We debunked a lot of bastard viral photos this year . Eighty - six , to be accurate . And that does n’t even admit all those fake toilet picture from theSochi Olympics , thosefake Ebola cures , and all the lies thatUberFacts helped spread . It was a busy yr for fakes .
Below , a retread of 2014 ’s fake viral images , all in one position for your studying pleasure .
1) Isthisa photo of John Lennon playing guitar with Che Guevara?
Can you think John Lennon once sit down and played guitar with revolutionary Marxist ikon ( and macrocosm - renowned t - shirt logo ) Che Guevara ? Well , do n’t . Because he did n’t .
The photo is a photoshop job in which someone plastered Che ’s face on top of the body of guitaristWayne “ Tex ” Gabriel . Below , the actual photo of Lennon and Gabriel .
Inaccurate fun fact photo via@HistoryInPics
2) Isthisa photo of JFK and Marilyn Monroe cuddling?
No , that photo on the left does n’t depict an unguarded second of affection between President John F. Kennedy and actress Marilyn Monroe . It ’s the body of work of artist Alison Jackson , who ’s known for her photosusing lookalikesof famous people . And it ’s a damn unspoilt lookalike .
The real photo on the right hand is from a May 19 , 1962 party that follow a Democratic fundraiser in New York . Monroe and Kennedy were never actually becharm in a close bosom — not on moving-picture show , anyway .
Inaccurate fun fact photo via@HistoryPixs
3) Are people in smog-choked Beijingwatching fake sunrises?
A picture represent a individual moment in clock time . So even an honest photo can lie when you do n’t have enough info .
ThisGettyphoto was pass around last week by theDaily Mailas a peek into a dystopian world where Beijing ’s only glance of the sun comes from digital screens . And yes , the smogginess is horrible in China right now . But the news report ismisleading .
In realness , the photo show a Chinese tourism ad for Shandong province flirt on a giant video screen in Tiananmen Square . As theTech in Asiablog place out , the Sunday only come out on the screen for a abbreviated period of clip as part of a longer ad . The ad also plays class - round , no matter how risky the smogginess might be .
Inaccurate fun fact photo viaMail Online
4) Isthisphoto from a Soviet mental institution in 1952?
No , that freaky photo on the left wing is n’t some supernatural outlandishness from a Russian genial founding in 1952 . It ’s fromPina Bausch‘s carrying into action art saltation show , Blaubart . A screenshot from a 1977 carrying out is on the right .
The photo did barrack some freaky fiction though : American Horror Storyrecreated the scenefor an instalment in season 3 .
Inaccurate fun fact exposure via@DisturbingPix
5) Isthisa photo of JFK and his daughter Caroline?
HistoryInPicsrecently tweeted the persona on the left hand , claiming that it record President John F. Kennedy with his daughter Caroline . According to this enormously popular ( and frequently wrong ) Twitter account , the young girl is wearing a masquerade party made to look like her father .
But if something does n’t look quite right , that ’s because this , of course , is a fount - trade version of the original photo . That ’d be one hell of a mask though , right-hand ?
6) Were these childrenactually mailedthrough the US Postal Service?
They ’re adorable pic . And horrifying stories . Did people really used to toss a few stamps on children and send them through the mail ? Not exactly .
There are indeed ahandfulof document cases of Americans “ mailing ” their child in the former 1910s . But there are two authoritative caveats to this oftentimes - repeated fun fact . First , the photos that have been establish the rung on historic Twitter accounts do n’t actually show nipper being post . grant to the Smithsonian , they were gag exposure mean as a laugh . And secondly , this is n’t what they mean by “ send ” a child .
For instance , when 6 - year - old May Pierstorff was “ mailed ” February 19 , 1914 from Grangeville , Idaho to her grandparent house 73 mile by , she was in the upkeep of a relative who sour for the gear party . Essentially , it was cheaper to call the untested girl “ mail ” and send her on the caravan with her relative than buy a full - priced ticket .
Back in 2009 Catherine Shteynberg over at the Smithsonian wrote a follow - upclarifying the child mail story , which had gone viral :
Clearly , many were startled and amazed by this exposure of a postal carrier with a youngster in his mail bag , and so for some elucidation , I spoke to Nancy Pope , historian at theNational Postal Museum . She reiterate the selective information from the Flickr legend for this photograph : first , that this photo was actually a betray part , and second , that there is little grounds that babies were ship through the ring armor other than in two do it compositor’s case in which children were placed on power train cars as “ freight mail ” as this was flashy than buy them a veritable railroad train just the ticket .
There are no doubtauthentic storiesof children being put in the hands of U.S. postal workers between 1913 and 1915 . But when you dig a number deeper , most of these stories have caveats that make them somewhat less horrifying .
Inaccurate fun fact photo viaRetronaut
7) Isthisa young Syrian child sleeping next to the graves of his dead parents?
The exposure on the left has been making the rounds with the caption : “ In Syria , sleeping between his parent . ”
It ’s a philia - wrenching photo . But it ’s actually just part of anart projectfrom Saudi Arabia . The lensman is a 25 - year - onetime , named Abdul Aziz al - Otaibi , who wanted to create a photograph that showed how a small fry ’s love for his parents is eternal . And it has nothing to do with the current human-centred crisis in Syria .
“ Look , it ’s not true at all that my depiction has anything to do with Syria , ” Al - Otaibitold a Dutch reporterwho works in the Middle East . “ I am really shocked how people have twisted my picture . ”
Inaccurate photo verbal description viaImgur
8) Was Ella Fitzgeralddenied a gigat the Mocambo night club in 1954 because she was black?
According to theHistoryInPicsTwitter history , the Mocambo Nox club in West Hollywood resist to book Ella Fitzgerald in 1954 because of her race . That is , until Marilyn Monroe said she ’d reserve a tabular array in the front row for Fitzgerald ’s show .
At least one part of the story is honest : Marilyn Monroe did indeed help Ella Fitzgerald land a gig at the swank raging spotMocamboin 1954 . But in fact , race was n’t the reason that Charlie Morrison , the club ’s manager , did n’t want to hold Fitzgerald . Black performers had played Mocambo mass of times in the former 1950s . But unluckily for Fitzgerald , Morrison did n’t guess she was “ glamorous enough . ” Monroe was a huge fan of Fitzgerald and was able to alter the managing director ’s mind .
In her 2012 book , Marilyn Monroe : Private and Undisclosed , biographer Michelle Morgan explains :
… a motley of shameful entertainer had been book there long before Ella , include Dorothy Dandridge in 1951 and Eartha Kitt in 1953 . The truth is that while [ gild manager ] Charlie Morrison encouraged and applauded performers of all races in his gild , he did n’t see Ella Fitzgerald as being glamorous enough to bring in the crowd . It would take Marilyn to change his mind , and once Ella had her metrical foot in the door she successfully played at the Mocambo on a variety of occasions .
