  A small deviation observed around 95 GeV in the diphoton invariant mass
distribution in the LHC Run 2 data has been subject to considerable attention
in the past couple years. The interpretation of this excess as the
manifestation of an additional scalar particle at this mass is often claimed to
be supported by a previously observed, even smaller, excess in the $\mathrm{b
\bar b}$ invariant mass distribution in LEP data. This short note aims at
confronting this claim to factual experimental observations, through a careful
scrutiny of the detailed LEP public notes written at the time on the topic.
