Famous People Who NEVER Existed!

Deacon Brodie. Not a doctor, but a respected businessman.

While the existence of the other characters in the Little House book series have been verified, no record exists of Mr. Victor French.

The fun thing about that is that although the man never existed nor did his utopian kingdom of plenty, and everything that was ever written about Prester John was a mountain of made up, fanfic-level bullshit all based on one hoaxed letter ; there really *was *a prosperous Christian kingdom lost somewhere in Africa - Abyssinia/Ethiopia.

I’m afraid I have an unfortunate revelation about your uncle. :wink: Let’s just hope he hasn’t “caught” anything to date.

ya mean Mr Edwards?

If they are non existent, how can we be certain about their names? :dubious:

Neat! So it was essentially an pre-Internet image meme. They aren’t just the same message and image like Killroy was, but mutate with different words.

I mean, I knew they probably existed, but I hadn’t heard of one.