#hoax — Public Fediverse posts

#Reform candidate: ‘Nigerians should be melted down to fill in pot holes’ wins

He ranted on social media he ‘carnt [sic] believe amount of #Nigerians in town’ & they ‘should melt them all down and fill in the pot holes’

Another #ReformUK candidate said #Holocaust was a #hoax also won in #elections

Jay Cooper won set on #Sefton Council accused of spewing out #conspiracy theories, labelling #genocide of millions of #Jewish people propaganda

https://metro.co.uk/2026/05/09/reform-candidate-said-nigerians-melted-fill-pot-holes-wins-seat-28297091/

#fascism #racism #England

https://www.europesays.com/hu/91568/ A tudományos közeg mesteri átverését hozta össze egy önhitt francia főiskolai tanár #átverés #FlorentMontaclair #franciaország #hoax #Hungarian #Külföld #Magyar #News #Techtud #Világ #World #WorldNews

That awkward moment...
When you're too early with your fake shocked response so you laugh it off and just do your fake shocked response all over again for the camera....
Even though the camera caught both of your fake shocked face responses...
CBS News’ Weijia Jiang when loud sounds were heard inside the dinner...

#Staged #Fake #trump #PublicityStunt #Breaking #BreakingNews #News #BreakingFakeNews #FakeNews #DC #US #USA #ShotsFired #Ballroom #Bunker #BullShit #BS #CBS #SeeBS #SeeBullShit #Ellison #WeijiaJiang #Jiang #BadActress #SheKnew #SheKnows #PartOfTheHoax #HOAX

Donald Trump is the greatest hoax ever played on America by the Russians.

When looking for the ultimate puppet, Putin hit a bullseye when he recruited Trump.

#trump #hoax #russia #putin #epstein #EpsteinFiles #republicans #MAGA #IranWar #middleeast #NATO #puppet #news #politics #Midterms

A fraudulent Formosan, chronicler of cannibalism
https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/made-in-taiwan-how-a-frenchman-fooled-18th-century-london/
#hoax #BullDada

[Analyse] du discours d'un climato-sceptique: V. Courtillot. Part. 1

https://tarte.nuage-libre.fr/c/environnement/p/262580/analyse-du-discours-d-un-climato-sceptique-v-courtillot-part-1

Gate-keeping taste
Art lovers, ever heard of the Disumbrationist Movement? How about painter Pavel Jerdanowitch?
#art #artist #arthistory #hoax
https://substack.com/@gordonbonnetauthor/p-192717118

Delhi Police arrest Srinivas Louis from Mysuru for sending over 1,100 hoax bomb threats across India https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/india/delhi-police-arrests-mysuru-man-hoax-bomb-threats-cb47fpp3?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #delhipolice #delhi #bombthreat #mysuru #hoax

Times are changing for Bigfoot hunters

As evidence for the reality of Bigfoot remains objectively poor, with promising finds deteriorating under scrutiny, the future for scientific cryptozoology looks troubling for those who committed their reputation to finding a biological creature. What comes next?

Several events in the history of bigfoot studies have boosted or burned the potential reality of the sasquatch. Three recent developments, in particular, shifted the tenuous foundation on which bigfoot researchers derive any public currency and social credibility. I argue that the general tide is turning on those who promote the idea of biological bigfoot. The biological concept is being replaced by a cultural version of bigfoot, which may work just as well financially. But first, it’s worthwhile to revisit some of the past key evidence examples that were intended to bolster the reality of bigfoot and what happened to them. Then, I present three examples to show how bigfoot research has lost critical parts of its foundation in the 2020s.

Jerry Crew and the Wallace prints

In 1958, the giant hairy creature of the Pacific Northwest gained its infamous moniker after huge prints were found in Northern California by Jerry Crew and then publicized by the Humboldt Times newspaper who named the printmaker “Bigfoot”. This finding set the scene for what was to come over the next 10 years – giving shape and structure to what was previously viewed as a tall tale or myth. In 2002, the family of Ray Wallace, who owned the company doing the work where the tracks were found, admitted Wallace had made the trackways himself with fake feet. The reveal made news at the time and was fairly influential. The average uninvested citizen heard the news and thought, “Bigfoot is a hoax.” Not so for the invested believers. The Wallace hoax claim was ultimately disregarded by many Bigfooters as they had already compiled significantly more trackway evidence that, in their minds, nullified this incident.

Photo by Dave Rubert

Skookum cast

The Skookum cast was discovered in fall of 2000 by the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization (BFRO) during an expedition to the Skookum Meadows area of the Gifford Pinchot National Forest in Washington. On location for a TV show, the muddy area was baited with fruit with the intent to capture prints. The resulting large print was interpreted by bigfoot researchers as a body imprint, which was cast and studied. Those involved saw significant detail in the print. Just a few months later, others familiar with wildlife traces concluded this was an elk wallow, complete with elk hairs. There was no other corroborating evidence for a sasquatch. Bigfooters had mixed feelings about the cast, but the hype about the body imprint ultimately faded away due to the elk conclusion and the hard-to-accept story about it being bigfoot-generated.

