cor Meum</a></i> (2008)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Good_Evening_New_York_City" title="Good Evening New York City">Good Evening New York City</a></i> (2009)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Love_We_Make" title="The Love We Make">The Love We Make</a></i> (2011)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/New_(album)" title="New (album)">A Rendez-Vous with Paul McCartney</a></i> (2013)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/New_(album)#Collector's_edition" title="New (album)">New – Collector's Edition</a></i> (2014)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/MusiCares_Person_of_the_Year" title="MusiCares Person of the Year">A MusiCares Tribute to Paul McCartney</a></i> (2015)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Pure_McCartney_(Paul_McCartney_album)" title="Pure McCartney (Paul McCartney album)">Pure McCartney</a></i> (2016)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Carpool_Karaoke" title="Carpool Karaoke">Carpool Karaoke: When Corden Met McCartney Live from Liverpool</a></i> (2018)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Bootlegs</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Cold_Cuts_(Paul_McCartney_album)" title="Cold Cuts (Paul McCartney album)">Cold Cuts</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Costello_Album" title="Costello Album">Costello Album</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Toot_and_a_Snore_in_%2774" title="A Toot and a Snore in '74">A Toot and a Snore in '74</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Return_to_Pepperland" title="Return to Pepperland">Return to Pepperland</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_Paul_McCartney_concert_tours" title="List of Paul McCartney concert tours">Tours</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/The_Paul_McCartney_World_Tour" title="The Paul McCartney World Tour">The Paul McCartney World Tour</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_New_World_Tour" title="The New World Tour">The New World Tour</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Driving_World_Tour" title="Driving World Tour">Driving World Tour</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_%27US%27_Tour" title="The 'US' Tour">The 'US' Tour</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Summer_Live_%2709" title="Summer Live '09">Summer Live '09</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Good_Evening_Europe_Tour" title="Good Evening Europe Tour">Good Evening Europe Tour</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Up_and_Coming_Tour" title="Up and Coming Tour">Up and Coming Tour</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/On_the_Run_(Paul_McCartney)" title="On the Run (Paul McCartney)">On the Run</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Out_There_(tour)" title="Out There (tour)">Out There</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/One_on_One_(tour)" title="One on One (tour)">One on One</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_McCartney%27s_2018_Secret_Gigs" title="Paul McCartney's 2018 Secret Gigs">2018 Secret Gigs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Freshen_Up_(tour)" title="Freshen Up (tour)">Freshen Up</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Got_Back" title="Got Back">Got Back</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Tributes</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Art_of_McCartney" title="The Art of McCartney">The Art of McCartney</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Let_Us_in_Americana:_The_Music_of_Paul_McCartney" title="Let Us in Americana: The Music of Paul McCartney">Let Us in Americana: The Music of Paul McCartney</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pure_McCartney_(2013_album)" title="Pure McCartney (2013 album)"><i>Pure McCartney</i> (2013 album)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Lists</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_awards_and_nominations_received_by_Paul_McCartney" title="List of awards and nominations received by Paul McCartney">Awards</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_McCartney_discography" title="Paul McCartney discography">Discography</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Paul_McCartney_musical_contributions_and_appearances" title="List of Paul McCartney musical contributions and appearances">Music contributions and appearances</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_songs_recorded_by_Paul_McCartney" title="List of songs recorded by Paul McCartney">Song recordings</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related media</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/Cut_Me_Some_Slack" title="Cut Me Some Slack">Cut Me Some Slack</a>"</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Family_Way_(soundtrack)" title="The Family Way (soundtrack)">The Family Way</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Garland_for_Linda" title="A Garland for Linda">A Garland for Linda</a></i></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Lisa_the_Vegetarian" title="Lisa the Vegetarian">Lisa the Vegetarian</a>"</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_McCartney_Interview" title="The McCartney Interview">The McCartney Interview</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Paul_McCartney:_Many_Years_from_Now" title="Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now">Many Years from Now</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Oobu_Joobu" title="Oobu Joobu">Oobu Joobu</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_McCartney_Archive_Collection" title="Paul McCartney Archive Collection">Paul McCartney Archive Collection</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Paul_McCartney%27s_Glastonbury_Groove" title="Paul McCartney's Glastonbury Groove">Paul McCartney's Glastonbury Groove</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Two_of_Us_(2000_film)" title="Two of Us (2000 film)"><i>Two of Us</i> (film)</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Wide_Prairie" title="Wide Prairie">Wide Prairie</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other topics</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/20_Forthlin_Road" title="20 Forthlin Road">20 Forthlin Road</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Beatles" title="The Beatles">The Beatles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brian_Clarke" title="Brian Clarke">Brian Clarke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Fireman_(band)" title="The Fireman (band)">The Fireman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lennon%E2%80%93McCartney" title="Lennon–McCartney">Lennon–McCartney</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heather_Mills" title="Heather Mills">Heather Mills</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/MPL_Communications" title="MPL Communications">MPL Communications</a></li> <li>"<a class="mw-selflink selflink">Paul is dead</a>"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_McCartney%27s_band" title="Paul McCartney's band">Paul McCartney's band</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Personal_relationships_of_Paul_McCartney" title="Personal relationships of Paul McCartney">Personal relationships</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Quarrymen" title="The Quarrymen">The Quarrymen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_McCartney_and_Wings" title="Paul McCartney and Wings">Wings</a></li></ul> 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title="Pete Best">Pete Best</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chas_Newby" title="Chas Newby">Chas Newby</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Norman_Chapman" title="Norman Chapman">Norman Chapman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tommy_Moore_(musician)" title="Tommy Moore (musician)">Tommy Moore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jimmie_Nicol" title="Jimmie Nicol">Jimmie Nicol</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">History</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/The_Quarrymen" title="The Quarrymen">The Quarrymen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Beatles_in_Hamburg" title="The Beatles in Hamburg">In Hamburg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Beatles_at_the_Cavern_Club" title="The Beatles at the Cavern Club">At the Cavern Club</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Beatles%27_Decca_audition" title="The Beatles' Decca audition">Decca audition</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Beatles%27_North_American_releases" title="The Beatles' North American releases">North American releases</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Beatlemania" title="Beatlemania">Beatlemania</a></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/More_popular_than_Jesus" title="More popular than Jesus">More popular than Jesus</a>"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Beatles_in_Bangor" title="The Beatles in Bangor">In Bangor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Beatles_in_India" title="The Beatles in India">In India</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Break-up_of_the_Beatles" title="Break-up of the Beatles">Break-up</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Murder_of_John_Lennon" title="Murder of John Lennon">Murder of John Lennon</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Beatles_Anthology" title="The Beatles Anthology">Anthology</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_members_of_bands_featuring_members_of_the_Beatles" title="List of members of bands featuring members of the Beatles">Line-ups</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religious_views_of_the_Beatles" title="Religious views of the Beatles">Religious views</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Beatles_timeline" title="The Beatles timeline">Timeline</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Lists</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_awards_and_nominations_received_by_the_Beatles" title="List of awards and nominations received by the Beatles">Awards and nominations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Beatles_bootleg_recordings" title="The Beatles bootleg recordings">Bootlegs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Beatles_albums_discography" title="The Beatles albums discography">Albums</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Beatles_singles_discography" title="The Beatles singles discography">Singles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Beatles_in_film" title="The Beatles in film">Films</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_the_Beatles%27_instruments" title="List of the Beatles' instruments">Instruments</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_the_Beatles%27_live_performances" title="List of the Beatles' live performances">Live performances</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_people_who_performed_on_Beatles_recordings" title="List of people who performed on Beatles recordings">Performers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Collaborations_between_ex-Beatles" title="Collaborations between ex-Beatles">Post-breakup collaborations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_songs_recorded_by_the_Beatles" title="List