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'Nope,' He Says...Body Isn't His.

1y 23d ago by lemmy.world/u/RegularJoe in lemmyshitpost from www.newspapers.com

GALILEE, R.I., Sept. 24, 1938—Charles Keville walked into a temporary morgue and looked at the body which had been identified as his.

"Nope," he said, "that ain't me," and walked out again.

A little further investigation, and this went viral in 2022:

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/02/22/metro/that-aint-me-ri-man-goes-viral-80-years-after-he-identified-corpse-not-his/