Paul McCartney Is Dead – A Case Theory Overview
© Clare Kuehn
October 9th, 2023
CHAPTERS
Part 1 How Can We Think about Paul's Supposed Death? – And Some Photographs
Part 2 First Principles: Nothing In the Way of the Claim – And Two "Now and Then" Songs
Part 3 The Material Evidence: A Broad Historical Fit; A Surprise; Faces, Music
Part 4 Formal Forensic Scientists
Part 5 Name of Double; Place, Cause and Date of Death of Paul
Part 6 Murder of Paul?
Part 7 Murder = Redrum: The Art Clues of Beatles and Others
Part 8 Nuns, Saints and Icons
Part 9 Fall-Out and Conclusion
PART ONE
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How Can We Think about Paul's Supposed Death? – And Some Photographs
In mid-September, 1966, something happened with the Beatles that would rewrite the history of music forever. James Paul McCartney was missing from media coverage for months.
When he supposedly appeared again in mid December, he appeared in all ways to be very different than he had been, just seven or eight weeks before.
When the film of the Beatles “Hello Goodbye” aired in November, 1967, on the Ed Sullivan TV show, the figure of Paul was extremely awkward and lanky. Why did they send a film instead of doing an in-person appearance, as before? He moved awkwardly, not with the effortless, fluid movements of Paul.
Numerous fake and distorted films began to appear; music was altered in pitch during remastering; cryptic comments were made. What had happened to the "beautiful boy"?
Putting it another way, why did John Lennon write his haunting song "Now and Then", saying it was "for Paul" and why was it completely rewritten recently? Originally, sung with heartfelt emphasis, it contained the section:
"Now and then, I miss you. /
Oh, now and then, /
I want it out eternally; /
I know they [the public] turn to me."
What is going on? The rumor that Paul died started almost immediately, we now know. Most sources say it was created in late 1969, but it was in print in early 1967.
If Paul was replaced in the public eye, some powerful people had to manage passports and legalities: the powerful economic export the Beatles represented had to be continued. Some people are now also considering that he was murdered, instead of dying in a natural accident. If he was murdered, some common suggestions follow.
This Overview
The case called “Paul Is Dead” (“P.I.D.”) is something we can think about, no matter what we assume. We can only cover the broadest outlines of the case, allowing readers to fill in details and find some already-identified complex references, themselves (that is, do more "personal research" into the matter).
The Claim
24-year-old Paul McCartney of the Beatles died in late 1966 and was publicly replaced by another man.
Simplicity and Unusualness
PID is, at root, a simple claim, but a permanent double is more complex than a person who continued in a public life.
If PID is simplest to explain all the evidence, PID does not break the principle of simplicity. “Occam's Razor” is that principle.
Also, while PID is extraordinarily unusual, it can require no extraordinary evidence: evidence can only come in ordinary forms. The rest is mere feelings of extraordinariness or ease of decision-making, using "best evidence", preferred, simple forms, which are always missing in cold cases.
All Evidence is Bad Evidence?
Evidence may be evidence points on a table, so to speak, but not "actual" evidence, of the final kind. Perhaps some pieces indicate that unsure directions become surer, when in combination.[1] Beyond evidence and logic, court and history arguments are won by the quality of jury: the equanimity of listeners' minds. What kind of listener are you?[2]
Because this is an overview, not every objection can be raised and answered, or answered in full here, but all have at least reasonable answers.
Paul and "Sir Paul"
To determine truth or falsity, we begin by categorizing henceforth historical figure “James Paul McCartney ” as “Paul” for the person in the period before the supposed death and as “Sir Paul” for the person after.
This is useful even if the designants are actually one real person. (The putative replacement claimant went on to be knighted, as well as seeming to be older than Paul, born about 1937, not 1942.)
Official Forensic Scientists
As we will shortly see, in part four of this article, two facial forensic scientists did come out in support of PID, against their initial assumptions.
But there have been some others who did not use the extreme examples of Sir Paul's seemingly different bone structure, nor account for any fakery. They came out with a different result. Would they have, if they had done so?[3]
Faces, Sounds, Statements Both Ways
Some people see two or more “Pauls” in historical evidence, some only one. Perceptions can be shaped by emotions in either direction, yes. If one is a proponent of either PIA (“Paul Is Alive”) theory or PID theory, the opposite side comes into view only by resifting and analyzing photos and all other evidence. Part three discusses the photos, but we will present some here.
Sorting Photographic Materials
One only has to take most of the early photos of Paul early and compare them to most of the post September 1966 photos to notice a problem. There are also some sure indications of photo doctoring (photo fakery), as we have seen.
Faces
The following photos are originals. Can you tell?
Paul, late 1965, through mid 1966 (including the time, December 26th, 1965 when he was likely beaten up, 9 months before being possibly murdered, per PID; it was claimed to be a moped accident):
Sir Paul, noting bone structure, not age:
PART TWO
First Principles: Nothing In the Way of the Claim – And Two "Now and Then" Songs
Safety and Critical Thinking Skills
People are wired to want truth with safety. When truth is scary, we tend to avoid it. Some cognitive scientists have even warned people, who may or may not have low skills, from applying classical critical thinking skills to conspiracy theories, presuming a definition that the very term means something scary, crazy or stupid, using biased methods.
Some people are of low skill, it is true, but should not high-end skills always be applied, in full-spectrum skepticism, so as to determine dangerous tomfoolery?
PID requires a conspiracy as a cover-up, whether Paul died naturally or by murder. Let us build up the case and compare it to the opposing side, calmly, reasonably.
Conspiracies and Theories
Properly defined, most of history and law is conspiracy theory.
It may be necessary to reread that sentence.
Any group activity can be called conspiracy by an opposite group, with or without a plot. Explaining and defending claims, even after accepting them, is the activity of theorizing. Theories, i.e., may be good, bad or indeterminate – and unofficial or official.
The phrase “conspiracy theory” goes back to the 1890s, not to the CIA in the 1960s.
The opposites of the phrase are only lone-person theories or no-event-at-all theories –not finality, reality or value. If Paul did not die, for example, positing and explaining that is a no-event-at-all theory.
From 1890 to now, "conspiracy theory" can be used neutrally, to mean a case or explanation of a conspiracy, or a posited conspiracy.
Similarities, or how many doubles?
Both subjects above are plausibly the same person, though one might "see" two; we can consider them as Paul only, or as Paul and a double. PID case theory points out that if we have lighting and "lens distortion" (perspective focal length distortions) at play, we can say they are plausibly the same.
PID theory says they are Paul and that the later double, "Sir Paul", is much different, but that he was chosen because he (only sometimes) resembles elements in the first photo. (We will get to focal length problems in part three.)
Could there be a conspiracy, a big and wide one?
Background and Conspiracies of Silence: Official Mechanisms
Doubles require legal help and passports, if we do not mean a mere distracting decoy at a public concert, etc.
Such means are acknowledged by intelligence agencies. If Paul died and was replaced, to pull it off would require some “official” involvement. Even if intelligence services helped after an accidental death, a cover-up would normally continue to cover up the original “help”.