of songs recorded by the Beatles">Songs</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_cover_versions_of_Beatles_songs" title="List of cover versions of Beatles songs">Cover versions of Beatles songs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_songs_covered_by_the_Beatles" title="List of songs covered by the Beatles">Songs covered by the Beatles</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Beatles%27_recording_sessions" title="The Beatles' recording sessions">Recording sessions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tributes_to_the_Beatles" title="Tributes to the Beatles">Tributes</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Tours and<br /> performances</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/The_Beat_Ballad_Show_Tour" title="The Beat Ballad Show Tour">1960 Johnny Gentle Tour</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Beatles_Winter_1963_Helen_Shapiro_Tour" title="The Beatles Winter 1963 Helen Shapiro Tour">Winter 1963 Helen Shapiro Tour</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roy_Orbison/The_Beatles_Tour" title="Roy Orbison/The Beatles Tour">1963 Roy Orbison Tour</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Beatles_on_The_Ed_Sullivan_Show" title="The Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show"><i>The Ed Sullivan Show</i> appearances</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Beatles%27_1964_world_tour" title="The Beatles' 1964 world tour">1964 world tour</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Beatles%27_1964_tour_of_Australia" class="mw-redirect" title="The Beatles' 1964 tour of Australia">The Beatles' 1964 tour of Australia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Beatles%27_1964_North_American_tour" title="The Beatles' 1964 North American tour">1964 North American tour</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Beatles%27_1965_European_tour" title="The Beatles' 1965 European tour">1965 European tour</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Beatles%27_1965_US_tour" title="The Beatles' 1965 US tour">1965 US tour</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Beatles%27_1965_UK_tour" title="The Beatles' 1965 UK tour">1965 UK tour</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Beatles%27_1966_tour_of_Germany,_Japan_and_the_Philippines" title="The Beatles' 1966 tour of Germany, Japan and the Philippines">1966 tour of Germany, Japan and the Philippines</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Beatles%27_1966_US_tour" title="The Beatles' 1966 US tour">1966 US tour</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Our_World_(1967_TV_program)" title="Our World (1967 TV program)"><i>Our World</i> performance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Beatles%27_rooftop_concert" title="The Beatles' rooftop concert">Rooftop concert</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Fifth_Beatle" title="Fifth Beatle">Personnel</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background: #EEEFFF">Management</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Neil_Aspinall" title="Neil Aspinall">Neil Aspinall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tony_Barrow" title="Tony Barrow">Tony Barrow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_Brown_(music_manager)" title="Peter Brown (music manager)">Peter Brown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brian_Epstein" title="Brian Epstein">Brian Epstein</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mal_Evans" title="Mal Evans">Mal Evans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dick_James" title="Dick James">Dick James</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Freda_Kelly" title="Freda Kelly">Freda Kelly</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Allen_Klein" title="Allen Klein">Allen Klein</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Lockwood" title="Joseph Lockwood">Joseph Lockwood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alistair_Taylor" title="Alistair Taylor">Alistair Taylor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Derek_Taylor" title="Derek Taylor">Derek Taylor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Allan_Williams" title="Allan Williams">Allan Williams</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background: #EEEFFF">Production</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Geoff_Emerick" title="Geoff Emerick">Geoff Emerick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Lush" title="Richard Lush">Richard Lush</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Martin" title="George Martin">George Martin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phil_McDonald" title="Phil McDonald">Phil McDonald</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Billy_Preston" title="Billy Preston">Billy Preston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ken_Scott" title="Ken Scott">Ken Scott</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tony_Sheridan" title="Tony Sheridan">Tony Sheridan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phil_Spector" title="Phil Spector">Phil Spector</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Norman_Smith_(record_producer)" title="Norman Smith (record producer)">Norman Smith</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Associated<br />companies</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Apple_Corps" title="Apple Corps">Apple Corps</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apple_Records" title="Apple Records">Apple Records</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Capitol_Records" title="Capitol Records">Capitol Records</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/EMI" title="EMI">EMI</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harrisongs" title="Harrisongs">Harrisongs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northern_Songs" title="Northern Songs">Northern Songs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parlophone" title="Parlophone">Parlophone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seltaeb" title="Seltaeb">Seltaeb</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Startling_Music" title="Startling Music">Startling Music</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Swan_Records" title="Swan Records">Swan Records</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tollie_Records" title="Tollie Records">Tollie Records</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_Artists" title="United Artists">United Artists</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_Artists_Records" title="United Artists Records">United Artists Records</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vee-Jay_Records" title="Vee-Jay Records">Vee-Jay Records</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Associated<br />places</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/10_Admiral_Grove" title="10 Admiral Grove">10 Admiral Grove</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/12_Arnold_Grove" title="12 Arnold Grove">12 Arnold Grove</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/20_Forthlin_Road" title="20 Forthlin Road">20 Forthlin Road</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/251_Menlove_Avenue" title="251 Menlove Avenue">251 Menlove Avenue</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/34_Montagu_Square,_Marylebone" title="34 Montagu Square, Marylebone">34 Montagu Square, Marylebone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abbey_Road,_London" title="Abbey Road, London">Abbey Road, London</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abbey_Road_Studios" title="Abbey Road Studios">Abbey Road Studios</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ad_Lib_Club" title="Ad 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illness">Mass psychogenic illness</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Moral_panic" title="Moral panic">moral panics</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paranoia" title="Paranoia">Paranoia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Psychological_projection" title="Psychological projection">Psychological projection</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Astronomy_and_outer_space" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Astronomy and outer space</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2012_phenomenon" title="2012 phenomenon">2012 phenomenon</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nibiru_cataclysm" title="Nibiru cataclysm">Nibiru cataclysm</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ancient_astronauts" title="Ancient astronauts">Ancient astronauts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moon_landing_conspiracy_theories" title="Moon landing conspiracy theories">Apollo Moon landings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Modern_flat_Earth_beliefs" title="Modern flat Earth beliefs">Flat Earth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hollow_Earth" title="Hollow Earth">Hollow Earth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hollow_Moon" title="Hollow Moon">Hollow Moon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reptilian_conspiracy_theory" title="Reptilian conspiracy theory">Reptilians</a></li></ul> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="UFOs" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/UFO_conspiracy_theories" title="UFO conspiracy theories">UFOs</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alien_abduction" title="Alien abduction">Alien abduction</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Area_51" title="Area 51">Area 51</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Black_Knight_satellite_conspiracy_theory" title="Black Knight satellite conspiracy theory">Black Knight satellite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mac_Tonnies#Cryptoterrestrial_hypothesis" title="Mac Tonnies">Cryptoterrestrial</a> / <a href="/wiki/Extraterrestrial_hypothesis" class="mw-redirect" title="Extraterrestrial hypothesis">Extraterrestrial</a> / <a href="/wiki/Interdimensional_hypothesis" class="mw-redirect" title="Interdimensional hypothesis">Interdimensional hypothesis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dulce_Base" title="Dulce Base">Dulce Base</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Project_Sign" title="Project Sign"><i>Estimate of the Situation</i></a> (1948)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lake_Michigan_Triangle" title="Lake Michigan Triangle">Lake Michigan Triangle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Majestic_12" title="Majestic 12">MJ-12</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Men_in_black" title="Men in black">Men in black</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nazi_UFOs" title="Nazi UFOs">Nazi UFOs</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Die_Glocke_(conspiracy_theory)" title="Die Glocke (conspiracy theory)">Die Glocke</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Planetary_objects_proposed_in_religion,_astrology,_ufology_and_pseudoscience#Serpo" title="Planetary objects proposed in religion, astrology, ufology and pseudoscience">Project Serpo</a></li></ul> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Hoaxes" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_UFO-related_hoaxes" title="List of