A Man In India Is Claiming To Be As Old As 179 Years [PHOTOS]

Can it be true that Mahashta Murasi from Varanasi, India was really born on January 6, 1835?

Mahashta Murasi claims to be 179 years old and said he has the documentation to prove it. Is this a hoax?

is a shoemaker who claims to have retired 122 years ago. He says "Somehow death has forgotten me. And now I have lost all hope to die!”

Mahashta has out lived his children and grandchildren and is still here wondering when his time will come.

Mahashta is afraid he may be immortal, saying "look at the statistics, nobody dies past 150, even less at 170. At that point, I guess I'm immortal or something. I might as well enjoy it!"

Mahashta's documentation proves what he is saying, however, doctors have not been able to truly pinpoint his age. The last doctor visit he had before now was in 1971.