Fake News Alert: Video of Kazakhstan man shared as of Indian saint who took ‘samadhi’ 300 years ago – Pune Mirror

(This story was first published in the Times of India on February 21, 2020)

CLAIM

A loose translation of the Hindi text describing the video goes -- Siddha Yogi who took samadhi 300 years ago in Chennais Velayur Temple. The saint was found alive during the recent excavation works at the temple."

A reader sent the video along with this claim to Times Fact Check on our WhatsApp number 8527001433 to know if such an incident happened.

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VERIFICATION AND METHODOLOGY

After breaking the video into different key frames using InVid Google Chrome extension, we ran reverse-image searches on them. This led us to a news report from Daily Mail UK, dated June 29, 2019.

Titled Bear man's identity is revealed: Doctor says emaciated 'living mummy' who appeared in shocking footage is really his patient suffering chronic psoriasis and was never mauled by beast, the report mentioned that the man in the video was actually a 41-year-old patient at Aktobe Medical Centre in Kazakhstan receiving treatment for severe psoriasis.

A senior medic from the hospital where hes admitted rubbished these claims and insisted that the 41-year-old man was never attacked by a wild beast and said he suffered from chronic psoriasis and other medical complications.

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