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Who knows how much of these stories are true, but here we go...

The News of the World reports that MJ's kids possibly thought that their dad was just "playing dead"when he was lying unconscious in his bedroom this past Thursday.

A source in Jackson's staff claims: "The three children thought their dad was just fooling around. He often played dead and would then jump up and surprise them, so they thought he was just having a bit of fun. But when they saw the emergency trucks arrive, that really shook them."

The source also says that Michael's personal physician (who was by his side when he died) thought the same thing - that Michael was just joking around at first. Uh, weird!

It seems MJ allegedly told a close friend that he "wanted to go out like Elvis," too. Could it be he was more aware of what he was doing to himself than we thought?

Another NOTW story claims Michael wrote a horror story about his two kids, Prince and Paris, falling victim to a person who kills children with a sling blade. Yikes. The pop icon allegedly wrote this one year (2006) after being acquitted of child abuse charges.

The article has copies of the documents in MJ's - again, allegedly - handwriting. A few chilling quotes from the story below:

    "He murdered his wife and no one ever sees his kids cause he keeps them tied to the bed like his wife, before he murdered her. He starves them FIRST then he murdered them, Paris. He did it with a sling blade Paris."


    "He then got scared and ran into what they call the endless BLACK FOREST... he was never found again. Because they say there is no way out of the endless Black Forest."


What's going on here? Is this all a metaphor for something Michael was going through at the time? Did he write it because of all the meds he was taking? And what's with all the stabbing!

Either way, I just hope his real kids never read this story...