On the Internet you can meet publications about the American who lived not so long ago, who weighed about 1140 kg. Some even call him the thickest person in history. We checked the reliability of this fact.

In the publication of the Internet magazine "Women's View" tellsthat someone baster Simkus from Dallas weighed 1141 kg. Once he decided to lose weight, and with the help of nutritionists he managed to “drop several hundred kilograms”, but in 1995 Simkus “returned to his usual way of life” and died ten years later. Dedicated to this American publications appeared in several public In VKontakte, and in some of them the Simkus surpassed its own record, ceiling up to 1,600 kg, and on others completely survived to this day. Very controversial information about Simcus can also be found in other sources writing about it - from Instagram to "Entertaining Encyclopedia of Human", from Livejournal Before the rating of the thickest people of the planet from the Ukrainian television channel STB.

The logical place from which it is worth starting to search for information about a person with incredible weight is the Guinness Book of Records. However, its compilers about Simcus, apparently, do not know anything. The most difficult person in the history of Guinness Records calls John Brower Minnok. In 1978, the 36-year-old American, who had obese from childhood, ended up in a hospital, where doctors appreciated his weight of 635 kg. In the next two years, Minnok managed to lose two -thirds of his weight, but then he again began to gain mass, and on the day of his death in 1983 weighed 362 kg.

Although Simcus is not mentioned in authoritative media, there is one publication that wrote about it with enviable regularity. It is called Weekly World News and, judging by the Google Books archive, from 1995 to 2004 Dedicated An incredibly fat man of at least 15 publications. The first of them appeared in January 1995, and already in October Weekly World News toldthat Simcus, who weighed 2513 pounds (about 1140 kg), managed to lose weight to 212 pounds (about 96 kg). Because of this, the hero of the publication was faced with the problem-it was necessary to remove kilograms of excess skin. Then the publication came out about how Simkus became again in 1999 To recruit weight and reached a mass of 4007 pounds (about 1820 kg), in 2000 married on a quite ordinary girl, and in 2002 Gathered Sell areas of your body for advertising and jump from airship to a football field during the break of the Super Bowl.

On the Weekly World News website in the "About us" section It is saidthat this is "the only reliable news in the world." The editors of the publication reports that he offers “investigation of the highest level”, and the numbers have been published since 1683. This section also claims that reporters daily tell stories that ignore the authoritative media, and Albert Einstein, who loved to read the tabloid during bicycle walks, was the faithful reader of Weekly World News. The section “About us” ends with the next paragraph: “Weekly World News is available exclusively on the Internet and social networks. But we are working a lot to return to the seal in the near future. Government institutions always conspire to prevent us from spreading our stories. But be sure - we will never allow us to prevent us from telling our readers the truth! ”

In fact, the publication appeared Not so long ago - in 1979 in Florida. Weekly World News created the media Magnate Generoso Popu Jr. when its main tabloid The National Requirer moved from the black and white press to the color. The equipment that remained after that prompted the Upe Jr. to launch a new edition in the “old style”. To closing In 2007, the most incredible publications: The fact that Elvis Presley is actually alive and plans to run for president of the United States, about the most smart chimpanzees and his plans for admission to college or Hillary Clinton, who adopted an alien. At the peak of popularity, the circulation of one number exceeded 1 million copies. In 2009, Weekly World News was Restored On the Internet - it turns out that the publication has been “working a lot” for the return of the printed version for 12 years.

In addition to one-time publications about the stars of American politics and pop culture, in a sense of the ancestor of the Panorama, popular in Russia, constant characters. One of them is Batboy, half a boy and half a bat, who was found in a cave in Western Virginia. The authors of the publication paid considerable attention to aliens and mutants of all stripes. Often, the heroes of notes were people and animals of incredible sizes - the most fat in the world of a cat Tonya, several thickest women in the world and, finally, Buster Simkus. It is not surprising that all the images associated with this fictional person are publications in Weekly World News and photos of wax dolls based on their motives.