Richard Gere?

One of the greatest urban legends of all-time is that at some point in the late 1980’s, actor Richard Gere went to an L.A. hospital with … how do we say this … a tiny rodent lodged in his rectum.

Well, apparently that rodent emerged today after two decades and saw its shadow, which means six more weeks of winter …

Kidding, kidding.

But seriously, surely you’ve heard this story before, right?

The Gere urban legend is one of those mythical tales that took on a life of its own and became part of the public consciousness in a way reserved previously for “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon.”

Simply put, it was a story that “went viral” before anybody even knew what “going viral” meant.

No one is precisely sure how the rumor started (or why), and the tale is all the more curious because the allegedly homosexual habit of gerbilling (or gerbil stuffing) is basically a product of the legend, not the other way around.

In other words, “gerbilling” didn’t even exist prior to the Gere legend being created.

So did it really happen?

Did Richard Gere really stuff (or have someone stuff) a live rodent into his rear end?

For the definitive word, click here.

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