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Are They Real Or Fake? Weddings Claim:Photographs show a bride wearing a revealing beaded dress at a marriage ceremony. Status:True. Claim:Photographs document a “hillbilly wedding. Status:False. The picture of the bride and groom is an entry submitted to a Worth1000.com photo manipulation contest entitled “If Rednecks Ruled.” Supernatural Claim:Image shows dead woman who collects the souls of people who don’t forward a chain e-mail message. Status:False. The picture came from a 2003 Thai horror film. Claim:Photograph shows a tourist who died of fright after being photographed in the Sundarbans. Status:False. This item is simply a combination of two bits of supernatural bunkum first popularized well over a century ago: spirit photography and luck chain letters. Sports Claim:Photographs show a tennis match played atop a hotel. Status:True. Natural Phenomena Claim:Photograph snapped by a Newfoundland rig manager shows an enormous iceberg. Status:False. This image was produced in 1999 by Ralph A. Clevenger, a professional nature and underwater photographer who is also a member of the faculty of the Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, California. As Mr. Clevenger explained, this image is not a single photograph but a composite of four different photographs (not all taken in the same place). Claim:Photograph shows clouds forming a strikingly realistic image of a teddy bear. Status:False. In fact, the image is a still frame taken from the 2001 French film. Claim:Photograph shows God’s hands in a cloud formation. Status:False. It is a digital reworking, not a genuine photographic representation of something seen in the skies. Claim:Photograph captures deer fleeing a fire in Bitterroot Forest, Montana. Status:True. Claim:Photographs show a sandstorm in Iraq. Status:True. Claim:Photograph shows a flower-splashed hillside in California. Status:True. Claim:Photograph shows the North Pole at sunset. Status:False. It is a purely digital creation. Claim:Photograph shows a “fire rainbow” over Idaho. Status:True. Claim:Photographs taken from a yacht show a volcanic eruption at sea. Status:True. Claim:Rock formation reveals praying figures of a mother and child when viewed sideways. Status:False. It’s a fictional element from a children’s storybook. Claim:Photographs show ice formations in Antarctica created by waves of water freezing in midair. Status:Real photographs; inaccurate description. Starkly beautiful wave-like ice formations like the ones they capture can indeed be found in parts of Antarctica. However, such formations are not created by waves of water hitting frigid air and instantly freezing in place; they’re typically formed over time from ice that has been compacted and uplifted by glaciation, then shaped through exposure to the elements. Claim:Photographs show foam that blanketed an Australian shoreline. Status:True. Claim:Photographs shows a “Devil’s Pool” on the edge of Victoria Falls. Status:True. Claim:Photographs show icebergs with multi-colored striping. Status:True. Claim:Photograph shows a collection of snowrollers formed in Idaho. Status:TRUE Claim:Photographs show the “parrot plant,” a plant whose flowers resemble a parrot in flight. Status:TRUE. Claim:Photographs show a volcanic lightning storm in Chile. Status:TRUE. Medical Claim: Photographs show an infant girl with a second head. St Claim:Photograph shows a Vietnamese child with physical abnormalities attributed to Agent Orange. Status:True. Claim:Photograph shows a breast rash caused by South American larvae. Status:False. Claim:Photographs show a bizarre-looking baby born in Nepal. Status:Undetermined. Claim:Photographs show a boy whose nose has been impaled with a fork. Status:True. Claim:X-ray image documents a case of penile fracture. Status:False. Hurricane Katrina Claim: Photograph captions describe a black man “looting” and a white couple “finding” supplies in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Status:True. Claim:Photograph shows a satellite view of Hurricane Katrina. Status:Real photo; inaccurate description. This picture is actually a satellite image of Hurricane Floyd from September 1999. Claim:Photograph shows gas station sign advertising premium gasoline for $6.07 per gallon. Status:True. Claim:Photograph shows school buses caught in a flooded New Orleans parking lot. Status:True. Claim:Photographs show Hurricane Katrina hitting the Gulf Coast in August 2005. Status:Real photos; inaccurate description. These images are actually photographs of tornadoes and other extreme weather phenomena taken by storm chaser Mike Hollingshead in Nebraska and Kansas during the summer months of 2002 and 2004. Claim:Photographs show snakes driven to an offshore oil rig by Hurricane Katrina. Status:Real photos; inaccurate description. They clearly have no connection to Hurricane Katrina, as they were on web sites well before that storm hit the Gulf Coast. Claim:Television news screen shot captures President Bush with an inadvertently humorous