Top 20 Dead People Rumored to be Alive
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- Is there any truth to these iconic conspiracy theories? For this list, we’re looking at individuals who are rumoured to still be among the living despite their confirmed passing. Our countdown includes Steve Jobs, Bruce Lee, Princess Diana, Jeffrey Epstein, Michael Jackson, and more! Is there a celebrity conspiracy theory you believe in? Let us know in the comments!
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My oldest uncle died on March 2020
I was very sad
After a year in 2021 October I saw him the same face the same beard in a teaapot
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One trippy thing about these fan theories is that they seem to forget how *old* these people would be if they were still alive. If you see someone who looks like Michael Jackson in 2009, remember that he would be in his early 60s now. Elvis would be almost 90. Marilyn was born in 1926; she would look more like Betty White than the memory we have of her at 36.
Mj would still be alive smh
@@tikka732 MJ is alive
@@randomcommenter3202 in our hearts
@@nonijoshi1082 no, he is alive
@@randomcommenter3202 YEA, IN OUR HEARTS.
The most popular ones I have heard of are Elvis, 2Pac, and MJ.
Elvis appearing in Home Alone
All of them are characters mention above. Neither one of them are dead. All of them are alive
I always kinda believe mj is alive
And bruce lee
@@terrrell7798 He looked nothing like Elvis and if he did appear in a movie people would know
The day that Michael Jackson passed away was when I was very depressed to where I was in denial of his death, he truly was a legend and I loved his work so much
I can't shed tears for a dead pervert.
He’s probably not dead, I believe he went on Larry King shortly after his death disguised as Dave Dave
If he really is gone then RIP to the king of pop
@@dustcircle That's so messed up that people sead M.J. was a perv and all those people came on T.V. I think it was the week after he was killed and sead a bunch of stuff that wasn't true. Why didn't they say it to his face when he was still alive?
@@mariannasanfilippo6965 I totally agree! If they would of said all that stuff when he was still alive, they know that he would defend himself.
RIP Diana. Man her death still shakes me to my core. "But someone has to go out there and love people... and show it." She was such a beautiful soul.
She's definitely dead tho
Yup
You bet,she was verrrry beauuuuutiful,too bad that the poperazi had to chase her and couldn't leave her alone,they ought to be sued for causing the car crash!!!!!
She is still alive. Married to Trump. Baron is their kid. Look at him. Just like mom. For real
@@samuelthrasher4598 out of billions of ppl, she married Trump? 😂 i hope that’s sarcasm
Bruce Lee:
Founder/master of Jeet Kune Do.
Husband.
Father.
Martial arts film icon.
philosophist son brother
100% they killed him. I do not believe the painkillers nonsense same as they killed his son
@@spidermonkeynr1 who, exactly, killed them? For what reason?
@@christineparis5607 They killed him so D d V can get attention
@@KainzMusic ???
There is, or was, a website dedicated to MJ sightings that I stumbled across once. The stories on it were so elaborate, and yes, there were "pictures". Some of them had MJ and JFK living together in Ireland. Some of them were next level. One claimed one of MK's brothers "accidentally" said airport instead of hospital in a radio interview. This led someone to claim LAX closed suddenly for an hour on June 25, 2009 but a single private jet was allowed to leave. Theorists believe MJ was on that jet and the guy in the ambulance was a dead body double. There must be a lot of people out there with too much time on their hands.
@@keeshanschannel6244 Here's the link. I don't think it's been updated in a while.
Ok JFK is definitely dead. His brains went boom boom on TV.
I believe that there was a body double,and wonder just how much the cops and EMT who came to the mansion,we're paid to LIE ABOUT MICHAEL"S DEATH?
@@neK6299 what’s the link I wanna see
@@Gabe.497 They are referring to JFK JR.
Why do so many people believe that celebrities fake their own death, just to start impersonating themselves?? 😅
Had a gf who's mother told me Hank Williams Sr retired and came back as Boxcar Willy.
First of all-huge age difference.
Second of all-If you were a singer and wanted to retire,would you fake your death and immediately come back AS A SINGER?
