Cardinal Richelieu

[evilsprout]

Found this Fortean snippet in a article on BBC Online about people with links to the past http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/3899961.stm

I can also report an urban myth in the making, since several people wrote to me about an interview they thought had been broadcast in the 1970s with someone who met Cardinal Richelieu, the French statesman who died in 1642.

Now by my calculations, even if you - as a newborn baby - met Richelieu on the day of his death, you'd still have been 235-years-old on the day the first sound recording equipment was patented in 1877.

Any ideas? Reminds me of the time the Compt Saint Germain cropped up on a talk show...

 

[Yithian]

See also http://www.forteantimes.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=14827 (posssible merging?)