Stories have been going round the web about a 179 year old man believed to be a retired cobbler from the northern town of Mahashta Murasi, India. The story have been circulating for quite some time now, read the original story below.
A retired cobbler from northern India, Mahashta Murasi, claims he was born in January 1835, making him not only the oldest man on earth, but the oldest to have ever lived, according to the Guiness World Records.
According to indian officials, the man was born at home in the city of Bangalore on January 6th 1835, and is recorded to have lived in Varanasi since 1903. He worked as a cobbler in the city until 1957, when he retired at the already venerable age of 122.
“I have been alive so long, that my great grand-children have been dead for years” explains Mr Murasi. “Somehow death forgot about me… And now there’s hardly any hope left. Look at the statistics, nobody dies past 150, even less at 170. At that point, I guess I’m immortal or something. I might as well enjoy it!”
The man’s birth certificate and identity cards all seem to confirm his version, but unfortunately no medical examination can confirm his saying for now. The last doctor Mister Murasi visited died in 1971, so there is little information available about his previous medical files.
According to Hoaxes.org – The article is circulating widely on foreign-language sites in particular (Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, etc.) where it’s being posted unquestioningly as fact. But, of course, not a word of this story is true.
The source of the article is the fake-news site worldnewsdailyreport.com, which has a disclaimer buried on their site, identifying all their articles as fiction.
However, World News Daily Report didn’t create the picture of the old man. They simply found it online, where it’s been circulating for many years. At various times, the photo has been turned into a meme. I’ve been unable to locate the original source of the image. So I can’t identify who the man in the image really is.
Ademola Oluwaseun says
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Ejinwa Anthony says
ubesie this is so hoax don’t bother about update
Ejinwa Anthony says
this is definitely a hoax, this is just some writer who came up to publish shit to make it trend, and now it’s trending. There’s no place to ascertain the correctness of this news making it false
ubesie chukwuebuka chidiogo says
THIS IS INCREDIBLE, if this news is real then the world have to celebrate this man and this shows that God is great, I will also need Constative to help me post some of news concerning this man.