There is a video circulating on youtube about someone that lived over 1700 years from the time before Christ until the 1700s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Germain_(Theosophy)
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I got bored with it, and stopped watching as my bullshit meter is really big.
137 years is remarkable if it were true, but highly also bullshit for John Smith. He likely did not live that long, probably into his late 90's which would have been ancient at the time.
Disease made him look that way according to the BIA.