Historical Precedents, A Proof of Concept
PID case theory hinges on known historical methods of spy-craft and deception in war, and political usage of doubles for protection.
Still, permanent public replacement of a known figure seems to start with Paul.
Early 20th-century spy and dancer Mata Hari had a public double, while elsewhere on assignment. However, she was, in turn, set up to fall, as well.
Josef Stalin (USSR), had four doubles – long suspected. One major one has spoken out, who was “classified”, until recently.
By the Second World War, British Intelligence used a long-term, temporary, semi-public double for General Bernard “Monty” Montgomery – not for safety, but to trick the other side for battle plans.
In 1944 the Allies used a "Ghost Army" of inflatable tanks and personnel carriers to fool German recon missions.
WWII British “Operation Mincemeat” disrespectfully used a poor man's corpse, with fake documents and uniform, to trick German intelligence, effectively speaking, “for grave reasons of state.”
Co-conspirators As Circles of Silence
Family and friends would have to be aides, co-conspirators (by name or not), via threats, bribes, or half-truths. We have some evidence pointing to each of these, but do not need to know specifics here, to determine if Paul was replaced.
There have been a few legal affidavits done by family and fans, about various parts of the case. However, most back off, even if only tangentially related to the case, and others say more publicly that it is not up to themselves.
Are they all lying?
Motivations for a Cover-Up
British Prime Minister Harold Wilson's government has been described as "floating" the British Pound Sterling for four years "on the back of" the Beatles, although this is a simplification. News of Paul’s death could have affected the British economy. Cover-up of a natural or an unnatural death could well have been cobbled together for this reason.
In 1965, the Beatles were given an economic-military honor thanks to Wilson, himself, who nominated them. Other recipients of the Members of the British Empire (MBE) award complained. Wilson and the Beatles are pictured above, in 1964.
Murder by "the state" or "its" affiliates, for any reason, would be further motivation for a state cover-up.
"Now and Then": The Original John Lennon 1978 Paean (A Mournful Dirge) for Paul,
Versus
The Completely Rewritten, New Song with The Same Title, Released on November 2, 2023
Paul Is Dead, or PID, is the idea that Paul McCartney died in late 1966.
The 1978 song, "Now And Then", by John Lennon, is a lovely, emotional song, fairly simple in lyrics, except for one section, which talks openly of conspiracy. The song session was labeled "For Paul".
Our main focus will be on the lyrics. The original lyrics in the second section of the real song are about a real conspiracy of some kind:
"Now and then, I miss you. /
Oh, now and then, /
I want it out eternally; /
I know they [the public] turn to me [to reveal it]."
A completely different song, a rewrite by the same title, was released on November 2nd, 2023. November 2nd every year is is the Roman Catholic Feast of All Souls, also known as the Day of the Dead, in Mexico.
In Mexico and elsewhere , Catholicism is sometimes mixed with Aztec and similar practices. All Souls Day has come to be known as Day of the Dead there and the dead are supposed to return on that day, to visit families and friends.
Yes, John Lennon is dead, but the session was "For Paul" and the lyrics, including that key section are about a conspiracy in the context of Paul, now released without the proper section, on Day of the Dead. So it would be about Paul's death or supposed death.
Aside: Paul McCartney was nominally Catholic. Catholics and traditional Jews of late Old Testament and Talmud, plus Martin Luther early on and many religions around the world pray for the saved, not souls damned to Hell, in a kind of Purgatory, for purging, purgation, purification . The idea is that Heaven cannot tolerate impurity, that is, any damage from sin; thus, saved souls would need a purgation on the way to purity in Heaven. For a discussion of this, see: https://youtu.be/6L5cJX5-eKI?si=RHGKG9rAfcDjdXf-
In Mexico and elsewhere , Catholicism is sometimes mixed with Aztec and similar practices. All Souls Day has come to be known as Day of the Dead there and the dead are supposed to return on that day, to visit families and friends.
Yes, John Lennon is dead, but the session was "For Paul" and the lyrics, including that key section are about a conspiracy in the context of Paul, now released without the proper section, on Day of the Dead. So it would be about Paul's death or supposed death.
Click on the image to read how George Harrison refused to "rewrite" the words, with an excuse. Why? PID theory would say that he was actually protecting the explicitly revealing section as long as possible. (The copy of the video shown in this slide is removed off YouTube, along with all other original copies, but anyone with a copy of the song can check the facts. Seek and save the original where you find it, while you can.)
No one in 2016 had a complete rendering of the section. This author listened again and again, realizing that the word "eternally" was clear. What were the other words? John's voice went gutteral for the "I want it out" section, which makes sense completely if Paul had died. But the words were clear otherwise. The only thing stopping the translation was that it made "no sense" without PID. She published the result.
1. The new deception uses different words, but recognizable sound patterns. Here are the new words, twisting the segment, in part one:
"[Pause.] I know you're there for me, /
Always to return to me."
(The "you're there for me" is a stretched play on the syllables for "eternally" in the original. "Always to re-turn to" must be a play on "I know they turn to".)
2. And, again, the very same original segment is rewritten a different way, in part two of the new lyrics:
"I want you to be there for me. /
[Long silence, entirely missing line.]"
("I want you to be" is equivalent to the pattern of the "I want it out e[-ternally]." After this, the silence for the second line in the original, is the only indication of a climax, a difference with the rest of the new song. In the original, the key part was the climax by the crescendo of feeling in the singing and playing.)
Now let us remind ourselves of the real words, John's own words, in the key section:
"Now and then, I miss you. /
Oh, now and then, /
I want it out eternally; /
I know they turn to me."
It seems that the whole purpose of the remake of the original song was to redo the key section!
But had Paul actually died? That is a slightly separate question.
Indeed, the key segment about a secret is the only verse content in the new version and is repeated in the new version, where this original verse was the climax in the original and was only stated once in the original.
Yoko Ono, John's widow, gave the tape to the Beatles franchise some years after John's assassination in 1980. "Now and Then" was with "Free As A Bird", also part of the "For Paul Session". Free As A Bird was released in a fairly respectful remake. Now And Then was not officially released, until now, and it is completely rewritten. It is not a respectful remake by any stretch of the imagination, even without PID (Paul Is Dead) case theory.
If Paul died, it is John's last Requiem for him, a cry from the heart and, we will see, a plea for forgiveness for the entrapment John was in. Some people are now saying the song was about a woman, but it was always about Paul, in the "For Paul" sessions. Which Paul was it speaking of, the original or the double?
If Paul's death occurred, the victims of the cover-up, who also participated, would be expected to leave lots of diary-like clues in art and statements. But of all these, the most basic types of responses, non-hyped cries of loss, by Beatles and family and friends, would be expected to be the most expected to be evilly erased, as much obscured as possible.
