#hoax — Public Fediverse posts
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Ein #Hoax ist auf Englisch ein Streich, ein Schabernack mit dem Ziel, jemanden in die Irre zu führen oder zu erschrecken. Das Internet ist voll von sogenannten Hoaxes, Falschmeldungen zum Beispiel, auf die möglichst viele Menschen hereinfallen sollen. Ein ganz besonders dreister Hoax hat es Anfang des 19. Jahrhundert gar in die britische Presse geschafft, der sogenannte «Berners Street Hoax». Mein neuer Beitrag auf Radio SRF 2 Kultur.
https://www.srf.ch/audio/100-sekunden-wissen/berners-street-hoax?id=AUDI20260722_RS_0001
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Ein #Hoax ist auf Englisch ein Streich, ein Schabernack mit dem Ziel, jemanden in die Irre zu führen oder zu erschrecken. Das Internet ist voll von sogenannten Hoaxes, Falschmeldungen zum Beispiel, auf die möglichst viele Menschen hereinfallen sollen. Ein ganz besonders dreister Hoax hat es Anfang des 19. Jahrhundert gar in die britische Presse geschafft, der sogenannte «Berners Street Hoax». Mein neuer Beitrag auf Radio SRF 2 Kultur.
https://www.srf.ch/audio/100-sekunden-wissen/berners-street-hoax?id=AUDI20260722_RS_0001
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Ein #Hoax ist auf Englisch ein Streich, ein Schabernack mit dem Ziel, jemanden in die Irre zu führen oder zu erschrecken. Das Internet ist voll von sogenannten Hoaxes, Falschmeldungen zum Beispiel, auf die möglichst viele Menschen hereinfallen sollen. Ein ganz besonders dreister Hoax hat es Anfang des 19. Jahrhundert gar in die britische Presse geschafft, der sogenannte «Berners Street Hoax». Mein neuer Beitrag auf Radio SRF 2 Kultur.
https://www.srf.ch/audio/100-sekunden-wissen/berners-street-hoax?id=AUDI20260722_RS_0001
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Ein #Hoax ist auf Englisch ein Streich, ein Schabernack mit dem Ziel, jemanden in die Irre zu führen oder zu erschrecken. Das Internet ist voll von sogenannten Hoaxes, Falschmeldungen zum Beispiel, auf die möglichst viele Menschen hereinfallen sollen. Ein ganz besonders dreister Hoax hat es Anfang des 19. Jahrhundert gar in die britische Presse geschafft, der sogenannte «Berners Street Hoax». Mein neuer Beitrag auf Radio SRF 2 Kultur.
https://www.srf.ch/audio/100-sekunden-wissen/berners-street-hoax?id=AUDI20260722_RS_0001
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Ein #Hoax ist auf Englisch ein Streich, ein Schabernack mit dem Ziel, jemanden in die Irre zu führen oder zu erschrecken. Das Internet ist voll von sogenannten Hoaxes, Falschmeldungen zum Beispiel, auf die möglichst viele Menschen hereinfallen sollen. Ein ganz besonders dreister Hoax hat es Anfang des 19. Jahrhundert gar in die britische Presse geschafft, der sogenannte «Berners Street Hoax». Mein neuer Beitrag auf Radio SRF 2 Kultur.
https://www.srf.ch/audio/100-sekunden-wissen/berners-street-hoax?id=AUDI20260722_RS_0001
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'The #Reform candidate for Makerfield, Robert Kenyon, said #women should be denied #abortions even if they had been #raped by a family member; the Reform MP Sarah Pochin said there were too many #black people on #television; the Reform candidate for Rayleigh West, Stuart Prior, said #white people were the master #race and had bigger #brains than black people; the Reform candidate for Bootle West, Jay Leslie Cooper, said the #Holocaust was a #hoax; ....' -
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'The #Reform candidate for Makerfield, Robert Kenyon, said #women should be denied #abortions even if they had been #raped by a family member; the Reform MP Sarah Pochin said there were too many #black people on #television; the Reform candidate for Rayleigh West, Stuart Prior, said #white people were the master #race and had bigger #brains than black people; the Reform candidate for Bootle West, Jay Leslie Cooper, said the #Holocaust was a #hoax; ....' -
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'The #Reform candidate for Makerfield, Robert Kenyon, said #women should be denied #abortions even if they had been #raped by a family member; the Reform MP Sarah Pochin said there were too many #black people on #television; the Reform candidate for Rayleigh West, Stuart Prior, said #white people were the master #race and had bigger #brains than black people; the Reform candidate for Bootle West, Jay Leslie Cooper, said the #Holocaust was a #hoax; ....' -
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'The #Reform candidate for Makerfield, Robert Kenyon, said #women should be denied #abortions even if they had been #raped by a family member; the Reform MP Sarah Pochin said there were too many #black people on #television; the Reform candidate for Rayleigh West, Stuart Prior, said #white people were the master #race and had bigger #brains than black people; the Reform candidate for Bootle West, Jay Leslie Cooper, said the #Holocaust was a #hoax; ....' -
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'The #Reform candidate for Makerfield, Robert Kenyon, said #women should be denied #abortions even if they had been #raped by a family member; the Reform MP Sarah Pochin said there were too many #black people on #television; the Reform candidate for Rayleigh West, Stuart Prior, said #white people were the master #race and had bigger #brains than black people; the Reform candidate for Bootle West, Jay Leslie Cooper, said the #Holocaust was a #hoax; ....' -
Step right up for the latest in Bigfoot hoaxes
Once again, someone has put on display a hairy man prop as a real Bigfoot and we can admire or cringe at the art of the hoax.
