World's greatest Hoaxes!

[Preeto Maam]

In early 2000, the image of Snowball the monster cat began circulating via e-mail, claiming that the cat's huge size was a result of its mother being found abandoned near a Canadian nuclear lab. In May 2001 Cordell Hauglie came forward claiming that he created the image with his daughter's cat, to email to a few friends as a joke, never intending for it to spread as far as it did

[Preeto Maam]

At the other end of the cat spectrum, and apparently for no reason other than sparking controversy, in late 2000 a website described the process of sealing kittens in glass containers - making their bones conform to the container and leading to a uniquely shaped "bonsai kitten". Despite being a spectacularly obvious hoax, people who didn't realise were outraged and demanded the site be removed

[Preeto Maam]

A series of front page splashes on the Daily Mirror claiming the veracity of a set of images purporting to show British soldiers of the Queen's Lancashire Regiment abusing Iraqi prisoners, a claim which forced the editor Piers Morgan to resign after it was refuted by the British Army as crude fakes...

[ignoramusenator]

Originally Posted by Preeto Maam

In an intentional April's Fool Day prank, on the 1st of April 2008, the BBC reported footage of penguins flying from the Antarctic to Brazil, which became one of the most viewed videos on the internet

this pranked me too

[Preeto Maam]

..similarly in February 2005 reports appeared claiming that a US soldier had been taken hostage in Iraq. Within hours a toy manufacturer came forward state that the hostage closely resembled its action-figure doll

[Preeto Maam]

Konrad Kujau admitted in 1983 to forging the Hitler Diaries in one of the most audacious journalistic hoaxes ever attempted. The 62 volumes were bought by the German magazine Stern for 2.5 million Deutsche Marks

[Preeto Maam]

Apparently desperate to avoid her wedding, in 2005, Jennifer Carol Wilbanks disappeared days before her wedding, sparking a nationwide search. Three days later she called her fiance and falsely claimed that she had been kidnapped and sexually assaulted. Under further police scrutiny her story fell apart, she pleaded no contest to the charge of giving false imformation to the police and ended up with two years probation and 120 hours of community service, while he ex-fiance married another woman

[Preeto Maam]

On April 1st, 1996 a full page ad appeared in six major American newspapers announcing that the fast food chain Taco Bell had purchased the Liberty Bell and renamed it the Taco Liberty Bell

[Preeto Maam]

In the first semester of 2009 Czech artist David Cerny caused a diplomatic row after his £350,000 Crown commissioned piece, Entropa, depicted sterotypical attributes of various EU member states. He later admitted that he misled his own government by making the piece with help from his friends instead of artists from the EU's 27 member states as promised

[Preeto Maam]

A vast amount of testimonies, photographs and videos supposedly portraying unidentified flying objects can easily be very simply debunked as hoaxes.

[Preeto Maam]

But, of course, some still remain unexplainable...
Although many maintain that crop-circles are legitimately unexplainable, many circles are known to be man-made, such as those created by Doug Bower, Dave Chorley, and John Lundberg. Bower and Chorley started the crop circle phenomenon in 1978 and were awarded an Ig Nobel Prize in 1992 for their crop circle hoaxing

[~sumit~]

good one.......

[hotspicyhot]

Yeah... They are Really Greatest

[pain!]

Interesting to read. Thanks for the details preetoji!

[BINDAS BADSHAH]

thanx for sharing