Top 15 Web Hoaxes of All Time

Courtesy Mashable!  Wed, 07/15/2009 - 16:33

crop circle imageSometimes it’s hard to tell what to believe when you read it on the web.

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...


 

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