Parade of hairy hoaxes
Bigfoot hoaxing shenanigans is an unfortunately common part of cryptozoology. Remember the witless wonders, Rick Dyer and Matthew Whitton? In 2008, they claimed to have encountered several Bigfoots in the Georgia woods and bagged one. Their story went that they dragged one huge dead body out and put it in a freezer. They released their story and a photo to the press. Partnering with well established Bigfoot huckster Tom Biscardi, the brazen trio 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 costume with added animal guts. To this day, I cannot fathom what they thought would happen with this swindle. It was just one bamboozle in a long line of cryptid counterfeits that continues to today.
Georgia Bigfoot hoax, thawedBefore the Georgia Bigfoot hoax, there was the Minnesota Iceman. Exhibited as a real creature by Frank Hansen, the iceman was a latex apeman model frozen in a block of ice. It fooled the founders of cryptozoology Bernard Heuvelmans and Ivan Sanderson who examined the specimen (still encased in ice, of course). Heuvelmans wrote about it, believing it to be a real hominid carcass. I suspect Dyer and Witton got their idea from Hansen. But Dyer wasn’t done with his antics.
The Minnesota Iceman in ice (left) and drawn (right).In 2014, Dyer claimed that he had “really” shot a creature in Texas. “Hank” was a hoaxed model made of latex, foam and camel hair that he and a partner toured around the US, charging people $10 a head to see the gaff. According to the San Antonio Express News, they pocketed $60,000 before the jig was up. 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. But people still wanted to see it.
Dyer and HankDack and the Fake “Snake”
Self-titled Bigfoot expert Charles “Snake” Stuart claimed to have found a dead Bigfoot specimen in the Adirondack Mountains of New York in October 2024. A cobbled-together website at BigfootsRemains.com showed the body and a promotional Press Release of detailed nonsense describing the 8ft creature as Neanderthal-human hybrid coined “Dack”.
“Snake the Bigfoot Hunter”, in his Day Glo duds, gave media interviews about how he came across the carcass by following a rotting smell after which he and a few buddies dragged the thing out of the woods. Borrowing from Hank and the previous infamous fakes, Snake put the creature on display at the New York State Fair in 2025.
There is nothing about this that was remotely believable. But it pissed off infamous legit serious Bigfoot guy Matt Moneymaker enough for him to crow about it:
Not long after the publicity ramped up about Dack, Bigfoot research personality Steve Kulls discovered that the Charles Snake Stuart is really Brian Andrew Whiteley, a rather lackluster visual/performance artist who was known for hoaxing Bigfoot before. Even though Whiteley is making it all up, it’s transparent what’s going on here to anyone who can do an Internet search.
The Dack stunt was a success. There is a sliver of my being that finds this outright hilarious. Other than the 13% or so of the populace that may take Bigfoot seriously, the rest of society sees it as a harmless tall tale, or as a joke. I’m guessing that most of the visitors queuing to see Dack are playing into the fun. Though, I would not be surprised if Whiteley ends up being punched in the face by a member of the Bigfoot Standom.
Snake’s performance hasn’t ended. He has posted a “DNA report” of the remains from the “Cornell University Bio DNA lab”. On the radio show Into the Parabnormal in May 2026, “Snake” explained that an old girlfriend worked at the Cornell lab with whom he was able to get back in touch and persuade her to do the testing. He defers to scientists from Japan as experts who authenticated the report. The name on the report, “Clinical Supervisor, Misty Pichard, PhD” does not appear to be a real person anywhere on the Internet, let alone at Cornell. The report looks like an AI-composited document, sounding just sciencey enough to impress the curious.
“Snake” Whiteley knows that controversy gets attention. Arguing about a real or fake story generates more clicks than a non-ambiguous report. (The news stations also know this. In reference to the Ohio Bigfoot flap in the spring, one reporter said it was the most online engagement they ever got. That’s the goal now.) Working in his favor are the recent Bigfoot stories from Ohio and the overall rise in Bigfoot/cryptid pop interest in 2026. He’s also keyed into the PGF kerfuffle and even picked up a religious theme with his new “Bigfoot Bible” book (self-published). It’s a transparent grift that is making Finding Bigfooters like Matt Moneymaker seethe as they perform their role as serious and ethical researchers appalled at this attention-grabbing stunt.
The history of Bigfoot hoaxes (and cryptid hoaxes in general) is very long. P.T. Barnum gave us one of the Cardiff Giants (actually a replica of the original 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 is a top pop cryptid with his own store and a traveling shop that appears at cryptid town festivals.
Cryptid fans continue to complain that the humbug is bad for the reputation of the field. But hoaxes have been an integral, and common, part of cryptozoology since its beginning. In fact, the most successful hoaxes have laid the foundation for the popularity of many cryptids, including Bigfoot and Nessie, to the point that the way we think about those creatures today is inextricably tied to the hoax portrayal.