UFO-related hoaxes">Hoaxes</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dundy_County_UFO_hoax" title="Dundy County UFO hoax">Dundy County</a> (1884)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maury_Island_incident" title="Maury Island incident">Maury Island</a> (1947)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roswell_incident#Roswell_in_UFO_conspiracy_theories_(1978–present)" title="Roswell incident">Roswell</a> (1947)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Twin_Falls_saucer_hoax" title="Twin Falls saucer hoax">Twin Falls</a> (1947)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aztec,_New_Mexico_crashed_saucer_hoax" title="Aztec, New Mexico crashed saucer hoax">Aztec, New Mexico</a> (1949)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/1967_British_flying_saucer_hoax" title="1967 British flying saucer hoax">Southern England</a> (1967)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_UFO-related_hoaxes#Photograph_of_"an_alien"_taken_at_Ilkley_Moor_(1987)" title="List of UFO-related hoaxes">Ilkley Moor</a> (1987)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gulf_Breeze_UFO_incident" title="Gulf Breeze UFO incident">Gulf Breeze</a> (1987–88)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alien_Autopsy_(1995_film)" title="Alien Autopsy (1995 film)">Alien autopsy</a> (1995)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Morristown_UFO_hoax" title="Morristown UFO hoax">Morristown</a> (2009)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Deaths_and_disappearances" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Deaths and disappearances</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Assassination" title="Assassination">Assassination</a> /<br /> <a href="/wiki/Suicide" title="Suicide">suicide</a> theories</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Zachary_Taylor#Assassination_theories" title="Zachary Taylor">Zachary Taylor</a> (1850)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Louis_Le_Prince#Disappearance" title="Louis Le Prince">Louis Le Prince</a> (1890)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Herbert_Kitchener,_1st_Earl_Kitchener#Death" title="Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener">Lord Kitchener</a> (1916)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Death_and_legacy_of_Tom_Thomson#Alternative_theories" title="Death and legacy of Tom Thomson">Tom Thomson</a> (1917)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/W%C5%82adys%C5%82aw_Sikorski%27s_death_controversy" title="Władysław Sikorski's death controversy">Władysław Sikorski</a> (1943)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Death_of_Benito_Mussolini#Post-war_controversy" title="Death of Benito Mussolini">Benito Mussolini</a> (1945)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Conspiracy_theories_about_Adolf_Hitler%27s_death" title="Conspiracy theories about Adolf Hitler's death">Adolf Hitler</a> (1945)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Death_of_Subhas_Chandra_Bose" title="Death of Subhas Chandra Bose">Subhas Chandra Bose</a> (1945)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Killing_of_Johnny_Stompanato#Legacy_and_conspiracy_theories" title="Killing of Johnny Stompanato">Johnny Stompanato</a> (1958)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Death_of_Marilyn_Monroe#Conspiracy_theories" title="Death of Marilyn Monroe">Marilyn Monroe</a> (1962)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_F._Kennedy_assassination_conspiracy_theories" title="John F. Kennedy assassination conspiracy theories">John F. Kennedy</a> (1963)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lee_Harvey_Oswald#Foreign_involvement_in_his_murder" title="Lee Harvey Oswald">Lee Harvey Oswald</a> (1963)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lal_Bahadur_Shastri#Death" title="Lal Bahadur Shastri">Lal Bahadur Shastri</a> (1966)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Disappearance_of_Harold_Holt#Conspiracy_theories" title="Disappearance of Harold Holt">Harold Holt</a> (1967)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr._assassination_conspiracy_theories" title="Martin Luther King Jr. assassination conspiracy theories">Martin Luther King Jr.</a> (1968)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy_assassination_conspiracy_theories" title="Robert F. Kennedy assassination conspiracy theories">Robert F. Kennedy</a> (1968)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Death_of_Salvador_Allende" title="Death of Salvador Allende">Salvador Allende</a> (1973)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Conspiracy_theories_about_the_kidnapping_and_murder_of_Aldo_Moro" title="Conspiracy theories about the kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro">Aldo Moro</a> (1978)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Renny_Ottolina#Death_and_legacy" title="Renny Ottolina">Renny Ottolina</a> (1978)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pope_John_Paul_I_conspiracy_theories" title="Pope John Paul I conspiracy theories">Pope John Paul I</a> (1978)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Airey_Neave#Conspiracy_theories" title="Airey Neave">Airey Neave</a> (1979)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Assassination_of_Olof_Palme#Murder_theories" title="Assassination of Olof Palme">Olof Palme</a> (1986)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Death_and_state_funeral_of_Muhammad_Zia-ul-Haq#Theories" class="mw-redirect" title="Death and state funeral of Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq">Zia-ul-Haq</a> (1988)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/GEC-Marconi_scientist_deaths_conspiracy_theory" title="GEC-Marconi scientist deaths conspiracy theory">GEC-Marconi scientists</a> (1980s–90s)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Turgut_%C3%96zal#Death_and_exhumation" title="Turgut Özal">Turgut Özal</a> (1993)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Suicide_of_Vince_Foster" title="Suicide of Vince Foster">Vince Foster</a> (1993)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Suicide_of_Kurt_Cobain" title="Suicide of Kurt Cobain">Kurt Cobain</a> (1994)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yitzhak_Rabin_assassination_conspiracy_theories" title="Yitzhak Rabin assassination conspiracy theories">Yitzhak Rabin</a> (1995)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Conspiracy_theories_about_the_death_of_Diana,_Princess_of_Wales" title="Conspiracy theories about the death of Diana, Princess of Wales">Diana, Princess of Wales</a> (1997)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alois_Estermann" title="Alois Estermann">Alois Estermann</a> (1998)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nepalese_royal_massacre#Conspiracy_theories" title="Nepalese royal massacre">Nepalese royal family</a> (2001)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cause_of_Yasser_Arafat%27s_death#Theories_about_the_cause_of_death" class="mw-redirect" title="Cause of Yasser Arafat's death">Yasser Arafat</a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Assassination_of_Benazir_Bhutto#United_Nations_inquiry" title="Assassination of Benazir Bhutto">Benazir Bhutto</a> (2007)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Osama_bin_Laden_death_conspiracy_theories" title="Osama bin Laden death conspiracy theories">Osama bin Laden</a> (2011)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Death_of_Hugo_Ch%C3%A1vez" title="Death of Hugo Chávez">Hugo Chávez</a> (2013)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Murder_of_Seth_Rich" title="Murder of Seth Rich">Seth Rich</a> (2016)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alejandro_Castro_(activist)" title="Alejandro Castro (activist)">Alejandro Castro</a> (2018)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Death_of_Jeffrey_Epstein#Homicide_suspicions_and_conspiracy_theories" title="Death of Jeffrey Epstein">Jeffrey Epstein</a> (2019)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Death_of_Chan_Yin-lam" title="Death of Chan Yin-lam">Chan Yin-lam</a> (2019)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Death_of_Sushant_Singh_Rajput#Public_reactions" title="Death of Sushant Singh Rajput">Sushant Singh Rajput</a> (2020)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_McAfee#Death" title="John McAfee">John McAfee</a> (2021)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Accidents / disasters</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mary_Celeste#Myths_and_false_histories" title="Mary Celeste"><i>Mary Celeste</i></a> (1872)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Titanic_conspiracy_theories" title="Titanic conspiracy theories">RMS <i>Titanic</i></a> (1912)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/1923_Great_Kant%C5%8D_earthquake#Ensuing_violence" title="1923 Great Kantō earthquake">Great Kantō earthquake</a> (1923)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lynmouth_Flood#Conspiracy_theory" title="Lynmouth Flood">Lynmouth Flood</a> (1952)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dyatlov_Pass_incident" title="Dyatlov Pass incident">Dyatlov Pass</a> (1959)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lost_Cosmonauts" title="Lost Cosmonauts">Lost Cosmonauts</a> (1950s–60s)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/JAT_Flight_367#Shootdown_conspiracy_theory" title="JAT Flight 367">JAT Flight 367</a> (1972)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_Air_Lines_Flight_553#Conspiracy_theories" title="United Air Lines Flight 553">United Air Lines Flight 553</a> (1972)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_African_Airways_Flight_295#Theories_regarding_the_cause_of_the_fire" title="South African Airways Flight 295">South African Airways Flight 295</a> (1987)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khamar-Daban_incident" title="Khamar-Daban incident">Khamar-Daban</a> (1993)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sinking_of_the_MS_Estonia" title="Sinking of the MS Estonia">MS <i>Estonia</i></a> (1994)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/TWA_Flight_800_conspiracy_theories" title="TWA Flight 800 conspiracy theories">TWA Flight 800</a> (1996)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/EgyptAir_Flight_990#Media_coverage" title="EgyptAir Flight 990">EgyptAir Flight 990</a> (1999)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_370_disappearance_theories" title="Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappearance theories">Malaysia Airlines Flight 370</a> (2014)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other cases</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alternative_historical_interpretations_of_Joan_of_Arc" title="Alternative historical interpretations of Joan of Arc">Joan of Arc</a> (1431)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yemenite_Children_Affair" title="Yemenite Children Affair">Yemenite children</a> (1948–54)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elvis_sightings" title="Elvis sightings">Elvis Presley</a> (1977)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jonestown#Conspiracy_theories" title="Jonestown">Jonestown</a> (1978)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Body double hoax</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Paul