Are Paul's death and even his actual existence, separate from another man, and John's desperate last sign of the conspiracy, being erased? Is Ringo Starr's "insider status" of knighthood, now obtained, obliging him to help Sir Paul and others cover up the last cry of help from John? The case for PID ("Paul Is Dead") would say so.
If there is an on-going conspiracy to cover up Paul's death, it is shown by changing these specific words of John Lennon, all the while hinting less explicitly that Paul died, by putting out cover-up lyrics on the very Day of the Dead. Could it be?
PART THREE
The Material Evidence: A Broad Historical Fit; A Surprise; Faces and Music
Was Necessity the Mother of Invention? A Sea-Change, 1967 Onward
Those familiar with Beatles history and the personalities of the band members, have remarked on the seriously striking changes which occurred around early spring, 1967.
If Paul died, the sudden changes were necessary to distract from the new man playing Paul and to distract the real, remaining, three Beatles from their own anguish.
The manic and depressive demeanor of all members of the band except the replacement stood in stark contrast to earlier days. Wild styles, colors, and facial hair became the vogue, tied in to the Beatles. Eastern "Meditation", occultism, drugs, loose living and a repudiation of middle-class values became widespread, as the replacement’s influence made the surviving Beatles more or less follow his lead.
This was even as the youth culture of the world mimicked the mores and concerns of the Beatles themselves.
Paul was a nominal Catholic, as George Harrison was raised also. Since Harrison posthumously published a song (called "P2 Vatican Blues"), on the famous 1970s Vatican bank infiltration by the Freemasonry "P2 Lodge", perhaps the then-little-known 1965 "Catacombs Pact" becomes relevant to the "culture wars" and Beatles:
Gap at the Early Posthumous Period, 1966
Gaps in knowledge, if embedded in contextual evidence, are perfectly acceptable for consideration; sometimes, gaps are highly significant to court case-making (theory) and history.
Absence of evidence can be evidence of important absence. Defacement of Cappadocian rock churches (Anatolia, Turkey) is determined by specific areas missing: faces.
For several months in fall, 1966, only two or three news references Paul's supposed behavior and whereabouts exist – an extraordinarily surprising gap.
Reports in media recollect how “Paul” did not “look like Paul” to some fans at the end of that period, about early November 1966.
The First Printed Rumor: 1967, Not 1969
PID's detractors state that the idea of PID was rumored first in 1969, among “those crazy American college kids of the 1960s,” but the rumor was in print by early February, 1967. Moreover, people credibly state that they had heard or figured out that Paul had died, the previous fall.
“Beatles Book,” a Beatles-affiliated magazine, UK-only back in February, 1967:
This first-known, in-print rumor was a surprise find. It was a discovery based on the hypothesis that Paul may have died.
It disinforms about timing, survival of Paul and exact place of the events – but the basics confirm later case theory: Paul was the only Beatle affected, a car seemed to have been involved and the events occurred in England.
It also seems awkward. Perhaps it was in response to real rumors. This acknowledgement was never repeated.
Plastic Surgery, Prosthetics, Hair, Moles, Hands
Some suggestions exist of plastic surgery on Sir Paul, beyond any official surgeries. The best indicators are too complicated to go into here; they are that Sir Paul had his first surgeries in Kenya, in a British-intelligence-affiliated hospital, in about October-November, 1966.
The use of prosthetics occasionally by the supposed replacement, especially on ears. Moles “move around” on Sir Paul. Hands are sometimes similar (doctored?), sometimes not.
Hair whorl and texture are also seemingly different on the putatively two men, although some fake photos do exist and some contrary real ones.
When PIA theory acknowledges any of this, it is explained as done for fun and cosmetic surgery.
Body
Body height is harder to determine than complexities of faces, because very often a context for height references is needed. The Beatles claimed to be what seems to be 2 or three inches taller than they were and Sir Paul claims the same height: 5'11" for Paul and John.
Because of indications that Sir Paul is taller than was Paul, plus some distorted photos, some PIDers now claim that Sir Paul is 6'3", which is countered by good evidence. Without getting into the weeds of this debate here, it is likely that Paul and John were about 5'9" and Sir Paul is about 5'11'-12", with far bigger feet.
The Hofner Bass and Body Height
For upper body measurements, we could have used certain photos with the Hofner bass in them, when it was held and photographed in a certain angle. But Sir Paul officially "lost to theft" Paul's extremely valuable Hofner bass and had it rebuilt. He had rarely, if ever, used it after the supposed death of Paul. (PID case theory says that this is because of photo comparisons and the fact that he is a bigger man, preferring a bigger guitar.)
The original guitar would form a measuring stick. He now uses it in photos. PID theory suggests that he simply hid the valuable object and had it rebuilt to make all relevant photographic internal measurements more deceptive.
Doctored (Faked) Photos
Mostly, it is pictures of Sir Paul which are doctored. Some of Paul also get doctored, but nowhere near as often. (Some fakes of Sir Paul are paired below with Paul.) Can you tell?
Sir Paul head with Paul face added in (below). Not a bad job, but left eyebrow shows a break and long chin unnatural to mouth:
Older, 1968 Sir Paul with younger Paul face inserted, grey-reddened in color to match general tones of old photo around it:
Typical slightly stretched photos of Sir Paul:
The following example below should be obvious, but a few things which were done – highlight added to nose, dark edge exaggerated; contrast increased, showing more stubble information from original negative. Bottom lip moved down, teeth inserted, lower cheek lines near mouth and nose added:
Paul on the left (below) is also seemingly doctored around the eyes. Sir Paul with Paul's face inserted (right):
Sir Paul on left, composite (below), with elements from Paul photo on right, also probably using a Paul mouth from another photo. Highlight added to nose on "Sir Paul", eyes darkened and points of highlight added, shadow added to Paul eye ridge at nose. Areas of change highlighted except eye ridge and irises:
Paul (left). Mouth, nose bridge and Paul's right eyebrow, half of left eyebrow, cheeks and mouth doctored into Sir Paul photo (right):
"A Hard Day's Night" Movie (1964) and "Hey Jude" BBC TV Production (1968, "remastered" or faked, circa 2015)
Careful viewers will notice that some copies and broadcasts of "A Hard Day's Night" movie have been slightly stretched. This is especially true for scenes with Paul in them. Is this done to look more like Sir Paul? Per PID theory, it is.
Others may notice that the close-ups in "Hey Jude" have been computer assisted (are a CGI, computer-generated image). It is as though Paul and Sir Paul were morphed and laid onto the images, with a computer. They are not limited to having a clearer face; it is far more Paul-like in this 2005 "BeatlesVEVO" on-line release, of circa 2015. Why?
Anyone who looks for still photos from the "Hey Jude" television release from 1968, will find very few available now. The following one has the exact chin area and some other parts of a photo of Paul in another photo; see below.
But Sir Paul here, also known as "False Paul", "Fake Paul", shortened to "Faul", still has a seeming dissimilitude with Paul. This Sir Paul seems to be wearing prosthetics and the chin doctored.
If anyone has the original television film from 1968, it would be good to share the stills with PID proponents.
Why all these fakes?
