Biggest/Best Hoaxes Ever

[Nostalgia Ripoff]

What is the best fake story you can think of? I'll get the ball rolling with this famous one:

Spoiler

 

[FalloutJack]

This is Spinal Tap.

 

[Anarchemitis]

"9/11 was an Inside Job" is not a conspiracy, it's an extremely successful franchise protected by hoards of people who are convinced that it is a conspiracy and therefore defend it.

If anybody says the '69 moon landing and means it, I will fucking trace your post to your home and redecorate it with your entrails.

T'was an exciting jaunt, Man's Moon Adventure, was it not?
But certainly not as exciting as the '70 moon not-landing.

 

[Jumping_Over_Fences]

The Amityville Horror was a hoax. George Lutz hasn't completely come out said it, but when you look into it, you can tell that it certainly is not what really happened.

 

[The Salty Vulcan]

If anybody says the '69 moon landing and means it, I will fucking trace your post to your home and redecorate it with your entrails.

I with him.

lso I know it doesn't count because its a movie but just "Wag the Dog".

 

[Sneaky-Pie]

The Holocaust.

Obviously. /sarcasm

 

[Gardenia]

Alternative medicine.
(Also, isn't the Scottish accent awesome?)

 

[Queen Michael]

That guy who told people he had the Eiffel Tower for sale. And actually managed to find buyers.

 

[crudus]

Spoiler: This, by far. I know of nothing else that created this much of a following without me saying hurtful things and getting banned.

 

[The Salty Vulcan]

Spoiler: This, by far. I know of nothing else that created this much of a following without me saying hurtful things and getting banned.

MONSTER!!

oooh how I love Double Entendres

 

[Kermi]

I liked the BBC's spaghetti tree hoax myself.

 

[Geekosaurus]

Can I go with religion?

 

[Queen Michael]

Can I go with religion?

I think it would be better to pick a particular one. I'll go with scientology.

 

[CheesusCrust]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_tree_hoax

Can't believe people actually fell for this...

 

[Sovvolf]

The Amityville Horror was a hoax. George Lutz hasn't completely come out said it, but when you look into it, you can tell that it certainly is not what really happened.

Frankie Dux almost made a career out of his hoax, including a JCVD movie. Like the Amityville Horror hoax J_O_F mentioned, he has yet to come out and admit to these blatant lies but well all the evidence leads up to him making it all up and I think he even got sued for it. There's no record of the event ever taking place, he'd never travelled out side of America and there wasn't even an Asian family or man living in the area he grew up in. Also the trophy he won was traced back to a trophy shop not far from where he lived.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Dux

http://articles.latimes.com/1988-05-01/local/me-3111_1_american-martial-arts

 

[Geekosaurus]

Can I go with religion?

I think it would be better to pick a particular one. I'll go with scientology.

All of them. Apart from Dudeism and Jedi.

 

[The Salty Vulcan]

Can I go with religion?

I think it would be better to pick a particular one. I'll go with scientology.

All of them. Apart from Dudeism and Jedi.

What about the Church of the Fonz?

 

[Geekosaurus]

Can I go with religion?

I suggest you go with not-being-a-wanker instead.

I suggest you go with 'respecting other peoples opinions and not randomly insulting people over the internet'.

 

[Geekosaurus]

Can I go with religion?

I think it would be better to pick a particular one. I'll go with scientology.

All of them. Apart from Dudeism and Jedi.

What about the Church of the Fonz?

Oh man, you're right. I rushed into this.

 

[Megalodon]

James Randi's Carlos Hoax, he convinced the Australian media that a friend was a "chaneller" who could speak to the dead. They were even selling stuff like lumps of tarmac from the car park as "Atlantean Crystals".