Dack is just another one of those events counting on people’s wish to believe, to pull your leg for a laugh, or to see how much they can get away with. Whiteley has done the work to construct his alternate reality, using ideas from past hoaxes, and sciencey-sounding words, to manufacture a production that is entertaining to some. It’s not original or well-done, but it is art.
#Bigfoot #BigfootBody #BigfootDNA #BigfootHoaxes #cryptidHoax #Dack #hoax #SnakeTheBigfootHunter -
Step right up for the latest in Bigfoot hoaxes
Once again, someone has put on display a hairy man prop as a real Bigfoot and we can admire or cringe at the art of the hoax.
Parade of hairy hoaxes
Bigfoot hoaxing shenanigans is an unfortunately common part of cryptozoology. Remember the witless wonders, Rick Dyer and Matthew Whitton? In 2008, they claimed to have encountered several Bigfoots in the Georgia woods and bagged one. Their story went that they dragged one huge dead body out and put it in a freezer. They released their story and a photo to the press. Partnering with well established Bigfoot huckster Tom Biscardi, the brazen trio 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 costume with added animal guts. To this day, I cannot fathom what they thought would happen with this swindle. It was just one bamboozle in a long line of cryptid counterfeits that continues to today.
Georgia Bigfoot hoax, thawedBefore the Georgia Bigfoot hoax, there was the Minnesota Iceman. Exhibited as a real creature by Frank Hansen, the iceman was a latex apeman model frozen in a block of ice. It fooled the founders of cryptozoology Bernard Heuvelmans and Ivan Sanderson who examined the specimen (still encased in ice, of course). Heuvelmans wrote about it, believing it to be a real hominid carcass. I suspect Dyer and Witton got their idea from Hansen. But Dyer wasn’t done with his antics.
The Minnesota Iceman in ice (left) and drawn (right).In 2014, Dyer claimed that he had “really” shot a creature in Texas. “Hank” was a hoaxed model made of latex, foam and camel hair that he and a partner toured around the US, charging people $10 a head to see the gaff. According to the San Antonio Express News, they pocketed $60,000 before the jig was up. 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. But people still wanted to see it.
Dyer and HankDack and the Fake “Snake”
Self-titled Bigfoot expert Charles “Snake” Stuart claimed to have found a dead Bigfoot specimen in the Adirondack Mountains of New York in October 2024. A cobbled-together website at BigfootsRemains.com showed the body and a promotional Press Release of detailed nonsense describing the 8ft creature as Neanderthal-human hybrid coined “Dack”.
“Snake the Bigfoot Hunter”, in his Day Glo duds, gave media interviews about how he came across the carcass by following a rotting smell after which he and a few buddies dragged the thing out of the woods. Borrowing from Hank and the previous infamous fakes, Snake put the creature on display at the New York State Fair in 2025.
There is nothing about this that was remotely believable. But it pissed off infamous legit serious Bigfoot guy Matt Moneymaker enough for him to crow about it:
Not long after the publicity ramped up about Dack, Bigfoot research personality Steve Kulls discovered that the Charles Snake Stuart is really Brian Andrew Whiteley, a rather lackluster visual/performance artist who was known for hoaxing Bigfoot before. Even though Whiteley is making it all up, it’s transparent what’s going on here to anyone who can do an Internet search.
The Dack stunt was a success. There is a sliver of my being that finds this outright hilarious. Other than the 13% or so of the populace that may take Bigfoot seriously, the rest of society sees it as a harmless tall tale, or as a joke. I’m guessing that most of the visitors queuing to see Dack are playing into the fun. Though, I would not be surprised if Whiteley ends up being punched in the face by a member of the Bigfoot Standom.
Snake’s performance hasn’t ended. He has posted a “DNA report” of the remains from the “Cornell University Bio DNA lab”. On the radio show Into the Parabnormal in May 2026, “Snake” explained that an old girlfriend worked at the Cornell lab with whom he was able to get back in touch and persuade her to do the testing. He defers to scientists from Japan as experts who authenticated the report. The name on the report, “Clinical Supervisor, Misty Pichard, PhD” does not appear to be a real person anywhere on the Internet, let alone at Cornell. The report looks like an AI-composited document, sounding just sciencey enough to impress the curious.
“Snake” Whiteley knows that controversy gets attention. Arguing about a real or fake story generates more clicks than a non-ambiguous report. (The news stations also know this. In reference to the Ohio Bigfoot flap in the spring, one reporter said it was the most online engagement they ever got. That’s the goal now.) Working in his favor are the recent Bigfoot stories from Ohio and the overall rise in Bigfoot/cryptid pop interest in 2026. He’s also keyed into the PGF kerfuffle and even picked up a religious theme with his new “Bigfoot Bible” book (self-published). It’s a transparent grift that is making Finding Bigfooters like Matt Moneymaker seethe as they perform their role as serious and ethical researchers appalled at this attention-grabbing stunt.
The history of Bigfoot hoaxes (and cryptid hoaxes in general) is very long. P.T. Barnum gave us one of the Cardiff Giants (actually a replica of the original 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 is a top pop cryptid with his own store and a traveling shop that appears at cryptid town festivals.
Cryptid fans continue to complain that the humbug is bad for the reputation of the field. But hoaxes have been an integral, and common, part of cryptozoology since its beginning. In fact, the most successful hoaxes have laid the foundation for the popularity of many cryptids, including Bigfoot and Nessie, to the point that the way we think about those creatures today is inextricably tied to the hoax portrayal.
