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Conspiracy Corner - 163 year old man, real or not?─── 15:45 Wed, 23 Feb 2022
Clips of an elderly man went viral on TikTok this week, with claims of him being 163 years-old leaving users shocked.
The dailystar posted that a video posted on TikTok shows an elderly man receiving care in a hospital in Thailand, and his extremely frail appearance got people talking about his age. Rumours have surfaced, claiming that he is 163-years-old and practices a self-mummification technique popular among Japanese Buddhist monks. The old man – who is believed to be a monk – has left the Internet fascinated and his granddaughter, who films the clips, has gained 530,000 followers on TikTok. But is there any truth to the claims about his age or him practicing self-mummification?
The rumours that emerged on TikTok about the 163-year-old monk aren't actually true. The elderly man in the clip is not 163, instead he is a 109-year-old Thai man named Luang Pho Yai, according to fact-checker Snopes. While he really does appear to be a monk in Thailand, he doesn't appear to practise the self-mummification technique known as Sokushinbutsu. Read more on this here.
Conspiracy Corner - 163 year old man, real or not?:
