Glen Powell is the man of the hour. The Top Gun: Maverick star has finally taken Hollywood (and everyone else) by storm. A constant hit-maker, the man who once starred in Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (as most of us forgot), is now setting the scene for his latest cinematic run with back-to-back premieres like Anyone But You, Hit Man and Twisters (upcoming).
However, recently the hit man found himself in the showbiz headlines for other reasons when he joined social media star Jake Shane on his talk show “Therapus”. Although the latest Netflix sensation sat down for a “deep dive therapy session” with @octopusslover8 in the last weeks of May 2024, somehow, their “jaw-dropping” conversation is only now going viral on the internet.
20 minutes later, Powell got to work and the rest is history. Asking Shane if he wanted to hear a “crazy story,” Glenn reportedly told a bizarre tale from the life of his sister’s friend who narrowly escaped death.
Glen Powell’s viral crazy story about cannibals
The Twisters star revealed how her sister’s friend went on a date with a man. Although he looked very attractive, he reportedly turned out to be a cannibal.
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Powell did her best to prove her alleged “facts” were true, so she took the story forward – supposedly she had heard it from others. She told Shane how her sister’s friend thoroughly enjoyed her date with this man. Later, that night, they went back to his apartment, and that’s where the creepy aspect of the story came out.
“That night she goes back to his apartment and he says, ‘Hey, can I give you a massage?'” Powell told the story. Soon after, an unpleasant, ominous feeling kicked in and “she just started to have a weird feeling. She felt like something was wrong…”
Powell added, “So, he starts massaging her shoulders … she’s like, everything feels weird.” And then, the girl realizes she has to get out of the situation, but the guy she went on the date with “gets a little weird, like, ‘No, please don’t go.'”
Likewise, the girl eventually speaks up, “Her skin starts to itch like crazy. The next day, she goes to the doctor, and he does a test on her skin. And it turns out it’s like a black market lotion that breaks down skin for human consumption.”
“This guy was applying lotion on her body to make her eat it.”
Eventually, the doctor asked her for the man’s address, possibly because they were considering calling the police.
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“They went to this man’s house and found several dead bodies of girls in his house,” Powell concluded.
Social media reacts to Glenn Powell’s cannibal story: Is it true?
Soon after, social media erupted. And just like that, netizens rushed online to express their horrified reactions to the alleged story centered around a cannibal. Some couldn’t comprehend how a “lotion that prepares one to eat human skin” could be found so easily in the market. Some women praised the girl for having good instincts in the situation and saving potential victims from falling prey to the madness: “Who knows how many lives she saved because of her good instincts. Unbelievable.”
Still, there were also many suspicious reactions. One x/Twitter user wrote, “How was he applying lotion to her shoulders without getting lotion on his hands? Was he massaging her with latex gloves on? And her skin is itchy and based on that she is able to see a doctor the next day? In the US?” while pointing to the possibility of it being a “fabricated story.”
Eventually, this became a topic of discussion on the internet, and people began speculating if this story was actually true. Meanwhile, an urban legend from 2001 spread this story. Snopes“The definitive Internet reference source for researching urban legends,” resurfaced. The story, titled “Romantic Encounter with a Necrophiliac,” got to the bottom of a girl’s “unusual medical condition” that allegedly led to the discovery that she had been intimate with a necrophiliac who possibly also ate corpses.
This “fact check report” also covered several other stories from the 2000s, leading many to wonder if Powell’s story was possibly a variation of these alleged myths.