Dack is just another one of those events counting on people’s wish to believe, to pull your leg for a laugh, or to see how much they can get away with. Whiteley has done the work to construct his alternate reality, using ideas from past hoaxes, and sciencey-sounding words, to manufacture a production that is entertaining to some. It’s not original or well-done, but it is art.
#Bigfoot #BigfootBody #BigfootDNA #BigfootHoaxes #cryptidHoax #Dack #hoax #SnakeTheBigfootHunter -
Step right up for the latest in Bigfoot hoaxes
Once again, someone has put on display a hairy man prop as a real Bigfoot and we can admire or cringe at the art of the hoax.
Parade of hairy hoaxes
Bigfoot hoaxing shenanigans is an unfortunately common part of cryptozoology. Remember the witless wonders, Rick Dyer and Matthew Whitton? In 2008, they claimed to have encountered several Bigfoots in the Georgia woods and bagged one. Their story went that they dragged one huge dead body out and put it in a freezer. They released their story and a photo to the press. Partnering with well established Bigfoot huckster Tom Biscardi, the brazen trio 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 costume with added animal guts. To this day, I cannot fathom what they thought would happen with this swindle. It was just one bamboozle in a long line of cryptid counterfeits that continues to today.
Georgia Bigfoot hoax, thawedBefore the Georgia Bigfoot hoax, there was the Minnesota Iceman. Exhibited as a real creature by Frank Hansen, the iceman was a latex apeman model frozen in a block of ice. It fooled the founders of cryptozoology Bernard Heuvelmans and Ivan Sanderson who examined the specimen (still encased in ice, of course). Heuvelmans wrote about it, believing it to be a real hominid carcass. I suspect Dyer and Witton got their idea from Hansen. But Dyer wasn’t done with his antics.
The Minnesota Iceman in ice (left) and drawn (right).In 2014, Dyer claimed that he had “really” shot a creature in Texas. “Hank” was a hoaxed model made of latex, foam and camel hair that he and a partner toured around the US, charging people $10 a head to see the gaff. According to the San Antonio Express News, they pocketed $60,000 before the jig was up. 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. But people still wanted to see it.
Dyer and HankDack and the Fake “Snake”
Self-titled Bigfoot expert Charles “Snake” Stuart claimed to have found a dead Bigfoot specimen in the Adirondack Mountains of New York in October 2024. A cobbled-together website at BigfootsRemains.com showed the body and a promotional Press Release of detailed nonsense describing the 8ft creature as Neanderthal-human hybrid coined “Dack”.
“Snake the Bigfoot Hunter”, in his Day Glo duds, gave media interviews about how he came across the carcass by following a rotting smell after which he and a few buddies dragged the thing out of the woods. Borrowing from Hank and the previous infamous fakes, Snake put the creature on display at the New York State Fair in 2025.
There is nothing about this that was remotely believable. But it pissed off infamous legit serious Bigfoot guy Matt Moneymaker enough for him to crow about it:
Not long after the publicity ramped up about Dack, Bigfoot research personality Steve Kulls discovered that the Charles Snake Stuart is really Brian Andrew Whiteley, a rather lackluster visual/performance artist who was known for hoaxing Bigfoot before. Even though Whiteley is making it all up, it’s transparent what’s going on here to anyone who can do an Internet search.
The Dack stunt was a success. There is a sliver of my being that finds this outright hilarious. Other than the 13% or so of the populace that may take Bigfoot seriously, the rest of society sees it as a harmless tall tale, or as a joke. I’m guessing that most of the visitors queuing to see Dack are playing into the fun. Though, I would not be surprised if Whiteley ends up being punched in the face by a member of the Bigfoot Standom.
Snake’s performance hasn’t ended. He has posted a “DNA report” of the remains from the “Cornell University Bio DNA lab”. On the radio show Into the Parabnormal in May 2026, “Snake” explained that an old girlfriend worked at the Cornell lab with whom he was able to get back in touch and persuade her to do the testing. He defers to scientists from Japan as experts who authenticated the report. The name on the report, “Clinical Supervisor, Misty Pichard, PhD” does not appear to be a real person anywhere on the Internet, let alone at Cornell. The report looks like an AI-composited document, sounding just sciencey enough to impress the curious.
“Snake” Whiteley knows that controversy gets attention. Arguing about a real or fake story generates more clicks than a non-ambiguous report. (The news stations also know this. In reference to the Ohio Bigfoot flap in the spring, one reporter said it was the most online engagement they ever got. That’s the goal now.) Working in his favor are the recent Bigfoot stories from Ohio and the overall rise in Bigfoot/cryptid pop interest in 2026. He’s also keyed into the PGF kerfuffle and even picked up a religious theme with his new “Bigfoot Bible” book (self-published). It’s a transparent grift that is making Finding Bigfooters like Matt Moneymaker seethe as they perform their role as serious and ethical researchers appalled at this attention-grabbing stunt.
The history of Bigfoot hoaxes (and cryptid hoaxes in general) is very long. P.T. Barnum gave us one of the Cardiff Giants (actually a replica of the original 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 is a top pop cryptid with his own store and a traveling shop that appears at cryptid town festivals.