Bc some people don’t wanna be famous anymore bc they can’t even go anywhere without being noticed it’s like maganind (the movie) we’re the super hero faked his death
Money an fame
No,but BECAUSE IT'S TRUE THAT THEY ACTUALLY DID FAKE THEIR DEATHS SO THEY COULD GO INTO HIDING
There a few secret cityys not on maps where celebrities retire
Remember, according to MIB, Elvis did not die. He just went home ;-)
Rumor has it that Elvis Presley faked his own death and is now working as an Elvis impersonator
Did Elvis really die on the toilet??
Yes it was due to a drug overdose
@@matingamingmore yes it caused Elvis to have a heart attack
Wow!
As someone who's seen my own grandfather in his casket, the deceased don't look like themselves after they are prepared for viewing. And I think the closer thing to the truth wouldn't be that some of these people are still alive, rather, that some of them were murdered instead of OD or taking their own lives..
I remember as a kid 11 years of age looking in my grandfather's coffin and seeing his chest moving because he was still breathing.
@@jameshendricks8526 this must be a joke 😂
@@m.a.1874 what must be a joke?
@M. A. I was 11 years old and my grandfather was the only male influence in my life. I don't know if it was my mind playing tricks on me or just that I was losing the greatest man I ever knew. In my mind, I could see him still breathing as if sleeping. It was also the first funeral I had been to of someone that I was close to.
@Hot bath no. I know today it was denial.
i love conspiracy theories as much as the next guy but i feel like conspiracy theories around someone’s death is just disrespectful
especially since nearly everyone on this list died from an accident or at the hands of someone else. their family and friends deserve to grieve in peace
Cope
I AM ELVIS, MICHAEL JACKSON, and JOHN LENNON in the same body. Why is nobody believing my words!? I am also Amy Winehouse and Kurt Cobain. Gimme my money!
Cope
@@Rekko82I’m XXXTENTACION 😉
"Top 20 people whose deaths make crazy people say crazy things."
Fixed it.
Yeah this list can fuck right off
- survivors of listed
This is my first time hearing about people believing Steve Jobs, Paul Walker, Juice WRLD are still alive.
I wonder how many people still think Adolf Hitler is alive (at the age of 122).
I don't even know who the last one is, so he didn't achieve the "super famous" part 🤣
@@Absbabs88 He was pretty famous even if you didn't know who he was
@@syria0110 famous people have been heard of by everyone 🤷🏼♀️
@@Absbabs88 Not by "everyone" but ok
Imagine actually believing anyone on this list is STILL alive 🤦♂️
Elvis is, I ran into him at McDonalds
Michael Jackson is
Right??
@@alexhobbs1031 You never know though the world is a crazy place, most of these are crazy but the Bruce Lee one is the most sketchy
@@MrQuincy27 lol
Back in June 2009, pop icon Michael Jackson died, we were shocked and devastated.
I remember back in 2009, i was 17 years old and i was calling on the phone my best friend to go to the cinema and i was watching the news on tv at the same time and them, Breaking News! Michael Jackson died and i was shocked by this! R.I.P Michael Jackson!
@@lucleblanc7029 do you remember what film you saw?
@@ciaranmcloughlin7165 It was the movie Gamer starring Gerard Butler.
I was only 8 years old back then, at least his life was long enough to see the 2000s.
I wasn’t shocked!
I’d love to live in a world where Princess Diana is still alive. But for Prince Philip to still be alive, goodness. Let the old man rest in peace.
I agree, for her sake, I wish she was living somewhere quietly and in peace. And as far as Prince Philip is concerned,I agree let the poor man rest in peace
Diana was completely devoted to her kids, I highly doubt she would just dump them with a horrible lie that she was dead, if she wasn't. It makes no sense at all if you just look at her behavior. She LOVED her family, charities and liked getting the press to hear her side of the story, she wouldn't suddenly give up the perks she had and live with no money at all. I know someone could be taking care of her, etc., but it still doesn't match her behavior. People rarely change that dramatically...
