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Is there physical evidence proving Paul is dead or has been replaced?

By Robert Fontenot, About.com

Question: Is there physical evidence proving Paul is dead or has been replaced?
Answer: Most experts will tell you no. However, several people, professionals and casual fans alike, have sought to "prove" Paul's death and/or replacement by analyzing pictures and audio from before and after 1966 to see if they sync up. In 1969, a Miami disc jockey urged University of Miami professor Dr. Henry M. Truby, Director of Language and Linguistics Research, to compare audio recordings of both Pauls to see if their "sonic fingerprints" matched. Truby's findings revealed what he claimed to be three separate Pauls. A spectrograph of the voice recordings, along with an attempt to assign different Beatles songs to the "three Pauls," can be found at The King Is Naked!

The same site features a fairly typical attempt to compare Paul photographs from all stages of his career. Those who do not believe in the PID rumor, however, alledge that photos are often directly distorted or altered by PID believers to make them appear wildly different. Still others claim that photo comparisons are useless, since the structure of the human face is more elastic than commonly believed.

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