Nobody is trapped inside Chicago’s Bean sculpture, officials insist after protesters claim someone has been stuck in there for 21 years

By PERKIN AMALARAJ, FOREIGN NEWS REPORTER

Published: 15:31, 14 August 2025 | Updated: 19:44, 14 August 2025

Chicago officials have insisted that nobody is trapped inside the world-famous Bean sculpture, after protestors went viral for claiming that someone has been stuck inside for 21 years. 

Footage taken from Chicago’s Millennium Park, home of The Bean, showed a group of mock protestors clamouring for the release of the ‘man in the Bean.’

The satirical troupe, all of whom were holding signs and wearing black clothes, were heard shouting: ‘There is a man in there. There is a man in the Bean’. 

The group accused, without merit, artist Anish Kapoor, the creator of Cloud Gate, the Bean’s actual name, of kidnapping a child and placing it inside the sculpture to live ‘in complete isolation.’

One protestor said: ‘There is a man trapped inside the Bean. We’re calling for his immediate release. In 2004 Anish Kapoor, the chief architect of the bean, stole a baby and put that baby inside the bean. 

‘We are calling for the immediate release of the man trapped inside the bean.’

The stunt has gone so viral that Chicago officials were forced to deny the accusations, and begged people to stop inundating them with calls about the Bean. 

Alderman Brendan Reilly, who represents Chicago’s 42nd ward that is home to the bean, told local media: ‘I am happy to confirm that a man has not been trapped inside “Cloud Gate” (a.k.a “the Bean”) for the past 21 years.’

Chicago officials have insisted that nobody is trapped i
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