A YouTube channel sounding like a spy channel, called "Jack McFile" shows many, many hundreds of new fakes with real photos, a few old fakes – and Paul with Paul photos (pre-1967). It uses fades between them, to confuse the two faces as well, not highlighting problems. Fades have usefulness in some contexts, but not in most situations with fakes. Why such efforts, if not by a spy? PID says it is because it is more deception.
Sir Paul in Art
Artists instinctively have to “morph” Paul into Sir Paul or draw them differently, in many cases, it seems.
Moreover, many ordinary fans, natural adherents of PIA theory ("Paul Is Alive" theory), who are not even considering PID, have been upset at a computer airbrush artwork (done by AI, some say, but it seems to be an artwork using computers). Why are they upset? The artwork is typical of some photos of Sir Paul. If he is Paul, there is no problem. Do they just find him ugly, and have been not noticing his “change” from youth?
Could Paul have grown from the following, into the previous?
To be sure, many pictures of Sir Paul younger are doctored, but certainly not all. He looked better, younger, in some photos, but not in all angles.
In other words, he seems to become more unlike Paul in how we notice telltale features due to ageing, but he was always predictable for his own bone structures.
Distortions by Lens Focal Length and Curvature
To be sure, distortion occurs in photography. Aside from photo stretching and other fakery as seen above, natural uses of light also distort what we perceive. The photos below are all plausibly the same people in photos with cameras using different focal lengths in the lenses.
Could parts of the deception have been deliberate usages to deceive the public using “lens distortion” (actually perspectival distortion), plus the common occurrences of this phenomenon?
They are plausibly one person. (Source for focal-length comparisons: here.)
Is that all that is happening for the historical figure called “Paul McCartney”?
Sir Paul:
Note that on the last Sir Paul image, there has been fakery using the Paul photo: the lips are together, with the same little bulge in exactly the same lower lip shape with the chin, as in the first photo. The chin and ridge of the nose, with the brow, are grabbed from the Paul picture. (Look closely.)
Other than that doctoring of the last Sir Paul photo, are all of these, above in this section, the same people with only lens distortion, or was only the second last Paul himself?
Music
Sir Paul is known for being more of a piano player with talent. He does “rock” hard on the bass at times, but Paul had more lilting abilities on the instrument and tended not to look down. Body language between the two persons, according to PID, is also quite different, except when Sir Paul is putting in an effort to copy a move, here or there.
Is Sir Paul left handed?
No. He does drum cross-overs differently in some rare photos, does not do the more complex guitar work Paul did on his own and rarely looked down for.
Although both men have been pictured using each hand in some situations, Sir Paul can be determined to be primarily right handed, not playing guitar on screen for one and a half years, and never with as much facility as Paul. He had help in studio and got good at more simple moves.
There are some who say differently handed playing is too hard. But it is not, with the considerations above.
Talent is something that people often think is unable to be compared between people, but that is not true, if we are careful. Sir Paul has talents, but is not as free with his energy; he has more of a driving, or awkward presence than Paul. Or does he?
Pitch of Music and Spoken Voice
Various songs by the Beatles, defined as Beatles by including Paul himself, have been shortened by a few seconds during “remastering” and raised in pitch; others are just slightly raised in pitch, to change Paul's generally huskier voice into an “easier high note” like Sir Paul, PID theory says.
The following video demonstrates voice types. Sir Paul is keeping his mouth and eye movements very controlled, for this early interview. Many early interviews have been doctored (faked a bit) now, but this one has his genuine face and his acting skills are evident; he did not always try so hard, PID theory says.
Posthumous Tricks and Eulogies
Insertions of older items also exist. PID theory says that these are to trick the viewer and listener, but also to honor the dead friend, Paul.
The giddy, younger Beatles in Magical Mystery Tour film (1967) “Wizard Tower” scenes, are taken from lost footage, says PID, and added to honor Paul posthumously in the film. Paul has makeup and a wig on, so some think it is older Sir Paul, but his glowing, unique smile indicates it is young Paul. (The movie includes many PID themes, as well, including a "resurrection." with Sir Paul presiding.)
Also, songs sung by Paul were put on albums posthumously, to honor him and to confuse the public, if PID is correct:
She's Leaving Home (Paul, harp added later, with a false creation myth for the song),
Fool on the Hill (a mix of Paul and Sir Paul),
Her Majesty (Paul, originally planned to be the very last Beatles release).
PART FOUR
Formal Forensic Scientists
Photo-Forensic Scientists Weigh In
As mentioned in part one of this article, there are occasional photo- and audio-forensic scientists who speak on this topic. For the photo-forensic scientists, most use definitely flawed methodology, whereby all photos were of Paul anyway, or no very different-looking photos were used.
However, the Italian version of the magazine, WIRED, in its August 2009 issue, published an article summarizing claims of two scientists, who, using photo comparisons, were baffled to discover that Paul seemed definitely to have been replaced. The article was never translated or promoted in English, which makes sense for PID theory. PIDers have translated it.
The scientists have been mocked, ignored and the article untranslated, officially. Note: they used a few slightly doctored photos in the comparisons and still came to the conclusion.
The WIRED Italia magazine article, August 2009:
Audio Forensics
As to the voice evidence: In 1970, an audial forensics professional from Florida, named Dr. Henry Truby, commented publicly that detected three “voices” for “Paul”, in post-1966 songs.
We can now know, through careful PID work, that after 1966, posthumous Paul recordings were interspersed with his replacement’s: it is a way to honor Paul, by the surviving Beatles, and to confuse the public.
In addition, some songs are very processed. (Yet, there could be a third actual singer, as well, on Sgt Pepper album, possibly Donovan Leitch, seemingly referenced by music duo Simon and Garfunkel, in "Fakin' It" single, 1967, which will figure into this article later.)
DNA
Some people wait for DNA tests of family. If the cover-up is considered “for grave reasons of state”, such tests would be scuttled. However, a blood test did rule out Sir Paul as father of a long-known illegitimate child of Paul. The court's compromise was to give her legal state benefits, but not call her Paul's child and bar any further court cases. PID says this is a clever international solution to quiescence about a double.
Related to these requests are that more people would do vocal analysis of spoken and sung tones of voice. Unfortunately, other than one who writes with a strong bias toward PIA, claiming he was neutral, very few have done such analyses. The problem is extreme familiarity as strong bias.
PART FIVE
Name of Double; Place, Cause and Date of Death of Paul
Name
The actual name of the replacement and the date and place of death for Paul have been worked out. Although nicknames such as Shears and Shepherd were used, his last name, “Campbell”, was inadvertently leaked in an early paper in 1969, afterwards showing in historical evidence and seemingly said by “Sir Paul”.
Much evidence, some by “Sir Paul” and George Harrison themselves, says the first name “Bill” or “William”.
So Bill Campbell is the the likely name of the replacement, if he is a replacement.
Death
As might be expected, if PID is true, one of the areas most concealed about PID, besides the double's name, would be the circumstances of Paul’s death. Family, friends and colleagues could have been subject to threats, bribes, and disinformation.
