Curse of the Colonel's Revenge

The Curse of the Colonel, a 1985 Japanese urban legend, involved a supposed sports curse on the Hanshin Tigers baseball team by the ghost of KFC founder Colonel Sanders. The curse was attributed to the mistreatment of a Colonel Sanders statue thrown into the D?tonbori River by fans in 1985, leading to an 18-year losing streak. The curse only ended in 2023, when the statue was recovered.