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  Giving Up the Memorabilia, but Not the Belief: Elvis Lives
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Last EditedRBH  Jan 22, 2008 11:43pm
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News DateWednesday, November 7, 2007 05:00:00 AM UTC0:0
DescriptionFor 17 years, Bill Beeny — museum curator, real estate salesman, Baptist minister — has used the wooden cutout to lure travelers to his museum, a cramped 400-square-foot shrine to all things Elvis, but especially to its owner’s theory that the King never actually left the building.

Now, Mr. Beeny, 81, wants to convert the museum into a food bank and is auctioning its contents on eBay. The contents, offered in a single lot, include the newspaper clippings that crowd the walls, the open coffin that houses an Elvis replica (“It doesn’t look like Elvis, but neither did the guy in the casket”), the scratchy recordings that Mr. Beeny swears are of Elvis speaking seven years after his “alleged” death in 1977 and the rusting 1974 Cadillac parked out front.

“It’s getting a little decrepit,” Mr. Beeny said of the cutout sign. If no one wants it, he said, “I’ll make it a working man — repaint it with blue jeans, an open shirt and a tool in his hand. I’ll have a sign that says: ‘Our Mission Is to Serve Others.’”

Much more valuable, Mr. Beeny said, are results of a DNA test that he claims proves that the man buried at Graceland is not Elvis Presley.

“That’s the biggie,” said Mr. Beeny, who has written two books, “Elvis’ DNA Proves He’s Alive!” and “DNA Proves That Elvis Is Alive!” “That’s what really put this place on the map.”
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