Video which was recently posted on YouTube is aparently The Making of the Hoax Video of Michael Jackson walking out of the Coroners Van. Only one day after the video was released on YouTube, the German Cable Television station RTL raised their hands, claiming it was they who created it and intended it to be an ‘Experiment’ to see how the Hoax Believers would react to it.
Well firstly, what I’d like to say to RTL is….whatever! If their claims are in fact true then why would you want to ‘test’ conspiracy theorists in their beliefs?
We all know we already believe in the Hoax, and we even call ourselves Hoax Believers…so what? We’ve been called crazy, we’ve been harassed, we even have non-hoax believers come onto this site to try to ‘turn’ us to believe that he has died. We don’t care. We choose to believe Michael Jackson’s death was a Hoax and we don’t harrass anyone who doesn’t share our beliefs about it.
You should be ashamed of yourselves RTL. You claim that your experiment was an attempt to fool the Hoax Believers, but that is not where the damage has been done. The Hoax believers have believed since day one, nothing is going to change that. We have our own websites, our own communities. We do not force our beliefs upon anyone and we certainly don’t broadcast our Hoax stories across the world.
What you have done RTL, is give hope to people who had already accepted the fact that Michael Jackson has died. In the two months since his death, Millions of Michael Jackson fans around the world have had to come to terms with his death (if that’s what they choose believe). The release of this video has given a glimmer of hope and a moment of excitement to these people seeing this video thinking about the possibility that he may be alive.
You pride yourselves on having 700,000 views of this video on the first day, but did you stop to think how many peoples lives and feelings you would be playing with? So many fans around the world who had started to accept the fact that Michael Jackson had died are now going to be back to square one. Their pain, hurt and anger at his death will now resurface because of the release of this Hoax video. Shame on you.
Falling ratings were apparently the reason for making this video and welcoming all of the publicity that has gone with it. Well congratulations RTL, you now have higher ratings…but not for long. If you are in fact the party responsible for making this video as a Hoax, then the world will be so disgusted with what you have done that your ratings are going to fall lower than they were to begin with.
RTL was very quick to claim ownership of this video, as many media reports were latching onto it and starting to report about the possiblity of a Michael Jackson Death Hoax.
There are still many skeptics out there who are even questioning whether RTL are responsible for it, or whether their ‘Making of’ video above is the actual Hoax. Perhaps we will never know. What we do know, however, is that there is even more hype about a Hoax Death scenario now than there ever was before.
English Transcript for Making of Hoax Video
Female Narrater:
“We did not expect this quick reaction.
Only some weeks ago some conspiracy theoretists questioned if Michael Jackson
could be alive.
But in fact, everyday we received new evidence about his death.
But what happens when a hoax video shows Michael Jackson after his death?
We did it! You may see this as vulgar, but the truth is we only jumped on the
train full of rumours which already is driving.
Matthias Walter and Robert Keckeis report”
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Male Voice:
“If you are Michael Jackson, you’re never gone forever, at least not on the internet.
Because some hours after his death a lot of conspiracy theories were born.
Different videoclips show that Michael Jackson might be alive.
Quotes (from conspiracy believers): “This was not Michael, this was a guy who
only played Michael and lie on litter.”
“Jackson’s ghost in the house is only one of the miraculous experiences all over
the world.”
“Michael Jackson’s death certificate is incomplete and questionable.”
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Male Voice:
“By the way, thousands of conspiracy theoretists believed they were seeing that Michael
Jackson’s dead body is moving in the helicopter. The story ends when the dead
body is transported by the coroner’s van.
But thats not the end, because since 48 hours, this video has caused big excitement.”
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Male Voice:
“Two days ago aprox. 700,000 users watched the shaky videoclip. Polls say 21 %
think this videoclip is authentic.
But it is not! The videoclip is staged by us. How fast runs a staged video in
the internet?
And what happens when the conspiracy theoretists see this clip? This we want to
find out with our experiment.”
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Guiseppe Ruisi (Michael Jackson Double):
“This is a true recording, not a hollywood production, but everybody has to
believe whats happening there. Who that man is, that jumps out of the coroner’s
van, is not clear. But everything seems to point to Michael Jackson.”
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Alexander Gernandt (Bravo head editor):
“We do not know a life without Michael Jackson. And suddenly he has gone. And
lots of people don’t want to accept this and believe in videos, which show that
Michael Jackson might be not dead.”
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Male Voice:
“At first we created some stickers for an American van who looks similar to the
American coroner’s van.
After 2 hours the 2 livery-experts finished their work.
Question to one expert:
“Are you pleased with the result?”
Answer expert:
“I am very pleased. I think the result can be shown.”
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Male Voice:
“Then the van drives through the city to the filming spot near Duesseldorf
(Germany).
There the van hits the wall.”
Driver:
“I am not sure, if we can drive through.”
Male Voice:
“We used a borrowed yellow warning light and it looks authentic although our
workers only put it on the car roof.
We do not have the warning lights but some wood from a do-it-yourself-store
helps a lot.
Is that enough for a new conspiracy theory?”
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Alexander Gernandt (Bravo head editor):
“A basis for a conspiracy theory can be, if Michael Jackson wanted to break free
and then hoaxed his death. This is a basis.”
“The actor in our short movie is a junior actor.
Our Michael Jackson is only 14 years old.
Our bodyguard is George, a real fan of the King of Pop.”
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George:
“I can understand when people think that he is not dead.
They believe it because his music is living.”
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“The rumours in the internet develop an independent existence.
And our clip becomes a real news to a lot of people.
The conspiracy theorists try to find out more about our actors as they really
are.”
Quotes (conspiracy theoreists):
“You can not come up with something like that so easily. Is that all a part of a
witness protection programme?”
“The person wears the typical Jackson clothes: white shirt, black trousers. And
you clearly see white socks.”
“he is sooooooo alive, i don’t care what they say on tv.”
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“There are some hints that our video is staged.
But there are some people who want to believe in an authentic video.
Like the operators of this internet website.
Quote: Now its clear where the coroner’s van has driven. Into the LA coroner’s
underground carpark. There the driver opened car boot and Michael Jackson jumped
out the car very healthy.”
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Interviewer Voice: “What if, if i tell you, that RTL has something to do with
this video?”
Operator Girl: “What if then? Then i would congratulate you, because you have
done a really great videoclip.” (smiles)
Interviewer Voice: “RTL staged this video!”
Operator Girl: “Yes? (pause) Congratulations. (pause) Thats great. You did well.
Then I congratulate you, you have done well.” (shakes hand)
Interviewer Voice: “You have noticed nothing?”
Operator Girl: “No, I did not noticed anything, like I said before. It was the
same physique, the hair was identical (stutters) we would not have done this
if we would have noticed that this is staged. (she means publishing the video on
their website) If he were a blond fat man, we would have not done this.”
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“Although we declared officially that the new favourited video is staged, people
upload our video more than a couple of dozen and declare the video is real and
100% true. Our Jackson video has shown how quick a video runs like wildfire
worldwide. On the internet every day there are more and more videos.”
