O/T Hoaxes

[frogmiller]

That was Anton Johnson in his fur coat

[loyalmiller]

They were once thinking of calling our town Rotherham by the sea after they built the Leisure centre with wave machine. Was that a hoax or just a really bad idea!

[sawmiller]

Blackstock is/was a footballer...

[mikemiller]

Well thinking back to school days 🤫 did they tell people the world was square and if you sailed too far out you would fall off the edge ?

Think that was Michael Bentine's "It's a square world" tv show

[flourbasher]

Red London bus found on moon....Daily Sport newspaper 1980's

Two week later Elvis found on moon.....surprisingly from the same news outlet

[Brin]

Loch Ness monster......fooled quite a few and they still make money out of it even today. Gullible tourists hop on board the boats taking them out with their cameras at the ready.....LOL.

[BigLadonOS]

Crop circles wasn't a bad one but the spaghetti tree was better.

[CAMiller]

So we have a couple of newspapers duped by fake letters/diaries, a few April Fools jokes and drunks creating crop circles as examples of a relatively small number of people being hoaxed. Admittedly the fairies did achieve notoriety and although I'm not sure the Loch Ness Monster started as a hoax it's certainly been played for commercial gain. Scum's food observations, whilst interesting I'm not sure they are a classical hoax more changing times/behaviours driven by clever marketing.

But the moon landings are still seen as a hoax that managed to trick over 600 million of the general public and almost 500 thousand workers who were apparently only striving to get men to the desert at a cost of $25B!

[crashbang]

1938. war of the worlds radio broadcast caused panic.

[Pattylallacks2]

1938. war of the worlds radio broadcast caused panic.

But it was in America!!