10 of the Best Internet Hoaxes
Remember the tourist of death? That guy standing on the World Trade Center with a plane incoming behind him, supposedly this is the moment when 9/11 happened. That photo did a hell lot of rounds on the internet. But well, it turned out to be a hoax but it did fool many people before being torn down and declared as fake. Today, we take a look at ten such famous internet hoaxes.
No 10. Bill Gates Giving Away Money
Well, yes he is rich and he is a great philanthropist now but hey, you’ll never get any money by forwarding a chain letter. This is what happened in 1997, people were asked to forward an email to their contacts for testing a new email forward tracking system powered by Microsoft. The email said that you’ll get more money depending on how much your email gets resent by your friends. It would need to be quite a sophisticated system to keep track of such forwards.
No 9. Bill Gates Buys the Catholic Church
Quite a personality is Bill Gates. This one started in 1994 when a press release began circulating around the internet claiming that Microsoft had bought the Catholic Church. “The combined resources of Microsoft and the Catholic Church will allow us to make religion easier and more fun for a broader range of people” it quoted Gates as saying. It was so widespread and significant that eventually, Microsoft had to issue a formal denial of the release on December 16, 1994.
No 8. Gigantic Camel Spiders in Iraq
This one started in 2004 when an email started making rounds asking people to be sympathetic to the American troops in Iraq, not only because they have to be away from their families or because war zones are dangerous, but more so because they have to deal with absolutely horrifying prehistoric spiders. The email claimed that these spiders can run up to 25 miles per hour, could jump several feet in the air and could grow almost up to 1 foot in length.
This one was quite believable due to the photo that was attached with email showing some really big spiders, as it turned out it was just the angle that made them look so stupidly large.
No 7. Lonelygirl15
This was just a normal girl complaining about normal teenage problems until she started giving out details of the bizarre cult that her family was involved in. She even had a MySpace page where she would interact with her fans, but eventually people started to doubt and found out that this all was faked. It was actually a full-fledged web series created by EQAL under the working title “The Children of Anchor Cove.”
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Camel spiders are real.. And are effing massive… Also very, very dangerous.
Mr or Miss N Camel spiders are real but not even close to that size been there done that !
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That dog looks crazy! Lol
Been to Afghanistan, Iraq and Africa. Camel spiders that size are very real and VERY fast! They chase your shadow to escape the sun. While that picture may be a hoax for one reason or another, Camel Spiders are not. Your ignorance is laughable.
So tell me, why is the Sandy Cook shooting not up here. I’d say this blows Blaire Witch out of the water.
No mention of one of the oldest and greatest hoaxes on the ‘net: Mankato Minnesota’s underground dolphin filled caverns. Published by a professor at the University to display an aversion toward believing fraudulent information, the website even claimed to be fake but the city still had to ask for the site to be brought down to frequent phone calls from would be travelers.
what about genpets? my fiance a few years ago got in such a huge fight about them (she wanted one, i thought it was an abomination) that she broke it off with me and kicked me out. we haven’t spoke since that day.
John Titor?
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John Titor, that’s a Hoax. Blair witch? Seriously? Go kick yourself in the crotch…
The camel spiders got blown out of proportion when Organizing for Action thought Barack had crabs.
Camel spiders are real and are huge, but they’re not dangerous to humans. “Very, very dangerous” is a huge overstatement. Let’s calm it down a bit.
imagine the bird that’s brave enough to catch those spiders! lol
Camel spiders are big, I don’t know if I’d go as far as to say huge. Also, they’re not spiders, but that’s a different argument. And they’re only dangerous to humans that have heart conditions, because I don’t care how hard you are, they’re scary looking.
Camel Spiders are HUGE. But the picture that you’re showing that everyone went so nuts over doesn’t look large bc of the angle, it looks large bc it’s TWO spiders, one hanging from the other. That’s why it has 16 legs. I don’t know why more people didn’t realize. But camel spiders are big, and just bc they’re not a foot doesn’t ake them any less scary. I don’t wanna see any 6 inch spiders crawling on me when I sleep.
Ok I just looked up camel spiders. They’re not technically spiders, but they ARE arachnids, which spiders are as well. They’re related to scorpions and that sort of thing. I’m not sure if they’re 8 legged or 10, but I always thought arachnids had 10 legs. The picture shown here is 2 camel spiders, not one, that’s why it looks so big, NOT bc of the angle. And they’re actually about 8 inches. People claim they have seen larger tho. Also, they bite, and take a chunk out of flesh. They’re still pretty scary.
I got one of those emails about Gates giving out money, and knew instantly it couldn’t be real and replied to everyone that sent it to me that it was a hoax. Funny tho.
Banana spiders really do grow over a foot long and wide, they’re in the huntsman family also referred to as a bird eating spider dont think they’re too poisonous but fast as fuck and I pretty much weed my pants wen one ran at me it’s body was nearly as big as my iPhone
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that was all complete shit.
I don’t understand the point of the 16 yr old girls video hoax. Why would a company want to do such a pointless thing, its not as though the vids were worth watching
Because is was a promo for a TV show and idiot thought it was real
I’m serial guys. man-bear-pig is real
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What? No “BLIND/DEAF/MUTE GIRL rides horse she’s only ridden for two weeks bareback and bridle-less”? And it turns out it’s Stacy Westfall. :p
Nice one, you forgot to mention the Taylor Swift School For Deaf, I think it’s one of the most hilarious internet hoaxes ever, great list I must say
Nice collection. Thanks.
Number 8 is so wrong.. They may not run that fast (25m/hr), but they are fast and they are big as hell. I once saw a camel spider drag a dead cat under my tent. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solifugae
some nice ones, other’s you can’t believe people fell for it
lonelygirl15, man those days…I used to mess with all the users on that site and they used to get butthurt hella easily hahahahahaha-xwestsidex