There are always suggestions of a car “accident”. Some indications are that a car hit him, rather than that he was in a car.
The evidence also fits that he was pulled out and shot or bludgeoned in the head. A car might have just been staged near the body or the Beatles been told that he had been hit by a car.
The supposed injuries, shown in increasing detail and once with forensic accuracy, always show a serious or mortal head wound.
The author of this article discovered the following photograph in 2016, through some contacts, who had had it saved from years before. The story of how it was discovered is interesting, but more important is not that it has to be Paul dead, for it does not, necessarily, have to be; rather, it is suggestive of a quickly taken photo, leaked, and now available only in low quality. This at least gives us a feel for the way in which would be the only way Paul's body photos would reach the public.
Paul's own body was imaged in several ways in various evidence, too much to go into in this article. The damage may have been slightly different or this might have been Paul.
It also helps us image the kind of situation John Lennon would find himself in, with others, who saw any photos of Paul dead, if they did.
Note that some are now trying to claim that it is a painting or a computer fake; anyone with a sense of real photography and dead bodies in body bags, versus paintings, would tell that whoever this is, it is almost certainly some real person's body (RIP).
Where
All of the serious, though little-known evidence points to Liverpool as the scene of death, probably near Abbey Road in Liverpool.
The Beatles studio near Abbey Road in London was named “Abbey Road Studios” from “EMI Studios” after the album commemorating the death of Paul. There are many mediaeval abbeys in England and many such roads. If Paul was killed on one, the sad irony would be that the Beatles had to walk on another every day at the studio in another city.
Dead Body
Burial, or a funeral, was likely on the grounds at the government-affiliated orphanage called Strawberry Fields. Whether the real body was put into the casket is another issue.
Date of Death: IIIX = XIII
We do not need to know an exact date. However, there is a numeric, hidden art clue supposedly left by the Beatles on the bass drum of Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album (1967). When it is mirrored up and down, halfway down the normal lettering, it says "IIIX HE ^ DIE". The "^" points to the "Paul" figure (though it is actually Sir Paul on the cover).
Aside, Sir Paul is holding a wooden English horn instrument in the image, which is, like the oboe and bassoon, a double reed instrument; this is significant as a pun, if he is a human double. The drum is a bass drum and Paul was the bass guitarist.
PIDers divided the numbers in the bass drum clue into two Arabic (11) and two Roman numerals (IX = 9).
This gave an American dating of November 9th, and a UK dating of September 11th. Other evidence, including the period of a basic gap in Paul's whereabouts, showed that sometime in September was the more likely month.
However, since 2016, the clue was reevaluated to be one simple Roman numeral, XIII, but actually backwards,, not only upside down. If the only numbers were backwards, they would be like many Beatles art clues.
The numbers would therefore read not IIIX, but XIII.
This death date would be Tuesday, September 13th, around midnight, UK time.
This explains all other evidence available, including several news items – and is a simpler, more elegant form of clue.
The drum-skin lettering style also fits this idea.
For a tombstone, it would be:
IIIX also probably means that three real Beatles were still alive and one was X-ed out (dead).
Interestingly, Paul is supposed to have been alive, at a public event, on that specific date during the gap period. There are even specially doctored images and a confused historical record for that date.
The 13 is also thirteen for 13 letters of "Paul McCartney", his name on the tombstone drum skin.
Was the cover-up trying to mention him as being alive on the thirteenth, specifically on that one date, to quell immediate rumors of his death?
PART SIX
Murder of Paul?
All the evidence shows a supposed death of Paul, but none that he survived.
Again, if Paul was replaced in the public eye, some powerful people had to manage passports and legalities: the powerful economic export the Beatles represented had to be continued. But some people now are considering that he was murdered, instead of dying in a natural accident. If he was murdered, some common suggestions follow.
Mark Lane's “Rush To Judgment” Book and Movie on the JFK Assassination
If he was murdered, the JFK assassination links may not have been the sole reason for Paul's death, but were, perhaps the final "nail in the coffin", making more people willing to "sign off" on killing the immensely popular British "cash cow," Paul McCartney.
The evidence comes from two books. Mark Lane, the Washington lawyer who wrote the first bestseller on basic legal evidence and arguments surrounding Lee Harvey Oswald's defence, wrote later that Paul and he met in early 1966 and Paul read his manuscript for “Rush To Judgment” book (published summer 1966). He said Paul was convinced “Oswald couldn't have done it,” and wanted to write his very first film score for Lane's upcoming film of the same title.
It started filming in Dallas, 1966, showing eyewitnesses and legal arguments. It was released in 1967, to far less fanfare than Paul's version would surely have been. PID theory says that Paul did not quite live to see the filming start.
Lane discussed his experiences with Paul (and the JFK movie musical score plans) in several interviews and two books:
- “A Citizen's Dissent” (Lawrence Hill Books, 1968, pp. 56-57.
- “Citizen Lane” (Hill Books, 2012, pp. 162-4, 174-6).
The relevant sections from “Citizen Lane” are on line at (live link): MattKProVideo.com/2021/12/31/Mark-Lane-Worked-With-Paul-McCartney . Note: Lane makes an error in “Citizen Lane”: the early-1966 events he describes were when Paul was 23 years old in early 1966, not 22 years of age.
Photos of relevant section of “A Citizen's Dissent” book:
David McGowan, “Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon: Laurel Canyon, Covert Ops & The Dark Heart of The Hippie Dream” (Headpress, 2014).
Dr. E. Michael Jones, “Libido Dominandi: Sexual Liberation And Political Control” (Fidelity Press, 1999).
Catholics debate modern church as End-Times Apocalypse "Whore of Babylon" attribution: https://youtu.be/lZ2P79sOJTs
Satanism, Crowley, Lennon, Satanic Backwards Music Clues?
PART SEVEN
Murder = Redrum: The Art Clues of Beatles and Others
Beatles Art and Music Clues
Clues in art and music by Beatles number in the thousands. They interrelate in constellations, concerning Paul as a dead or mortally wounded body, grief and “resurrection”, “doubles” (clones, two Pauls) themes, and details of the putative death scene. Song lyrics, backward tracks, drawings, films all have such clues.
If Paul died, this was a diary, a way for the Beatles to express the secrets they knew and suppressed under pressure from the intelligence services “helping” them to continue during the cover-up.
The Beatles and others also spoke on the PID matter, giving conflicting statements.
"Hey Jude" song and PID
Paul McCartney was (or is) a Roman Catholic, at least nominally. Sir Paul uses Catholic references, as well as Aleister Crowley Satanic and Egyptian themes, as well.
The song is about stage fright, after talking about a woman in the first verse. What if “Hey Jude” is referring to the most famous Jude in history, the apostle of Jesus?
