Elena Desserich: Is Elena Desserich a hoax? (video)
By Therese Lisieux on November 4th, 2009Elena Desserich maybe a hoax. There are rumors on the internet that the Elena Desserich story may be fake. Desserich was too sick with cancer to speak. How could she walk around the house hiding love notes?
Desserich, 6, allegedly wrote a stack of letters which she hid around her parents’ home for them to discover and read after her death. Her parents published a memoir on Elena Desserich called “Notes Left Behind”.
There have been many internet stories of sick children that we have become more cautious when we read similar stories. Elena Desserich’s story may be true or otherwise. The internet community has started questioning the authenticity of the story and searched for any writings regarding the Elena Desserich story being a hoax.
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November 5th, 2009 at 6:19 pm
The Elena Desserch story is a hoax.
1. The doctors said she had 3 months and 6 weeks to live. – strange, that is an awfully specific time frame and very unusual. Also, why 3 months and 6 weeks and not 4 months and 2 weeks? odd
2. Hundreds of notes were found – really? hundreds? accounts say she was very sick, but it sounds like a full time job to make hundreds of notes and hide them around the house
3. For 3 months and 6 weeks, the parents did not find one not – did they not clean their house?
4. The parents did not know she was making/hiding notes. You’d think that if she was diagnosed with cancer, the parents or someone would be spending almost every moment with her. Don’t you think someone would her making and hiding hundreds of notes. ODD
5. Elena was 6 years old. While one could argue a 10-yr old could comprehend their parents lives after their own death, a 6-year old does not have the emotional maturity to comprehend this, and even if they did, not to the extent that they would think of hiding notes that they would find after. Hiding things to be found later is something parents often do for their children and like the Desserich’s idea.
6. Money – unfortunately, the parent stand to profit from this. Although some of the funds will go to cancer research, it has not bee disclosed that ALL OF THE FUNDS will go to cancer research as is often the case. If this was true they would have likely said ALL OF THE FUNDS will go to charity. This is not the case. The Desserichs should disclose the amount they are keeping.
While this story is tragic because a child died, it is DISGUSTING the parents are telling lies to profit from their daughter’s death, even if part of it is for a good cause. SHAME ON THEM!!!
November 9th, 2009 at 5:13 pm
Not sure if its a hoax, just an opinion, but it sure seems fishy!
November 12th, 2009 at 3:57 pm
You can not factually state that the story is a hoax. How do you know? The doctors do give quite specific dates on how long a person will live quite often. Sometimes it is a week, a month, 6 weeks, 3months. They could have very well have said 3 months and 6 weeks, if that is what her illnesses progression showed as a possible time frame.
Also, don’t underestimate the knowledge children have of the world around them. Kids are intuitive. They understand alot more than you realize. The likelyhood is that her parents explained what was going to happen to her. When she realized that meant leaving her parents behind, never to see them again, is very possible that she could have left these notes for them. It seems like something a very intuitive, intelligent, and loving 6 year old would do. She loved to draw. She probably spent hours drawing. I once watched my 3 year old draw and color 20 little pictures in the process of 30 minutes. 20 pics a day x 3 months = approximately 1800 pictures. A couple hundred pictures over the process of a month or 2 is not so outrageous for a 6 year old who loves to draw.
Do you have children? Have you ever experienced the death of a child? My guess is no you haven’t and probably no you don’t. Who are you helping by blantanly and unjustifiably calling this child’s legacy and the gift she left her parents a hoax? The answer is you are helping no one. You are just being pessimistic and heartless. This story has inspired and helped people. What is wrong with that? In my opinion we need more people like this little girl and her parents and less with attitudes like yours in this cruel world. A world that is made cruel partially because of heartless people like you.