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The springfield pet-eating hoax, an online, far-right anti-immigration hoax from Springfield, Ohio that claimed that Haitian immigrants were eating pets, specifically cats and dogs. Stardrive 2000 , a 1986 radio advertising hoax in Portland, Oregon to promote the effectiveness of radio advertising by advertising a fictional automobile.
The Ohio Department of Natural Resources was inundated with phone calls from people who believed the misinformation, and it became associated with the larger pet-eating hoax. [59] In August, a 27-year-old U.S.-born woman was arrested in Canton, Ohio, on charges that she killed and ate a cat.
The true story even inspired a 2022 Netflix docuseries, Don’t Pick Up the Phone, which follows the investigation into a series of hoax calls that targeted fast food chains across the United ...
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The same outlets have continued to cover the story after the hoax was confirmed, including multiple true crime documentaries, newsmagazine episodes and podcasts. The first scripted film based on the hoax was the 2023 Lifetime television film Hoax: The Kidnapping of Sherri Papini with Jaime King playing Sherri Papini. The lead detective was ...
A group of scientists from UC Riverside confirmed the presence of Heterobilharzia americana — a flatworm known as liver fluke — along the banks of the Colorado River in Southern California.
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A Northern California mother of two was sentenced Monday to 18 months in prison for faking her own kidnapping so she could go back to a former boyfriend, which led to a three-week, multi-state ...