Elvis Presley died of a heart attack in August 1977, but conspiracy theorists have often questioned official reports.
Sightings of the King after his death, as well as his “sweating” corpse and gravestone “error”, have all been used as supposed evidence for the bonkers theory.
And now, ahead of the 42nd anniversary of his death, another claim has resurfaced from a doctor who supposedly treated the Hound Dog singer in 1997.
Psychiatrist Dr Donald Hinton told Fox News in an unearthed video that the King was a patient of his.
He said: “I would never treat anyone before seeing them eye-to-eye and it is truly Elvis Aaron Presley.
“There’s absolutely no doubt.
“He said ‘doc, I was very ill. There were a lot of things going on and I felt that if I didn’t escape I would literally be dead within the year’.”
Dr Hinton said Elvis had informed his manager Thomas Andrew Parker, commonly referred to as Colonel Tom, of his plan to fake his death and disappear out of the limelight.
He said: “He [Elvis] told the colonel that he wanted out.
But, perhaps unsurprisingly, the doctor’s claims have been largely discredited.
Elvis Presley Enterprises refused to answer Fox News’ request for comment, labelling the claims as “completely ridiculous”.
He later lost his medical license after overprescribing painkilling tablets to one patient.
The drug enforcement administration and Missouri state board of healing arts discovered between August 1997-2000, Hinton had issued 34,000 pills, five times the recommended amount.
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