I said it once. It bears repeating. If you get any news on Facebook, especially about celebrity deaths, check other sources!
I was proven right. Yesterday as I scrolled down my Facebook page, I read about the alleged death of World? Wrestling Entertainment legend Undertaker, real name Mark Calaway. Right away, something didn’t seem right, and I figured it was another Facebook Hoax. I did a little more investigating, and I was right. Mr. Undertaker’s ‘death’ was a cruel hoax started on social media. These rumors claimed Undertaker died from a head injury suffered at Wrestlemania 30 on Sunday, April 13, 2014, during a match against Brock Lesnar. While he did suffer an injury during this brutal match, he was treated at a nearby hospital and released the next day. The Undertaker is alive and well, thank you very much.
This comes in the the wake of the real sudden death of Ultimate Warrior. He was a WWE Champion in the early 1990s. So was that their pull? When one pro wrestler really dies, now they want to follow that with some trick in hopes people will believe it? I must admit, when Warrior died, I checked mainstream sources to make sure it was true. At best, I want to think the people who published this Undertaker death hoax got really bad information. If that’s the case, learn a lesson. It’s always, always critical to check your sources and information. But I think something way more sinister is going on here. I think this was a deliberate attempt to fake someone’s death. If this was supposed to be a joke, I and millions of others didn’t get it. Did they think about this man’s family and friends when they spewed this hoax? I wonder if they will be legal ramifications because of this. There should at the very least be a very public apology from the hoaxers. I doubt it will happen. What should be done about this?