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Dave considered Elvis Presley to be a client. Indeed, Elvis telephoned David one night in 1977. He was staying at the Valley River Inn in Eugene, Oregon before performing at the University of Oregon’s MacArthur Court. Dave was living in Eugene at the time, practicing his psychic business under the name of Jamil. He later told a newspaper reporter, “Elvis was one of my failures ... I tried to help him.”
David, who later took up residence in Elvis’ home state of Tennessee, became known for allegedly contacting the King through a series of seances held at Graceland. He contended that he knew the basis of Elvis’ problem: “His wife (Priscilla) cuckolded him. You have to understand hillbillies,” explained David in a newspaper interview to “The Daily Times” in Maryville. Elvis “could play around himself, but he couldn’t stand his wife doing it to him.” David, whose fifth wife was a Tennessee native, opined that Elvis “lived in Tennessee, he married a Tennessee girl. He was a typical hillbilly with an average mind. He had this incredible talent, with worldwide fame almost overnight. He was like a Ferrari engine put into a Volkswagen. He didn’t have the intellectual capacity to make it.”
Elvis passed away August 16, 1977 from cardiac arrhythmia, presumably brought on by prescription drug abuse. The king’s untimely demise became an overnight windfall to tabloid magazine writers, and David’s career rode that wave for the next 30 years. David’s photograph appeared interviewing a former friend of Elvis in 1981. The article detailed a number of sightings of the ghost of Elvis at Graceland, and in other locations that had been meaningful to the King. Las Vegas was, of course, a favorite venue for the King, and it was David’s opinion that “Elvis keeps coming back because this was one of the places where he was truly happy.”
Elvis’ friend and hotel chef, Mario Orjuella, told David that Elvis’s ghost often visited him in his home. The King’s ghost would sit “in the green swivel chair he used to enjoy so much.” Orjuella said Elvis “looks just like he did when he came the night my wife was sick.” Orjuella added, Elvis said a prayer for his wife, who was scheduled for surgery the following day. “He took a large crucifix from my wall and then … my wife and I put our hands together while Elvis said a prayer. To this day, I look up and see Elvis as he was at that moment.”
David also revealed that drugs did not kill Elvis Presley! According to David’s article, his death was the result of poisoning from food allergies. An accompanying photograph showed Elvis leaving a New York hotel, clad in a jewel-studded vest, carrying a jar of what could be peanut butter, if one looked closely. David interviewed Dr. Joseph Morgan, an allergy specialist from Coos Bay, Oregon who admitted he had never met Elvis, nor had he examined Elvis’ medical records. Dr. Morgan questioned the diagnosis of cardiac arrhythmia as the cause of Elvis’ death, declaring, “You can’t prove cardiac arrhythmia from a corpse that has been dead for hours as Elvis was.”
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