Hoaxes who believed the world

1. Background to the Alien Autopsy - Roswell incident

This film with 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 US after the so-called Roswell incident with the crash of a UFO. Subsequently, the film was completely fake-exposed. However, now it is fun to watch, even knowing that it is a complete hoax.

2. The Turk

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



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



4. 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 type and scale. Computer empire even had to publish an official denial of false press release. Incidentally, the name of the author of this strange hoax is still unknown.



5. "Pasta" gardens
For April Fools' Day Fool "in 1957, the radio station BBC BBC aired a message saying that due to the early spring of this year we expect a good harvest of spaghetti. The next day edition was littered with letters and phone calls from listeners' questions about how they can grow this useful product yourself.



6. Life on the Moon
On the eve of the millennium popular New York newspaper «The Sun» published a series of six articles that claimed that the Moon has finally found life. And not just signs of organic life, and advanced civilization, consisting of unicorns, two-legged beavers, flying people and other amazing creatures. Amazingly, the author took five years to finally admit that he made it all up.



7. Super-rock band of all time
The editor of the magazine "Rolling Stones", Greil Marcus, obsessed crazy idea of ​​creating a super-rock band, invented and published a story about Bob Dylan, Mick Jagger, John Lennon and Paul McCartney decided to join forces to co-creation. He was sure that the audience amused, this whimsical fantasy, but ... all believe! Then he hired a group of San Francisco, and even recorded a debut album with "super-hit". Naive Americans believe in it. Otherwise, how to explain the fact that the drive is instantly sold over 100,000 copies!



Source: mixstuff.ru