Paul Is Dead

''This article is about the Internet revival of the rumor. For information on the original Hoax of 1969, see Wikipedia''

Paul Is Dead is a conspiracy theory, stemming from the 1969 Paul McCartney Is Dead hoax, with the difference being that the original was based on album cover clues and not widely believed to be true, while the Internet conspiracy (First published in 2003) shows pictures of the differences between Paul and "Faul", the nickname given to the alleged replacement by the creator of the theory, Sun King.

Origins
The theory was brought about by a document called 60-If (Referencing a PID "clue" on the cover of The Beatles' Abbey Road LP, where a registration plate displays 28-If, a possible reference to Paul's age as of 1970) which told a detailed story, the origins of which were alternately given by Sun King as being given to him by Filipinos to whom George Harrison had given the document on his deathbed; George having written it in an interview to be published after his demise; and the most outlandish: Sun King channeled George and typed it into the PC in Italian, then giving it to another member of his Paul is Dead forum(The King Is Naked! forum, created for discussion of the "Proof" he had gathered). He had also claimed that he had hundreds of pages of documents, which would be released on the web after the war in Iraq was over. These have still yet to appear, although many items he has produced are from the poster of The Beatles' self titled 1968 album (aka The White Album).

Proof
The alleged proof Sun King produced has been spread across the Internet a lot over the past few years, comparisons that, according to those from the Paul Is Alive forum Macca Fun House, are completely unreliable/doctored. They have been debunked by these people time and time again, although the claim from the PID side is that those pictures are the doctored ones as opposed to their pictures.

Forums and Sites Involved
[http://60if.proboards.com Sun King's 60if site. The "document" is linked to within this forum]

Nothing Is Real A forum started when many PID believers got sick of Sun King's obvious lies, and banning of anyone who disagreed with him

[http://only1rad.proboards.com Paul Is Dead! MISS HIM MISS HIM MISS HIM!] Another, more hardcore PID site. This site is another place where PIA believers are frequently banned. It sometimes focuses on the more occult/spiritual side of Paul's supposed "Death"

Macca Fun House The one and only Paul Is Alive (PIA) forum on the 'net. These people are more lighthearted than their PID counterparts, and use photos more than clues to prove their side of the story.