McCartney</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Avril_Lavigne_replacement_conspiracy_theory" title="Avril Lavigne replacement conspiracy theory">Avril Lavigne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Conspiracy_theory_about_Vladimir_Putin%27s_body_doubles" class="mw-redirect" title="Conspiracy theory about Vladimir Putin's body doubles">Vladimir Putin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Melania_Trump_replacement_conspiracy_theory" title="Melania Trump replacement conspiracy theory">Melania Trump</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Energy,_environment" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Energy, environment</div></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Agenda_21#Opposition" title="Agenda 21">Agenda 21</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/California_drought_manipulation_conspiracy_theory" title="California drought manipulation conspiracy theory"></a></li></ul><a href="/wiki/California_drought_manipulation_conspiracy_theory" title="California drought manipulation conspiracy theory"> </a><p><a href="/wiki/California_drought_manipulation_conspiracy_theory" title="California drought manipulation conspiracy theory">California drought manipulation</a> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Climate_change_denial" title="Climate change denial">Climate change denial</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Climate_change_conspiracy_theory" class="mw-redirect" title="Climate change conspiracy theory">false theories</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Free_energy_suppression_conspiracy_theory" title="Free energy suppression conspiracy theory">Free energy suppression</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/High_Frequency_Active_Auroral_Research_Program#Conspiracy_theories" class="mw-redirect" title="High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program">HAARP</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Red_mercury" title="Red mercury">Red mercury</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="False_flag_allegations" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/False_flag" title="False flag">False flag</a> allegations</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/USS_Maine_(1889)#False_flag_operation_conspiracy_theories" title="USS Maine (1889)">USS <i>Maine</i></a> (1898)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/RMS_Lusitania#Controversies" title="RMS Lusitania">RMS <i>Lusitania</i></a> (1915)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reichstag_fire#Dispute_about_Van_der_Lubbe's_role" title="Reichstag fire">Reichstag fire</a> (1933)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pearl_Harbor_advance-knowledge_conspiracy_theory" title="Pearl Harbor advance-knowledge conspiracy theory">Pearl Harbor</a> (1941)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident#Ongoing_controversy_and_unresolved_questions" title="USS Liberty incident">USS <i>Liberty</i></a> (1967)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lufthansa_Flight_615#Allegations_of_West_German_government_involvement" title="Lufthansa Flight 615">Lufthansa Flight 615</a> (1972)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wider%C3%B8e_Flight_933" title="Widerøe Flight 933">Widerøe Flight 933</a> (1982)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Korean_Air_Lines_Flight_007_alternative_theories" title="Korean Air Lines Flight 007 alternative theories">KAL Flight 007</a> (1983)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/1986_Mozambican_Tupolev_Tu-134_crash" title="1986 Mozambican Tupolev Tu-134 crash">Mozambican presidential jet</a> (1986)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pan_Am_Flight_103_conspiracy_theories" title="Pan Am Flight 103 conspiracy theories">Pan Am Flight 103</a> (1988)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oklahoma_City_bombing_conspiracy_theories" title="Oklahoma City bombing conspiracy theories">Oklahoma City bombing</a> (1995)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/9/11_conspiracy_theories" title="9/11 conspiracy theories">9/11 attacks</a> (2001) <ul><li><a href="/wiki/September_11_attacks_advance-knowledge_conspiracy_theories" title="September 11 attacks advance-knowledge conspiracy theories">advance knowledge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/World_Trade_Center_controlled_demolition_conspiracy_theories" title="World Trade Center controlled demolition conspiracy theories">WTC collapse</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Controversies_about_the_2004_Madrid_train_bombings" title="Controversies about the 2004 Madrid train bombings">Madrid train bombing</a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/7_July_2005_London_bombings#Conspiracy_theories" title="7 July 2005 London bombings">London bombings</a> (2005)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Smolensk_air_disaster" title="Smolensk air disaster">Smolensk air disaster</a> (2010)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_17#Russian_media_coverage" title="Malaysia Airlines Flight 17">Malaysia Airlines Flight 17</a> (2014)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Denial_of_the_7_October_attacks" class="mw-redirect" title="Denial of the 7 October attacks">Denial of the 7 October attacks</a> (2023)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Gender_and_sexuality" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Gender and sexuality</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alpha_and_beta_male" title="Alpha and beta male">Alpha / beta males</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anti-LGBTQ_rhetoric" title="Anti-LGBTQ rhetoric">Anti-LGBTQ</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anti-gender_movement" title="Anti-gender movement">anti-gender movement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LGBT_chemicals_conspiracy_theory" title="LGBT chemicals conspiracy theory">Chemicals</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Drag_panic" title="Drag panic">drag panic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gay_agenda" title="Gay agenda">gay agenda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gay_Nazis_myth" title="Gay Nazis myth">gay Nazis myth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_HIV/AIDS#1981–1982:_From_GRID_to_AIDS" title="History of HIV/AIDS">HIV/AIDS stigma</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/HIV/AIDS_in_the_United_States#Public_perception" title="HIV/AIDS in the United States">United States</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anti-LGBT_rhetoric#Homintern" class="mw-redirect" title="Anti-LGBT rhetoric">Homintern</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lavender_scare" class="mw-redirect" title="Lavender scare">Lavender scare</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anti-LGBT_rhetoric#Recruitment" class="mw-redirect" title="Anti-LGBT rhetoric">Recruitment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LGBT_grooming_conspiracy_theory" class="mw-redirect" title="LGBT grooming conspiracy theory">Grooming</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Litter_boxes_in_schools_hoax" title="Litter boxes in schools hoax">litter box hoax</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Transvestigation" title="Transvestigation">Transvestigation</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Finger_pinching_conspiracy_theory" title="Finger pinching conspiracy theory">Finger pinching</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gamergate_(harassment_campaign)" title="Gamergate (harassment campaign)">GamerGate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Incel#Ideology_present_in_incel_communities" title="Incel">Ideology in incel communities</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Larries" title="Larries">Larries</a> / <a href="/wiki/Swifties#Gaylor" title="Swifties">Gaylors</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Satanic_panic" title="Satanic panic">Satanic panic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Soy_boy" title="Soy boy">Soy and masculinity</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Health" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Health</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/5G_misinformation" title="5G misinformation">5G misinformation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anti-vaccine_activism" title="Anti-vaccine activism">Anti-vaccination</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Vaccines_and_autism" title="Vaccines and autism">autism</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/MMR_vaccine_and_autism" title="MMR vaccine and autism">MMR</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thiomersal_and_vaccines" title="Thiomersal and vaccines">Thiomersal</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anti-vaccinationism_in_chiropractic" title="Anti-vaccinationism in chiropractic">in chiropractic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vaccine_misinformation" title="Vaccine misinformation">misinformation</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aspartame_controversy" title="Aspartame controversy">Aspartame</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Big_Pharma_conspiracy_theories" title="Big Pharma conspiracy theories">Big Pharma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chemtrail_conspiracy_theory" title="Chemtrail conspiracy theory">Chemtrails</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/COVID-19_misinformation" title="COVID-19 misinformation">COVID-19</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ivermectin_during_the_COVID-19_pandemic" title="Ivermectin during the COVID-19 pandemic">Ivermectin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/COVID-19_lab_leak_theory" title="COVID-19 lab leak theory">lab leak</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/COVID-19_vaccine_misinformation_and_hesitancy" title="COVID-19 vaccine misinformation and hesitancy">vaccines</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Turbo_cancer" title="Turbo cancer">turbo cancer</a></li> <li>in <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_misinformation_in_Canada" title="COVID-19 misinformation in Canada">Canada</a> / <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_misinformation_in_the_Philippines" title="COVID-19 misinformation in the Philippines">Philippines</a> / <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_misinformation_by_the_United_States" title="COVID-19 misinformation by the United States">United States</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ebola_misinformation" title="Ebola misinformation">Ebola</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Electronic_harassment" title="Electronic harassment">Electronic harassment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Germ_theory_denialism" title="Germ theory denialism">Germ theory denialism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/GMO_conspiracy_theories" title="GMO conspiracy theories">GMOs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HIV/AIDS_denialism" title="HIV/AIDS denialism">HIV/AIDS denialism</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Discredited_HIV/AIDS_origins_theories" title="Discredited HIV/AIDS origins theories">origins theories</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oral_polio_vaccine_AIDS_hypothesis" title="Oral