15 Things the Internet Told Us That Just Aren’t True

Dis-tressed

This story predates the Internet. It started in the 1950s but persists to this day, thanks, in part, to people continuing to post decade-appropriate variations on the Internet. The original goes like this: A woman who wore a huge bouffant never took it down, combed it out, or washed it. One day, a spider fell into her hair, took up residence, and hatched a baby spider, which bit her… fatally. The thing is, it wasn’t true then, nor in the ’60s (when the woman wore her hair long and unkempt), nor in the ’90s (when she wore dreadlocks), nor now. Nor ever. Neither were these celebrity death hoaxes that spread on the Internet (and that you probably fell for).

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