New and Closing In On the Truth

[knowthe411]

Hello all. I've been researching PID for two plus weeks now. I'm not even a Beatle fan, but I'm starting to become a fan of their early work. I enjoy everything up to and including A Hard Day's Night.

At first, I assumed that Paul must have died because of all the clues, all the photos of different-looking Pauls and, of course, the gruesome death photos that keep showing up on the Internet. I read the Italian website (diglander?) and some others and thought it must be true. But none of the death rumors and photos have really convinced me.

But yesterday, I found some smoking guns. Two or three videos have convinced me that the real JPM and the other three Beatles decided to retire around 1964 and to pursue their own dreams and career paths. Paul started using doubles for interviews and photos first. They held look-alike and sound-alike contests for all four (maybe only three) and used the winners in studio recordings etc.

The real Paul was replaced by 4 or 5 doubles (at least):
1) a guy I call Pudge-Faced Paul...He's the guy who died in the car crash and the guy on the Butcher album cover.
2) a guy I call Plain-Looking Paul...He's the guy on the "trunk" album cover and in some of the Magical Mystery Tour movie.
3) William Sheppard-Campbell, the guy they brought over from Canada and sent to Africa for surgery.
4) Cecile Pearl Witherington, the SOE lady who took hormones and had some surgery so she could fill in for him. She's the "Paul" at Shea Stadium and in the second Beatles movie.
5) Phil Ackrill. He's the guy who started and played in Wings - possibly.
6) Neil Aspinall probably filled in as Paul for a short time.

I also believe that the real John Lennon is still alive and that his double was shot in NY. He was determined to tell people the truth and he wanted to stop playing his role as "John". Therefore, he was too hard to control and Yoko Ono, his handler, cooperated with whoever planned it.

[B]

Hi knowthe411. Welcome aboard.
I don't think that "the real JPM and the other three Beatles decided to retire around 1964",
because that would have meant they'd be retiring one year after their careers took off.
Maybe they decided to retire eventually at that time, but the evidence suggests that something
happened at the end of 1966 that resulted in Paul's disappearance from the group,
which may have been cause for the others to decide to throw in the towel as well. I am inclined to
think death, or a disfiguring accident, or a mental breakdown.
It is my belief that there was a plan for Paul to leave the band at some point, as part of a plan,
but that his departure may have been expedited by unforseen circumstances.
Some have suggested that the entire band was replaced with doubles at that point, but others
have said just Paul and Ringo, and some just Paul.
And I will respectfully disagree with your notion that Pearl Witherington was "the 'Paul' at Shea Stadium".
He clearly was a young man. If Pearl played a role at all, it would have been as a Faul personna;
she just would not have been youthful enough to be the energetic Shea Paul.
(50,000 screaming female fans can't be wrong.)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRBv-XanHvw <---Click here

[knowthe411]

Hi Letter B and all.
I mistyped. Paul and the others decided around early 1964 that they wanted to retire two years from then. Go to YouTube and watch Paul's April 1964 interview with David Frost on A Degree of Frost. Frost asked him "Do you have any further ambitions" and Paul replied "Yes, to retire...in 2 years". He was not joking when he said it.

Then, something did happen in late 1964 that caused Paul to step out of the spotlight more often. I think it was the September 18 bomb threat on their plane and/or a kidnapping threat from the KKK. This happened in Dallas TX. Maybe Paul reacted by saying "I'll never tour in the US again. Get a replacement ready." And they did - first Pearl, then others.

I think that Paul had his double or doubles first, then doubles were gradually found for the others. I've already watched the Shea Stadium concert footage and I'm convinced it was Pearl Witherington. She was also Paul in "Help!". She moved differently with the guitar than Paul does, she stood differently than Paul and she was shorter than Paul which you can see in relation to the other guys. Pearl also did not have the same charismatic stage presence as Paul. She didn't have his build either.

I believe that in 1966, one of Paul's doubles did die (or may have died) in a car crash.

Thank you for the welcome. I still have a lot of unanswered questions and I'm glad to be among such intelligent, curious people.
Xander

[JoJo]

You have some interesting ideas, and I like to see old threads given a bump here and there, but ya kinda lose me with the Pearl business.

[skyward]

One simply can not reconcile the apparent height differences between Pearl and Paul, let alone all the other leaps of logic.

Pearl wasn't wearing Frankenstein boots nor was she adept at creaking her back and bending her knees over her entire life span to appear to be short.