Eleanor Rigby
Years later, McCartney said that the coincidence could be a product of his subconscious (cryptomnesia). In 2008, however, when a birth certificate was sold at auction of a woman named Eleanor Rigby, McCartney restated publicly: "Eleanor Rigby is a totally fictitious character that I made up ... If someone wants to spend money buying a document to prove a fictitious character exists, that's fine with me."