10 fake photographs that claimed to be historical, but were exposed (11 photos)

We all love interesting and mysterious stories, which also have evidence in the form of photographs. It’s so exciting: to get into someone’s life from the past, to see a captured historical event! But it was not there.





Fakes are not a fresh product. And people learned to create fake photos only after mastering a wonderful device. Some of them have long been exposed, the true stories of others have only recently been revealed. But they all still circulate on the Internet, causing Internet users to think. We have collected the most famous ones in order to certainly debunk their myths.

John Lennon and Che Guevara



A photo of John Lennon plucking strings with Che Guevara, whom the musician never knew, is circulating online. In fact, in the photo (below) on the right is Wayne "Tex" Gabriel, the lead guitarist of Elephant's Memory, who performed at Lennon's 1986 concert.

Perfume Photographed by William H. Mumler





In the first photograph, Mumler allegedly imagined the spirit of Abraham Lincoln next to his wife, Mary Todd. In fact, these and other photographs are skillful stacking of exposures. Mystical photographs nevertheless excited the public of the 19th-21st centuries.

Harem of the Persian Shah Nasser ad-Din



For a long time there were rumors about the extremely unusual tastes of the Persian Shah (the photos are clearly men in women's dresses). But after a while this lie was refuted. It turned out that Nesreddin was interested in photography and European theater, but at the end of the 19th century women were still prohibited from performing on stage, so the role of the harem in court productions was played by men, and Anton Sevryugin, who enjoyed the favor of the Shah, documented all this.

Marilyn Monroe and John Kennedy



Rumors about the connection between the famous actress and the US President spread thanks to the outrageous artist and photographer Alison Jackson, who is known for her works depicting the fictional private lives of celebrities, for which she uses doubles.

"Lunch on a Skyscraper"



As much as we would like to believe that this photo is natural, it is still a well-executed production for the Rockefeller Center advertising campaign. True, the builders are really real.

Snow in Egypt



The news, which swept across all the news and social networks in 2013, is still wandering around the Internet, although everyone has long known that this is not the real Sphinx, but a copy of it in a Japanese amusement park, as confirmed by the top of the Eiffel Tower behind the pyramid in the first photo .

Man at the time of the September 11 tragedy



In fact, this photo is of an ordinary tourist who took a photo with New York in the background back in 1997.

William Harley and Arthur Davidson on their motorcycles



The second photo shows really happy fishermen and the founders of Harley-Davidson, but the second photo shows just young guys who decided to take a photo with their brand new bikes as a souvenir.

Albert Einstein in front of an explosion



The first photo is a collage of an archival photo of the scientist, taken by Mark Hom in 1933, and photographs of tests in Nevada in 1962.

Kennedy's death



The photograph is very reminiscent of the real one, but the fact is that it is a still from the filming of the film “The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald” (1964). Nevertheless, it is still accepted as a documentary.