Scandals That Never Happened
9 entries on file
The most persistent celebrity and historical scandals in circulation, all of them fabricated. Famous people, infamous rumours, and not a shred of evidence between them.
Walt Disney Was Cryogenically Frozen After His Death
Disney was cremated; cryogenic freezing is based on false rumours
Marilyn Manson Had Ribs Surgically Removed
False rumour; Manson has never had ribs removed
Catherine the Great Died Having Sex With a Horse
A posthumous smear invented by her rivals. She died of a stroke, in her own bed, in 1796.
Mama Cass Died Choking on a Ham Sandwich
She died of heart failure. The autopsy found nothing in her airway.
Mister Rogers Was a Navy SEAL Sniper With Tattooed Arms
Fred Rogers never served in the military. The cardigans hid nothing but a kind man.
Phil Collins Wrote In the Air Tonight About Watching a Man Drown
He wrote it about his divorce. There was no drowning, no spotlight, and no killer in the crowd.
Paul McCartney Died in 1966 and Was Replaced by a Lookalike
The 'Paul is Dead' hoax. He is, at the time of writing, still very much alive.
Richard Gere Put a Gerbil in His Rectum
Completely false urban legend with no credible evidence whatsoever
Rod Stewart Had His Stomach Pumped After a Sex Act
A decades-old urban legend the singer has denied for years. No hospital record exists.