@@christineparis5607 I just don't think the royal family liked her so the offed her.
@@cherrypink1108
They don't like a LOT of people, but don't have them murdered...the last thing they would bother about, as a royal, is to pay attention to someone they don't like, they ignore them. That's how the English deal with people they dislike, they simply never pay attention to them again.
You're thinking of the motives you are used to in high violence countries with few gun laws, like the USA. Maybe the answer there is to "off" everyone they don't like, but that's mostly movie and organized gang activity, not particularly real life.
@@christineparis5607 LOL! Few gun laws eh? Ok sure. If that's what you believe about the USA then I will believe the dirty secrets of the royal family.
How is Tupac not #1
Like 40% of all people think he’s alive and that he’s on some remote island
It’s a lot of proof that shows pac is alive
i've rarely heard of that lol
Cuba 😎 to be exact. There’s a picture of Rihanna and 2Pac that was leaked supposedly taken after his “death” and a video were he was spotted on the streets walking and wearing a yellow hoodie. He realized there was an interview going on and a camera around and he quickly turns his back and walks away. 💀💀💀
Which island
OK if Bruce Lee was still alive, he would of resurfaced for his son's funeral
How do you know he didn't?
Right, our beloved Bruce Lee is gone. 🙏 ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Why assume Brandon Lee died?
Ghostface got Paul Walker. You never say "I'll be right back" because you won't be back.
My parents are convinced that Tupac is still alive
I'm convinced he did not die when they said he did. As to whether he's still alive? I don't know. But I 100% believe he did not die when they said
Me too
Kasinova the Don is his son and frontman for the cameras
Because he is indeed a live
Akil the MC is Tupac
Bruce Lee was a proud American who was born in California. He taught martial-arts while attending University of Washington. He met his wife Linda Emery, who was a blonde with green eyes when she became a student of his. Linda Emery became Linda Lee when they got married, and had a son and daughter. During their tenth year of marriage, Bruce Lee died from a rare brain swelling, but Linda kept her late-husband's name as her middle name when she got remarried after many years as a widow. Unfortunately their son, a rising Hollywood star Brandon Lee, accidently got shot during the making of The Crow, and passed away as a young adult.
Bruce Lee, not only introduced Mixed Martial Arts aka MMA to the world, he completely changed the perspective of Hollywood action films into how we see it today. Before then, John Wayne's cowboy films were considered as an action film.
China felt betrayed by all these things that Bruce Lee brought to America, especially teaching martial-arts to the Americans, but later realized how great of a man he was. These are few of the reasons why Americans respect and love Bruce Lee, aka Father of Mixed Martial Arts.
who cares what races she was
@@AC-mp7cx It doesn't matter. My point was that Bruce Lee didn't care either. He loved and married her for who she was, not her race.
@@6ancerpi9 Bruce was having affairs on his wife but that's Hollywood for you In fact another woman was in bed with him when he died His wife knew and just accepted it and stayed married to him
⁵
Paul wouldn’t do that to his daughter and tyrese and vin, they were devastated
What do you think they don't know? 🤭
Paul still alive
Yea he wouldn’t do that to his
*que sad music
Family *bro hugs commence
@@vincentgallagher_ you absolutely right, he is!
I'm not into conspiracy theories but the only one I think is possible of being true is Mj and tupac
Elvis Presley is Pastor Bob Joyce
Tupac is Akil the MC and Biggie Smalls is Fullee Love / Soup from Jurassic 5
@@randomcommenter3202 😂😂😂
@@blaccjesus8473 imagine being a nobody
@@blaccjesus8473 little kid
Fake your death fool your enemies ♥- Machiavelli The Don😜
I have a friend who just told me about the Jim Morrison conspiracy last week. 15:47 It was the first time that I had ever heard of it. He claims a man held up a picture of a guy standing next to Jim Morrison's son, claiming that guy was Jim Morrison. He told me some other stuff, but I can't remember it : ( To think that we could have had many more years of that amazing voice. Such things seem crazy at first, but become plausible when you hear all of the stories about how cut-throat and ruthless the music industry is. Based on all the times that bands and individual artists are just raped by their labels and trapped into long contracts with seemingly no way to escape for basically pennies on the dollar, I can understand how they might see 'faking death' as a good option. I'm not saying these conspiracies are true, but the ruthlessness of the music companies makes me wonder.
