This picture has been shared online for years with the attached claim of it showing a model in Paris back in 1920. It does not. I’m an expert on daily life in 1920s-1940s Europe, it is my full time job when I’m not hunting fake history.So when I saw this photo I immediately knew it … More Not a model posing in 1920s Paris
Online but also in documentaries and even in books people have claimed that the first same sex kiss on television between women happened in an episode of the TV show ‘L.A. Law’ in 1991 and between men in an episode of ‘Dawson’s Creek’ in 2000.Others claim TV’s first gay kiss between two men was on … More NOT the first same sex kiss on TV
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
This picture has been shared online but also in exhibits, documentaries and other situations as a genuine Victorian advert for Asthma Cigarettes. It is not. When I first saw this advertisement I immediately knew something wasn’t quite right.I’ve studied and examined countless Victorian images, adverts and enamel signs and this one just set off a … More NOT a genuine old Asthma Cigarettes advert
This photo is being shared online claiming to show Hans Staininger (or Steininger) who died when he broke his neck by tripping over his own beard. It does not. Hans Staininger (or Steininger) really existed and he had a very long beard that indeed killed him when he tripped over it and broke his neck… … More NOT Hans Staininger killed by his beard
These photos are being shared online claiming to show “Coca-Cola being first introduced in France in 1950” or a little more vague; “When Coca-Cola came to France in 1950”.With other words these photos are supposed to show French people reacting to a drink that is for the first time available in their country. They do … More NOT Coca-Cola being introduced to France in 1950
This photo has been shared online claiming to show a wedding in 1940 where everybody is wearing a gas mask because of the war, or as a photo showing a wedding on the volcanic island of Miyake-jima where people have to wear a gas mask all the time because of the sulphur dioxide gas coming … More NOT a volcano or WW2 gas mask wedding
This picture is being shared with the suggestion that it is a genuine Victorian photograph showing a man, sometimes identified as “Hugh Hefner’s grandpa”, standing with several young ladies who are all wearing rabbit ears. That is not the case. The only mention of a ‘Jack Rabbit club’ is in regards to a veteran’s sports … More NOT Grandpa Hefner’s Jack Rabbit Club
This photo is being shared online claiming to have been made by photographer Carl Van Sauer and showing Kim Novak entertaining American Troops in Vietnam, 1962. It does not. Twitter user BobbyDress saw it and felt something wasn’t quite right so he asked me to look into it.And although the 1960s are a bit recent … More NOT Kim Novak in Vietnam, 1962
This photo is being shared online supposedly showing the execution of a German soldier for desertion by his own comrades. It does not. When I saw it I immediately knew something wasn’t quite right but couldn’t put my finger on it.The scene just looked too staged, too posed.Eventually I realised that the firing squad was … More NOT a German soldier being shot during WW2
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