The most incredible hoax Bashny.Net

These hoaxes, despite its obvious absurdity, almost fooled the whole world. Sometimes they mislead people over the years.

Curiously enough, but now at least someone would fall into such a trap?







1. The story of the Alien Autopsy - Roswell incident

This film is a grainy black-and-white image appeared in the late nineties and was issued for genuine alien autopsy survey of existing government research group in the United States after the so-called Roswell incident with the crash of a UFO. Subsequently, the film was completely fake-exposed. However, it is interesting to watch, and now, even knowing that it is a complete hoax.

2. The Turk



This chess machine called "Turk" - the famous eighteenth-century hoax. It was argued that this machine is able to play chess, and he really is usually won. In fact, sitting inside the master of chess, which, in fact, fooling naive amateurs. However, before the fraud was exposed, among the losers "Turks" were President Benjamin Franklin and Napoleon Bonaparte.

3. Hitler Diaries



In 1983, the influential German magazine "Stern" has paid an amount equivalent to six million dollars for the documents, which were considered recently discovered collection of diaries of Adolf Hitler. Diaries were published, but after a while editors discovered that they are false. Author of fake diaries, Conrad Kuyau spent forty and two months in prison for his fraud.

5. Purchase of the Catholic Church by Microsoft



In 1994, the Internet began to circulate a press release, according to which Microsoft plans to buy the Catholic Church and the copyright on the Bible. It was the first Internet hoax of this kind and scale. Computer Empire even had to publish official refutation of false press release. By the way, the name of the author of this strange mystification is still unknown.

6. "Pasta" gardens



By April Fools' Day Fool "in 1957, a radio station BBC BBC aired a message stating that due to the early spring of this year we expect a good harvest of spaghetti. The next day edition was inundated with letters and phone calls with questions from the audience on how they can grow this useful product yourself.

7. Life on the Moon



On the eve of the Millennium popular New York newspaper «The Sun» has published a series of six articles that argued that the Moon has finally found life. And not just the signs of organic life, and a highly developed civilization, consisting of unicorns, bipedal beavers, flying people and other amazing creatures. Amazingly, the author took five years to finally admit that he made it all up.

8. Super-rock band of all time



Editor of "Rolling Stones", Greil Marcus, obsessed crazy idea of ​​creating super-rock band, invented and published the story of Bob Dylan, Mick Jagger, John Lennon and Paul McCartney decided to team up for co-creation. He was sure that the audience amused this whimsical fantasy, but ... everyone believed! Then he hired a group of San Francisco, and even recorded a debut album with "super-hits." Naive Americans believe in it. Otherwise, how can we explain the fact that the disc has sold instantly 100,000 copies!