With the bizarre modem comment, yes, he's likely making it up, but there were 50Mhz base clock motherboards for 486's (There was a non-doubled 50Mhz part at one point), so technically, it could have been possible to run a clock doubled part at 50Mhz base clock.
Unlikely (that wasn't a common bus speed at all, and that's a 50% OC), but technically possible.
486 DX 50 were out there it will run 50MHZ in and out.
Matter of fact some time you have use wait 1 for Vesa Bus!
cause some VL cards can't handle such higher BUS.
486 DX4 100 was basically DX 25 interly 4X.
Best OC was DX 33 to 40 Mhz with some serious cooling!
Usally Dell were better candindate cause they crazy Arse Huge Heat Sink followed by Cause fan.
486DX2 or DX4 was first CPU with Clock doublers!