Unmasking the Most Infamous Hoaxes of All Time
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Such crazy hatred / racism towards America in the opening of the Ponzi story: " A truly American Dream" - RIGHT AFTER SAYING THE GUY WASN'T AMERICAN! USING SLAVE LAVOR EARNINGS!! OLDEST STORY IN HISTORY!!! I can hate America too, butt, you need better examples ... LOL "A Pyramid Scheme = SOOOO American " wtf!?!?! Pyramids are Egyptian, DUNCE😹
Even if it was a hoax, the Turk sounds like a very impressive feat of engineering for what it really did.
No more impressive than R2D2
Hearing William's last name, which is the same name as my previous employer, definitely perked my ears up. That was pretty hilarious to me, even if there's no potential relation.
@@Sk1m_Beeble It was far more technical than R2D2 and also came 200 years before
@@caodesignworks2407 it was a man in a contraption, GROUNDBREAKING
@@caodesignworks2407 Get your facts straight! R2D2 is from a long time ago and a galaxy far far away. Duh!
Charles Dawson sounds like the Wario of Charles Darwin
Lmao
who are Luigi and Waluigi then
ChatGPT: If we're drawing parallels between Mario and Charles Darwin, Luigi could be someone like Alfred Russel Wallace. Both Luigi and Wallace played significant roles alongside their more well-known counterparts, contributing to their respective fields of study (biology and evolution) in important ways.
The mechanical turk is a strikingly clever machine. If Kempelen or Mälzel had marketed it as a magician's illusion for entertainment purposes, I think they'd have made a fortune. Maybe Kempelen thought that kind of presentation would tarnish his image as an inventor, or cast a dim light on members of royalty who already fell for the trick.
Insightful thoughts on why it wasn't done, I can see both being equally probable
Simon is one of the original CZcams LEGENDS!! He may not write much of his material, but his delivery is the very definition of EPIC. Full Kudos to this guy and the teams of writers and researchers behind him.
He's the David Attenborough of CZcams.
performing is just as important as writing!
The BBC’s Spaghetti tree and a year later, the American tourists who were hunting the wild Haggis in the Highlands of Scotland. Both were fantastic modern hoaxes in times when people should have known differently.
In the 1980s when I was at uni studying anthropology among other things, my brother shared this interest so I pranked him. I told him that a hominin ancestor had been discovered in a bog in northern Europe and that it had an adaptation to the cold which was preserved by the acidic peat. It appears the creature was completely covered in a very soft, fine white feathery material. After registering his astonishment I delivered the punchline.
Yep, they're calling it Quilt down man.
He still brings it up. In fact, I think he's used it on a few people😂.
Good one, Chicken!
Maria Theresa was not a queen of Romania and Bulgaria. She was a HRE empress. Maybe Transylvania could be a connection to todays Romania, but I would say Austria, North Italy and Bohemia were a bit more important.
Who worries about small details like accurate facts? 🙃
Yeah I was totally baffled by this. Wtf.
This video in 2223:
“But these hoaxes all pale in relation to the greatest scam of all time… the stock market “
No.
even better hoax is trickle down economics
I still love Orson Welles' War of the Worlds radio broadcast. I don't know if it was intended as a hoax, but the reaction it caused was certainly akin to what a hoaxer would hope to achieve.
I don’t believe people thought that was a hoax. Makes for a great story though, doesn’t it?
People were fooled by it and yes, it was a hoax
poe's unmasking of the chess hoax was basically "hey, how come we never see superman and clark kent innthe same room together?"
I don't know. How come?
The Mechanical Turks would be a great name for a band.
Chuck e Cheese band but they're all Turks
They could be a New Bomb Turks tribute band.
