There are a lot of different reasons for this, including the fan blades chopping the oxygen molecules in half. My cousin had a roommate in South Korea who beli

There are a lot of different reasons for this, including the fan blades chopping the oxygen molecules in half. My cousin had a roommate in South Korea who believed that the fan would create a vortex that sucked the air from the room, creating a fatal vacuum. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_death#Beliefs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_death#Beliefs