The 22 Most Misleading Viral Photos (Explained)

Our quest to sift through the baloney for you continues.
The 22 Most Misleading Viral Photos (Explained)

Viral photos: We love them, we hate them, and while we're still hating them we pass on the information we learned. But, in our continuing quest to sift through the baloney for you, we asked our readers to debunk some of the most famous viral photos and gave $200 to the best ...

This photo has been misunderstood as Muslim a storeowner closing shop to honor the terrorists who bombed the World Trade Center on 9/11. The 'martyr'
Heartbroken because her own cubs have died, a tigress is fooled into adopting a litter of piglets by Zoo officials in California who wrap them in tige
CRAGKED.CO This picture, which purports to show the American soldiers who killed the last lion in Afghanistan, is a crude photoshop job especially o
CRACKEDCON Mom, This image is fake. it a was created as an inspirational poster for successories.com. The artist combined four images to create ite Th
CHEMTRAIL (noun) a conspiracy theory that contests aeroplane vapor trails are made of insidious chemicals spraved for nefarious reasons. conspiracy si
Look at these evil hunters! Together, they've killed more than twenty endangered wolves! Why isn't the Government stopping this! Amazingly, this pictu
This photo shows 2014 New Yean's fireworhs from space. Just hidding. It was created by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to show cha
No, Obama's not ignoring the National Anthem, the raising of the flag, or the Pledge of Allegiance. He's not saluting because they're playing Hail to
You may have seen this image floating around the internet of a mass wedding in Gaza held by Hamas. It clearly shows fully grown men marrying pre-pubes
Rats! GMOs! Tumors! K 9255 GMO 9344 GMO+R 9202R Actually, the rats depicted here are Sprague-Dawley rats, who naturally develop tumors regardless of w
In 2009, the media reported ATLANTIS may have been located off the coast of Africa via Google Earth Turns out that the straight lines were actually a
This 1999 photograph of a 21-week-old fetus was taken by Michael Clancy, who said the fetus's arm thrust out and squeezed the doctor's finger. The ch
This is not of a picture Congress members playing solitaire during session, it is merely the Connecticut House of Representatives during a long (and e
This photo, a fixture on conspiracist and anti-Zionist websites, purports to show former President George W. Bush pledging allegiance to the flag
CRACKEDC Photos like this are often used that as 'proof Marilyw Mouroe was size 16. a She wasn't. For most of her career she was a size 8, and wvew at
This photo of two Russian runners, Tatyana Firova and Kseniya Ryzhova, kissing while on the podium of the IAAF World Athletics Championships was circu
This photograph depicts Khalid Alussy as an Iraqi sculptor who forced to sculpt Saddam Hussein's statue back when was he was in power. After Saddam wa
CRAGKEDCON DUINROBIN SS37117 1024 Theres a wooden plank keeping her corpse upright According to Internet legend, the girl in the third row, all the wa
OBAMA BREAKS CHILD'S HEART The Zoo is All Smithsoniss museums and the National 7o temporarily closed today dae to the soverament shutdown. closed. Ple
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Google Maps satellite view 52.37655215.198303 In April 2013, the Internet freaked out over this Google Maps satellite view of what appears to be a dea
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