Made-up or fake news has partaken of the Gothic many times. In the US we can think of Pizzagate, with its combination of child sex abuse and Satanism.
Today's example comes from Bangladesh, where a government official ends up having to deny a public project requires human remains.
“The opposition party is trying to mislead the people by spreading rumours, having failed in elections and agitations. For what else should such a weird, unbelievable idea that ‘human heads, blood will be needed to construct the Padma Bridge’ be spread on social media?” the Awami League general secretary asked.
Blood is a classic Gothic ingredient for construction. But why heads?
Related: "Police in Bhola detained a man on Wednesday night on charges of spreading on social media the rumour that 'children were being abducted for sacrifice by beheading.'”
(thanks to Jesse "The Builder" Walker)
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