8 fake news stories of 2015 that everyone believed
Nathan Johnson
Published
12/24/2015
were you fooled?
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A man turning himself in after "killing his imaginary friend" and then taking the world's saddest mugshot was too good to pass up. And well, it was also too good to be true. The man in the mugshot is actually Billy Southern, and this photo was from an unrelated arrest in 2011. -
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Couple Lives In Walmart Attic For Two Years, Meth Lab Discovered. As much as we adore those mugshots and this story, it isn't true at all as the original source (Now8News) is known for their fake news stories. And that woman's mugshot is actually from 2012. -
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As much as we wanted to believe that this guy's real name was Phuc Dat Bich, it unfortunately wasn't. His real name (according to him) is Tin Le, and this was all part of a hoax to fool Facebook and show everyone the flaws in their naming policy. Phuc dat. -
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Woman's Fake, 64-Inch Ass Explodes While Doing Squats. We're actually glad this isn't true and that this woman's 64-inch ass is still intact. This story was just made up by NewsWatch33, and after pictures of this woman's ass were attached to the story it took off. -
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Guy Watches Porn During Class...Forgets To Plug In Headphones. The man behind the prank is Jamie Zhu and he's a prankster on YouTube. -
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There are so many apps out there now that it's no surprise that a lot of us were fooled by an app that encouraged people to swipe on people and meet up with them to fight. It was quickly ruled a hoax. -
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After a one night stand occurs, a pregnant woman makes a video plea to find the man she slept with because he's the baby's father. And as much as we wanted to help this woman find her mate it was all bizarre social media promotion for Holiday Mooloolaba, a company that finds rental properties. -
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There's A Deep Fried Rat In My Meal. This one was hard not to believe since we've heard plenty of horror stories of people who have found the most nauseating things in their fast food meals. A man posted this photo on Facebook claiming that he had bit into it while munching on his 3-piece chicken tender meal. It turned out to be a hoax when the man refused to help KFC corporate with the investigation, and KFC showed another angle of the picture which revealed the hand-breaded white meat chicken.
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