Critical literature

In 2004, a book landed on the scene explaining how Patterson did his infamous film (PGF). The Making of Bigfoot by Greg Long was supported by investigative work and extensive interviews that laid bare the fact the Patterson was an unscrupulous character. The book revealed that Bob Heironimus was in the Patty suit in the iconic film clip. Later in 2012, the scholarly book Abominable Science by Loxton and Prothero detailed how Patterson had constructed the film based on the 1955 account of William Roe. It matched liked a storyboard of what Patterson would later film. Long, Loxton, and Prothero’s works were pilloried by Bigfooters who refused to engage with the confounding or outright damning evidence. They rejected Long’s claims of the suit and the filming while conceding that Patterson was no angel. The two books were critical parts of the Bigfoot story but the believers would consistently dismiss any red flags that degraded the legacy, continuing to mostly consider the PGF as legitimate bigfoot evidence. After steering clear for decades, Bob Gimlin eventually began to make the rounds to the cryptid conventions telling a dramatic story of being there. Gimlin became a revered figure, bolstering the legitimacy of the PGF once again.

Ketchum’s DNA circus

In 2008, Melba Ketchum, a veterinarian at a forensics laboratory, was picked to analyze a suspected yeti hair from Bhutan collected as part of Josh Gates’s adventure show, Destination Truth. Over the next few years, Ketchum re­ceived additional samples and funding from various sources to conduct more analyses of hair, blood, saliva and tissue of supposed hairy hominin creatures. This included a sample from Justin Smeja who claimed he shot two bigfoots (he didn’t). After promising blockbuster results that would withstand scrutiny, many Bigfooters followed her every word. As of 2012, she had vociferous defenders and a publicist but others were deserting her and her trail of empty promises. The resulting paper was rejected by Nature. In February of 2013, the fiasco culminated in a sloppy paper published in a “journal” she set up for her sole purposes. Accompanying the official version of the paper was a video which supposedly showed a sleeping sasquatch – a brown, furry figure on the forest floor. DNA was supposedly obtained from this individual, named Matilda. The video was laughably bad and the DNA results were terribly botched, showing nothing of value. The paper was roundly destroyed by genetics experts. Ketchum ironically expressed that the creature had a partly supernatural origin. Years later, she ended up in further professional trouble and is now thoroughly discredited, with the episode almost entirely forgotten. Several bigfoot-curious people who followed the Ketchum saga were disgusted and either dropped out of the scene for a while or disappeared entirely.

Canonical stories

Two specific witness stories remain a solid part of the bigfoot/sasquatch canon. Albert Ostman told a dramatic but unverified story that he was abducted by a family of sasquatches in 1924. He came forward decades later in 1957 when nothing could be confirmed and bigfoot was now a media commodity. The Ape Canyon incident, also of 1924, described how several men were attacked by “wild apemen” in a cabin at Mt. St. Helens. Fred Beck publicized his version of the account in 1967. Beck considered the creatures “supernatural beings” but this aspect was frequently left out of the retelling by those who thought of bigfoot as a human-adjacent hominin. The Ape Canyon attack was disputed by the forest rangers but remained a graphic story repeated countless times to demonstrate the reality of these creatures.

Not Finding Bigfoot

Additional key videos, photos, recordings, tracks, and eyewitness accounts still make up the body of evidence presented for the reality of bigfoot. Yet, even the “best” evidence does not hold up well to scrutiny. Beginning in 2011, a new audience was exposed to the legend and the idea that bigfoots were EVERYWHERE thanks to nine years of a semi-scripted “reality” show called Finding Bigfoot. The show successfully placed the idea of bigfoot as a real animal back into the public consciousness. Those on the show made an effort to look like they knew what they were doing and serious about it. They encouraged people to tell their stories, which sound highly convincing. The kicker was… they never found bigfoot (to the degree that the scientific world would be satisfied). Thanks to TV, the internet, and the surge of amateur paranormal investigation as a popular pastime, bigfoot was again a hot topic and now regularly “sighted” across the continent. More researchers signed on to look for evidence themselves.

Around 2000, the internet ushered in a new means of communication allowing people with fringe ideas to find each other. The internet platforms not only were a way to hear new opinions, claims, and findings, but also leveled the field whereby anyone could be heard and present themselves as qualified “experts”. The situation created new self-styled bigfoot influencers and a place for the bigfoot-curious researchers to find information. In the 2020s, Bigfoot and other cryptids became more mainstream as cultural icons, as celebrated local folklore, and as commodities. The efforts to bring accounts of anomalous creatures to the masses transformed into an explosion of casual cryptid interest by a new generation. This new model of cryptids was less about discovery of a real animal and more about the performance of investigating mysteries and the joy of indulging in edgy beliefs, an aesthetic derived from the cryptid TV shows and social media platforms.

2025 may mark the beginning of a definable shift in Bigfootery as highlighted by three major developments. Time will tell how the community responds.

Death of Dr. Jeff Meldrum

Dr. Jeffrey Meldrum was the scientific face of bigfootery. A credentialed university researcher, Meldrum went to many bigfoot related events every year, was the in-demand spokesperson for the reality of bigfoot on TV, started a journal, and embraced his role as leading bigfoot expert. He also provided a measure of reason by rejecting dubious claims such as those by the aforementioned Melba Ketchum as well as Russian Yeti promoters. When Meldrum passed away in September of 2025, it was a shock and a heavy blow to the community of Bigfooters. There is no equivalent figure to fill his shoes. While others continue to reference his legacy and opinions, they cannot replace the familiar bearded professorial guy calming telling you that he knows bigfoots are real because of “science”.