St Jude is the patron saint of hopeless cases, which the apostolic churches and many other Christians know of. Moreover, he is often shown bearing the face of his Lord, Jesus Christ, on his chest. (The image is derived from legends that St Jude carried a miraculous, unpainted image of Jesus as a healing relic.)[6]
If Sir Paul is referencing St Jude as a PID theme, it is for these reasons:
Like Sir Paul, Jude is an image-bearer of the face of a more venerable person than he, at least in people's minds and in doctored photography.
Paul is "resurrected" (doubled, after death) via Sir Paul, in a false parallel with Jesus' supposed resurrection.
Perhaps, Sir Paul is making one of his typical religious, cryptic comments.
Beatles “Art Clues” Are Maybe Like a Diary and Hints
When we say that there are “art and music clues” to Paul's supposed death, they cannot and do not stand alone. Some persons argue from them and some argue to them, from other evidence. In balance, one can do both, comparing and thinking about them and why they occur. That way, one is considering that all, or some, instead, might be real; this method also allows details to emerge which might otherwise be hard to track. In fact, in the full PID case, even the most obscure art clues fit with other evidence; very often, those art clues spurred on other researches, which confirmed their substance.
Contrarily, a Paul-death art clue only became clear in richness, when some other evidence was brought to bear on it. All such clues come in interrelated themes, which are quite simple at root. Could mistakes be made? Yes. But are they?[7]
Others' Art and Music Clues
PID theory posits that many would now know through professional contacts about Paul's death, some rightly with fear of those who wield such power over public perception, curiosity, disinterest, or pleased to know the double. Clues about PID details continue in all media, in different thematic uses, even if it was all a joke originally.
Many art and music clues are backwards, but by no means all. Some are truly heartbreaking. If Paul died, it might be that some want to tell overtly, as the Beatles seemed to.
A list of several: The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band's “Death Cab for Cutie” song (1966), also performed in the Beatles movie, “Magical Mystery Tour” (1967). “The Prisoner” TV Show (1967). Doctor Who TV Show (some episodes). “Rosemary's Baby” movie (1968, opens with a white VW Beetle and dead person on the street in a sheet). Elements in “James Bond” movie “On Her Majesty's Secret Service” (1969). Don MacLean “American Pie” song (1971 and later video, after the section about Buddy Holly's plane crash, with and without the “missing lyrics” section).
The first tribute albums were by Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel.
1. “A Hazy Shade of Winter,” seemingly adjusted to be about PID, from an earlier Simon song. Recorded in sessions which lasted through September, 1966.
It was released in a rush, as a single, on October 22, 1966, two days before their new album came out on October 24.
The "France CBS-2378" release has two Pauls (Paul Simon), three Arts (for the three remaining true Beatles).
2. Another related, PID-themed song, “Fakin' It”, came out as a single the next year, July 7, 1967, referencing singer Donovan Leitch in the lyrics. He is implicated in helping Sir Paul in his early guitar sessions.
The cover on "The Netherlands CBS – 2911" release also had a related – still with two Pauls, but now with two Arts, making four “Beatles” but two Pauls.
"The Shining": Many PID clues are in the book by Stephen King and in the movie by Stanley Kubrick, though there are differences in the way these are handled. Both are titled based on a Beatles song.
- The book has a faceless boy, replaced, although the “accident” dream is about the older character, not the younger one, plus music themes, an old red Beetle and a bright new shiny one, a flying glider with broken wings (like a dead beetle bug or a blackbird with broken wings, like the Beatles song), and more.
- The movie is filled with PID themes. Other than a few references to Apollo supposed moon landings in the moview (which some link film faking to Kubrick), there are secret burials and doubles (which we will not demonstrate here), VW Beetle cars (including a crushed, blood-red one), and much more:
Kubrick plays with film objects and timing. This is in backwards numbers and doubles, including the famous "twins" and "two elevators", which Kubrick "inverted" from the book, where they were single, and he made single several doubles in the book.
Number games in the film are mostly:
- 12 = 1 person in 2.
- 21 = 2 persons in 1.
- 24 = double of 12.
- 42 = backwards 24 .
- 21 = backwards of 12.
42 is also Paul's birth year (1942) and 24 his age at death.
The famous “Room 237” also resolves into a 12, if the numbers are added together:
- 2+3+7 = 12.
From the movie, the maze model has three number fours (three Beatles left of four), in light and shade, at the center of what is a British flag linear pattern:
Along with Mayan sacrificial pyramids, on the “altar” is the set of three 4s in perfect light and shade:
Emphasis is put on the center of the maze, empty.
There is even only one recognizable movie clip in the highly cerebrally symbolic movie and it is from “Summer of '42”. It also happens to be the scene at 24 minutes into the movie. Paul was not only born in 1942, but in the summer. He was 24 at his supposed death.
The overt “42” on the shirt, implicitly mirrored backwards as “24”, on the “innocent young man-boy,” like Paul:
This is just scratching the surface.
Of course, the Rolling Stones knew, says PID case theory. They Rolling Stones put a tire, a “bleeding, squashed pizza”, Beatles-like figures of themselves, a clock – indicating an event in time – and red, yellow, green candy gummies for traffic light colors onto the “Let It Bleed” (November, 1969) album. The album title was also a word-play on the upcoming last Beatles album, “Let It Be” (1970), not to mention "Ruby Tuesday" song, which PID says it is likely superficially about a girl, but was about Paul's death date and his blood, because of context and internal references. Back and front of “Let It Bleed”:
Another list, more recent: TV show “Fringe” (2008). Imagine Dragons music video for “On Top of the World” (2013, with Kubrick “The Shining” as PID, plus Apollo and “2001” movie references). Disney's Pixar Studios “Coco” movie (2017). “Yesterday” movie (2019). The list goes on and on.
PART EIGHT
Nuns, Saints and Icons
A Separate but Linked Case
PID events had very awkward and difficult early cover-up. So did a famous cloistered nun, very important to faithful and unfaithful Catholics and many others. A plethora of permanent and semi-permanent doubles has been proposed in the last decade, building on PID. The serious cases are few and recent, with one exception, that of Sister Lucia of Fatima. She was possibly the most famous supposed visionary seer in history.
This case has rich formal forensics support.[8] If both Lucia and Paul were replaced, she was replaced in early 1967, or at least publicly replaced, several years after her own death in 1957-8, but very early after Paul was replaced.
If she was actually replaced, it is the only other serious case for a permanent public replacement, for decades. It was also was right after that of Paul. In fact, the two cases are linked by a certain date:
Sr. Lucia's supposed replacement was first made public on the very day when BBC radio played the still-unavailable "Sergeant Pepper" album, for the first time. It was exactly seven months after Paul's supposed death – on May 13th, 1967.
Are the two cases linked? Was Paul's replacement a dry run for hers? Or was hers an opportunistic copy-cat event, as success occurred with Paul's? It is very hard to know.
Forensics:
SisterLucyTruth.com Note: the handwriting analyst, for the "secret" itself, may have been threatened to give a false report.
Possible historical context:
The Value of The Paul McCartney Figure, Beyond Music: An Icon?
Paul is like a secular saint, as a venerated "star" of music and the life, in many supernaturally irreligious and atheistic circles.