polio vaccine AIDS hypothesis">oral polio AIDS hypothesis</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1321_lepers%27_plot" title="1321 lepers' plot">Lepers' plot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Medbed" title="Medbed">Medbeds</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/SARS_conspiracy_theory" title="SARS conspiracy theory">SARS</a> (2003)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Water_fluoridation_controversy" title="Water fluoridation controversy">Water fluoridation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1951_Pont-Saint-Esprit_mass_poisoning" title="1951 Pont-Saint-Esprit mass poisoning">Pont-Saint-Esprit mass poisoning</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Race,_religion_and/or_ethnicity" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Race, religion and/or ethnicity</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bhagwa_Love_Trap_conspiracy_theory" title="Bhagwa Love Trap conspiracy theory">Bhagwa Love Trap</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/CERN_ritual_hoax" title="CERN ritual hoax">CERN ritual hoax</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Xenophobia_and_racism_related_to_the_COVID-19_pandemic" title="Xenophobia and racism related to the COVID-19 pandemic">COVID-19 and xenophobia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Masonic_conspiracy_theories" title="Masonic conspiracy theories">Freemasons</a> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Masonic_conspiracy_theories_in_the_French_Revolution&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Masonic conspiracy theories in the French Revolution (page does not exist)">French Revolution</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A9ories_du_complot_ma%C3%A7onnique_dans_la_R%C3%A9volution_fran%C3%A7aise" class="extiw" title="fr:Théories du complot maçonnique dans la Révolution française">fr</a>]</span></li></ul></li> <li><span class="wraplinks"><a href="/wiki/Warsaw_concentration_camp#Discredited_extermination_camp_story" title="Warsaw concentration camp">Gas chambers for Poles in Warsaw</a></span> (1940s)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Other_Losses" title="Other Losses">German POWs post-WWII</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Priory_of_Sion" title="Priory of Sion">Priory of Sion</a></li> <li>Product labeling <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Halal_conspiracy_theories" title="Halal conspiracy theories">Halal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kosher_tax_conspiracy_theory" title="Kosher tax conspiracy theory">Kosher</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tartarian_Empire_(conspiracy_theory)" class="mw-redirect" title="Tartarian Empire (conspiracy theory)">Tartarian Empire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/War_on_Islam_controversy" title="War on Islam controversy">War against Islam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/White_genocide_conspiracy_theory" title="White genocide conspiracy theory">White genocide</a></li></ul> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Antisemitic_trope" title="Antisemitic trope">Antisemitic</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Andinia_Plan" title="Andinia Plan">Andinia Plan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blood_libel" title="Blood libel">Blood libel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cohen_Plan" title="Cohen Plan">Cohen Plan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Doctors%27_plot" title="Doctors' plot">Doctors' plot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Persecution_of_Jews_during_the_Black_Death" title="Persecution of Jews during the Black Death">during the Black Death</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Epsilon_Team" title="Epsilon Team">Epsilon Team</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Soros_conspiracy_theories" title="George Soros conspiracy theories">George Soros</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Holocaust_denial" title="Holocaust denial">Holocaust denial</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Holocaust_trivialization" title="Holocaust trivialization">Trivialization</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/International_Jewish_conspiracy" title="International Jewish conspiracy">International Jewish conspiracy</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Committee_of_300" title="Committee of 300">Committee of 300</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cultural_Bolshevism" title="Cultural Bolshevism">Cultural Bolshevism</a> / <a href="/wiki/Jewish_Bolshevism" title="Jewish Bolshevism">Jewish Bolshevism</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/%C5%BBydokomuna" title="Żydokomuna">Żydokomuna</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Judeo-Masonic_conspiracy_theory" title="Judeo-Masonic conspiracy theory">Judeo-Masonic plot</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Protocols_of_the_Elders_of_Zion" title="The Protocols of the Elders of Zion">The Protocols of the Elders of Zion</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jewish_war_conspiracy_theory" title="Jewish war conspiracy theory">World War II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zionist_Occupation_Government_conspiracy_theory" title="Zionist Occupation Government conspiracy theory">Z.O.G.</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Judeopolonia" title="Judeopolonia">Judeopolonia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jewish_deicide" title="Jewish deicide">Killing of Jesus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kalergi_Plan" title="Kalergi Plan">Kalergi Plan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_World_Order_(conspiracy_theory)" class="mw-redirect" title="New World Order (conspiracy theory)">New World Order</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rothschild_family#Conspiracy_theories" title="Rothschild family">Rothschilds</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stab-in-the-back_myth" title="Stab-in-the-back myth">Stab-in-the-back myth</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Christian / <a href="/wiki/Anti-Christian_sentiment" title="Anti-Christian sentiment">Anti-Christian</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_conspiracy_theories#Anti-Catholic_conspiracy_theories" title="List of conspiracy theories">Anti-Catholic</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jesuit_conspiracy_theories" title="Jesuit conspiracy theories">Jesuits</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Popish_Plot" title="Popish Plot">Popish Plot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vatican_conspiracy_theories" title="Vatican conspiracy theories">Vatican</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bible_conspiracy_theory" title="Bible conspiracy theory">Bible</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Papal_election_of_Giuseppe_Siri_theory" title="Papal election of Giuseppe Siri theory">Giuseppe Siri</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Islamophobia" title="Islamophobia">Islamophobic</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Counter-jihad" title="Counter-jihad">Counter-jihad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/OpIndia#Bihar_human_sacrifice_claims" title="OpIndia">Bihar human sacrifice</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eurabia_conspiracy_theory" title="Eurabia conspiracy theory">Eurabia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Great_Replacement" class="mw-redirect" title="Great Replacement">Great Replacement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Love_jihad_conspiracy_theory" title="Love jihad conspiracy theory">Love jihad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Islamo-leftism#2021_proposed_Vidal_inquiry" title="Islamo-leftism">Proposed "Islamo-leftism" inquiry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trojan_Horse_scandal" title="Trojan Horse scandal">Trojan Horse scandal</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Genocide_denial" title="Genocide denial">Genocide denial</a> /<br /><a href="/wiki/Template:Denial_of_mass_killings" class="mw-redirect" title="Template:Denial of mass killings">Denial of mass killings</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Armenian_genocide_denial" title="Armenian genocide denial">Armenian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bangladesh_genocide#Views_in_Pakistan" title="Bangladesh genocide">Bangladesh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bosnian_genocide_denial" title="Bosnian genocide denial">Bosnian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cambodian_genocide_denial" title="Cambodian genocide denial">Cambodian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Holocaust_denial" title="Holocaust denial">The Holocaust</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Holodomor_denial" title="Holodomor denial">Holodomor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nanjing_Massacre_denial" title="Nanjing Massacre denial">Nanjing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rwandan_genocide_denial" title="Rwandan genocide denial">Rwandan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sayfo#Denial_and_justification" title="Sayfo">Sayfo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Denial_of_the_genocide_of_Serbs_in_the_Independent_State_of_Croatia" title="Denial of the genocide of Serbs in the Independent State of Croatia">Serbs during WWII</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Regional" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Regional</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Asia</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>India <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cow_vigilante_violence_in_India" title="Cow vigilante violence in India">Cow vigilante violence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greater_Bangladesh" title="Greater Bangladesh">Greater Bangladesh</a></li></ul></li> <li>Pakistan <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jinnahpur" title="Jinnahpur">Jinnahpur</a></li></ul></li> <li>Philippines <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tallano_gold" title="Tallano gold">Tallano gold</a></li></ul></li> <li>South Korea <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Finger-pinching_conspiracy_theory" class="mw-redirect" title="Finger-pinching conspiracy theory">Finger-pinching</a></li></ul></li> <li>Thailand <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Finland_Plot" title="Finland Plot">Finland Plot</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Americas<br /><small>(outside the United States)</small></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Argentina <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Andinia_Plan" title="Andinia Plan">Andinia Plan</a></li></ul></li> <li>Canada <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Avro_Canada_CF-105_Arrow#Cancellation" title="Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow">Avro Arrow cancellation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leuchter_report" title="Leuchter report">Leuchter report</a></li></ul></li> <li>Peru <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Casa_Matusita" title="Casa