Craig Shergold Legend
“Craig Shergold, a seven-year-old boy in Carshalton, Surrey, England is dying from a brain tumor. His last wish is to be in the Guinness Book of World Records as the collector of more business cards than anyone else in history. Please send him your card at the address shown below and circulate this letter to ten other people or companies.”
Craig set out to break Mario Morby’s record of collecting 1,000,265 postcards. Craig was brought to the United States in 1991 to undergo an operation to remove a benign brain tumor. Since then, Craig has grown up, living normally ever since then, except for the endless stream of letters and packages still arriving at his home bringing cards of all kinds for his collection. The Shergold family made numerous appeals for the mail to stop and the Guinness company discontinued the record after 33 million pieces in 1990. Cards of all kinds still continue to arrive.
(Source: Brunvand, Jan. Encyclopedia of Urban Legends. 2001.)