In 1993, Sir Paul did a tour called “The New World Tour”. The souvenir t-shirt was a black shirt with a print of a Byzantine painting (a Christian icon) “Icon” on the front. It implied that he is a “true image” of Paul, perhaps?
PIDers have noted that almost everything Sir Paul puts out has an easy PID theme.
The literal meaning of “icon” is “true image”. By extension, “icon” also means something revered. Is Sir Paul the true image of Paul? If PID case theory is correct, no, he is not.
Paul and Sir Paul as Secular Saints or “gods”
There is a common overlap between famous secular modern figures and holy saints, in the public imagination. Some people call musicians and actors and actresses “gods”. The Beatles were really the first to have a complete “cult” following of a mass proportion.
Votive candles with Beatles on them are kitsch, but not ugly. There is a kind of seriousness about the joke. All but one (top left) are false Roman Catholic:
Left to right, top to bottom – 1. Paul, 2. Sir Paul, 3. Paul, 4. Sir Paul doctored, plus "lens" distortion.[9]
Real, pictorial-style Roman Catholic votive candles (French language: "Sacred Heart of Jesus – Pray for Us"):
PART NINE
Fall-Out and Conclusion
New PID-Derived Theories
Since about 2005, but especially since 2010, some people have suggested, with increasing fervor, that:
Paul survived, with Sir Paul or others replacing him publicly;
all Beatles may have been replaced;
Paul was replaced many times;
Sir Paul had other public identities;
people other than Sir Paul played Paul, here and there, or permanently;
Paul is another person (Keith Allison or John Halliday or another). These two (Allison and Halliday) have similarities, in certain angles or moments, with Paul, which Sir Paul has not, or has less of. Halliday was the custodian of Paul's house many years later and is a lively Liverpool native with a rounder head than Sir Paul has. Keith Allison, who played with many famous bands, won a 1965 "Tiger Beat" teenager music magazine "Paul McCartney lookalike contest, because of his sweet and rounder, flat face. Halliday and Allison follow:
lots of people other than Paul were replaced, as if it is easy to manage on the inside (which it is not). This position rides on the troubled photo analyses and the fact that the general public is too busy and generally unwilling to figure out a double's usage and is easy to fool. Somehow, then, there would not be much difficulty in the circles of real persons affected by replacement of a friend or family member (but there are such difficulties);
literal clones or a lost family member, sometimes said to be "Paul's twin", account for Sir Paul;
a very early death date for Paul, in USA, discounting photos and difficulties with manager Brian Epstein's behavior later;
a late but non-November death date, or kidnapping, "because John Lennon was happy at filming in Spain in fall, 1966" (which the regular September theory of death explains as mania, attempting to cover for his devastating grief, plus some evidence he was actually depressed);
private "sources" for alternate readings and new inventions –without getting formal testaments (which may be impossible, due to reluctance), also without explicitly describing the claims, stripped of identifying elements (to protect "witness", who may be real but confused or may be disinformation agent), and without "source" information clearly delineated from the PIDer's own ideas;
the Vatican itself had Paul killed (instead of the UK intelligence service Mi6, in concert with others who also may be trying to damage the Vatican).[10]
the Beatles could not and did not write most of their music, especially the really innovative but catchy early tunes.
These positions are all very much fought against, by most PIDers, but they each have a certain representation.
Other Replacement Cases with Some Heft
For decades, public replacements were seemingly too awkward to do again. Some strong, recent cases have been made, though:
Hillary Clinton (2016, temporary, while poisoned, but recovered);
Melinda Gates (2013, dead after complaining about Jeff Epstein, with double to get major settlement of posthumous “divorce”, most appearances 2020-2022);
Joe Biden (2020 onward, temporary, interspersed with real but hard-to-manage appearances);
American-football star Damar Hamlin (2023, dead by Covid shot);
US Congressman John Fetterman (2023, dead, possibly by Covid shot and preexisting conditions).
Most claims, though, such as about pope Paul VI and many more recent figures, are either bad photo comparison mistakes or disinformation to distract from much better cases.
Conclusion
Volumes of details can be written about PID, to give answers to most questions. In no legal case are all questions answered, but all the significant answers have been accounted for in PID. Whether they are satisfactory answers will be up to each person to decide, so it will be up to every person to look further, or not, into whether or not Paul is being erased – as our space here has run out.
Finis.
FOOTNOTES
[1] That is called a circumstantial case and all cold cases are circumstantial. Note that even best forensic evidence is classed circumstantial, touch-point corroboration of direct evidence, if available. The latter is only ever any direct witnesses, if available. Witnesses are not to be trusted, without testing, including by using circumstantial forensics.
There is no legal category called "hard evidence." And hearsay is perfectly legal and historically valid as evidence. For courts, it means someone cannot be called in to testify directly in a court. Any kind of evidence is legal. On the other hand, it is always preferable to look at what people said and did directly. PID theory does look at both.
For rumors, our point is going to be that we would expect rumors and some kernels of truth might be in them; they do not replace direct evidence from witnesses, where available.
[2] Jurors are often instructed. “Direct evidence” is defined as direct witnesses; forensics and other corroborative evidence are “circumstantial”. Cold cases and history use mostly “touch point”, circumstantial evidence.
Anything at all may be held to be evidence. Testing the relevance is the key.
[3] In other words, one must bias the samples analysis different ways, deliberately, to show up (to test, to highlight) probable salient features out of the general noise.
By way of analogy: if one in a thousand particles is significant, but the sample size is 1000, that one may be missed, or counted but then dropped as noise. "Blind" studies are great, only if the materials put in and analysis afterward is appropriate for different hypotheses.
True neutrality is to work at both sides, enough to perform not only "blind" tests, which may miss or catch certain anomalies, but where samples are not categorized to emphasize, to draw out potential differences for further study. One forensic scientist even compared all Paul photos, none of Sir Paul, if PID is correct. Morphing and fading and measuring onto photos can also mislead, if done or used incorrectly. A similar problem arises in most of the few music assessments done by professionals. Neutrality must not be merely claimed.
[4] Extreme sexual liberation as a form of social control was growing in the 20th century, even becoming industrialized. People have pointed out that the Beatles hype was part of this before Paul supposedly died, but afterwards, the damaged members of the band and Sir Paul, especially, became pawns in a promotion of wild lifestyles.
Mind control using “The Grateful Dead Phenomenon”, we could call it, became far more prominent after Paul died. It may be Paul was in the way of more direct destruction of society than Sir Paul allowed for and was killed partly for this, because over-indulgence in human passions inordinately ruin a moral order, natural higher instincts.
As to a “religio-cultic” energetic or spiritual sacrifice: this would supposedly be for bringing in a new “order”, as well. This theory suggests that murderers used what they believe to be demonic magic, as Aleister Crowley, and others, promote. It is true that Paul was the “beautiful boy” ideal and one of the “biggest bucks in the forest” to hunt, so to speak.