There are not many candidates who could step up to fill the role of scientists of bigfoot studies. Active scientists are generally unwilling or unable to commit to work on what, for all intents and purposes, appears to be a dead end zoological subject. After 60 years of questionable, weak, and hoaxed evidence, the subject has instead slipped into a pop cultural phenomenon that people see as fun, with a few hundreds, perhaps, who consider themselves serious researchers. Like a bigfoot Pope, (an admittedly inappropriate metaphor) Meldrum kept the faith alive, providing guidance and authority. He encompassed a role that seems unlikely to be filled soon, if ever. But the lure of being the most important fish in a small pond may be tempting (e.g., Avi Loeb).

Absence of evidence

Every day that goes by without a biological finding means that Bigfoot is more likely to not exist. After nearly 60 years, we have no better evidence for its reality as a biological entity. If people are actually experiencing a Bigfoot as they say they are – in their backyards, crossing roadways, watching in the forests, moving around with their offspring, signalling to each other across distances – there should be actual evidence of their existence. Instead, we have useless visuals, prints without a print-maker, and scads of eyewitness accounts certainly influenced by cultural contagion that prompts people to see a Bigfoot when it is unlikely to be that at all. We now have the technology to watch game trail traffic, and to use drones and infrared equipment. We can map out all areas on earth remotely and in most places in person. Even though the number of serious seekers has increased, no biological sign of an unknown ape has been secured. Yet, Bigfooters insist discovery is close.

Lewis and Bartlett’s book Bigfooters and Scientific Inquiry (2026) does a good job of showing how Bigfoot knowledge claims are constructed through absences: whatever cannot be attributed to other causes is interpreted as possible evidence of Bigfoot. Such a framing can work for constructing a hypothesis – such as, the missing cause is a “Bigfoot”. However, that hypothesis has yet to be confirmed. It has failed, so far.

Typical collection of data isn’t enough. Images and video will need corroborating evidence to prevent being discarded out of hand, DNA testing will need funds, deep analysis, and continued efforts. Gathering even more eyewitness accounts is worthless when the volumes already existing have never have led to a capture. Only a body or body part will do.

Instead, the process continues as it has for six decades – amateur speculation, excuses, and criticism of existing scientific processes. Seekers see a bigfoot everywhere but find it nowhere. Bigfooters who wish to maintain the position that a bigfoot can be found will have an ever more difficult time justifying their efforts and maintaining any credibility if the same tired old evidence is all that gets presented. In reference to Meldrum’s passing, the field lacks scientific leadership.

PGF film hoax reveal

The vehement reaction by some Bigfooters to the assertion that the Patterson film has been solidly and conclusively demonstrated to be a hoax (by Patterson and Gimlin, et al.) has been a textbook example of cognitive dissonance. (See Long hidden evidence blows up the reality of the Patterson Gimlin Bigfoot film) While it is fair to say we should wait for the Capturing Bigfoot documentary to be available to assess it, it is NOT reasonable to also throw out excuses of how the debunking itself must have been faked. These same people who are denying the premise and claims of Capturing Bigfoot, as well as previous evidence of a hoax, will, ironically, take eyewitness accounts of bigfoot at face value. How will they square their rejection of facts from a physical film that everyone will be able to see? America is awash in obvious examples of how far people will reach to soothe their cognitive dissonance these days.

The hoax denialists claim the new pieces were AI generated, that the footage was from Roger’s other documentary, even that Patty Patterson is too old to remember and Clint Patterson is not a reliable claimant. None of this is remotely reasonable in the big picture. So far we have no public disputes of the claims from Bob Gimlin or the Pattersons. To me, that is the crucial point. They know it’s a hoax and this is the end of the line for this key piece of evidence. That realization hits hard with those for whom searching for a real animal has become an inherent part of their identity (and their revenue stream).

Eliminating the PGF doesn’t automatically correlate to the end of bigfoot. We still have the unsolved problem of people seeing and experiencing what they say they have. However, looking back at history, people also were sure they saw fairies, demons, angels, aliens, and spirits. This is not an easy enigma to unravel. The previous point of “absence of evidence” comes into play. Bigfooters cannot make their biological argument without outrageous mental acrobatics, distractions, and slight of hand.

A key piece of evidence revealed as invalid does not take down the whole system, but it makes some people on the inside start to doubt and many more on the outside say, “See! We told you this was nonsense.” Social ridicule also has the tendency to squelch further sighting reports and involvement. So, while some Bigfooters insist this too shall pass, I don’t think it will. What happens in response to the public release of Capturing Bigfoot will be illuminating.

Still the #1 cryptid

As documented on this blog, bigfoot and other cryptids are more popular than ever before. However, finding a body is not a primary goal. Cryptid tourism is flourishing. Places are embracing their local monster lore even if the creature is an absurdity that has no basis in biology or reality. People appear to be looking for connection, experiences, and entertainment, maybe even a sense of enchantment in the world. They want to believe. This works much better when the mystery remains active. As we see daily, even when the explanation punches us in the face, we would rather continue to believe our constructed “truth” instead. Cryptid media is on fire and there are more movies, books, and online content to peruse, including merch so you can advertise your belief to those around you. Cultural bigfoot is not equivalent to physical bigfoot, but it’s not nothing. And, it’s still important.

Those with museums, podcasts and YouTube channels, even TV shows, will still rake in the viewers who yearn for the mystery and experience. Conventions and festivals will still attract fans. Bigfoot remains the #1 North American cryptid. Bigfoot is iconic, and commodified, Americana that is not going away soon. The PGF, if not a film of a real bigfoot, is a universally-successful hoax. And that’s really something.