Cryptid fans continue to complain that the humbug is bad for the reputation of the field. But hoaxes have been an integral, and common, part of cryptozoology since its beginning. In fact, the most successful hoaxes have laid the foundation for the popularity of many cryptids, including Bigfoot and Nessie, to the point that the way we think about those creatures today is inextricably tied to the hoax portrayal.
Dack is just another one of those events counting on people’s wish to believe, to pull your leg for a laugh, or to see how much they can get away with. Whiteley has done the work to construct his alternate reality, using ideas from past hoaxes, and sciencey-sounding words, to manufacture a production that is entertaining to some. It’s not original or well-done, but it is art.
#Bigfoot #BigfootBody #BigfootDNA #BigfootHoaxes #cryptidHoax #Dack #hoax #SnakeTheBigfootHunter -
Step right up for the latest in Bigfoot hoaxes
Once again, someone has put on display a hairy man prop as a real Bigfoot and we can admire or cringe at the art of the hoax.
Parade of hairy hoaxes
Bigfoot hoaxing shenanigans is an unfortunately common part of cryptozoology. Remember the witless wonders, Rick Dyer and Matthew Whitton? In 2008, they claimed to have encountered several Bigfoots in the Georgia woods and bagged one. Their story went that they dragged one huge dead body out and put it in a freezer. They released their story and a photo to the press. Partnering with well established Bigfoot huckster Tom Biscardi, the brazen trio 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 costume with added animal guts. To this day, I cannot fathom what they thought would happen with this swindle. It was just one bamboozle in a long line of cryptid counterfeits that continues to today.
Georgia Bigfoot hoax, thawedBefore the Georgia Bigfoot hoax, there was the Minnesota Iceman. Exhibited as a real creature by Frank Hansen, the iceman was a latex apeman model frozen in a block of ice. It fooled the founders of cryptozoology Bernard Heuvelmans and Ivan Sanderson who examined the specimen (still encased in ice, of course). Heuvelmans wrote about it, believing it to be a real hominid carcass. I suspect Dyer and Witton got their idea from Hansen. But Dyer wasn’t done with his antics.
The Minnesota Iceman in ice (left) and drawn (right).In 2014, Dyer claimed that he had “really” shot a creature in Texas. “Hank” was a hoaxed model made of latex, foam and camel hair that he and a partner toured around the US, charging people $10 a head to see the gaff. According to the San Antonio Express News, they pocketed $60,000 before the jig was up. 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. But people still wanted to see it.
Dyer and HankDack and the Fake “Snake”
Self-titled Bigfoot expert Charles “Snake” Stuart claimed to have found a dead Bigfoot specimen in the Adirondack Mountains of New York in October 2024. A cobbled-together website at BigfootsRemains.com showed the body and a promotional Press Release of detailed nonsense describing the 8ft creature as Neanderthal-human hybrid coined “Dack”.
“Snake the Bigfoot Hunter”, in his Day Glo duds, gave media interviews about how he came across the carcass by following a rotting smell after which he and a few buddies dragged the thing out of the woods. Borrowing from Hank and the previous infamous fakes, Snake put the creature on display at the New York State Fair in 2025.
There is nothing about this that was remotely believable. But it pissed off infamous legit serious Bigfoot guy Matt Moneymaker enough for him to crow about it:
Not long after the publicity ramped up about Dack, Bigfoot research personality Steve Kulls discovered that the Charles Snake Stuart is really Brian Andrew Whiteley, a rather lackluster visual/performance artist who was known for hoaxing Bigfoot before. Even though Whiteley is making it all up, it’s transparent what’s going on here to anyone who can do an Internet search.
The Dack stunt was a success. There is a sliver of my being that finds this outright hilarious. Other than the 13% or so of the populace that may take Bigfoot seriously, the rest of society sees it as a harmless tall tale, or as a joke. I’m guessing that most of the visitors queuing to see Dack are playing into the fun. Though, I would not be surprised if Whiteley ends up being punched in the face by a member of the Bigfoot Standom.
Snake’s performance hasn’t ended. He has posted a “DNA report” of the remains from the “Cornell University Bio DNA lab”. On the radio show Into the Parabnormal in May 2026, “Snake” explained that an old girlfriend worked at the Cornell lab with whom he was able to get back in touch and persuade her to do the testing. He defers to scientists from Japan as experts who authenticated the report. The name on the report, “Clinical Supervisor, Misty Pichard, PhD” does not appear to be a real person anywhere on the Internet, let alone at Cornell. The report looks like an AI-composited document, sounding just sciencey enough to impress the curious.
“Snake” Whiteley knows that controversy gets attention. Arguing about a real or fake story generates more clicks than a non-ambiguous report. (The news stations also know this. In reference to the Ohio Bigfoot flap in the spring, one reporter said it was the most online engagement they ever got. That’s the goal now.) Working in his favor are the recent Bigfoot stories from Ohio and the overall rise in Bigfoot/cryptid pop interest in 2026. He’s also keyed into the PGF kerfuffle and even picked up a religious theme with his new “Bigfoot Bible” book (self-published). It’s a transparent grift that is making Finding Bigfooters like Matt Moneymaker seethe as they perform their role as serious and ethical researchers appalled at this attention-grabbing stunt.
