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Glen Powell — Bless His Heart — Just Learned That ‘Date With a Cannibal’ Story He Told Is Fake

Glen Powell admitted to accidentally passing off an old urban legend — about a girl on a date with a cannibal — as truth on a recent podcast.

You may have watched it and thought to yourself, “Hmm, this story of creepy back rubs, black market lotion that breaks down skin for human consumption, and a police raid that uncovers a whole bunch of bodies sounds pretty ridiculous and fake — but, you know what? On Twitter Monday night, the Hit Man star shared a Buzzfeed article fact-checking the tall tale and copped to the mistake, “Props to my little sister’s friend who told her this dating story…I’ve been telling this for years. According to Snopes, the story Powell told is a kind of offshoot of a “years-old urban legend” known as, “Romantic Encounter with a Necrophiliac.” Snopes first reported on the story back in 2001, and many of those earlier iterations involved a woman going to a doctor for a genital rash and eventually learning that it had been caused by either a type of worm or bacteria commonly found in dead bodies — meaning, the person she’d been sleeping with, had also been… well, you get the idea.

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