The doctor who signed Jim Morrison’s death certificate as congestive heart failure has never been traced and whispers have suggested that heroin could have contributed to his untimely passing
Jim Morrison faked his own death, or at least that’s what one piece of evidence seems to claim.
The Doors frontman’s cause of death has long-been disputed with no autopsy performed, but now one theory thinks he could be working as a maintenance man in Syracuse, New York.
The claim has been made in Before The End, a new three-part documentary on Apple TV+, which features the research of The Doors super fan Jeff Finn.
Morrison died in Paris in 1971 at the age of 27, but his girlfriend Pamela Courson initially denied that he had passed away.
Confusion, naturally, reigned before she changed her story to say she found him dead in the bathroom of the flat they were renting.
Naturally, conspiracy theories have sprung up.
The doctor who signed his death certificate as congestive heart failure has never been traced and many whispers have suggested that heroin could have contributed to his untimely passing.
Among these conspiracies comes from The Doors keyboard player and friend of Morrison, Ray Manzarek, who reckons he faked his own demise.
Jeff Finn looks into the theory in great depth, showing a Facebook page of a man known as Frank X with The Doors drummer John Densmore in 2013.
Finn later shows picture of Frank to the exes of Morrison, two of which burst into tears. He then interviews Frank who, like Morrison, says he loves the works of Baudelaire.
On his nose is a scar in the exact same spot Morrison had a mole and while his eyes are brown and Morrison’s blue, there is a blue ring around the edge of the iris.
During the interview, he gets asked straight: “Are you Jim Morrison?”
Frank replies: “I’m not Jim… except I love the song by Jimmy Cliff: ‘We all are one, we are the same person’ That’s one way to look at it.”
Some reckon Morrison may have had reason for wanting to disappear. By the time he died, he had been kicked out of The Doors and feared jail after being accused of indecent exposure.
One ex of Morrison’s who is interviewed in the show said she had been writing a book about a rock star who faked his own electrocution on stage to disappear, claiming when she told him about it he said: “He whispers in my ear: ‘If you don’t finish the book, I might steal your ending’.”
The show is not endorsed by Morrison’s estate or his record company.
Source: Celebrities - dailystar.co.uk
