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Post by wildojinx on Jun 20, 2024 12:23:36 GMT -5
What are some moments where people claimed a famous person was dead but it turned out to be a hoax? My first year on the Internet someone claimed that due to surgery complications Alex Wright had died. Obviously untrue (not to mention a random guy to attach it to).
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Post by WoodStoner1 on Jun 20, 2024 12:52:20 GMT -5
Paul McCartney of course.
Ultimate Warrior and Paul Ornforff back in the day.
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Post by tirtefaa on Jun 20, 2024 12:53:57 GMT -5
Around 2001, I remember a widely reported death about how Viscera died in a car accident trying to avoid hitting a cat.
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Post by chrom on Jun 20, 2024 13:03:46 GMT -5
About six years ago people reported Sylvester Stallone had died.
Problem with it was they listed his date of Birth as in 1966, meaning that he was only 10 when he did Rocky
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Post by wildojinx on Jun 20, 2024 13:20:35 GMT -5
Around Christmas 2012 there was a report on Jon Bon Jovi being dead. Jon sent out a pic of him saying "Heaven sure looks a lot like New Jersey!"
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Jun 20, 2024 13:39:41 GMT -5
Back when he was ill and in the hospital Brickhoouse Brown got reportedd as dead 3 times before he passed.
Not a full on hoax,more one wrestler goes to visit and tells anotehr "Hey fred aint gonna last the night" and that spreads and becomes "Hye bBrick done died"
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on Jun 20, 2024 14:31:06 GMT -5
Stan Lane. Wasn't a hoax per se, but someone who claimed he was Lane to his wife, and she didn't know wrestling so she just assumed it was true.
I remember a false report that Julie Strain died in 2020, and it was disproved... and then she really died in 2021 and all the posts that showed it was false were brought up again.
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Post by UN PLOMBIER NIGHTMARE #blm on Jun 20, 2024 14:58:54 GMT -5
remember when TMZ and everyone was sure lil wayne died?
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Post by Zombie Mod on Jun 20, 2024 15:03:02 GMT -5
I remember the deluded cliff in New Zealand that kept trying to claim it had killed multiple celebrities. Around Christmas 2012 there was a report on Jon Bon Jovi being dead. Jon sent out a pic of him saying "Heaven sure looks a lot like New Jersey!" that came up on my facebook memories recently, I denied any connection to it happening.
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Post by A Little Doo Doo on Jun 20, 2024 15:05:54 GMT -5
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Post by griti kitty on Jun 20, 2024 15:20:21 GMT -5
I wouldn’t want to get the boards hopes up.
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Post by A Little Doo Doo on Jun 20, 2024 15:24:05 GMT -5
I wouldn’t want to get the boards hopes up. I knew you were going to say this.
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Post by wildojinx on Jun 20, 2024 15:30:47 GMT -5
Wasnt there a death hoax involving Avril Lavigne? The fact that she nearly did die from Lyme Disease didnt help matters.
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Post by mcmahonfan85 on Jun 20, 2024 16:15:53 GMT -5
i remember the 11th or 12th time the internet said Jackie Chan died
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Post by ChitownKnight on Jun 20, 2024 17:24:13 GMT -5
Wasn’t there a Michael Jackson death hoax a few years before he died?
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Jun 20, 2024 17:40:45 GMT -5
Wasnt there a death hoax involving Avril Lavigne? The fact that she nearly did die from Lyme Disease didnt help matters. Yeah. There’s also a replacement theory surrounding Andrew W.K.
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Post by Celexa Bliss on Jun 20, 2024 19:41:48 GMT -5
The infamous "original Ultimate Warrior died and got replaced by a younger, more ripped guy" hoax.
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Post by Andew9001 on Jun 20, 2024 19:45:04 GMT -5
I remember years back around the time he was on Criminal Intent my local news reported Jeff Goldblum had passed away.
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Post by The Rick Jericho on Jun 20, 2024 21:34:41 GMT -5
This one blew up very quick before it was deemed fake. But it gained a lot of momentum on Twitter at the time.
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Post by Rave on Jun 20, 2024 21:48:33 GMT -5
I was scrolling my Twitter feed one evening years ago when I came across a tweet from one James Storm discussing the supposed death of Blake Shelton. Who was on The Voice at that point, which IIRC broadcasts live so he'd been on TV prob'ly less than a half hour before that.
It was that "died in a car accident" hoax that pops up from time to time with different people.
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