[5] Backwards Music Messages
Backwards messages in music are not too hard to do. One need only play a desired phrase backwards, write a lyric phrase similar to it forwards, then lay down both, chopping the backwards one a little, to fit. A backwards track for instrumental and vocal effects when played forward, was used before Paul died, at the end of "Rain" (1966) and "Tomorrow Never Knows" (1966). Every thing changed with the death of Paul, PID theory finds, but some things were developed from before.
All of the backwards music clues are about Paul's supposed death (until much later Sir Paul music, long after the Beatles broke up).
Other bands have taken the backwards cryptic messages as an idea and used them for Satanic messages at times, it seems. Many bands would have heard of Paul's death and chosen to keep quiet officially, for various reasons. Certainly, even without being Satanic, the PID backwards clues are creepy, if they are there – because of their theme and hiddenness.
Masonry and Satanism Themes
While some PIDers have pursued the Masonic and Satanic threads in the case theory, we may remark here, in brief, that Sir Paul, more than the other Beatles, made several associations with the OTO. The other Beatles used the backwards messages on their records merely to cryptically mention aspects of Paul's death and their grief, not to speak about the Devil. Nevertheless, other rock bands have used backwards messages to suggest Devil worship, it seems.
In addition, a book came out claiming that John Lennon's knowledge that he was likely to be killed meant that he was in a pact with the Devil. For our purposes, let us just note that with or without a pact, the Beatles themselves were mostly interested in helping humanity, as they saw it. The creepiness in their behavior takes a leap forward with the death of Paul (if PID is correct).
Sir Paul continued the theme of Satanism and "Illuminism", or OTO, or Masonry, intensely. Why?
[6] Off-hand comments about the "Jude" in "Hey Jude", by Sir Paul (1969), have led some to conclude that John Lennon's son, Julian was referenced in the song. "Jules" supposedly became "Jude". On the other hand, because the song is not about a child, though it is encouraging to someone upset, as Julian was, at the time, we might consider something else.
St Jude was a first-century-AD Israelite apostle of Jesus. He is often shown bearing the “Image of Odessa”, an icon, meaning “true image”, as a relic. It was supposed to have been an “unpainted, miraculous image of Christ's face” on a cloth. Some say this was the Shroud of Jesus, now in Turin, folded to show only the face. There is an historical case to be made that the valuable Shroud reappeared in Odessa, after it was hidden away. If so, it was carried around Syria and Turkey in the first century, for the founding of new churches, early on, and hidden in a wall in Odessa only after Roman persecutions of Christians began in earnest.
[7] Symbols – A Religious Example of Errors
Some people see “clues” to a proposition everywhere, it is true. Maybe PIDers see clues inaccurately or in too many places. So, before we move on to other people's “Beatles clues” in art and music, let us take a moment to mention inaccurate and accurate uses of assessing art symbols.
The following types of claims about certain religious imagery are in vogue among certain circles. These are promoted as “meme” pictures, by some Christians and non-Christians.
Historians would note that all cultures use light around spiritual and godly figures at times, to mean otherworldly or godly light. They would also note that the Roman-Greek god “Apollo” was an early representative method for Jesus Christ in certain parts of the Roman empire very early, because of positive elements associated with that pagan god. Jesus was also represented by the fish symbol and anchor and cross and other figures, long before the Shroud of Turin-like face became more known.
Be that as it may be, Santa Claus as a concept developed from Saint Nicolas and his red and white bishop's garments, plus an English Protestant “Father Christmas” idea and a later, nineteenth-century commercialization.
Extra note on "Babylon" and "Temple":
The association of the Catholic church with Babylon of St John's book of Apocalypse or Revelation in the Bible is an old association. Two main threads exist associating the Catholic church with this: the Catholic interpretation and the Protestant interpretation. (Not all Catholics or Protestants agree with these threads.) Atheists and neo-pagans and Satanists have joined the ranks of the latter, at times, some arguing for Jesus mythicism, as well, and some for Jesus historicism without deity, godhead.
Various Catholic thinkers have admitted the possibility that the “temple” (see https://youtu.be/lZ2P79sOJTs) and “Babylon” in the prophetic book may refer to the Vatican or "Rome". Obviously, "Babylon" and "temple" firstly refer to figurative and literal Old Testament passages about persecution and corruption of the ancient Hebrew Israelites, when exiled to ancient Babylon. As well, the Apocalypse book would refer to pagan Rome in Nero's time, when the book was written.
But there are those who also say that it is possible that in the supposed Biblical End Times, an “ape of the Catholic church” occurs, with a missing pope, or a secret one, or a persecuted one. They include some Bible commentators (original Douay-Rheims, 1582 publication of the New Testament, with the rarer unabridged commentaries, not the Challoner edition), theologians, saints and mystics.
In this view, this “Babylon” is an infiltrated, confused, “morphed”, divorced, outward Catholic church in Rome, without correct dogma and practice, while the true Catholic church becomes increasingly divorced, shrunk, persecuted, “in eclipse”, but visible. It would be the false church, they say, which would somehow participate in the rise of a final “man of sin”, a final “Anti-Christ” figure.
Conversely, various Protestant and now some Messianic Jewish thinkers have suggested that the papist Catholic church, in her true normative dogma and practices, is always the evil, pagan Babylon of Apocalypse. This view was condemned at the Catholic council of Trent (1500s), after Martin Luther's followers gained steam. In this view, the regular Catholic church is waiting to play a role in the future end-times events. The meme picture above plays on this meaning.
Whoever is correct about End Times, if anyone is, imagery must not be historically misinterpreted and lumped together, as was done in that “meme” picture.
The “all-seeing eye in the triangle” was first the eye of the Christian God in a triangle for trinity. The eye over a pyramid, however, derives from the Egyptians. The eye in a triangle can be found on Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches and garments far into the past. It was absorbed by the Freemasons of Britain for their own purposes. The Jewish “star of David” and Mohammedan and other symbols were appropriated by Freemasonry, as well.
[8] Lucia and her supposed double were rarely seen. Her face is way less recognized than Paul's. Lucia may well be easier for a few professionals to take on as an honest study. Many forensic scientists dare to support Sr Lucia's case, where PID seems to scare more people to comment. Other forensic scientists might be paid off to stay quiet, says PID case theory. Despite more support, Sister Lucia's case is generally as ignored as Paul's is, of course.
[9] Note that the bottom-right image is adapted from a photo which was mislabeled – deliberately, per PID, as well as being contorted by lens distortions and further manipulation. In the photographer's collection, all other photos from that day are February, 1967, but this weird and manipulated one of Sir Paul, to detract from how Paul was dead and gone, was mislabeled as 1966.
[10] They use a modern color photo, which is in a fake portion of a video, used for effect, by the video makers. The exact forensics do not match other clues. The supposed killers of Paul may have had ties to evildoers in or around the Vatican, as we will see, without being it, in the proper sense.
These PIDers also use astronomical timing (meanings used by cults, as astrology), to point to Paul's death date. However, Tuesday, September 13 works as well, and fits all, not some, of the evidence.
