European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 17, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                He is too cute to be dead g re a i by Don Tate staff writer aging Down on Iho spot pipe red to be Elys Presley s final resting place a Blond Young woman Shook her head a mystical look passed Over her lace and Sno said solely. He s not  one almost expected to hear next. He has  he was never Sherd she said in thai Quill knowing Lone. How can you be sure asked a re Porter. I read in. It was a closed casket lenoral. The body is Wax. Elvis said he just wanted to gel away from it a i and thai his funeral was Lake and he has been living up in  Why what s up in Michigan she had not read thai pan. Another no Var say dior had Road that Elvis was alive n love and living in Hawaii with someone Narred Marilyn yes Monroe. Those Wishful remarks couched in the willing suspension of disbelief thai makes for a Good ghost Story were made almost astride he King s pics med grave in to Garden at Tho Sida of the 13-acre estate in Memphis the shrine called Graceland. So Many ghost stories have floated about Graceland since his Dalh in August 1977including the one about the cabbie who swore he drove the ghost of Elvis Home one mind ugh dreary and did get a lip. Why a ghost has to catch a cab so gel Home was t immediately Clear. There s that know Slapper about ufos aliens saving Elvis life by kidnapping him in a Case in Counley of me weird kind. And the one about Elvis going Bald growing a Beard and strolling Aboul the world incognito unbeknownst to All but a chosen few. He s Loo cute to be  protests Opal Wyss 14, of Piggott ark., in a quavering voice. I Don t want him to be dead he does t have to to dead if he does t want to her 40-year-old Mother Louise Wyss who remembers seeing Elvis Way Back there on the de Sullivan show is no longer sure whether he is or in t among the finite living. He did t exactly make me fail when he was alive by he sure drove my sister crazy if he s nol dead he s going to got sued Lor fraud snarls a fellow who s All heart. The burning question of the summer is Elvis alive becomes the Hank no question of fall for tie Elvis mob which is still a huge Ono. Indeed More than 600.000 people a year of All Ages the merely curious and the wildly addicted  Graceland. Some bo.,000 came in one week recently. Mora than 5,000 were jamming around wailing in line Tor hours in 97-degree heal roaming in and out of the plastic Jungle of shops across the Street irom Graceland when this reporter went ghost busting recently. In those shops you can buy everything from Elvis Beer mugs to love me tender garters on can eat sleep drink and Wear Elvis  being consumed by 1ie sound of Elvis Ono Nii Highl Wilh you. I Ain t never did no wrong. Of baby id Mobo your lovin Eddy Bear. Treat me Ninich