caption. Status:True. Claim:Photographs show President Bush engaged in various recreational activities in areas ravaged by Hurricane Katrina. Status:False. The former, used a photograph of President Bush taken from his appearance at Naval Base Coronado on 30 August 2005 to deliver remarks on V-J Commemoration Day, where he was presented with a guitar by Country Singer Mark Wills. Likewise, the second image used an earlier photograph of father-and-son presidents displaying the results of their angling efforts. Claim:Photographs show a 21-foot crocodile found swimming in the streets of New Orleans. Status:Real photos; inaccurate description. These photographs actually show a crocodile that was shot and killed on 6 July 2003 at Pointe-Noire in the Republic of Congo. Claim:Police speed camera photograph shows car blown at 133 MPH by Hurricane Katrina. Status:False. The storm image onto which the other components were overlaid is in fact a frame from a video of 2004′s Hurricane Charley making landfall in Florida. Hunting And Fishing Claim:Photographs show a live deer pulled out of the water by fisherman. Status:True. Airplanes Claim:Photographs show prototype of a new F/A-37 “Talon” military plane. Status:False. Although these pictures come from a fictional movie, they were taken aboard a real U.S. aircraft carrier: the USS Abraham Lincoln which was used for filming while the vessel was at San Diego’s Naval Air Station North Island in June 2004. Claim:Photographs show damage to an airplane caused by a mid-air collision with a goose. Status:Real photos; inaccurate description. These photographs depict the aftermath of a mid-air collision between two small planes, a Beech 95-B55 and a Cessna 180K , over Tehachapi, California, on 16 January 2004. Claim:Photograph shows airline hangar flooded with soap suds. Status:False. This is a picture likely taken after the triggering of a fire-suppression system released foam into the hangar. Claim:Photograph shows an American Airlines airliner with an engine on fire. Status:False. Claim:Photograph shows large military transport plane stuck atop a freeway overpass. Status:True. Claim:Photograph shows a Mandarin Airlines flight taxiing past the charred remains of a crashed airliner. Status:True. Claim:Photograph shows an in-flight airliner with panels missing from one of its engines. Status:True. Claim:Photograph shows small plane crashed into a tree next to a sign advertising flight lessons. Status:True. Claim:hotograph shows a new Boeing 797 blended-wing airliner. Status:False. The image is a conceptual picture from a Popular Science article about the future of aviation. Claim:Photograph shows an F/A-18 Hornet flying past a Detroit apartment building. Status:TRUE. Claim:Photographs show an airliner that was struck by lightning. Status:REAL PHOTOGRAPHS; INACCURATE DESCRIPTION The incident captured in these photos took place in Tallahassee, Florida, on 1 March 2009, and the visible damage was the result of a cockpit fire that burned through the skin of the aircraft. Advertisements Claim:A complicated Honda Accord commercial was achieved without the use of computer-generated images. Status:True. Claim:A series of photographs shows a restaurant’s 6-poundhamburger offering. Status:True. Claim:Photographs show a conceptual pen-sized personal computer system. Status:Partly true. We’ve dubbed this item “partly true” because, as far as we know, no functional prototype of P-ISM system was built or displayed. The items shown in these pictures were more on the level of props created to show off a concept for something that might be built. Claim:Photographs show shopping bags adorned with clever artwork. Status:True. Claim:Photograph shows a duck stealing money from a woman’s purse. Status:Real photograph; inaccurate description. The ducks seen in the photograph were props, not live animals. Claim:Image shows an advertisement from the Virginia Beach SPCA thanking quarterback Michael Vick for his assistance in rescuing pit bulls. Status:False. The image itself is just a crude digital mock-up, and the Virginia Beach SPCA confirms that it did not engage in dealings with Michael Vick to help place animals rescued in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Accidents Claim:Towboat Passes Beneath A Bridge … By Rolling Underwater! Status:True In this amazing set of photographs, a towboat hits a bridge, rolls underneath it and emerges on the other side – intact and functional! The event occured on April 19, 1979 at Rooster Bridge on the Tombigbee River in western Alabama and was captured by amateur photographer Charles Barger. Claim:Photos show a deer that crashed through the windshield of a Dodge Durango Status:True Indeed, these pictures are real. We don’t know the identity of the unfortunate motorist, but the local police did verify for us that an occurrence like the one depicted in the photographs took place on Interstate Highway 394 near the Minnesota town of Wayzata (just west of Minneapolis) when a deer fell or jumped off the Highway 101 bridge/overpass and landed on top a passing