Over some 30 odd years (I'm 50 now) I have read a lot of material which compares many religious, mythics and old wives tales to ask similar questions and each one has been as facinating as the next but the fact is no one can go back there at the moment so no one can say what actually happened.

All that can be stated as holding some validity is what we already know thanks to the works of the scholars who investigated or reported details and yet, speculation is imaginations best friend.

One of thoses stories was that the Crucifiction was a hoax and that the Lord Jesus Christ travelled to Asia with his family at that time (Wife and kids too no doubt) where a picture was painted of him and where he reportedly died.