Is the background scene of what appears to be a hanging, in the Wizard of Oz, real?”
It’s the 70th anniversary of the ‘Wizard of Oz’ movie, an American classic, which means a few theaters will be showing a remastered version of the film. This offers conspiracy theorist the perfect chance to see a large-scale version of an infamous scene in the movie where a munchkin hanging was allegedly caught on camera. But did a hanging really take place, or is the ‘Wizard of Oz’ hanging just an interesting urban legend? The remastered version of ‘Wizard of Oz’ will have a much sharper image, so perhaps conspiracy theorists will be able to better see the munchkin hanging. Or maybe not. All you really have to do is visit Snopes.com to learn all you need to know about the ‘Wizard of Oz’ hanging. There’s an example of an E-mail forward about the hanging, which alleges that you can see a mysterious figure in black moving strangely through the trees while Dorothy and her friends are gleefully skipping down the yellow brick road. The person w
http://www.snopes.com/movies/films/ozsuicide.asp ‘Wizard of Oz’ Munchkin Suicide Claim: A lovelorn actor portraying one of the munchkins hanged himself on the set during the filming of The Wizard of Oz. Status: False. Examples: I just recently was crashing in at my best friend’s house and we decided to watch The Wizard of Oz. Now, rumor has it that a small munchkin can be spotted in the background. Now, when I saw this, I began to flip out. I started running around my best friend’s house and I hit the wall. I then got the courage to watch the movie again. I am so positive that I saw munchkin in the background who committed suicide because he was in love. My mom and I watched a documentary of the behind the scenes of The Wizard of Oz. We saw the footage closely and they even showed us before shots of the person. My mom told me to watch the movie closely and look in the woods in the trees for a person wearing b