Elvis isn't dead he just went home
He had a sex change he's a woman now and the paparazzi and Mafia can't find him lol
R.I.P MJ King of pop
and Elvis King of rock
@@3000GAMES_UKand 2pac king of rap
2pac is the dude from jurassic 5
Yes, Akil the MC
Imagine we all saw elvis presley for Christmas this year in 2022
that would be amazing if we did see Elvis alive again for Christmas in 2022 I would love that I really would like to hug him then and inviting him to my house for cuppa and bit of singing that would be fun
Imagine that. Could happen! Wink wink
He might have actually died till now. If not in 1977.
so Elvis did die on 16th of August in 1977 but his birthday is in 8th of January so that could be this month we have to sing happy birthday to Elvis then I will be making a birthday video for him but don't tell Elvis am doing it
@@jamievincent4829 he was born in ‘35 . Are you all insanely brainwashed?
Whitney Houston, her daughter are possible still alive.
I believe Michael, Elvis, Tupac, and Prince are still alive.
Bin laden alive but unfortunately michael jackson is not
@@buabbas88 why do you think Michael is dead and Bin Laden is alive ?
This is crazy cause I was JUST thinking how WatchMojo needed this list!
They were on something and none of these are factual.
You are right on the mark!!
In the words of agent K Elvis didn't die he just went home
Suggestion: Top 20 evil children/adolescents in movies and TV shows.
no L
imagine having a company that provides people with their own fake deaths and give them a new "posthumous" life... just imagine...
That's a good movie plot
It'd be a great movie.
I bet it would
Been done before for TV
I think if a celebrity did fake his or her death it would be to start over and get out of the spot light of fame. Which isn’t that far fetched of an idea.
Now do top 10 living people that rumored tobe dead
Beyonce and Paul McCartney would be there
Britney Spears
Jackie Chan would be on the top of the list
David Crosby. stopped paying attention after news of his ill health. He got a transplant and another
few decades of life that I missed. Now he is gone.
He’s referring to how all rappers are dying young in recent years
Every single day I see something that continues my loss of faith in humanity.
You and me both
I can't believe they didn't include Hitler on here. When I was growing up all you heard was Elvis and Hitler were still alive.
I saw a 1-900 number commercial is Elvis alive?
Wouldn't Hitler be about 135 years old?
@@Raymond51647 yeah probably what if like Voldemort in Harry Potter there were ways in which he could return
That would be reincarnation.
Bruh hitler would already be dead though even if he did survive ..he'd be somewhere around 140 years old
This makes me so angry even though I wish many of these celebrities were still with us these stupid conspiracy theories need to stop and we just need to accept that they are gone and let them RIP 😭 ❤️
I don't understand it myself.
conspiracy proved true with JFK shooting
It's deeper than that
@@arth507monroe5 what’s that supposed to mean
@@jimmymackster33185 you'll find out
Conversation between me and my mother:
- Mom, do you remember the day when Elvis died?
- Clear. I remember where I was sitting at your grandmother's house when I got the news.
- Was there a lot of commotion?
- The biggest commotion I've ever seen. Nobody accepted it. To this day no one wants to accept the fact. That's why they say Elvis is alive.
That's it. My mother explained well, with the example of the top 1 on this list, why people want to believe that celebrities fake their deaths.
I laughed so hard when they put prince Philip to the list 😂😂
Paul walker and others make sense but him?
I would have loved the rumours about Diana to be true but sadly she is no longer amongst us 😢
Elvis is still alive and currently working as an Elvis impersonator in Vegas.
Elvis: hi, this is Elvis Presley and I'm working as an Elvis impersonator
I thought he was driving a truck for Amazon
Breaking news: Elvis is impersonating himself at age 87
@@99mrpogi 🤣🤣🤣
Really at the age of 87 he is still impersonating?😂🤣
Re: Jim Morrison's autopsy, if he had had one he definitely would be dead. That's one of the reasons people perform them: to make sure the stiff that's buried is actually dead.
