the piltdown man hoax

The Piltdown man hoax is one of the most famous hoaxes of our time. At first, the discovery of parts of a skull and jawbone was one of thee greatest discoveries of its time; however; over forty years later, the fossils in question were discovered to be a fraud. In 1912, when these remains were found they were thought to be remains of some unknown form of early human. Experts in the field believed that the discovery of these fragments would connect the evolution of man from ape, the were the “missing link.” After more research had been done to further prove how these fossils connected the evolution of man, the findings no longer fit in. The old bones of this unknown creature suddenly had no place in the human family tree. It was in 1953 when the truth about the Piltdown man came out. As time went on new scientific experiments and tests became available. These new techniques were used on the Piltdown man’s fossils and revealed that the fossils were not from far enough back to be what they were thought to be when the were first discovered, over forty years ago. ¬¬

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mass hysteria

Several dozens of students of The Laxmi Secondary School in Lekhnath in Nepal suffered from the urse of the "snake god." this curse began on Tuesday, September 5,2006, when reportedly two doezen students, maily girls, started to randomly faint. The students would "fall down in a dead faint, weeping loudly, kicking and screaming and making signs of extreme fear and distress." The next day even more students experienced the exact same symptoms. This odd behavior of so many students alarmed the parents. The parents informed the principal and the district hospital of their concerns. In response to this mass hysteria, the principal closed the school for the reamainder of the week. While school was out of session shamans were called in to "exorcise the slain snake's spirit" before the reopened. Several weeks before this outburst of strange behavior, someone employed by the school killed a snake found on the school's property. Apparently, after the slaughter of this snake, its spirti wanted to seek revenge; it did so by cursing several of the studens who attended the school.


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