Fake History: Ten Great Lies and How They Shaped the World

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The related term cryptohistory is applied to pseudohistory derived from the superstitions intrinsic to occultism. Set in 1836 amid the prairies and plains of Texas, "Texas Rising" was filmed in desert areas of Mexico. An example of an "alternative chronology" is Anatoly Fomenko's New Chronology, which claims that recorded history actually began around AD 800 and all events that allegedly occurred prior to that point either never really happened at all or are simply inaccurate retellings of events that happened later. Fanaticism alters not only the perception of current realities (as negotiations limp forward), it also adjusts the past to suit one set of beliefs. If you look at the American flag in still pictures from the Apollo 11 mission, it appears to be flapping in the wind.

These historical artefacts are totally faked | WIRED UK

The channel specialized in documentaries about wide-ranging subjects, like World War II and its aftermath. The punchline of Dillinger's story is that he was taken down by the FBI and then buried under 3 feet of concrete, and ever since there are people who say it wasn't really John Dillinger who got shot by the FBI that night, hence all the concrete.So History dumped a whole bunch of made-up crap into the mix and gave it a stir, so there's just enough untruth that viewers have no idea what's real and what's fake. Michael Grant (a classicist) states that "In recent years, 'no serious scholar has ventured to postulate the non historicity of Jesus' or at any rate very few, and they have not succeeded in disposing of the much stronger, indeed very abundant, evidence to the contrary. For example, the pseudohistorical The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail links the Knights Templar, the medieval Grail Romances, the Merovingian Frankish dynasty and the artist Nicolas Poussin in an attempt to identify lineal descendants of Jesus. Later in the video, it’s revealed that Jordan Peele is doing some sort of voice over, putting the words into President Obama’s mouth, yet the movement of President Obama’s mouth and head seem natural. Producers held firm, though, and remaining fans just had to deal with a whole new bunch of (hopefully less violent) swamp people.

Which exhibits in a museum are genuine? | Dinosaurs | The

So to get people to actually tune in to a show about buried or sunken treasure, you kind of need to sensationalize, embellish, and just make things up as you go along.Historical falsification [ edit ] Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain, a scene from which is shown in this fifteenth-century illumination, was a popular work of pseudohistory during the Middle Ages.