Online reports claiming Miranda Fugate, the girl hit with a shovel in a Vine video that went viral this week, has died as a result of the attack are unsubstantiated.
A story titled, "Miranda, 16, Who Was Hit In The Head With A Shovel, Dies" has been shared thousand of times since the video spread, but is without merit.
Simple searches reveal that it originated not from a valid news or celebrity gossip source, but a satirical news site famous for spreading death hoaxes.
Huzlers (dot) com reports that "Miranda Fugate Lockwood died of serious head injuries after being hit with a shovel in the head by an old friend, Emily Powers."
"The whole thing was caught on video and posted all over the internet and generated around 500,000 video views in just 2 days," the site also claims.
That part is true. Hundreds of thousands of people have seen Miranda Fugate hit in the head with a shovel. She is alive and well, though. This is untrue:
"At first, It only seemed like a minor head injury as Miranda also temporarily lost one ear's hearing," the bogus site claims, before reporting on her demise:
"Suddenly, while watching Mean Girls at home that same day, Miranda collapsed and died instantly. Doctors are saying she died of severe head trauma."
Not the case. She is alive and well, posting on her Twitter:
Because it's the Internet, Miranda. That's what it does.
She also acknowledges her recent trauma self-deprecatingly in her Twitter bio, so you know it must not have injured her that badly. Still, though ... ouch.
Add her to the (sadly) long list of Internet death victims:
1. Lil Wayne
Lil Wayne has been the subject of more than one death hoax over the years ... and more than one actual near-death experience. So it's believalble.
2. Sharkeisha
Sharkeisha was killed off by an Internet hoax, not long after she nearly killed a classmate with this insane sucker punch.
3. Wayne Knight
Wayne Knight is alive and well.
4. Chumlee
Pawn Stars' Chumlee is not dead, despite a hoax indicating as much.
5. Celine Dion
Celine Dion was fake-killed on Facebook pretty recently.
6. Chloe Moretz
Chloe Moretz was far from pleased about the hoax that killed her online.
7. Bindi Irwin
Bindi Irwin is alive, well and all grown up!
8. Jon Bon Jovi
Jon Bon Jovi is still healthy and rocking out hard ... thank goodness!
9. Cher
Cher may be getting up there in years, but she's in good health.
10. Vanilla Ice
Vanilla Ice is the perfect candidate for such a hoax, but he's actually in a pretty good place lately.
11. Eddie Murphy
Stop trying to kill Eddie Murphy online, people.
12. Kanye West
Rumors of Kanye West's demise are about as real as Kim Kardashian's face (not very).
13. Tiger Woods
Tiger Woods killed his career for a time in 2009, but rest assured, he is physically alive.
14. Spencer Pratt
Some of you may be strangely let down by the fact that Spencer Pratt death rumors were fake.
15. Sinbad
Sinbad was done in by his own Wikipedia page.
16. Jeff Goldblum
The Jeff Goldblum death hoax was one of the most notorious.
17. Justin Bieber
In March 2012, "RIP Justin Bieber" really pissed off the legions of Beliebers who enjoy being overly aggressive and emotional about their douchebag hero in 140 characters or less.
18. Paris Hilton
Paris Hilton fell victim to a fictional car crash in September 2012 ... and in 2007, was allegedly shanked to death in jail.
19. Taylor Lautner
The rumor mill got creative for the death of Taylor Lauther in 2010. When his death started trending on Twitter, the story was that Lautner had been "drugged by strippers."
20. Eminem
Reports of Eminem's death have been greatly exaggerated.
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