VIDEO: Terrifying HOAXES That We All Believed to be True!

You might believe that things are super true because there is a lot of evidence to back it up. Even though they might feel supernatural and impossible some people believe that some creepy stories have to be true because there is so much evidence to prove it. But keep in mind that most of them are just elaborate hoaxes.
According to telegraph.co.uk, there are a lot of hoaxes that we have always believed to be true and while some are funny or unimpressive, a lot of them are super creepy.
1448 Birth of the Devil’s child – Ursula Shipton was so ugly that nobody required further proof that her mother had been seduced by the devil. A biographer wrote that she had “pimples of diverse colours, as red, blew, and mixt, which like Vapours of Brimstone gave such a lustre of the Night”.
The nation, including King Henry VIII, believed she had inherited the ability to tell the future. Needless to say, her predictions were as good as her poetry:
‘The world to an end shall come, in eighteen hundred and eighty one’.
1661 The Ghost drummer of Wiltshire – In the 17th Century, the poor were victims of hoaxes invented by the eccentric and powerful.
A bitter John Mompesson of Tedworth took a drummer to court, accusing him of petty crimes. The drummer had his drum confiscated but was released. Mr Mompesson was allegedly haunted by drumming and legend spread throughout England that the drummer had conjured an evil spell to haunt the man’s house.
In truth, Mr Mompesson just wanted to fulfil a vendetta against the drummer. The poor drummer was charged again and found guilty of employing an evil spirit.
1730 Prank witch trial – The Pennsylvania Gazette published a tongue in cheek account of a witch trial at Mount Holly in which witches were charged with making people “sheep dance”, among other absurdities.
The amusing article, believed to have been written by the satirist Benjamin Franklin, backfired; readers took it as gospel.
1867 Supernatural stones – By 1867 newspaper readers still weren’t in tune with the satirical humour of journalists. However, readers of Nevada’s Territorial Enterprise cannot be blamed for spreading rumours about this rather obscure article by Dan De Quille.
According to the writer, he had found an eerie basin in some Nevada mountains containing perfectly round stones that moved about in herds. De Quille was offered $10,000 to expose the stones. He declined.
1977 The Amityville Horror printed – Still believed by many to be a true story, the haunting at Amityville is probably the most famous paranormal hoax of all time. The terrifying story of the Lutz family home swept America in 1977 and has since been the subject of nine films.
One of the key creators of the story, William Weber wrote in a 1979 issue of People magazine: ‘I know this book is a hoax. We created this horror story over many bottles of wine’.
2004 Horror marketing – The US press fell for a Sci Fi channel mockumentary in which Sixth Sense director M Night Shyamalan discussed his childhood relationship with a dead boy whom he had watched drown.
The film included footage of the director storming out of interviews in response to upsetting questions.
The hoax was designed to plug Shyamalan’s next horror film, The Village, which was released a month later. Ironically, the horror marketing was probably a better success than the film.

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