25 Historical Hoaxes You Won't Believe

Confidence will get you further than truth ever will, and the people on this list proved it over and over again. One man embarrassed the Vatican so thoroughly that the story still gets told more than a century later. Another hoax rewrote an entire country's textbooks for generations before historians finally set the record straight. These aren't just pranks. They're masterclasses in how easy it is to manipulate what people believe. These are 25 Historical Hoaxes You Won't Believe. Grab your copy of What The Facts now, available on Amazon! Click the link to explore over 500 fun and fascinating facts! 👉👉https://www.amazon.com/WHAT-FACTS-ARE-TALKING-ABOUT-ebook/dp/B0DFNR2KHT/ Please support my channel and get access to perks:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWqJpFqlX59OML324QIByZA/join 🔔 Subscribe for more tips just like this: https://bit.ly/3Ewz99H 🚀 Watch our latest List25 Videos: https://www.youtube.com/c/list25/videos 📨 Have a list idea? Submit it here: https://bit.ly/3Mu3gk1 Music: Spying In The 60's - Sir Cubworth 0:00 - Intro 0:33 - The Huemul Project 1:41 - The Irish Slaves Myth 2:50 - The Spaghetti Tree Broadcast 3:47 - The Lost Prince Louis XVII 4:57 - The Blood Libel 6:06 - The Bremen Amber Hoax 7:00 - The Sokal Affair 8:00 - Taxil's Vatican Humiliation 9:06 - The Bathtub Hoax 10:07 - The Ern Malley Poetry Hoax 11:20 - Naked Came the Stranger 12:20 - The Baby Hitler Photo 13:18 - Poe's Balloon Hoax 14:15 - The Society for Indecency to Naked Animals 15:18 - The Balloon Boy Incident 16:19 - The Iron Mountain Report 17:27 - The Fictional Artist Nat Tate 18:33 - The Giant Potato Photo 19:29 - The Donation of Constantine 20:38 - The Banana Drug Scare 21:34 - The Plainfield Teachers College Football Team 22:45 - The Fake Dictionary Word That Lasted Seventy Years 23:45 - The Colorado Diamond Field 24:53 - The Climate Bacteria Hoax 25:53 - The Kinderhook Plates 🍿 WATCH OUR OTHER VIDEOS: ► 25 GREATEST Scientific Hoaxes In History: https://youtu.be/AdJWfaRH1AA?si=7W3I9y6WIDddE-DX ► 25 Unbelievable Historical Moments That Actually Happened: https://youtu.be/VSkleSELhcw?si=9Tt0yWJQ-3qOFqFb List25 Discord: https://discord.gg/ZcKZRspW7f Facebook: http://facebook.com/list25 Instagram: http://instagram.com/list25 Twitter/X: http://twitter.com/list25 Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/list25 Mike Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/michaelbestrin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DizMeLife Twitter: https://twitter.com/DizMeLife Twitter: https://twitter.com/MichaelBEstrin Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mikeestrin/ Cameo: https://www.cameo.com/michaelbestrin Mike's Other Channel: https://www.youtube.com/dizmelife See more lists on our website: http://list25.com Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research