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A friend gave me a pair of the Clarity Blue self-adjusting glasses that claim to adjust to your eye sight. He told me to wear them for a week and let him know how they worked. Big disappointment! They do nothing that the advertisements on YouTube claim. I wore them for about 25 minutes, they did nothing. They're a complete fraud!
#Hoax #scam

The very, uh, special find of the day.
Looking at the bright side: This is going to advance jurisdiction if real and employed enough 🤣 :dumpster_fire_gif:

https://malus.sh/

However, something tells me that this is clearly the equivalent hoax grade of klausprogrammieren...

#llm #ai #foss #compliance #hoax #notsureiftrolling

Long hidden evidence blows up the reality of the Patterson Gimlin Bigfoot film

A bomb dropped at the SXSW film festival that upends all hope that the infamous Patterson Gimlin film showed an actual Bigfoot. Revelations in the Marq Evans’ documentary Capturing Bigfoot appear to confirm, to all reasonable degree, that the PGF, filmed in 1967 at Bluff Creek, California, was hoaxed by Patterson and company.

Capturing Bigfoot documentary is not readily viewable at this time. It likely will get a distributor shortly because many people are very interested in this new development on a 59-year-old classic piece of Americana that started the Bigfoot craze that continues today.

Here is some info from Unseen Films, by a person who did see it

CAPTURING BIGFOOT is the story of the best-known film footage of Bigfoot, the Patterson/Gimlin film that was shot in 1967 when the pair was out looking for the creature when one showed up and Patterson was thrown from his horse but held on to his camera. It’s the tale of what happened as told by Patterson’s son, Clint, and the other people involved with it, as well as the people who believed and those that didn’t. It’s a very bittersweet and melancholy film not just for its revelations but because it’s the story of lives broken apart by the few feet of film.

[…]

The selling point of the film is that recent[ly] discovered reel of 16mm film that had been locked in a vault for decades. We know the film exists at the start and it is hinted that the revelation, borne out later in the film, that it reveals the film we all know is a hoax.

What’s on the found footage

People magazine has a story that reveals a bit more. The headline is clear that the film is revealed as a hoax: The Famed 1967 Bigfoot Film Was an ‘Incredible Hoax,’ Says the Director of a Groundbreaking New Documentary. The found film was given to Evans by the daughter of the person who apparently developed the original PGF. This new bit was a first run of the setup:

Not long after receiving Brooks’ email, Evans had the 16mm film developed and days later found himself looking at a 40-second clip set in a location similar to the one in the 1967 movie, showing what appeared to be a slightly skinnier-looking Bigfoot walking into the woods.

The article goes on to say that it was Bob Heironimus in the Bigfoot suit in the original film, and that both Clint and Patty Patterson knew the film was a hoax to make money. Finally, there is a revelation that Clint saw Roger burn the original suit.

In an interview with FilmMakerMixer.com podcast, Evans discusses how the film came to be through a fortuitous interaction with a person at his university. This interview clarifies that Evans did not set out with the intention of making a debunking film. However, as the story unfolded, he sought out more information, eventually getting to speak to the Pattersons themselves who previously have never revealed what they knew.

https://youtu.be/AW-cO1xYuMU?si=gaDqunVsqvecR92w&t=419

Roger Patterson died from cancer five years later. The PGF was a lasting legacy he could hardly have imagined. In 2004, author Greg Long dug deep into Patterson’s history and showed him to be an untrustworthy narrator of the Bigfoot tale. Long’s book The Making of Bigfoot was a big deal, but like all other critical literature on cryptids, the Bigfoot believer community rejected it. Long is vindicated by this documentary as Evans stated he relied heavily on Long’s recorded interviews.

Short of having the suit, which wouldn’t be much to look at today if it did still exist, almost all the pieces to the puzzle have been completed.

The aftermath will be fascinating

The evidence that the PGF was faked has been substantial since day one. And every day that went by without a Bigfoot body meant an incrementally more solid argument for concluding an actual zoological being does not exist.

Nevertheless, those that believe that Bigfoot is out there will likely not be swayed by more evidence of the PGF being a hoax. Apparently the film shows this exact response from Bill Munns, who has become a known “expert” for the PGF and considers it genuine. It’s not easy or simple to peel away the many thick layers of confirmatory information that believers have built up around their worldview. They will not readily concede that their life’s investment was a scam.

However, those on the fence may be swayed. Those who had doubts might turn and give up. It will be interesting to watch the reaction. What will Bob Gimlin have to say? How will the rest of the community react?

I lament that Jeffrey Meldrum could not supply us with his thoughts on this. But I would also guess he would disregard it. Others who have had personal experiences will continue to insist there is something out there.

Even if this new film gets traction, it won’t diminish the presence of Bigfoot in North American culture. That will remain huge for a long time. Bigfoot is a Pop Cryptid, which means attention given to it is less about finding a new animal and more about enjoying the idea of a weird creature, particularly via speculation and fun stories, with an emphasis on casual belief and commodification.

The Ultimate Hoax

Whenever I have mentioned the PGF to people not involved in cryptozoology, they assume it was conclusively admitted as a hoax already. With about 20% of the population feeling positive about the reality of Bigfoot, this is unsurprising. What is surprising is that we have this new evidence come to light. The original film was analyzed to death. Second only to the Zapruder film as the most analyzed in American history, the PGF has enthralled people for nearly 59 years. The visual aspect of a moving creature, the ambiguity of its features, the promotion of the idea that it was out there, and the commodification that kept its spirit alive when no body could ever be found meant this piece of media had incredible impact and will live on forever.