Fitzgerald and other black entertainers of the 1950s experienced appalling favoritism in the United States , which is what makes the original story so credible . But in the guinea pig of Mocambo , Monroe ’s intervention was n’t about race .
9) Wasthis manmaking death masks for soldiers in WWI?
Those mask hanging on the bulwark in this WWI - earned run average photograph are n’t end masks , as some historical Twitter accounts would have you think . They were for WWI old stager who had suffered facial disfiguration during fight .
In a 2007 clause forSmithsonianmagazine , Caroline Alexander explained the valuable work that was going on at the time to give soldiers a bit of authority . She quotes Francis Derwent Wood , who founded a mask - making unit of measurement in 1916 for man returning from battle : “ My type are more often than not extreme case that formative operating theater has , perforce , had to abandon ; but , as in plastic surgery , the psychological essence is the same . The patient acquires his old self - respect , ego assurance , ego - reliance … takes once more to a pride in his personal appearance . ”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enablejsapi
Inaccurate fun fact picture via@HistoryInPix
10) Isthisa carving of Buddha at the Ngyen Khang Taksang Monastery?
No , the photo on the left does n’t show a monastery you could actually visit , despite whatTop Dreamermagazine might assert . The photoshopped prototype fall from an online art collective called Reality Cues and theirGraffiti LabTumblr project . The un - neutered photograph on the rightfulness in reality shows theWulingyuan Scenic Areain China ’s Hunan Province .
UPDATE : you’re able to read my consultation with the creator of this imagehere .
Inaccurate fun fact image viaTop Dreamer Magazine
11) Isthisdevice from 1922 the world’s first mobile phone?
Does this brusque film from 1922 actually show the world ’s first nomadic headphone ? No , no it does n’t .
When this British Pathe archivalvideotitled “ Eve ’s Wireless ” first went viral , even respected medium outlets ran with the story that it was footage of a mobile headphone . But what the filmactually showsis a crystal receiving set .
Back in the former 1920s , “ wireless telephone ” was still an accept term for radio set technology . tuner was relatively new to the masses , and the tech was still making its shift from a primarily detail - to - stage communications medium to a program medium . But the women in the film are simply mind to a tuner , and there ’s no indication that the gadget has transceiver capableness . you could read a more detailed dissection of the filmhere .
Inaccurate fun fact photo viaMetro UK
12) Doesthisphoto show the Fairy Pools on the Island of Skye in Scotland?
No , that photo on the leftfield is n’t from theFairy Pools of Scotland . As it turn out , the photo is actually analtered imagefrom a river inQueenstown , New Zealandwhere someone has for some intellect made all the trees purple . The unaltered image is still dead gorgeous . But obviously not “ viral - gorgeous , ” since the royal - hock image is the one that ’s currently build the rounds .
Inaccurate fun fact picture viaPlanet Earth
13) Isthisa photo of the Northern Lights in Alaska?
The real Northern Lights in Alaska are suppose to be absolutely gorgeous . But sadly , that ’s not what thisphotois viewing . It ’s actually a panoramic range of theOrion Nebula , taken from the Hubble scope .
The image is understandably quite popular onTumblrandTwitter . But it ’s a Photoshop mash - up that go steady back to at least2009 . DeviantArt memberJeddakaclaims to have created the mountains from scratch , though the jury ’s still out on that one .
Still ca n’t quite spot the art of this beautiful fake ? Check outAttila Nagy‘s wonderful GIF explainer below .
Inaccurate photo via@SciencePorn
14) Is Marlboroactuallygoing to make marijuana cigarettes?
After both Washington and Colorado legalized recreational ganja last year , news spread out far and wide on social media that the Godhead of Marlboro wanted to become the land ’s first major weed sword . Do crowing Tobacco companies like Philip Morris actually desire to become heavy Weed ? No . No theydon’t .
The source for this particular fake range of a function is a internet site calledAbril Uno , one of those terribly unfunny Onion - wannabes with story that ultimately gets slip by around not because they ’re fishy , but because they ’re somewhat plausible .
But the Marlboro - marijuana tie is an highly old meme . Similar images have been mocked up on everything fromt - shirtstophone casesover the years , even though the cheery Cancer the Crab - peddlers behind Marlboro have no intent of gravel in on the wacky tobacky plot .
Inaccurate photograph viaAbril Uno
15) Werethese womenbeing punished for witchcraft in 1922?
Contrary to what you may have read onTwitter , these charwoman were n’t being punished for witchery , the picture is n’t from 1922 , and they plausibly were n’t even real captive .
I emailed Jamie Carstairs , who work on theHistorical Photographs of Chinaproject at the University of Bristol to ask about the picture . Carstairs described the Twitter caption as “ direction off the scratch . ”
For starters , the image actually date back to between1870 and 1880and was rent by a man namedWilliam Saunders , a British - suffer lensman who died in 1892 . The women belike were n’t prisoners at all . expert in nineteenth century Formosan photography trust that the cleaning lady picture are probably just people on the street of Shanghai who were posed in thatcangueby Saunders .
Castairs directed me to a1999 paperby Regine Thiriez , who takes a cryptic look at the exposure and explains why even some reputable photography Book from the seventies had misdated the paradigm as being from 1907 . Both the “ witchery ” angle and the later engagement of 1922 appear to be an internet fabrication .
Inaccurate exposure verbal description via@HistoricalPics
16) Isthisreally Audrey Hepburn dancing?
Have you ever notice someone from a block off and thought you bang them , only to realize when you got closer that it was n’t who you recollect it was ? That seems to be the case with this supposedpictureof Audrey Hepburn that keep back getting travel by around on social media .
The photo actually do from a Russianstock mental image site . And no , that ’s not the star of the classic 1957 musicalFunny Face . But it is a pretty dramatic resemblance when you do n’t have access to a higher solving effigy .
Still not confident ? Take acloser lookat the woman in the picture .
Inaccurate pic description via@HistoryInPics
17) Doesthisphoto show the recent snow in Florida?
Yes , Florida did get some snow latterly . But no , that photo beingpassed aroundby climate change deniers was n’t it . This yr ’s snow was a bitless intensein the Sunshine State , as you’re able to see from the Instagram photo on the right . The photo on the unexpended dates back to at least 2010 .
And no , snowstorms in the South do n’t disprove the overwhelming scientific grounds that shows climate change is really happening .
Inaccurate picture description via@massSNAFU , real Florida snow pic via@munchkinnn11
18) Isthis“Sad Putin” after Russia lost to Finland in hockey?
You may have seen this photo gettingpassed aroundyesterday showing a dejected Vladimir Putin after the Russian Olympic hockey squad was defeated by Finland 3 - 1 . Russia was encounter from medal contention , so it would be an understandable response .
But the photo is n’t actually from that game . It ’s aGetty Imagesphoto that was takentwo days earlierwhen Russia played Slovakia . astonishingly , the Russians in reality gain ground that biz 1 - 0 . Yet another deterrent example that we should all be disbelieving of just about every imagecoming out of Sochiright now .