The history of Bigfoot hoaxes (and cryptid hoaxes in general) is very long. P.T. Barnum gave us one of the Cardiff Giants (actually a replica of the original 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 is a top pop cryptid with his own store and a traveling shop that appears at cryptid town festivals.
Cryptid fans continue to complain that the humbug is bad for the reputation of the field. But hoaxes have been an integral, and common, part of cryptozoology since its beginning. In fact, the most successful hoaxes have laid the foundation for the popularity of many cryptids, including Bigfoot and Nessie, to the point that the way we think about those creatures today is inextricably tied to the hoax portrayal.
Dack is just another one of those events counting on people’s wish to believe, to pull your leg for a laugh, or to see how much they can get away with. Whiteley has done the work to construct his alternate reality, using ideas from past hoaxes, and sciencey-sounding words, to manufacture a production that is entertaining to some. It’s not original or well-done, but it is art.
#Bigfoot #BigfootBody #BigfootDNA #BigfootHoaxes #cryptidHoax #Dack #hoax #SnakeTheBigfootHunter -
Step right up for the latest in Bigfoot hoaxes
Once again, someone has put on display a hairy man prop as a real Bigfoot and we can admire or cringe at the art of the hoax.
Parade of hairy hoaxes
Bigfoot hoaxing shenanigans is an unfortunately common part of cryptozoology. Remember the witless wonders, Rick Dyer and Matthew Whitton? In 2008, they claimed to have encountered several Bigfoots in the Georgia woods and bagged one. Their story went that they dragged one huge dead body out and put it in a freezer. They released their story and a photo to the press. Partnering with well established Bigfoot huckster Tom Biscardi, the brazen trio 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 costume with added animal guts. To this day, I cannot fathom what they thought would happen with this swindle. It was just one bamboozle in a long line of cryptid counterfeits that continues to today.
Georgia Bigfoot hoax, thawedBefore the Georgia Bigfoot hoax, there was the Minnesota Iceman. Exhibited as a real creature by Frank Hansen, the iceman was a latex apeman model frozen in a block of ice. It fooled the founders of cryptozoology Bernard Heuvelmans and Ivan Sanderson who examined the specimen (still encased in ice, of course). Heuvelmans wrote about it, believing it to be a real hominid carcass. I suspect Dyer and Witton got their idea from Hansen. But Dyer wasn’t done with his antics.
The Minnesota Iceman in ice (left) and drawn (right).In 2014, Dyer claimed that he had “really” shot a creature in Texas. “Hank” was a hoaxed model made of latex, foam and camel hair that he and a partner toured around the US, charging people $10 a head to see the gaff. According to the San Antonio Express News, they pocketed $60,000 before the jig was up. 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. But people still wanted to see it.
Dyer and HankDack and the Fake “Snake”
Self-titled Bigfoot expert Charles “Snake” Stuart claimed to have found a dead Bigfoot specimen in the Adirondack Mountains of New York in October 2024. A cobbled-together website at BigfootsRemains.com showed the body and a promotional Press Release of detailed nonsense describing the 8ft creature as Neanderthal-human hybrid coined “Dack”.
“Snake the Bigfoot Hunter”, in his Day Glo duds, gave media interviews about how he came across the carcass by following a rotting smell after which he and a few buddies dragged the thing out of the woods. Borrowing from Hank and the previous infamous fakes, Snake put the creature on display at the New York State Fair in 2025.
There is nothing about this that was remotely believable. But it pissed off infamous legit serious Bigfoot guy Matt Moneymaker enough for him to crow about it:
Not long after the publicity ramped up about Dack, Bigfoot research personality Steve Kulls discovered that the Charles Snake Stuart is really Brian Andrew Whiteley, a rather lackluster visual/performance artist who was known for hoaxing Bigfoot before. Even though Whiteley is making it all up, it’s transparent what’s going on here to anyone who can do an Internet search.
The Dack stunt was a success. There is a sliver of my being that finds this outright hilarious. Other than the 13% or so of the populace that may take Bigfoot seriously, the rest of society sees it as a harmless tall tale, or as a joke. I’m guessing that most of the visitors queuing to see Dack are playing into the fun. Though, I would not be surprised if Whiteley ends up being punched in the face by a member of the Bigfoot Standom.
Snake’s performance hasn’t ended. He has posted a “DNA report” of the remains from the “Cornell University Bio DNA lab”. On the radio show Into the Parabnormal in May 2026, “Snake” explained that an old girlfriend worked at the Cornell lab with whom he was able to get back in touch and persuade her to do the testing. He defers to scientists from Japan as experts who authenticated the report. The name on the report, “Clinical Supervisor, Misty Pichard, PhD” does not appear to be a real person anywhere on the Internet, let alone at Cornell. The report looks like an AI-composited document, sounding just sciencey enough to impress the curious.
“Snake” Whiteley knows that controversy gets attention. Arguing about a real or fake story generates more clicks than a non-ambiguous report. (The news stations also know this. In reference to the Ohio Bigfoot flap in the spring, one reporter said it was the most online engagement they ever got. That’s the goal now.) Working in his favor are the recent Bigfoot stories from Ohio and the overall rise in Bigfoot/cryptid pop interest in 2026. He’s also keyed into the PGF kerfuffle and even picked up a religious theme with his new “Bigfoot Bible” book (self-published). It’s a transparent grift that is making Finding Bigfooters like Matt Moneymaker seethe as they perform their role as serious and ethical researchers appalled at this attention-grabbing stunt.
