15 great hoaxes you probably fell for

16
This image was was made by pasting an image of a breaching shark, taken by South African photographer Charles Maxwell, into a picture of a USAF helicopter hovering in front of the Golden Gate Bridge taken by Lance Cheung.

Upload: bluerocker777

Post on 08-May-2015

1.357 views

Category:

Entertainment & Humor


0 download

DESCRIPTION

Here is a collection of 15 of the greatest hoaxes, Photoshopped and faked photos of all time. Most of these images went viral in emails and on Facebook. Recognize any?

TRANSCRIPT

Page 1: 15 Great Hoaxes You Probably Fell For

This image was was made by pasting an image of a breaching shark, taken by South African photographer Charles Maxwell, into a picture of

a USAF helicopter hovering in front of the Golden Gate Bridge taken by Lance Cheung.

Page 2: 15 Great Hoaxes You Probably Fell For

Soon after Sept. 11, 2001, this photo began circulating via email. It appears to show a tourist posing for a snapshot on top of the World

Trade Center as a hijacked plane approaches from behind. The man in the photo is Hungarian man named Péter Guzli, and the picture was

actually taken in 1997. He added the plane as a joke.

Page 3: 15 Great Hoaxes You Probably Fell For

The photo does show some tell-tale signs of digital editing, so the real explanation is that someone took an existing picture and flipped the

image of the book in President Bush’s hands.

Page 4: 15 Great Hoaxes You Probably Fell For

The photo went viral during the Republican National Convention, August 29, 2012, it’s ironic that Republicans would put that banner

under a national debt clock. However, it’s not quite real.

Page 5: 15 Great Hoaxes You Probably Fell For

crazy photograph of Hurricane Isaac approaching the Gulf Coast that emerged on the web and went viral in 2012.The photo was posted on

Twitter and retweeted thousands of times and also even used by media outlets during their news coverage. Bay News 9 meteorologist Josh

Linker said the image has been photoshopped.

Page 6: 15 Great Hoaxes You Probably Fell For

In August, 2012 torrential rain battered the Philippines. These photos came up which show kids surfing which are fake as reflections in the

water don’t look real. Though the image went viral, it’s clear it has been manipulated.

Page 7: 15 Great Hoaxes You Probably Fell For

This photograph of a horse and extremely large dog being walked by a man and a woman was circulated via email, blog posts and online forums. Hercules and Kell, the other world record winning dog are

certainly very large animals. However, neither are as large as the gigantic animal shown in the photograph. Cleverly manipulated!

Page 8: 15 Great Hoaxes You Probably Fell For

A mid-flight photo taken while Air France Flight 447 was crashing. This photo is not from an airline disaster but taken from the pilot episode the

popular ABC television program “Lost.”

Page 9: 15 Great Hoaxes You Probably Fell For

This photograph of the creature’s carcass appeared in July 2008, quickly circulating through local papers and the Internet. Well-known wildlife

biologist Jeff Corwin, suggested that the animal is just a run-of-the-mill raccoon that looks unusual because of its stage of decomposition and

apparent fairly lengthy immersion in water.

Page 10: 15 Great Hoaxes You Probably Fell For

In 2008, a pair of hoaxers claimed to have found the body of Bigfoot. Due to coverage the photos of the Bigfoot body spread on the web. A

California Bigfoot enthusiast actually paid the two Georgia men $50,000 for the body, and later found that it was just a costume packed in ice.

Page 11: 15 Great Hoaxes You Probably Fell For

This TV Guide cover photo of Oprah Winfrey was created by splicing Winfrey’s head onto Ann-Margret’s body. The composite was created

without permission from Winfrey or Ann-Margret, and was detected by the designer of Ann-Margret’s dress.

Page 12: 15 Great Hoaxes You Probably Fell For

During Hurricane Irene in August 2011, a photo showing a shark swimming down a flooded Puerto Rican street began circulating online, and was picked up by several news outlets, including a Miami television station. The image of the shark most likely came from a 2005 photo from

Africa Geographic that was available online.

Page 13: 15 Great Hoaxes You Probably Fell For

This grainy photo, supposedly of the Loch Ness monster, allegedly was taken by Robert Kenneth Wilson, and is known as the Surgeon’s Photograph. It was published in The Daily Mail in 1934. Extensive

investigation has shown the photo to be staged, but many still believe Nessie exists.

Page 14: 15 Great Hoaxes You Probably Fell For

This photo became viral in 2004 when tsunami struck Indian Ocean shorelines. Although the Asian Tsunami was for real the photo is a fake.

Page 15: 15 Great Hoaxes You Probably Fell For

An email started making the rounds in 2004 asking people to be sympathetic to troops in Iraq because they have to deal with absolutely prehistoric spiders. However, even though

camel spiders are pretty big and quite fast, they’re nowhere near as large as the photo makes it seem nor as fast as the email claims. The photo itself was just taken from an angle

that makes the spider seem bigger than it really is.

Page 16: 15 Great Hoaxes You Probably Fell For

For more great unbelieveable things, check outwww.cactopia.com