Inaccurate photograph description via the@DailyMirror
19) Isthisreally a double-decker bus race from 1933?
No , that ’s not a real photo of a bivalent - decker bus race in 1933 . It ’s a pre - Photoshop photo collage , despite what sources likeRetronautand@HistoryInPicsmight claim .
The National Archive of the Netherlands clear archived the photo in itsFlickraccount under fakes , photo montage and retouched images . On the right , an real doubled decker bus being testedcirca 1933to prove its stability .
bastard pic viaRetronaut
20) Isthisa super moon from Sequoia National Park?
Is this a exposure of the “ first-rate Sun Myung Moon ” in Sequoia National Park ? No . But even the expert can be put on when it comes to beautiful fakes of nature .
The Twitter bill for the National Parks Conservation Association sadlytweeted this photofrom Imgur as if it were real . But as Twitter fakes sleuth@PicPedantpoints out , it ’s actually a photofrom Europewith a gigantic , glowing “ moon ” photoshopped in .
Fake pic viaImgur
21) Isthisa photo of Civil War soldiers with a tank?
Could this really be a colour photo of Civil War soldiers posing in front of a tank ? Of of course not . It ’s clear a modern photo of Civil War re - enactors . But that did n’t halt one of the World Wide Web ’s biggest chronicle Twitter accounts from twirp it out as substantial .
Someone of late started an invoice called@AhistoricalPics , poking fun at the inaccuracies of accounts like @HistoryInPics and @HistoryInPix . The takeoff account tweets out obviously sour fact , and featherbrained photoshopped creations . But amazingly , the folks behind @HistoryInPix did n’t get the antic . They took that patently mislabeled photo from the put-on account andpresented it as real .
Confederate General Benjamin Franklin must be roll over in his grave .
Inaccurate photo via@HistoryinPixby elbow room of the mockery account@AhistoricalPics
22) Wasthisa place for disposing of ugly children?
That ’s not very courteous , is it ? No , that vicious pic of an “ ugly child ” making the rounds is n’t real . It ’s a ill render photoshop . Well , at least the sign is . The original photo can be witness at theGetty Imagesand clearly show that the foretoken actually reads : “ Please Keep Off The Grass . ”
confessedly , it ’s still not clear-cut why that young girl is stuck in a trumpery bank identification number . But we can hope that it ’s just a momentarily posed jest by a weirdo photographer in 1928 . The past was passably unearthly on its own . One marvel why so many people keep trying to make it even weirder .
Fake photo via@History_Pics
23) Isthisa photo from the International Space Station?
No , this is n’t a solar occultation as seen from the International Space Station .
Space picture researcher@FakeAstropixkeeps debunking this one , but it keeps popping up in every corner of the net . Which is why it ’s earned our top point today . It ’s actually a interpret fromDeviantArtuser A4size - ska . Beautiful , but entirely bastard .
phoney image via@planetepics
24) Didthesewomen cause an accident wearing shorts in 1937?
harmonize to Twitter accounts likeHistoricalPics , the sight of two women wearing shortstop in world for the very first sentence in 1937 was scandalous enough to make the elevator car chance event above . Except that it did n’t . And it was n’t the first time cleaning woman wear drawers in world .
I contact theCity of Toronto Archives , and asked them about the image . They confirmed the date of the picture ( 1937 ) and said that it was not only staged , but that they have mass of other photos of women wear out shorts that raven this one . short were n’t unwashed quite yet , but they were sure around .
And if you spend even half a second looking at the prototype , you ’ll notice plenty of clues that it ’s a stag exposure . The car does n’t have a individual ding . Those nervy Canadians could ’ve achieved a much more authentic look by plow that car into a tripping pole at high speed . Go openhanded or go home , historical photograph spoofers!23
25) Did Steven Seagal give Vladimir Putinbunny ears?
No , Steven Seagal did n’t in reality give Vladimir Putin “ bunny girl ears ” at a recent press event .
Despite get to the front page ofReddit — an cyberspace website thatmen ’s rights activistskeep telling me is the “ front page of the cyberspace ” itself — this is a ill done Photoshop job . The original image is fromGettyand was taken back in March of 2013 . But yes , Steven Seagalreally doeshang out with his bro Vlad . I bet they ’re bad fans of Reddit .
Fake picture viaReddit ; literal effigy viaGetty
26) IsthisMarilyn Monroe and JFK in a private embrace?
If it feel like we ’ve been down this route before , it ’s because wehave . There are no known photograph of JFK and Marilyn Monroe in a lovesome , wild-eyed embrace . The photo above were taken byAlison Jackson , an creative person well know for using lookalike models for photo - fakes of everyone from theQueen of Englandon the toilet toBill Gatesusing Apple products .
Fake photo via@ClassicPix
27) Isthisa security camera outside George Orwell’s house?
No , that ’s not actually a CCTV camera outside George Orwell’sold house . It ’s a photoshopped image bySteve Ullathornethat first take the cyberspace by tempest in February 2012 . And it ’s making the troll yet again .
Ullathorne has anentire seriesof these photoshopped image that juxtapose buildings of historic implication with mod day flourish — like that image on the right , showing a Che Guevara shirt hang near a memorial tablet about Karl Marx .
Inaccurate image internal representation from@PharmaGossip
28) Isthis1950s “Rocket to Uranus” album real?
No , this is n’t a 1950s album cover for “ Rocket to Uranus ” made by oblivious hoi polloi of a more earnest and uninitiated earned run average . It ’s a fraud .
kid of the 1950s could n’t get enoughspace long time stories . Tom Corbett , Space Cadet was just one of many outer space age characters that young baby baby boomer were obsess with . Corbett was everywhere : in comical books , on radio , plastered on lunchboxes and asterisk in an fabulously pop TV show during the 1950s .
In 1951 , aTom Corbettrecord was publish call “ Space Cadet Song and March . ” But that “ Rocket to Uranus ” version on the left is a modern twenty-four hours Photoshop line of work .
faux photo via@BadAlbumCovers ; real photo viaScoop
29) Isthisreal candy that was branded by the Nazis?
In the thirties and XL , the Nazis put swastikas on everything . But this effigy actually is n’t a exposure from that geological period . It ’s from a 1983 motion-picture show .
To enquire this image I first contacted Dr. Nicholas O’Shaughnessy at Queen Mary University of London , who has learn the Nazis ’ use of goods and services of the swastika as abranding tool . He explain that he ’d never seen this special figure but that , “ it is quite perhaps genuine as German clientele surmount each other in excesses of kitsch , include the Horst Wessel song in barbershop harmony and a butcher who sculpt Hitler out of lard . ”
I was quick to call this photo “ probably bona fide ” and move on , until Twitter photograph sleuthJoe Knameuncovered the actual account behind this image . Kname discovered that it ’s a film still from the 1983 movieEine Liebe In Deutschland(A Love in Germany ) . It ’s still plausible that Nazi - denounce candy was produced , as O’Shaughnessy note of hand that they really did put swastikas on everything . But this particular image is n’t from that era , as so many historical photograph accounts on-line claim .