Dodge Durango, crashing through the windshield and onto the front seat. The driver was fortunate to have escaped with only minor injuries. Claim:Photographs depict damage to automobiles caused by exploding aerosol cans. Status:Unknown Do you keep WD-40, hair spray, Off, Fix-A-Flat, etc. in your vehicle? If so, you might want to reconsider. The picture above is of a pressurized can that exploded in a person’s vehicle and imbedded itself in the back seat of the car. The temperature outside of the closed up vehicle was about 100 degrees F. Claim:Video shows car running red light and sending another vehicle into a pedestrian? Status:True Claim:Photographs show a series of cranes falling into water while attempting to retrieve an automobile. Status:Multiple Photographs show a crane tipping and falling into water while trying to retrieve a submerged automobile. Photograph shows a second crane tipping and falling into water while trying to retrieve the first crane. The first eight photographs in this series showing a crane attempting to retrieve an automobile from a body of water, the crane tipping and falling into the water itself, and a second crane fishing both vehicles out of the water appear to be genuine photographs of an incident that reportedly took place in Ireland at Roundstone Pier Conemmara, Galway, around September 2004. However, the last photograph showing the second crane also tipping and falling into the water is what makes this series particularly appealing to viewers, but it’s clearly just an altered version of the fifth image. Claim:Photographs show a truck crashed into a mobile home by a disgruntled ex-spouse. Status: Undetermined. Claim:Photographs show the results of a car vs. moose accident in Ontario. Status:True. The following pictures are of a moose that went through a car’s windshield near South River, Ontario. The VERY lucky woman driver ended up with just a broken wrist and needing a good bath. The moose was not so lucky. It died from its injuries. Claim:Photographs show a hoe excavator that crashed into a highway overpass. Status:True. photographs displayed above capture the aftermath of an accident that occurred on the evening of 13 February 2006 on Interstate 70 near Hays, Kansas. The driver of a semi-tractor trailer that was hauling a track hoe excavator on a flatbed misestimated the clearance at an overpass, and the boom of the hoe collided with the overpass and knocked a 45-foot gap through the deck of the bridge.The driver of the rig was uninjured. Claim:Photograph shows a crashed pickup truck perched atop a sports car in a garage. Status: Real photograph; inaccurate description. This picture actually captures the aftermath of an July 2005 accident in Fort Smith, Arkansas, the result of a teenage driver who was distracted by a cell phone and ran his Ford F-150 pickup truck off the road, sending the vehicle airborne and launching it into a garage, where it came to rest atop a Ferrari. Claim:Photographs show the passenger cabin of an airliner as it broke up in mid-air. Status:FALSE. On 30 September 2006, a Boeing 737-800 operated by Brazil’s Gol Airlines collided with a 13-seat Embraer Legacy 600 corporate jet at 37,000 feet over Brazil. The seven people aboard the corporate jet survived an emergency landing at a military base in the Amazon, but all 154 passengers and crew aboard the commercial airliner were killed when the plane plunged to the ground. The images displayed above have nothing to do with that tragic accident, however they’re screen shots from the pilot episode of the popular ABC television series Lost. Actress Evangeline Lilly who portrays the character Kate Austen in that show, is clearly identifiable in the left-hand side of the first photograph. Also, the tail section shown breaking away from the airliner in the first photograph bears the logo of the fictional Oceanic Airlines used in that TV series. Claim: Photograph shows man falling from a skyscraper while occupants grasp at him through a window. Status:False. The distinctively-shaped building seen in the background places the setting of this photograph in downtown Beijing, and this image is in fact the work of photographic/performance artist Li Wei a 36-year-old resident of Beijing who specializes in “site-specific performance pieces that enact strange fantasies such as a head flying solo around Beijing or bodies catapulted into car windows.” Claim:Photographs show the results of a fatal automobile accident involving a Porsche 911 arrera in Orange County, California. Status:True. The collision claimed the life of 18-year-old Ladera Ranch resident Nicole (“Nikki”) Catsouras, who was killed when she clipped a gray Honda Civic she was attempting to pass while traveling at more than 100 mph in her Porsche 911 Carrera. The Porsche careened across the center divider and the lanes on the opposite side of the highway, then slammed into a toll booth. The 20-year-old man who was driving the Honda Civic was taken to a hospital with “minor to moderate injuries”.
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