Patterson got very lucky to have a stunt end up as a film that was fortuitously just blurry enough to fool so many people. The situation evolved in such a way that kept it fascinating for decades. But the case is now closed. Patterson and Gimlin will live on as great American hoaxers.

Update: Many people are asking pointed questions. I haven’t seen the film and it will not be release to the public for a bit. However, please check out this video from a Bigfooter who saw Capturing Bigfoot. Your questions may be answered, for the moment at least.

https://youtu.be/WBuWLe1MC_A?si=Kqfy39-RfDNUWv7x

»[Guy] left South Africa after being held up at gunpoint in his car. But now he feels there are greater threats in the United States, ​he said, citing mass shootings in public places as well as violence by U.S. immigration officers.«

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-says-white-south-africans-are-persecuted-some-are-returning-better-life-2026-03-11/

https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2026-03-11-white-south-africans-returning-despite-trumps-persecution-claims/

»#Trump’s “white persecution” claims fail as thousands of white South Africans return home«

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/trump-s-white-persecution-claims-fail-as-thousands-of-white-south-africans-return-home/ar-AA1Ytcrx

#maga #hoax

Meanwhile... In the real world beyond the fantasy world of Toddler King and Two-Keg #Hegseth

So sad. And we've been to this rodeo before. Remember Season 1: #TrumpVirus (the #hoax) ?

Anything going away like a miracle yet?

(See comment)

Now it's Season 2: Rage & #Retribution. And don't forget: "Thank me!" So terrific, all the best words, stable genius, bla bla...

#TrumpVirus #psychopathology #megalomania #TrumpEpsteinFiles #coverup #Epstein #emoluments #war
#democracy #justice #truth

@AnnaAntifa Dan is deze persoon opgelicht. Er bestaan geen Signal abonnementen. Het is gewoon gratis en de app wijst je daar soms op door te vragen om een donatie. Uitbreiden bestaat niet, lidmaatschap ook niet. #hoax

@cenobyte

I'm with you on hoping to hear Sabine opine on this.

I've read some more of the stuff in the repo - text and code. It's still just about all over my interested-layman's head. But I want it to be true, or at least true-ish enough to point the way to additional threads to pull on with other researchers.

I really hope that this isn't just a big joke, and the text isn't just LLM jibberish from a model trained on physics papers.

> I personally don’t think of an observer as a person but rather then entanglement
> of systems and how it spreads.

I've never liked the term "observer" or "observe" as used in theoretical physics (the waveform collapses when the observer looks at the result, etc), because it does seem to imply an intelligence or an id, though that might just be linguistic baggage.

I tend to think of it more like Einstein's relativity. An observer there can be thought of more as just a vantage point. There doesn't need to be a person there to do the looking, but if you happened to stand there, you would see a particular "view" of the universe. From another vantage point, a theoretical observer would "see" a different view of the same events. But what do I know, I'm no physicist.

#LLM #AI #hoax

Les fausses publications scientifiques menacent de submerger la recherche contre le cancer
https://theconversation.com/les-fausses-publications-scientifiques-menacent-de-submerger-la-recherche-contre-le-cancer-276465?utm_source=firefox-newtab-fr-fr
Une étude parue en de janvier 2026 estime que plus de 250 000 articles scientifiques liés au cancer pourraient avoir été fabriqués de toutes pièces entre 1999 et 2024.
Ces articles représentaient -de 1 % des publications scientifiques annuelles en 1999, leur taux s’élève désormais à 15 % du contenu produit chaque année
#hoax

Complotti: Pallywood

Pagina web episodio: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/pallywood--70266502

File multimediale: https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/70266502/02_complotti_master01.mp3

#complotti #pallywood #hoax #debunk

Walter Koch, who died OTD in 1970, founded the Koch House System in #Astrology https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/usa/ghostbusters/?s=mb #hoax #paranormal #travel

I imagine when news of Christopher Columbus discovering America was reported back home many of his countrymen called it a government hoax, saying that the Italian and Spanish governments had faked the America landing.

Every country has their share of conspiracy theorists and dumbasses.

#columbus #america #history #hoax #conspiracy #MAGA

Bonus points questions:

1) How many times will Sir use the word "me"?

2) How many times will he call #truth a #hoax ?

3) What percentage of the #SOTU will be used for #retribution &/or to slander #SCOTUS

4) What if anything will the #TrumpVirus King do (besides brag & make stuff up) to reassure his 'base' and country that we are on "the right track", and/or that he has already fixed #affordability ?

Will he act on impulse to slam the #TrumpEpsteinFiles 'witch hunt'?

#DOJ #coverup #truth

RE: https://mastodon.green/@JustinGerdes/116048766025023332

Remember, #Affordability is a Dem #Hoax

La diosa de Grime Graves fue encontrada en 1939 en las minas homónimas del Neolítico (3000-1800 a.C.) por Albert Leslie Armstrong, quien aseguraba que era del Paleolítico, y por lo tanto las minas también. Sin embargo, se sospecha que sea falsa por el comportamiento extraño de Armstrong el día del hallazgo, la falta de testigos y que siga sin encontrarse nada igual en Inglaterra a pesar del tiempo que ha pasado. 🏛️Museo Británico #bulos #hoax #prehistoria #prehistory

What is #Trump thinking? I am listening live to his speech at the #WEF in #Davos. Who does he think his audience is? It’s just #lies lies and more lies. #Inflation — man you are wrong! #Tarrifs — nope still illegal acc to #US law. Talking about #hoax (your words Mr. President) …. You are the only hoax that I can see … Oh man… I really wonder if Trump will be #impeached again …. This time for being #unfitforoffice…

