The story goes that an Indian king or maharaja during his visit to London in the 1930s, was so angry about a snooty shop assistant at a Rolls Royce dealership who assumed this customer wasn’t rich enough to afford such a luxury car, that the maharaja bought ten of them on the spot, had them … More NOT a Rolls Royce used to clean streets in India
Finding and hunting Fake History can be quite tricky, but here are a few tips that can help you figure out if something shared online is true or not.This is a work in progress, I’ll add more, update it, change things, etc.In part based on suggestions and input from you. I will discuss the research … More How to hunt fake history.
This photo has been going around the internet claiming to have been taken in an old abandoned medieval village in Scotland. It wasn’t. It is a gorgeous photo and a wonderful setting, it makes your imagination run wild, where exactly is it, would you be able to visit it, why was it abandoned… how has … More NOT an abandoned Scottish Medieval village
For some strange reason there are a lot of rather peculiar stories going around about famous historical figures having very odd bathing habits that generally involve them not bathing very much.I’m not sure why this is, I’ve dealt with the general myths about common people never bathing in the past (they did) but the stories … More The curious claims about Elizabeth I’s bathing habits
My fight against Fake History has become a daytime job, so I appreciate it a lot that there are people who like to support what I do by becoming a patron! Here are the people who are currently keeping up my morale and helping me do my work; Ultra Tier; Extra tier Plus tier Patron … More My Patreon Supporters
Every Christmas the same story goes around social media; Coca-Cola invented Santa or at least gave him a whole new look in the 1930s.They are the reason his suit is red, after all it’s the Coca-Cola colour. But this is nonsense.First a bit of history:Santa evolved from the medieval Father Christmas who was the mythical … More Coca-Cola did not create Santa
This photo of an old looking house has been shared all over the internet with the claim that it shows a house built in 1509 in the town of Argentan, France. Although it looks absolutely lovely, this building was not built in 1509 (which is sort of not Medieval) but in 1955 and most of … More NOT an 16th century house in France
For a while a picture has been doing the rounds on the internet of a woman carrying a man in a basket on her back with the claim that it depicted “A Sikkimese woman carrying a British man on her back, West Bengal, India, circa 1900” or “A Bengali woman carrying her British ‘master’ during … More Not a French colonial administrator being carried
Exactly a month ago Twitter locked my account, there had been some suspicious activity.It may have been my posting the ‘These bullets from Gallipoli did not collide in mid-air” response for the 91875 time in a row that made the Twitter system think something was off or that I was simply spamming.Normally something like this … More I’m PROPERLY back!
This picture has been shared online claiming to show the exact moment an Axis sniper who has been shot falls from a tower during a battle somewhere in Italy in 1944. It does not.Yes, someone on the internet is wrong, again… I’ve had a rather unusual and diverse career, for a while I’ve worked in … More NOT a sniper falling from a tower in 1944
Fake History Hunter 