Mike the Headless Chicken

Mike the Headless Chicken lived for two years without a head.

Mike the Headless Chicken at Life (magazine)

Fruita is also the home of Mike the Headless Chicken, and hosts an annual festival in his honor every May.

Fruita is known for Mike the Headless Chicken, a chicken who lived for 18 months after his head was cut off.

In the summer of 2008, they released the album Music For Mutants which featured the song "Headless Mike" about the true story of Mike the Headless Chicken.

The legend of Mike the Headless Chicken began in this tiny town in 1945 when a farmer, Lloyd Olsen, took one of his roosters to the chopping block in preparation for supper.

Mike the Headless Chicken is now an institution in Fruita, Colorado, with an annual "Mike the Headless Chicken Day", the third weekend of May, starting in 1999.

Or, take Fruita, Colorado's Mike the Headless Chicken Days, a festival founded in honor of a bizarre historical event: In 1945, a Fruita resident's chicken survived without a head for a full 18 months.

The first episode examines the senses of the human body: Adam tries his feet at firewalking, the audience consumes some hot chillis, Karl attempts to break glass with singing, and the story of Mike the Headless Chicken is shown.