The history of Bigfoot hoaxes (and cryptid hoaxes in general) is very long. P.T. Barnum gave us one of the Cardiff Giants (actually a replica of the original 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 is a top pop cryptid with his own store and a traveling shop that appears at cryptid town festivals.
Cryptid fans continue to complain that the humbug is bad for the reputation of the field. But hoaxes have been an integral, and common, part of cryptozoology since its beginning. In fact, the most successful hoaxes have laid the foundation for the popularity of many cryptids, including Bigfoot and Nessie, to the point that the way we think about those creatures today is inextricably tied to the hoax portrayal.
Dack is just another one of those events counting on people’s wish to believe, to pull your leg for a laugh, or to see how much they can get away with. Whiteley has done the work to construct his alternate reality, using ideas from past hoaxes, and sciencey-sounding words, to manufacture a production that is entertaining to some. It’s not original or well-done, but it is art.
#Bigfoot #BigfootBody #BigfootDNA #BigfootHoaxes #cryptidHoax #Dack #hoax #SnakeTheBigfootHunter -
https://www.europesays.com/sk/110097/ Polícia reaguje na nespokojný status ohľadom ÚBOK-u a vraj ide o hoax #hoax #nespokojnosť #polícia #reakcia #SK #Slovak #SlovakRepublic #Slovakia #Slovenčina #SlovenskáRepublika #Slovensko #Status #ÚBOK #ÚradBojaProtiOrganizovanejKriminalite
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#JeffBezos plädiert dafür, lebenswichtige Ressourcen wie #Trinkwasser einzuschränken, damit #AI genug Ressourcen hat, um das Ressourcenproblem zu lösen. 🥳
«Sometimes you have to prioritize the intelligence that will save us over the biology that slows us down.» 😵💫
Nur: DIE SACHE STIMMT NICHT. Bezos hat das nie gesagt und es lenkt ab von seinen tatsächlichen Ansichten, KI und Tech-Lösungen noch mehr zu fördern statt einzuschränken. Der #Hoax spielt auf den Preis dafür an. 1/2
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#JeffBezos plädiert dafür, lebenswichtige Ressourcen wie #Trinkwasser einzuschränken, damit #AI genug Ressourcen hat, um das Ressourcenproblem zu lösen. 🥳
«Sometimes you have to prioritize the intelligence that will save us over the biology that slows us down.» 😵💫
Nur: DIE SACHE STIMMT NICHT. Bezos hat das nie gesagt und es lenkt ab von seinen tatsächlichen Ansichten, KI und Tech-Lösungen noch mehr zu fördern statt einzuschränken. Der #Hoax spielt auf den Preis dafür an. 1/2
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#JeffBezos plädiert dafür, lebenswichtige Ressourcen wie #Trinkwasser einzuschränken, damit #AI genug Ressourcen hat, um das Ressourcenproblem zu lösen. 🥳
«Sometimes you have to prioritize the intelligence that will save us over the biology that slows us down.» 😵💫
Nur: DIE SACHE STIMMT NICHT. Bezos hat das nie gesagt und es lenkt ab von seinen tatsächlichen Ansichten, KI und Tech-Lösungen noch mehr zu fördern statt einzuschränken. Der #Hoax spielt auf den Preis dafür an. 1/2
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#JeffBezos plädiert dafür, lebenswichtige Ressourcen wie #Trinkwasser einzuschränken, damit #AI genug Ressourcen hat, um das Ressourcenproblem zu lösen. 🥳
«Sometimes you have to prioritize the intelligence that will save us over the biology that slows us down.» 😵💫
Nur: DIE SACHE STIMMT NICHT. Bezos hat das nie gesagt und es lenkt ab von seinen tatsächlichen Ansichten, KI und Tech-Lösungen noch mehr zu fördern statt einzuschränken. Der #Hoax spielt auf den Preis dafür an. 1/2
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#JeffBezos plädiert dafür, lebenswichtige Ressourcen wie #Trinkwasser einzuschränken, damit #AI genug Ressourcen hat, um das Ressourcenproblem zu lösen. 🥳
«Sometimes you have to prioritize the intelligence that will save us over the biology that slows us down.» 😵💫
Nur: DIE SACHE STIMMT NICHT. Bezos hat das nie gesagt und es lenkt ab von seinen tatsächlichen Ansichten, KI und Tech-Lösungen noch mehr zu fördern statt einzuschränken. Der #Hoax spielt auf den Preis dafür an. 1/2
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https://www.europesays.com/sk/96359/ Polícia v Bratislave odmieta, že by počas MMA zápasu zadržala zápasníka: Reaguje na video na internete #Bratislava #FalošnéSprávy #hoax #mma #polícia #SK #Slovak #Slovakia #Slovenčina #Slovensko #SociálneSiete #športovéPodujatie #zadržanie
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It's not a #hoax
It's not #FakeNews
It's real
It's here to stay
....Forever
Welcome, #drump and team to the #EpsteinFiles -
It's not a #hoax
It's not #FakeNews
It's real
It's here to stay
....Forever
Welcome, #drump and team to the #EpsteinFiles -
It's not a #hoax
It's not #FakeNews
It's real
It's here to stay
....Forever
Welcome, #drump and team to the #EpsteinFiles -
Leider steht der Betreiber nicht mehr zu seiner Aussage aus früheren Tagen den Bürgern am Ort günstigen Strom anzubieten. Die angeblichen Gründe sind Uneinigkeit darüber mit seinen Co-Investoren. Aber das wird er bei kommenden Projekten dann auch merken. Wir sind wütend und enttäuscht...