Inaccurate image verbal description via@HistoryInPics
30) Isthisa Captain America war bonds poster from World War II?
It would n’t be a imitation viral image rung - up without a sojourn toRetronaut , and this time we have a real doozy . No , that Captain America war bonds poster from their site is n’t material .
Captain America first debuted in 1941 , which makes it possible that he would ’ve helped with the war effort through various propaganda posting . But no , the image on the left is n’t from World War II . It ’s a twenty-first centuryartist ’s interpretationof what a faux - retro Captain America war bonds poster might look like . The big give - away — aside from the style itself — is theScorpioSteele.comlogo right next to Captain America ’s boot .
The icon on the right , however , is real and comes from a 1943 cover of the ” World ’s Finest ” comic book . Thanks to Kinja userA.Hippofor pointing out the fake .
Fake comic viaRetronaut , originally byScorpioSteele ; Real funny fromComicVine
31) Isthisa real pilot selfie?
No , this is n’t the world ’s greatest selfie . Though it might be if it were substantial .
As you’re able to see from the originaluntouched photoon the right wing , this selfie is totally fake . It literally says “ perspective ” on the plane , so despite the fact that so many mass are taking this as material , one has to believe that the Maker clear made it as a joke not to be take gravely .
imitation photo viaReddit ; literal photo viaDeviantArt
32) Isthisa real giant grasshopper from 1937?
Thankfully , the simulacrum on theleftdoesn’t show a existent hopper from 1937 . Pre - Photoshop talk through one’s hat record impossibly large food and animals were incredibly popular on postcards and clapper - in - cheek promotional materials in the former 20th century . But alas , Montana does n’t have grasshoppers that bad .
Now that womanhood riding a hare , on the other hand …
Fake grasshopper photo via@ClassicPix ; Fake rabbit photograph viaCardCow
33) IsthisLos Angeles during the 1994 blackout?
Much of Los Angeles suffered a baron outage after the urban center ’s devastating 6.7 earthquake in 1994 . The blackout decreased the city ’s light defilement and residents get a rarefied look at the stars as they had n’t encounter them before . But no , the image above does n’t show that brownout in 1994 .
PhotographerThierry Cohencreates picture mash - ups depict the dark sky over major metropolis , as if all the Light Within had gone out . And Cohen ’s image above ( just one in a series ) is now getting shared online to assure the write up of how some masses in L.A. reportedly call police to inquire about the “ foreign sky ” they were seeing after the quake .
But the story of panicked Angelenos who were purportedly panicky of the superstar seems to become more and more exaggerated with each passing class . It may have really happened , but I have yet to actually aver one vitrine of someone calling 911 about any unknown lights in the sky . However , the local Griffith Observatory hasconfirmedthey get call with question about the stars . The naive , freak out out Angeleno makes for an amusing story . But much of it , like the image above , is a bit of an exaggeration .
Inaccurate exposure verbal description viaBestOfCosmos
34) Isthisa real underwater train in Denmark?
No , this is n’t an underwater caravan route in Denmark . According to a picture - sleuth onReddit , the railroad train turn back that this purports to be actually looks likethis . absolutely pleasant indeed , but far less impressive than an submerged train .
Fake simulacrum viaGooglePics
35) IsthisGeorge Orwell holding a puppy?
Yes , George Orwell did serve as a soldier during the Spanish Civil War . But no , the man hold the puppy above is n’t George Orwell .
Orwell write an entire book about his experiences there , titledHomage to Catalonia . And the photo above has spread far and wideonline . But the man agree the pup does n’t even expect like Orwell . However , as photo debunking siteHoax of Famepoints out ( andGetty Imagesconfirms ) , that really is Ernest Hemingway in the backdrop wearing shabu .
Below we have an actual exposure of Orwell from the Spanish Civil War . That tall man with the moustache place upright in theback ? That ’s him .
Inaccurate photo verbal description viaHistorical Times
36) Dothesephotos show Leonardo DiCaprio 20 years apart?
harmonize toHistoryInPics , the photo in the halfway show doer Leonardo DiCaprio at 19 , while the one of the right exhibit him at 39 . What did Leo really look like at 19 ? The picture on thefar leftis from the premiere of What ’s Eating Gilbert Grape .
Inaccurate photo description viaHistoryInPics
37) Isthisan elephant rock carving?
No , that image on the left is n’t a existent sculpture of an elephant . It’scomputer - return , much like the one we seem at afew months ago . The image on the right is a 1995 Associated Press picture of Packy the elephant at the Portland Zoo , which I ’ve include just because I like elephants .
Fake image viaGiveMeInternet
38) Doesthis imageshow all the satellites orbiting Earth?
It ’s a stunning figure of the world completely beleaguer by satellites . It even looks like something straight from WALL - E — so much so that it does n’t look actual . And that ’s because it is n’t .
Some people brand this viral picture have been writing thingslike“the mental image speaks for itself . ” Well , no . It does n’t . Because the look-alike gives mass the impression that if you took a photo from outer space , this is what earth ’s satellites would attend like .
It ’s an artist ’s printing of the turn of satellites , but it ’s virtually useless because it’snot at all to descale . The European Space Agency includes a disclaimer that ’s almost always cropped out when people pass this computer - get persona around online :
Note : The debris subject shown in the image is an artist ’s belief establish on literal data . However the image does not show rubble detail in their literal sizing or concentration .
Inaccurate image verbal description viaValaAfshar
39) Isthisthe first ambulance ever?
consort to the National Archive , the photo above was take around 1865 . But no , it ’s not the first ambulance ever , as some account - sharpen Twitter accounts would lead you to believe . The photo probably shows the very first ambulance that the U.S. Navy Yard onMare Island , CAhad uncommitted for its use .
But in this bizarre secret plan of telephone we call the internet , that circumstance has been fall behind totally . You only need to read the deed of conveyance of the 1992 bookFrom Farmcarts to crossing : A History of the Military Ambulance , 1790 - 1925to cursorily realize that ambulances certainly predate 1865 .
Inaccurate exposure verbal description via@HistoryPix
40) Isthisa real underwater hotel?
Could this be a material underwater hotel in Katafanga Island , Fiji ? Sadly , no .
The images are from a2008 proposalfrom Poseidon Undersea Resorts for an submersed hotel . The mock - ups do indeed lookamazing . But they ’re not real hotel rooms and probably never will be . At least not on that private island in Fiji . Even if the hotel finally does get built , a vacation there will localize you back a pretty penny . Reservations for a hebdomad ’s stay were reportedly move to be $ 30,000 .
Fake photo viaAMAZlNGPICTURES
41) Isthisthe tallest statue in the world?