Ah, so there's a tiny man inside my computer and that's why I never win at Chessmaster. Thanks for the clarity.
it must be true! Bill Gates uses his fortune to employ innumerable tiny men of immense brain size to defeat me at any computer game I ever tried to play. it makes so much sense. Also my irony detector is in full working order and the readout is set to 'laughter' (it wobbles occasionally towards applause) ;-)
Ponzi sounds EERILY similar to SBF & FTX right now 😅
Probably a better name for it is a pyramid scheme. I highly doubt Ponzi was the first to have employed it. It plays on the constant human emotion of greed and "easy" money. The cryptocurrency craze reeked of it and while a good number of people did make money with it, at the end of the day...what is it literally worth and what backs it up?
Add in a little bit of manic Elon too
Other way around. Lol ponzi happened first. And no we don't learn.
@@aftersexhighfives yes ofc I know ponzi happened first🤣 that’s the point of my comment is that decades later we have yet *another* ponzi. We will continue to never learn I’m convinced 🤷♂️🤦♂️
Im an accountant, Ive said right from the start of crypto, thats its a classic Ponzi scheme. Been shouted down by believers all along, coz they made money, some of them a lot of money. Just like Ponzi's original investors. And incredibly, ppl still are so myopic, that they think, just coz they got in (and important got out) early and made money, then it cant possibly be a Ponzi scheme.
We demand an episode on Simon Whistler!
Preferably not on "into the shadows" or "casual criminalist".
In elementary school a kid believed penguins could fly and used this one photoshopped image of a penguin flying as evidence, and the teacher punished me for telling him he was too gullible.
How unjust and anti-intellectual! What happened to "facts don't care about feelings"?
Didn't know Ponzi was on School Street in Boston. There's a Walgreens there now, with an old bank vault roped off in the back. I walk past it so much I've never bothered to see if there's a plaque or something. Now I'm curious to see if it dates back to his time and if he possibly owned it at some point.
Lucky, I work on a street where HH Holmes is connected to.
@@The_Other_Ghostthat’s kinda creepy and cool at the same time!
@@meryamdjeghri7737 A weird large amount of us at my work are vegans or vegetarians.
he actually conned by grandfather and we lost our bank. the boston hanover trust, henry chmielinski is my great grandfather.
Happy holidays everybody, and stay warm and safe, those in North America who have been hit by the arctic blast.
Much appreciated! We were hitting -70 wind chills last night and the night before!
Report the spam! And thank you, I'm trying to stay warm and fuzzy despite the cold! Happiness to you and yours!
Thank you very much. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and your family and loved ones✌♥️
It's absurdly funny to me that someone named Charles Dawson ended up being being a fake Charles Darwin. I guess Dawson is legally distinct from Darwin LOL kind of like how they have to call fake cheese, "cheez".
No no no the call fake cheez, "cheese"
Charles Darwin himself, was a fake as well.
@@tisjester Or "I Can't Believe Its Not Cheese".
“We have Charles Darwin at home”
1:30 - Chapter 1 - Piltdown man
7:25 - Mid roll ads
8:40 - Chapter 2 - The original mechanical turk
16:50 - Chapter 3 - The original ponzi scheme
On the edge of my seat, eager to learn whether this episode will include the Great Bathtub Hoax floated by H.L. Mencken.
Francois Philidor was not the French emperor... he was a composer and chess player according to Wikipedia
The Simon has Spoken! All must correct their history books to show the new truth, the reign of Francois-Andre the first of France.
Like calling Maria Theresa queen of Bulgaria (which was under Ottoman control) and Romania (only Transylvania since Romania as a state didn't exist yet). And not Archduchess of Austria, the Holy Roman Empress, and ruler of several other much bigger and more populous countries.
JOHN CENA PHONE PRANK…. Look it up as it puts me in tears every single time
what a horrible thing to do to someone
An example of legal arbitrage happened in Brazil in the 1980s during a period of very high inflation. People would purchase gold and then resell it in the US at a profit. The way it worked was they would place an order for a gold transaction and the price would be fixed at the contract date. It would take a couple of weeks to months for the order to be processed and in that time inflation was significant enough that the currency exchange guaranteed a healthy profit. People were wiling to take a loss on the gold because it meant they got stable US dollars.
@@SIDEPROJECTS_1144 urgh another d!ck in a box?
