UNBELIEVABLE: 179-YEAR-OLD Man Found In India, Says, ‘Death has forgotten me’? (PHOTO)

So, is it true that a man (pictured above) who
was born in 1853 is still walking the earth,
forgotten by death?
A story and a photo of an old man has been
circulating on some news sites in Europe for
some time. It reads:

"A retired cobbler from northern India,
Mahashta Mûrasi, 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 Guinness 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 Vârânasî
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. Mûrasi.
“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
Mûrasi visited died in 1971, so there
is little information available about
his previous medical files."

Sounds believable right? It’s a hoax.
A fake news site, World News Daily Report
invented the story and found an old internet
photo to go with it and some news sites picked
it up and published it.
Although Wold News Daily Report has a
disclaimer on its site which says that all stories
its publishes are fiction, it is buried within the
site and not easily accessible.

But the question remains, is it possible for
someone to live that long? Well, so far the
oldest person on record, whose age was well
documented and could be verified was Jeane
Calment of France, who reached the age of 122.
She died in 1997.
There have, however, been frequent cases in
history where people have attempted to
exaggerate their age as they grew older. There
have been discredited claims of being
supercentenarians (older than 110). In the 1970s,
in the Ecuadorian town of Vilcabamba, a
numerous people claimed to be
supercentenarians. Further research found that
none of them were older than 96.