don’t believe everything that you see
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top ten
hoaxes number 10 Megalodon is alive and
well when something airs on the
Discovery Channel you believe it
that is until Megalodon the monster
shark lives ran during Shark Week 2013
created as a found footage documentary
this film shows a present-day boat being
attacked by the prehistoric creature
many viewers believe the content was
true despite disclaimers indicating
otherwise and were mad when they found
out they’ve been duped however it’s
worth mentioning the Megalodon did once
exist the size of that fin tells us
what’s underneath is bigger than
anything we’ve considered number nine
raelians cloned the first human the
announcement of the first cloned human
baby’s birth ought far from being
confirmed scientifically has shine anew
the spotlight on the Raelians a group
known for ass obsession with aliens
cloning and free love adherence to this
UFO religion think cloning is the key to
eternal life that people can be
genetically duplicated and that their
personalities can then be transferred to
that clone they sparked moral outrage
when a group member claimed to give
birth to the world’s first cloned human
in 2002 however the cult scientific
branch clonaid refused to produce proof
of their achievement revealing it as a
publicity stunt
why haven’t they produced this baby do
you believe that cloning can happen do
you believe that they do have a baby no
they don’t have a baby this is the
biggest the stunt a sort of a mixture of
PT Barnum and father Devine and they’ve
made a fantastic show of it number 8 the
Cottingley fairies to prove to their
parents that the fairies they claim to
have seen were real two cousins
photographed them in 1917 eventually
author and spiritualist Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle got his hands on the Prince after
which they were examined by experts who
mostly agreed they had not been altered
after much discussion the girls finally
revealed them as fakes in 1983 however
they maintained that they had seen
fairies we didn’t have to tell a lie
about it at all because always somebody
came out to justify it
number seven manti te’o and the fake
girlfriend this college footballer
became a brave hero after revealing that
both his grandmother and his girlfriend
died the same day however when the media
dug deeper they found his girlfriend
whom he’d only met online was a
fabrication and had never existed
at first it was unclear whether tail was
involved in the hoax but it was
eventually revealed that a male
acquaintance perpetrated the con to
escape real life
this is what happened and you know I was
part of a hoax and that’s that number
six balloon boy if you if you are
predisposed to do so and you want to say
a little prayer you might want to do so
now because this six-year-old boy is
about 100 feet from the ground after an
experiment gone awry
the heaney family claimed their son
Falcon had floated away in a balloon
when the balloon in question landed with
Falcon nowhere to be found people
panicked that he’d fallen out
prompting search and rescue teams to
scour the area around his Colorado home
turns out the entire thing was a
publicity stunt meant to land the family
a reality show you it said we did this
for a show
both parents served brief jail sentences
and we do anticipate at some point in
the future we there will be some
criminal charges filed with regards to
this incident number five the Piltdown
man in 1912 Charles Dawson presented
parts of a skull discovered in an
English gravel pit as the as yet
discovered missing link between humans
and apes on the evolutionary scale
significantly impacting public
perception of the theory however by 1953
researchers found the bones to be part
human part orangutan exposing it as a
hoax fun fact among those suspected of
perpetrating this elaborate ruse is
Sherlock Holmes author Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle I don’t understand professor why
didn’t your tests show the skeleton was
a fake I’m gonna be honest with you Lisa
I never did the tests number for the
Cardiff giant ten feet tall and
allegedly petrified this artifact was
created by New Yorker George hull
ostensibly to mock bible-thumpers who
believed giants once roamed the earth
Paul commissioned a sculptor to create
the ancient looking stone man then hid
it on his cousin’s farm where it was
discovered in 1869 before hull revealed
his elaborate prank folks paid to see
this wonder prompting one man to say
there’s a sucker born every minute
number three Bower and Chorley’s crop
circles while we can’t confirm that
every crop circle on the planet is a
hoax
two men claimed to be behind many of the
intricate designs cut into farmer’s