#cortex #neocortex #crashbandicoot #owl #owl #bankruptcy #money #credit #competitors #players #quiz #television #tv #game #wheeloffortune #schadenfreude #joy #laugh #photomontage #badomen #badluck #unlucky #meme #hoax #hoot #gameshow #mocking #smug

Trump has no idea what words mean or the context of them, he calls out the Dems for hoax or being in the Trump/Epstein files without any proof, this is what Witch hunt really means, he says the Radical Left is after him but I would say that's the whole left and some of the right that is after him,

#Trump #PedoTrump #TrumpFiles #Hoax #WitchHunt #Left #Dems #TrumpPedo #TrumpPedoKing

After raking in billions and trillions based on the #AI #hoax, #techbro s and #CEO s are now garnering public sympathy and understanding for the fact that their profiteering will take the whole economy down.
Without a doubt, they will be #TooBigToFail and tax money will be needed to bail them and their victims out.
The workers they were trying to replace with their dumb machines will have to pay the bill.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy7vrd8k4eo

#ThereIsNoAI #AIBubble #BubbleBurst

The #SupremeCourt rejected #AlexJones #appeal, upholding the $1.4 billion #defamation judgment against him for spreading false claims that the #SandyHook #massacre was a #hoax, ensuring he remains liable for #damages to victims’ families after years of evasion and #bankruptcy filings. A #Connecticut #jury in 2022 ordered Jones to pay the massive judgment https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/supreme-court-rejects-alex-jones-appeal-of-14-billion-sandy-hook-judgment/ar-AA1OryBu

In August 1835, The Sun newspaper published a six-part series claiming Sir John Herschel discovered life on the moon, including winged humanoid "man-bats." The hoax fooled thousands, boosted circulation to 19,000+ (making it the world's most popular paper,) inspired plays and dioramas, and spread internationally. The Sun never officially admitted it was fake. Early example of how sensational "news" can go viral!
#NYC #MediaHistory #FakeNews #1835 #Journalism #Hoax
https://www.untappedcities.com/great-moon-hoax-nyc/?ref=daily-newsletter

In August 1835, The Sun newspaper published a six-part series claiming Sir John Herschel discovered life on the moon, including winged humanoid "man-bats." The hoax fooled thousands, boosted circulation to 19,000+ (making it the world's most popular paper,) inspired plays and dioramas, and spread internationally. The Sun never officially admitted it was fake. Early example of how sensational "news" can go viral!
#NYC #MediaHistory #FakeNews #1835 #Journalism #Hoax
https://www.untappedcities.com/great-moon-hoax-nyc/?ref=daily-newsletter

**The Hoax of Semi-Freedom in Babylonia**

"_Declaring dependent groups, such as non-priestly temple personnel or foreign deportees settled on royal land, to be “semi-free,” despite being qualified to own and bequeath property, live in families, and perform state duties, limits the number of “really free” individuals considerably, basically, to male heads of wealthy households and noble descent only._"

Wunsch, C. (2025) The Hoax of Semi-Freedom in Babylonia. Journal of Ancient Near Eastern History, Vol. 12 (Issue 1), pp. 189-206. https://doi.org/10.1515/janeh-2024-0021.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #History #Histodons #Ancient #Babylonia #Slavery #Manumission #Freedom #Hoax #Academia @histodons

Bigfoot remains a moneymaking hoax

Once again, someone has rather uncreatively posed a hairy man prop as an amazing find and put it on display for all the rubes to pay to see.

This time, it’s at the New York State Fair.

Dack

Self-titled Bigfoot expert Charles “Snake” Stuart claims to have found a dead Bigfoot specimen in the Adirondack Mountains in October 2024. A hastily cobbled together website at BigfootRemains.com shows the body. The site also contains a Press Release which details a trail of nonsense that describes the 8ft creature as Neanderthal-human hybrid coined “Dack”. There is sciencey fluff about his technique and the DNA results. He pretends to do a news interview. He wants money for more research. It’s all laughably bad.

There are many reports of Bigfoot in the New York mountains, so the basis for the claim was not extreme (as cryptid claims go). This is very much a pop cryptid example as the story is more about making bank than making history with a scientific find. There is nothing about this that is remotely believable; it’s designed for entertainment.

While I haven’t sought out the Bigfoot community response, I suspect it is overwhelmingly negative. They are pretty serious folk. Oh wait… this just floated in from infamous legit serious Bigfoot guy Matt Moneymaker with the BRFO:

Oh, he’s pissed, poor thing.

It’s likely there will be a few who are so gullible that they think this is real. Nevertheless, it’s getting some publicity so I bet it will be popular. For my own little side show, I hastily cobbled together a history of related cryptid gaffs.

Hank

Before there was Dack, there was Hank. In fact, Dack looks a lot like Hank. Maybe they are related. Hank was a hoaxed body created by Rick Dyer in 2014 made of of latex, foam and camel hair that Dyer and a partner toured around the US charging people $10 a head. According to the San Antonio Express News, they pocketed $60,000 before the jig was up. Dyer had claimed that he had shot the creature in Texas. This was a classic story of “fool me twice” because Dyer was already an established Bigfoot con artist so you were kind of daft if you fell for this a second time.

