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A sinister Wizard of Oz urban legend claims a hanging munchkin can be seen, with the body belonging to a real actor on set. Here's the myth debunked.
A lovelorn actor portraying one of the munchkins hanged himself on the set during the filming of The Wizard of Oz.
Here’s the original scene from "The Wizard of Oz" showing the munchkin that committed suicide on-screen by hanging! This is the original footage before MGM tried to cover up the...
The most infamous scene in The Wizard of Oz relates to the urban legend of the hanging munchkin. Here we unpack and explain the rumors and myth surrounding it.
The Hanging Munchkin is a well-known hoax, claiming that the original prints of the classic film The Wizard of Oz (1939), contains accidental footage of an onset suicide by one of the Munchkins. In reality, it was a Crane brought on set from the Los Angeles Zoo.
Delving deeper into the film’s murky backstory, there is one urban legend that repeatedly surfaces: that an actor who played a Munchkin can be seen hanging themselves during the scene – which has come to be known as the Tin Woodsman sequence – where Dorothy, the Scarecrow and the Tin Man skip down the Yellow Brick Road bound for the ...
The hanging munchkin myth gained traction during the film’s 50th-anniversary promotion in 1989. The Wizard of Oz’s production history, marred by incidents like Buddy Ebsen’s severe reaction to makeup and Margaret Hamilton’s burns, contributed to its “cursed” reputation.