Tupac is most definitely dead my father was a Respiratory Therapist at UMC and treated Tupac after he was shot the second time. He lost one lung during the shooting the other lung developed ARDS(Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome) during his treatment and could not be ventilated and died that night.
Wow
Is this actually real?
@@peterjoseph118 I have no reason not to believe it, but I understand if you don't.
Wow, your father was his respiratory therapist?
Lie Tupac is indeed a live legend never die
i really hope Michael is still alive❤
he is 100%
It’s been over seven years since Paul Walker passed away.
That's what they want you to think.
yeah they got a lot of that entry wrong. november 30 2021 was 8 years since he died. speed did play a role in the crash but the tires were in bad shape. and they were leaving a charity event when they crashed, not on their way to one (technically they were just “going for a spin” but crashed within a minute or two of leaving the parking lot)
yeah i don’t think he’d leave his daughter behind
good riddance lol , he dated underages girls and no one stopped him
i thought 8
My father and Tupac...
Some of these conspiracies in this video are so weird and bizarre
They never caught Jack the Ripper either, so his victims were never dead?
There was one celebrity death that I still can’t get over and that is the late great Chester Bennington. I hate that people are still making theories about him.
Yeah I feel that, but it's pretty annoying when people say, Him and Chris Cornell were murdered, they both struggled with depression, if you look for the signs it's all there.
@@RayGun4200 exactly
As for Jon Benet, I will say this, her family was getting death threats etc from foreign entities. When you look at Katty, then look at Patsy's crown picture, They are twins. However this one is very sad, if it's not true I just wonder why Patsy and John never acted as if they were stricken with grief on camera.
There's absolutely NO WAY that jonbenet Ramsey could be Katy Perry's twin
@@andreabraun8235 yup
Katy. & Burke killed her
Katy Perry is 37 which means she was born in 1985. That would translate to "Jon Bonet" being 11 at the time of her death. Jon Benet was clearly not 11 years old as you can tell in that Christmas video from the night before.
No they ARE NOT TWINS, YOU'RE DELUSIONAL,Katy Perry would have been a lot older than Jon Bennett at the time, DON'T BE STUUUUPID FELISHA!!!!
*celebrities that are alive*
Everyone: "they are dead few years ago"
*Celebrities that passed away*
Everyone again: "they faked their death, ngl"
I can believe Osama Bin Laden can still be alive. It seems to easy the way It went down or maybe I'm just been watching to many movies tv shows about bad guy's getting the best out of the good guy's. As for the other's Is to farfetched.
Any of these theories surrounding notorious political leaders are going to be at least somewhat conceivable, since people like that often have paid doppelgangers. Doesn't mean it's true just because it could be true, but it's no secret and it's not a conspiracy theory, people like that very often do have decoys of themselves all over the place as extra security for assassination attempts.
Bro they sent the Navy SEAL's after him, and not just any SEAL team. SEAL Team 6. Bin Laden is dead for sure.
Let me guess, is the great Tupac Shakur on the list?
Hip hop stations still play his music to this day.
We miss you, Pac. :(
I wasn't the only one who was thinking of commenting avout this 😆❤
Funny how he is in this and Biggie isn't..
I do hope my inspiration Master Lee is alive somewhere 😂😂 but I know this is impossible.
Someone should start a conspiracy theory that he's actually Mr. Miagi.
If Michael Jackson alive let him be he deserves to have fun like everyone
Elvis sightings was one of my disowned conspiracy theory(when explained as something other than extradimensional aliens impersonating dead people like him)
theres a lot of elvis impersonaters
Lets install the tin foil hat before we begin
Can someone help with mine?
Oh ty I almost forgot
Damn it, you beat me to it. Lol.
My lizard people are holding your celebrities in area 51
After clearing the snow off the roof, I triple layered the entire house in foil.