#buergerstrom #falschaussage #hoax #enttaeuschung -
Leider steht der Betreiber nicht mehr zu seiner Aussage aus früheren Tagen den Bürgern am Ort günstigen Strom anzubieten. Die angeblichen Gründe sind Uneinigkeit darüber mit seinen Co-Investoren. Aber das wird er bei kommenden Projekten dann auch merken. Wir sind wütend und enttäuscht...
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https://www.europesays.com/cz/107194/ Lidé přestanou sledovat televizi? Přichází nový způsob výpočtu poplatků. Češi se bojí, že zaplatí za každé přepnutí #ChytráTelevize #Energetika #Entertainment #Hoax #SledováníTelevize #Zábava
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https://www.europesays.com/sk/76783/ Sociálne siete zaplavili AI fotky Fica s rodinou #AI #hoax #podvod #RobertFico #SK #Slovak #SlovakRepublic #Slovakia #Slovenčina #SlovenskáRepublika #Slovensko #Vietnam
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The Cardiff Giant: The Story Behind America’s Famous 19th-Century Hoax
📰 Original title: The Cardiff Giant, One of the Most Famous Archaeological Hoaxes in American History
🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
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The Cardiff Giant: The Story Behind America’s Famous 19th-Century Hoax
📰 Original title: The Cardiff Giant, One of the Most Famous Archaeological Hoaxes in American History
🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
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The Cardiff Giant: The Story Behind America’s Famous 19th-Century Hoax
📰 Original title: The Cardiff Giant, One of the Most Famous Archaeological Hoaxes in American History
🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
👥 Users: It's not clickbait ✅View full AI summary: https://en.killbait.com/the-cardiff-giant-the-story-behind-america-s-famous-19th-century-hoax.html?utm_source=mastodon_world&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=killbait.mastodon_world
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The Cardiff Giant: The Story Behind America’s Famous 19th-Century Hoax
📰 Original title: The Cardiff Giant, One of the Most Famous Archaeological Hoaxes in American History
🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
👥 Users: It's not clickbait ✅View full AI summary: https://en.killbait.com/the-cardiff-giant-the-story-behind-america-s-famous-19th-century-hoax.html?utm_source=mastodon_social&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=killbait.mastodon_social
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In January I wrote about the genuine Norse artifacts that were used in a hoax "proving" that Vikings had made it to the extreme western end of the Great Lakes around 1000 CE. This sword is the jewel of the three Beardmore relics and is still on display at the Royal Ontario Museum -- albeit with no mention that they were fooled by it.
Now it's just one of several Norse weapon artifacts in a display cabinet on the third floor of the ROM
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In January I wrote about the genuine Norse artifacts that were used in a hoax "proving" that Vikings had made it to the extreme western end of the Great Lakes around 1000 CE. This sword is the jewel of the three Beardmore relics and is still on display at the Royal Ontario Museum -- albeit with no mention that they were fooled by it.
Now it's just one of several Norse weapon artifacts in a display cabinet on the third floor of the ROM
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In January I wrote about the genuine Norse artifacts that were used in a hoax "proving" that Vikings had made it to the extreme western end of the Great Lakes around 1000 CE. This sword is the jewel of the three Beardmore relics and is still on display at the Royal Ontario Museum -- albeit with no mention that they were fooled by it.
Now it's just one of several Norse weapon artifacts in a display cabinet on the third floor of the ROM
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In January I wrote about the genuine Norse artifacts that were used in a hoax "proving" that Vikings had made it to the extreme western end of the Great Lakes around 1000 CE. This sword is the jewel of the three Beardmore relics and is still on display at the Royal Ontario Museum -- albeit with no mention that they were fooled by it.
Now it's just one of several Norse weapon artifacts in a display cabinet on the third floor of the ROM
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In January I wrote about the genuine Norse artifacts that were used in a hoax "proving" that Vikings had made it to the extreme western end of the Great Lakes around 1000 CE. This sword is the jewel of the three Beardmore relics and is still on display at the Royal Ontario Museum -- albeit with no mention that they were fooled by it.
Now it's just one of several Norse weapon artifacts in a display cabinet on the third floor of the ROM
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#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
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#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
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#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
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#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
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#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
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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
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https://www.europesays.com/cz/71253/ Příspěvek viní z havárie v Černobylu Ukrajince. Na směně přitom velel Rus #Černobyl #Headlines #HlavníUdálosti #Hoax #News #PořadŘetězák #TopNews #TopStories #UdálostiDne #Ukrajina #Zprávy
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3IiZostL7G0
#WHCD #WHCD2026 #trump #Putin #Russia #Staged #Fake #PublicityStunt #Breaking #BreakingNews #News #BreakingFakeNews #FakeNews #DC #US #USA #ShotsFired #Ballroom #Bunker #BullShit #BS #CBS #SeeBS #SeeBullShit #Reagan #Hilton #Ellison #WeijiaJiang #Jiang #HOAX
