World's Oldest Man

World’s oldest man aged 131 discovered living with a 62-year-old wife.

21:42 14 January 2016

Civil servants in Brazil claimed to have discovered the world’s oldest man – a 131-year-old dad who lives with his 62-year-old wife. If confirmed, he is much more older than the current Guinness World Record holder -- 112 years old Yasutaro Koide from Japan.

 

Social security workers in Acre in north of Brazil published photos of OAP Joao de Souza alongside a birth certificate dated March 10, 1884.

 

His daughter, 30-year-old Cirlene said: “He has days when he is lucid but others when he doesn’t even recognise his children.

 

“He was very small when he came to work in Acre extracting rubber.

 

“He has been with my mum for more than 40 years and depends on others for everything.”

 

Responding to doubts about her dad's age, she added: “You hear everything, people that criticise and say it’s a lie and others that admire the fact someone can live so long.

 

“It’s sometimes offends me because everything is documented and the documents have already been examined by experts at to see if they’d been falsified and nothing abnormal was found.”

 

 

Mr de Souza was visited by a civil servant to confirm if he was still alive and therefore, eligible for his pension. He then sent a confirmation to the state government and registered Jaoa for the Guinness Book of Records.