Elvis Museum For Sale

by Michele Cheplic | More from this Blogger

03 Nov 2007 10:01 PM

Okay all you Elvis fans, here's a chance to really prove your dedication to the King.

The man who has run The Elvis is Alive Museum is retiring and needs someone to pick up where he is leaving off.

Eighty-one-year-old Bill Beeny has been the sole proprietor of the Missouri-based museum-- which provides documentation that Elvis never died--for the past 17 years, and now he is looking for someone to take over the cause.

Beeny has placed the contents of the museum, which includes every single piece of his expansive Elvis Presley memorabilia on eBay in hopes they will be purchased by someone who feels as strongly about the King's condition as he does. Some of the items up for bid include authentic Elvis pictures, books, FBI files, replicas of the Cadillac the King drove and of the casket and gravestone from his 1977 funeral.

Beeny's Elvis roadside attraction was once a coin-operated laundry. It sits 55 miles west of St. Louis and will continue to operate until the last item is sold. Though, Beeny told local news reporters that he hopes someone will buy the entire collection and open a new museum dedicated to the theory that Elvis lives. (Beeny believes Elvis is currently in the federal Witness Protection Program for assistance he provided federal law enforcement authorities.)

If you don't want the burden of running a museum you can opt to purchase individual pieces such as a 16-foot sign of a rhinestone-belted Elvis holding a microphone or a replica of Elvis' old Cadillac that hasn't started for years. There's also a casket, complete with a mannequin that's supposed to look like Elvis, hundreds of photographs, old news clippings, and a poster of the famous photo of President Nixon and Presley from 1970. Elvis fans can also bid on items such as what is alleged to be a tape recording of Presley's voice, supposedly copied off a telephone answering machine six years after his funeral, as well as piles of documents that Beeny claims are FBI files proving Presley's involvement with federal authorities.

How much are you willing to shell out for that?

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Michele Cheplic was born and raised in Hilo, Hawaii, but now lives in Wisconsin. Michele graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a degree in Journalism.

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