Subscribe to our newsletter. The irony of the Craig Shergold saga is that it truly is the story of a wish come true. The original chain letter campaign to win the cancer-stricken boy a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records succeeded beyond anyone's dreams, ultimately making possible the surgery that saved his life.
Lives go on.
Unfortunately, so do chain letters. Craig Shergold was cured of cancer in 1991, yet no matter how often or how vehemently this fact is trumpeted in the press, neither the chain letter nor the 300,000 cards per week that Craig still receives as a result of its popularity show any signs of losing steam. This page features a collection of nine specimens of the Shergold letter. All were found propagating on the Internet within the last two years, which means they're many, many generations removed from the original. Each text is different from all the others in some small or large respect.