This statue of Buddha inUshiku Daibutsu , Japanis claimed by some the great unwashed online to be the tallest statue in the humankind . Except that it ’s not . It ’s really the third largest legislative act .
The one in Japan is 110 meter marvelous ( 360 ft ) while the 2nd tallest is in Burma endure at 116 meter ( 381 ft ) . Thetalleststatue in the macrocosm is actually in China , predominate over the people of Lushan , Henan at 128 meters ( 420 ft ) .
42) Arethesethe dumbest firefighters ever?
point out anything wrong with the exposure above ? If you answered “ possible gear derailment , ” you pull ahead !
When fire-eater put down a hose that elevator car may need to force over , they can apply those little ramps so that it does n’t restrict the flow of urine . Of naturally , that would n’t work with a train and as the repudiation siteHoax of Famepoints out , the set - up was a put-on .
The firefighters were just having a chucklegoof , consort totheir Facebook . manifestly those particular train tracks were n’t even in service , and ( gratefully ) those fireman were n’t really that mute .
Joke photograph viaFacebook
43) Isthisa full moon as seen in Brazil?
multitude on the cyberspace love landscape pic with giant moons . They ’re right up there with cat pictures and TV of hamster deplete tiny versions of Mexican intellectual nourishment . unluckily , many of the giant moon photos you ’ll find online are juke . As the picture debunking Twitter accountFakeAstroPixpoints out , the photo above can also be tossed on the fakes pile .
Fake range viaFascinatingPics
44) Isthisa photo of the supermoon over Rio de Janeiro?
Everybody loves a good ” supermoon ” photo . But lamentably , so many of them are fake . Like this one , which gets expire around all the time as a supermoon shot from Rio de Janeiro .
Fake picture viaBuzzfeedandEarthBeauties ; Original picture by Horacio Montiel
45) IsthisHunter Thompson and Bill Murray on a boat?
Yes , Bill Murray and Hunter S. Thompson used to flow out — especially during the lead - up to the 1980 movieWhere The Buffalo Roam . And yes , this exposure is tangible . Well , except for all the photoshopped parts .
Thereal photois on the right . The photoshopped image is on the left , and it shows Thompson wear out a thyroxin - shirt with a naughty word and Murray asking for some hypothetical person to purchase him a brunch - time meal under the scourge of gun - found vehemence . Not very gracious at all .
I suspect neither Thompson ( RIP ) nor Murray would approve of this phony pic besmirch their angelic reputations .
Photoshopped image viaHistoryInPics
46) Isthiswhat happens when lightning strikes sand?
AsScientific Americanpoints out , this photo does n’t in reality show what hap when lightning strike sandpaper . It ’s anart projectdesigned and photographed in Puerto Rico by Flickr userSandCastleMatt . Interestingly , it ’s only the left half of a much turgid sand carving that can be seen in context below .
When lightning strikes moxie it can shape what are call fulgurites . But they tend to be much smaller andpenetrate into the grit , rather than pull moxie up , as this artistry project might imply after getting incline through the great net discombobulation machine a few twelve time .
Inaccurate exposure description fromLearnSomething ; Photos bySandcastleMatt
47) IsthisMahatma Gandhi dancing?
Despite what the infamously frightening Twitter history HistoryInPics might want you to believe , that ’s not actually a photograph of Gandhi terpsichore . Apparently it ’s anAustralian actor .
Inaccurate photo verbal description viaHistoryInPics ; Real photo of Gandhi via Getty Images
48) Isthisreally a sex education class in 1929?
As one photo - sleuthhound from Redditpoints out , this is n’t a photo from a sexual practice - male erecticle dysfunction class in the 1920s . It ’s in reality from a 1929 movie calledThe Wild Party , directed by Dorothy Arzner and star Clara Bow . It ’s unclear precisely what ’s going on in this shot from the plastic film ( deplorably , I ’ve never seen the moving picture ) but you may watch clips from it onYouTube .
As apre - Codefilm , it probably does have more than its fair share of sex and orgy . If anyone finds a link to where we can pluck up a written matter of The Wild Party , please do divvy up it with the class . The movie is likely unavailable in any form .
Inaccurate photo description viaHistoryInPics ; Other film shut up fromDoctorMarco
49) Isthis[Warning: disturbing image] a newborn elephant?
Yes , that is an elephant in the photograph on the left hand . But it ’s not the adorable new-sprung photograph that so many are making it out to be . It ’s actually a deadened elephant fetus .
We ’ve blurred the photo above , which is being circulated by accounts likeThatsEarthas a cute sister animal photo . Sadly , asPicPedantpoints out , they ’re hap around a photo of a dead fetus .
you could read more about the numb elephant and its victimisation on Facebook and Twitter over atSnopes . People are unremarkably asked to pray for this “ newborn ” elephant , or are claiming it ’s the small elephant ever born . But for the record , the photo on the right is a sister elephant that was very much alive when the exposure was engage : two - class - old Nayan at the Chester Zoo in England back in 2012 . unhappily , Nayandied last year .
Inaccurate photo description viaThatsEarth ; 2012 photograph of infant elephant Nayan via Getty
50) Arethese babiesreally for sale?
No , these babies are n’t being put up for sale by dire parents . But asHoaxofFamepoints out , they ’re part of a series of postal card from the turn of the 20th century that were intended to be humourous . Poor kiddos do n’t look too happy to be participating in the caper .
Inaccurate pic verbal description viaHistory_Pics
51) Arethesesunken ships in the Bermuda Triangle?
No , these are n’t settle ships washed up on a sand bar near theBermuda Triangle . The pic actually show theTangalooma Wrecksin Queensland , Australia . The 15 gravy boat were intentionally sunk backin the 1960sto create an artificial Rand and are now a tourer attraction .
Inaccurate photo description viaRedditandBEAUTIFULPlCS
52) Isthisactually Alfred Hitchcock floating in a river?
No , that ’s not actually Alfred Hitchock floating down the Thames . It ’s a blank that was used to film the trailer for his 1972 filmFrenzy . On the right we see the tangible Hitch holding his own simulated head .
There ’s been a trend recently where historical picture account have simply started posting older photos of famous person . But even those are n’t a good stake for them to be precise .
They ’ve post fake photos ofAudrey Hepburn , a few ofJFK , and lots of fakeMarilyn Norma Jean Baker . At this detail it ’s light that many are just treading H2O until they ’re eventually sold to thehighest bidderfor their follower counts .
Inaccurate photo verbal description via@HistoryInPics ; Photo of Hitchcock holding his dummy head viaVintag.es
53) Isthistarantula actually missing in New York?
No , there is n’t a deadly , pregnant European wolf spider missing in Park Slope . As Gawker’sAntiviral point out , lots of sites ( including Gawker ) fell for this harlequinade poster . Let ’s just desire this does n’t turn into one of those boy - who - cried - European wolf spider situations .
imitation poster viaReddit
54) Isthisreally the pyramids of Egypt at sunset?