fields in 1991 Doug Bower and Dave
Chorley confess that with the help of
some simple tools they created hundreds
of crop circles in the British
countryside alone basically as a prank
it’s likely they inspired copycats who
kept the crop circle trend alive either
this is one of the most elaborate hoaxes
ever created or basically it’s for real
number two alien autopsy released in the
90s this film purported to feature a
real-life dissection of one of the
Roswell aliens Ray Santilli claimed he
got the 17 minute long poor quality
video from a nameless military cameraman
and it was compelling enough to warrant
its sale to TV networks which aired it
worldwide in 2006 Santilli admitted the
film was a fake but said it was a
reconstruction of a real video that had
since become unviewable we’re going to
find that alien what if we don’t we’ll
fake it and sell it to the Fox Network
haha they’ll buy anything before we
unveil our number one pick here are a
few honorable mentions
number one the War of the Worlds as a
Halloween gift Orson Welles put on a
radio production of HG Wells the War of
the Worlds
in 1938 framing it as news reports about
an ongoing alien invasion of Earth
ladies and gentlemen I have a grave
announcement to make incredible as it
may seem both the observations of
science and the evidence of our eyes
lead to the inescapable assumption that
those strange beings who landed in the
jersey farmlands tonight are the
vanguard of an invading army from the
planet Mars because people were already
stressed because of the looming world
war listeners panicked upon hearing the
broadcast despite repeated assurances
that it was fiction though the ensuing
mass hysteria was likely exaggerated
people were still pissed all kinds of
people reacted in all kinds of ways for
example John Barrowman the very famous
American actor miss I know to be true
was listening to the broadcast and
although he was a friend of mine ceased
to identify me with the show and
believed implicitly that America had
fallen to the Martians do you agree with
our list which hoax do you think is the
most incredible for more fascinating top
10s published every day be sure to
subscribe to watchmojo.com we wanted
people to understand that they shouldn’t
take any opinion predigested and they
shouldn’t swallow everything that came
through the tap whether it was radio or
not
you
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top ten
hoaxes number 10 Megalodon is alive and
well when something airs on the
Discovery Channel you believe it
that is until Megalodon the monster
shark lives ran during Shark Week 2013
created as a found footage documentary
this film shows a present-day boat being
attacked by the prehistoric creature
many viewers believe the content was
true despite disclaimers indicating
otherwise and were mad when they found
out they’ve been duped however it’s
worth mentioning the Megalodon did once
exist the size of that fin tells us
what’s underneath is bigger than
anything we’ve considered number nine
raelians cloned the first human the
announcement of the first cloned human
baby’s birth ought far from being
confirmed scientifically has shine anew
the spotlight on the Raelians a group
known for ass obsession with aliens
cloning and free love adherence to this
UFO religion think cloning is the key to
eternal life that people can be
genetically duplicated and that their
personalities can then be transferred to
that clone they sparked moral outrage
when a group member claimed to give
birth to the world’s first cloned human
in 2002 however the cult scientific
branch clonaid refused to produce proof
of their achievement revealing it as a
publicity stunt
why haven’t they produced this baby do
you believe that cloning can happen do
you believe that they do have a baby no
they don’t have a baby this is the
biggest the stunt a sort of a mixture of
PT Barnum and father Devine and they’ve
made a fantastic show of it number 8 the
Cottingley fairies to prove to their
parents that the fairies they claim to
have seen were real two cousins
photographed them in 1917 eventually
author and spiritualist Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle got his hands on the Prince after
which they were examined by experts who
mostly agreed they had not been altered
after much discussion the girls finally
revealed them as fakes in 1983 however
they maintained that they had seen
fairies we didn’t have to tell a lie
about it at all because always somebody
came out to justify it
number seven manti te’o and the fake
girlfriend this college footballer
became a brave hero after revealing that
both his grandmother and his girlfriend
died the same day however when the media
dug deeper they found his girlfriend