Matusita">Casa Matusita</a></li></ul></li> <li>Venezuela <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Daktari_Ranch_affair" title="Daktari Ranch affair">Daktari Ranch affair</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Golpe_Azul" title="Golpe Azul">Golpe Azul</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Middle East / North Africa</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Conspiracy_theories_in_the_Arab_world" title="Conspiracy theories in the Arab world">In the Arab world</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/10_agorot_controversy" title="10 agorot controversy">10 agorot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cairo_fire#Conspiracy_theories" title="Cairo fire">Cairo fire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kissinger_Plan_in_Lebanon" title="Kissinger Plan in Lebanon">Kissinger Plan in Lebanon</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Israel-related_animal_conspiracy_theories" title="Israel-related animal conspiracy theories">Israel-related animal theories</a></li> <li>Iran <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Conspiracy_theories_about_the_overthrow_of_Mohammad_Reza_Pahlavi" class="mw-redirect" title="Conspiracy theories about the overthrow of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi">Western-backed Iranian Revolution</a></li></ul></li> <li>Israel <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pallywood" title="Pallywood">Pallywood</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Russia</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alaska_payment_conspiracy" title="Alaska payment conspiracy">Alaska payment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dulles%27_Plan" title="Dulles' Plan">Dulles' Plan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Golden_billion" title="Golden billion">Golden billion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tagantsev_conspiracy" title="Tagantsev conspiracy">Petrograd Military Organization</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grigori_Rasputin" title="Grigori Rasputin">Rasputin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ukraine_bioweapons_conspiracy_theory" title="Ukraine bioweapons conspiracy theory">Ukraine bioweapons</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Conspiracy_theories_in_Turkey" title="Conspiracy theories in Turkey">Turkey</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2016_Turkish_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat_attempt#Staged_coup_reports" class="mw-redirect" title="2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt">2016 coup attempt</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ergenekon_(organization)" title="Ergenekon (organization)">Ergenekon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sledgehammer_(alleged_coup_plan)" title="Sledgehammer (alleged coup plan)">Operation Sledgehammer</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gezi_Park_protests#Conspiracy_claims" title="Gezi Park protests">Gezi Park protests</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S%C3%A8vres_syndrome" title="Sèvres syndrome">Sèvres syndrome</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/List_of_conspiracy_theories#Üst_akıl" title="List of conspiracy theories">Üst akıl</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other European</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Euromyth" title="Euromyth">Euromyth</a></li> <li>Georgia <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Global_War_Party" title="Global War Party">Global War Party</a></li></ul></li> <li>Ireland <ul><li><a href="/wiki/German_Plot_(Ireland)" title="German Plot (Ireland)">German Plot</a></li></ul></li> <li>Italy <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Itavia_Flight_870" title="Itavia Flight 870">Itavia Flight 870</a></li></ul></li> <li>Lithuania <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Statesmen_(conspiracy_theory)" title="Statesmen (conspiracy theory)">Statesmen</a></li></ul></li> <li>Roman Republic <ul><li><a href="/wiki/First_Catilinarian_conspiracy" title="First Catilinarian conspiracy">First Catilinarian conspiracy</a></li></ul></li> <li>Spain <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mano_Negra_affair" title="Mano Negra affair">Mano Negra affair</a></li></ul></li> <li>Sweden <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lilla_Saltsj%C3%B6badsavtalet" title="Lilla Saltsjöbadsavtalet">Lilla Saltsjöbadsavtalet</a></li></ul></li> <li>UK <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Clockwork_Orange_(plot)" title="Clockwork Orange (plot)">Clockwork Orange plot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elm_Guest_House_hoax" title="Elm Guest House hoax">Elm Guest House</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harold_Wilson_plot_allegations" title="Harold Wilson plot allegations">Harold Wilson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Voting_pencil_conspiracy_theory" title="Voting pencil conspiracy theory">Voting pencil</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Conspiracy_theories_in_United_States_politics" title="Conspiracy theories in United States politics">United States</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Barack Obama <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama_citizenship_conspiracy_theories" title="Barack Obama citizenship conspiracy theories">citizenship</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama_religion_conspiracy_theories" title="Barack Obama religion conspiracy theories">religion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dreams_from_My_Real_Father" title="Dreams from My Real Father">parentage</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Allegations_of_Barack_Obama_spying_on_Donald_Trump" title="Allegations of Barack Obama spying on Donald Trump">"Obamagate"</a> / <a href="/wiki/Spygate_(conspiracy_theory)" title="Spygate (conspiracy theory)">Spygate</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Biden%E2%80%93Ukraine_conspiracy_theory" title="Biden–Ukraine conspiracy theory">Biden–Ukraine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Black_helicopter" title="Black helicopter">Black helicopters</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/CIA_Kennedy_assassination_conspiracy_theory" title="CIA Kennedy assassination conspiracy theory">CIA and JFK</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Allegations_of_CIA_assistance_to_Osama_bin_Laden" title="Allegations of CIA assistance to Osama bin Laden">CIA assistance to bin Laden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clinton_body_count_conspiracy_theory" title="Clinton body count conspiracy theory">Clinton body count</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cultural_Marxism_conspiracy_theory" title="Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory">Cultural Marxism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Election_denial_movement_in_the_United_States" title="Election denial movement in the United States">Election denial movement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/FBI_secret_society_conspiracy_theory" title="FBI secret society conspiracy theory">FBI secret society</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/FEMA_camps_conspiracy_theory" title="FEMA camps conspiracy theory">FEMA camps</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Georgia_Guidestones#Conspiracy_theories" title="Georgia Guidestones">Georgia Guidestones</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jade_Helm_15_conspiracy_theories" title="Jade Helm 15 conspiracy theories">Jade Helm 15</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Montauk_Project" title="Montauk Project">Montauk Project</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_Experiment" title="Philadelphia Experiment">Philadelphia Experiment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pizzagate_conspiracy_theory" title="Pizzagate conspiracy theory">Pizzagate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Plan_(Washington,_D.C.)" title="The Plan (Washington, D.C.)">The Plan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Project_Azorian" title="Project Azorian">Project Azorian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/QAnon" title="QAnon">QAnon</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pastel_QAnon" title="Pastel QAnon">Pastel</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_incidents_involving_QAnon" title="Timeline of incidents involving QAnon">incidents</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saddam%E2%80%93al-Qaeda_conspiracy_theory" class="mw-redirect" title="Saddam–al-Qaeda conspiracy theory">Saddam–al-Qaeda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sandy_Hook_Elementary_School_shooting_conspiracy_theories" title="Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting conspiracy theories">Sandy Hook</a> (2012)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Springfield_pet-eating_hoax" title="Springfield pet-eating hoax">Springfield pet-eating hoax</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Conspiracy_theories_related_to_the_Trump%E2%80%93Ukraine_scandal" title="Conspiracy theories related to the Trump–Ukraine scandal">Trump–Ukraine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vast_right-wing_conspiracy_(term)" class="mw-redirect" title="Vast right-wing conspiracy (term)">"Vast right-wing conspiracy"</a></li> <li>Vietnam War <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Vietnam_War_POW/MIA_issue" title="Vietnam War POW/MIA issue">POW/MIA issue</a> / <a href="/wiki/Vietnam_stab-in-the-back_myth" title="Vietnam stab-in-the-back myth">Stab-in-the-back myth</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="2020_election" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Attempts_to_overturn_the_2020_United_States_presidential_election#Conspiracy_allegations" title="Attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election">2020 election</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Italygate" title="Italygate">Italygate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Attempts_to_overturn_the_2020_United_States_presidential_election#Pence_Card" title="Attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election">"Pence Card"</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2021_Maricopa_County_presidential_ballot_audit" title="2021 Maricopa County presidential ballot audit">Maricopa County ballot audit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Attempts_to_overturn_the_2020_United_States_presidential_election#Stop_the_Steal" title="Attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election">Stop the Steal</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Other" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Other</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory" title="Dead Internet theory">Dead Internet theory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NESARA" title="NESARA">NESARA/GESARA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Coke#Conspiracy_theories" title="New Coke">New Coke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phantom_time_conspiracy_theory" title="Phantom time conspiracy theory">Phantom time</a> / <a href="/wiki/New_chronology_(Fomenko)" title="New chronology (Fomenko)">New