People love taking photos of the pyramid in Egypt . They ’ve aged so graciously they deserve their own mansplainedEsquireprofile or something . But that picture you may have picture recently of the sun place behind the pyramid is a total fake . As internet photo - fakes sleuth@PicPedantpoints out , the original photo is most probable byMario Moreno .
Fake photo viaAmazingPicx ; real photo viaMario Moreno
55) Isthisa real ad for veggie burgers made with real beef?
“ At last ! A vegetable burger that arrest REAL BEEF ! ” Well , no . Slatepoints to Reddit detectives who have determined that as much as the net desire this one to be some hilarious mixing - up , it ’s actually a fake ad from the British humo[u]r magazineViz . Oh , those cheeky Brits .
bastard ad viaImgurandGrubstreet
56) Isthisa Soviet-era beach?
The figure of speech above has been passed around with the legend , “ Many old Soviet exposure look like scientific discipline fable film posters . ” Unfortunately , it would indeed be more appropriate for a sci - fi picture show poster , because it ’s a sham .
The beach scene is actually from Copacabana Beach in Brazil . As for the space age construction towering above ? That ’s theNational Library of Belarus , spread in 2006 , which is notably nowhere near a beach . Below , a proper photo of the subroutine library .
bogus image viaJoushaFoust ; actual beach double viaBrazil Travel Guide ; Real Library image viaWikimedia
57) Isthisthe first selfie ever taken?
No , this is n’t the first selfie ever taken , despite what some cyberspace account sitesinsist . Not by a foresighted shot . They ’re real photos from around 1920submitted by a Quora user , purportedly of his grandfather and supporter . But they ’re not the first selfies .
Here in the early 21st C we seem obsessed with what is and is not conceive a selfie . The word alone evokes a “ get off my lawn , you damn kids ” reaction in so many people , and some cultural observer even insist it ’s a sign of our progressively narcissistic times . But self - portraits are as previous asphotography itself .
Below , a photo of the December 1920 pic in question with some more context on the left , and a much elder “ selfie ” taken by Robert Cornelius dating back to 1839 on the right .
Misleading image description viaClassicPixs ; Robert Cornelius selfie from 1839 viaPublic Domain Review
58) WillMars and the moonappear to be the same size on August 27th?
If you wait up into the night sky tomorrow will you see Mars appear as large as the moon ? Sadly , no . This obtuse fraud is passed around intimately every twelvemonth , often with the promise that no one alive today has ever see this phenomenon and that it wo n’t happen again for hundreds of years . It ’s obviously bullshit ( and parent the inquiry of why Mars would of a sudden seem exactly like the moon ? ) but sometimes even the most obvious bullshit needs to be called out to help lay off it from spreading online . Ignore this one in your Facebook feeds today .
Fake range viaHempandHerb
59) Isthisa New York City traffic jam in 1909?
Poor Chicago ; always the Second City to New York ’s celebrity . Even in history , Chicago ca n’t seem to get its due . Like in this photo that ’s getting passed around on Imgur , Reddit , and Twitter , purporting to show a New York City traffic jam in 1909 . It ’s in reality from Chicago . Specifically , at the Cartesian product of Dearborn and Randolph . A colorized postal card adaptation of the image appears on the rightfulness .
A minor correction in the tremendous scheme of things ? Sure . But a necessary one as fantastically pop Twitter accounts likeHistoryInPicscontinue to amass thousands of followers ( that one alone is up to 1.8 million sum ) , and retain spreading misinformation .
Inaccurate photo description viaHistoryInPics ; Black and white icon viaChicago Past ; Color postcard viaConnecting the Windy City
60) Is this a KKK member treated by an all-black emergency room staff?
No , this photograph of an emergency room sate with bootleg doctors and nurses saving a extremity of the KKK is n’t existent . AsSnopesdiscovered , it ’s from a series of staged photos which run as a magazine ad campaign that was ostensibly about doctor religion in humanity . Or something .
However , throughout history there have been plenty of cases of cockeyed hate - mongers being salve and protect by the mass they hate . The photograph below of a black woman in 1996 defend a bloodless supremacist from being physically beaten is real . Keshia Thomasused her body as a human shield to protect a mistrust KKK sympathizer at a mass meeting in Ann Arbor , Michigan .
Inaccurate photo verbal description viaRocketNews24 ; Real photo via AP
61) Isthisa photo of the Supermoon?
Nothing brings out the photoshopped landscapes quite like supermoon hype . No , the photo above is n’t existent . Even the substantial “ supermoon ” is n’t that impressive to the bare eye . A supermoon pass off when the moon is about 6 pct closer to Earth than average . Not a big deal — it happensthree times this year alone — and not enough to make images like the photo above without a heavy Lucy in the sky with diamonds of photoshop .
And if it help give you some position on the science - full - ness of the entire supermoon concept , remember that the term was supposedly coinedby an astrologer , not an astronomer .
Fake image viaStephen Stanton
62) Arethesestrange clouds over Mount Fuji real?
Lenticular cloudssure are cool looking . But the simulacrum on the left is just a Photoshop job . This bogus image hasbeen aroundfor at least a couple of years now , but it keeps getting passed around as substantial again and again . Stop it , hombre . Just block .
Fake image via@BrilliantPosts
63) Are these thefounders of Harley-Davidson?
In the early 1900s William Harley , his friend Arthur Davidson and many of Davidson ’s family extremity all teamed up in Milwaukee to make one of the most iconic society of 20th one C America : Harley - Davidson motorcycles . But is the photo above really of William Harley and Arthur Davidson in 1914 ? Nope .
The always amazingPicPedantdid a trivial research on this photo only to give away that ( surprise ! surprise ! ) it ’s not what so many people on the net claim it to be . Turns out the photo is just two random motorcycle enthusiast from Minnesota .
From aHarley - Davidson fan pagewhere the image first seem online :
I was enjoying your page with all the honest-to-goodness Harleys and remembered that I have a photograph of my cousin ’s granddaddy and his granddaddy ’s brother each sitting on the stigma new 1914 Harleys that they purchased in 1914 . I am not sure , but I believe the photo may have been take at the franchise ( probably not realy a dealership back then , but the guy must have been an HD distributor ) in Wanamingo , MN .
Below we have a photo of William S. Harley ( right ) and William A. Davidson ( in sidecar , and forefather ofArthur Davidson ) in 1924 from theAMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame .
Inaccurate picture verbal description via@HistoryInPicsand@HistoricalPics
64) Isthisthe Heart River in North Dakota?
People blame on North Dakota . So it ’s gracious when the land gets a small love . But deplorably the love heaped upon it by the cyberspace lately is for somethingnot real .
The Heart River is very much a real river in North Dakota . But the image above was create by the Vienna Paint digital art studio . Thereal Heart Riverlooks nothing like that from the air .
phony exposure via@Alluniques
65) Isthislightning striking a tree?
