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The Truth Behind the Clues

This section is to give a clearer understanding of some of the clues
and gives their true meaning and/or significance.

Paul McCartney was killed in a car crash in November, 1966. Researchers looking into the conspiracy discovered a newspaper article detailing a fatal car accident which involved a dark haired man in his early 20's who died on the morning of November 9th, 1966.
No such newspaper article has ever surfaced regarding a fatal crash from around the time. Paul was in a moped accident in late 1966 where he fell off and hit his face on the pavement. The result of this accident, a scar and a badly knocked front tooth, can clearly be seen in the 'Rain' and 'Paperback Writer' videos from the time. Paul's Mini Cooper car was also involved in a small minor accident in early 1967 but Paul wasn't driving it at the time.
 
Paul's replacement was a Scotsman called William Campbell who was currently working in the Ontario Provincial Police in Canada at the time. He was discovered under the guise of an innocent looking Paul McCartney lookalike contest and disappered without trace within a few days of entering.
Although there was no McCartney look-alike competition in late 1966 / early 1967 there was one in 1965 which was sponsored by an American teen magazine (possibly 'Tiger Beat') and Dick Clark of the TV show 'American Bandstand'. The winner of the competition was Keith Allison (pictured left) who had a brush with fame by appearing on teen shows like 'Where the Action Is'. He also apparently joined Paul Revere and the Raiders, circa 1966. No evidence has ever been discovered of anybody called William Campbell entering a McCartney look-alike contest, or even anything detailing his alleged disappearence soon afterwards. The name William Campbell was created by Fred Labour as he was creating numerous clues for his article. He had originally considered calling him Glenn Campbell.
 
The Beatles felt guilty at duping their fans with such a deception and thus put little clues into their album artwork and lyrics to 'break the news gently' to their fans.
All four Beatles have continually denied any involvement whatsoever of any 'hoax'. Today it's pretty much treated as a joke and even then they thought that the rumours were too stupid to bother denying.
 

The original 'Butcher Cover' was withdrawn because it reminded the Beatles too much about the gory carnage that was Paul's fatal car accident.
Notes and memos exist explaining why the Butcher cover was recalled and replaced. And anyway, the LP was released in June 1966, nearly half a year before Paul was allegedly killed.

Clues on album covers and lyrics have been found on Help, Rubber Soul, Revolver and Yesterday and Today which tell of Paul's death.
It would be impossible for any of these records to hold any kind of clues because they were released long before Paul 'died'.

The cover to Rubber Soul had a distorted photo so that William Campbell would look more like Paul McCartney.
As the Beatles were viewing photos taken for their new album cover the projector was knocked causing the photo on display to distort. The guys loved this effect and asked if it was possible to use it like that for the front cover. Also, Rubber Soul was released in 1965, a full year before Paul was 'killed'.

The song "I'm Looking Through You" on Rubber Soul is about someone discovering that Paul was replaced.
Paul wrote this song in reference to a fight that he and Jane Asher had. Again, this song was written before Paul 'died'.

The song "In My Life" speaks of a 'dead friend' who must be Paul.
John wrote this song a full year before Paul was 'killed'. It's believed that the dead friend he was talking about was Stuart Sutcliffe.

The cover to Revolver is the first to feature the 'open palm' gesture above his head which is an Indian symbol of death.
No such Indian hand gesture sign exists and even the 'palm' that's being referred to is very non-descript. Also remember that again this album was released before Paul's alleged demise.

The yellow flowers under the name BEATLES on the Sgt. Peppers cover spells out 'PAUL?' thus hanging a question mark over his existance.
The yellow floral design was a last minute spur-of-the-moment thing added by the florist that EMI hired to help with the set design.

Paul is again shown with an open palm being held over his head on the Sgt. Peppers front cover which is an Indian symbol of death.
Again, no such symbol exists. Also, if this clue was to be intentional then every photo would have had Paul standing in the same position. However, if you look at some of the other photos taken during the session (which can be found in the CD booklet) you can see that the position they were in was one of many photographed.

The 'Shiva the Destroyer' doll on the front cover of Sgt. Peppers is pointing to both Paul's, indicating that he has been destroyed.
Again, if this was to be an intentional clue then Paul would have been standing in the same spot for every photo taken during the session.

The doll sitting on the far right of the Sgt. Pepper cover has a blood-stained skirt.
These 'blood stains' are just a woven pattern on the skirt.

 
In the gatefold for the Sgt. Pepper LP Paul is shown wearing a patch that has the initials OPD, or Officially Pronounced Dead.
The badge in fact has the initials OPP on it and is the badge of the Ontario Provincial Police. Paul was given it when the group visited the headquarters in 1965 when they went there during their world tour.
 

George Harrison is pointing a 'sixth finger' at Paul on the back cover of Sgt. Peppers which is a bad omen.
George is merely giving the 'thumbs up' sign. No 'sixth finger' bad omen hand gesture exists anyway.

