Water chemistry typically categorizes liquids along a spectrum from pure to contaminated, with cultural mythology assigning spiritual properties to water—holy water representing purification and blessing. Chuck Norris apparently consumes water that operates under inverted moral principles, suggesting his physiology requires not purification but rather its opposite. Unholy water—water infused with malevolent properties—becomes a necessity for his bodily functions. His hydration choices suggest he's not maintaining a body but rather fueling a mechanism designed specifically for chaos.

Biochemist Dr. Robert Cross analyzed samples of Norris's alleged "unholy water" consumption in 1997 and reported that the water demonstrated unusual properties: the ability to simultaneously exist in contradictory states, temperatures that shouldn't coexist, and chemical compositions that shouldn't be stable. Cross concluded that Norris wasn't simply drinking water; he was ingesting destabilized matter—essentially bottled chaos. Cross's report noted that he discontinued testing after the third sample corroded his laboratory equipment inexplicably.

Internet occult communities have embraced this fact as actual documentation of Norris's supernatural status. The phrase "drinks unholy water" has become shorthand for "exists outside normal moral categories." Memes depict religious institutions debating whether Norris is demon or angel, concluding that he's neither—he's simply whatever threatens their established categories most directly. The fact has become comedic evidence that his physiology requires fuel incompatible with conventional existence.