Report the spam! Also, do you think exchanging a standard index in a country with a stable dollar might effect the inflationary trend of the country you are supplying with a gain outside your countries foreign exchange? By exchanging a precious metal with an exchange commision that was willing to pay you twice the value of your economy's value, wouldn't it create a surplus of your currency(fiat) with finite valued goods? Maybe legal, but certainly helped the inflation market. Loves!
That's just smart investing.
Regurgitation of already reviewed and reviewed topics. Lacks inspiration.
I love evil mastermind Whistler. And this angle. You need a cat or stuffed dragon. Lol
Any computer can be rendered mechanically, so the mechanical turk isn't totally outlandish, especially for the Era. Though the engineering of even a simple chess program in clockwork would be stunning
The whole thing would have to be extremly large. Babbage's more simple calculators were the size of wardrobes. Engineering from the 1800s would have needed vastly more space for something like that then the first vacuum tube computers, however what a sight it would have been.
Human-like canine teeth…. Biological proof werewolves are our common ancestor with dogs.
Report the spam... also humans have a set of upper teeth called canines. They are the sharp pointy ones for tearing into flesh and ripping fibrous vegetable matter before is is gnashed (sp?)[i stand by it] by the molars!
Yes exactly left over from a common werewolf ancestor
I rlly hope ur joking
Literally, every omnivorous and carnivorous mammal has canine teeth. That includes bears, cats, and bats. The term "human-like" implies that the creature was a hominid, not a canid.
I get that you were trying to be funny, but jokes tend to work better when they're properly researched and based in some element of fact.
.... drat. We thought noone would connect canines with werewolves if we clipped off your tailbuds early enough.
Poe's essay argues "of course it's a hoax. If it were a machine, it would play perfectly and never lose. Whereas we know it does lose from time to time."
Isn’t Binance shifting money around the way Ponzi did to calm nervous investors? Paying some money back and freezing transactions when withdrawals exceed a limit?
Another factor in the Piltdown Man was the discovery of Neanderthal's in Germany in the 1850's. Naturally certain members of British society decided that obviously we should have our own human ancestor whether real or not. This of course, all played into the eugenics, colonialism and racism still rife in the period.
That's one hell of a quote at the end!
Imagine the greatest hoaxes that have never come to light
I LOVE Piltdown Man!
meanwhile the label “a fabulist” sounds pretty cool
Is Scientology #1?
Simon Whistler that was (12:45) a nice jab at ElonMusk. It was so slick that I nearly missed it altogether.
Charles Dawson might have been the inspiration behind Stan Pines from Gravity Falls
Where tf did u see that
5:12 Ah, yes. Academics.
Simon and team, love your work
Currently fulltime addicted to your content as I just found you out.
15:32 Poe published in 1936? Wow! He lived a record long life...
I was wondering where the ORIGINAL “Greatest Hoaxes” video was lol.
Greed. Trace all our problems back to this. Everytime.
If the lie is told often enough, people will believe it, pretty much like religion...
No.
You ever watch an informational video, or the news, about something you know inside and out, and they begin to talk out of their ass and make completely false claims? Then you wonder if everything they say is all horseshit? That was my reaction to this video.
So why don't you illuminate the public about what's wrong?
@@breno855Well first, he said Maria Theresa was the Queen of Bulgaria and Romania, she wasn't lmao. She was the Queen of the Holy Roman Empire. The only territory of modern Romania she controlled was Transylvania. Also, the Holy Roman Empire never controlled any territory of Bulgaria. I'd love to know where his writers got that information from lol
magnus carlson was in the robot
Simon must make some serious bread. Dude is in everything.
Surprised I never heard of The Bexhill Boat, I lived there for 16 years
This reminds me of watching the Madoff series on Netflix. I find it hard to feel bad when so many of the interviewees who said "it seemed impossible to continually make profit when the market would fail....but we kept our money with him." Your greed is what cost you and think of the how many people who made millions during the decades of scheming.
