Elvis is alive and bidding on eBay

[Kahnee]

Someone from Elvis Presley's home state of Mississippi has placed the highest bid in an eBay auction of memorabilia from a museum devoted to proving that the King is still alive.

The bidder had until the close of business today to put up the 8,300 dollars (£3,970) and arrange to pick it up from the Missouri museum, which is shutting down.

The auction closed at 5.20pm yesterday. If the high bidder does not emerge, the museum's proprietor can offer the memorabilia to the second-highest bidder at 8,200 dollars (£3,920).

As of this afternoon, three e-mails to the high bidder had not been returned.

"He could be a very busy individual and hasn't slowed down or he could be so excited he won he had a heart attack and is in the hospital," said Steve Beeny, the son of museum owner Bill Beeny.

"I'm keeping an open mind. Hopefully, he will make contact."

Bill Beeny, 81, placed the memorabilia on eBay late last month.

He hoped someone would buy the collection and open a museum dedicated to the idea that Elvis never died.

The collection includes photographs, books, yellowed news clippings and replicas of Elvis's Cadillac and the casket and gravestone from his 1977 funeral - which Beeny believes was a fake.

The Baptist minister founded the quirky museum in 1990. Steve Beeny declined to put a value on his father's collection.

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