Category: Jeff D’Antonio

Update on Jeff Loughlin “My Life… Lived My Way”

Remember Jeff, our only male hoaxer so far, who invented a larger-than-life character who was raising his dead best friend’s daughter and saving lives right and left in New England?

We received a notice that he had filed a DMCA complaint against our website because he was upset we had preserved his blog and hosted it on Dropbox.

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Now, I personally find it a bit ironic that someone who stole hundreds of pictures, YouTube videos and even story lines from various places on the internet to perpetuate his bizarre online hoax is now concerned about copyright law, but I deleted the offending file.

I would like to point out that Jeff’s blog is still preserved at the Internet Wayback Machine and can still be read in full here.

More on Jeff Loughlin

Trish and Rob MacGregor were impressed by Jeff D’Antonio’s stories about his friendship with his best friend, Jill. It was a friendship that seemed to have lasted even after her death. The two writers posted one of Jeff’s stories on their blog, Synchrosecrets.
When the MacGregors began collecting stories for their book, The 7 Secrets of Synchronicity: Your Guide to Finding Meaning in Signs Big and Small, they included an account by Jeff. He was also part of their second book, Synchronicity and the Other Side: Your Guide to Meaningful Connections with the Afterlife.

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Trish MacGregor was kind enough to scan the pages of the books which included Jeff’s stories.

Trish and Rob contacted Jeff after the book was published, offering to send him a copy as a thank you for his contribution. Jeff never replied.

Here’s Trish and Rob’s take on the events of the last week.

I’ve also been in contact with a woman named Fe who has known “Jeff D’Antonio” online since 2006. She also had become dear friends with Jill Gaines, Jeff’s friend who died of breast cancer. Fe is now reeling as she realizes that the friend she mourned for years never existed.

Here’s an email “Jeff D’Antonio” sent Fe after Jill’s death.

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Incidentally, Fe provided me with a long list of IP addresses that “Jill” and “Jeff” used while communicating with her over the years. All pointed to the exact same latitude and longitude in Jeff’s hometown.