Marilyn's Photos - June 3 2026 - Elvis vs Marilyn Facts
With Goggle's ever-helpful retrieval strategy, I learned a fact about Elvis today that has a very low probability that I would have ever learned. My quest was to find out similar silly Guinness Records about Elvis compared to Marilyn. I got side-tracked completely by this first question on the People also ask list:
"How long did Elvis go without pooping before he died?" 'Autopsy findings revealed that Elvis Presley suffered from severe chronic constipation and bowel paralysis. According to his personal physician, Dr. George Nichopoulos, parts of the stool found in the King's colon had been accumulating and sitting in his bowel for up to four to five months.
This severe impaction played a critical, and possibly fatal, role in his passing. According to the History Channel, medical experts and historians believe Elvis was straining heavily on the toilet at the time of his death. This intense physical straining causes the Valsalva maneuver—a process that severely compresses the abdominal aorta, restricts blood flow, and can lead to a sudden, fatal heart attack or cardiac arrhythmia."
Maybe I am the only one who didn't know this. Instead of finding Guinness records, I see an equally creepy question that Google offers up about Marilyn. Here it is:
"Who is buried on top of Marilyn?"
The answer: "Businessman Richard F. Poncher is interred in the crypt directly above Marilyn Monroe at Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park in Los Angeles. Before his death in 1986, he specifically requested that his body be placed face down so he could be "lying on top" of the actress for eternity."
The article quotes his wife as saying she saw the funeral director carry out his wishes. Look who is next to Marilyn - Hugh Hefner. Marilyn was on the cover and centrefold for the first Playboy issue, published in 1953. He purchased the crypt next to her, these words were quoted by the Los Angeles Times: "Spending eternity next to Marilyn is too sweet to pass up."
This is the Nelles Cemetery just a few streets away. This particular gravestone is entwined in a Japanese Maple tree. I followed instructions for transforming it into an infrared style image and these are the results. It would have been a perfect resting place for Marilyn.
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