James Dean faked his death? – died at age 95 in Canada

Fellowship of the Minds – by Dr. Eowyn

Actor James Dean of Rebel Without a CauseEast of Eden and Giant, died in a car crash on September 30, 1955, when he was only 24 years old.

Dean’s untimely death romanticized him into a cultural icon of teenage disillusionment and social estrangement. Hollywood celebrated him by making him the only actor to have had two posthumous acting nominations. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked him the 18th best male movie star of Golden Age Hollywood in AFI’s 100 Years…100 Stars list. 

According to Wikipedia:

Dean’s funeral was held on October 8, 1955, at the Fairmount Friends Church in Fairmont, Indiana. The coffin remained closed to conceal the severe injuries to his upper torso and face. An estimated 600 mourners were in attendance, while another 2,400 fans gathered outside the church during the procession. Dean’s body is buried at Park Cemetery in Fairmount – less than a mile from where he grew up on his aunt and uncle’s farm.

Crazy Days and Nights (CDAN) is a Hollywood gossip website that has been described by The Daily Beast as having a track record of accuracy, and by investigative journalist Mark Ebner as “being proven right again and again”.

Yesterday, as a July 4th gift to his readers, CDAN’s Ent Lawyer published a bonanza of Blind Items Revealed, one of which is this mind-blowing reveal that James Dean had faked his death, moved to live a quiet life in Canada, and recently died in a real car accident at age 95.

Below is the Blind Item Revealed:

One of the longest held secrets in Hollywood was known by a handful of people. I was never one of those people. Even as the secret was passed down to a second and then a third generation, I still never knew. It was not until the last week of April that I was told the secret and that it was OK to talk about it now because the subject of the secret had been killed in an auto accident. That was kind of fitting considering that is how he “died,” the first time. He was A+ list that first time. The entire world loved him and adored him and he hated every second of it. He wanted no part of it. So, with the help of a police chief who thought the world of him and a rival studio head who was willing to do anything to not watch those big box office numbers he put up, they got to work. The studio chief got some set designers and stunt people and they created a car wreck. The police chief donated a body from the morgue no one was going to claim, so they could bury a body and it was all set. The studio chief signed a contract with the actor and it basically paid him about $1500 a week for his entire life. And boy did he live a long life. When he was killed north of the border in an auto accident in April he was 95 or 96 depending on whether you used his Canadian or American birth certificate. For much of the past 60 some odd years he had lived in a remote section of that northern country, but in the past few years moved to a much larger city so he and his wife could be closer to medical care. Being 95/96 didn’t stop his love of driving though and his wife loved being with him when he did. She was with him in the car when they were hit by a tractor trailer. His wife is expected to make a full recovery.

James Dean

Some enterprising CDAN readers found news accounts of a fatal car-trailer  collision on April 24, 2018 in Alberta, Canada, in which the 95-year-olddriver of the car died.

The collision took place at around 2:30 p.m. at the intersection of Highway 583 and Highway 21 near Three Hills, Alberta. A passenger car carrying two occupants was struck on the driver’s side by a semi-tractor trailer unit. The car entered into the intersection from Highway 583 after the stop sign to make a left, north-bound turn onto Highway 21, when it was struck by the south-bound semi-truck.

The 95-year-old man driving the car, was brought to hospital, where he later died. The passenger of the car, a 96-year-old woman, was airlifted to a city hospital with serious injuries. The semi-driver was not injured.

Names of those involved in the collision were not released by Royal Canadian Mounted Police. (Sources: 660newsCalgary Sun)

There is an obituary for a 95-year-old man, William Jabez Stoness of Trochu, Alberta, Canada, who died on April 24, 2018, at 2:30 pm.

Stoness and his wife Reta had 4 children, 15 grandchildren and 21 great-grandchildren.

The obit says Stoness “owned several Harley’s”. James Dean‘s hobby was auto racing. He competed in professional auto-racing events. He had been ticketed for speeding 2 hours 15 minutes before he slammed his Porsche into a Ford at an intersection on Route 466, near Cholame, California.

Below are side-by-side pics of James Dean (l) and William Jabez Stoness (r):

What do you think?

~Eowyn

Fellowship of the Minds

12 thoughts on “James Dean faked his death? – died at age 95 in Canada

    1. That is assuming that (A) he really was born in 1931 (many actors & actresses purported to be much younger than they actually were…James Dean was thought to be one who gave a much younger age and actually broke into the business at an older age) (B) the records keeping weren’t the most accurate in those days so could very well have been a year or more off and (C) the new identity(ies) that were created for him and possibly his wife were accurate age-wise. These are supposedly false documents including a fake/fraudulent American and Canadian passports – again, in those days inaccurate records were not unheard of, and these could very well have been intentionally made with the ages modified to be ~1- years older.

      What I’m most curious about is what kind of car was this purported 95 year old driving with his purported 96 year old wife in the passenger seat when he pulled out in front of a semi truck.

  1. with what i know for a fact about what this government can and will do , and has done when it comes to changing a birth certificate ,, nothing like this will surprise me

    my biological daughters birth certificate was changed by the legal system to reflect that she was born by her adopted mother ( although 7 years after her natural birth from a different female that eventually lost her rights to her daughter )

    effectively the state , and the government and the court system wiped her biological mother off the map , to this day there is zero record of my daughters bio. mother no matter how hard you try to link them

    so , also when Im told that Obama couldn’t have a false record of birth .. I know it to be a lie

    what this tells us all

    they can do whatever they want , if they really want to .. maybe money was a way for this to happen for him.. I didnt pay a cent for this to happen for my daughter , and i didnt find out about it until we went to get her a pass port a year later

  2. Hell, I saw a photo of Hitler at the New York World’s Fair in ’64 on the internet years ago… and for some reason, it felt true.

    That was when I began wondering just how many other famous people had done the same.

  3. Wow….

    First there was fake news.

    Now there’s “Fake Death”.

    I mean…I heard rumors that JFK..Ghaddaffi ,Jeffrey Dahmer , Hitler and Jesus were fake deaths.

    I mean…

    Who in fk can you believe anymore….?

  4. Just like a few years back I read an article about Elvis who supposedly did the same thing and lived as a homeless person in California under an assumed identity. In this day and age anyone can disappear and come back as someone else. So who knows about either for sure.

  5. This is the ugliest story today. Their laws, their edicts, their regulations, statutes, rules, orders, commands, they ATTEMPT to mess with our most natural tendencies of self-preservation. This is a concerted effort to morph the human spirit into a plate of compliant Jello. I hope there is mega outcry. Would also like to get the address of the young man subjected to a year and a half in jail, just for trying to not die. It would be great to launch a letter-writing campaign telling him he did nothing wrong, he actually did the best thing he could to save himself. So many things I’d want to tell him. He can be a role-model for not taking it lying down. This young man took one for the team. I hope he is not abandoned but rather fully supported and appreciated.

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    1. Ooops, sorry, I put this in wrong place. I need to go post it on the story of the young man who tried to defend himself against 3 attackers and then got thrown in jail.

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  6. First I’m a James Dean fan, I would understand why he would want to get away from it all. I believe that with the help h of his friends that was with him on that day he carried out a fake death. Look who he had traveling with him. Bill Hickman a stunt driver who was at that time under contract and friends with Stanley Kramer. George Barris a car customizer and car creater. And I’ve listened to the highway patrolman that worked the accident they said Deans body looked good there was no large amount of blood. So I believe he faked his death to get away from all the hype, and mostly to get away from Jack Warner.

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