whom he’d only met online was a
fabrication and had never existed
at first it was unclear whether tail was
involved in the hoax but it was
eventually revealed that a male
acquaintance perpetrated the con to
escape real life
this is what happened and you know I was
part of a hoax and that’s that number
six balloon boy if you if you are
predisposed to do so and you want to say
a little prayer you might want to do so
now because this six-year-old boy is
about 100 feet from the ground after an
experiment gone awry
the heaney family claimed their son
Falcon had floated away in a balloon
when the balloon in question landed with
Falcon nowhere to be found people
panicked that he’d fallen out
prompting search and rescue teams to
scour the area around his Colorado home
turns out the entire thing was a
publicity stunt meant to land the family
a reality show you it said we did this
for a show
both parents served brief jail sentences
and we do anticipate at some point in
the future we there will be some
criminal charges filed with regards to
this incident number five the Piltdown
man in 1912 Charles Dawson presented
parts of a skull discovered in an
English gravel pit as the as yet
discovered missing link between humans
and apes on the evolutionary scale
significantly impacting public
perception of the theory however by 1953
researchers found the bones to be part
human part orangutan exposing it as a
hoax fun fact among those suspected of
perpetrating this elaborate ruse is
Sherlock Holmes author Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle I don’t understand professor why
didn’t your tests show the skeleton was
a fake I’m gonna be honest with you Lisa
I never did the tests number for the
Cardiff giant ten feet tall and
allegedly petrified this artifact was
created by New Yorker George hull
ostensibly to mock bible-thumpers who
believed giants once roamed the earth
Paul commissioned a sculptor to create
the ancient looking stone man then hid
it on his cousin’s farm where it was
discovered in 1869 before hull revealed
his elaborate prank folks paid to see
this wonder prompting one man to say
there’s a sucker born every minute
number three Bower and Chorley’s crop
circles while we can’t confirm that
every crop circle on the planet is a
hoax
two men claimed to be behind many of the
intricate designs cut into farmer’s
fields in 1991 Doug Bower and Dave
Chorley confess that with the help of
some simple tools they created hundreds
of crop circles in the British
countryside alone basically as a prank
it’s likely they inspired copycats who
kept the crop circle trend alive either
this is one of the most elaborate hoaxes
ever created or basically it’s for real
number two alien autopsy released in the
90s this film purported to feature a
real-life dissection of one of the
Roswell aliens Ray Santilli claimed he
got the 17 minute long poor quality
video from a nameless military cameraman
and it was compelling enough to warrant
its sale to TV networks which aired it
worldwide in 2006 Santilli admitted the
film was a fake but said it was a
reconstruction of a real video that had
since become unviewable we’re going to
find that alien what if we don’t we’ll
fake it and sell it to the Fox Network
haha they’ll buy anything before we
unveil our number one pick here are a
few honorable mentions
number one the War of the Worlds as a
Halloween gift Orson Welles put on a
radio production of HG Wells the War of
the Worlds
in 1938 framing it as news reports about
an ongoing alien invasion of Earth
ladies and gentlemen I have a grave
announcement to make incredible as it
may seem both the observations of
science and the evidence of our eyes
lead to the inescapable assumption that
those strange beings who landed in the
jersey farmlands tonight are the
vanguard of an invading army from the
planet Mars because people were already
stressed because of the looming world
war listeners panicked upon hearing the
broadcast despite repeated assurances
that it was fiction though the ensuing
mass hysteria was likely exaggerated
people were still pissed all kinds of
people reacted in all kinds of ways for
example John Barrowman the very famous
American actor miss I know to be true
was listening to the broadcast and
although he was a friend of mine ceased
to identify me with the show and
believed implicitly that America had
fallen to the Martians do you agree with
our list which hoax do you think is the
most incredible for more fascinating top
10s published every day be sure to
subscribe to watchmojo.com we wanted
people to understand that they shouldn’t
take any opinion predigested and they
shouldn’t swallow everything that came
through the tap whether it was radio or
not
you
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