1. Bigfoot
Around 1920, the mining area is covered with snow Northwest regions of the large number of footprints. But retired woodcutter Rant Mullens admitted he used a homemade wooden foot model created near Mount St. Helens in the snow Footprints in 1982 in an attempt to confirm the existence of this legendary creature.
To the right in the figure above, it is a boy holding a 1975 reverse mold plaster footprints, the footprints of his father Mark Pettinger was considered to be a Sasquatch from Washington's Puyallup.
2. The Cardiff Giant
In 1869 a farmer and a cigar manufacturer unveiled a startling discovery, they found a 3-meter-high in Niuyue Jia's husband, 1360 kg weight Shiren, this huge statue is a full-fledged scam - experts say the giant carved out of plaster, 100 per cent from modern.
But discoverer or 50 cents entrance fee made a fortune.
3. The Piltdown Man
The figure is ALvan T. Marston, expose one of the greatest scientific hoax in the history of this man, his method is to measure the chimpanzee teeth and with the Piltdown Man's teeth do comparison. In 1912 a skull and jaw fragments in Piltdown, England in a stone pit was discovered, the British Museum and later to reshape into a human skull and an ape jaw. Scientists thought they found important in the evolution from apes to humans in the process of a ring. The scam was exposed in 1953, the original discovery, but Anonymous is forged. Human skull from the Middle Ages, and is taken from the orangutan jaw, teeth from chimpanzees.
4. The Loch Ness Monster
The legend of the Loch Ness Monster dates back to before 1400, when the high holy Long in Scotland encounter a strange monster. But the monster kept a low profile. Until 1933, built a new road leading to the northern coast, reports about the monster was swarmed. The first witness who is the owner of the inn from Drumnadrochit. In the same year appeared on the map of this famous Loch Ness Monster photograph, the figure of its neck and head exposed on the surface of the water hazy. This gynecologist Colonel Robert Wilson captured monster pictures spread like wildfire.
1994 Wilson photos made headlines again, but this time because an assistant Wilson in the death of Christian Spuring recognize this picture is actually taken out of the water a toy submarine.
5. Tasmania walrus
This "perfect pet" in 1984 became the most successful April Fool prank, then "Orlando Sentinel" trumpeted this "Tasmania walrus", accompanied by a photograph a naked mole rat.
The newspaper said that 10 cm long animal resembles a walrus, but like a mouse called as docile as a hamster. Such smuggled from Tasmania ideal pet, do not need a bath, not shit, eat cockroaches.
There were a lot of people fooled, they call the newspaper to ask where to buy this pet. Unfortunately, the real mole newspaper can not be described so well.
6.160 ft giant squid
This title is "real giant squid," the picture has been in the online crazy pass. Animal pictures on the look 160 feet (49 meters) long. This image first appeared in a satirical article in a site, then it will be referenced indefinitely. The real giant squid largest and only 43 feet (12 meters) long. Experts say the figure is obvious animal is artificially enlarged.
(Translation: via NationalGeographic)
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