Carlos Santana
In 2015, a CBC reporter’s Twitter account claimed that the “Smooth” guitarist had been found dead in his car. Commemoratory tweets began flying until Santana’s own Twitter account posted, “Carlos is alive and well and enjoying his morning!” The reporter who started the hoax later tweeted an apology.
Here are 13 mysterious celebrity deaths that are still unexplained.
Macaulay Culkin
The Home Alone actor has been the victim of multiple celebrity death hoaxes. Most famously, a non-legitimate website posted a “report” stating that the then-34-year-old star had been found dead in his apartment. He was on tour with his band at the time. Luckily, though, he’s maintained a sense of humour about it, posting a photo of himself “playing dead” with the caption “Weekend at Bernie’s.” “I die all the time,” he joked on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in early 2018. “I’m just a spectre right now.”
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