I'm going to start off this topic by saying that I think it is much less common than I personally had originally thought for people to make it past 118. However, one case does strike me as the most likely to be true, and that is Mrs. Batuli Lamichhane from Nepal!

Mrs. Lamichhane claims to have been born on March 23rd, although different sources say 1900, 1902 & 1903. Her family seems to go along with the 1902 birth year, putting her age at 120 years, +300 days. This birth year has been confirmed by her great grandson on Facebook.

I have been doing a very in depth research on this case, and in January 1934, she registered her age in the Nepalese Census as 30 years, 10 months with a birthdate of March 23, 1903, consistent to the same one announced in 2015! 

She has no evidence AGAINST her. Her youngest child is in their 80s as of 2023, and not unbelievable for the age she claims. There is also a record (although I now cannot remember precisely which year), of Mrs. Lamichhane from the 1930s in which she survived an earthquake that toppled her house. Again, in this record her date of birth is given as March 23, 1903.

Her family claimed a year or so ago that they had submitted her documentation to Guinness World Records for further investigation. They have since made a more recent claim that the process of verification is now in the final stages of verification by Guinness. Although, I must add I have not heard anything from Guinness themselves, and I'm not sure if this claim is true.

While these pieces of evidence rule in favor of Mrs. Lamichhane's age, we still cannot rule out an early in life sibling switch. We can also not yet rule out a mistaken identity. Now that I am aware of these possibilities, I think her case should be deeply investigated by LongeviQuest for further information. If early life documents such as a baptismal record exist, and if someone could locate a marriage certificate, I think this would strengthen her case by a magnitude. Hopefully the missing pieces of this puzzle exist, but until then we can't say one way or the other. Personally though, I feel she is easily the strongest 118+ case claim, and the one of the very few that has a chance of being true.

Her movements also are consistent with that of a SC. A video clip from 2015 when she was 112, shows her able to walk, although very slowly and with a bent back. Updates as recently as last month from her great grandson's Facebook page show that she is now wheelchair-bound and spends a lot of time in bed. 

I have a link to her great grandson's Facebook page, but I have not yet contacted him, as I would not want to intrude on her family's personal life. If her family's claim is true that she is in the final process of being verified by Guinness, then we will find out soon!

If I had to take a guess, I would say her correct birthdate is March 23, 1903 making her 119 300+ days old, and this birthdate matches perfectly with the 1934 Nepalese Census, and the 1930s story about her surviving the earthquake.

Thoughts on her case?