# Comment on Wizard of Oz "Suicide" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [December 9, 2004, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comment-on-wizard-of-oz-suicide/279019 "2004-12-09T22:46:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Innocent4life89](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/65b543/32.png) [@Innocent4life89](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Innocent4life89)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2004, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comment-on-wizard-of-oz-suicide/279019/1 "2004-12-09T22:46:06Z")
I read your response to the elegdged suicide in the movie the Wizard of Oz. I watched very closely and discovered there is something moving in the background. I have come to the conclusion that it is neither a man commmiting suicide or a naked women’s leg, but a peacock moving about. If you really watch you can see that the moving object has a “crown”, just like a peacock. If you continue to watch, the shadow moves again. Now would a man that just killed himself, lift himself up again? :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2004, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comment-on-wizard-of-oz-suicide/279019/2 "2004-12-09T23:21:31Z")
[Link to column](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a5_016.html). Cecil actually agrees with you, although he theorizes that it is a crane or a stork. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comment-on-wizard-of-oz-suicide/279019/3 "2004-12-10T02:12:19Z")
[snopes](http://www.snopes.com/movies/films/ozsuicid.htm) leans towards a crane also.