The story of an American who is taken for incredible perseverance is popular on the Internet: in just a week she called several tens of thousands of times and sent SMS to her ex-boyfriend. We checked the reliability of this story.

Publications about an extremely persistent woman appear in the media and social networks over the past few years. They can be found as users Facebook And Twitter, and in enough Popular Publics in VKontakte. The story of the arrest of a girl who called her former too often mentioned in the media, for example in the publication "Days24" in 2017 and Smnews in 2020.

Despite the differences in the statements of history, the primary source of these publications with a high degree of probability was message World News Daily Report. The author of the note, published in June 2014, claims: the 28-year-old resident of New Mexico Linda Merphy was arrested after she was unnecessarily tried to contact her boyfriend William Rayans. The gap after three weeks of relations was allegedly so painful that the girl called her lover 77 639 times, and also sent 1937 emails, 41,229 text and 217 voice messages, as well as 647 paper letters - and all this for a week. In later retelling in other sources, the number of calls and messages changed, and the names disappeared, but the essence of the story remained the same.

World News Daily Report is one of the many resources publishing comic news. This is directly It is said In disclaimer posted on the publication website. There is also a separately noted: “All the heroes appearing in the materials on this site (even if they look like real people) are completely fictitious, and any similarity between them and any people, living, dead or in a borderline state is an absolute miracle.” One of their notes dedicated to the Italian who gave birth in 101, “verified” already Disassembled previously.

In the photo attached to the publication of World News Daily Report, really, a girl appeared miraculously, having nothing to do with New Mexico in principle. This Sierra Steid from Oklahoma, and the photo was taken in 2010, when it is intoxicated I tried Go to McDonald’s through the window for issuing orders to motorists. After the article is released about the obsessive girl from New Mexico, even Styd Published In his Facebook, a post that has nothing to do with this story.

In Russian -speaking publications, the news of an insanely annoying American is accompanied by other portraits, but they are in no way connected with business about the persecution of the former. Two photos of a crying girl back in 2011 appeared In a selection of the most funny pictures of criminals (that the girl was accused of stalker was not reported). In turn, the World News Daily Report note was published only three years later.

Although the story of an American and 77,639 calls for a week was completely invented, such events were actually taking place. So, in 2002 RIA "Novosti" reported About the arrest of Japanese Khiroko Kobayashi, who was excessively documented by his married lover after parting. However, the zealousness of this woman is very inferior to the heroine of numerous publications in social networks - she called her lover “only about 1,200 times in a month and a half. According to the Japanese police, such actions violate the law on the persecution of people “for love purposes”, which was adopted in 2000 to protect the stars from annoying fans.