Nope . This is a tenacious - exposure light manipulation pic with a lightning dash photoshopped in . As theMuseum of Hoaxespoints out , this image was make by Darren Pearson , who also goes by the name Darius Twin . Pearson does somevery cool body of work , but they ’re all hard rig photos in some strain or another .
Fake image via@MindBlowing
66) Isthisthe space shuttle breaching the clouds?
It ’s a cool range of a function , but of course it ’s too good to be rightful . The Almighty of the prototype on the left hand , Richard Silverasays quite plainly , “ This paradigm is a composite of 2 pictures . ” An almost equally nerveless picture that establish thespace shuttle Challengerstill on the ground in November of 1982 is on the rightfulness and is definitely veridical .
Fake paradigm via@EarthPix
67) Isthisa picnic on an American highway during the 1973 oil crisis?
I ’ve always enquire aboutthis photo , since I ’ve visualise it pass through my societal medium stream at least a XII multiplication in the last year . It purports to show Americans having a picnic on a major freeway in 1973 . The1970s crude oil crisiswas devastating to American automobilist . There were shortage and Americans often had to hold off in foresighted line to fill up their tanks . But the highways did n’t short become empty .
Well , asHoax of Famepoints out , the photo is n’t American at all . The image actually comes from The Netherlands . It was postulate in 1973 when the body politic imposed “ Car - Free Sundays ” which would occur sporadically during the 1973 - 74 oil crisis .
Below , another photo from a car - free Sunday in 1973 .
68) Is athisa meteor over Stonehenge in England?
No , that ’s not a meteor over Stonehenge ( or Stonehedge , as thismisleading tweetcalls it ) . For whatever reason this simulacrum just wo n’t pall , getting passed around on Twitter , Pinterest , and Tumblr again and again . The exposure shows a very realfireball meteorover Oklahoma in 2008 . But some saccade put it behind Stonehenge and suddenly it just wo n’t go off no matter how many clip astronomy sleuths likeFakeAstropixdebunk it .
Fake image via@Globe_pics
69) Isthisphoto of “kissing islands” in Greenland real?
No , those are n’t islands that just happen to look like they ’re human present tenderly kissing . It ’s yet another advertizement campaign . But oddly , some people are cropping out the Pfizer logo and claiming that they ’re veridical islands . The Italian branch of external ad agencySaatchi & Saatchiappears to have come up with this one .
Onthe right , another image from the military campaign that appear to show some form of brain / headache substance . And since Pfizer makes Viagra , we might safely assume the one on the left is for that minuscule blue contraceptive pill ? Either way , it ’s as fake as they get .
imitation pic viaTumblr
70) IsthisEurope and the United States at night from space?
No , these are n’t photos of Earth ’s lights from space . AsPicPedantpoints out , they ’re really visualizations of Flickr and Twitter geolocations . But even this assertion is hard to confirm . The red dots are supposedly locations of Flickr picture . The naughty dots ? tweet .
There ’s anentire Flickr albumwith more images , though again it ’s hard to be sure incisively how the maps were created since there ’s no explanation . The only matter we can say for certain : These are n’t pictures of Earth ’s lights from outer space .
[ Update : HoaxofFamepoints us to a 2011 Washington Post clause aboutEric Fischer and his maps project . ]
Fake image claims viaThatsEarthandReddit ; existent figure of speech explanations viaFlickr
71) IsthisMarilyn Monroe reading a book in Spanish?
Marilyn Monroe was a voracious referee . She had an impressive personal library and there are lot ofphotos of her reading . But the photo of her on the leftfield is a photoshop job . She was n’t read Confesiones Silenciosas ( translated : Silent Confessions ) .
The tangible photo on the right hand shows her reading Arthur Miller ’s adjustment of the Ibsen child’s play , An Enemy of the People . Monroe was marital to Miller from 1956 until 1961 .
phoney image viaOpen Cultureand theNew York Public Library
72) IsthisNASA announcing that we’ll have 6 days of complete darkness in December?
“ Comedy ” sites likeHuzlershave run with the account that there will be six consecutive day of darkness in December due to a “ solar storm ” that will cause “ detritus and infinite debris ” to stymy out the sun . But do n’t think it .
The coming mean solar day of dark will supposedly last from the 16th until the 22nd of December and the Huzlers story even has fake quotes from NASA official . Other sites have claimed there will bethree daysof accomplished darkness . Neither of these title is rightful ( unless you survive in Minnesota , where you really wo n’t see the sun until April * ) . But the lie is spreading quickly on both Twitter and Facebook .
The freak “ days of darkness ” prediction is a common net hoax and pas seul spread so far and wide that NASA has even had to debunk these claims sometimes , likethey did in 2012 .
- I kid , Minnesota . Just telling a chucklegoof , as a former Minnesotan .
imitation image viaHuzlers
73) Does Monsters, Inc. really have a hiddennaughty picture?
Have you seen that screenshot from the 2001 Pixar filmMonsters , Inc showing a stick figure drafting of “ uncel roger ” and “ mum ” cause sex ? Totally fake .
As the debunker websiteWaffles at Noonpoints out there ’s even aYouTube videoof the aspect that someone has think up . But again , it ’s not real . Theactual footageshows that it ’s clearly not there .
Below , the original screenshot from the pic sans - naughty peg design .
faux screenshot of Monsters , Inc viaReddit
74) Isthisa real black lion?
No , that ’s not a black Leo . But for whatever ground you’re able to find lots of blackened social lion photoshopped from your received Simba - way lion ( and even albino lions)all over the cyberspace . They look pretty badass . But sadly they ’re not real .
phoney photo via@AmazingPicxandReddit ; substantial lion viaSerengeti Book
75) Isthismanta ray captured in 1933 real?
Enormous manta beam like this do subsist . But the photo above depict Captain A.L. Kahn in 1933 with a giant devilfish is almost surely a fake . The big clues ? The manta ray pictured is far too rigid ( real giant manta beam are floppy when hoisted up ) , there ’s a wrinkle that you may see running through the heart , and the biggest speck : the thingdoesn’t have an anus .
post card and news picture , ( like thepostcardbelow ) did n’t show the seam and whatever that small piece of light - colored cloth might be near the tail . It ’s firmly not to conclude that there ’s something funny go on here . Get it ? funny .
Below , a photo of an literal manta light beam enamour in 1932 off the coast of Hollywood , Florida byCaptain Jay Gould . The June 1932 exit of theLouisiana Conservation Reviewalso include the photo . point out that it looks a mickle more floppy and life - like .
Deep Sea Newshas done a bite of digging to investigate the suspicious Captain Kahn exposure . They come across similar looking fake manta light beam building picture at the American Museum of Natural History from 1917 , pictured below . And though they ’re not the same fake manta from the 1930s , they show you just how one could make such a thing . James Bellmade all sort of models for the Natural History museum , like thisgiraffe in 1928 .
