The Sphinx Buried In Snow
This photo is supposedly of the Sphinx being covered in snow after the first snowfall in Cairo in 112 years. But as you’ve probably figured out by now, because of the type of list this is on, that isn’t actually the case. This is actually a miniature model of The Sphinx that exists in a theme park in Japan.
Mutant Giant Squid
What we have here is an enormous squid that supposedly washed ashore in Santa Monica. And why is the squid so enormous, you may ask? Good question. It’s huge because of the effects of radiation from the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Seriously, though, this is basically a squid that was digitally enlarged and inserted into a photo of what was a dead whale that had washed ashore in Santa Monica.
A Lightning Hitting Sand
Yeah, you guessed it: this photo is totally fake. What this really is is a piece of driftwood that someone took the time to cover with sand by hand. This is cool; don’t get me wrong, and it looks really awesome. But it isn’t what happens when lightning hits sand.
The Angry Koala
On the right is a photo of a wet Koala bear; the person that took the photo supposedly ended up spraying the koala with water because it was so hot. But the thing that really makes this photo look so messed up is the jaws, which are totally fake. If you look closely, it’s pretty apparent that this looks more like a wolf’s mouth than it does a Koala’s.
The Black Lion
Well, a black lion might be cooler, but the photo that went viral a few years ago was not of a black lion at all but was just simply a regular lion what was turned black through photo manipulation. It’s kind of crazy when one thinks of how easy this whole thing is to make a photo go viral, at least in some instances.
Snowball The Huge Cat
If there was a regular old house cat out there that was really as enormous as this, don’t you think we probably would’ve heard of him before this silly photo came out? The photo is supposed to be an 87-pound cat named “Snowball,” but as is the case with all of these other photos on this list, the truth is something much different. It was made by a man as a joke, and he emailed it to a few friends, then some of his friends emailed it around to other friends, and before he knew it, the photo had gone viral.
Tourist Right Before Plane Hits Twin Towers
The story is that the photo came from a camera that was found in the rubble of the World Trade Center after the horrific attacks on 9-11. The photo ended up being shown in many places in the international media, as it seemingly was the photo of an innocent tourist who was in the wrong place at the wrong time. The truth is much different, of course. It turned out to be a photo of a man from Hungary who either has a really good sense of humor or a really bad one, depending on your point of view.