User:Chicdat/Veglin

Colestein Veglin was an American longevity claimant who claimed to have been 615 years old.

Arrest
Veglin was arrested on July 19, 1876, in Newark, after claiming to be 615 years old, and to have six wives, all living. The next day, he was taken to the insane asylum. It is unknown what happened to him after that.

He was reported in The New York Times, and later researched by an immortality website.

Credibility of claim
If Veglin was telling the truth about his age, then he would have been almost 600 years older than the oldest verified person, Jeanne Calment, and would have been the oldest reported longevity claimant in modern history.