00:00Did F.C. Porto's former president predict the Lisbon earthquake on the day of his funeral?
00:09An image of the front page of an old Portuguese newspaper is circulating on social media,
00:15claiming that Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa, the late former president of F.C. Porto,
00:20predicted a tremor in Lisbon on the day of his funeral. It's dated the 30th of July 2005
00:26and quotes Pinto da Costa as saying,
00:28For those fools who wish me dead, I smile, but I won't forget. On the day that I'm buried,
00:34Porto will cry, but Lisbon will feel an earthquake, or my name isn't Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa.
00:40The front page quickly became viral on Portuguese social networks because Lisbon did indeed record
00:46an earthquake with a magnitude of 4.8 on the Richter scale on the 17th of February,
00:51the same day as Pinto da Costa's funeral.
00:53Various social posts have linked the two events using the front page from O Comércio do Porto,
00:59claiming that Pinto da Costa made a prediction 20 years ago that eerily came true. However,
01:04the front page is fake. There's no evidence that Pinto da Costa, who passed away on the 15th of
01:10February after battling prostate cancer, ever made such a prediction. The clue here is the
01:15date of the supposed front page. The 30th of July 2005 is actually the day that O Comércio
01:21do Porto published its last ever issue. The real front page is dedicated to the newspaper's
01:26farewell, as reported at the time by PĂşblico, which has also debunked the claims. A photo of
01:32Pinto da Costa, his supposed quote, and a headline celebrating 20 years of his presidency at Porto
01:39have replaced the real headline, which says see you next time, and a photo of the editorial team.
01:44The headline on the fake edition is also wrong anyway. Pinto da Costa had served 23 years as
01:50Porto's president by the 30th of July 2005, not 20.
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