Held every year in Michigan, Electric Forest is without a shadow of a doubt one of the most diverse festivals in the US. While it encompasses all the dance music genres/sub-genres, it exhibits a breath-taking jungle like tranquil setting as well.
Despite not being known for its controversies, this year was a little shaky on that note. Post first weekend of this eight day event there was a puzzling photo of a severed finger which did rounds on social media platforms including Reddit and Snapchat. Visually, this finger looked horrid yet realistic. It had blood smeared over it to go with a painted nail and was spotted during the camp clean-ups. Fortunately, to everyone’s relief the case of the ‘severed finger’ didn’t live up and it turned out to be a hoax.
Electric Forest released a cheeky statement following the rumor calming everyone down.
Many things may have been lost in the forest – minds, hearts, faces – but not a finger. 👆 #EF2X17 pic.twitter.com/hsZoZ0L0kH
— Electric Forest (@Electric_Forest) June 27, 2017
The Festival also stated that it was not a real finger and that this was confirmed by The Michigan State Police after their investigation.
Michigan State Police have confirmed that the “finger” pictured in an image being circulated is just a “very real looking fake finger.”
— Electric Forest (@Electric_Forest) June 27, 2017
Looks like we ought to weigh things out before we buy them.