Georgia Bigfoot Body

Dyer and Matthew Whitton claimed to have encountered several Bigfoots in the Georgia woods in 2008. They dragged one huge dead body out and put it in a freezer, releasing a photo to the press. Partnering with well established Bigfoot huckster Tom Biscardi, they held a press conference revealing more photos. Many Bigfoot believers wanted this to be “the real deal” as Biscardi called it. But the hoax was short-lived. When the time came to examine the real body, the fakers bolted and the jig was up. It was a suit with added animal guts. This is the episode Moneymaker cites in his Facebook rant screenshotted above. I think these chuckleheads were trying to pull off another Minnesota Iceman caper, but they were too witless.

Minnesota Iceman

These hoaxes followed a pretty successful gaff that is still discussed today: the Minnesota Iceman. Originally known as the Siberskoye Creature, Frank D. Hansen’s specimen of a hairy ape man encased in ice, made the rounds in the US and Canada in 1968. Hansen’s tale of how he came to have the creature changed repeatedly. It had been found floating as a block of ice off the coast of Siberia (if this sounds like a Scooby Doo episode, that’s because it was), or it shot in Vietnam and transferred to the US, or Hansen shot it himself in Minnesota. The Iceman garnered attention from the founders of cryptozoology Bernard Heuvelmans and Ivan Sanderson who visited Hansen’s specimen (still encased in ice) and came away believing it was a real hominid carcass. Heuvelmans even wrote about it as real. The story of the Iceman is wild. Hit the TetZoo site for more. The conclusion is, you guessed it, it was a hoax – a latex prop made to appear like it had been shot in the eye. Creative! The ice did the job of obscuring the details. Clever! However, when government officials came sniffing around, Hansen stated the real body had been retrieved by the owner and he was using a replica prop instead. Convenient.

Step Right Up

There are many other examples of cryptid hoaxes – constructed, dead, or alive – that have been displayed in public for a fee. P.T. Barnum was great at this. He gave us the Cardiff Giant (actually a replica of a fake), and the Feejee mermaid in the mid 1800s. The “real” fake Cardiff Giant was supposedly a lithified giant man whose appearance was a sensation in New York in 1869. Created by George Hull, who spend a large amount of cash to have it constructed, he cleared a tidy profit by the end. Funny enough, a Facebook comment on “Dack” called it the Cardiff Giant 2.0. Eh, that commenter forgot a few examples in between.

The infamous Hodag of the late 1890s was a constructed beast from the Wisconsin woods that was so popular that it became the mascot for the town of Rhinelander. Gene Shepard was a noted storyteller and jokester, it’s unlikely many people believed this mash-up monster was real. Today, the Hodag has his own store and traveling shop that appears at cryptid town festivals.

The Jersey Devil, known in 1785 as the Leeds Devil, was advertised as being live on exhibit at Philadelphia’s Arch Street Museum for 10-cents admission. The “devil” was a cruelly concocted hoax where a kangaroo was painted with fake wings and prodded to jump around. The stunt didn’t save the sad excuse for a museum, which closed.

I’m sure I’m missing some examples. What we are seeing here is the art of the hoax. The audience always forgets that real discoveries aren’t made this way. They want to hope, and get a glimpse of something fascinating. Instead, they either get a rude awakening or they laugh at the joke that they willingly fell for. Maybe that’s worth a dime. But not much more.

#Adirondacks #Bigfoot #BigfootHoax #cryptidHoax #fakeBigfoot #GeorgiaBigfootHoax #hoax #MinnesotaIceman #NewYorkStateFair #RickDyer #TravelingHoaxes

https://sharonahill.com/?p=10164

The #staffers ignored a #summons to attend and explain what #Labor knew about the #hoax the party used to justify #antisemitism-specific #offences.

https://www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/failure-of-senior-labor-staffers-to-attend-dural-caravan-inquiry-speaks-volumes/

https://t.me/AntifascistSolidarity/57227

#duralcaravan #duralcaravanplot #duralcaravaninquiry #duralcaravanexplosives #australia #ausgov #auspol #tasgov #taspol #politas

#FactCheck:
#ChuckSchumer #NASA #ShellCompany #Hoax Story Originated On #Satire Website -- NO 16$ Million #Scam

https://leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2025/05/fact-check-chuck-schumer-nasa-shell-company-new-jersey.html

2012 (2017) [6 min] by Ingo Raschka | #USA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Y1Jcs1zHH4

#2D #2DAnimation #AnimatedShort #AnimatedShortOfTheDay #Animation #EndOfTheWorld #Apocalypse #Hoax #Dating #CalArts #CaliforniaInstituteOfTheArts

Bonsai Kitten - Erinnerst Du Dich noch daran? Dieser 25 Jahre alte Hoax hat natürlich einen Wikipedia-Artikel. Soweit so nicht überraschend. Aber an dem Artikel wurde sogar noch im letzten Jahr gearbeitet!

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonsai_Kitten

#Wikipedia #Hoax #BonsaiKitten

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #VarietyMix

Waeys, Bensley & Hoax:
🎵 Twerp

#Waeys #Bensley #Hoax

https://music.monstercat.com/track/twerp

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #VarietyMix

Waeys, Bensley & Hoax:
🎵 Twerp

#Waeys #Bensley #Hoax

https://music.monstercat.com/track/twerp

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #VarietyMix

Waeys, Bensley & Hoax:
🎵 Twerp

#Waeys #Bensley #Hoax

https://music.monstercat.com/track/twerp

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #VarietyMix

Waeys, Bensley & Hoax:
🎵 Twerp

#Waeys #Bensley #Hoax

https://music.monstercat.com/track/twerp

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #VarietyMix

Waeys, Bensley & Hoax:
🎵 Twerp

#Waeys #Bensley #Hoax

https://music.monstercat.com/track/twerp

#Transmutation
StartUp aus der Schweiz entwickelt Konzept zur Verwertung abgebrannter Brennstäbe?