Hoaxes - watching this Christmas eve :D
i could watch these videos all day, and i am
as a money lover.. ponzi got what he deserved as half of us probably do. But and also; I LOVE THAT QUOTE THAT IT WAS WORTH FIFTHTEEN BECAUSE I HAD EM BY THE BALLS.. i gotta say i feel the hell outta that. GOD BLESS YOU ALL!!
my great great grandfather started the hanover trust bank. his name was henry chmielinski, polish immigrant. he did deny ponzi at first but when he came back my great great grandfather relented sadly. we lost our bank lol.
At first, when you got to the subject of covering Ponzi, stating:
"The scheme that consists of taking on new investors for the express purpose of paying off earlier investors, until there are no more gullible investors to con at which point, the entire scheme collapses."
I thought you were going to use that to expose Bitcoin. . .
As you were going through the intro i was thinking "Piltdown Man had better be on this list."
Then #1 is Piltdown Man, my life is complete lol
Um, 11:04 Maria Theresa was the Empress of Austria, not the "Queen of Bulgaria and Romania", lol, what a strange mistake!
That was a lazy mistake given the Maria Theresa is a major figure in European history and not some minor monarch. Of the many lands she ruled, he named Bulgaria which was under Ottoman control and Romania which didn't exist as a country yet. Transylvania was part of her realm. Then he referred to François-André Danican Philidor as emperor instead of composer.
Why would the french care that the mechanical Turk bested Benjamin Franklin? He was an ally of France from what was then a minor geopolitical backwater.
From what I heard, what actually happened was that von Kempelen scoffed at François Pelletier's illusion act and told his patron, Maria Theresa, that he could do better. He then created the Turk and wound up stuck keeping up the show when he'd rather have gone back to his usual work as, more or less, court inventor.
Mike oldfield.
Piltdown man.
Great track. 🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃
I think this is Simon's longest side projects video
If Ponzi had been a born and bred American, we'd all be studying Ponzenomics in 2023
Would have been funny if "Established Titles" was your sponsor on this video.
I was expecting the Hitler Diaries, and Bernie Madoff. I did not know the original Ponzi was as big or bigger than Madoff was for his day. Interesting.
I had no idea Ponzu was Boston history 😂
Okay. Ponzi was a mad pimp and I will always love him. This video just gave me extra details to justify my application of the man.
Hey? Ya got $20? 😂
Turing didn’t break Enigma, the Poles did, with pencil and paper… what Turing did was automate it, speeding up and parallelizing the work the Poles and others had already done.
He gave us imperative programming and a lot of the basis of computer science, but credit where credit’s due.
Man, Mechanical Turk was not a hoax, but *Machine Learning*.
Maria Theresa, Habsburg Queen of Bulgaria and Romania xD Simon who is writing these
0:36. Technically witches do exist. Anyone who practices Wicca is considered a witch.
By themselves mostly.
@@MrPleers
I think there are some covens or something. I really don’t know how it works - only met one.
@@j.p.6932 I know they like to call themselves witches. Probable because it sounds more interesting than paganism.
@@MrPleers
I actually think there’s a difference between pagan and Wiccan, even though Wicca does qualify as pagan.
I know they (I’ve only known one personally) emphasize being a WHITE witch and only worship nature, but….
@@j.p.6932 They can call themselves whatever they want. But the point is that only wiccam's call themselves witches. Outsiders don't consider them as witches. In fact if someone would tell me he or she is a witch, I would most likely just laugh. Or roll my eyes.
@15:33 I am presuming that you meant to say Poe published his paper in 1836 not 1936 considering he died in 1849...😅
You need to talk with your hands more, it's great.
I use the advertisement breaks to grind my weed and pack my bowl
I believe you
I’m sure each of these topics have been covered in previous videos on one of Simon’s many other channels 🤔
Probably. Not like it matters either way.
First Simon double up eh?
stone henge was built with diesel powered cranes, There are photos readily available online. They took everything apart and then rebuilt it with modern equipment so stone henge is not original and is not an actual ancient megalith anymore.
