Photo A looks like a photo of a strange monster swimming in a lake, right? For more than fifty years, people believed that this photo was real. They believed that it showed a real monster, swimming in a lake in Scotland. People even gave the monster a name: Nessie. Then, in 1990, someone found a letter that explained what we see in the photo. This �monster� is really just a children�s toy, made of wood. Even though everyone knows that this isn�t a photo of a real monster, many people visit the lake every year, hoping to see Nessie.
Photo B made this cat � her name is Snowball � famous around the world. The photo isn�t real, though. Someone used Photoshop to �grow� Snowball into a very big cat. Here are 2 photos that show you what Snowball really looks like.
Photo C is the only real photo on this page. These are camel spiders. They live in the desert, where it is hot. They look very big in this photo because they are very close to the camera. Camel spiders are not dangerous, but they can run very fast � up to 16 kilometers per hour! If a camel spider sees you, it will run to you. Do you know why? It wants to stand in your shadow, where it is cool!
Photo D is from 1936, and it is one of the most famous �fake� photos. It is famous because many people believed that it shows a ghost called the Brown Lady of Raynham Hall. It isn�t real, though. We don�t know who took this photo, but we know how they did it. They used their camera to make two photos into one. There are lots of old photos like this one. All of them are fake.
Photo E of a shark jumping at a man under a helicopter is super-scary. It�s also super-fake! �Fake� is a word that means �not real�. Here are the two photos that someone used to make it. Now you can see that the shark is jumping, but it isn�t jumping at the man under the helicopter. Whew!!
Photo F is like the photo of the shark and the helicopter, and this �angry� koala bear is fake. It is also made of two different photos. One photo is of a real, wet, koala bear, but he isn�t angry, and this isn�t his nose and mouth.
Can you guess what animal�s nose and mouth ARE in this picture? It�s a wolf!