#Hoax oder #SteinDerWeisen?

TO THE POINT THAT IT HAS KILLED MILLIONS OF PEOPLE ALL AROUND THE WORLD #coronavirus But that's ok in the USA if #TRUMP has called the coronavirus a #hoax before a #global #confinement THAT'S OK in the USA. No consequence. THAT'S OK: America still Prevails

#Northeastern University "virtual reality lab" #explosives maker gets 1 year in prison. Jason Duhaime, formerly the “New Technology Manager” and school's director of the Immersive Media Lab, the now 47 yr old had left a threatening note in 2022 rambling about the #Metaverse & #MarkZuckerberg, before injuring himself in the #hoax blast.

https://www.bostonherald.com/2025/01/14/northeastern-university-bomb-hoaxer-gets-1-year-in-prison

The jackalope is a legendary creature combining features of a jackrabbit and antelope, symbolizing humor and creativity in American folklore. #jackalope #hoax https://connectparanormal.net/2024/12/04/the-jackalope-a-whimsical-symbol-of-american-folklore/

https://observers.france24.com/fr/des-clandestins-ha%C3%AFtiens-votent-pour-kamala-harris-l-intox-vient-d-une-ferme-%C3%A0-trolls-russe
Des clandestins haïtiens votent pour Kamala Harris ? L’intox vient d'une ferme à trolls russe

Une vidéo diffusée le 31 octobre rapporte le témoignage d'un #migrant haïtien, en situation illégale, se vantant d'avoir réussi à voter à plusieurs reprises pour #KamalaHarris dans l'État de la #Géorgie, notamment à l'aide de plusieurs faux permis de conduire. Il s'agit d'une vidéo fallacieuse, vraisemblablement commanditée par la #Russie
#hoax
#mesinformation

Made you look! Zoos create cryptids

Hoaxes propagated by zoos are not new. Chinese zoos have repeatedly passed off painted dogs as pandas. And, it’s become a gimmick now for zoos to publicize that they have a mystery creature sighting. The latest is from the Bristol Zoo in England. This week, they posted a trail cam pic of a “mystery animal” seen around the zoo. The photo is that of an edited muntjac deer with wings and a single swirled horn.

The aim is to get people sharing the post and to come to the zoo for a post-summer visit. That’s all great and I love it. Clearly, it’s for fun. Unfortunately, in today’s internet climate, there will be those people who take it seriously or out of context.

There are hundreds of photos circulated on social media showing real animals tagged with the wrong location (big cats like “black panthers” are possibly the most common). Photoshopped or AI images flood facebook, TikTok, etc. Sadly, some will willingly believe these creatures are real while the rest of us just chuckle, roll (eyes) and scroll.

The zoo cryptid ploy took off thanks to the Amarillo zoo mystery photo of May 2022.

The photo caused a social media stir by appealing to a favorite Internet pastime – speculating wildly over a blurry photo. According to what was stated by the zoo, a security photo along the perimeter fence line captured an unusual-looking figure at 1:25 AM. But that’s it – that’s all we got. The photo had no scale, no daytime photo to compare, no attempt to recreate the photo, just a news release two weeks later asking for people to opine on what it could be. And, boy, did they. The creature was suggested to be a chupacabra, a dogman, or a werewolf. Other ideas were Sonic the hedgehog, Anubis, Crash Bandicoot, a Furry trying to break into the zoo, a person in a cowboy hat, a jackrabbit jumping away from the camera, a person carrying a raccoon (or a were-raccoon).

I do hope they were just being silly but some people have a less than adequate grasp on reality. It seems like that it was something normal captured in an unusual way, such as a coyote blurred by movement due to the slow shutter speed. It is also likely that this was a real photo that was used out of context for attention. The zoo knew this would get attention. There was no effort to made to explain it, which was a shame, because it was all about going viral and getting outrageous comments. I’m all for fun news but it stinks when it’s delivered in such a dumb way.

Other zoos saw how great it was for business to say that a strange animal was seen and that none of the zoo staff could identify it (wink, wink). Shortly after the Amarillo media success, the San Antonio zoo tried the same by replacing the Amarillo creature with their hippo. Not many people seem to be falling for the reality of a winged, horned deer, but certain paranormal-themed sites, like Coast to Coast AM run their weird science stories right alongside the obviously ridiculous stuff. There will be some people…

If you see your local zoo promoting cryptids, particularly around Halloween time, send me a tip!

For more on cryptids, visit my other blog Modern Cryptozoology. There is a new post about the awesome and beloved (hoaxed) mascot of Rhinelander, Wisconsin, the Hodag.

#AmarilloZoo #BristolZoo #cryptids #deer #hoax #muntjac #mysteryAnimal #UnidentifiedAmarilloObject #wingedDeer #zoo

https://sharonahill.com/?p=8822

#TeamTrump didn’t like the #ArlingtonNationalCemetery #story, so they #wrote their own version of it.

Since the #scandal broke, Trump has characterized himself as a #victim, labeled it a “#hoax,” concocted #allegations about #WhiteHouse #involvement and #attacked the #vicepresident.

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/donald-trump-arlington-cemetery-scandal-story-rewrote-election-2024-rcna169290