This document presents summaries of various viral photos and images that have been determined to be fake or digitally manipulated. It describes photos of sharks in flooded streets, kids surfing massive waves, a giant dog, a crashed airplane, the Loch Ness monster, and more that were later found to be hoaxes created through digital editing rather than authentic photos of real events. The document aims to educate people about images online that may appear convincing but are not always what they seem.

1. This image was was made by pasting an image of a breaching shark,
taken by South African photographer Charles Maxwell, into a picture of
a USAF helicopter hovering in front of the Golden Gate Bridge
taken by Lance Cheung.

2. Soon after Sept. 11, 2001, this photo began circulating via email. It
appears to show a tourist posing for a snapshot on top of the World
Trade Center as a hijacked plane approaches from behind. The man in
the photo is Hungarian man named Péter Guzli, and the picture was
actually taken in 1997. He added the plane as a joke.

3. The photo does show some tell-tale signs of digital editing, so the real
explanation is that someone took an existing picture and flipped the
image of the book in President Bush’s hands.

4. The photo went viral during the Republican National Convention,
August 29, 2012, it’s ironic that Republicans would put that banner
under a national debt clock. However, it’s not quite real.

5. crazy photograph of Hurricane Isaac approaching the Gulf Coast that
emerged on the web and went viral in 2012.The photo was posted on
Twitter and retweeted thousands of times and also even used by media
outlets during their news coverage. Bay News 9 meteorologist Josh
Linker said the image has been photoshopped.

6. In August, 2012 torrential rain battered the Philippines. These photos
came up which show kids surfing which are fake as reflections in the
water don’t look real. Though the image went viral, it’s clear it has
been manipulated.

7. This photograph of a horse and extremely large dog being walked by
a man and a woman was circulated via email, blog posts and online
forums. Hercules and Kell, the other world record winning dog are
certainly very large animals. However, neither are as large as the gigantic
animal shown in the photograph. Cleverly manipulated!

8. A mid-flight photo taken while Air France Flight 447 was crashing. This
photo is not from an airline disaster but taken from the pilot episode the
popular ABC television program “Lost.”

9. This photograph of the creature’s carcass appeared in July 2008, quickly
circulating through local papers and the Internet. Well-known wildlife
biologist Jeff Corwin, suggested that the animal is just a run-of-the-mill
raccoon that looks unusual because of its stage of decomposition and
apparent fairly lengthy immersion in water.

10. In 2008, a pair of hoaxers claimed to have found the body of Bigfoot.
Due to coverage the photos of the Bigfoot body spread on the web. A
California Bigfoot enthusiast actually paid the two Georgia men $50,000
for the body, and later found that it was just a costume packed in ice.

11. This TV Guide cover photo of Oprah Winfrey was created by splicing
Winfrey’s head onto Ann-Margret’s body. The composite was created
without permission from Winfrey or Ann-Margret, and was detected by
the designer of Ann-Margret’s dress.

12. During Hurricane Irene in August 2011, a photo showing a shark
swimming down a flooded Puerto Rican street began circulating online,
and was picked up by several news outlets, including a Miami television
station. The image of the shark most likely came from a 2005 photo from
Africa Geographic that was available online.

13. This grainy photo, supposedly of the Loch Ness monster, allegedly
was taken by Robert Kenneth Wilson, and is known as the Surgeon’s
Photograph. It was published in The Daily Mail in 1934. Extensive
investigation has shown the photo to be staged, but many still believe
Nessie exists.

14. This photo became viral in 2004 when tsunami struck Indian Ocean
shorelines. Although the Asian Tsunami was for real the photo is a fake.

15. An email started making the rounds in 2004 asking people to be sympathetic to troops in
Iraq because they have to deal with absolutely prehistoric spiders. However, even though
camel spiders are pretty big and quite fast, they’re nowhere near as large as the photo
makes it seem nor as fast as the email claims. The photo itself was just taken from an angle
that makes the spider seem bigger than it really is.

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