Elvis and I should be safe enough to watch this...
Dang no mention for bob Marley 😱
Princess Diana. The car she was in and the one that crashed had different license plates
Yep! Mj is alive jfk jr is too tupac is Amy wine house is prince is Whitney Freddie mercury elvis there’s many more
I've never watched a video with so many adds!
People really love to throw around the phrase "conspiracy theory" a lot...
the guy in Home Alone was a cousin of a cast or crew member, and friend of Christopher Columbus, and was asked to do the part, he passed away couple years ago.
Which guy??
@@58twright in the airport who was thought to be Elvis. He's behind Kate McCalister. Just waiting
@@ScarysReviews I know
Chris Columbus once said if Elvis was in the movie he would have definitely known about it
Cool top 20
There’s only two celebrity deaths that have legitimately made me cry and depressed for days. The first was George Carlin in 2008. George was the voice of my childhood as the narrator of my all time favorite show Thomas the Tank Engine. For a while I couldn’t watch his narrations because I would break down in tears. However the pain lessened over time. Several years later Chadwick Boseman died of colon cancer and as a diehard Marvel fan. I really cried when he died. I was just so sad that the character of Black Panther was no longer with us. I was devastated when those guys died. I’m gonna be sick when something happens to Ringo Starr, Alec Baldwin, Robert Downey Jr and Chris Evans…
I hear ya. Mine is Robin Williams can't watch his movies. and Twitch...he killed him self. it just happened this week and it's so sad. can't shake this one. I am still in shock.
Steve McQueen is almost 92 now.
Seriously? Can we please just let these celebrities RIP.
Some of these feel truthful but most others feel like crime stories: its boring to watch someone just die so instead the writer just makes the character fake their death.
One of the tall tales I heard bout Bruce Lee death is that supposedly a silat master is the one that cause the fatal blow. One version is from Malaysia, another from Indonesia.
I wish I could say Elvis was alive but you never know
Pastor Bob Joyce is Elvis Presley
The infamous Jeffrey Epstein indeed.
SMH
Now that one is the most credible. His death was just too suspicious and he certainly had the means to get himself out of there and into hiding. Plastic surgery and a new life. The others, not so much.
Worth a dad reunion in a bad Lee fictionalized film!
You could probably add bill hicks to this list 🤣
Osama isn't dead he's still alive under another name.
Obama
The Paul Walker thing. I feel like we really lost him he didn't have any reason to hide his beautiful face he was always a good guy. He had a family. I love them too but I think that we like to believe in conspiracy theories when it comes to dead people because we don't want to come to the realization that something horrible happened to him but I think that he would want us to be more careful. He seemed like a sensible guy.
even before playing the video just after reading the title, I already knew top 2 will belong to MJ and EP
Some people are still in stage 1 of grief, huh?
People are delusional everyone dies, sometimes too young. Even celebs, ya bunch of crazies.
Do those rumors ever come true?
Celebrities in Heaven: We get it so drop it!
Juice wrld is definitely dead. He knew he was gonna die due to his horrible drug addiction. He made these comments after his addiction got much worse. Rest in peace Juice we love you!
Ahhh the internet.
Can you all just let these people rest in peace,I miss you Michael Jackson 💞
If 2pac is alive I would ask him many questions
This dude who is a John Lennon double who can't sing like Lennon: are we supposed to believe he's 81?
Amy Winehouse sings about not going to rehab because of alcohol. Then she loses her life because of it.
How ironic
2pac is in cuba
I never knew this about juice wield
Diana was a nice lady. It would be nice if she was safe with Dodi
Michael jackson never died 😌☹
RIP Elvis, King Of Rock
RIP Tupac, King Of Rap Himself
I was shocked to hear of Juice Worlddd’s death, because I never heard of him.
It's one crowded island.
MJ is truly alive i think
I haven't finished the video yet but if this list doesn't include Tupac it's irrelevant, everybody and their mamma has tried to convince me he's still making music on an island somewhere 😑
I knew Andy Kaufman would make an appearance
So when do we get a top deaths that turned out to be fake