ANOMALY: How could EA Poe publish a story in 1936? 15:32
Elon Musk taking credit for other people's inventions? You should add Steve Jobs and Thomas Edison as #1 and #2 on that list...
It's a slander based in political bias rather than objectivity.
Maria Theresa was the emperess of the Austro-Hungarian dominon: She was the sovereign of Austria, Hungary, Croatia, Bohemia, Transylvania, Mantua, Milan, Galicia and Lodomeria, the Austrian Netherlands, and Parma. Romania and Bulgaria did not even exist at that time...
"The hoax is the very absence of truth, which usually means art is absent, too - hoaxes regularly substitute claims of reality for imagination, facts for form, acting as if artifice is the antithesis of art." -- Kevin Young
And it all started with a slick-talking serpent pulling a fast one on an unsuspecting innocent woman for something she didn't even need. (tell 'em what their itching ears want to hear)
Should have had Corona on that list Corona is definitely one of the top 3....
Many scammers do that, too... Saw it on kitboga... As he did the fake telephone machine 👍
But sad story in it, with a rather good ending?
*YEEEEES! I love the Elon Musk reference!*
I know at least a Miller or two.
The parallels between Ponzi and a certain ubiquitous political figure of the teens and twenties of this century are pretty darn amazing!!!
Joe Biden with his corrupt son filtering money to him? "The Big Guy".
Or maybe Nancy Pelosi somehow always pulling in record profits on her stocks?
Or maybe Maxine Waters giving her family members giant paychecks for obscure useless jobs?
Or maybe even the Clintons with their pay to play fund the Clinton Foundation that laundered millions for them?
The list goes on...
No.
This is literally the US economy.
so Ponzi still had more skill than the people at FTX.
I've never heard of the Ponzi scheme, but in the UK we just call it a pyramid scheme.
In a pyramid scheme, every victim who joins has to recruit several more victims before they can make any money. Ponzi schemes don't have that feature.
I liked the radio one where they where telling the story end of the world ends and people thought it was real and happend
How many of Simo's channels have yet to reference Mary Toft?
@12:13 One of the best stories about an important historical figure is _The Legend of Ben "Diggler" Franklin._
thnx
The mechanical Turk was the Alice In Chains song Man in a Box
Man in the Box was a metaphor for censorship. It had nothing to do with the Turk.
Maria Theresa wasn't the queen of Bulgaria and Romania lol She was the Queen of the Holy Roman Empire and ruled from Vienna Austria. The Habsburgs never even controlled Bulgaria or all of Romania so I'm not sure where your writer got that information?
The Enigma code was cracked before the beginning of WW2 by Polish mathematicians, which were able to work with the first copies of the Enigma and who then informed the British (who were regarded as Poland's protecting power at the time). Poles and Germans share a long history in what are now Polish territories. The Poles can rightly be proud of what they have achieved.
At around the same time, Konrad Zuse developed the first electronic calculating machine in Berlin (in his parents' living room in Berlin Kreuzberg using telephone equipment, relays, etc.). Programmability was added over time and Zuse's computers remained the most important calculating machines in Europe for a long time. Zuse had only carried out a few calculations for the Nazis, but they did not yet recognize the potential.
In any case, much of the widespread Enigma-Turing story is a cover-up.
Woohoo more content!!
I LOVE CONTENT!
Maria Theresa was Queen of BOHEMIA and HUNGARY, and Archduchess of AUSTRIA!
The fact that MI5 told this one guy that wanted to be a spy that he couldn't be so he went and did his own spy work got the enigma codes and the machine sent to them before they were like okay you can join us as a spot you did good work And then was sent a upgraded enigma machine and updated codes whenever they did So they didn't really need alan turing lol they could have had it years sooner but fucked up
And then the same happened in the last decade. I tried to figure out bitcoins and Ponzi is the closest.
15:32
Edgar Allan Poe wrote that essay in *1836!!*
Obviously *NOT* in 1936, as Poe would've been *127 Years old* in
*1936!* LoL!!