[Eleutheria5]

There is a Twilight Zone episode and a Star Trek episode about a similar character.

[Rurudyne]

Weird, I saw this video about this very guy the other day.

[ArcadeQuarters]

Groundog Day

[Magnum44]

[waterhill]

They have a cult thing going for him near Mt. Shasta.

[Larry Lucido]

Was that the guy who wanted to test out the death penalty but got life instead?

[Larry Lucido]

Or was it Death Takes a Holiday (Norm MacDonald voices Death).

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Oh, they mean Jesus.

[Sirius Lee]

This is just sci-fi, but the St. Germain story reminds me of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mOIxyRTY5I The Man From Earth Just a trailer, but if you ever get a chance to see it on some streaming source, definitely check it out.

[TheThirdRuffian]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_of_St._Germain

Apparently he died at a very old age. Although his personal effects were missing, as if he skipped town.

There’s a grave, anyway.

[DarrellZero]

Well since the individual in question did in fact die, I would respectfully submit that he was demonstrably not immortal.

[Jane Long]

The Green Mile.

[TBall]

The movie The Seventh Sign had such a character.

[Flatus I. Maximus]

His friends called him... Kenny.

[curious7]

Don’t forget Enoch, the father of Methuselah, too.

[Rio]

There can be only one.

[LIConFem]

I won't live forever. It'll just seem like forever.

[fruser1]

I tried that line at the DMV to explain why I didn’t have a birth certificate.

They didn’t buy it.

[rfp1234]

And a Rolling Stones song about sympathy for someone...

[Pearls Before Swine]

“There can be only One.”

Maybe he’s the one.

[ArtDodger]

Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s
The Haunters and the Haunted covers this quite nicely and was in before all the others, I believe.