Current Internet Hoaxes, Email Rumors & Urban Legends. By David Emery • New & Updated: Latest Internet hoaxes & urban legends• The Top 25: Most popular topics of the past week• Definitions: Hoax, rumor, urban legend• How to Contribute: Submit a suspected hoax, rumor, or UL Categories: Accidents & MishapsAll the proof you'll ever need that humor can be found in other people's misfortunes.
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The recent "Unknown Lifeform" in North Carolina? Turns out, not a hoax, but also not a monster. But all those rumors about Jeff Goldblum falling to his death in New Zealand? Well, those were a hoax, and a rather tasteless one at that. For hundreds of years, humans have been playing elaborate tricks on each other, but the advent of social tools — from Usenet and email right on up to YouTube and Twitter — means that hoaxes are much more easily spread, and it can be difficult to separate the misinformation from the truth. 1. Actually, the hoax status of this one still seems somewhat up-in-the-air.
Even today, no one really seems to know what it is. 2. Hoax. Brass Plaque on door at Tremedda farm, Zennor, Cornwall, England.
It reads: TAKE NOTICE THAT AS FROM TODAYS DATE POACHERS SHALL BE SHOT ON FIRST SIGHT AND IF PRACTICABLE QUESTIONED AFTERWARDS. BY ORDER J.R. BRAMBLE HEAD GAMEKEEPER TO HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF GUMBY 1ST NOVEMBER 1868. Although the Duke of Gumby is probably a fictitious entity since there is no accessible record of him, the plaque may have had some deterrent effect A hoax is a deliberately fabricated falsehood made to masquerade as truth.[1] It is distinguishable from errors in observation or judgment,[1] or rumors, urban legends, pseudosciences or April Fools' Day events that are passed along in good faith by believers or as jokes.[2] Etymology[edit] Definition[edit] Robert Nares defined the word hoax as meaning "to cheat", dating from Thomas Ady's 1656 book A candle in the dark, or a treatise on the nature of witches and witchcraft.[5] Examples of politics-related hoaxes: Types of hoaxes[edit] See also[edit] References[edit]
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