is the so-called “Curse of the Colonel.” It comes from the custom-built cauldron for paranormal concerns that is Japanese baseball. In 1985, when the Hanshin Tigers had just won the Central ...

In Nippon Professional Baseball, the Hanshin Tigers similarly suffered through the curse of the colonel. The Tigers, established in 1935, won their first Japan Series championship in 1985.

You see in Japan KFC is HUGELY popular, so much that there are even statues of the Colonel himself. Would you believe that one of those statues is responsible for a CURSE put on a Japanese ...