The song "A Day in the Life" tells of Paul's car crash.
This song was written by John has he had a copy of that days paper propped up in front of him as he sat at the piano. The car crash mentioned in the song is said to have been inspired by that days news report of the fatal car crash that killed Tara Browne, heir to the Guiness fortune.

The 'inner groove' on the Sgt. Pepper LP contains a message that tells us that Paul is dead.
This small piece of noise was hidden away on the original mono UK pressings of the LP. It's a collection of random sounds with a sentence by Paul played backwards (this phrase is Paul saying "we'll f**k you like we're supermen."). Paul himself has said that he only found out about the inner groove several years after it was released and has no idea on how it got on there.

Paul is the walrus on the front cover of Magical Mystery Tour which is a symbol of death.
John is the one dressed in the walrus outfit. Paul is dressed as the hippo. This is easily determined in the music sequence for 'I Am The Walrus' in the movie.

At the end of Strawberry Fields Forever John says "I buried Paul".
John is actually saying 'cranberry sauce'. This can be clearly heard at the end of track 3 of Anthology 2, disc 2.

In the middle pages of the booklet that came with the Magical Mystery Tour LP / EP Paul is shown wearing no shoes which is a symbol of death. His shoes also have a bloodstain on them.
EMI had said that this 'blood stain' is a printers error where the ink from the bass drum has run over the shoes.

If the word BEATLES is mirrored on the Magical Mystery Tour cover it gives out a phone number which, when phoned, gave the caller an eerie message.
The phone-numbers that were supposedly spelled out never existed bar one, which was owned by a man who soon got very sick of American teenagers phoning him up in the middle of the night asking for Paul McCartney. A small article about this can be read in the news section.

The last photo in the Magical Mystery Tour shows McCartney with a hand above his yet, yet in the Beatles Monthly booklet the same photo is shown and the hand is not there. This proves that it must have been deliberately added in at a later date.
The hand is still there, but because the resolution of the photo was reduced when printed in the booklet the actual palm seemed to blur into the background, making it look like it isn't there. Mal's shirt sleeve can still be seen which adds credence to the hand getting washed out in the re-print.

At the end of the song 'All You Need is Love' John says "Yes, he's dead."
John is actually saying "Yesterday".

At the bottom left of the poster given away with the White Album there's a photo of William Campbell taken before his plastic surgery.
It's not exactly known who this person it, but it's been suggested that it's a photo of Keith Allison who won the McCartney look-alike contest in 1965.

At the bottom left of the poster there's a photo of Paul and what appears to be a pair of skeletal arms reaching out to grab him.
EMI have said that these 'arms' were created by a fold in the original negative.

The song 'Glass Onion' is all about the clues the Beatles left in their work and even tells us that "The walrus was Paul".
John wrote 'Glass Onion' because he was sick and tired of people over-analysing his work. He thought it was stupid for people to try and look for hidden messages in his songs by playing them backwards and so forth and so wrote this song. It's said that then he had finished writing it he said to a friend "Let the f**ker's work that one out!"

At the end of the song 'Yer Blues' John can be heard singing "Paul McCartney wanna die" in the background.
This is just John repeating the first verse as the group played the song. It was intended to be left blank but a stray mic, possibly the drum mic, faintly picked it up.

Once again on the front cover of the Yellow Submarine LP Paul is shown with an open palmed hand over his head which is an Indian symbol of death.
No such symbol exists.

Paul is barefoot on the front cover of Abbey Road which is a symbol of death.
Paul was initially wearing sandals to the photoshoot but according to him took them off and went barefoot midway because he was too hot.

The numberplate of the VW Beetle on the Abbey Road front cover says 28IF which tells us that Paul would have been 28 IF still alive. He would have actually been 27, but would have been in his 28th year of existance since Indian beliefs counted life since conception and not birth.
No such Indian belief exists. Some Chinese traditions are said to date in this way but the Beatles would have almost certainly never heard about it. Police tried to get the VW Beetle towed away since the owner couldn't be traced but couldn't.

The police van on the Abbey Road cover symbolises the police that were at the scene of the accident.
The police van belonged to the policeman who was brought in to help control the flow of traffic as the photoshoot progressed.

On Anthology 7 Paul is shown playing a guitar right handed. This proves that he was replaced because the real McCartney was left handed.
For some reason, the two clips that show Paul playing right handed were spliced in mirrored. This can be seen by looking at the fingerplate on Paul's guitar. Since this is above the centerhole you can tell that Paul is playing a right handed guitar that has been re-strung to play upside down (leftie). The fingerplate is always under the centerhole to protect the body from plectrums and strumming and is only ever seen above when a guitar has been brought and re-strung to play other handed. I hardly think that Paul's replacement would have bought a much more expensive left handed guitar and re-strung it to play right.

 

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