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Boy Says He Didn't Go To Heaven; Publisher Says It Will Pull Book
NPR ^ | January 15, 201510:20 PM ET | Bill Chappell

Posted on 01/15/2015 10:59:39 PM PST by LucyT

Nearly five years after it hit bestseller lists, a book that purported to be a six-year-old boy's story of visiting angels and heaven after suffering a bad car crash is being pulled from shelves. The young man at the center of The Boy Who Came Back from Heaven, Alex Malarkey, said this week that the story was all made up.

"I did not die. I did not go to Heaven," Alex Malarkey wrote. He continued, "I said I went to heaven because I thought it would get me attention. When I made the claims that I did, I had never read the Bible.

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TOPICS: Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: alexmalarkey; book; faithandphilosophy; fraud; heaven; hoax; kevinmalarkey; liar; malarkey; nde; neardeath; pages; ptbarnumwasright
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The book lists him as a co-author along with his father, Kevin Malarkey.
1 posted on 01/15/2015 10:59:39 PM PST by LucyT
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Boy Says He Didn't Go To Heaven; Publisher Says It Will Pull Book

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2 posted on 01/15/2015 11:03:20 PM PST by LucyT
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To: LucyT

are they saying it is a bunch of malarkey?


3 posted on 01/15/2015 11:05:41 PM PST by GeronL
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To: LucyT

So, you’re saying that this story by the Malarkeys is a bunch of... Malarkey??

CC


4 posted on 01/15/2015 11:07:11 PM PST by Celtic Conservative (Cogito ergo non liberalo: I think, therefore I'm not a Democrat)
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To: GeronL

Great minds and all that, huh?

CC


5 posted on 01/15/2015 11:08:11 PM PST by Celtic Conservative (Cogito ergo non liberalo: I think, therefore I'm not a Democrat)
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To: Celtic Conservative

great minds? Nah, that was a hanging curve ball if I ever saw one.


6 posted on 01/15/2015 11:11:35 PM PST by GeronL
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7 posted on 01/15/2015 11:11:42 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: LucyT

He should just say, ‘At this point, what difference does it make?’


8 posted on 01/15/2015 11:13:49 PM PST by Ken H (What happens on the internet, stays on the internet.)
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To: LucyT

Oh, I’ve got the giggles now over this. This is nuts.

I really missed this story.

Their name is Malarkey ????????

Oh, that’s the funniest thing I’ve heard in quite a while.

And the publisher never... ??? LOLOOLOLOL “skeptical” of the story ???

This should really end with the people who decided to publish the book getting fired.... and both them and the person firing them... not being able to stop laughing.

Paging George Costanza, pick up the white courtesy phone.


9 posted on 01/15/2015 11:14:24 PM PST by PieterCasparzen (We have to fix things ourselves)
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To: LucyT

I did enjoy “Heaven Is For Real”, a similar story about the Burpo family, not the Malarkeys. Boy has Near Death Experience and claims to see Jesus and Angels.


10 posted on 01/15/2015 11:15:34 PM PST by OrangeHoof (Every time you say no to a liberal, you make the Baby Barack cry.)
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In Heaven Is For Real the boy meets a sister who died before he was born and the parents say they never told the boy about this. When he came back he asked his mom about his sister - who he only knew about because of seeing her in heaven.

So the parents could be making this all up - after all they did profit from it all. However, I have heard similar stories from people who never tried to get a payoff for their experience.


11 posted on 01/15/2015 11:25:51 PM PST by Aria ( 2008 & 2012 weren't elections - they were coups)
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To: OrangeHoof

They’re all nonesense. ...but people are gullible and love to believe what they want to believe.

It takes no brains to make up a story and run with it....that’s why you shouldn’t swallow this stuff. Unless you’re looking at it as fiction and “entertainment”.


12 posted on 01/15/2015 11:27:47 PM PST by caww
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Lucy..I said from the beginning this was a hoax....not surprised it's shown as such...most of them are but few come clean when all is said and done.

Meanwhile they all get an audience and make money. And the public eats it up.

13 posted on 01/15/2015 11:29:19 PM PST by caww
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Sounds like there’s mom vs. dad divorce issues too. God only knows.


14 posted on 01/15/2015 11:35:40 PM PST by informavoracious (Open your eyes, people!)
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16 posted on 01/16/2015 12:05:21 AM PST by Daffynition ("We Are Not Descended From Fearful Men")
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> So the parents could be making this all up - after all they did profit from it all. However, I have heard similar stories from people who never tried to get a payoff for their experience.

Same here but you know how the athiest left will try to spin this...


17 posted on 01/16/2015 12:08:02 AM PST by jsanders2001
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> I did enjoy “Heaven Is For Real”, a similar story about the Burpo family, not the Malarkeys. Boy has Near Death Experience and claims to see Jesus and Angels.
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The left will think they are one in the same though. Knee jerk reactions without checking sources and verifying information is one of the left’s specialties


18 posted on 01/16/2015 12:11:06 AM PST by jsanders2001
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To: GeronL

True enough. Problem around here is you gotta move fast if you are to get the low hanging fruit. It doesn’t go unclaimed for long.

CC


19 posted on 01/16/2015 12:39:33 AM PST by Celtic Conservative (Cogito ergo non liberalo: I think, therefore I'm not a Democrat)
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To: Daffynition

Balloon Boy!


20 posted on 01/16/2015 12:50:55 AM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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