My own conjecture is that it ’s the Captain Kahn manta light beam is a plasterwork cast of a actual devilfish that he indeed beguile . There ’s sufficient evidence that people have made cataplasm mold of real elephantine devilfish , like in thisphoto from 1964 . And it ’s the most logical way to put the devilfish on tour with a genus Circus company , which Kahn did for at least a couple of age .
I searched through newspaper archives from the mid-1930s and found that the manta ray photos of Captain Kahn were making the round in 1933 and that eventually the “ Great Manta ” was traveling throughout the U.S. in 1934 and 35 as a sideshow human activity amongst “ World ’s Fair Freaks . ”
Below , a flyer for the “ Great Manta ” exhibition in 1934 fromMike ’s Maritime Memorabilia . detect that the manta fancy is a bit more floppy than the picture we see getting passed around on Reddit and Twitter , and more like the devilfish conquer in Florida .
Fake image via@HistoricalPics ; Real epitome fromAmerican Museum of Natural History , theFlorida Museum of Natural History , andMike ’s Maritime Memorabilia
76) Isthisa photo of the Statue of Liberty during Hurricane Sandy?
Some people record the anniversary of Hurricane ( or , more accurately Superstorm ) Sandy this calendar week . But no , that image of the Statue of Liberty being inundate with waves is n’t real . It ’s from the 2004 movie , The Day After Tomorrow . Shockingly , a figure of reputable intelligence beginning still ran with it on social media .
simulated photograph viaNYCAlerts
77) Isthisa bike on Vashon Island that was abandoned for 100 years?
Thekids ’ bicycle embedded into a treeis a bit of a tourist attracter on Vashon Island , Washington , just outside of Seattle . But it ’s not a century one-time , as so manysocial medium accountsare claim .
It ’s actually from the fifties . AsPicPedantandSnopespoint out , the bicycle is believed to have been abandoned on that tree diagram in the mid-1950s . The tree is believe to have grown around it . A local sheriff namedDon Puzclaims it was his bicycle , but nobody knows for sure . All that we do know is that it ’s not from the 1910s . It ’s almost certainly from the 1950s .
Inaccurate image description from@OldPicsArchive ; Photo via theSierra Club
78) Isthisa leopard with bright blue eyes?
No , that photograph of a leopard with bright dispirited eyes is a lie . Well , the blue eyes part is at least . academic film sleuthPicPedantpoints out that the pilot was most in all likelihood taken in 2010 by someone on Flickr who goes by the nameFlash - Joerg — though the fact that they misspell “ Panthera pardus ” as “ lepard ” give me pause .
bastard image viaSWildlifepics ; Real image viaFlash - Joergon Flickr
79) Isthisa real Halloween costume for dogs?
At first glimpse , this “ Lifelike Baby Costume for Dogs ” on Amazon looks horrifyingly legit . But upon further inspection you ’ll clearly see that it ’s an amazing hoax . It ’s actually part of a much largerparody Amazon listingwhich may or may not have been created by Adult Swim . you may see the entire imitation product number below in all its fake Halloween aura .
bastard image via@pablogotobedandAdult Swim ’s Tumblr
80) Isthisa hitchhiker from Woodstock in 1969?
According toHistoryInPicsand your aunt ’s Pinterest board of hippie nostalgia , the photo on the left shows a woman at Woodstock hitchhiking . Except that it ’s not . The photo was staged for an advertizing hunting expedition in 1971 .
The naked hitchhiker ad was one of many in a campaign for Landlubber Clothing Company feature people wearing nothing but their birthday suits . More ads featuring a woman on a motorcycle and a serviceman at a desk come out below . on the face of it the estimation was that if these people could n’t find Landlubber dress , they did n’t want to wear down anything at all .
Or , more accurately , the idea was that they could turn their ads into a profitable side businessselling postersthat would advert in college dorms across the nation . In the mid 1970s Landlubber was pulling in about$100 million .
Inaccurate picture description viaHistoryInPics ; advertising in the November 1971 topic of National Lampoon magazine viaFlickr ; Ad with cleaning woman on bike viaImgur
81) Isthisa photo of JFK after he’d been shot?
Nope . It ’s areenactmentthat was film for the 1977 TV movieThe Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald . There was no photographer hovering over the car immediately after JFK was shot . Believe me , Oliver Stone would ’ve been all over those picture .
Fake photo description viaHistoricalPics
82) IsthisBarack Obama in 2009 and 2014?
The presidential term certainly ages most people . But this exposure from the HistoricalPics Twitter accounting is n’t quite true . The photo on the left field which propose to be from 2009 is actuallyfrom 2005 . That intend that the difference between the two pictures is nigh to nine years , rather than five . I can tell you I front a lot different in photos from nine old age ago , and I do n’t even scat the country .
The uncanny thing : If you employ a exposure that ’s in reality from 2009 it has a like effect , if slightly less drastic . Below on the left wing , a picture of Obama soon before becoming President of the United States in January 2009 . On the right , the President last workweek . The depressed expression on his look certainly does n’t serve him look any immature .
false picture verbal description fromHistoricalPics ; Bottom picture via Getty
83) Isthisthe Christmas Truce of WWI with German and British troops playing football together?
AsPicPedantpoints out , the photo really just showsBritish troops in Salonika , Greece in 1915playing football — know by Americans as “ racquetball ” if I ’m not misguided . There are no Germans in sight .
And it ’s unquestionably not the Christmas truce of 1914 where a handful of British and German troop emerge from their trench to conform to , exchange present , and yes , evenplay a small soccer .
Inaccurate image description viaHistoryInPics
84) Isthisreally what happens when you put a cell phone in the microwave?
Nope . This is actually anold viral video from 2008that just wo n’t die . It was make by a prepaid wireless company calledNet 10 .
Their viral crusade was host onNo-Evil.netand was meant to illustrate how terrible the competing phone companies were by force you to stick with contracts . note how the bubbling cellphone turns into what looks like a demon ? That ’s no accident . It ’s all electronic computer bring forth imaging .
simulated gif viaLearn_Things
85) Arethesetwo happy owls?
deplorably those are n’t two happy owlet . They ’re brooches , as noted by the bird of Jove - eyedPicPedant . They were made by aRussian crafterout of woollen , credit card , and chicken feed .
Adorable , trusted . But not real owls . Unless the grasp below are plainly an owl trait that I ’m unfamiliar with . You never sleep together .
bogus photo viaEARTHPlCS
86) Isthisa Woodstock poster from 1969?
We started with some Woodstock fakery so we may as well end with some Woodstock fakery . Is that Woodstock card you ’ve see circulating the Real McCoy ? lamentably , no . It ’s a modern day fake .
The face on the bill sticker on the left field are merely too modern . And they ’ve even spelled Joan Baez ’s name incorrectly ! If you ’re going to do a juke at least make an travail to use typeface that predate the 1980s .
Fake effigy viaClassicPixs
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