chronology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shadow_government_(conspiracy_theory)" title="Shadow government (conspiracy theory)">Shadow government claims</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bilderberg_Meeting#Conspiracy_theories" title="Bilderberg Meeting">Bilderberg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Illuminati" title="Illuminati">Illuminati</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Synarchism" title="Synarchism">synarchism</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shakespeare_authorship_question" title="Shakespeare authorship question">Shakespearean authorship</a></li></ul> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Pseudolaw" title="Pseudolaw">Pseudolaw</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Admiralty_law#Conspiracy_theory" title="Admiralty law">Admiralty law</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Freeman_on_the_land_movement" title="Freeman on the land movement">Freeman on the land movement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Redemption_movement" title="Redemption movement">Redemption movement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sovereign_citizen_movement" title="Sovereign citizen movement">Sovereign citizens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Strawman_theory" title="Strawman theory">Strawman theory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tax_protester_conspiracy_arguments" title="Tax protester conspiracy arguments">Tax protesters</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Satirical</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Acre_conspiracy" title="Acre conspiracy">Acre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bielefeld_conspiracy" title="Bielefeld conspiracy">Bielefeld</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Birds_Aren%27t_Real" title="Birds Aren't Real">Birds Aren't Real</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Li%27s_field" title="Li's field">Li's field</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ted_Cruz%E2%80%93Zodiac_Killer_meme" title="Ted Cruz–Zodiac Killer meme">Ted Cruz–Zodiac Killer meme</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="See_also" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">See also</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Argument_from_ignorance" title="Argument from ignorance">Argument from ignorance</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Conspiracy_Encyclopedia" title="Conspiracy Encyclopedia">Conspiracy Encyclopedia</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Conspiracy_fiction" title="Conspiracy fiction">Conspiracy fiction</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Conspirituality" title="Conspirituality">Conspirituality</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dogma" title="Dogma">Dogma</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pseudoskepticism" title="Pseudoskepticism">pseudoskepticism</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Falsifiability" title="Falsifiability">Falsifiability</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fringe_science" title="Fringe science">Fringe science</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historical_negationism" title="Historical negationism">Historical negationism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Online_youth_radicalization" title="Online youth radicalization">Online youth radicalization</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paranormal" title="Paranormal">Paranormal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prejudice" title="Prejudice">Prejudice</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hate_speech" title="Hate speech">hate speech</a></li></ul></li> <li><a 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style="width:1%">Canada</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Angikuni_Lake#Legend_of_the_vanishing_village" title="Angikuni Lake">Angikuni's disappeared Inuit village</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oak_Island_mystery" title="Oak Island mystery">Oak Island money pit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Screaming_Tunnel" title="Screaming Tunnel">Screaming Tunnel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St._Louis_light" title="St. Louis light">St. Louis light</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thetis_Lake_Monster" title="Thetis Lake Monster">Thetis Lake Monster</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">United<br />States</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Aurora_(aircraft)" title="Aurora (aircraft)">Aurora</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baby_Train" title="Baby Train">Baby Train</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ben_Drowned" title="Ben Drowned">Ben Drowned</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alligator_bait" title="Alligator bait">Black children as alligator bait</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Black_Dog_of_the_Hanging_Hills" class="mw-redirect" title="Black Dog of the Hanging Hills">Black Dog of the Hanging Hills</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Black-eyed_children" title="Black-eyed children">Black-eyed children</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blue_star_tattoo_legend" title="Blue star tattoo legend">Blue star tattoo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boy_Scout_Lane" title="Boy Scout Lane">Boy Scout Lane</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brown_Mountain_lights" title="Brown Mountain lights">Brown Mountain lights</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bunny_Man" title="Bunny Man">Bunny Man</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raymond_Robinson_(Green_Man)" title="Raymond Robinson (Green Man)">Charlie No-Face</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chase_Vault" title="Chase Vault">Chase Vault</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chimera_House" title="Chimera House">Chimera House</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Choking_Doberman" title="Choking Doberman">Choking Doberman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rodney_Cox_myth" class="mw-redirect" title="Rodney Cox myth">Rodney Cox</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rudolph_Fentz" title="Rudolph Fentz">Rudolph Fentz</a></li> <li>Goatmen <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Old_Alton_Bridge" title="Old Alton Bridge">Goatman's Bridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Goatman_(urban_legend)" title="Goatman (urban legend)">Maryland's Goatman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pope_Lick_Monster" title="Pope Lick Monster">Pope Lick Monster</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lake_Worth_Monster" title="Lake Worth Monster">Lake Worth Monster</a></li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Hands_Resist_Him" title="The Hands Resist Him">The Hands Resist Him</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Haunchyville" title="Haunchyville">Haunchyville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/JATO_Rocket_Car" title="JATO Rocket Car">JATO Rocket Car</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kay%27s_Cross" title="Kay's Cross">Kay's Cross</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kennedy_curse" title="Kennedy curse">Kennedy curse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lincoln%E2%80%93Kennedy_coincidences_urban_legend" title="Lincoln–Kennedy coincidences urban legend">Lincoln–Kennedy coincidences</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lost_Dutchman%27s_Gold_Mine" title="Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine">Lost Dutchman's Mine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Melon_heads" title="Melon heads">Melon heads</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mel%27s_Hole" title="Mel's Hole">Mel's Hole</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Midgetville" title="Midgetville">Midgetville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Night_Doctors" title="Night Doctors">Night Doctors</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phantom_social_workers" title="Phantom social workers">Phantom social workers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_Experiment" title="Philadelphia Experiment">Philadelphia Experiment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Poisoned_candy_myths" title="Poisoned candy myths">Poisoned candy</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Polybius_(urban_legend)" title="Polybius (urban legend)">Polybius</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elvis_sightings" title="Elvis sightings">Sightings of Elvis Presley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richmond_Vampire" title="Richmond Vampire">Richmond Vampire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ronald_Opus" title="Ronald Opus">Ronald Opus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seven_Gates_of_Hell" title="Seven Gates of Hell">Seven Gates of Hell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sewer_alligator" title="Sewer alligator">Sewer alligators</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slender_Man" title="Slender Man">Slender Man</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Slender_Man_stabbing" title="Slender Man stabbing">2014 stabbing</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tourist_guy" title="Tourist guy">Tourist guy</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Continental and<br />mainland Asia</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Colonel_Tomb" title="Colonel Tomb">Colonel Tomb</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Nale_Ba" title="Nale Ba">Nale Ba</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ourang_Medan" title="Ourang Medan">SS <i>Ourang Medan</i></a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Orang_Minyak" title="Orang Minyak">Orang Minyak</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">India</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Indian_rope_trick" title="Indian rope trick">Indian rope trick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monkey-man_of_Delhi" title="Monkey-man of Delhi">Monkey-man of Delhi</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Japanese_urban_legends" title="Japanese urban legends">Japan</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Curse_of_the_Colonel" title="Curse of the Colonel">Curse of the Colonel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aka_Manto" title="Aka Manto"><i>Aka Manto</i> ("Red Cape")</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hanako-san" title="Hanako-san">Hanako-san of the Toilet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Headless_Rider_urban_legend" title="Headless Rider urban legend">Headless Rider</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Inunaki_Village" title="Inunaki Village">Inunaki Village</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Zegrus" title="John Zegrus">John Zegrus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kisaragi_Station" title="Kisaragi Station">Kisaragi Station</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Kokkuri" title="Kokkuri">Kokkuri</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kuchisake-onna" title="Kuchisake-onna"><i>Kuchisake-onna</i> ("Slit-Mouthed