So, Apparently NIC CAGE Is Really A Vampire…

Known for his sense of the eccentric, Nic Cage is apparently being identified as a vampire according to a man on eBay.

According to his posting:

Original c.1870 carte de visite showing a man who looks exactly like Nick Cage. Personally, I believe it’s him and that he is some sort of walking undead / vampire, et cetera, who quickens / reinvents himself once every 75 years or so. 150 years from now, he might be a politician, the leader of a cult, or a talk show host.

This is not a trick photo of any kind and has not been manipulated in Photoshop or any other graphics program. It’s an original photo   of a man who lived in Bristol, TN sometime around the Civil War.

I’ve had a lot of questions asking where I purchased this. As followers of my website know, I collect antique memorial photography – images of dead people – from the 1800s.  This photo was found in the very back of album that contained an unusual number of  Civil War era death portraits (which is why I purchased it). All of  the other people in the album, living and dead, were identified by name – this man was not.

Photographer is Professor G.B. Smith. A contact of mine forwarded this interesting article (link) about the photographer, Smith. Turns  out he was a confederate Civil War prisoner of war photographer.

Granted, Cage is looking rough these days, but perhaps nothing that a couple of pints of O Negative couldn’t cure.

Pic after the jump.

(The Thanatos Archive watermark is not on the original image)

Is the King of Overacting really the Lord of the Undead?