In 2011, Jack Mord, an eBay seller in Seattle, posted a 19th-century photograph under a title that said it all: “Nicolas Cage is a vampire”. The man in the image, taken around 1870, had the same face, the same gaze, almost the same features as the actor.
The listing reached 78 bids with a starting price of 1 million dollars. No one bought it, and on September 22 of that year the photo disappeared from the platform before any expert could examine it.
A week later, another one appeared: an 1860 ambrotype with a man who looked exactly like John Travolta, this time for 50,000 dollars. Neither of the two photos was ever authenticated, so the mystery remains exactly where it began: unanswered. 👀
