His death caused controversy among some members of the conspiracy theory community which made him the target of reports from BBC News and other news outlets. Max believed in a variety of paranormal events, including that he had been altered as a child to become a super soldier. Max's credibility as a conspiracy theorist has been doubted by other members of the conspiracy theory community, including Adam Borowski from Radio Paranormalium, a Polish independent journalist who stated "He [Max] seemed to collect the research of other people and present it as his own" and that Max had never proven having any abilities related to his claim of being made a super soldier at birth.
On 16 July 2016 Spiers died on the sofa at a friend's house in Warsaw, Poland. According to the Polish prosecutor handling the case, Max's partner called an ambulance. A doctor attended the scene but was unable to revive Max. He did not take steps to inform police about the incident. Information regarding Spiers' death did not reach the prosecutor's office until 30 August 2016, which was after Max's body had been handed over to British authorities. Due to this fact Polish authorities could not conduct an autopsy.
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