Yesterday, August 6th, would have been Lucille Ball’s 100th birthday. She died on April 26, 1989 at the age of 77.
During her life, the red-haired comedienne and actress was associated with a number of unusual tales. Ball told Dick Cavett in an interview in 1974 that she once picked up communications between Japanese spies through the fillings in her teeth.
She said she had been traveling home from the television studio and heard what she thought was “tapping.” She stated that “as I backed up it got stronger. The next morning, I reported it to the authorities and upon investigation, they found a Japanese radio transmitter that had been buried and was actively transmitting codes back to the Japanese.”
Television’s Mythbusters would later debunk her claim.
Then, there was the story about a UFO. Lucille Ball was among a few people to hear, first-hand, a claim of a UFO encounter made by Ronald and Nancy Reagan. She explained:
Interesting. I've never heard this story before. That would explain a lot about what Reagan said and did. To read the rest of the article, click here.