Woman")</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kunekune_(urban_legend)" title="Kunekune (urban legend)"><i>Kunekune</i> ("Wriggling Body")</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lavender_Town" title="Lavender Town">Lavender Town</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Red_Room_Curse" title="Red Room Curse">Red Room Curse</a></li> <li>'<a href="/wiki/Sony_timer" title="Sony timer">Sony timer</a>'</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Teke_Teke" title="Teke Teke">Teke Teke</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Philippines</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Biringan" title="Biringan">Biringan City</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yamashita%27s_gold" title="Yamashita's gold">Yamashita's gold</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Continental<br />Europe</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/And_yet_it_moves" title="And yet it moves">And yet it moves</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Black_Volga" title="Black Volga">Black Volga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ghost_of_Kyiv" title="Ghost of Kyiv">Ghost of Kyiv</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Herobrine" title="Herobrine">Herobrine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Konstantinos_Koukidis" title="Konstantinos Koukidis">Konstantinos Koukidis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Le_Loyon" title="Le Loyon">Le Loyon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/P%C3%A9r%C3%A1k,_the_Spring_Man_of_Prague" title="Pérák, the Spring Man of Prague">Pérák</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Red_mercury" title="Red mercury">Red mercury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Silver_Train_of_Stockholm" title="The Silver Train of Stockholm">Silverpilen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/This_Man" title="This Man">This Man</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">France</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Angels_of_Mons" title="Angels of Mons">Angels of Mons</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vanishing_Hotel_Room" title="Vanishing Hotel Room">Vanishing Hotel Room</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Germany</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/German_Corpse_Factory" title="German Corpse Factory">German Corpse Factory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lampshades_made_from_human_skin" title="Lampshades made from human skin">Lampshades made from human skin</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Soap_made_from_human_corpses" title="Soap made from human corpses">Soap made from human corpses</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lone_gunner_of_Flesqui%C3%A8res" title="Lone gunner of Flesquières">Lone gunner of Flesquières</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nazi_UFOs" title="Nazi UFOs">Nazi UFOs</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Poland</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kraina_Grzyb%C3%B3w_TV" title="Kraina Grzybów TV">Kraina Grzybów TV</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nazi_gold_train" title="Nazi gold train">Nazi gold train</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zegrze_Reservoir_Monster" title="Zegrze Reservoir Monster">Zegrze Reservoir Monster</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Soviet Union/Russia</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Legends_of_Catherine_the_Great" title="Legends of Catherine the Great">Legends of Catherine the Great</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lenin_was_a_mushroom" title="Lenin was a mushroom">Lenin was a mushroom</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saturn_(alligator)" title="Saturn (alligator)">Hitler's pet alligator</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Well_to_Hell" title="Well to Hell">Well to Hell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/White_Tights" title="White Tights">White Tights</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Spain</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Castilian_lisp" class="mw-redirect" title="Castilian lisp">Castilian lisp</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sacamantecas" title="Sacamantecas">Sacamantecas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Santa_Compa%C3%B1a" title="Santa Compaña">Santa Compaña</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">United Kingdom</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/999_phone_charging_myth" title="999 phone charging myth">999 phone charging myth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baby_Train" title="Baby Train">Baby Train</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Black_dog_(folklore)" title="Black dog (folklore)">Black dog</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Crying_Boy" title="The Crying Boy">The Crying Boy</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Dark_Side_of_the_Rainbow" title="The Dark Side of the Rainbow">The Dark Side of the Rainbow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Friday" title="HMS Friday">HMS <i>Friday</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phantom_social_workers" title="Phantom social workers">Phantom social workers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Spider_Bite" title="The Spider Bite">The Spider Bite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Strategic_steam_reserve" title="Strategic steam reserve">Strategic steam reserve</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Legends_and_myths_regarding_the_Titanic" title="Legends and myths regarding the Titanic">RMS <i>Titanic</i></a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">England</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/British_big_cats" title="British big cats">British big cats</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/University_of_Cambridge_legends" title="University of Cambridge legends">University of Cambridge legends</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Croydon_Cat_Killer" title="Croydon Cat Killer">Croydon Cat Killer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Diamond_(dog)" title="Diamond (dog)">Isaac Newton's dog</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Drake%27s_Drum" title="Drake's Drum">Drake's Drum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manchester_Pusher" title="Manchester Pusher">Manchester Pusher</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Man_Proposes,_God_Disposes" title="Man Proposes, God Disposes">Man Proposes, God Disposes</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Legend_of_the_Mistletoe_Bough" title="Legend of the Mistletoe Bough">Mistletoe bough</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Paul is dead</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Ratman_of_Southend" title="The Ratman of Southend">Ratman of Southend</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spring-heeled_Jack" title="Spring-heeled Jack">Spring-heeled Jack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sweeney_Todd" title="Sweeney Todd">Sweeney Todd</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Africa</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Elephants%27_graveyard" title="Elephants' graveyard">Elephants' graveyard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guegue_(siren)" title="Guegue (siren)">Guegue</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Madam_Koi_Koi" title="Madam Koi Koi">Madam Koi Koi</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Oceania</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bass_Strait_Triangle" title="Bass Strait Triangle">Bass Strait Triangle</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Australia</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Baby_Train" title="Baby Train">Baby Train</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Disappearance_of_Harold_Holt" title="Disappearance of Harold Holt">Harold Holt disappearance rumours</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Flora_and_Fauna_Act_myth" title="Flora and Fauna Act myth">Flora and Fauna Act</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mahogany_Ship" title="Mahogany Ship">Mahogany Ship</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Poinciana_Woman" title="Poinciana Woman">Poinciana Woman</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">New Zealand</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Canterbury_Panther" title="Canterbury Panther">Canterbury Panther</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lyall%27s_wren" title="Lyall's wren">Lyall's wren extinction</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moa#Extinction" title="Moa">Moa sightings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Waitoreke" title="Waitoreke">Waitoreke</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">South America</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/James_Bartley" title="James Bartley">James Bartley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Treasure_of_Lima" title="Treasure of Lima">Treasure of Lima</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Topic articles</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Creepypasta" title="Creepypasta">Creepypastas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Legends_and_myths_regarding_the_Titanic" title="Legends and myths regarding the Titanic">Legends and myths regarding the Titanic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/McDonald%27s_urban_legends" title="McDonald's urban legends">McDonald's urban legends</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Time_travel_claims_and_urban_legends" title="Time travel claims and urban legends">Time travel claims and urban legends</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Urban_legends_about_drugs" title="Urban legends about drugs">Urban legends about drugs</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Theorists<br />and analysis</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jan_Harold_Brunvand" title="Jan Harold Brunvand">Jan Harold Brunvand</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hoax_Slayer" title="Hoax Slayer">Hoax Slayer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Linda_D%C3%A9gh" title="Linda Dégh">Linda Dégh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gary_Alan_Fine" title="Gary Alan Fine">Gary Alan Fine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Patricia_Turner" title="Patricia Turner">Patricia Turner</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Snopes" title="Snopes">Snopes</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">TV series</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Beyond_Belief:_Fact_or_Fiction" title="Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction">Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/MythBusters" title="MythBusters">MythBusters</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Urban_Legends_(TV_series)" title="Urban Legends (TV series)">Urban Legends</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Channel_Zero_(TV_series)" title="Channel Zero (TV series)">Channel Zero</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">In fiction</th><td 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