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18 Famous Paranormal Photos And Videos, And Why They're Fake

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This time of year, the internet is absolutely oozing with weirdly plausible paranormal photos and videos. It was starting to creep us out, so we asked our readers to take a long, objective look at so-called authentic images of ghosts, UFOs, Bigfoot, and other sketchy stuff.

Here's what they came up with.

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Washed ashore at Ataka, Egypt in 1950, the giant tusked carcass baffled many. But upon closer inspection, the tusks are nothing but outwardly spread s

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18 Famous Paranormal Photos And Videos, And Why They're Fake

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18 Famous Paranormal Photos And Videos, And Why They're Fake

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A CLEANING LADY BEFORE SHE LEAPT TO FAME AS A PHOTOGRAPHICI MEDIUM, ADA EMMA DEAN TOOK PICTURES WHERE DISEMBODIED HEADS OF GHOSTS WOULD APPEAR. HOWE

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Is this truly the first half-human half-lion hybrid? No, it's just a silicone doll. Laira Maganuco added 11 new photos Follow September 28 Coming soon

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This photo of a burning town hall in Wem, England, shows a ghostly little girl. A former president of the Royal Photographic Society said the photo wa

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In 2016, a video showinga a massive unknown creature near Antartica became viral... De The monster, however, just happens to be a particularly large

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This is the Monster of Cerro Azul, whose appearance shocked Panama in 2009... But turns out it was just a furless, dead sloth.

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CRACKEDCON The Giant Human from Kitwe, Zambia. FR2Z DOONAIRS r The giant human above resembles one of Martin Lester's Spirit Man Kites (pictured right

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Lizard-like alien spotted clinging on Curiosity Rover's arm? Nah, it's just the rover's dust removal tool.

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Photos of archaeologists digging out giant human-lik bones can be seen all around the internet, claiming that they are the remains of an ancient race

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To the left, a picture of the skeleton of a mermaid that was discovered in Bulgaria... CRAUIN SMTHFIELD 00E6272 B1S->N To the right, the original pict

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During 2017, a picture supposedly from the set of The Fate of the Furious that shows the ghost of Paul Walker spread through social media... Thermal-C

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CRACKEDGO Dark Ghost At Nursing Home Increased brightness to make image artifacts more visible. The ghost doesn't have any. Image artifacts are distor

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Is that ORAGKEDDON a time travelling hipster in this photo, taken in 1941 in Canada? Or is it a man wearing a Montreal hockey jersey, M and sun goggle

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