11 Facts About Joybubbles

Joybubbles had absolute pitch, and was able to whistle 2600 hertz into a telephone, an operator tone used by blue box phreaking devices.

Joybubbles later graduated with a degree in philosophy and moved to Tennessee.

Joybubbles lived on his Social Security disability pension and a job as a test subject for scent-intensity research.

Joybubbles was an ordained minister of his own Church of Eternal Childhood, and ran a one-man nonprofit support organization for people rediscovering and re-experiencing childhood, called "We Won't Grow Up".

Joybubbles tried to remain an active member of the children's community around his home, giving readings at the local library and setting up phone calls to terminally ill children around the world.

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Joybubbles often contributed to the Bulletin Board section of the St Paul Pioneer Press newspaper.

Sexually abused as a child by one of his teachers, Joybubbles "reverted to his childhood" in May 1988 and remained there until his death, claiming that he was five years old.

Joybubbles legally changed his name to Joybubbles in 1991, stating that he wanted to put his past, specifically the abuse, behind him.

An avid fan of Mister Rogers, Joybubbles was mentioned in a November 1998 Esquire magazine article about children's television host Fred Rogers.

Joybubbles was one of the few to qualify for the now-obsolete aircraft radiotelegraph endorsement on the latter license.

Joybubbles ran a weekly telephone story line called "Stories and Stuff", which was usually updated on the weekend.