Friends and relatives of Cruz Hernandez’s gathered Wednesday to celebrate her 128th birthday, a milestone that might make her the world’s oldest person.

Hernandez, who relatives say spends most of her time dozing and no longer speaks, was surrounded by some 200 people at her party, some bearing a cake and others dressed as Salvadoran mythological heroes.

According to national records, Hernandez was born on May 3, 1878, in one of the country’s central provinces, where she gave birth to 13 children. She now has 60 grandchildren, 80 great-grandchildren and 25 great-great grandchildren.

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National birth registry officials sent Hernandez’s documents to the Guinness World Records organization last year but have yet to hear whether the case was accepted.

Guinness claims Ecuadorean Maria Esther de Capovilla is the world’s oldest living woman at age 116.

According to the organization, the longest any woman has ever lived is 122 years. The oldest man was 120 when he died in 1986.

any idea how they prove her age... can they cut off her arm and count the rings or something like a tree?

Actually, you can determine someone's age from looking at the bones in the arm... You just have to know how to do it.

How would one learn?

Theres great need for that in my line of work . . .

. . . as a net admin for the school system by day and a mechanic by night! :-p

I don't think I would want to live that long. Dozing and not speaking to anyone...she barely sounds alive.

And I'm not even gonna comment on Methuselah, the 969 year old man.

Actually, you can determine someone's age from looking at the bones in the arm... You just have to know how to do it.


Naw... they just shout in her tunnel and count the seconds it takes for the echos....

i wish i can be as old as her and run laps around batman while hes on his yellow bike.

u should have no problem if u train with the local authorities in a game of cops and robbers.......