The 54-year-old rumor that Jim Morrison faked his death has reared its ugly head again.

This latest bonehead theory comes from a new documentary, Before the End: Searching for Jim Morrison, which is streaming on Apple TV+. Jeff Finn, the film's director, narrator and major Doors fan, claims that Morrison now goes by Frank and is a maintenance worker in Syracuse, New York.

To bolster this claim, the film includes:

An interview with Frank, who is very vague about his identity.
Finn shares a photo of Frank with two of Morrison's girlfriends who cried over the so-called resemblance.
Frank displaying a scar on his nose where Morrison had a mole.

Previous "Morrison sightings" had him living as a cattle rancher in Oregon, and as a drifter named Richard in New York City.

Could someone who was in the public eye and adored by millions stay in hiding for 54 years?
Morrison did allude to the idea that when he moved to Paris he would fake his own death.
Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek wrote a novel titled The Poet in Exile, which is a fantasy about what might have happened if Jim Morrison actually had faked his own death.

Grant Smith